Episode 664 - Your Lyon Eyes (Jeff Regan, Investigator)
Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)
Jack Mooney
4.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2026
⏱️ 129 minutes
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Summary
Our Jack Webb series continues this week with Jeff Regan, Investigator - another stint as a hard-boiled gumshoe before he picked up Joe Friday's badge on Dragnet. Regan was the long-suffering operative of Anthony J. Lyon's International Detective Bureau, and "the Lyon's eye" was always thrown into whatever dangerous case his boss took on with no questions asked. We'll hear Webb as Regan in four radio mysteries: "The Lady with the Golden Hair" (originally aired on CBS on July 31, 1948); "The Man in the Door" (originally aired on CBS on August 28, 1948); "The Man Who Fought Back" (originally aired on CBS on November 27, 1948); and "The Gambler and His Lady" (originally aired on CBS on December 11, 1948).
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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. |
| 1:04.6 | ... Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Hello. Hello and welcome to Down These Mean Streets and more old-time radio detectives and crime solvers. |
| 1:14.1 | Our month-long salute to Jack Webb continues this week with one of his earliest starring roles in a nationwide show, |
| 1:22.3 | Jeff Regan Investigator. Last week we heard Pat Novak for hire, the hard-boiled drama that first put Webb on the map, initially as a regional production, and then later as a show that went out across |
| 1:28.9 | the country. In between his runs as Pat Novak, Webb starred in the copycat series Johnny |
| 1:36.1 | Madero, Pier 23, and in July 1948, he went on the air at CBS as Jeff Regan. Regan was an operative of the International |
| 1:47.3 | Detective Bureau, an agency run by Anthony J. Lyon. That earned Regan the nickname, the Lion's |
| 1:54.9 | Eye. Lion loved money, and there was no paying client he'd turned down, no matter how shady they seemed or |
| 2:02.1 | how dangerous a job they presented. And he wasn't reluctant to throw Regan under the bus at the |
| 2:07.5 | slightest opportunity. Lion was played first by Wilms Herbert, who was about a year away from |
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