Episode 632 - TV is the Thing This Year (Boston Blackie, Dragnet, Whistler, & Johnny Dollar)

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

🗓️ 13 July 2025

⏱️ 123 minutes

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Summary

Don’t change the channel! Each of this week’s radio mysteries involve that exciting new medium - television. A man is poisoned on the air as he’s about to reveal a murderer’s identity in a syndicated adventure of Boston Blackie, and the cops of Dragnet pursue phony TV repairmen in “The Big Screen” (originally aired on NBC on August 9, 1951). A TV quiz show unravels a perfect crime in “Marked Man” from The Whistler (originally aired on CBS on March 16, 1952), and John Lund stars as Johnny Dollar in “The Philip Morey Matter,” as the insurance investigator looks into the nervous breakdown of a popular television star (originally aired on CBS on October 13, 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 Saint,
0:23.4	starring Vincent Price.
0:25.5	Bob Bailey,
0:26.6	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.
0:59.7	Thank you. Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. This is the cold season. What do medical authorities say about the common cold?
1:05.0	Doctors tell us there's no known drug which will cure a cold. There are effective medications for treating complications accompanying or following a cold. If you've been taking sensible
1:09.9	precautions and still have one cold
1:12.0	after another, it's best to see your doctor. And here's another important health tip. When you
1:17.0	have a cold and need a laxative, that's the time to rely on gentle X-Lax. Pleasant-tasting,
1:22.7	chocolateed X-Lax helps you toward your normal regularity, gently overnight. X-Lax gets along with any cold remedies you may be taking, and X-L helps you toward your normal regularity gently overnight.
1:30.3	X-lax gets along with any cold remedies you may be taking,
1:34.2	and X-Lax works where nature wants, in the lower track, not the stomach.
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