The Hello and welcome to a bonus episode of down these mean streets coming to you on

Wednesday the day before Thanksgiving for those of us in the States. You may be

packing the car for a trip to see relatives or you may be

getting your house ready to host the big dinner. Well whatever you're doing we've got a

turkey day mystery for you just in time for the

Christmas episodes were a little more common during the Golden Age of radio but several sloths were featured in Thanksgiving capers

including Casey Crime Phot, that ace cameraman an amateur

detective. Along with reporter Anne Williams, his girl Friday, Casey dug for the

stories behind his pictures, and he spotted the clues that usually

eluded the cops.

Aside from its journalist heroes, this series was unique for its frequent setting at the Blue Note Cafe, a watering hole in jazz club where Casey and Ann talked over their cases and celebrated when they were closed.

Ethelbert, the philosophical bartender, was a regular character, as was the Blue

Note pianist, played by jazz legend Herman Chittison.

In fact, in the episode we'll hear today, Casey and Anne start out at the Blue Note and they're enjoying Thanksgiving dinner with Ethelbird until duty calls and they're torn away before dessert can arrive.

Hopefully your Thanksgiving is a little more restful than Casey's.

Wherever you are, whatever you're doing, I hope you have a safe and happy holiday.

And I hope you enjoy this Casey crime

photographer mystery while you're in the car or dressing the bird. It's called

After Turkey The Bill and it aired on CBS on November 27th, 1947.

Stats Kotsworth is Casey, Jan Minor is Ann Williams, and John Gibson is Ethelbert.

The script was by Alonzo Dean Cole,

and it was directed by John Deeds. The The Anchor Hawking Glass Corporation brings you crime photographer. Say Casey, do you think they'll ever put my statue in the Hall of Fame?

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