BONUS - Christmas Caper Countdown (Part 1)

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

🗓️ 3 December 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

We're celebrating the holidays with a month of seasonal sleuthing! Tune in Wednesdays throughout December for Christmas stories starring some of our favorite old time radio detectives. First up, the ace crimesolving cameraman spots a pickpocket and breaks a murder case in "Christmas Shopping" from Casey, Crime Photographer (originally aired on CBS on December 19, 1946). Then, Boston Blackie solves a jewel theft with a strange connection to a sidewalk Santa in a syndicated holiday mystery.

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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.
1:00.9	... Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Hello and welcome to a bonus holiday episode of Down These Mean Streets.
1:06.6	Well, we are officially in December, and the holiday season is upon us.
1:15.0	So each Wednesday this month, I'll post a pair of seasonal mysteries starring some of our favorite radio detectives.
1:20.0	It's a weekly countdown that'll take us all the way up to Christmas Eve.
1:26.0	And today we're kicking off with Casey Crime Photographer and Boston Blackie.
1:29.9	Casey's up first in an episode called Christmas Shopping.
1:34.4	It originally aired on CBS on December 19, 1946.
1:40.5	Casey hits the department store with his Girl Friday reporter Ann Williams.
1:46.4	In the middle of the hustle and bustle of the holiday crowd, Casey spots a notorious pickpocket lifting a wallet, but when Casey intervenes, the victim claims nothing was stolen.
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