BONUS - Black Friday with Joe Friday (Dragnet)
Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)
Jack Mooney
4.6 • 982 Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2025
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Summary
Hit those big deals (and/or dig into some Thanksgiving leftovers) with this bonus episode for Black Friday starring Joe Friday. We'll hear Jack Webb as the star sergeant of the LAPD in three Dragnet radio mysteries: "The Big Press" (originally aired on NBC on June 15, 1950), "The Big Couple" (originally aired on NBC on February 22, 1951), and "The Big Number" (originally aired on NBC on October 26, 1952).
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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. |
| 1:01.0 | ... Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Hello and welcome to a bonus episode of Down These Mean Streets. |
| 1:08.8 | Hopefully you enjoyed your Thanksgiving and you've got some extra time off before it's back to work or school on Monday. |
| 1:13.6 | Today, of course, is Black Friday, the kickoff of the Christmas shopping season where stores roll out their biggest discounts. But if you mention Friday to an old-time |
| 1:20.4 | radio detective fan, their mind will probably jump to Sergeant Joe Friday of Dragnet. And so that's how we'll be celebrating Black Friday |
| 1:30.2 | today, not by venturing out to a store or reloading Amazon to see the latest deals. Instead, |
| 1:38.2 | we'll hear Jack Webb in three Dragnet mysteries. He's on the hunt for a forger in The Big Press, |
| 1:46.9 | a married pair of con artists in the big couple, |
| 1:50.5 | and a robber wielding a sawed-off shotgun in the big number. |
| 1:55.6 | I'll be back on Sunday with our next regular episode, |
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