Episode 497 - Batter Up (Ellery Queen, Bulldog Drummond, & Boston Blackie)
Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)
Jack Mooney
4.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2022
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
Take me out to the ballgame for these three radio mysteries set in and around the ballpark. First, Ellery Queen's plans for a relaxing Sunday afternoon are thwarted when a movie star drops dead in "The Adventure of the Foul Tip" (AFRS rebroadcast; originally aired on NBC on June 13, 1944). Then, Bulldog Drummond tries to save a team after a pitcher dies on the mound in "Death on the Diamond" (originally aired on Mutual on September 17, 1945). Finally, Richard Kollmar investigates the shooting of a player killed sliding into second base in a syndicated adventure of Boston Blackie.
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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 with more old-time radio |
| 1:00.9 | detectives and crime solvers. |
| 1:03.8 | This week with baseball season in full swing, |
| 1:07.0 | we'll hear three radio mysteries set in and around the ballpark. |
| 1:12.2 | As a trio of radio detectives try to solve crimes |
| 1:15.8 | while also enjoying America's pastime. Batting first is Ellery Queen |
| 1:21.2 | and the adventure of the foul tip. |
| 1:23.7 | This is an Armed Forces radio service rebroadcast of a show from NBC on July 13, 1944. |
| 1:31.3 | Sydney Smith stars as Ellery, and all he wants to do is enjoy a ball game on a nice Sunday afternoon. |
| 1:38.0 | Unfortunately, a Western movie star drops dead, and it looks like he was poisoned right there in the |
| 1:44.6 | ballpark during the game. Now Elery has to figure out who killed the man as well as |
| 1:50.1 | how he was killed. Now each episode of Elery Queen featured a guest |
| 1:54.7 | armchair detective in the studio. Before the deumond of the story, Elery would |
| 2:00.2 | stop the show to give the guest and the listeners at home the chance to solve |
| 2:04.9 | the crime. The guest sluth in this show is prolific character actor Charles Latour |
| 2:10.5 | also a one-time cast member on the Ellery Queen radio show. |
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