Episode 622 - Mysteries at the Movies (Jeff Regan, Richard Diamond, & Johnny Dollar)

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

🗓️ 13 April 2025

⏱️ 138 minutes

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Summary

Lights, camera, action! This week, our old time radio sleuths are tackling cases connected with the movie business and finding mystery on and off screen. First, "the Lyon's Eye" has to protect a movie star from some unscripted violence. Frank Graham stars in "The Hollywood Story, or H is for the Many Things You Gave Me" from Jeff Regan, Investigator (originally aired on CBS on March 22, 1950). Next, Dick Powell goes west when the head of a movie studio is blackmailed - and later framed for murder - in "The Hollywood Story" from Richard Diamond, Private Detective (originally aired on CBS on August 23, 1953). Finally, a corpse in a seaside amusement park is connected to a silent movie star and the long-ago murder of her husband in "The Silent Queen Matter" - a five-part Johnny Dollar mystery starring Bob Bailey as "America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator" (originally aired on CBS between October 29 and November 2, 1956).

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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.
1:03.6	... Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Hello and welcome to Down These Mean Streets and more Old Time Radio detectives and crime solvers.
1:08.2	This week, our old-time radio sleuths are bound for Hollywood.
1:13.3	Not to appear on the big screen, but to solve mysteries tied to the wonderful world of movies. First, we'll hear Frank Graham as Jeff Regan investigator in the Hollywood
1:20.9	story, or H is for the many things you gave me, originally aired on CBS on March 22, 1950.
1:31.1	Now, last week, we heard an episode of Jeff Regan with Jack Webb in the lead.
1:36.2	Graham succeeded Webb in the role of the $10 a day operative for the International Detective
1:41.8	Bureau.
1:43.1	Webb's take on the character, and the tone of the show itself
1:46.8	stuck pretty close to the hard-boiled framework used by Webb's own Pat Novak for hire.
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