Episode 676 - Summer in the City: Los Angeles (Philip Marlowe & Dragnet)
Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)
Jack Mooney
4.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2026
⏱️ 122 minutes
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Summary
Our travels across the country continue with two of the signature sleuths of the City of Angels: private eye Philip Marlowe and Sgt. Joe Friday of the LAPD. We'll hear Gerald Mohr as Marlowe in "The Ebony Link" (originally aired on CBS on May 10, 1951) and "The Hiding Place" (originally aired on CBS on May 9, 1950). Then, Jack Webb stars in "The Big Drills" (originally aired on NBC on May 10, 1951) and "The Big Jules" (originally aired on NBC on June 19, 1952) from Dragnet.
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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. |
| 1:04.1 | ... Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Hello and welcome to Down These Means Streets and more old-time radio detectives and crime solvers. |
| 1:11.5 | All this month we're stopping by big cities and spotlighting some of their best known radio detectives. |
| 1:17.9 | Today, we're in Los Angeles, and we've got a double act of the city's best private eye and its best cop. |
| 1:20.3 | The private eye is Philip Marlone, Raymond Chandler's hero who sprang from books to movies |
| 1:26.5 | and then to radio, And the cop is Sergeant |
| 1:29.8 | Joe Friday of Dragnet, who walked his first beat on the air before moving to the big and small |
| 1:36.0 | screens. Today we'll hear Gerald Moore as Mr. Marlow in the Ebony Link from May 28th, 1949, |
| 1:43.8 | and the hiding place from May 9th, |
| 1:47.0 | 1950. Then we'll hear Jack Webb as Sergeant Friday in the Big Drills from May 10th, 1951, |
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