Get this and get it straight. Crime is a suckers road and those who travel it wind up in the gut of the prison of the grave.

The story you are 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 Saints starring Vincent Prize

Bob Bailey in the exciting adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account

America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator.

Yours truly, Johnny Deller. the Hello and welcome to another midweek bonus episode of down these mean streets. Over the past few months on these Wednesday shows,

I've shared episodes of my favorite old-time radio comedy, The Stan Freiburg Show.

And today I've got two more episodes. The Stan Freiburg Show.

And today I've got two more episodes from that short-lived

showcase for one of America's smartest satirists.

It's a series with a Madcap energy that's closer to SC TV than the comedies of the radio era.

The Stan Freibrook show featured spoofs of popular songs and digs at politics, advertising, censorship, and more, all

delivered by Stan Freiburg and his amazing cast.

Future Hanna-Barbera, Main State Dawes Butler, voice acting Queen June Ferray, and radio veteran Peter Leeds. The sketches on these shows are just as funny today as they were when the Stan Freeburg show first aired in 1957.

So without further ado, let's get on with today's show.

Up first is an episode from August 11th, 1957. Stan

interviews himself as Orville, an extraterrestrial who lands his flying saucer and then sings a duet with the host.

We get another lecture on high-fy from Professor Herman Horn,

and then Stan performs his Lawrence Welk sketch, a popular entry from his series of capital

recordings, one that he performed a few times on the radio show. Then in an episode from August 18th, 1957,

we'll hear one of my favorite sketches from the entire series.

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