Your Lyon Eyes (Jeff Regan, Investigator)
4/12/20262 hr 9 min
Our Jack Webb series continues this week with Jeff Regan, Investigator - another stint as a hard-boiled gumshoe before he picked up Joe Friday's badge on Dragnet. Regan was the long-suffering operative of Anthony J. Lyon's International Detective Bureau, and "the Lyon's eye" was always thrown into whatever dangerous case his boss took on with no questions asked. We'll hear Webb as Regan in four radio mysteries: "The Lady with the Golden Hair" (originally aired on CBS on July 31, 1948); "The Man in the Door" (originally aired on CBS on August 28, 1948); "The Man Who Fought Back" (originally aired on CBS...
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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 gutter, 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. 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. Our month-long salute to Jack Webb continues this week with one of his earliest starring roles in a nationwide show, Jeff Regan, Investigator. Last week, we heard Pat Novak for Hire, the hardboiled drama that first put Webb on the map, initially as a regional production, and then later as a show that went out across the country.