Episode 349 - Jumping Jack (Somebody Knows, Johnny Dollar, & CBS Radio Workshop)
Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)
Jack Mooney
4.5 ā¢ 1.1K Ratings
šļø 9 October 2019
ā±ļø 137 minutes
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Summary
If all he did was reviveĀ Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, Jack Johnstone would still be a radio legend. But the multi-talented Johnstone brought listeners everything from true crime tales to offbeat western adventures. We're saluting the man who wrote scripts forĀ Buck Rogers andĀ Superman and who directed James Stewart in the Hollywood legend's only regular series radio role with a block of his shows. First, he narratesĀ "The Unsolved Murder Of Joseph P. Bohanak" fromĀ Somebody Knows (originally aired on CBS on July 28, 1950). Then, he writes, produces, and directs "The Curse of Kamashek Matter," a five-partĀ Johnny Dollar adventure (originally aired between September 3 and September 7, 1956). Finally, Johnstone is in the director's chair for "Report on E.S.P." - an all-star exploration of the psychic world fromĀ The CBS Radio Workshop (originally aired on CBS on March 9, 1956).
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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. Hello. Hello and welcome to down these mean streets. Now this week's episode is coming to |
| 1:00.4 | you a little late but I hope it's going to be worth the weight. Today we're |
| 1:04.8 | saluting writer, director, producer, and occasional actor Jack Johnstone. Around here, |
| 1:11.8 | Johnstone's name is synonymous with Johnny Dollar, the man with the action-packed expense account. |
| 1:19.0 | Johnstone was behind the scenes as director when the show launched in 1955 as a nightly five-part serial with Bob Bailey |
| 1:27.6 | starring his dollar and Johnstone remained at the helm when the show reverted to a weekly 30 minute format and stayed director until 1960. |
| 1:37.5 | It was under his stewardship that Johnny Dollar produced some of the best drama of the radio era, mystery or otherwise. |
| 1:46.0 | Those five-part serialized stories are among the finest shows you'll hear from the Golden Age of radio. But Johnny Dollar is just a part of Jack |
| 1:56.2 | Johnstone's legacy in broadcasting. He got his start in radio when, after he dropped out of |
| 2:02.1 | college, a friend asked Johnstone if he wanted to try |
| 2:05.5 | writing a script for the radio adventures of Buck Rogers. Soon Johnstone was a regular writer |
| 2:12.1 | for the Sci-Fi adventure series and he eventually became the show's director. |
| 2:17.2 | He followed Buck Rogers with Superman and he would go on to direct radio shows like the man called X, the espionage adventure drama starring Herbert Marshall, and the six shooter, Jimmy Stewart'sstanding Western drama series. |
| 2:34.8 | Johnstone wasn't just a behind-the-scenes talent. |
| 2:37.8 | He also lent his voice to radio, serving as both director and narrator for the unusual true crime radio drama Somebody |
| 2:46.4 | knows. |
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