Episode 619 - Metropolis March Madness (Adventures of Superman)
Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)
Jack Mooney
4.6 • 982 Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2025
⏱️ 225 minutes
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Summary
The action is on and off the basketball court this week as Superman battles a hate group that targets a high school team just because of the ethnicities of its players. Clayton "Bud" Collyer stars as Clark Kent and the Man of Steel in "The Knights of the White Carnation," a serialized adventure that aired on Mutual from February 26 through March 18, 1947.
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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. |
| 1:04.9 | ... Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Hello. Hello and welcome to Down These Mean Streets and more old-time radio detectives and crime fighters. |
| 1:13.4 | We're in the thick of March Madness, as the NCAA men's and women's basketball tournaments are underway. So this week, with all of those games on the brain, I've picked an old-time radio mystery that's set on and off |
| 1:20.2 | the basketball court, where the fate of a high school team and a state championship are on the |
| 1:25.6 | line due to the efforts of a gang of diabolical villains. |
| 1:30.0 | Today, we're headed to Metropolis for a serialized radio adventure of Superman called |
| 1:35.9 | The Knights of the White Carnation. This multi-part story played out in episodes that aired |
| 1:42.1 | Monday through Friday on Mutual from February 26th |
| 1:46.0 | through March 18th, 1947. The titular knights are a group of hate mongers made up of elite |
| 1:53.4 | citizens of Metropolis, led by newspaper publisher Vincent Kirby. He's played by Bernard |
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