Episode 640 - Come Fly With Me (Boston Blackie, Harry Lime, & 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

🗓️ 19 October 2025

⏱️ 130 minutes

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Summary

The skies are unfriendly this week as three old time radio heroes face danger in the air. First, Boston Blackie is due in with evidence to send a notorious gangster to the chair…but his airplane disappears! Richard Kollmar stars as the gentleman thief turned gumshoe in this syndicated mystery. Then, Orson Welles recreates his Third Man role in "The Hard Way" from The Lives of Harry Lime, a syndicated story that finds Lime catching a flight to trouble in the charter airline business. Finally, Bob Bailey is Johnny Dollar in a five-part mystery that begins when a plane goes down. It's "The Flight Six Matter" (originally aired on CBS between January 30 and February 3, 1956).

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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.
1:02.0	... Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Hello and welcome to Down These Mean Streets with more old-time radio detectives and crime solvers.
1:09.1	This week we're catching some flights with mysteries that all involve air travel.
1:14.5	First up is Richard Calmer as Boston Blackie, who has what may be the best introduction of any character ever. He's an enemy to those who make him an enemy, and a friend
1:21.7	to those who have no friend. I really want to get that on a business card someday. Blackie was a safe cracker and
1:29.7	jewel thief, but fortunately for radio fans, he turned over a new leaf and put his criminal
1:35.9	skills to work for the good guys. And in this syndicated episode, he's collected enough evidence
1:42.8	to put a notorious gangster behind bars for
1:46.3	good. All he has to do is return home and present the evidence to the cops, but as his friends
1:52.6	await his arrival, they learn Blackie's plane has disappeared. Speaking of rogues turned good guys, our second show today stars Orson Wells as
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