Episode 635 - City Slicker Sleuths (Philip Marlowe, Richard Diamond, The Saint, & Rocky Fortune)

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

🗓️ 24 August 2025

⏱️ 122 minutes

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Summary

We leave the mean streets of the big cities behind and join four radio detectives in western-themed mysteries - stories of cowboys, horses, cattle, and the wide open spaces. Philip Marlowe hunts for a killer on a dude ranch in “The Dude from Manhattan” (originally aired on CBS on July 2, 1949), and Richard Diamond heads to Oklahoma to prove an accidental death was a well-staged murder in “The Hatpin Murder Case” (originally aired on NBC on September 27, 1950). The Saint tries to keep a visiting cattleman alive during a visit to the Big Apple in “Death of a Cowboy” (originally aired on NBC on July 1, 1951), and Rocky Fortune gets a job - and a murder rap - in “The Rodeo Murder” (originally aired on NBC on January 12, 1954).

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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, 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.
1:04.2	... Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Hello and welcome to Down These Mean Streets with more old-time radio detectives and crime solvers.
1:13.4	This week we're leaving the mean streets of the city behind and saddling up with a quartet of sleuths as they tackle crimes involving horses, cowboys, and the wide open spaces. First up is Gerald Moore as Philip
1:22.4	Marlowe in The Dude from Manhattan, originally aired on CBS on July 2nd at 1949.
1:30.3	Marlow was called by an old friend who runs a dude ranch and who needs help with a rivalry
1:36.3	between one of his stable hands and a guest, but no sooner has the detective arrived on
1:42.3	the scene than the guest is found beaten to death in a horse's stall.
1:47.0	Then we've got Dick Powell as Richard Diamond in an episode known as the Hatpin Murder Case, also known as the Oklahoma Cowboy Case.
1:56.7	This one originally aired on NBC on September 27, 1950.
2:01.4	And it brings Diamond from the Big Apple to cattle country,
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