Episode 443 – God Save the Queen (Ellery Queen)

Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)

Jack Mooney

Tv & Film, Arts, Performing Arts

4.5 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2021

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

Six armchair detectives accept the challenge of master of mystery Ellery Queen to solve a baffling mystery before he reveals the solution. Carleton Young and Sydney Smith star as the brilliant amateur sleuth in three old time radio mysteries that present challenges in deduction to the guests in the studio and to you listening at home! We'll hear "The Adventure of the Singing Rat" (originally aired on NBC on January 9, 1943); "The Adventure of the World Series Crime" (originally aired on NBC on September 30, 1943); and "The Scarecrow and the Snowman" (originally aired on NBC on January 20, 1944).

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0:00.0	Get this and get it straight. Crime is a suckers road and those who travel it'd wind up in the gut of the prison of the grave.
0:07.0	The story you were 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 and
0:59.0	were old-time radio crimes and crime solvers. This week our stars Radio Crimes and Crime Sallers.
1:03.8	This week our Star Slooth is one of the biggest names in Detective Fiction.
1:09.1	Ellery Queen, the brilliant amateur investigator whose Mystery magazine is still published today.
1:17.0	Queen first appeared in 1929 in mystery stories written by Frederick Danay and Manfred Lee.
1:24.0	The Adventures of Ellery Queen continued in print and on the big and small screens
1:30.0	including a 1975 TV series starring Jim Hutton and produced by Colombo creators
1:38.2	Richard Levinson and William Lank. For my money it's still one of the best detective shows to ever air on TV, though it sadly
1:47.2	lasted for only a single season.
1:50.4	Ellery Queen had a long career on radio, solving crimes on the air between 1939 and 1948.
1:59.0	The radio, and later the TV series, incorporated an element from the early Ellery Queen novels,
2:06.3	a challenge to the audience just before the detective revealed the solution to the mystery. At that point in the story,
2:14.4	Elery broke the fourth wall to inform the reader, listener, or viewer that they now
2:20.8	had all of the clues he'd used to solve the crime and that there could be only one possible solution.
2:28.0	He invited you to match Witts with him and to try to come up with the answer before he explained it in the moments and pages ahead.
2:37.0	On radio, Ellery Queen welcomed guest armchair detectives to step into the shoes of the audience at home.
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