Episode 617 - All In on Adventure (Sherlock Holmes, Philip Marlowe, Nero Wolfe, & Dragnet)

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

🗓️ 9 March 2025

⏱️ 125 minutes

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Summary

Place your bets with these old time radio mysteries involving gamblers and the (sometimes) crooked games they play. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson find murder among the roulette tables of a French casino in "The Case of the Double Zero," starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce (originally aired on Mutual on November 19, 1945). Philip Marlowe tries to find a friend's stolen IOU but stumbles across a corpse during the search in "The Promise to Pay" (originally aired on CBS on May 14, 1949), and Nero Wolfe is hired to find out who dealt a deadly hand during a poker game in "The Case of the Killer Cards" (originally aired on NBC on January 12, 1951). Finally, Sgt. Joe Friday hunts for the man who's impersonating a cop to extort money from gamblers in "The Big Shakedown" from Dragnet (originally aired on NBC on May 22, 1952).

Transcript

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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 Saint,
0:23.4	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.
1:02.1	... Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Hello and welcome to Down These Mean Streets and more old-time radio detectives and crime solvers.
1:05.5	I bet you're going to like this week's show.
1:13.5	It's a collection of old-time radio mysteries, all involving gamblers, their wins, their losses,
1:21.4	and the bad luck they face that sometimes results in murder. First up, we traveled to the French Riviera with Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson in the case of the double zero.
1:30.9	Holmes and Watson are abroad to investigate a plan to swindle a casino, but they soon find
1:37.4	murder among the roulette wheels and card tables. Then Gerald Moore, one of my favorite radio actors, does double duty as two
1:47.7	radio detectives. First, he stars as Philip Marlow and The Promise to Pay, originally aired on CBS
1:55.6	on May 14, 1949. The title refers to an IOU that a friend of Marlowe's left with a gambler,
2:03.7	but now someone has stolen the marker and is threatening to disclose his friend's extracurricular
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