Episode 37 - Crime Takes a Holiday (Nero Wolfe & Sherlock Holmes)
Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)
Jack Mooney
4.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2013
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
"Down These Mean Streets" wraps up 2013 with an hour of holiday adventures from two old time radio detectives. First, Sydney Greenstreet stars as Nero Wolfe in the Christmas crime drama "The Case of the Slaughtered Santas" (originally aired on NBC on December 22, 1950). Then, John Stanley as Sherlock Holmes rings in "New Year's Eve Off the Scilly Isles" (originally aired on Mutual on December 28, 1947).
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| 0:00.0 | Is that you Santa Claus? |
| 0:03.0 | Happy! |
| 0:05.0 | Happy Happy Holidays! |
| 0:11.0 | Happy Holidays and welcome to the final episode of Down These Mean Streets for 2013. |
| 0:17.0 | I'll be taking a little break before coming back for a new year of shows beginning January 5th. But before I leave, I've got an hour |
| 0:26.2 | today of holiday adventures from some of my favorite old time radio detectives. Up first is Sydney Green Street as Rex Stout's Nero Wolf. We first heard |
| 0:37.2 | him back in May in an episode from his single season as the eccentric homebound detective. |
| 0:43.0 | Today, we'll hear a show from the middle of the run, |
| 0:46.0 | and it's the Christmas episode of the series, |
| 0:49.0 | The Case of the Slaughter Santas. |
| 0:51.0 | Larry Dobkin co-stars as Wolf's assistant Archie Goodwin, with Bill Johnstone, Howard |
| 0:57.2 | McNear, Grace Leonard, and Herb Butterfield in the supporting cast. |
| 1:01.9 | This episode originally aired on NBC on December 22nd 1950. Ladies and gentlemen the ringing of that phone bell means mystery adventure |
| 1:27.8 | Mirror Wolf's office Archie Goodwin speaking yes but Yes I know that in 48 hours it's going to be Christmas but who is |
| 1:37.9 | this? Who? Look I'm a big boy now, so... |
| 1:44.0 | Okay, tonight at eight. |
| 1:46.0 | Goodbye. |
| 1:48.0 | What the devil was that? |
| 1:50.0 | This may come as a shock to you, Mr. Wolf, |
| 1:52.0 | but that was sadic laws. |
| 1:53.6 | You've been drinking. |
| 1:54.8 | Uh-huh, the usual, Mill. |
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