Episode 668 - All the Write Moves: Agatha Christie (Campbell Playhouse, Murder Clinic, & Suspense)
Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)
Jack Mooney
4.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2026
⏱️ 149 minutes
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Summary
Our month-long salute to mystery writing legends continues with the queen of crime herself - Agatha Christie. She wrote over sixty novels, dozens of short stories, and created two of the genre's most beloved sleuths - Hercule Poirot, the fastidious and brilliant Belgian detective, and Miss Marple, the kindly amateur investigator. We'll hear four of Dame Agatha's tales recreated for radio: "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" with Orson Welles as Poirot from The Campbell Playhouse (originally aired on CBS on November 12, 1939); "The Tragedy of Marsdon Manner" from Murder Clinic (originally aired on Mutual on October 6, 1942); and "The ABC Murders" and "Where There's a Will" from Suspense (originally aired on CBS on May 18, 1943 and February 24, 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, 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. |
| 1:05.7 | ... Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Hello and welcome to Down These Mean Streets with more old-time radio detectives and crime solvers. |
| 1:12.6 | All this month were spotlighting classic mystery writers whose work was adapted for radio. This week our writer is none other than the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, the author of over 60 novels and dozens of short stories. |
| 1:22.6 | Her mysteries have captivated readers for over a century, and her signature characters, including |
| 1:29.5 | Belgian super-sloat-Rour-Roe and amateur investigator Miss Marple, continue to be adapted for |
| 1:36.7 | the big and small screens. Now, Ercul Poirot came to American Radio in the 1940s in a series starring actor Harold Huber, |
| 1:46.6 | but that show found Christie's detective starring in original mysteries. |
| 1:52.0 | Today, we'll hear four of Dame Agatha's own stories adapted for the air, beginning with |
| 1:57.9 | two adventures of Monsieur Poirot. Up first is an adaptation of her celebrated novel |
| 2:03.7 | The Murder of Roger Ackroyd from the Campbell Playhouse, starring Worson Wells in a dual |
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