Episode 624 - It’s a Dog’s Life (Boston Blackie, Sherlock Holmes, Philip Marlowe, The Saint, & Barrie Craig)

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

🗓️ 18 May 2025

⏱️ 151 minutes

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Summary

Our dogged detectives sniff for clues in five canine-related old time radio mysteries. First, the owner of the best in show pooches is killed at a dog show in a syndicated adventure of Boston Blackie, and a dog “tells” Sherlock Holmes who murdered his owner in “The Case of the Dog Who Changed His Mind” (originally aired on Mutual on September 28, 1947). Philip Marlowe is on the trail of a dog - though this one is made out of jade - in “The Orange Dog” (originally aired on CBS on January 22, 1949). Barry Sullivan plays The Saint in “Dossier on a Doggone Dog,” a story of a lost dog and stolen jewels (originally aired on NBC on September 24, 1950), and Barrie Craig is hired to walk a dog, only to discover the dog’s owner knocked unconscious in “Beware the Walking Dog” (originally aired on NBC on May 3, 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.
1:03.8	... Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Hello and welcome to Down These Mean Streets and more old-time radio detectives and crime fighters.
1:15.6	This week's show is going to the dogs, with five radio mysteries centered on man's best friend. First, Boston Blackie finds murder at a dog show, where a wealthy woman is killed right after her pooches capture the best-in-show
1:22.5	prize. Richard Calmer stars as the Reformed Jewel Thief turned detective in this syndicated mystery.
1:30.2	Then a dog is able to tell Sherlock Holmes who killed his owner in the case of the dog who
1:36.6	changed his mind, originally aired on Mutual on September 28, 1947.
1:43.2	This original Holmes radio mystery was written by Edith Miser,
1:47.4	and it kicked off the 1947-48 season of Holmes shows
1:51.6	that starred my favorite actors to play the detectives of Baker Street,
1:56.4	John Stanley as Sherlock Holmes, and Alfred Shirley as Dr. Watson. For our third show, the dog at
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