Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives) show

Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)

Summary: Presenting the best detectives from the Golden Age of Radio. Each week, we'll bring you an episode starring one of Old Time Radio's greatest detectives and the story behind the show. Join us for adventures of Philip Marlowe, Sam Spade, Johnny Dollar, and many more.

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 Episode 317 - Their Girl Friday: Virginia Gregg (Richard Diamond, Let George Do It, & Frontier Gentleman) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:34:10

This week on “Down These Mean Streets,” we’re saluting Virginia Gregg, one of radio’s greatest actresses. We’ll hear her in her regular roles in “Richard Diamond” and “Let George Do It,” plus an episode of “Frontier Gentleman.”

 Episode 316 - A Chorus Crime (Broadway is My Beat) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:05:44

This week on “Down These Mean Streets,” Larry Thor walks the Great White Way as Detective Danny Clover in two mysteries from “Broadway is My Beat” - “The Val Dane Starvation Murder Case” and “The Gridiron Hero Murders.”

 Episode 315 - Wealthy Young Man About Town (The Line-Up) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:39:43

This week on “Down These Mean Streets,” we’re celebrating Bill Johnstone’s birthday with two of his starring turns as Lt. Ben Guthrie in “The Line-Up.”

 Episode 314 - The Final Five Matter (Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:18:34

This week on “Down These Mean Streets,” Bob Bailey is “the man with the action-packed expense account” in the final five-part adventure of “Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar.”

 Episode 313 - In the Still of the Night (Night Beat) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:06:03

This week on “Down These Mean Streets,” Frank Lovejoy prowls the streets of the Windy City in search of newspaper stories as reporter Randy Stone in two old time radio mysteries from “Night Beat.”

 Episode 312 - True North (Mr. and Mrs. North) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:20:43

This week on “Down These Mean Streets,” we’ll hear three old time radio adventures of the married mystery marvels “Mr. and Mrs. North” starring Richard Denning and Barbara Britton.

 Episode 311 - Spy Hard (Dangerous Assignment) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:07:45

This week on “Down These Mean Streets,” Brian Donlevy is hard-boiled secret agent Steve Mitchell in two tales of old time radio espionage and adventure from “Dangerous Assignment.”

 Episode 310 - Behind the Badge (Nero Wolfe & Dragnet) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:07:19

Today on a bonus episode of “Down These Mean Streets,” we’ll salute the late Herb Ellis. We’ll hear the actor and writer as Archie Goodwin in “Nero Wolfe” and as Frank Smith opposite Jack Webb in “Dragnet.”

 Episode 309 - St. Vincent (The Saint) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:25:13

This week on “Down These Mean Streets,” Vincent Price is fighting sinners as only a Saint can. We’ll hear three old time radio adventures starring Price as the dapper and debonair “Robin Hood of Modern Crime.”

 Episode 308 - Raising Cain (Lux Radio Theatre) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:04:55

This week on "Down These Mean Streets," we're starting a new year of radio mysteries with an adaptation of the film noir classic "Double Indemnity" with Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck recreating their roles.

 Episode 307 - What Are You Doing New Year's Eve? (Dragnet & Philip Marlowe) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:04:18

This week on "Down These Mean Streets," we're ringing in 2019 with New Year's Eve mysteries from "Dragnet" and "The Adventures of Philip Marlowe."

 Episode 306 - Holmes for the Holidays (New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:32:47

This week on "Down These Mean Streets," it's our annual holiday show! We're wrapping up 2018 with three seasonal mysteries starring Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

 Episode 305 - Silver-Haired Shamus (New Adventures of Michael Shayne) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:28:47

This week on "Down These Mean Streets," we're celebrating what would have been Jeff Chandler's 100th birthday with two of his Michael Shayne radio mysteries. Plus - a comedic turn with Chandler as Mr. Boynton on Our Miss Brooks.

 Episode 304 - Archie and the Wolfe (New Adventures of Nero Wolfe) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:07:16

This week on "Down These Mean Streets," Sydney Greenstreet is large and in charge as Nero Wolfe in two radio adventures of the gargantuan gourmet.

 Episode 303 - Luck of the Irish (Mollé Mystery Theater, NBC Radio Playhouse & The Hunters) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:33:42

This week on "Down These Mean Streets," we'll hear three old time radio tales of cops and killers from legendary crime writer Cornell Woolrich.

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