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.

The story you are about to hear is true, only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.

The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective.

The Adventures of the Saints starring Vincent Prize

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

America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator.

Yours truly, Johnny Deller. The Hello and welcome to Down These Mean Streets.

This week our old time radio detective review takes us to San Francisco to catch up with importer

and amateur detective Gregory Hood.

Hood came to radio as a summer replacement for the new adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

And his series had a lot of carryover from the Holmes series.

The same writers and Anthony Boucher and Dennis Green, the same sponsor in Petrie Wine,

and the same announcer in actor Harry Bartel. Just as he did on Sherlock Holmes,

Bartel paid a weekly visit to the crime solver to hear the mystery over a glass of that fine Petri wine.

And when the Sherlock Holmes series moved to ABC for the fall season,

Gregory Hood's summer run extended and turned into a four-year career of

radio crime solving.

Several actors played Gregory Hood, including future suspense and

Crime Classics Director Elliot Lewis, but the first was Gail Gordon, an actor better known for his comedy than his dramatic

chops. Gordon played Erassable Principal Osgood Conclin on Our Miss Brooks on radio and television, and he waged a war of words with

Fibre McGee as Mayor Latrivia. Later he co-starred in several television shows with Lucille Ball, including the Lucy show, where he played

Lucy's boss Mr. Mooney.

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