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I think this is an interesting one to share as we've recently 14 00:01:40,439 --> 00:01:47,000 finished the Sam Spade series and we talked about Howard Duff and how and how 15 00:01:47,040 --> 00:01:55,560 the series was canceled due to Duff's being named as a Communist sympathizer and read 16 00:01:55,799 --> 00:02:02,239 channels from everything I've read stuff was no com Communists. His dismissal for listener 17 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:10,560 discontent and led to an avalanche of postcards and letters by people who wanted Sam 18 00:02:10,639 --> 00:02:16,280 Spade back on the air, and NBC brought Sam Spade back, but not 19 00:02:16,599 --> 00:02:22,639 with Duff in the role. Instead, the role went to Steve Dunn Well. 20 00:02:22,719 --> 00:02:29,520 I think that Don did a good job. The series failed to attract 21 00:02:29,639 --> 00:02:34,800 a sponsor, and the series would be canceled for good at the end of 22 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:39,319 April nineteen fifty one, the same week that Sam Spade was about to be 23 00:02:39,439 --> 00:02:46,479 canceled, the man most associated with that role, Howard Duff, actually recorded 24 00:02:46,599 --> 00:02:53,400 a pilot program for NBC for a new detective series called The McCoy. And 25 00:02:53,560 --> 00:03:00,120 here is that unaired audition from April twenty fourth, nineteen fifty one, one 26 00:03:00,800 --> 00:03:20,840 three Wayward Girls. This is the McCoy. A National Broadcasting Company presents The 27 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:42,479 McCoy starring Howard Up. Come on, door open. What do you want 28 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:47,120 me to say to your door? Sesame? All right, sesame? There 29 00:03:47,159 --> 00:03:50,639 is anything I hate is a door that has to be coaxed. Take that 30 00:04:05,639 --> 00:04:13,879 for the file, Mike McCoy Criminal Investigations File number three five four twenty two 31 00:04:13,919 --> 00:04:18,959 April nineteen five to one, Los Angeles, California. Where else case the 32 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:28,800 Three Wayward Girls. It was five point twenty of a dirty day. The 33 00:04:28,879 --> 00:04:31,480 sun beat through the smog and still had strength enough to kiss the summer dresses 34 00:04:31,560 --> 00:04:36,000 walking sunset strip, the girls walking their poodles home to Daddy, who'd had 35 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:40,240 a hot day at the office. Having nothing better to do, the dogs 36 00:04:40,279 --> 00:04:43,839 and I chatted. I took my leave, and I tipped Heed through the 37 00:04:43,879 --> 00:04:47,120 Cadillacs, patted their saucy fish tails, watched my hand turned green, then 38 00:04:47,199 --> 00:04:51,759 walked into Shay Mason's on the strip. The kindly picture folks were already there, 39 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:57,879 exchanging pills from matching poison at pillboxes and discussing the high cost of nervous 40 00:04:57,879 --> 00:05:01,240 breakdowns. Then herm he saw me, Ad lived his way through all that 41 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:06,480 box office Gold offered me two things, Mabel nose she'd phone three times, 42 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:11,759 and especially of the house, add no hearty girlash with mass of balls. 43 00:05:12,079 --> 00:05:15,839 I took the massa bralls. The fork was cutting through their delicate contours. 44 00:05:15,839 --> 00:05:18,279 When there was a hand on my hand fool than I am, and annoyed 45 00:05:18,360 --> 00:05:23,079 me. But when I saw that the moist hand on mine belonged to Phil 46 00:05:23,160 --> 00:05:28,240 Gardner, peddler talent agent show for plaid dinner jackets, it annoyed me even 47 00:05:28,240 --> 00:05:30,680 more. Only a minute, Mike scooch over a little bit. I'll sit 48 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:32,279 down next to you. You want something, huh, Phil, I'll tell 49 00:05:32,319 --> 00:05:34,800 you how. I know. You keep licking your lips your handshakes, which 50 00:05:34,800 --> 00:05:38,160 reminds me take back your hand. I've had it, Mike. I want 51 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:40,560 you to go to work for me right now, from this minute. You're 52 00:05:40,560 --> 00:05:45,120 all salary, yeah, with expenses per diem Philsey, My masser balls are 53 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:47,519 growing colder. It's for Toby, Toby Drake. I'm putting you on the 54 00:05:47,560 --> 00:05:50,600 payroll. You remember Toby build you up to it, gave you a lock 55 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:54,800 down to it. You got a season's pass with her. You remember Toby 56 00:05:54,879 --> 00:05:58,560 a slatisol the girl getting lonely for the McCoy again, Lonelier than you know, 57 00:05:58,680 --> 00:06:01,199 Mike. The girl's being threat with phone calls, with poison letters. 58 00:06:01,319 --> 00:06:04,399 You're doing real good, fella, Mike. Mike, listen, listen close, 59 00:06:04,480 --> 00:06:08,120 because I'm going to almost whisper. Well, I should be refreshing, 60 00:06:08,160 --> 00:06:11,560 but not so close. Somebody's going to kill her. Yeah, murder her 61 00:06:11,600 --> 00:06:14,800 dead. Toby's my client. It shouldn't happen to my client. Would die 62 00:06:14,839 --> 00:06:17,720 from an anonymous threat? You try it, fell, You really did a 63 00:06:17,720 --> 00:06:20,000 phone call for you? Where do you take it here? Thanks? Jolly 64 00:06:20,319 --> 00:06:24,240 Mike. You've gotta pay attention to me. A gotto, I got monster 65 00:06:24,319 --> 00:06:30,439 balls, gardeners speaking, snap it out, I'm busy. Huh huh no, 66 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:35,800 yeah, huh no, yeah, Phil, Why don't you talk to 67 00:06:35,839 --> 00:06:40,040 me like that? When you talk to me, you had dynamite with monosyllables. 68 00:06:40,199 --> 00:06:44,040 Oh but now you'll believe skeptic. Toby's dead, No jokes, fella, 69 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:46,160 not in the mood. Her boyfriend just called. I should be the 70 00:06:46,160 --> 00:06:48,839 first to know. I tell you she's dead dead. If you're kidding me, 71 00:06:48,959 --> 00:06:51,439 Look, I'll I go over my cat. I'll put a top down. 72 00:06:51,519 --> 00:06:55,800 Mike, Sure, sure, you wouldn't want to go to a funeral 73 00:06:55,839 --> 00:07:15,879 any other way? Where's your feel? His way? Day? You see? 74 00:07:15,240 --> 00:07:17,439 You see, Mike? What did I tell you? She did? 75 00:07:18,079 --> 00:07:25,480 Mike climbed shut up. The place was swarming with new things, new chintz 76 00:07:25,519 --> 00:07:30,000 curtains, fresh upholstery, and Beverly Hills orient on knickknacks cluttering the Grand Rapids 77 00:07:30,040 --> 00:07:32,639 High Boy. There was a big overstuffed chair near the door that I remembered, 78 00:07:33,120 --> 00:07:35,839 and Phil climbed into it and put his chin in his hands to watch. 79 00:07:39,600 --> 00:07:43,480 I walked over to the three piece sectional. Tobe Drake was lying there, 80 00:07:43,480 --> 00:07:46,920 her hand trailing down on the floor. I couldn't see her face until 81 00:07:46,920 --> 00:07:49,439 the big man stood up. Somebody wrapped that black silk stocking too tight around 82 00:07:49,439 --> 00:07:51,959 her neck. You know her, Mike, Yeah, I knew her. 83 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:58,199 When she looked better, I liked it. She laughed at my jokes. 84 00:07:58,800 --> 00:08:01,279 He only asked because you're a hop on coscar. I only asked because if 85 00:08:01,279 --> 00:08:03,720 I were a cop, I had asked. The call came and said get 86 00:08:03,759 --> 00:08:07,639 here because there was a dead girl named Toby Drake. And on the way 87 00:08:07,639 --> 00:08:09,560 down I toyed with the name. Then I remembered she used to laugh at 88 00:08:09,560 --> 00:08:13,399 your jokes, and all of a sudden, you're here. Why ask Kim, 89 00:08:15,160 --> 00:08:18,839 what is it something they have around time? An agent? He's Toby's 90 00:08:18,879 --> 00:08:24,839 he's an agent. I got a look, you're an agent? Eh? 91 00:08:24,040 --> 00:08:28,560 Well no, well, well let me bend my face close because I've never 92 00:08:28,560 --> 00:08:31,679 seen one of you before. Talk to me, agent, I want to 93 00:08:31,679 --> 00:08:37,039 hear. Well, tell just detective Costcar, go ahead, go ahead. 94 00:08:37,799 --> 00:08:39,919 It was like this. Mike and me sit there at Mason's two are five 95 00:08:41,480 --> 00:08:43,240 and the phone was brought over. The man on the other end says it's 96 00:08:43,279 --> 00:08:48,559 Roy Fulton and he says his girlfriend's dead. Honest time. I'm broken up 97 00:08:48,559 --> 00:08:52,879 about this. Well no, well, well you wrapped the stocking agent me 98 00:08:54,440 --> 00:08:58,679 Wave Milan Costcar Wave Malone agents only kill other agents. Thanks a lot, 99 00:08:58,759 --> 00:09:01,039 Mike. I'll jot it down out on the book. You've been hired, 100 00:09:01,120 --> 00:09:05,039 Mike. I was, and I don't know if I'm still working. You're 101 00:09:05,039 --> 00:09:07,799 working all the way, Mike. Find out somebody who killed Mike client Toby, 102 00:09:07,960 --> 00:09:11,720 Oh you're hired of these guys employ you? Huh? What? Cast 103 00:09:11,720 --> 00:09:15,480 guy? I got a crummy license and I'm in a crummy business because people 104 00:09:15,480 --> 00:09:18,559 sneak up dark alleys, because people hate people, rob people strangle. That's 105 00:09:18,559 --> 00:09:22,320 where my money comes from, because people do all those things. What do 106 00:09:22,320 --> 00:09:24,759 you want me to do apologize for earning up buck? You want me to 107 00:09:24,799 --> 00:09:26,519 crawl or maybe just bow low enough so you can pat me on top of 108 00:09:26,559 --> 00:09:28,720 the head and say, oh, now, Mike, on ah, Mike, 109 00:09:30,320 --> 00:09:31,879 yeah, where's her boyfriend? He's in the bedroom. He's a guy, 110 00:09:31,879 --> 00:09:35,240 but the name of Roy Fulton. He hardly says a word to me. 111 00:09:35,600 --> 00:09:37,879 Maybe you're not his type. Well, go talk to him, Mike, 112 00:09:37,960 --> 00:09:43,279 Go tell him it's okay that you should talk me. Dead and bread 113 00:09:43,440 --> 00:09:50,759 and read twins feeling. Go on, go on, I like it. 114 00:09:50,840 --> 00:09:56,039 Who you. I'm Mike McCoy. I'm a criminal investigator. Toby's dead. 115 00:09:56,360 --> 00:10:00,000 She was murdered, mister Fulton. I'm trying to find out who did it. 116 00:10:00,320 --> 00:10:03,159 We had a date. I came here. I told her I didn't 117 00:10:03,200 --> 00:10:05,080 lose my head. I called her regent, then I called the police. 118 00:10:05,080 --> 00:10:09,120 Did you kill him? No? But you should have been more careful, 119 00:10:09,919 --> 00:10:11,519 girls, I could. What kind of a girl did you think? She 120 00:10:11,639 --> 00:10:16,759 was? Very pretty? In my whole grief, in my childhood's faith, 121 00:10:16,919 --> 00:10:20,639 I loved me with a love mister Fulton seemed to lose with my lost saints. 122 00:10:20,679 --> 00:10:24,879 I love you with the breath, mister Fulton, tears of all my 123 00:10:24,960 --> 00:10:31,639 life, and if God choose, I shall be. I couldn't get through 124 00:10:31,639 --> 00:10:35,559 to him anymore. The poetry. He spotted stood between us in his own 125 00:10:35,600 --> 00:10:39,679 way. Mister Fulton was grieving, so I got out of the place. 126 00:10:39,480 --> 00:10:43,320 Then are fascinating twenty minutes on the center lane of Picco Boulevard, getting dared 127 00:10:43,320 --> 00:10:46,919 by the pedestrians and the swarms of cars on both sides of me. The 128 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:50,919 parking lots are just hung there, fifty cents still closing signs. When I 129 00:10:50,960 --> 00:10:54,399 drove up to the office building on Olive, then to the corner being Ryan 130 00:10:54,440 --> 00:10:58,759 a few reminiscences about Toby Drake, Toby a kid who had once won a 131 00:10:58,799 --> 00:11:03,879 title something like Miss to Go Tweet and Patterson New Jersey expenses paid the Hollywood 132 00:11:03,919 --> 00:11:07,200 shake hands with the size lunch at the derby, A nice kid, a 133 00:11:07,200 --> 00:11:20,279 pretty kid now dead. I bought a paper and went upstairs, Sesame. 134 00:11:22,960 --> 00:11:39,799 I had a runting office at once belonging to a Persian rug merchant and good 135 00:11:39,840 --> 00:11:45,039 evening MACA baby, many calls for me? You know who? Mike Mabel 136 00:11:45,279 --> 00:11:48,120 four times? What happened to a girl when she goes out with you? 137 00:11:48,200 --> 00:11:50,440 She's got a call every half hour, an a half ro I'm delicate. 138 00:11:50,480 --> 00:11:54,440 They worry. You worry about me, Judy, you worry about me, 139 00:11:54,440 --> 00:11:58,039 don't you kid? I got another call with a message you wanted. Sure, 140 00:11:58,120 --> 00:12:01,440 Judy, Sure, go ahead. I'll listen like this, First Toby, 141 00:12:01,559 --> 00:12:05,440 then Stella Martin. You can't stop at McCoy. First Toby, then 142 00:12:05,519 --> 00:12:09,559 Stella Martin. You had living, miss Judy. It says right here who 143 00:12:09,600 --> 00:12:13,759 left the message. The man sat up and hung up? What sella Martin's 144 00:12:13,799 --> 00:12:16,919 you mean? I wish I knew? Baby, we had a Stella Martin 145 00:12:16,960 --> 00:12:18,919 to used this service a long time ago, and actress or something. I 146 00:12:18,960 --> 00:12:22,080 need to get calls for you discontinued. You got an address hunter, no 147 00:12:22,279 --> 00:12:26,200 more? Why don't you try Central Casting? Yeah? I should have thought 148 00:12:26,200 --> 00:12:39,279 of that. Thanks a lot. Take this card, mister McCoy, take 149 00:12:39,320 --> 00:12:41,960 it, yes, Miss Ford, fill it out. Central Casting wants to 150 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:48,799 know your age, weight, height, colorazed they do it does, Gosh, 151 00:12:48,120 --> 00:12:52,600 you're fish, your new thell eat you up A color of eyes but 152 00:12:52,840 --> 00:12:58,200 hot shattering Robin's big blue. I haven't been well this space where it's his 153 00:12:58,279 --> 00:13:01,960 experience. Blank. I'll fill it in myself. Steady, girl too can 154 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:05,000 play at that game. It'll all be so simple. You put yourself in 155 00:13:05,080 --> 00:13:09,879 these two hands. I devote myself to you, heart and brain make you 156 00:13:09,960 --> 00:13:13,519 the most exciting thing in pictures, the most exciting steady girl. Hell, 157 00:13:13,720 --> 00:13:16,559 he'll no back away from me. Don't be frightened of me, mister mccrue. 158 00:13:16,679 --> 00:13:20,879 It's not that I'm frightened this for it. It's just that my metabolism's 159 00:13:20,879 --> 00:13:26,720 a little sluggies today. You're a fool worres, a hard headed, stupid, 160 00:13:26,919 --> 00:13:31,960 moronic, creaking fool, hard headed. They'll tell you outside what you 161 00:13:31,960 --> 00:13:35,000 want to know. Get up? No, no, are you telling me? 162 00:13:35,120 --> 00:13:37,519 Baby? Baby? What do you want? Well? Right now? 163 00:13:37,639 --> 00:13:41,440 The address of Stellar Martin actress. After that will meet in kind plays. 164 00:13:43,519 --> 00:13:50,039 I'll have to look it up in the files. Mm hmm mm hmm h 165 00:13:50,600 --> 00:14:01,200 yeah, Stella Martin, drop from already file non payment of you, and 166 00:14:01,320 --> 00:14:03,440 I must be in a dress where you'd done it. That's Florida Hotels, 167 00:14:03,519 --> 00:14:09,480 FLA. I burned down last month. It should happen to you. Mister. 168 00:14:09,600 --> 00:14:13,440 My car, come on, I'll open a door for you. No 169 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:16,679 hard feelings. I'm daby. This for a daby. I remember you always. 170 00:14:18,159 --> 00:14:22,279 Bye, good kid. Make a note of car. I must wear 171 00:14:22,320 --> 00:14:31,440 a chest protector. May mike over here in the car. I called your 172 00:14:31,480 --> 00:14:33,759 full service Mike, I told me where you were. I've been looking for 173 00:14:33,799 --> 00:14:37,559 you. You're taking my money. You don't even call me on a telephone. 174 00:14:37,840 --> 00:14:41,440 You know a girl named Stella Martin PELSI, what you got to do 175 00:14:41,480 --> 00:14:45,559 with Toby's done? You know her? Felsi. A couple of weeks ago, 176 00:14:45,639 --> 00:14:48,159 got come in my office. Stella Martin pleaded that I should put her 177 00:14:48,200 --> 00:14:50,279 on my clients list. Don't even no talent, you know what I mean? 178 00:14:50,720 --> 00:14:52,840 The sooth a tears things face. I took her home. It's all 179 00:14:52,840 --> 00:14:54,320 the way to Westchester. I've never been to Westchester, and make it come 180 00:14:54,399 --> 00:15:01,080 true. Hum, felsy a. It was just nine o'clock when agent Phil 181 00:15:01,320 --> 00:15:05,799 let me off in front of a redwood frame house in Westchester. Then he 182 00:15:05,879 --> 00:15:07,759 suddenly remembered he had to pick up a client at the airport, and speedy 183 00:15:07,840 --> 00:15:13,639 phill Gardener gained of the core went back into the traffic again. The walk 184 00:15:13,720 --> 00:15:16,240 up to the house was lined with rose trees carefully tended, and on every 185 00:15:16,399 --> 00:15:20,919 fourth one there was a rose. But there was only one door bell, 186 00:15:20,159 --> 00:15:28,919 so I knew just what to do? You want to work, mister Stella 187 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:35,120 Martin? She live here? Oh, Mike McCoy investigations. You got a 188 00:15:35,200 --> 00:15:37,039 cord, says that, let's go inside. Asked, you got a cord, 189 00:15:37,240 --> 00:15:41,879 Just show me it's miss Martin here, no cod. If they say 190 00:15:41,960 --> 00:15:45,559 yeah, she's here, then what happens? I said, inside, how 191 00:15:45,600 --> 00:15:50,320 where is she? I'm glad you pushed me soon now I got a reason. 192 00:15:50,440 --> 00:15:56,039 But no. When I opened my eyes, the guy was still there, 193 00:15:56,159 --> 00:15:58,519 all seven feet on him. He ain't gonna take me, show me, 194 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:06,320 ain going to pick this time. I played at brainy. I peeped 195 00:16:06,360 --> 00:16:10,679 first, he was gone. I got to my feet. I got to 196 00:16:10,799 --> 00:16:14,759 my feet, fell down, then finally made it over to the hallway where 197 00:16:14,799 --> 00:16:18,200 there should have been a bathroom and a towel and some water. The thing 198 00:16:18,279 --> 00:16:21,559 that stopped me was the girl in the Negligee. She was sitting on the 199 00:16:21,639 --> 00:16:25,480 floor against the wall. She was blonde, and her head was turned to 200 00:16:25,519 --> 00:16:27,919 one side, as if she was wondering about me. There was a stocking 201 00:16:29,120 --> 00:16:45,440 tied around her throat, and she was dead. And now back to the 202 00:16:45,559 --> 00:16:56,600 McCoy starring Howard Duff. I didn't know whether I'd been out for a few 203 00:16:56,679 --> 00:17:00,360 minutes or a few days. A sigh in the minutes, because the girl's 204 00:17:00,399 --> 00:17:04,240 body was still warm, and death hadn't taken charge long enough to wipe the 205 00:17:04,319 --> 00:17:08,240 puttiness out of her face. I'd seen her a couple of times long ago, 206 00:17:08,640 --> 00:17:12,640 and the jungle picture spliced between the main feature and the Newsrael the girl 207 00:17:12,720 --> 00:17:18,039 and the fatiz who gets chased by the lion Stella Martin. I stopped trying 208 00:17:18,079 --> 00:17:22,079 to convince myself it wasn't real. It was real, all right, And 209 00:17:22,119 --> 00:17:23,559 I didn't need the pounding on the door to knock it into my head. 210 00:17:25,039 --> 00:17:29,720 I didn't need Cosca either, but I had him. What is this, 211 00:17:29,880 --> 00:17:33,039 Mike? You wan a rampage? You want to know what happened? Or 212 00:17:33,079 --> 00:17:34,599 you want to be a big man. Just be gentle with me. That's 213 00:17:34,640 --> 00:17:37,200 all I want you to do. Mike, fifteen minutes ago, was in 214 00:17:37,279 --> 00:17:41,200 a warm bed. Just be gentle. I got slugged a man seven feet 215 00:17:41,240 --> 00:17:48,240 tall in a black leather jacket. Look, Mike. I spent five hours 216 00:17:48,400 --> 00:17:52,359 questioning Roy Fulton about the murder of his girlfriend Toby. Nothing. He quoted 217 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:55,680 poetry. And I climbed into this warm bed and I was sleeping fine. 218 00:17:56,200 --> 00:17:59,880 And sergeant heard called it seems someone phoned in this headress. The sergeant heard 219 00:18:00,440 --> 00:18:03,720 you were saying what Mike, she's in the hallway, propped it against the 220 00:18:03,759 --> 00:18:11,839 wall. Show me, yes she is. She's young, and she's strangled, 221 00:18:11,880 --> 00:18:15,279 and her name's Stella Martin. You want to clear it up for me. 222 00:18:15,759 --> 00:18:18,319 You want to listen about a guy in a black leather jacket, seven 223 00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:21,799 feet tall? Ain't yes, seven feet tall? Find him that shouldn't be 224 00:18:21,880 --> 00:18:23,559 tough for a shot, fella like you. Now, don't be sour on 225 00:18:23,680 --> 00:18:29,720 me, Mike. You took some lumps in you. You see this kid? 226 00:18:29,920 --> 00:18:38,680 What this holding something in her hand? Well now, well, well 227 00:18:41,160 --> 00:18:42,839 read it, Mike. Read what it says on the paper. There'll be 228 00:18:42,960 --> 00:18:48,440 another one tomorrow, Macary, another one tomorrow, McCoy, McCoy, Well, 229 00:18:49,079 --> 00:18:52,799 what makes me so popular? Oscar? Why doesn't it say your name? 230 00:18:52,839 --> 00:18:56,559 Why doesn't it say sergeant hurt? Because it says McCoy, Because it 231 00:18:56,599 --> 00:18:59,079 says the name of a guy I stumble over when I get out of a 232 00:18:59,160 --> 00:19:00,960 warm bed, goes. You know things you're not telling me, and you're 233 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:07,880 not gonna tell me because you think it's clever to obstruct justice. What am 234 00:19:07,920 --> 00:19:11,319 I gonna do with you? Mike? Take you downtown and sweatchin. Watchou 235 00:19:11,400 --> 00:19:17,480 be a hero because you won't tell me what you know. Get out of 236 00:19:17,519 --> 00:19:27,119 here, Mike, Get out and land in my room unless pomis pulled the 237 00:19:27,240 --> 00:19:32,720 murphy bed down, adjust the beaten frame of the broken spring, and lulla 238 00:19:32,799 --> 00:19:34,839 by yourself to sleep with. What makes two girls dead from a pair of 239 00:19:34,920 --> 00:19:38,920 silk stockings? What made Stella Martin and Toby Drake so close they had to 240 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:42,720 hug death in the same way? And the next morning, Saturday, torn 241 00:19:42,759 --> 00:19:45,839 out of sleep by the sign of the marcking bird screaming the name of Phil 242 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:51,240 Gardner, Agent I told him to button their bills and went there. Girls 243 00:19:51,319 --> 00:19:53,839 dropped like flies where you walk, McCoy, turn your gyp sheet into my 244 00:19:53,920 --> 00:19:56,559 girl in the cashier's case. She'll pay you off, kiss you goodbye for 245 00:19:56,599 --> 00:20:00,079 the firm. She'll also give you all the messages from Mabel we've been taking 246 00:20:00,160 --> 00:20:03,680 for you. What's the matter, fel Only yesterday we were in love you 247 00:20:03,799 --> 00:20:06,799 and I. So what does it buy me? Allows he ride to a 248 00:20:06,799 --> 00:20:10,319 place where the morning paper says a husband is dead. Call her by a 249 00:20:10,440 --> 00:20:12,759 name, pel because you must have called her by name lots of times, 250 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:18,200 Stella Martin, Let me hear you say it. Okay, keep away from 251 00:20:18,240 --> 00:20:19,440 me, Mike, I told you I hardly knew the day. Say a 252 00:20:19,599 --> 00:20:22,240 name fell, She's dead. The least you can do for us to say 253 00:20:22,279 --> 00:20:30,160 a name say it'll break my arm? Here, here, and here Stella, 254 00:20:32,240 --> 00:20:37,920 Stella Martin, you killer fell my own Mike. Check how long have 255 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:41,200 your known Stella? Three months ago? Pick up from Doncus driving off Santa 256 00:20:41,240 --> 00:20:45,440 Monica. A guy gets loadsome for the car hop, like Stella, A 257 00:20:45,559 --> 00:20:49,279 friendly pickup, so healthy, you lovely pel Now tell me one thing more. 258 00:20:51,200 --> 00:20:53,319 You know a man who wears a leather jacket her seven feet tall. 259 00:20:53,759 --> 00:20:59,000 Somebody helped me. I got a mad by Felasie the two lovers like we 260 00:20:59,240 --> 00:21:06,759 have made the morning stink. I got to the drive in on Santa Monica. 261 00:21:07,200 --> 00:21:10,759 A cow girl with a menu and a pair of heavy duty sheer dungarees 262 00:21:11,119 --> 00:21:14,920 drew a card on my windshield that said phillis on it Dorcas. She asked 263 00:21:14,960 --> 00:21:18,039 back, why that's old Mel? Over that a way mixing up a parcel 264 00:21:18,079 --> 00:21:22,599 of nuts and cheese for the superburgers. I mosey on over the old Mel, 265 00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:26,680 but the critit saw me coming and snapped his gallaxies at me. Yep, 266 00:21:27,039 --> 00:21:33,519 do tell Mike McCoy Criminal Investigation, Elvin Dorca short order failure. Howdy 267 00:21:33,640 --> 00:21:37,160 howdy you the manager of this place? Mouth for him figures tender foot talk. 268 00:21:37,200 --> 00:21:41,000 Don't let her throw you. I need some information. Mouth. Who 269 00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:45,319 you say you be, Mike McCoy, Criminal investigations, ID, don't be 270 00:21:45,440 --> 00:21:48,119 a gravel kicker, son speaker? What's on your mind? No? A 271 00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:52,400 girl named Toby Drake mouth voter used to work here. One name's Stella Martin. 272 00:21:52,599 --> 00:21:56,000 Yep, she's due to work this morning. She ain't gonna make it 273 00:21:56,119 --> 00:22:00,359 though she's dead. Her and Toby joke in the gazette. I need your 274 00:22:00,440 --> 00:22:03,119 help, mouth, Oh depotize me. Huh, Well, I don't know. 275 00:22:03,319 --> 00:22:07,880 I just don't know if you don't help this lamble to be another dead 276 00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:11,640 girl. Yeah, Vegy, Oh what's the matter of you? Son? 277 00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:15,319 You got monkeys in you years, I said Peggy, Peggy Brian on account 278 00:22:15,319 --> 00:22:18,240 of them, three girls with flicker in the bobcat's tail, do soick? 279 00:22:18,279 --> 00:22:22,880 Gernaddy and Vegga used to work here too, drove to work in Toby's alto. 280 00:22:22,279 --> 00:22:26,200 You know where I can find Peggy nor Hollywood. She lives and you 281 00:22:26,359 --> 00:22:27,960 wait a little bit, all dig ut for raddress. You want to wait, 282 00:22:29,079 --> 00:22:30,759 sun or do you got to be riding on? You'll wait, won't 283 00:22:32,119 --> 00:22:49,480 I'll weight mouth, I'll wait, I'll wait. Don't tell you before you 284 00:22:49,599 --> 00:23:00,799 kill me. Come on, you've got to kill me. Scream inside. 285 00:23:00,839 --> 00:23:07,480 We ought to make talk to the neighbors inside. Hush girl, hush see, 286 00:23:07,319 --> 00:23:11,640 I'll let you go. Nothing to be scared. Don't do that. 287 00:23:11,839 --> 00:23:17,720 Scream, but don't do that. Kill me, get it over, whist. 288 00:23:17,880 --> 00:23:22,599 I can risk kill me, right understand. I'm an investigator. I'm 289 00:23:22,680 --> 00:23:25,799 hired out. Sometimes I keep people from dying. Sometimes I don't make it. 290 00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:30,920 I'll help me, baby, so I can help you. That way 291 00:23:30,039 --> 00:23:36,480 will save us both a lot of pain? Is it cut into fight? 292 00:23:36,759 --> 00:23:40,759 Sure? No? Whoever killed Toby and Stella? Why would they want to 293 00:23:40,839 --> 00:23:47,559 kill you? Tell me, Peggy? A woman was killed? We killed 294 00:23:48,519 --> 00:23:52,359 what woman? I don't know. I can't even remember. Her name was 295 00:23:52,440 --> 00:23:59,160 three years ago, Toby still a name, be a little car, Jillppy 296 00:24:00,359 --> 00:24:07,720 One day, one day, one day, one this woman chrished into it. 297 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:11,519 It was hurtful, honest, it was hurtful, and she was killed. 298 00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:17,000 A married woman. The police said it wasn't her fault. It's the 299 00:24:17,119 --> 00:24:22,559 only reason, Why else would anyone want to did? It's Saturday? Peggy? 300 00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:27,160 What do you do with yourself on Saturday? I shop for groceries for 301 00:24:27,279 --> 00:24:30,680 a new hot drist sometimes I need a new one. We'll go buy you 302 00:24:30,799 --> 00:24:37,400 one. And tonight, what do we do tonight? You mean, Jack, 303 00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:40,519 give me for a date. What do we do tonight, Peggy? 304 00:24:41,359 --> 00:24:45,480 Saturday night? I usually got Ocean Park. It's fun rides and people that 305 00:24:45,559 --> 00:24:51,880 fellas. It's fun. Sure, it is Saturday night, Ocean Park. 306 00:24:52,559 --> 00:24:59,720 We'll have fun. And then I made a lot of phone calls. Tobody 307 00:24:59,799 --> 00:25:03,000 call to tell him I was going to Ocean Park with a girl named Peggy 308 00:25:03,039 --> 00:25:06,119 Brian. They told me that Mabel was keeping her line open for me. 309 00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:10,519 I told them to tell Mabel to keep it open. Then I called agent 310 00:25:10,599 --> 00:25:12,400 Phil Gardner and let him know where I was going. Next, I got 311 00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:15,440 Costca on the phone. I didn't tell him anything. I asked him something, 312 00:25:15,799 --> 00:25:18,720 but no. Tall man in a black leather jacket was newly arrived in 313 00:25:18,799 --> 00:25:22,759 the pokey. Finally I called Roy Fulton, Toby's boyfriend, the man who 314 00:25:22,839 --> 00:25:26,519 quoted poetry, and let him know all about my plans of the evening. 315 00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:30,279 And then nothing dotted. I took Peggy Brian by the arm, opened the 316 00:25:30,319 --> 00:25:41,000 door for her, and bowed her into my car with a flury an ocean 317 00:25:41,079 --> 00:25:42,920 plank, I bowed her out. The least I could do was to make 318 00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:48,759 it gay for her. After all, she was my personal pigeon. Let's 319 00:25:48,880 --> 00:26:00,880 just walk all night. Whatever you say. You're hungry, Peggy, Uh 320 00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:07,039 huh, that's gone the roller coasting. Sure, Peggy, just stand still 321 00:26:07,119 --> 00:26:11,359 for a moment. Look around, you see anybody you know? No, 322 00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:37,160 it's gone the roller coaster, right like it? Huh? Sure? Sure, 323 00:26:37,599 --> 00:26:40,680 I want to eat now. I always have pride shrimp when I come 324 00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:48,599 to Ocean Park. Yeah, me too. I know what you're doing. 325 00:26:48,279 --> 00:26:51,920 Sure you though, I'm on a Saturday night date with a nice girl. 326 00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:56,160 Do you think you'll find me here much? Do you want me to level? 327 00:26:56,279 --> 00:26:59,920 Don't you what You're gonna kill me? Not while I am here? 328 00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:21,599 Come on, let's see the tickets places, let's go take us. Stay 329 00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:25,640 close to me. Girl can get lost inside house. Hey, girl can 330 00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:30,640 get lost perriod my, oh my, what's the matter, honey? I 331 00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:34,079 think it's a good time you Ever been through that spinning barrel? I always 332 00:27:34,119 --> 00:27:41,839 fall down. I'll hold your hands, Mike. What man a man over 333 00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:45,839 there? Watch the fire ticket? Which man the tall one, the one 334 00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:48,519 wearing that black leather jacket. Yeah, I say, Peggy, walk through 335 00:27:48,559 --> 00:27:51,839 that spinning barrel. Fall down if you have to, but get right up 336 00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:53,039 and get on on the other side. Go on. I'm right in the 337 00:27:53,079 --> 00:27:59,799 back of you. Probably get out of the same class I'm staying. I've 338 00:27:59,799 --> 00:28:11,799 been telling you. I've been waiting. Get out, get a all right, 339 00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:15,759 not talk talkers, help me. You're crazy charm talk. You think 340 00:28:15,839 --> 00:28:19,359 I killed her. I didn't kill Stella. She was dead when I got 341 00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:22,240 there. I swear some sad yeah, yeah, sure she was. And 342 00:28:22,319 --> 00:28:26,480 you come in. I went crazy. I wanted to kill something to get 343 00:28:26,519 --> 00:28:29,839 even. Why are you following me because you're a Shamas. If you get 344 00:28:29,839 --> 00:28:32,599 to the killer, I want to face of him. I didn't kill Tella. 345 00:28:32,839 --> 00:28:40,519 You gotta believe me. You better, thank you. What's the matter? 346 00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:45,799 There he was in the mirror, all right, his reflection in the 347 00:28:45,839 --> 00:28:51,720 crazy rippled mirror of the funhouse. Roy Fulton's reflection, long and thin, 348 00:28:51,799 --> 00:28:55,200 as have he been squeezed together? This time? There was no poetry, 349 00:28:55,640 --> 00:29:00,880 just a gun. I called Peggy down on the floor with me. The 350 00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:11,799 crowd scattered and there was nothing in Fulton's way. I was lucky. My 351 00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:15,000 shot got to him and he kept coming. I had caught up with him, 352 00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:52,960 but he didn't call Bolton. Excuse my wife, They cuse sassame. 353 00:29:56,759 --> 00:30:14,839 M h yeah, h m hm m m. Hello, miss Ford. 354 00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:18,680 Remember me? You wanted me for the talking pictures. Yeah, not Mike. 355 00:30:21,119 --> 00:30:23,440 Oh you saw it in the papers. That's right. Roy Fulton, 356 00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:27,759 his wife had been killed in the automobile, accidentally blamed those three girls for 357 00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:33,480 it. He was definitely office rocket. Uh baby, baby, miss Ford, 358 00:30:34,039 --> 00:30:41,720 what are you doing tonight? A ballet dancer instead of me? But 359 00:30:41,839 --> 00:30:53,920 a ballet dancer, Miss Forward, Miss h m. They see your familiar 360 00:30:55,039 --> 00:31:11,559 faces. Hello, Mabel. This is McCoy a McCay s Darring Howard duff 361 00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:15,400 is written, directed, and produced by David freed Kin and Morton Fein, 362 00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:29,400 with music composed and conducted by Walters Human. This has been an NBC Hollywood 363 00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:40,799 Program Department presentation. Welcome Back. The opening line, this is the McCoy 364 00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:45,799 is the entire reason for doing the audition, or at least it's the entire 365 00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:52,160 reason for the show's name. The McCoy more commonly today, the real McCoy 366 00:31:52,519 --> 00:31:59,920 is an idiom for the genuine article. The exact origins of this phrase are 367 00:32:00,119 --> 00:32:05,799 or very murky. Some have tied it to a prohibition. There are nineteenth 368 00:32:06,079 --> 00:32:10,680 century uses of the phrase, and some even suggest it may go back to 369 00:32:10,839 --> 00:32:17,519 medieval Scotland. Historically, the McCoy is actually the correct term. Walter Winschell 370 00:32:17,599 --> 00:32:22,720 wrote a nineteen thirty four column where he addressed it, saying the real McCoy 371 00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:30,160 was redundant because the McCoy meant the genuine article, and he put the real 372 00:32:30,279 --> 00:32:37,000 McCoy in the same classes things like stingy miser or exclusive scoop. Of course, 373 00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:42,440 ninety years later, the real McCoy is looked on as the most popular 374 00:32:42,599 --> 00:32:45,759 phrase. If you said the McCoy, most people would look at you oddly, 375 00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:52,079 even though you'd be right. The series is an intriguing one. The 376 00:32:52,279 --> 00:32:59,640 pilot had talented writers in that writing team of Morton Fine and David Freakin. 377 00:33:00,119 --> 00:33:05,960 The theme was by Walter Schuman of Dragnet fame, and you had a really 378 00:33:06,079 --> 00:33:12,359 good guest cast. Even though it wasn't credited, it sounded like Sheldon Reynold 379 00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:17,279 played Costa in one of the least accented roles I've heard in play. I 380 00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:23,160 also heard ed Max and Kathy Lewis, and then Barton Yarborough as the foreman 381 00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:28,839 of the Drive to I guess that's a reminder that Yarborough still found time to 382 00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:32,720 keep up a whole lot of extra radio work while playing Ben Romero on Dragnet. 383 00:33:34,519 --> 00:33:37,720 The feel of the series is kind of odd. On one hand, 384 00:33:37,839 --> 00:33:42,000 there are little nods to Sam Spade, such as the McCoy whistling and his 385 00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:46,160 flirtatious interactions with women, and also some of the jokes. On the other 386 00:33:46,279 --> 00:33:53,680 hand, you have signature, hard boiled writing and dialogue that define Fine and 387 00:33:53,839 --> 00:33:59,799 Freakin's work with Lieutenant Danny Clover. So thus the series comes off as a 388 00:33:59,839 --> 00:34:05,359 strange marriage between Sam Spade and Broadway as my beat. I don't know if 389 00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:09,760 that contributed to it not being picked up. My two big guesses would come 390 00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:14,519 down to. First of all, it was nineteen fifty one, and it 391 00:34:14,639 --> 00:34:21,480 was very hard to launch a new radio detective program as television had already started 392 00:34:21,559 --> 00:34:27,119 to bring in more revenue than radio. There were plenty of pilots recorded for 393 00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:30,679 radio programs that didn't make it to air. That a year or two earlier 394 00:34:31,199 --> 00:34:37,239 very well could have done. And two it was just too soon. Doff 395 00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:43,679 had been fired from sam Spade seven months previously due to his inclusion in Red 396 00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:50,119 Channels. I've heard duff situation described as a gray list. It wasn't that 397 00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:54,559 he couldn't find work, it was that the work was limited. He would 398 00:34:54,639 --> 00:35:00,519 appear in quite a few B movies, including a science fiction in film, 399 00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:05,440 and really didn't get back to getting the sort of roles that he deserved based 400 00:35:05,519 --> 00:35:08,639 on his talent, probably until nineteen fifty four. At any rate, the 401 00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:15,079 series wasn't picked up and the script could be reused, and it was for 402 00:35:15,559 --> 00:35:22,239 John Lon's run as Yours Truly Johnny Daller The script was reworked as The Starlet 403 00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:29,280 Matter, which aired on January sixteenth, nineteen fifty three. Let's go ahead 404 00:35:29,280 --> 00:35:40,760 and take a lesson from Hollywood. It's time now for John Lyndon as Johnny 405 00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:45,239 Daller Ken, Johnny, Oh Hi Ken, I was Kansas City. I 406 00:35:45,519 --> 00:35:50,400 take my word in Hollywood. It's better. Oh you always like hollywoodn't you, 407 00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:52,960 Johnny? You want me to? That is a man there named Jill 408 00:35:53,039 --> 00:35:59,840 Gardner's up to here in Starlet in why starlet young girls with big careers in 409 00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:02,800 one of them. Till Gardner is an agent for him, so he needs 410 00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:07,719 me. Oh we do, Johnny, Twin State Insurance Gardener's been calling me 411 00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:10,360 every half hour. It's like this, Johnny Gardner's insured a few of these 412 00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:15,159 starlets with us, one in particular for fifty grand. So so almostly. 413 00:36:15,239 --> 00:36:19,840 Gardener has been babbling. He says this scarlet in particular might not live. 414 00:36:20,519 --> 00:36:22,519 Babble. Somebody wants her dead. And he said, do you like Hollywood? 415 00:36:22,559 --> 00:36:35,719 Johnny commissioned fat, real fat Hollywood. I like it, John Lunn, 416 00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:39,159 in a transcribed Adventure of the Man with the Action Packed Expense account America's 417 00:36:39,199 --> 00:37:00,440 Fabulous freelance insurance Investigator Yours Churley Johnny Dollar expense account submitted by special Investigator Johnny 418 00:37:00,519 --> 00:37:06,480 Dollar to Twin State Insurance Company, Kansas City, Missouri. The following is 419 00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:15,320 an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of the Starlet matter. Expencer count Item 420 00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:20,440 one two hundred and twenty seven dollars and seventy cents airfare round trip on coach 421 00:37:20,519 --> 00:37:37,280 out of LaGuardia Flight six oh one flying wets some three thousand bumpy miles later, 422 00:37:37,440 --> 00:37:40,960 the plane circled Los Angeles and a part of the Pacific Ocean and taxi 423 00:37:42,079 --> 00:37:45,920 down the runway at International Airport. It was three twenty of a dirty afternoon 424 00:37:52,119 --> 00:37:57,880 Expencer count item two four forty cab fair to Sunset Ruxton Hotel, my home 425 00:37:57,960 --> 00:38:01,639 away from home in Hollywood, where I checked in renewed old acquaintances with Judy. 426 00:38:01,760 --> 00:38:06,920 The telephone girl put my pale cheek against her son ten and told her 427 00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:15,440 I'd see her later. Spencer god Adam three two dollars even to Beverly Hills 428 00:38:15,519 --> 00:38:21,920 office of Phil Gardner agent. He was not in the receptionist and silver Hair 429 00:38:22,039 --> 00:38:28,360 pointed a silver fingertip across the street and said that's where Jay Scottie's restaurant, 430 00:38:29,239 --> 00:38:31,840 and mister Gardner would be dressed with two vents in the back, a tattersaw 431 00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:39,639 vest and blue suede sandals. And you know he was so you're the boy. 432 00:38:39,679 --> 00:38:45,639 They sent him k c wait a scooch Overlilyn, sit down. Thanks. 433 00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:49,119 What's your name? Dollar? Johnny Dollar? You want to see a 434 00:38:49,159 --> 00:38:53,280 picture, Johnny, Yeah, take a look. That's Toby Toby, Toby 435 00:38:53,360 --> 00:38:57,800 Drake. You've seen her in pictures. I have you're living, you must 436 00:38:57,840 --> 00:39:00,159 have seen them in pictures. Loyal movie is like you were going to make 437 00:39:00,199 --> 00:39:02,719 a star out of Toby. Well, I'm happy for both of you. 438 00:39:04,039 --> 00:39:07,000 If she lives, somebody's going to kill her, Johnny, Murder her dead 439 00:39:07,679 --> 00:39:10,760 now, She's a sweet kid. It shouldn't happen to her to die from 440 00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:15,079 these anonymous threats. Look, why don't you give it to your present agent, 441 00:39:15,199 --> 00:39:17,000 Johnny. Believe me on my knees, I tell you, if by 442 00:39:17,039 --> 00:39:21,320 want publicity, I give it to the cops. I'm not kidding, Johnny. 443 00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:24,000 The kids scared. She's in a lot of trouble. I'll pug it 444 00:39:24,079 --> 00:39:29,199 in here. Oh thanks, Johnie gardness making stop it out. I'm busy. 445 00:39:30,519 --> 00:39:43,719 Huh no, yeah, huh no, yeah huh I just called you 446 00:39:43,719 --> 00:39:49,360 a skeptic. What's that name? Toby's dead? Her boyfriend called. I 447 00:39:49,400 --> 00:39:53,000 should be the first to know. I'm sorry. Look, I will drive 448 00:39:53,079 --> 00:39:58,559 you over there. You'll want to see. For insurance purposes, I'll use 449 00:39:58,599 --> 00:40:01,360 the jag. I'll put the top down. Sure you wouldn't go to a 450 00:40:01,440 --> 00:40:17,719 funeral an the other way? Would you feel? Eachwhere? Johnny? It 451 00:40:17,760 --> 00:40:25,519 would get me something, A drink of water or something like that place swarming 452 00:40:25,639 --> 00:40:32,320 with things Chintz curtains, bump upholstery, and Beverly Hills oriental knickknacks fluttering the 453 00:40:32,360 --> 00:40:38,280 Grand Rapids highboy. I walked over to the three piece section. Toby Drake 454 00:40:38,440 --> 00:40:44,119 was lying there, her hand trailing down to the floor. I couldn't see 455 00:40:44,119 --> 00:40:49,920 her face until the big man stood up. Somebody wrapped that black silk stocking 456 00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:53,760 too tight around her neck. You wrapped the stocking, luckbuster. A call 457 00:40:53,920 --> 00:40:59,199 came to headquarters and said get here because there was a dead girl named Toby 458 00:40:59,320 --> 00:41:04,199 Drake. Is all of a sudden you're here. Why something they have around 459 00:41:04,239 --> 00:41:13,639 this time? An agent he's Toby's oh agent, Well talk to me agent. 460 00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:21,079 Uh, just detective Costco Lieutenant. I'll never make go ahead. Well, 461 00:41:21,119 --> 00:41:23,559 it was like this, Johnny and me sit there at Scotty's chewing fat 462 00:41:23,599 --> 00:41:25,840 and the phone was brought over and the man on the other end says it's 463 00:41:25,880 --> 00:41:31,119 mister Fulton, and he says his girlfriend's dead. Honesty, I'm broken up 464 00:41:31,119 --> 00:41:37,880 about this. Well, you wrapped the stock. An agent, Johnny, 465 00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:44,159 he's Johnny Dollar. He's from the insurance. Well you've been hire dollar. 466 00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:49,760 Yeah, Twinn City insurance and for me too, Johnny all the way, 467 00:41:49,920 --> 00:41:53,599 find out for me who killed Toby. Ah, these guys employ eh, 468 00:41:54,039 --> 00:42:02,480 well little bulls there you carry a gun too? Well? Yeah, where's 469 00:42:02,519 --> 00:42:07,960 her boyfriend in the bedroom named Roy Fulton. He hardly said a word to 470 00:42:08,079 --> 00:42:12,599 me. Go talk to him, Dollar, don't tell him it's okay. 471 00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:35,199 Who are you, Johnny Dollar, I'm an insurance investigator. Toby. He 472 00:42:35,360 --> 00:42:37,320 was murdered, mister Fulton. I'm trying to find out who did it. 473 00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:46,599 We had a date and came here. I saw her. It didn't lose 474 00:42:46,639 --> 00:42:51,400 my head. I called her agent and I called the police. Did you 475 00:42:52,039 --> 00:42:57,480 no? No? But you should have been more careful girls like her? 476 00:42:58,440 --> 00:43:02,519 What kind of girl did you think? She was? Very prettyful. It's 477 00:43:02,559 --> 00:43:14,639 just beautiful out the more Toby does, beautiful Toby, mister Fulton, Lord 478 00:43:15,199 --> 00:43:32,199 forever, mister Fulton, too beautiful. I couldn't get through to him anymore. 479 00:43:34,119 --> 00:43:37,840 I gave him back to Cosca and I got out of there. A 480 00:43:37,960 --> 00:43:43,800 few thoughts on Toby Drake. Toby a kid who'd once maybe won a beauty 481 00:43:43,920 --> 00:43:49,519 contest, expenses paid, the Hollywood shake hands with the stars, A nice 482 00:43:49,599 --> 00:43:53,320 kid, pretty kid on her way now dead. I bought a paper and 483 00:43:53,400 --> 00:44:01,000 went back to my hotel. A lobby desk came. First him is Dollar, 484 00:44:01,280 --> 00:44:04,440 and he calls for me. Judy, you got a call with a 485 00:44:04,519 --> 00:44:07,079 message you wanted. Why don't you come over here and give it to me? 486 00:44:07,239 --> 00:44:10,519 Judy? I've ever seen you standing up? I'm taller. The message 487 00:44:10,559 --> 00:44:14,079 came in ten minutes ago. You want to reach for it? Shall I 488 00:44:14,159 --> 00:44:17,599 read it to you? Read? It goes like this, First Toby, 489 00:44:19,119 --> 00:44:24,639 then Stella Martin. You can't stop at Dollar. First Toby, then Stella 490 00:44:24,719 --> 00:44:30,239 Martin. You had living? Miss Judy's right here? Who left the message? 491 00:44:30,760 --> 00:44:34,039 I took the call? A man said it and hung up. What's 492 00:44:34,079 --> 00:44:37,039 the Stella Martin's you mean, mister Dallas? I wish I knew baby. 493 00:44:37,440 --> 00:44:40,280 You think maybe the style of Stella Martin used to be a Stalis. She's 494 00:44:40,320 --> 00:44:45,920 not around much anymore. Starlet? Huh? How would I get in touch 495 00:44:45,960 --> 00:44:49,599 with the style of Judy? Oh? I know? Hand me that phone 496 00:44:49,639 --> 00:45:15,679 book? Come on, Come on, a man who knows Starlet's past and 497 00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:22,920 present, agent Phil Gardner? Oh not in? Huh? Why don't you 498 00:45:22,960 --> 00:45:29,320 try Hollywood captain? All they know? Yeah, yeah, thanks a lot. 499 00:45:44,800 --> 00:45:49,440 Stella Martin dropped from already filed non payment of dues. But I must 500 00:45:49,480 --> 00:45:53,679 be an address where you're done to two thousand and one Magnolia Avenue, Westchester. 501 00:46:14,960 --> 00:46:17,400 You want what, mister Stella Martin, she live here? Uh huh, 502 00:46:19,239 --> 00:46:22,280 you're who Johnny Dollar Investigations. You get a card that says that, 503 00:46:22,840 --> 00:46:27,440 let's go inside. Just you got a card? Just show me miss Martin 504 00:46:27,480 --> 00:46:30,280 here? No card? I suppose I say, yeah, she's here, 505 00:46:30,679 --> 00:46:36,320 and what happens? I sat inside. I'm glad you did that, Sunny. 506 00:46:36,760 --> 00:46:38,280 Now I got a reason. Now cut it out. I just want 507 00:46:38,280 --> 00:46:55,239 to get smaller than your little trimming. Later, when I opened my eyes, 508 00:46:55,760 --> 00:47:00,480 he was gone. I got to my feet, fell down, and 509 00:47:00,719 --> 00:47:05,519 finally made it over to the hallway where there should have been a bathroom and 510 00:47:05,599 --> 00:47:08,639 a towel and some water. The thing that stopped me was the girl in 511 00:47:08,719 --> 00:47:14,840 the negligee. She was sitting on the floor against the wall. She was 512 00:47:14,960 --> 00:47:17,360 blonde, and her head was turned to one side, as if she was 513 00:47:19,000 --> 00:47:23,719 wondering about me. There was a stocking tied round her throat, and she 514 00:47:23,960 --> 00:47:44,400 was dead. We'll return to yours, truly, Johnny Dollar, in just 515 00:47:44,519 --> 00:47:53,800 a moment now with our star John Lund, we bring you the second back 516 00:47:53,920 --> 00:48:10,840 of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar. I had seen the dead girl a 517 00:48:10,880 --> 00:48:15,840 couple of times in the jungle picture spliced between the main feature and the news 518 00:48:15,960 --> 00:48:20,920 veel the girl in the south Sea apron who gets chased by the gorilla. 519 00:48:22,440 --> 00:48:25,079 I stopped trying to convince myself it wasn't real. It was real, all 520 00:48:25,199 --> 00:48:29,559 right. And I didn't need the pounding on the door and knock it into 521 00:48:29,599 --> 00:48:32,719 my head. I didn't need Detective Cosca either. Oh there's that Dollar. 522 00:48:32,840 --> 00:48:36,679 You want a rampage, you want to know what happened, or you want 523 00:48:36,679 --> 00:48:38,519 to be a big man. Just be jingle with me. That's all I 524 00:48:38,639 --> 00:48:42,800 want you to do. Fifteen minutes ago, I was in a warm bed. 525 00:48:43,119 --> 00:48:45,599 I'll just be general. I got slugged a man seven feet tall and 526 00:48:45,679 --> 00:48:50,920 a black letter jack spent five hours questioning Roy Fulton about the murder of this 527 00:48:51,440 --> 00:48:53,960 girl friend of his. Told me nothing. I let him go. Then 528 00:48:54,039 --> 00:48:58,800 I climb into this warm bed and I was sleeping fine. Then sergeant heard 529 00:48:58,920 --> 00:49:05,960 call. Someone phoned in this address to Sorge hurt. Now you were saying, 530 00:49:06,039 --> 00:49:10,440 what Dollar. She's in the hallway propped against the wall. Show me 531 00:49:16,480 --> 00:49:21,719 sigh, a deep sigh about the warm bed, Coska. She's young, 532 00:49:21,840 --> 00:49:25,880 and she's strangled, and her name is Stella Martin. You want to clear 533 00:49:25,960 --> 00:49:30,199 it up for me. I got worried about her. I came here and 534 00:49:30,239 --> 00:49:34,199 a guy clobbed me. I woke up a few minutes ago. Nobody gives 535 00:49:34,280 --> 00:49:37,599 me word. Why are you? I don't know why. If I knew 536 00:49:37,599 --> 00:49:39,559 why, I know who. You want to listen about a guy in no 537 00:49:39,639 --> 00:49:44,840 black leather jacket, seven pet tall. Yeah, about brown felt hat. 538 00:49:45,599 --> 00:49:49,039 Find him that ought to be tough for a big man like you. I 539 00:49:49,199 --> 00:49:55,280 don't be sure, Jalli. He took some lump m you see this kid? 540 00:49:57,159 --> 00:50:09,280 What h she's holding them in her hands. Well, well, well 541 00:50:10,280 --> 00:50:15,599 read it, Johnny. Read what it says. There'll be another one tomorrow, 542 00:50:16,599 --> 00:50:22,920 another one tomorrow, doll. Well, what makes me so popular? 543 00:50:23,079 --> 00:50:28,360 Cosca? Why doesn't it say your name? Because it says dollar, because 544 00:50:28,440 --> 00:50:30,360 it says the name of a guy I stumble over when I get out of 545 00:50:30,440 --> 00:50:32,920 a warm bed. What am I going to do with you? Take you 546 00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:44,320 downtown and swatch it? Get out here here, Get out then back into 547 00:50:44,400 --> 00:50:49,400 the rose scented air in the suburban lawn. Now littered with friends and neighbors, 548 00:50:50,039 --> 00:50:52,800 and under the bright knee on of the corner cut right, drugs and 549 00:50:52,920 --> 00:50:57,480 sundrys. The night blooming hackstand. I took a cab to my hotel. 550 00:50:58,639 --> 00:51:07,159 No more messages, so I went to sleep, and the next morning the 551 00:51:07,280 --> 00:51:12,239 sound of the telephone screaming the name of Phil Gardner. Agent get here, 552 00:51:12,360 --> 00:51:15,920 it said, So I got there. Girls dropped like flies where you walk 553 00:51:16,000 --> 00:51:19,719 Dollar. I read the papers this morning and you were there, and another 554 00:51:19,840 --> 00:51:22,880 one dropped. What's the matter, Phil? Only yesterday we were in love 555 00:51:22,960 --> 00:51:28,000 you and I don't ask me cap we even be friends. It's a tired 556 00:51:28,039 --> 00:51:30,599 line from a tired guy. I don't like tired. Let me tell you 557 00:51:30,760 --> 00:51:34,440 something, Phil, I'm glad you called. You were going to be my 558 00:51:34,559 --> 00:51:37,599 first stop. Now, look you were hired and maybe prevent Toby Drake's dying, 559 00:51:37,639 --> 00:51:42,320 and this you would have flopp over a stinkeroo. Then you stay on. 560 00:51:42,519 --> 00:51:45,000 Maybe you could come up with why Toby, a talented girl had to 561 00:51:45,119 --> 00:51:50,639 die? Like I said, Stinkeroo. On your feet, Phil, keep 562 00:51:50,679 --> 00:51:53,599 away from me, Johnny, on your feet. Now we talk. I'm 563 00:51:53,679 --> 00:51:58,679 talking. I'm talking. You kill Toby Philly Young Johnny. Toby was on 564 00:51:58,760 --> 00:52:02,480 our way. Maybe a star so also with insurance fifty thou dollars beneficiary you 565 00:52:04,320 --> 00:52:07,039 and why you killed her? Johnny and all this big talk on the phone 566 00:52:07,079 --> 00:52:12,800 this morning. Get down here, cover up talk Phil, all right, 567 00:52:13,840 --> 00:52:19,440 and we'll try the name Stella Martin. I'll love them. Just let go 568 00:52:19,559 --> 00:52:25,679 my arm Stella Martin three months ago. Pick up from Dorcas, driving on 569 00:52:25,800 --> 00:52:30,960 Santa Monica. A guy gets lonesome for a car hop like Stella. A 570 00:52:30,039 --> 00:52:37,079 friendly pickup shall help me. You did, lovely, Phil. Now one 571 00:52:37,159 --> 00:52:42,360 thing more. You know a man who wears a leather jacket who's seven feet 572 00:52:42,440 --> 00:52:46,760 tall. Somebody helped me. I got a madman loose. Goodbye, Phil, 573 00:52:47,719 --> 00:52:58,320 you've made the morning even worse. I got to the drive in on 574 00:52:58,440 --> 00:53:02,400 Santa Monica. Cow girl with a menu and a pair of heavy duty sheer 575 00:53:02,519 --> 00:53:07,079 downgarees threw a card on my windshield that said Phillips on it. Dorcas. 576 00:53:07,199 --> 00:53:13,000 She asked back, why that's old Melve over that way? Why mosey on 577 00:53:13,159 --> 00:53:19,599 over to old Mel? Yeah, Johnny Dollar insurance investigations, darkness, shout 578 00:53:19,639 --> 00:53:23,639 out of color, hardy, heady, you're the manager of this place, 579 00:53:23,760 --> 00:53:30,920 Mel, Yeah, top hand, what else. Huh oh tenderfoot talk. 580 00:53:30,960 --> 00:53:35,400 Don't let us throw you. I need some information, Mel, they'll be 581 00:53:35,599 --> 00:53:38,199 ravacate your son, speak up? What's on your man? No? A 582 00:53:38,239 --> 00:53:44,880 girl named Toby Drake Mel no dear used to work here. One named Stella 583 00:53:44,960 --> 00:53:49,000 Mark yeap do the work this evening. He ain't going to meet you, 584 00:53:49,079 --> 00:53:54,960 do she did? She and Toby joke seen it the gazette. I need 585 00:53:55,039 --> 00:54:01,679 your help, Mel didn't know, just no new. If you don't help, 586 00:54:01,719 --> 00:54:08,079 there's liable to be another dead girl, Peggy who then you get monkeys 587 00:54:08,119 --> 00:54:12,960 and news, he said, Peggy, Peggy Ray and accunt of damn. 588 00:54:13,000 --> 00:54:16,119 Three girls were thinking the bub cuts to you to tell, thinking than that 589 00:54:16,239 --> 00:54:21,079 even they used to work here too. Have to work in Toby Hot. 590 00:54:21,639 --> 00:54:24,880 You know where I can find Peggy Hollywood. She lives in. You need 591 00:54:24,960 --> 00:54:29,400 a bit, so beg you for address you want to eat son or you 592 00:54:30,000 --> 00:54:50,760 gotta be right none, I'll wait now who you are and get away. 593 00:54:51,239 --> 00:54:54,599 Listen to me, miss Brian. I've come to help you. Kill you? 594 00:54:55,199 --> 00:54:59,400 Can you for you me? Don't be crazy? Give me that God 595 00:55:02,400 --> 00:55:08,360 that's better to kill me. That's why you come to kill me. Now, 596 00:55:08,480 --> 00:55:13,679 let's scream inside. We don't want to make talk for the neighbors inside. 597 00:55:13,840 --> 00:55:20,440 Peggy. Now, hush, hush, baby girl, hush, you 598 00:55:20,559 --> 00:55:25,679 see, I let you go. There's nothing to be scared of. I'm 599 00:55:25,760 --> 00:55:30,360 here to help you to keep it from happening like I did the Stella and 600 00:55:30,679 --> 00:55:37,079 Toby. You understand what I'm saying, Peggy, Doby didn't and that it'll 601 00:55:37,119 --> 00:55:42,440 be me. Why does it have to be you, Peggy? You don't 602 00:55:42,559 --> 00:55:49,119 know you're killing. You don't know what trying to understand. I'm an insurance 603 00:55:49,199 --> 00:55:53,239 investigator. A lot of times I'm around when people die. Sometimes I get 604 00:55:53,280 --> 00:55:57,639 there sooner. Now help me, help me, Peggy, so I can 605 00:55:57,760 --> 00:56:02,400 help you. That way, we'll save us with a lot of pains because 606 00:56:02,440 --> 00:56:07,800 I'm so frightened. Whoever killed Toby and Stella? Why would they want to 607 00:56:07,840 --> 00:56:16,400 kill you? I know why? I think I know. Tell Peggy a 608 00:56:16,480 --> 00:56:23,960 woman was killed, we killed. Tell me about that. It was three 609 00:56:24,079 --> 00:56:32,400 years ago. Tell me Dona and I have little car who used to take 610 00:56:32,519 --> 00:56:40,360 trips. Three sellons ago. We took a trip to Oregon one day. 611 00:56:44,199 --> 00:56:50,639 One day. What this woman crashed into us? What's her fault? Honest? 612 00:56:50,679 --> 00:56:54,000 It was her fault and she was killed, married woman, young and 613 00:56:54,199 --> 00:57:05,119 pretty and married? Please said it a nurve fault. Let us go only 614 00:57:05,239 --> 00:57:14,199 reason? What else would anyone wants dead? It's a Saturday, Peggy, 615 00:57:15,760 --> 00:57:22,800 What do you do with yourself on Saturdays? And shop a grocery a new 616 00:57:22,880 --> 00:57:27,880 dress? Sometimes we'll go buy a new one, you and me and tonight 617 00:57:28,519 --> 00:57:31,760 what do we do tonight? When you're asking you for a date? Uh? 618 00:57:31,880 --> 00:57:37,320 Huh? What do we do tonight? Saturday nights are usually go to 619 00:57:37,440 --> 00:57:44,119 ocean park. It's fun, ride with people, It's fun. Sure, 620 00:57:44,199 --> 00:57:53,480 it is Saturday night, ocean Park. We'll have fun. So I made 621 00:57:53,480 --> 00:57:58,719 a lot of phone calls to my hotel to tell Judy I was going to 622 00:57:58,840 --> 00:58:04,119 Ocean Park with a girl named Peggy Brian case anyone inquired, And I called 623 00:58:04,199 --> 00:58:07,920 agent Phil Gardner and let him know where I was going. Finally, I 624 00:58:07,079 --> 00:58:12,920 called Roy Fulton, Toby's boyfriend, and let him know all about my plans 625 00:58:12,960 --> 00:58:16,639 for the evening. And then I went shopping with Peggy Brian and then took 626 00:58:16,679 --> 00:58:24,599 her to Ocean Park. Peggy Brian, pigeon, Let's just walk for a 627 00:58:24,679 --> 00:58:36,920 while, Johnny, whatever you saying? You hungry, Peggy, Let's go 628 00:58:37,039 --> 00:58:45,880 on to Roy Coulter. Sure, Peggy, just stand still from look around 629 00:58:45,920 --> 00:58:53,599 here? Do you see anybody you know? No? I know what you're 630 00:58:53,639 --> 00:58:59,079 doing. Johnny. Sure, I'm on a Saturday night date with a nice 631 00:58:59,159 --> 00:59:04,840 girl. You think you'll find me here? Johnny? You want me to 632 00:59:04,960 --> 00:59:08,280 leave? One? Not is? He couldn't kill me. I'm gonna try 633 00:59:08,320 --> 00:59:24,840 to stop him begging. Come on, let's see two tickets. Please, 634 00:59:25,920 --> 00:59:31,079 thanks, let's go begging. Stay close to me, Johnny. The girl 635 00:59:31,199 --> 00:59:40,800 can get lost in the fun house, Johnny, Oh, Johnny, what's 636 00:59:40,840 --> 00:59:45,199 the matter? Begging something? I'm having such a good time. Ever been 637 00:59:45,239 --> 00:59:55,920 through that spinning barrel? I always fall down? Johnny? What batman man 638 00:59:57,039 --> 01:00:01,280 over there? He watched us buy our ticket? Which man? I'm tall 639 01:00:01,320 --> 01:00:07,480 one? Yeah, I see him? Thank you? Walk through that spinning 640 01:00:07,559 --> 01:00:09,599 barrel all down if you have to, But get right up and get out 641 01:00:09,599 --> 01:00:13,039 On the other side. Is he the one? Good one? I'm right 642 01:00:13,039 --> 01:00:17,039 in the back of you. He's following us to get out of this thing 643 01:00:17,199 --> 01:00:25,760 fast. I'm staying. I've been telling your shamous I've been waiting. Yeah 644 01:00:31,039 --> 01:00:35,679 yeah, Charney, yeah yeah, come on, I'll drag you out of 645 01:00:35,719 --> 01:00:44,079 here. I'll talk talk or so. How crazy shamous talk. You think 646 01:00:44,159 --> 01:00:46,760 I killed her. I didn't kill Stella. She was dead when I got 647 01:00:46,800 --> 01:00:50,920 there. I swear she was dead. Yeah, sure, you came in. 648 01:00:51,119 --> 01:00:54,800 I went crazy. I wanted to kill something to get even. And 649 01:00:54,920 --> 01:00:58,519 why are you following me? Because you're a shamous. If you get to 650 01:00:58,599 --> 01:01:00,519 the killer, I want to piece hie. I didn't kill Starr. I 651 01:01:00,639 --> 01:01:08,960 was in love with that. You gotta believe me. Your gun? What's 652 01:01:09,000 --> 01:01:20,360 the matter? Get here? He was in the mirror a right Roy Fulton's 653 01:01:20,400 --> 01:01:24,039 reflection, boyfriend of Toby Long and thin as if he been squeezed together, 654 01:01:24,559 --> 01:01:30,000 which included a gun he was holding. I caught pegging down on the floor 655 01:01:30,039 --> 01:01:42,440 with me and grabbed my gun. Something happened or something around that splintered in 656 01:01:42,480 --> 01:01:46,320 the front of his shirt, but he kept coming and the something caught up 657 01:01:46,360 --> 01:02:15,840 with him. Hold me, hold me? Are you? No expense account 658 01:02:15,880 --> 01:02:22,719 Item four nineteen ninety five to dress a pigeon named Peggy Bryant. Item five 659 01:02:22,840 --> 01:02:27,199 one hundred and twelve dollars miscellaneous hotels, meals, roller coaster, ride, 660 01:02:27,320 --> 01:02:31,440 funhouse, et cetera. Expenser count total three hundred and sixty six dollars and 661 01:02:31,559 --> 01:02:39,119 five cents remarks pay Phil Gardner agent base value of fifty thousand dollars policy on 662 01:02:39,239 --> 01:02:43,920 Toby Drake. Well, all in all, from your point of view, 663 01:02:44,039 --> 01:02:49,119 my trip to Hollywood was a failure. From my point of view, I 664 01:02:49,239 --> 01:02:52,559 kept one girl out of three alive, and I was lucky at that, 665 01:02:52,519 --> 01:03:13,960 luckier than you usually get in Hollywood. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollars. Yours 666 01:03:14,000 --> 01:03:17,280 Truly Johnny Dollar stars John lundon the title role and was written by Morton Fine 667 01:03:17,320 --> 01:03:22,599 and David Priedkin, with music by Eddie Dunsteady. John Lund can currently be 668 01:03:22,679 --> 01:03:27,719 seen in the Universal International picture Just Across the Street. Featured in tonight's cast 669 01:03:27,800 --> 01:03:31,119 were Raymond Byrd, Dick Ryan, John McIntyre, Sidney Miller, Victor Perron, 670 01:03:31,239 --> 01:03:36,719 Virginia greg and Jeanette Nolan. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar is transcribed in 671 01:03:36,760 --> 01:03:45,679 Hollywood by Hi Made del Vaier. This is Dan cubberly inviting you to join 672 01:03:45,800 --> 01:03:52,599 us next week at this time when John Lund returns as Yours Tory Johnny Dalla 673 01:04:03,639 --> 01:04:10,119 Tomorrow, Gangbusters brings you on CBS Radio and other true crime story naming names 674 01:04:10,199 --> 01:04:14,599 and places, giving complete details on the operations of a ruthless criminal gang, 675 01:04:15,079 --> 01:04:17,599 showing you how the cops after a bitter man hunt, put them odel business. 676 01:04:18,280 --> 01:04:23,400 Every Saturday night on most of these same stations. Here Gangbusters, the 677 01:04:23,480 --> 01:04:28,719 program that gives criminals wanted descriptions that help the public enforce the law and often 678 01:04:28,800 --> 01:04:33,639 collect rewards for their good citizenship. Gang Busters Saturday nights on CBS Radio. 679 01:04:49,719 --> 01:04:56,719 And remember you'll find Western Adventure and Music with Gene Autry Saturday evenings on the 680 01:04:56,880 --> 01:05:15,599 CBS Radio Network. Welcome Back. I had listened to the McCoy before, 681 01:05:15,719 --> 01:05:20,719 but I didn't listen to the McCoy in conjunction with the Starlet matter, and 682 01:05:20,880 --> 01:05:29,239 doing so displaying some notes in the starlet manner that really kind of seemed odd 683 01:05:29,480 --> 01:05:34,679 at the time. It should be said that this episode aired two months into 684 01:05:34,880 --> 01:05:40,719 John Lon's run as Johnny Doler, and as we talked about at the time, 685 01:05:41,280 --> 01:05:47,079 series really struggled to if LUN's take on Dollar his own unique voice, 686 01:05:47,320 --> 01:05:54,599 and so the character sounded different from episode to episode. That would all get 687 01:05:54,719 --> 01:06:00,960 strained out. But that's definitely an issue here so early in LUN's time. 688 01:06:01,280 --> 01:06:08,800 They would take more care in the future when they adapted stories from previous Johnny 689 01:06:08,920 --> 01:06:14,960 Dollers or from other programs. But one exchange they really should have cut was 690 01:06:15,320 --> 01:06:21,039 near the beginning when Phil offered Johnny a ride to the scene in his Cadillac 691 01:06:21,519 --> 01:06:28,519 with the top down. In the McCoy, Phil was trying to talk to 692 01:06:28,639 --> 01:06:33,039 someone who he knew had feelings for a woman who was just murdered and might 693 01:06:33,360 --> 01:06:38,320 be reluctant to come over and look at her body, and he's trying to 694 01:06:38,440 --> 01:06:43,559 do everything he can to get him to come, And of course the McCoy 695 01:06:43,880 --> 01:06:50,599 knows Phil a bit, and so they've got an existing relationship that kind of 696 01:06:50,719 --> 01:06:58,039 makes that work. In the Starlet Matner, Phil's talking to an insurance agent 697 01:06:58,159 --> 01:07:02,000 who's a complete stranger has a job to do, so it's weird to make 698 01:07:02,119 --> 01:07:08,679 the offer about driving him there with the top down, and Johnny's statement that 699 01:07:09,199 --> 01:07:14,440 Phil wouldn't go to a funeral any other way is also weird and inappropriate to 700 01:07:14,519 --> 01:07:18,519 say to someone you just met who lost a client they were personally fond of. 701 01:07:19,280 --> 01:07:25,239 Points to Sidney Miller for being the only actors to appear in both versions 702 01:07:25,400 --> 01:07:30,000 and in the same role. No less, I kind of wonder whether if 703 01:07:30,119 --> 01:07:34,920 even he remembered he'd done the first one for many a radio actors who get 704 01:07:35,199 --> 01:07:40,679 cast in the same sort of roles. They all blend together, so he 705 01:07:40,840 --> 01:07:46,159 might have had this script seems a bit familiar moment. One cut I did 706 01:07:46,280 --> 01:07:51,800 think was good with this one is they got rid of Roy Fulton be signing 707 01:07:53,280 --> 01:07:59,559 this sonnet, which was a bit over the top. Also cut the flirty 708 01:07:59,719 --> 01:08:04,440 part from the conversation with the talent agency, which made that one of those 709 01:08:04,679 --> 01:08:12,079 little conversations which probably should have just been exposited. And the only other weird 710 01:08:12,199 --> 01:08:18,239 thing adaptation is that the accent of the actor who played the boss at the 711 01:08:18,359 --> 01:08:25,560 Western restaurant was way off. You know. They were originally written for Marton 712 01:08:25,680 --> 01:08:30,000 Yarborough, who had that Texas accent, and you would want someone like with 713 01:08:30,159 --> 01:08:34,199 a Texas or Western accent, but this guy had a New England accent and 714 01:08:34,520 --> 01:08:39,960 was trying to deliver these lines. It was odd. One edition I really 715 01:08:40,239 --> 01:08:45,960 liked is Johnny's closing line, which is really appropriate and it was one aspect 716 01:08:46,039 --> 01:08:54,119 that was original and it also rang true to the tone of yours truly Johnny 717 01:08:54,199 --> 01:09:00,399 Doller, particularly going forward. Looking at both episodes and they shared a common 718 01:09:00,600 --> 01:09:04,479 plot. Listening to both of them back to back, I have a lot 719 01:09:04,560 --> 01:09:12,159 of problems with the plot, particularly the timing of the second murderer. Detective 720 01:09:12,319 --> 01:09:19,000 cost to held Roy Fulton for some time, and Fulton was apparently supposed to 721 01:09:19,079 --> 01:09:25,720 have taunted Johnny, slashed the McCoy, and then killed Stella Martin before they 722 01:09:25,760 --> 01:09:30,520 could find her house. Given several hours of questioning and the way that everything's 723 01:09:30,600 --> 01:09:36,199 spread out in the Los Angeles area, the whole thing seems improbable. It's 724 01:09:36,279 --> 01:09:42,640 also never explained why Fulton did the taunting, notes even more puzzling why he 725 01:09:42,760 --> 01:09:48,920 addressed them McCoy or Johnny. It was also weird the degree to which the 726 01:09:49,079 --> 01:09:57,000 McCoy and particularly Johnny got blamed for not solving the case. Somehow, Johnny 727 01:09:57,159 --> 01:10:02,600 gets off the plane and the first murder has already occurred by the time that 728 01:10:02,800 --> 01:10:10,399 he meets Phil, and then the second murder happens before he's able to locate 729 01:10:10,720 --> 01:10:15,920 Stella Martin in a strange city, and then he shows up at Phil's office 730 01:10:16,039 --> 01:10:20,760 and gets this whole song and dance about how it's his fault for being a 731 01:10:20,880 --> 01:10:27,479 lousy detective. And it's funny because I was talking on Tuesday about how, 732 01:10:27,800 --> 01:10:33,159 as a rule, the New York Audio dramas tended to have bigger elements of 733 01:10:33,359 --> 01:10:39,319 melodrama. I guess what we got here was the exception that proved the rule. 734 01:10:39,880 --> 01:10:45,960 I should note that the germ of this story actually goes back even further 735 01:10:45,239 --> 01:10:50,319 than this, to an episode of Pursuit, which was also written by Fine 736 01:10:50,479 --> 01:10:56,840 and Freakin from November two, nineteen forty nine, the second episode of that 737 01:10:57,119 --> 01:11:00,600 series to air. They also had the no' in that story, which were 738 01:11:00,760 --> 01:11:05,399 also not explained. Now. I will say that the details vary a lot. 739 01:11:05,479 --> 01:11:10,159 On the first story. It was about three men who accidentally killed a 740 01:11:10,239 --> 01:11:14,399 woman while flying a plane on be a day and was set in London, 741 01:11:14,479 --> 01:11:19,239 with a case investigated by Inspector Peter Black of Scotland Yard. Even though the 742 01:11:19,319 --> 01:11:24,680 differences were stark, I did think about making this a thrust told story, 743 01:11:24,920 --> 01:11:29,600 just to show how a story can develop, but really didn't want to detract 744 01:11:29,760 --> 01:11:34,239 from talking about the McCoy. Eventually, I think we'll do one of these 745 01:11:34,319 --> 01:11:41,039 specials that show more than the evolution of a story over two episodes, just 746 01:11:41,239 --> 01:11:45,920 not today. All right, Well, now it's time to thank our Patreon 747 01:11:45,000 --> 01:11:49,159 supporter of the day, and I want to go ahead and thank Dwayne Dwayne 748 01:11:49,279 --> 01:11:55,680 has been one of our Patreon supporters since June of twenty twenty three, currently 749 01:11:55,720 --> 01:12:00,920 supporting the podcast at the Detective Sergeant level of seven dollars fourteen cents or more 750 01:12:01,000 --> 01:12:05,079 per month. Thank you so much for your support, Dwayne, and that 751 01:12:05,239 --> 01:12:10,199 will do it for today. If you're enjoying the podcast, please follow us 752 01:12:10,399 --> 01:12:16,000 using your favorite podcast software. We will be back next Sunday with our final 753 01:12:16,880 --> 01:12:25,199 listener support Slash Appreciation Special, but join us back here tomorrow for the Adventures 754 01:12:25,359 --> 01:12:30,840 of the Falcon Where Hello, Hello, is that Michael wearing the Falcon? 755 01:12:30,079 --> 01:12:32,560 Yes? Is the Falcon speaking? How do you do mister Wearing? This 756 01:12:32,720 --> 01:12:38,479 is James Kellaway. Something faitful has happened. Frightful. I don't know how 757 01:12:38,520 --> 01:12:43,199 to Can you come over here right away? Aware for us? Jew Willers. 758 01:12:44,239 --> 01:12:48,079 It's fantastic, but I'm suspected of robbery. Fantastic. Well, nothing 759 01:12:48,159 --> 01:12:51,319 like a little fantasy, know then all right, Caroway, I'll be older, 760 01:12:51,640 --> 01:12:56,600 and you will of course bring references. Well, well, I've heard 761 01:12:56,640 --> 01:13:00,000 you're recoveringant detective. But this is a highly important matter, great data stick, 762 01:13:00,239 --> 01:13:03,680 and I must be sure I'm dealing with a completely trustworthy and kickable person. 763 01:13:03,960 --> 01:13:06,800 You have my word for it. No need for references. Nevertheless, 764 01:13:06,920 --> 01:13:12,000 I prefer to see the references. I hope you'll be with us then. 765 01:13:12,199 --> 01:13:16,960 In the meantime, do send your comments to Box thirteen at Greatdetectives dot net, 766 01:13:17,079 --> 01:13:20,960 follow us on Twitter at Radio Detectives, and check us out on Instagram, 767 01:13:21,439 --> 01:13:26,960 Instagram dot com, slash Great Detectives From Boise, Idaho. This is 768 01:13:27,039 --> 01:13:29,199 your host, Adam Graham signing off.