Episode 378 – Man With the Yellow Hat (Dick Tracy)

Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)

Jack Mooney

Arts, Performing Arts, Tv & Film

4.5 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2020

⏱️ 215 minutes

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Summary

The comic strip adventures of Chester Gould's two-fisted super cop Dick Tracy thrilled readers across the country, and the detective soon made the leap to the big screen and to radio. Ned Wever stars as Tracy, a cop equally skilled in the crime lab and on the shooting range, in the serialized adventure "The Black Pearl of Osiris" (originally aired on Mutual between February 8 and February 25, 1938).

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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
0:30.4	America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator.
0:33.0	Yours truly, Johnny Deller. And the Hello and welcome to down these mean streets and more crime fighters from the golden age of radio and when it comes to crime fighters they didn't come much tougher than Dick Tracy.
1:10.3	The super cop who was equally skilled in the Crime Lab and on the shooting range burst out of the comics page onto the big and small screens and on to radio
1:21.4	Tracy was created by cartoonist Chester Gold. He was inspired by famous Treasury Agent
1:28.6	Elliot Ness and his comic trip exploits were first published in October of 1931.
1:35.0	The Adventures of Tracy and his battles against dastardly villains like Mumbles, Oodles, and
1:41.7	Hitman for Higher Flat top were a huge hit with readers all across the country.
1:47.4	On the right side of the law in Tracy's world were Pat Patton, his loyal partner on
1:52.1	the force, Tess Trujard, his loyal partner on the force, Tess Trueheart, his long-suffering girlfriend,
1:57.0	and Dick Tracy Jr., an orphan and aspiring crime solver adopted by the detective.
2:03.8	But it wasn't just the colorful characters and adventures that captured audiences imaginations.
2:10.2	In 1946, the strip introduced what may be the most well-known feature of Tracy, the two-way wrist radio,
2:20.0	a gadget that inspired the invention of the mobile phone.
2:24.0	And it's hard to see a smart watch today and not think of Dick Tracy answering a call to action.
2:31.1	Tracy's popularity led to a number of film cereals in the late 1930s starring Ralph Bird.
2:37.0	But aside from Tracy and Junior, none of the comic strips supporting characters appeared in the cereals.
2:45.0	In the mid-1940s, Tracy returned to the screen in four B movies produced by R. K.O.
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