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Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)

BONUS - Curse of Halloween Hoopla!

Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)

Jack Mooney

Arts, Performing Arts, Mystery, Detectives, Old, Radio, Time, Tv & Film, Oldtimeradio

4.6982 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2025

⏱️ 248 minutes

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Summary

Trick or treat! It's time for the annual Down These Mean Streets Halloween Special! In this king-sized bonus show, we'll hear a parade of stories - both spooky and silly - designed to get you in the spirit of the season. First, big screen horror legend Boris Karloff lends his voice to "The Corridor of Doom," a thriller from Inner Sanctum Mysteries (originally aired on CBS on October 23, 1945). The Great Gildersleeve attends a Halloween party (originally aired on NBC on October 29, 1947) and a Halloween prank backfires on Henry in The Aldrich Family (originally aired on NBC on October 30, 1940). Then, it's ghosts vs. gumshoes in a pair of old time radio mysteries. Michael Shayne finds a dead body in a haunted house in "The Ghost of Moccasin Hill" (originally aired on Mutual on April 9, 1945), and a ghost may be responsible for a murder in a syndicated adventure of Boston Blackie. The Origin of Superstition tells us the story of the Boogey Man in a syndicated show from 1935, and Favorite Story dramatizes Washington Irving's classic "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." Dorothy McGuire reprises her screen role as The Screen Director's Playhouse adapts "The Spiral Staircase" (originally aired on NBC on November 20, 1949), and Herbert Marshall makes a monster in a Suspense production of "Frankenstein" (originally aired on CBS on November 3, 1953).

Transcript

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0:00.0

How do you do?

0:02.0

Mr. Carl Lemley feels it would be a little unkind to present this picture without just a word of friendly warning.

0:09.0

I think it will thrill you.

0:11.0

It may shock you.

0:13.0

It might even horrify you.

0:17.0

So if any of you feel that you do not care to subject your nerves to such a strain,

0:21.6

now is your chance to...

0:23.6

Well, we Boris Karlo.

0:50.0

Oh, Goddard. Good evening, friends with the inner sanctum.

1:08.6

This is your host.

1:10.1

Welcome again through the squeaking door

1:12.1

to another session of mystery,

1:14.2

murder, and madness.

1:16.9

Oh, excuse me if I don't get up,

1:18.7

but I'm all worn out.

1:20.6

Yes, I've had a hectic few days

1:22.2

with an old friend who just blew into town.

1:25.3

He's one of those earnest souls

1:26.8

who insists on doing everything for himself.

1:30.0

Consultations for the monument makers, the grave diggers,

1:34.1

fittings of the coffin maker.

1:37.1

Yes, quite a busy body.

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