Episode 613 - Cooper’s Town (Crime Club, Whitehall 1212, & Quiet Please)

Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)

Jack Mooney

Arts, Performing Arts, Mystery, Detectives, Old, Radio, Time, Tv & Film, Oldtimeradio

4.6 • 982 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2025

⏱️ 125 minutes

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Summary

In honor of his January 26th birthday, we're saluting one of radio's most innovative writers and directors - Wyllis Cooper. Cooper's probably best known for his work in the world of horror as creator of Lights Out and Quiet Please but he also brought us Whitehall 1212 - a series that dramatized cases from the files of Scotland Yard. We'll hear "The Topaz Flower," an episode Cooper wrote for Crime Club (originally aired on Mutual on April 24, 1947), two episodes of Whitehall 1212 - "The Blitz Murder Case" (originally aired on NBC on November 18, 1951) and "The Heathrow Affair" (originally aired on NBC on December 23, 1951), and "It's Later Than You Think" from Quiet Please (originally aired on Mutual on August 2, 1948).

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0:00.0	Get this and get it straight.
0:02.1	Crime is a sucker's road.
0:03.9	And those who travel
0:04.6	it wind up in the gut of the prison of the grave.
0:12.3	The story you were about to hear is true.
0:15.2	Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.
0:18.6	The Adventures of Sam Spade, Detective.
0:21.7	The Adventures of the Saints,
0:23.5	starring Vincent Price.
0:25.5	Bob Bailey, in the exciting adventures
0:27.7	of the man with the action-packed expense account.
0:30.6	America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator...
0:33.4	Yours truly, Johnny Dollar.
1:02.4	... Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Hello and welcome to Down These Mean Streets and more old-time radio detectives and crime fighters.
1:10.3	Today we're saluting one of the great writers of the radio era, a man primarily known for his contributions to the horror genre, but who also
1:13.9	toiled in the world of detectives.
1:16.8	He's Willis Cooper, born January 26, 1899, and who today is best known and remembered among
1:25.0	radio fans for creating two of the high points of radio horror,
1:30.3	lights out, and quiet please. But outside of the realm of thrills and chills, Cooper wrote and directed
1:38.3	Whitehall 1212, a series that dramatized cases from the Files of Scotland Yard. But before he revolutionized
1:48.3	radio drama, Cooper was in the Army. He joined the U.S. cavalry in 1916, shortly after he graduated
1:56.0	from high school, and he saw action first on the Mexican border, and then in France during World War I.
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