Get this and get it straight.

Crime is a sucker's road.

And those who travel

it wind up in the gut of the prison of the grave.

The story you were about to hear is true.

Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.

The Adventures of Sam Spade, Detective.

The Adventures of the Saint,

starring Vincent Price.

Bob Bailey, in the exciting adventures

of the man with the action-packed expense account.

America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator...

Yours truly, Johnny Dollar.

... Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Hello and welcome to a bonus episode of Down These Mean Streets, the last in our series of holiday mysteries leading up to Christmas Eve.

And we're signing off with two of my favorites just in time for the big day tomorrow.

First, we have my favorite Radio Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, John Stanley and Alfred Shirley. We'll hear them in an original Holmes holiday mystery from the pen of Edith Meiser.

It's the Adventure of the Christmas Bride, and it originally aired on Mutual on December 21st, 1947.

Then we'll hear the Big Little Jesus, a heartwarming Christmas story from Dragnet that originally aired on NBC on December 22nd, 1953.

This one was repeated a few times on Dragnet over the years,

alternating with another Christmas episode about the dangers of giving kids guns as Christmas presents.

Let's just say that one isn't nearly as

uplifting, so we're going with this story, where Sergeant Friday and Officer Smith try to

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