Episode 648 - An Array of Archies (New Adventures of Nero Wolfe)

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

🗓️ 14 December 2025

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

Our two-part series on The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe wraps up with the final three actors to play Archie Goodwin opposite Sydney Greenstreet's gargantuan gourmet. Larry Dobkin - who you may know best as Louie, cab driver sidekick of The Saint - is Archie in "The Case of the Deadly Sellout" (originally aired on NBC on January 5, 1951). Gerald Mohr - the voice of Philip Marlowe - stars in "The Case of the Calculated Risk" (originally aired on NBC on January 19, 1951). And Harry Bartell - announcer and actor - plays Goodwin in "The Case of the Final Page" (originally aired on NBC on March 23, 1951).

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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.
1:01.3	... Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Hello and welcome to Down These Mean Streets with more old-time radio detectives and crime fighters.
1:08.2	Today we wrap up a two-part spotlight series on the new adventures of Neuro Wolf.
1:13.6	Just in time for the December birthdays of the show's star, Sydney Green Street, and the creator of Nero Wolf, Rex Stout. Green Street, who made his film debut as The Fat Man
1:21.6	and the Maltese Falcon, starred as Nero Wolf in a single-season show that aired from 1950 to 1951.
1:30.1	But the show could never settle on a single actor to play Wolf's assistant and legman, Archie
1:36.1	Goodwin.
1:37.8	Six different actors played the part over the single season due to Sidney Green Street's
1:42.7	frustration with the show's low ratings. He believed
1:46.6	his co-star was dragging down the series, which led producers to set up a revolving door of actors
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