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Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)

Episode 628 - Detectives for Dad’s Day (Ellery Queen, Let George Do It, The Big Guy, & Philip Marlowe)

Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)

Jack Mooney

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

4.6982 Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2025

⏱️ 128 minutes

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Summary

Happy Father’s Day! We’re celebrating dear old Dad with a collection of radio mysteries featuring fathers. First, Ellery Queen and his police inspector father collaborate on a case of smuggling and murder. Larry Dobkin is Ellery in “Number Thirty-One” (originally aired on NBC on September 7, 1947). Next, George Valentine is hired by a convicted killer's son to clear his father’s name. Bob Bailey stars in “The Father Who Had Nothing to Say” from Let George Do It (originally aired on Mutual on September 13, 1948). Then, meet private eye Joshua Sharp - known to his kids as The Big Guy. Henry Calvin plays the shamus and doting dad in "The Unheard Voice" (originally aired on NBC on May 7, 1950). And finally, Philip Marlowe hunts for a missing son for an ailing father. Gerald Mohr plays Marlowe in “The Last Wish” (originally aired on CBS on July 19, 1950).

Transcript

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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.

1:03.0

... Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Hello and welcome to Down These Mean Streets with more old-time radio detectives and crime solvers.

1:13.6

To celebrate, I've lined up a quartet of radio mysteries where fatherhood plays a key role in the stories, including an adventure of radio's alone single father's sleuth. First up is an adventure of Ellery Queen,

1:20.6

whose murder case intersects with the smuggling matter investigated by his father,

1:25.6

Inspector Queen of the New York Police Department.

1:29.5

Father and son joined forces in Number 31, originally aired on NBC on September 7, 1947.

1:37.7

Larry Dobkin, who we hear around these parts quite often as Louis the cab driver on the Saint,

1:46.0

plays Ellery Queen. Next George Valentine is hired by a young man to clear his father of murder, but to George's surprise,

1:53.0

the convicted dad doesn't want any help at all. Bob Bailey stars in the father who had nothing to Say from Let George Do It. This one originally

2:04.6

aired on Mutual on September 13th, 1948. Then we'll meet Joshua Sharp, the private eye and

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