Episode 631 - No Rest for the Weary (The Saint, Richard Diamond, Mr. and Mrs. North, & 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

🗓️ 6 July 2025

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Summary

Summer means vacations, but getting out of town doesn’t mean that our detectives can get away from murder and mayhem in these old time radio mysteries. Simon Templar finds multiple murders on a cruise ship in “Murder on the High Seas” from The Saint (originally aired on Mutual on September 18, 1949), and Richard Diamond and Lt. Levinson have a working vacation as they search for a missing man in Bolivia in Richard Diamond, Private Detective (originally aired on CBS on May 31, 1953). Mr. and Mrs. North plan a little getaway, but they have to stop a killer from making their own getaway in “No Vacation for Murder” (AFRS rebroadcast from September 1, 1953). And on a vacation in Maine, Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator finds a corpse in a haystack in “Hay is for Homicide” (originally aired on NBC on August 31, 1954).

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.
0:40.3	... Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Hello and welcome. Hello and welcome to Down These Mean Streets and more old-time radio detectives and crime solvers.
1:05.2	Summer is here, and hopefully you've got some time planned to unplug from work or school and just enjoy yourself.
1:13.6	Unfortunately for our friendly neighborhood old-time radio detectives,
1:18.6	a vacation usually just meant solving crimes in a different locale.
1:23.6	Today we'll hear four mysteries where our heroes find rigor mortis instead of some R&R.
1:31.6	First up is Simon Templar in Murder on the High Seas. Vincent Price stars as the saint in this
1:39.7	episode that originally aired on Mutual on September 18th, 1949. Now it has another title, but it would
1:48.3	give away the ending of the episode, so let's stick with murder on the high seas. After all,
1:54.3	it's appropriate. The saint is taking a cruise and he strikes up a friendship with a fellow passenger,
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