Episode 623 - Mother of All Mysteries (Sherlock Holmes, Let George Do It, Box 13, Richard Diamond, & Dragnet)

Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)

Jack Mooney

Arts, Performing Arts, Mystery, Detectives, Old, Radio, Time, Tv & Film, Oldtimeradio

4.6 • 982 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2025

⏱️ 152 minutes

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Summary

Happy Mother’s Day! We’re celebrating moms with five old time radio mysteries where they play major roles. In “The Case of the Lucky Shilling,” Sherlock Holmes comes to the aid of a woman whose son is wiped out by a crooked gambler (originally aired on Mutual on January 14, 1948), and George Valentine tries to prove that a woman is not an unfit mother in “Problem Child” from Let George Do It (originally aired on Mutual on June 21, 1948). A woman hires Dan Holiday to prove her son’s death wasn’t an accident in “Suicide or Murder” from Box 13, and the mother of an escaped convict wants Richard Diamond to send her son back to prison (originally aired on NBC on October 4, 1950). Finally, the cops of Dragnet are on the trail of a serial shoplifter who only steals clothes for children in “The Big Little Mother” (originally aired on NBC on October 6, 1953).

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0:00.0	Get this and get it straight.
0:02.1	Crime is a sucker's road.
0:03.9	And those who travel
0:04.6	it wind up in the gut of the prison of the grave.
0:12.3	The story you were about to hear is true.
0:15.2	Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.
0:18.6	The Adventures of Sam Spade, Detective.
0:21.7	The Adventures of the Saints,
0:23.5	starring Vincent Price.
0:25.5	Bob Bailey, in the exciting adventures
0:27.7	of the man with the action-packed expense account.
0:30.6	America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator...
0:33.4	Yours truly, Johnny Dollar.
0:39.3	... Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Hello and welcome to Down These Mean Streets with more old-time radio detectives and crime fighters.
1:04.9	Today is Mother's Day, and we're celebrating Mom the Old Time Radio radio detective way, with five radio mysteries, where moms are major players in the plots.
1:17.2	First up, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson come to the aid of a woman whose son has been wiped out by a crooked card player in the case of the Lucky Schilling. Originally aired on Mutual
1:29.6	on January 18, 1948, it stars my favorite radio residence of 221B Baker Street, John
1:37.6	Stanley as Sherlock Holmes, and Alfred Shirley as Dr. Watson. This is an original Holmes mystery penned by Edith Meiser,
1:47.2	though it features characters that were introduced in the Arthur Conan Doyle's story, The Empty House.
1:54.0	Next up is an adventure of George Valentine starring Bob Bailey in his big pre-Johnny Dollar radio role. We'll hear Problem Child from Let George Do It,
2:05.8	originally aired on Mutual on June 21st, 1948. George's new client is on the verge of being
2:12.5	declared an unfit mother and losing custody of her daughter unless George can prove that she's being set up.
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