Gumshoe Guest Stars (Box 13, Green Lama, Richard Diamond, & Johnny Dollar)

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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 of the grave.

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Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.

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The Adventures of Sam Spade, Detective.

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The Adventures of the Saints, 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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Hello, and welcome to Down These Mean Streets and more Old Time Radio Detectives and Crime Solvers. On today's show, we've got a line up of five radio detective stars, although none of them are appearing in their signature roles.

Today, we'll hear all of these actors in guest starring roles on other radio detective shows. First up is Jack Webb, who was about a year away from Dragnet when he made this guest appearance on Box 13

Webb co-stars with Alan Ladd in the syndicated episode The Better Man, where Alan Ladd's Dan Holliday is among the players in a high-stakes scavenger hunt. Next up is Charles Russell, who was right in the middle of his run as Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar when he made this visit to the Green Lama. Paul Freeze stars as Jethro Dumont, who uses the wisdom he learned in Tibet to fight crime in The Million Dollar Chopsticks. Up third, we have Gerald Mohr, who hopped over from CBS and the Adventures of Philip Marlowe to NBC to appear in this episode of Richard Diamond, Private Detective. Known as the Mike Burton Case, this one finds Dick Powell as Diamond, investigating a hit and run death that may have been more than an accident. And finally, we have two radio detective stars in guest roles in a Bob Bailey, Johnny Dollar mystery. We'll hear Larry Thor, aka Detective Danny Clover of Broadway is My Beat and Stacy Harris, Agent Taylor of This is Your FBI. They co-star with Mr. Bailey in The Big Scoop Matter. Our showcase of guest star gumshoes will begin right after these messages.

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