Episode 637 - Mysteries of Madison High (Casebook of Gregory Hood, Michael Shayne, & Philip Marlowe)

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

🗓️ 21 September 2025

⏱️ 125 minutes

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Summary

With school back in session, we're visiting the faculty lounge at Madison High with three cast members from Our Miss Brooks in their roles as radio detectives. Gale Gordon sheds the stuffy suit of Principal Osgood Conklin as amateur sleuth Gregory Hood in "Murder in Celluloid" (originally aired on Mutual on July 2, 1946). Jeff Chandler leaves bashful biology teacher Mr. Boynton behind to travel to the Big Easy as Michael Shayne in "The Case of the Model Murder." And Gerald Mohr ditches the accent of French teacher Monsieur LeBlanche as Phillip Marlowe in "The Torch Carriers" (originally aired on CBS on January 7, 1950). Plus, we'll hear all three alongside Eve Arden in an episode of Our Miss Brooks (originally aired on CBS on February 20, 1949).

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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.
1:05.9	Thank you. Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Hello and welcome to Down These Mean Streets and more old-time radio detectives and crime solvers.
1:16.5	This week we're visiting the Teachers Lounge at Madison High School, the setting for one of radio's best comedies, Our Miss Brooks.
1:25.8	Each episode followed the misadventures of English teacher Connie Brooks, played by Eve Arden, as well as her fellow teachers and students.
1:32.1	In addition to being one of radio's best comedies that had one of radio's best supporting castes, and many of Eve Arden's co-stars also enjoyed runs as radio detectives outside of their school days.
1:41.1	So today I've got three members of the Our Miss Brooks cast in their roles as radio sleuths.
1:48.8	First up is Gail Gordon, who played Osgood Conklin, the petty tyrant principal of Madison High.
1:56.7	Gordon was a very busy radio comedy actor.
2:00.5	In addition to Our Miss Brooks, he played
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