Episode 614 - No Business Like Snow Business (Rogue’s Gallery, Suspense, The Saint, & Sam Spade)

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

🗓️ 16 February 2025

⏱️ 125 minutes

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Summary

With winter weather keeping things chilly, here's a collection of old time radio mysteries set against a backdrop of snow. First, Dick Powell survives a killer's bullet but gets trapped by a blizzard in "Snowbound" from Rogue's Gallery (originally aired on Mutual on May 9, 1946). Jane Wyman is snowed in at a mountain lodge and trying to get away with her husband's murder in "Catch Me If You Can" from Suspense (originally aired on CBS on February 17, 1949). Simon Templar's new case involves a snowman with a grisly secret in "It's Snow Use" from The Saint (originally aired on NBC on October 29, 1950). And finally, Sam Spade solves a murder in the snow in "The Chateau McLeod Caper" (originally aired on NBC on January 26, 1951).

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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.
1:01.0	... Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Hello and welcome to Down These Mean Streets, where, at least in my neck of the woods,
1:08.3	we just emerged from one round of winter weather and are expecting more snow and ice in a matter of days. So this week, with a chill in the air and slush on the ground,
1:13.5	I've selected four snowy old-time radio mysteries for your listening pleasure. First up is
1:20.9	Dick Powell as private investigator Richard Rogue in Rogue's Gallery. We'll hear him in Snowbound, an episode that originally
1:30.6	aired on Mutual on May 9, 1946. Rogue is at a ski lodge for some R&R, but after an odd encounter
1:40.4	with a beautiful woman and her husband, Rogue catches a bullet in the shoulder.
1:46.1	A good Samaritan saves him from a blizzard, but now he's snowed in for weeks before he can
1:51.3	find out who tried to kill him and why. Next, Jane Wyman stars in Catch Me If You Can,
1:59.8	a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense that originally aired on CBS on February 17th,
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