Episode 618 - Jailbreak! (Boston Blackie, Richard Diamond, The Saint, & 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

🗓️ 16 March 2025

⏱️ 122 minutes

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Summary

Sound the alarm! We've got fugitives on the lam in these radio mysteries - each with an escape from jail at the center of the story. A convict Boston Blackie put behind bars is out and making his way to Blackie's door in a syndicated mystery, and Richard Diamond, Private Detective suspects an escaped gangster is back in town and settling scores in "The Ralph Baxter Case" (originally aired on NBC on April 26, 1950). The Saint comes to the aid of a young man falsely convicted of robbery who breaks out of prison to clear his name in "No Hiding Place" (originally aired on NBC on November 19, 1950). And the cops of Dragnet have to catch their man a second time after he escapes from custody in "The Big Break" (originally aired on NBC on December 14, 1950).

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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.
1:04.4	... Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Hello and welcome to Down These Mean Streets and more old-time radio detectives and crime fighters.
1:14.0	This week's episode is on the run. I've collected four old-time radio mysteries, each involving escapes from jail and the efforts of our heroes to track down the men on the lamb from the law.
1:19.4	First up is Richard Calmer, starring in a syndicated mystery as Boston Blackie.
1:25.8	As the episode opens, a convict named Mike Harlan has just escaped from prison,
1:31.6	and he's making a beeline for the home of the man who put him behind bars.
1:36.7	That man is none other than our reformed jewel thief-turned-turned-detective, Boston Blackie.
1:43.3	Next, Dick Powell stars as Richard Diamond, private detective, in an episode known as the
1:50.1	Ralph Baxter case.
1:52.4	It first aired on NBC on April 26, 1950.
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