The Welcome to Down these mean streets where today our old-time radio detective star is better

known for breaking news and interviews than for catching crooks and closing cases.

He's Mike Wallace and years before he was a mainstay on Sunday nights on 60 minutes.

He was an announcer, game show host, and actor on radio.

It's that last job that brings him to our show today and

though his radio detective series never made it past the audition stage

it's an entertaining mystery drama and it's a unique footnote in the storied career of one of TV's most prominent newsmen.

Mike Wallace worked all over the radio dial in the 1940s, announcing for shows like The Green Hornet,

reading the news, and appearing on quiz shows and serials.

It was also in the 40s that Wallace found some of his earliest on-camera work. In 1949, billed as Myron Wallace,

he starred in Stand-By for Crime, an ABC drama series that invited viewers at home to call in with their guesses

about the identity of the guilty party. Wallace played Police Lieutenant Kidd on that program.

And also in 1949, while police lieutenant kid on that program.

And also in 1949 Wallace played another cop,

New York police detective Lou Kegel,

in crime on the waterfront. Kegel was a tough but glib officer of the law with a personality that might have been found on a private eye instead of a member of the police force.

Kagel's beep consisted of the docks of the Big Apple, one of the busiest ports in the United

States, with ships constantly coming in and going out, carrying both people and cargo to and from exotic locations, it would be the backdrop

of many colorful adventures for Detective Kegel.

At least it would have been if the two audition recordings led to a series.

1949 saw the premieres of several classic radio detective shows,

yours truly Johnny Dollar, Broadway's My Beat, and Richard Diamond, just to name a few.

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