Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives) Podcast
1) Episode 640 - Come Fly With Me (Boston Blackie, Harry Lime, & Johnny Dollar)
The skies are unfriendly this week as three old time radio heroes face danger in the air. First, Boston Blackie is due in with evidence to send a notorious gangster to the chair…but his airplane disap...Show More
2) Episode 639 - Maltese Falconers (Suspense, Inner Sanctum, Nero Wolfe, Bold Venture, & Screen Guild Theatre)
The Maltese Falcon premiered in movie theaters eight eighty-four years ago this month, and we're celebrating the anniversary of one of Hollywood's best mystery pictures with a showcase for its stars -...Show More
3) Episode 638 - William Tells (Philip Marlowe, Night Beat, Johnny Dollar, & Gunsmoke)
We're saluting the 105th anniversary of the birth of William Conrad - the radio acting legend who brought law and order to Dodge City as Matt Dillon on Gunsmoke and who racked up hundreds of credits o...Show More
4) Episode 637 - Mysteries of Madison High (Casebook of Gregory Hood, Michael Shayne, & Philip Marlowe)
With school back in session, we're visiting the faculty lounge at Madison High with three cast members from Our Miss Brooks in their roles as radio detectives. Gale Gordon sheds the stuffy suit of Pri...Show More
5) Episode 636 - Good Guys Gone Bad (The Whistler & Suspense)
Sometimes it’s good to be bad, or at least it’s good to hear it when radio detective stars switch sides and play some pretty dastardly villains. We’ll hear four of our favorite on-air heroes star as c...Show More
6) Encore - Johnny Dollar's Summer Vacation (Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar)
As summer draws to a close with Labor Day weekend, enjoy this encore broadcast featuring Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar in episodes where "the man with the action-packed expense account" tries to take so...Show More
7) Episode 635 - City Slicker Sleuths (Philip Marlowe, Richard Diamond, The Saint, & Rocky Fortune)
We leave the mean streets of the big cities behind and join four radio detectives in western-themed mysteries - stories of cowboys, horses, cattle, and the wide open spaces. Philip Marlowe hunts for a...Show More
8) Episode 634 - Crimesolving on Campus (Michael Shayne, Box Thirteen, Richard Diamond, & The Saint)
As summer winds down and students head back to school, we’ll join some radio detectives as they tackle cases on college campuses. Michael Shayne looks for a peeping Tom turned murderer in “The Return ...Show More
9) Episode 633 - Back on the Beat (Dragnet, Broadway is My Beat, Tales of the Texas Rangers, & The Line-Up)
We’re riding along with some of old time radio’s hardest working cops as we kick off Season 13 of Down These Mean Streets! Sgt. Joe Friday hunts for a hold-up man who resorted to murder in “The Big Sm...Show More
10) BONUS - Superman Summer: The Atom Man (Part 5)
It all comes down to this - the final fight between Superman and the Atom Man! The kryptonite-fueled Nazi agent threatens to wipe Metropolis off the map on his march toward world conquest. Can the Man...Show More