Episode 334 - Basil of Baker Street (New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes)
Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)
Jack Mooney
4.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2019
⏱️ 96 minutes
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Summary
He dueled on screen with Errol Flynn, Tyrone Power, and Danny Kaye, he was twice nominated for Oscars, and for 14 films and hundreds of radio episodes, Basil Rathbone brought Sherlock Holmes to life. We'll celebrate one of the best actors to wear the deerstalker cap with two of his radio mysteries: "Murder Beyond the Mountains" (originally aired on Mutual on January 14, 1946) and "The Waltz of Death" (originally aired on Mutual on April 29, 1946). Plus, Rathbone teams up with Fred Allen to solve a comedy mystery in an episode of The Fred Allen Show (originally aired on NBC on April 11, 1948).
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| 0:00.0 | Get this and get it straight. Crime is a suckers road and those who travel it would wind up in the gut of the prison of the grave. |
| 0:07.0 | The story you were about to hear is true, only the names have been changed to protect the innocent. |
| 0:18.0 | The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective. |
| 0:22.0 | The Adventures of the Saints starring Vincent Prize. |
| 0:25.0 | Bob Bailey in the exciting adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account. |
| 0:30.0 | America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator. |
| 0:33.0 | Yours truly, Johnny Deller. the Hello and welcome to Down These Means Streets weekly roundup of Old Time Radio |
| 0:59.9 | Detectives and Crime Fighters. This week we're strolling down Baker Street with |
| 1:06.0 | two adventures of Sherlock Holmes starring the actor whose name conjures up images of |
| 1:11.6 | a deer stalker cap and pipe, Basil Rathbone. |
| 1:15.9 | Rathbone first played Holmes on screen in 1939's The Hound of the Baskervilles. |
| 1:22.4 | And the success of that movie led Rathbone and his co-star |
| 1:26.0 | Nigel Bruce to radio in the new adventures of Sherlock Holmes. |
| 1:31.6 | As Holmes and Watson, the pair solved mysteries on the air until |
| 1:34.8 | 1946, even as they continue to star in big-screen Holmes' adventures. |
| 1:40.3 | Today, in honor of Rathbone's June 13th birthday, will hear a pair of his radio exploits. |
| 1:50.0 | First up is Murder Beyond the Mountains, originally aired on the Mutual Network on January 14, |
| 1:56.2 | 1946. |
| 1:57.2 | Writers Anthony Boucher and Dennis Green set this story in the years after Holmes battle to the death with Professor Moriarty at |
| 2:06.2 | Reichenbach Falls, a period where Holmes was missing and presumed dead. |
| 2:12.1 | The detective is traveling in the Himalayas and finds murder in a Tibetan |
| 2:16.4 | monastery. Then we'll hear the waltz of death from April 29th, 1946. In this one Holmes and Watson are in Vienna |
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