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. And the Hello and welcome to down these mean streets and more adventures of the

Ace Crime Fighters of the Golden Age of radio. Our super sleuth this week walked

several beats in print on the air and on the big and small screens. He's Simon Templar, the Robin Hood of Modern Crime, but those in the business

of crime and crime prevention know him better as the Saint.

The gentleman adventurer created by Leslie Charter as may be best known from the long-running TV

series starring a pre-James Bond, Roger Moore. But the saint had a busy career of radio work before he brought his

halo to television. On this week's show we'll hear three of his radio adventures, each starring a different actor as the saint, including

the audition recording that kicked off his exploits on radio.

Several actors played Simon Templar on the air. Radio. radio role is Vincent Price. Price starred as the saint from 1947 until 1951, and today

we'll hear him in The Horrible Hamburger.

Originally aired on NBC on September 10th, 1950.

The saint and his loyal cab driver's sidekick Louis get lost in the country, and they end up stopping for grub at a roadside

burger joint. After they leave the cab gets a flat tire and when they go for the

spare Louie that along with their food,

the burger joint gave them a corpse to go. The cast includes Arthur Q Bryan and Louise Ericsson with Larry Dobkin as Louis Vitties wrote the script.

Now as I mentioned before this episode aired on September 10th, 1950. But when the time came to record the next episode,

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