Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)
Mean Streets Podcasts
4.5from 1,186 ratings
- 846
- Episodes
- 160
- Transcribed
- 1,186
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2013
- First episode
About Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)
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.
- Publisher
- Mean Streets Podcasts
- Category
- arts · tv & film
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 28 Apr 2013
- Latest episode
- 28 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
160 of 846 episodes have a transcript.
28 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
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Episode 685 - Spectral Sleuthing (Michael Shayne, Sherlock Holmes, Let George Do It, & Richard Diamond)
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Episode 684 - Mine, All Mine! (Philip Marlowe, The Saint, & Johnny Dollar)
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BONUS - Revenge of Halloween Hoopla!
Published 28 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Tomorrow will be too late. Our time tonight is very short, so I'll speak only of those more recent events which, believe me, may culminate at any moment in a climax too frightful to wholly contemplate. I will begin with the birth of Wilbur Waitley. Oh! It was the night of February the 2nd, 1921. […]
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.5 / 5
- 1,070 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 116 ratings
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- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 99
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