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Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)

Episode 138 - Tales Well Calculated: Old Time Radio Halloween 2015 (Suspense)

Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)

Jack Mooney

Arts, Performing Arts, Tv & Film

4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2015

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Turn down the lights and enjoy the annual "Down These Mean Streets" Halloween special. Just in time for trick or treating, enjoy a chiller from Suspense - "radio's outstanding theater of thrills." Orson Welles stars in "Donovan's Brain," a two-part story originally aired on CBS on May 18 and May 25, 1944.

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So close all the window

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You lock all the doors unless you're careful why he'll get your

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Don't think he'll hesitate a bit cause and clip your top

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If it will fit.

0:12.6

He likes some little, he likes some big,

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Potter than a middle or wear a wig.

0:19.0

Black or white or even red.

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The headless horseman needs a head.

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With a hip hip hip hip and a clippity clop.

0:28.0

Why he's out and looking for a head to chop.

0:31.0

So don't stop to all the plan because you can reason with a

0:36.2

headless man with a hip hip hop and a clippany clop look out

0:41.1

welcome radio fans to the annual down these mean streets Halloween special.

0:48.0

Halloween is my favorite holiday and it's tradition here on the podcast to take a break from the world of cops and private eyes

0:56.1

and indulge in a good old-fashioned chiller from the Golden Age of radio.

1:01.2

This year's scary story is a classic tale of horror and science fiction.

1:06.0

And it's held by many, including Stephen King, as a classic.

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It comes courtesy of Radio's outstanding theater of thrills, and it stars a man who was no stranger

1:18.0

to Halloween Frights on radio.

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The story is Donovan's brain. The series is suspense, and the star is Orson Wells.

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Donovan's brain has everything you want in Halloween story, a mad scientist, a secret experiment, and a

1:37.0

monster. I won't say anything else about the plot. If you've never heard it, you're in for a real treat.

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