Ep.315 Richard Diamond Private Detective: The Man Who Hated Women

Nostalgic Mystery Radio

Stevie K.

Detective, Fiction, Crime, Arts, Radio Show, Mystery, Tv & Film, Performing Arts, Drama, Old Time Radio

4.8 • 588 Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Richard Diamond, Private Detective came to NBC in 1949. Diamond was a slick, sophisticated detective, with a sharp tongue for folks who needed it. Diamond enjoyed the detective life, but not as much as entertaining his girl, Helen Asher. After each show, he would croon a number to his Park Avenue sweetheart. Mr. Powell, a former song and dance man, was perfect for the role. He added an extra dimension to the 40's hokey private eye drama. Diamond was a rough gumshoe that would often get knocke...

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of Nostalgic Mystery Radio.
0:21.4	I'm your host Stevie K, and it's my honor to bring you the radio shows of yesteryear.
0:26.8	For this episode, I bring you Richard Diamond Private Detective, episode titled The Man Who Hated Women,
0:34.2	originally aired July 16th, 1949, where a serial killer is on the loose,
0:40.3	slashing women and threatening to Lieutenant Levinson's job.
0:44.7	So sit back and relax, and I hope you enjoy this nostalgic mystery radio.
0:50.8	Thank you for listening. Here's Dick Powell as Richard Diamond, private detective.
1:24.3	Music Private Detective.
1:35.3	Hello there.
1:36.7	This is Diamond.
1:38.8	Hey, what about this heat?
1:42.3	I can think of a lot of times I've been uncomfortable,
1:45.0	but this runs itself right up to the top of my list.
1:54.1	About the only thing good I can say about it, get your laundry dry in a hurry. I usually wash a few things out in my office because the soap's free.
1:58.8	Come to think of it, I was scrubbing a pile of things the day we had that big wind.
2:03.4	97 degrees in New York and we get a tornado to cool us off.
2:08.1	I had so much dust in my office I could have supplied mud pies to the whole neighborhood.
2:13.6	And after it was all over, the cigarette ad on Broadway was blowing smoke rings through the trap door of one of my scattered longies.
2:17.2	The waves in Long Island sun were so rough, a friend of mine capsized, and when he came up,
2:22.2	he found three terrified herring hiding in his nose.
2:25.3	Oh, it was swell.
2:27.5	One minute, it was so hot you couldn't move, and the next to 58-mile-an-hour wind was doing the moving for you.
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