BONUS - Yabba Dabba Dude (My Friend Irma & Life with Luigi)
Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)
Jack Mooney
4.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2020
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Before he moved to Bedrock and voiced Fred Flintstone, Alan Reed was a busy radio actor. He popped up on The Shadow, Philip Marlowe, and Sam Spade, but he was most frequently heard on comedies. We'll shine the spotlight on Reed for this week's bonus comedy episode in two old time radio sitcoms. First, he's Mr. Clyde, the long-suffering boss of Marie Wilson in My Friend Irma (originally aired on CBS on March 1, 1948). Then, he plays Pasquale, patron and neighbor of J. Carrol Naish's Luigi Basco in Life with Luigi (originally aired on CBS on October 17, 1950).
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| 0:00.0 | Get this and get it straight. Crime is a suckers road and those who travel it'd wind up in the gut of the prison of the grave. |
| 0:07.0 | The story you were about to hear is true, only the names have been changed to protect the innocent. |
| 0:18.0 | The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective. |
| 0:22.0 | The Adventures of the Saints starring Vincent Prize |
| 0:25.4 | Bob Bailey in the exciting adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account |
| 0:30.4 | America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator. |
| 0:33.0 | Yours truly, Johnny Deller. the Hello and welcome to another midweek bonus comedy episode of Down These Mean Streets where today we're saluting actor Alan Reed. |
| 1:05.8 | Born Teddy Bergman on August 20, 1907, Reed's voice is known to generations of animation fans as the patriarch of the modern Stone Age |
| 1:16.2 | family, Fred Flintstone. |
| 1:19.8 | But long before he moved to Bedrock, Reed was a busy radio actor. |
| 1:24.9 | He was incredibly versatile, a master of accents and dialects, and like so many of his peers, |
| 1:31.5 | he could convincingly play two different characters in the same half hour |
| 1:35.3 | episode. The first time I heard his voice away from Barney Wilma and Betty was on the Shadow, where Reed was one of the first actors to play Shrivie, |
| 1:46.5 | Lamont Cranston's cab driver whose logic frequently took a wrong turn. |
| 1:51.8 | Shrivie, yes sir? Do you know where you're driving us to? took a wrong turn. Shrivy. |
| 1:53.0 | Yeah, sir. |
| 1:54.0 | Do you know where you're driving us to? |
| 1:55.0 | Let me see now. |
| 1:57.0 | What was the number in that place again, Miss Lane? |
| 1:59.0 | What was it? |
| 2:00.0 | 31 Brackwell Place. |
| 2:01.0 | Oh, yeah, yeah, 31 Brackwell Place. Oh, I'm such a stupid. We've been there twice today, |
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