BONUS - Eggs and Bunnies (Nick Carter & Nero Wolfe)

Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)

Jack Mooney

Arts, Performing Arts, Tv & Film

4.5 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2026

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Easter is almost here, and we've got a pair of old time radio mysteries with a twist on the bunny and his basket. Lon Clark stars as Nick Carter, Master Detective in "The Case of the Chemical Chickens," a story of explosive eggs (originally aired on Mutual on April 13, 1947). Then, a rabbit farm that ends up the scene of a murder as Sydney Greenstreet and Larry Dobkin star in "The Case of the Brave Rabbit" from The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe (originally aired on NBC on December 1, 1950).

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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 Saint,
0:23.4	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.
1:02.0	... Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Hello and welcome to a bonus episode of Down These Mean Streets. Easter is only a few days away, and in honor of the holiday, I have a pair of mysteries involving eggs and rabbits, though not exactly the ones we typically
1:14.2	think of at this time of year. The eggs are the exploding variety, as Nick Carter discovers in
1:21.2	the case of the chemical chickens from April 13, 1947. And the rabbits live on a farm that also houses a corpse
1:30.7	in the case of the brave rabbit
1:33.3	from the new adventures of Nero Wolf.
1:36.4	I'll be back on Sunday with our next regular episode,
1:40.3	but for now, I hope you enjoy this early Easter basket full of old-time radio mysteries.
1:53.0	Old Dutch Cleanser, famous for chasing dirt, present.
1:57.6	Nick Carter, famous for chasing crime.
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