Episode 482 - Stage Fright (Let George Do It, Boston Blackie, & The Whistler)
Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)
Jack Mooney
4.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2022
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
Places, please! We've got three old time radio mysteries set onstage, backstage, and in the aisles of the theatre. Actors, playwrights, and critics are all suspects, victims, and killers and it's up to the detectives to figure out whodunnit before the final curtain. We'll hear "Murder Me Twice" from Let George Do It (originally aired on Mutual on July 5, 1948); a syndicated Boston Blackie mystery known as "Seven Years Bad Luck for Florence Wells;" and "Curtain Call," another strange story by The Whistler (originally aired on CBS on August 27, 1947).
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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. the Hello and welcome to down these mean streets and more adventures of old time |
| 1:00.3 | radio detectives and crime fighters. |
| 1:03.6 | This week's show is coming to you a little late, so I thank you for your patience. |
| 1:08.8 | I got back from a week's vacation a little too late on Saturday to get this show together. But I think it'll be worth |
| 1:16.1 | the weight as today we'll hear a triple feature of mysteries set in and around the world of the theater. |
| 1:24.2 | Now as anyone who's worked on stage or backstage can tell you, |
| 1:28.5 | there's already plenty of suspense and excitement in the theater. |
| 1:32.8 | From dress rehearsals to opening night, |
| 1:35.7 | there are thrills enough without murder and mayhem. |
| 1:39.5 | But those will be our stars. |
| 1:42.0 | In today's three acts of old-time radio crime solving. |
| 1:46.4 | Up first is Murder Me Twice from Let George Do It. |
| 1:50.5 | Originally aired on Mutual on July 5th, |
| 1:53.0 | 1948, this one stars Bob Bailey, |
| 1:56.0 | a few years away from playing Johnny Dollar |
| 1:59.0 | as Private Investigator George Valentine, |
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