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Detectors of Oldtime Radio as we played them. Well, now we're going to
introduce meet Miss Sherlock. And the information on this series is rather sparse.
This was a CBS Pacific broadcast, which meant that it was only syndicated among
West Coast CBS stations. In that way, it was in good company.
The Whistler is one of radio's most remembered series, but the vast majority of
episode there were some times when it was national, but the vast majority of
episodes were broadcast only on the West Coast. However, with Meet Miss Sherlock,
only two episodes survived, but there's a reason to think that there were
quite a few. Done'm identify the series as only having aired in nineteen
forty six. However, a search of newspapers dot com shows that there were
several Pacific affiliates that had Meet Miss Sherlock on their schedule for the fall of
nineteen forty seven. That doesn't mean that the series aired straight through. Some
programs did have multiple summer series, or would air as a summer series and
then be brought back sometime late in winter or the springs, such as Dangerous
Assignment. With that out of the way, let's go ahead and take a
lesson to the first episode. The original air date July the seventh, nineteen
forty six, and the time motto is case of the dead Man's Chest H
Jane No. Now, what will you marrying him now tonight? Oh,
I'm so sigh. I can tonight? Can I have to start of the
cape of a dead man's hill? Well, it's about time, about time
to beat their life, as not a little girl has ever stumbled across the
real life flu. The room is dark except for a cone of light from
a hanging bob shining on a desktop countered with papers. Two men there at
each other from the edge of the kennel. Nah, I'll be a fool,
I'll do it, nay. One man moving now, earning papers in
a grace. The other man sprawled forward, one out, long hand touching
the desk calendar stephening fingers, points at the tape line. July seven,
nineteen thirty nine. July nineteen thirty nine, seven years ago, and murder
in Manhattan. But seven years ago, Jane Sherlock was a kid in Big
Tales. Surely Jane can't get herself Peter Blossom involved in that crime or t
Right now, in the office of Blossoms on Broadway, where Jane works for
Peter's mother at fire for the special shopping service, Jane is saying, mister
blood and Antie Steeler, and he'd be two hundred and seventy five dollars.
You know our markam got a blog, and don't you think so? You
go to an auction to buy a set of candlesticks for a client and wind
up with a rosewood chest and sick as a hut. But Peter is an
absolutely genuine anti closed woods best. Sure sure where you gonna put it?
You have to move all your furniture out to get it into your apartment.
Oh, I never fathers that safe enough? In the back room here at
the shop, please till mother returns from her vacation. How your mother loves
that? I'm not so sure of that. Oh, whoever could be calling
the stories all? Why don't you pick up the receiver and find out?
Blossoms on Broadway? Jane Shot speaking shell, You bought a rosewood chest today
at the John's later off? Well, yes, how do you know?
No one say to buy it myself? But I was late? Okay,
three hundred dollars, I'll get five five, five hundred dollars? Yeah,
how about it? This woman? What's the five hundred dollars? They take
it? Oh? Who's speaking? Please? My name is Iris March.
Oh I'm sorry, miss March. The chess isn't to say seven hundred and
no, No, I don't want to say. I hope you want to
be sorry, Dolly, whatever do you mean? If you change your mind,
call me. It's Crest and Arms. Who you know? I know
you let her hang up when she offered you five hundred for the chest.
Oh no, she offered seven hundred and fifty seven fifty four hundred and fifty
dollars profit on the chest you can't use and you lest that day. Oh
no, she didn't get away. Her name's Iris March and she visited the
Crest and Arms and she wants me to call back. If I Chames mind,
well, then call back quick. Oh no feating, But love,
honey, that chest no good to you, and this is your chance to
get rid of it at the profit. No, it's a bloom did on
it and now this Irish mark wants it must be valuable or I have something
valuable in it. But you can't even get it open. There's no key.
No, I don't get a lot of it in the morning. I'm
a kind of sleat. See who it is, James Sherlock here, I'm
sorry the shop is closed. I don't want to bike course it. I
want to peak James Sherlock. I'm James sherlockom one, I bought a chess
today. It's a slate auction. I want that chest. Well, I'll
give you a thousand dollars for it. No, mister, never mind that
fifteen hundred. Take it or leave it, and you'd better take it.
Yeah, you know, I don't like your tone. Who are you in
an iron engage? I don't like the way you're talking to her. Oh
you're a Peter Blossom, a lawyer, and you better give her a little
advice. I'll never tell me that chess. I'll give you some advice instead.
Get out of here, take it easy, proud out. Okay,
I don't say I didn't warn you all in the morning, mister Lock.
Maybe by then you'll think your mind. Oh, nice little fellow. If
you had a piece of the cloth his sep was made out of you,
use it for a checkerboard of a nice quiet little games. So many people
wants a cha Yes, yes, Jane, I'm beginning to see you.
Mon go back to the storeroom and have another look at that check Maybe we
can force the lock and see what from the chip. Oh no, because
well I don't see it. Listen, com one on the store room.
Someone's fighting into this. You'll see about that. Hey, you want a
flack flight? What do you think of doing? You know? You know
all life all they get this thing off my head? When do I get
on the life? Get this thing over? I'm perfect right, I will
still see the light. Was so funny about it. Somebody calls me I'm
a heaven and throws the back over my face. Right now, boy,
I never knew how potatoes aft before only I was alone in the sack.
Oh no, lord, you will kill somebody. Try the lit off.
At least we'll be able to see what's inside the chat. It in where
the constantly bring it out. He doesn't have time side. You'd probably go
out the back to carry away whatever we're in the chat. Exactly up,
they said the wife. I open an empty chat, wh speak with the
panel? It's something must be? Why would always people work before? Who?
I found a little panel light in the spine. He's moving hes a
chick. There's a fourth one? Anything there? Oh, Jane, bottom
of a kick, it's a killing him. See this is one time we
didn't need dark Ryan to tell us the guy's really dead? Do we ever
tell us no, just a joke? Yeah, well I'll say that one
think it's a joke when the commissioner gets on our neck. And nice work,
Jane. We have enough trouble at homicide solving nice fresh killings without you
digging up a show up. Oh but I didn't dig it off? Well
how did it happened? Where you see? Captain dingle I went to the
slater offs on the bike that his candle ticks, and mister laugh with him.
He's a client of the Blossom Special Shopping specializes an all sort of lighting
things like handles and land. Oh wait a minute, Teter, maybe you'd
better tell it. Well, there is much to tell danger. Jane saw
this Rosewood chests and bought it, and we couldn't get open because there wasn't
any key and I didn't have rooms dated in my apartment, and so we
brought it here if it stopped and busted it open with a hat. Oh
no, the man died that what man? Tie the man the spot,
Peter with a potato? Look, Jane, are you crazy? Mind?
Well? I don't know about you, DANGI No, there you bought this
rosewood chest. Minute later Rocks ran later John Slater. You're talking about John
Slater. He ran for judge once got tied up with a singer and his
wife to him for the board. Disappeared very mysterious three years ago, seven
years ago to be exact thing. Oh huh, he recently missed a Slater
went to court and had him declared dead. Oh nice. I happened to
be in court the morning we came up. It seems I've read about it
in the paper. They all its effect for austin Off to settle these dates.
Didn't take missus way along once she had him to cluared dead. Well,
I don't forget the seven years he's been missing. Hey, maybe the
guy didn't dissappit che Maybe he was murdered and the sifth and I mean that
Yelton and the box was here. Huh, you're not Charleton. Sometimes JI
show semblances of normal intelligence. Oh fine, I was a wait a minute.
Why would a girl want to buy the chest if all there was in
it was a skeleton? Oh now there's a girl mixed up it. I
suppose you'll be telling me next that there were three Hindus in an Indian chief.
Oh no, just the girl and the man that spat Peter off and
that man that take chetters on his lucky Peter. If you don't explain this,
we'll be here all nut. Now, what about as well? Did
you start like? And the man put the sack over his shot? Game?
Well, Peter well and ordered their appearance. Three people tried to get
that chest in Jane after she bought her to the auction to day, Oh,
Peter, you're forgetting mister bloom. I think we can countess the bloom
out of there. He's a legitimate theater. He only did on the chest
at the austion. Who were the other three? Or first a girl named
Iris March bone Iris Marching never heard of it? I did she want the
chin? Well? She didn't say. He barely hung up when in barges
the guy with a suit as loud as the side shoe barker? Who is
he? He didn't mention his name, that little rough, so I as
him to believe the whole Peter was wonderfully practically threw the man out and what
But then we decided to take another look at the chest. He had it
to the storeroom, but someone beat the two he was in there and the
dog. He had a flashlight. He also had a sack which he pulled
over my head. He brought the sack along the cart off the skeller room.
Who you ran away? Maybe that was the same guy I wanted the
racetrack. Su No, no, I think this was a bigger man.
How do you know, Peter, if the room was done? I scuffled
get any? Well? Also looks like seven years ago somebody quote John Slater
and put the body in the chest. But why wasn't it found before?
The oupneer said the chest was under a lot of old furniture in the attic.
Well, Ryan, don't ask me to set the r jest this time.
Well, I can tell you. Here's somebody pumped two bullets into the
guy a lot of years ago and dumped in the chests without me clothes right
into fine objects. Hey cheep, Yeah, I a fingerprint, Alison,
did you ever try to get singer prints off of a skeleton? Excuse me
to me? Oh, maybe his dennets can help us out. And he
fillings in my teeth, got no teeth, just must the warren false teeth
and the tiller threw him away. There's one thing though, like that he
would fracture the left seamers. Huh, stepped out a broken leg and heel
though, and the leg is slightly shorter than the other. Oh that may
help. I will. We'll have to see if we can run down this
much girl. I know where she lives. Why didn't you say so before?
Exactly? Well, I'm asking you now, he said, I could
call us the question on. I don't got the number of the questionent on.
I already left it up. Ohkay, here is where we have a
little chest with Eric much. But if she clumped it, she won't be
This one thing in our favorite collison is that none of these people know that
the boys have been called. Well, maybe she's upset, easing she wanted
the chest said, and she she'll be there. Hello, it's miss much,
no tollas and now want to let us leave the shot. But she's
said, nster, that's why you heard him yourself. Michelle was just upset.
Well, it'll be more than upset if I don't do like he said.
I think it's me if I hadn't told him I as much. It's
a question on. He's never a phone practically heard her murdered over the phone.
The look, Jane, hasn't occurred to you the dane who may have
wanted to keep you out of trouble. I never had any cluck. No,
this looks like trouble right now. That its funny if you don't get
your myths up right away. Hey, you can't do that. I can't
he tell us what he's gone. He's just listening to the birdies thing.
Anybody else want to try something? Not at the moment? Oh white guy?
Huh, but so was the other bird you saw what happened? You
want some of the same? Thanks? No, this guy on the fall,
it's like I can I like his copy. I hate cops, shut
up, signal a boss through the window and he's coming out everything other control
boys. Oh sure boys. The guy on the floor got reckless, but
then he hate no good. Well is our old friends checkers? What do
you mean? Checkers? Who I want the matter? What he showed that
it's great, Tamim shut up, Joel? Well right, give me the
name of your tailor, rag huh, Reg Doherty. That's right, And
that's too bad. You'll have to change our plans now, your plan.
Yes, we came for the chest. Your friend hadn't spotted who I was.
We meant to leave you here, well not exactly free tied up and
gag. But now now what Now I'm afraid you'll have to come with us.
We're going for a little ride. Peter. Oh what tho are they
gonna do to us? I wish I knew? Maybe it's better. I
don't you know who we are? Should't try another neighbor. Thing in the
back room is a const night, a night corn closed by the f bad
story already called up a bow brummo. Boug this dirty room up like I
am. I'll be one pain now calling this plice the bau brummo. It's
a factory used to call him glad rags. You always fuss about cold.
I think maybe I can get my hands maybe talking about he put in a
feat of what do your foes will happen to policy? I don't know.
Let the muggy call Joe to watch him while they got the field. I'm
afraid to POLICI you know close that he hate his people. Don't worry.
I sent Matt back to help Joe bring the check his rags against he runs
a string of nightclug Now n us to be mixed up with a hank Turner
up the cloked politician. There is a strong arm boy. And hey,
wait a minute, Slater, the guy that originally owned the chest, was
mixed up with Turner two. That's why Blue towns a maybe voter connect why,
of course it is later was a crooked lawyer. The Turner crowd was
running in for judge and his white suit for the boards, and they threw
him to the wolf that wasn't stand the standard. There was a nice cub
gallon, I said him, and they named maybe something a brother may Noorth.
That's it, Yeah, Maynor and may used to sting and there he's
night trucks. And maybe Rags closed Slater and put him in that step.
Maybe that's why Rags had to have the chat. Maybe I wish I knew
a Slater had a bad leg, a bad leg who was killing him.
One leg was shorter than the other, an old brake. Hurry might open
on tu Oh, I'll go anywhere here, I'll see you are not the
thing I decided to look in on. You sit, I'm on that chair.
He right, don't need to get rough and shut up my feet.
A specific ran back of the chair and guess that will hold you. I
I have time to un tie the counselort here. Eh no word fluck well
you behavior shout, or I'll take Joe onto you. Joe you mean the
one who hates statement. Yeahs, I'll make two things Joe hate Worth and
Coppers as lawyers and women. Oh heater. I wish captain's dingle was here
right just way, Captain ding go right down the hall as long as miss
March lived here, only moved in last week, and do whole. She
ain't no trouble. I got a hunt. Her troubles are over now.
Let's here's her apartment. Ill come on open it up. Yes, I'll
show you round. Captain you'll stay outside. Come on, mind this much.
Girls, choose the telephone, he did. You're here in the hall,
and let's telephone here right the bedroom here, m man, he did.
Captain Nice wants to go in though a heart. Let's got to look
at her face, tring a little man. Fine. Do you know who
that is? He said? Her name was Irish March, Irish March,
my eye. That's the nightclub Canary that John Playdon's wife stood for the voice
about. That's Playdon's former girlfriend. Maynor Ryan Whiz, gonna have another little
chat with that caretaker. Yes, Captain Dingle, like I said, she
only moved in last week. I see she was a loan. Yes,
of course she never had any visitors, only once. But I saw a
kind of stocky man, bald headed, WoT older than he was. He
said he wasn't her uncle. Huh. Why did you ever see John claidor
Nope, Claytations before my time? Okay, you boys are until I got
upstairs. Now you come with me me. Hey, I'm no cop,
I'm a medic. I may need a witness. I'm going to pay a
call on missus John Clayter in Jingle. When my husband disappeared, I'd lost
the divorce proceedings I had filed against and why, I'm afford would hardly bring
myself to go through with a divorce ex and against the man I thought was
dead. Of course, you do believe that your husband is dead. Yeah,
that's why when seven years attack, I hadn't definitely placed. Sadly,
Henry told me that was the thing to do, and Ray Henry Turner did
send to me alden years. What's not In fact, it would have been
married so you're going to marry Hank kind of that. I trust your people's
confidence. I just like publiciting. I am turned once before when John and
that sinner. Yes, I understand, But tell me why were you so
convinced that your husband was dead? The story is, you see, my
husband has rather stage acquaintances. I'm afraid it was an except for the underworld,
a man named a door. Each others too. I suppose you might
think it's none of the mats off. Maybe I think my husband was murdered
testing dingle. Let's see that's the swater. Your husband had a large rosewood
test. It was one of the articles sold a day at the kinect.
Remember it, Yes, he used to keep it in his stutter if he
moved it to be at hit the same night, and just series your husband
moved it, I don't know. I wasn't home that night. The next
day the test was gone and I never saw the danger was cleared out?
Yet? Did your husband were full of tea? What do you ask,
Lily? Routine? As I said, I hoping on mind, John would
says vain very two people knew it, But he wore in instead of place
up for a more one more question then we'll go and your husband ever had
a serious accident to his left leg, a bad that left the lake shoulder
than the other one. No, Captain Dingle, my husband had never broken
a bone in his body. Oh was thank you missus later, come on,
Ryne, goodbye, goodbye, Captain Dingle. To make you tell you
about that's not necessary. We can't find out ways go gun. That's much
hell a lot more help than I expected. For one thing, she stared
up something in my mind. I'd forgotten Leg Doherty had a brother, Gimpy
sool. Gimpie Doherty hasn't been seen a hood of since the day John Slater
had disappeared and did a good job of tying me up to you. I'm
afraid so he chet down here anymore than I'm figuring out. So I'll fight
a figure with the force disorders. Yeah, and I know that he put
it down and shut up. You get out the factor and all. What's
the fun sport he's getting generated? Yeah, but when the force is coming
in to look at the skelton to see if it is camping, but tack
and get going going? Okay, okay, yeah all together again? You
and I am a dead man. Oh, Peter, I wish I'd never
seen that hard. You're gonna say that again? Who Who's gimping? That?
Said? Reds wanted to see if the skeleton was Gimpy Dane. I
think I've got the n Red had a brother named Gimp and that's why one
of the chests. Maybe he thinks Slater killed getting right figuring com flirt exactly
what I do think. I think Skimpy to see Slater that night seven years
ago to tell him to pay you off on a gambling day. Skimpy never
seen back, and Slater disappeared. Yeah, And when I ran into May
North yesterday, I put two and two together. He calls herself Iris March
Now, but he was a gala ran off with Slater. I staid her
into talking plays vote. He was back and found to keep his wife from
marrying Hank Turner. He was gonna come to life again, but May said
there was one thing he had to do first, get that chest right,
sister. That's when I tumbled. I tried to get the chest at the
auction, but I was too late. So I came to you and you
killed I mean Childer. I didn't know if she was dead. We think
somebody kill her the night just before you kidnapped and dirty wrapped Slater. He
must have figured he struggle. Go to me. If that's Jimpy in the
chest later of White or both of them, don't bother to look right,
Slater, I've been waiting for this minute. You won't stare. Shoot.
I got a man on each door, a man on each door. I'm
quite handy with a knife. May found out to night you got Mat and
j So it's a little stupid. I made a noise outside the back door
and set his neckhot. That's the mat. He was watching the clock.
I back, and you're so good, my child brother on sig anything rags.
I'm not ready to kill you yet, he looks Plater. I'm Peter
Blossom. Oh I've heard of you. Oh too bad, mister Blossom,
brother of the bar too. But surely you nicely You and the lady like
Christmas turkeys for roasting. Very fitting when I burned this place down, all
your head. But miss this Slater. You wouldn't you rue, But my
dear, I have no choice. You see, John Plater is coming back
to life. Nobody has anything on me now except the people here. I
should rag and burned his place with all of you, and he's born.
Thank don't go. Why are you little? He shot up while he's there
on the floor, dingle and so help me. I think she's fainting.
Oh Kane, I can't say I blame you for saving now. It was
no such thing, my little football and combing your chair against later so Rags
could get a shot at him. That was a stetid job of blocking as
I ever thrown at the ball. What do we do with wrong? Plat
was kilts. You can both testify that Rags shot m himself. A ball
can get him off. You're forgetting one thing, Jane. Rags and his
men made away with polison. I haven't found the place. Oh Tom,
what from that hit? Maybe gimpy Chelton, that's from the life and oh
they got lit up? Okay they go? What's your side? Oh okay,
I listen. What are you doing in that shit? I don't know.
I just woke up in here with a bunch of bones. I thought
I was dead and gone to heaven. But jee's not a good here.
Tell me, am, I in the other place, okay, And I
never thought we see your apartment again? Need I thought we were gone.
Hope you've heard the last of the Rosewood chest. Ye, no more,
no more good? Oh he to the door, thank you now, but
it's a telegram from It's the Blue you know, Leannt team. We've got
to hurry over here right now. He's got another Rosewood chest. Where's my
hat saying here the wood Dad. Well, it looks like Peter Blossom is
going to be framed in Rosewood. But next Thursday, that's a different story.
Jane and Peter find themselves involved with a prim and somewhat grim old laid
and the Paris that talks too much next Thursday, at the same time,
the Case of the cock Eyed Parents, another adventure of Jane Sherlock and Peter
Blossom. When you Niece, Miss Sherlock produced by day Vale, written by
Don Thompson and with original music composed and played by Eddie Gunn from Columbia said
welcome back, well and okay a lot detective program. I walked William Conrad
in this. Uh. Sandra Gear who played Jane Sherlock, isn't given a
whole lot to work within this episode, and neither is Jane. But she
did that whole faint at the end, which worked out, and I kind
of read into it that she did it kind of accidentally on purpose and was
being modest about it and not wanting to brag on herself for still serving a
useful purpose in the mystery. And of course William Conrad investigating the case and
questioning the witnesses is kind of fun. I do want to go ahead and
talk about the star Sandra Gear. Now, Miss Gear was a real mainstay
of the Chicago radio scene. She also did some more in Hollywood, which
this obviously was, but probably her most noted work was in Chicago. She
did a lot of Chicago theater of the air. He did several public service
programs that came from Chicago. Again, I was some work in Hollywood as
well, but I think the bulk of her radio career was in Chicago,
and not just during the Golden Age of radio. According to her obituary,
she also was a performer in the Pacific Garden Missions series on Shackled, which
continued beyond the Golden Age of radio until this day. She got a teaching
certificate from Northeastern she was raising her children. She did also do some on
air work in Los Angeles and San Francisco and then in the seventies nineteen seventy
four, she comes back to Chicago at to work at WBEZ and just did
a lot of on air work, interview programs, cooking programs, and then
her most noted and celebrated accomplishment came her launch of Midday with Sondra Gear,
which was a foreign fair show which won multiple awards in its eight years on
the air prior to her passing away in nineteen ninety four. So she was
a very big figure in the Chicago radio scene for decades and had an amazing
life and career beyond anything that we'll here on meet Miss Sherlock. Well,
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dangerous assignment. Where seem to have me pegged already? Indeed, I have,
Senor. It don't sound like you're here to extend me the key to
the city. No, but I am here to extend what you may call
an official gritty. What is it? It is known why you came to
this country. Is it you're after the dangerous subverse of agent named Slugger,
who was rumored to be hiding in or near this city. Is this not
true? Well, you seem to be doing most of the talking, as
goobarro. Why don't we keep it that way? Huh? I see it
in that case, although we do not see fit to forbid your presence here
the thanks, I warn you stay out of my way in this matter just
a minute. Does that warning come from your government or from you personally?
That is not for you to ask. Tommy has been granted the high honor
of tracking Slaga down. I see, it'll be quite a feather in your
cap. I suppose I am not thinking of personal glory, but of the
welfare of my government. Oh sure, sure, well, as Kabar looks
like we're both hunting the same pigeon, but with one important difference. And
what is that? I gather you don't much care whether you take Slaga dead
or I would prefer him dead. That's what I thought. What does that
get you a headline or maybe a promotion or being impertinent? Sorry, I
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