It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

Happy holidays, old time radio fans,

and welcome to the Downey's Mean Streets year-end Christmas Special.

I'm signing off for 2015, taking a little vacation until January 3rd.

But before I leave, I've got a trio of holiday mysteries for you, starring some of your favorite old-time radio detectives.

It's been another fantastic year of doing this show.

Thanks so much to everyone who has emailed and tweeted your kind words and your appreciation for these wonderful

radio detectives.

As much fun as it is for me to do the show, it's even more fun to hear from people about

their favorite series, actors, and authors. If you haven't reached out, don't be a stranger. You can email me at down these mean streets podcast at gmail.com. You can like the show on Facebook and you can follow me on

Twitter at Mean St-S-T-S-O-T-R-P-P-D. And remember we do take requests around here. In fact two of our January episodes

will feature gum shoes requested by listeners. Speaking of January, I'll be

back soon to kick off 2016 with brand new episodes.

But it's a tradition on the show for our year-end finale to be Ulltide themed,

and hopefully these Christmas mysteries will help to get you in the

spirit of the season. Tonight we've got three beginning with Richard Palmer as Boston

Blackie enemy to those who make him an enemy, friend to those who have no friend.

In the syndicated episode, Stolen Rings at Christmas.

This one features Jan Minor as Mary Wesley and Maurice Tarplin as Inspector Faraday.

Then we'll hear from Johnny Dollar.

Charles Russell stars as America's fabulousulous Freelance Insurance investigator in How I played Santa Claus and

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