Double Duty Detectives: Dick Powell (Rogue's Gallery, Richard Diamond, & Johnny Dollar)
6/14/20262 hr 35 min
Our salute to actors who played multiple radio detectives continues with Dick Powell, who transformed himself from a comedic crooner to a hard-boiled hero on the big screen. We'll hear him as two private Dicks - Richard Rogue from Rogue's Gallery and as Richard Diamond, Private Detective. He's Rogue in "The Triangle Murder Case" (originally aired on Mutual on February 21, 1946) and "The Corpse I Didn't Kill" (originally aired on Mutual on June 13, 1946). Then he's Diamond in episodes known as "The Mary Bellman Case" (originally aired on NBC on June 28, 1950) and "The Mike Burton Case" (originally aired on NBC on...
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 10:00
Get this and get it straight. Crime is a sucker's road, and those who travel it wind up in the gut of the prison or the grave.
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[dramatic music] The story you are about to hear is true. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.
Speaker 30:18
The Adventures of Sam Spade, Detective.
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The Adventures of the Saint, starring Vincent Price.
Speaker 50:24
Bob Bailey in the exciting adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account, America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator- Yours truly, Johnny Dollar.
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[upbeat music] Hello, and welcome to Down These Mean Streets and More Old Time Radio Detectives and Crime Solvers. All this month, we're spotlighting actors who played multiple detectives on the air, and our star today is Dick Powell, who successfully reinvented himself as a tough, hard-boiled hero after spending his early years in Hollywood as a romantic crooner. Powell's big career turn came when he starred as Philip Marlowe in Murder, My Sweet, an adaptation