Episode 387 – Brilliant Deductions (Adventures of Sherlock Holmes)
Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)
Jack Mooney
4.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2020
⏱️ 122 minutes
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Summary
To celebrate Arthur Conan Doyle's birthday, we'll hear radio adaptations of four Sherlock Holmes short stories, each featuring a different actor as the great detective. First, Basil Rathbone stars in "The Speckled Band" (originally aired on Mutual on November 12, 1945). Next, we'll hear Tom Conway in "The Adventure of the Dying Detective" (originally aired on ABC on February 3, 1947). Then, it's "The Adventure of the Empty House" (originally aired on Mutual on April 11, 1948). Finally, John Gielgud plays Holmes in "The Bruce-Partington Plans."
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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. And the Hello and welcome to Down These Mean Streets. Today we're celebrating the |
| 1:00.1 | birthday of Arthur Conan Doyle with a trip to 221B Baker Street and four radio |
| 1:06.6 | adventures of his legendary master detective Sherlock Holmes. |
| 1:12.8 | For over 20 years on radio, Sherlock Holmes and his faithful friend and biographer Dr. Watson |
| 1:18.9 | were a fixture on the air, with talented writers like Edith Meiser, Anthony Boucher, and Dennis Green. the time and again they returned to the canon of short stories and novels that Doyle wrote between |
| 1:35.4 | 1887 and 1927. |
| 1:39.8 | Today to salute Doyle and his most famous creation, we'll hear four of those classic Holmes stories |
| 1:46.1 | recreated for radio, each starring a different actor as the Great Detective. First we'll hear Basil Rathbone as Holmes with Nigel Bruce as Watson in the Speckled Band. |
| 2:00.0 | Originally aired on Mutual on November 12th, 1945, it's an adaptation of the story first published |
| 2:06.7 | in 1892. Holmes is retained by a young woman living in fear of her tyrannical stepfather. |
| 2:15.6 | She believes he did away with her sister, and she also believes she may be the next |
| 2:20.1 | to die. |
| 2:21.5 | This was a favorite story of Holmes radio writer Edith Meiser. She chose it as the very first radio |
| 2:28.1 | adventure of Sherlock Holmes when the show went on the air in 1930. This version is written by Anthony Boucher and Dennis Green, |
| 2:36.7 | and it pits Holmes against one of the more memorable and dastardly villains of the cannon, |
| 2:42.3 | Dr. Grimsby Roylet. |
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