Episode 488 - Arthur's Anniversary (New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes & Escape)

Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)

Jack Mooney

Arts, Performing Arts, Tv & Film

4.5 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2022

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

It's a birthday celebration for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring two of his Sherlock Holmes stories adapted for radio. We'll hear John Stanley as Holmes and Alfred Shirley as Dr. Watson in "The Adventure of the Red-Headed League" (originally aired on Mutual on October 12, 1947) and "The Adventure of the Stolen Naval Treaty" (originally aired on Mutual on November 23, 1947). Plus, we'll hear an adaptation of Doyle's1898 non-Holmes mystery "The Lost Special" from Escape (originally aired on CBS on February 12, 1949).

Click here to read "The Adventure of the Red-Headed League."

Click here to read "The Adventure of the Stolen Naval Treaty."

Click here to read "The Story of the Lost Special."

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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 old-time radio
1:00.0	detectives and crime solvers. This week we're saluting Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,
1:06.6	the British writer and doctor who gave the world the most famous detective in all of
1:11.9	fiction Sherlock Holmes.
1:15.0	We're celebrating Sir Arthur's May 22nd birthday today
1:19.0	with three of his stories adapted for radio.
1:22.0	Two Adventures of Sherlock and Dr. Watson, and a third mystery
1:27.0	story written during Doyle's hiatus from Holmes.
1:31.7	Both of the Holmes shows today come from the 1947 to 48
1:36.0	season of the new Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, my favorite of the many Sherlock
1:41.6	Radio incarnations.
1:44.0	The season starred John Stanley as Holmes and Alfred Shirley as Watson, and the entire
1:50.4	39 episode run was written by Edith Meiser, the actress and writer who
1:56.1	persuaded American networks and sponsors to look at Holmes as a viable
2:00.9	radio property in the first place.
2:03.0	And I've picked adaptations of two of my favorite home stories,
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