Episode 620 - Fool Me Once (Sherlock Holmes, Box 13, Philip Marlowe, & Broadway is My Beat)

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

🗓️ 30 March 2025

⏱️ 122 minutes

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Summary

In honor of April Fool's Day, our radio detectives this week have to contend with some practical jokes and jokers that are anything but funny. Dr. Watson is enlisted to pull a prank on Sherlock Holmes in "The April Fool's Day Adventure," starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce (originally aired on Mutual on April 1, 1946). Dan Holiday tries to find a deranged jokester before his antics turn deadly in "Death is No Joke" from Box 13. A fake will reading turns into a real crime scene as Philip Marlowe hunts for a killer in "The Last Laugh" (originally aired on CBS on April 2, 1949), and Detective Danny Clover has to find out who killed a celebrated prankster in "Laugh-a-Minute Tyler" from Broadway is My Beat (originally aired on March 14, 1953).

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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.
1:04.7	... Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Hello. Hello and welcome to Down These Mood Streets and more old-time radio detectives and crack fighters.
1:10.0	This Tuesday is April 1st, April Fool's Day.
1:13.9	And while it's a time for jokes and tricks, our detectives this week have to deal with some pranksters and pranks that are anything but funny. First up are
1:20.8	Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in the April Fool's Day Adventure, an episode of the New Adventures
1:30.2	of Sherlock Holmes that aired, appropriately enough, on April 1st, 1946.
1:36.9	It's an original radio mystery set in the very early days of the partnership between our heroes,
1:44.1	where Watson is enlisted to help play
1:46.0	an April Fool's joke on the great detective, but soon a very real crime is committed.
1:51.8	Next up, we have Alan Ladd as Dan Holliday in Death is No Joke, a syndicated episode of Box 13.
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