Episode 341 – Hot Mike (Adventures of Michael Shayne)
Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)
Jack Mooney
4.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2019
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary
Over the course of two radio shows, Brett Halliday's Michael Shayne shifted from a happy-go-lucky gumshoe with a lovely secretary and a good rapport with the cops to a burned-out loner who regularly found himself short on money and up to his neck in trouble. Both were great, and this week we'll hear episodes from both of the shows. First, Wally Maher is Mike, with Cathy Lewis as Phyllis Knight, in "The Body in the Trunk" (originally aired on Mutual on April 23, 1945) and "Murder, RSVP" (originally aired on Mutual on May 28, 1945). Then, Jeff Chandler stars as Shayne in the syndicated mystery "The Case of the Left-Handed Fan."
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| 0:00.0 | Get this and get it straight. Crime is a suckers road and those who travel it wind up in the gut of the prison of the grave. |
| 0:07.0 | The story you are 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. And the Hello and welcome to Down These Mean Streets a weekly roundup of Old Time Radio |
| 1:00.8 | Detectives. This week our gum shoe is Michael Shane, the private eye created |
| 1:06.9 | by Davis Dresser. Writing under the pen name of Brett Halliday, Dresser introduced the character in the 1939 novel |
| 1:14.8 | dividend on death and the very next year Shane came to the big screen in a B |
| 1:20.5 | movie series starring Lloyd Nolan. |
| 1:24.0 | Before he was Ward Cleaver, Hugh Beaumont starred as Shane in five pictures for PRC |
| 1:30.0 | studios, and in 1960, Richard Denning, half of Radio and TV's Mr and Mrs. North, |
| 1:38.0 | starred as Shane in a television show that featured scripts by future Colombo creators William Link and Richard Levinson. |
| 1:46.0 | Like many of his fellow sloths, Shane came to radio. |
| 1:51.0 | In 1944, a series launched starring Wally Mayer as Shane and Kathy Lewis as his |
| 1:57.1 | Girl Friday, Phyllis Knight. |
| 1:59.9 | Together they were two of radio's greatest actors who always elevated shows with their |
| 2:05.1 | supporting performances. Given the lead roles, with fantastic chemistry, they made |
| 2:10.9 | for one of radio's great crime-solving couples. |
| 2:15.2 | This week we'll hear them in a pair of mysteries, beginning with the body and the trunk, |
| 2:20.0 | originally aired on Mutual on April 23rd, 1945. |
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