Mean Streets Podcasts

Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)

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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 4 - The Gargantuan Gourmet (New Adventures of Nero Wolfe) 19.05.2013 34:26

Nero Wolfe is on the case...just don't ask him to leave his house! Sydney Greensteet is Wolfe and Lamont Johnson is Archie Goodwin in "The Case of the Careworn Cuff," first broadcast on NBC on October 27, 1950.

Episode 3 - Radio's Singing Gumshoe (Richard Diamond, Private Detective) 12.05.2013 33:37

Sing along with Dick Powell as Richard Diamond, Private Detective in "Convict Louis Spence Escapes," first broadcast on NBC on March 5, 1950.

Episode 2 - Crime is a Sucker's Road (Adventures of Philip Marlowe) 05.05.2013 32:45

This week, it's hard-hitting, hard-boiled mystery with Gerald Mohr as Philip Marlowe in "The Hairpin Turn," first broadcast on CBS on January 28, 1950.

Episode 1 - Spadework (Adventures of Sam Spade) 28.04.2013 29:48

We kick things off with "the greatest private detective of them all," Sam Spade. Hear Howard Duff as Spade in "The Apple of Eve Caper," first broadcast on CBS on June 19, 1949.