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Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)

Episode 362 – The Five Days of Christmas Matter (Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar)

Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)

Jack Mooney

Arts, Performing Arts, Tv & Film

4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2019

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

We're decking the halls with Johnny Dollar. Bob Bailey stars as "America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator" in a five-part Christmas radio mystery. We'll hear the complete adventure of "The Nick Shurn Matter" (originally aired on CBS between December 19th and 23rd, 1955).

Transcript

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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

0:25.4

Bob Bailey in the exciting adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account

0:30.6

America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator.

0:33.0

Yours truly, Johnny Deller. the Happy holidays and welcome to down these means streets. Today as Hanukkah begins and with Christmas right around the

1:05.6

corner we're celebrating the season with Bob Bailey in a five-part Yule tide

1:11.1

adventure of yours truly Johnny Dollar.

1:14.7

Unfortunately, the man with the action-packed expense account doesn't get to take time off for

1:19.8

the holidays.

1:21.8

In the Nick Schern matter, Johnny's got to find the witness who can prove an infamous

1:27.1

gangster bumped off his business partner and he has to find her before the

1:31.8

killer's gun-toting henchman tracks her down and silences her forever.

1:37.1

It's a story that takes Johnny from the streets of New York to the snowy forests of Michigan for a caper capped by a Christmas miracle.

1:45.6

It's a little more sentimental than the usual Johnny Dollar stories, but hey, it's the holidays.

1:53.0

Originally airing on CBS the Nick Schurn Matter aired between December 19th and December 23rd

1:59.6

1955. The script was written by Les Crutchfield and it was directed by Jack Johnstone

2:07.8

supporting Bob Bailey in the cast or Virginia Greg Jack Crucian, Ken Christie, Sam Edwards, Peggy Weber, Don Diamond, Ben Wright, and Barney

2:18.1

Phillips.

2:20.6

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas and crime for Johnny Dollar, right after these messages. Why battle last minute Christmas crowds downtown when the perfect gift is as close as your nearest wine merchant?

2:42.0

Give magnificent grand estate wines

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