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Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)
Jack Mooney
4.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2021
⏱️ 234 minutes
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Summary
Turn down the lights and grab your candy - it's time for the Down These Mean Streets Halloween Special! Join me for a king-sized trick-or-treating trip through the golden age of radio for some comedies and chillers designed to get you in the Halloween spirit. Enjoy Bob Hope recreating his role in The Ghost Breakers as presented on The Screen Directors' Playhouse (originally aired on NBC on April 3, 1949). Then, it's a pair of terrifying tales from Edgar Allan Poe - "The Tell-Tale Heart" from NBC Presents Short Story (1951) and "The Black Cat" from Peter Lorre's Mystery in the Air (originally aired on NBC on September 18, 1947). We'll hear a trio of Halloween comedies from The Jack Benny Program (originally aired on CBS on October 31, 1948), My Favorite Husband (originally aired on CBS on October 28, 1949) and Our Miss Brooks (originally aired on CBS on October 30, 1949). Escape presents an adaptation of The Birds that aired a decade before Hitchcock brought the story to the big screen (originally aired on CBS on July 10, 1954). Finally, Ernest Chappell stars in a wry chiller from Wyllis Cooper in "Don't Tell Me About Halloween" from Quiet Please (originally aired on Mutual on October 27, 1947).
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| 0:00.0 | How do you do? Mr. Carl Lindley 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. It may shock you. It might even horrify you. So if any of you feel that you do not |
| 0:19.0 | care to subject your nerves to such a strain, now is your chance to |
| 0:24.4 | well we've warned you the Oh, Good evening and welcome to the Down These Meams streets Halloween Special, an old time |
| 1:07.7 | radio celebration of my favorite time of the year. And boy, oh boy, am I ready for Halloween? This is the first year my |
| 1:18.1 | daughter is old enough to trick or treat. She's got her Spongebob costume ready and we're preparing to make the rounds in the neighborhood on Sunday night. |
| 1:27.0 | Spooky movies have been in steady rotation in my house over the past five weeks along with a parade of |
| 1:34.8 | Halloween old-time radio shows. Now if you're a longtime listener of down these |
| 1:40.9 | mean streets you may remember that every year in the run up to |
| 1:44.8 | Halloween I'll put out a bonus episode. Sometimes it's a pair of scary radio |
| 1:50.8 | stories or some Halloween comedies or even some adventures of old time radio |
| 1:56.0 | detectives facing off against things that go bump in the night. |
| 2:01.4 | This year's show is a little different. I like to think of it as a trick-or-treating trip |
| 2:06.8 | we're taking through the Golden Age of Radio, and at the end of the night, when we dump |
| 2:11.3 | out our candy bag and sift through what we've collected, |
| 2:14.6 | we'll find a little bit of everything. |
| 2:16.8 | Some stories will give you a smile bigger than a jackalanterns, and some will deliver a healthy dose of thrills and chills. |
| 2:25.0 | And like all the best Halloween treats, this show is king-sized. |
| 2:31.0 | We'll start things off with Bob Hope, recreating his role in the creepy comedy, The Ghost Breakers. |
| 2:39.0 | By the way, if you're looking for something to watchwatch this Halloween weekend I can't recommend the |
| 2:45.0 | ghostbreakers enough. We'll follow that with a pair of stories from Edgar |
| 2:49.4 | Alumpo. The Tell-Tail Heart, as presented on NBC, presents short story, and the Black Cat, an offering |
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