Speaker 1: Welcome to your second listener appreciation special from Boise Idahol.
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per month at Patreon dot Great Detectives dot nit. Well,
we're going to do another one of our twice told
Tale specials, but it's gonna be kind of twice told
tale plus. This was inspired by John Abbott, who I've
frequently referenced as the author of the who Is Johnny
Dollar matter. He noticed that the TV series Peter Gunn
recycled some Johnny Dollar scripts, and he worked through the
series and he found a lot of cases of recycled
scripts by Blake Edwards, and he identified twenty three episodes
of Richard Diamond, fourteen episodes of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar,
and twenty episodes of Peter Gunn that were part of
a sort of recycling chain, and that was based on
not only the circulating episodes of Richard Diamond and Johnny Doller,
but also the scripts as well, and he made some
interesting discoveries, including noting that there were five that were
actually recycled across all three series. And I thought it
would be fun to go ahead into a twice told
tale with one of these stories and play the radio
versions and then watch the TV episode and review that
as well. Now, unfortunately, of the five, for one, the
Johnny Dollar episode is missing, and for two more, the
Richard Domon episode is missing, So that just left me
two to choose from. So we're going to start out
with the Richard Dimond episode that aired January eighteenth, nineteen
fifty two, and this one is the Simpson case.
Speaker 2: The Makers of Camel's Cigarettes present Dick Powell as Richard
Diamond Private Detective. Here transcribed is Richard Diamond Private Detective,
starring Dick Powell.
Speaker 3: I'm a detective agency. We make crime pay for one
hundred a day plus expenses. I have them.
Speaker 4: I'd like, are you no.
Speaker 3: Cut rates for attractive redheads?
Speaker 4: But I'm a working girl.
Speaker 5: I only make twelve dollars and forty cents a week
doing what running an elevator in the automat.
Speaker 3: My dear girl, there are no elevators in.
Speaker 4: The automat, and I wonder they wouldn't give me a raise.
Speaker 3: Oh that's funny.
Speaker 6: I want to hire you to protect me from a man.
Speaker 4: He's been bothering me.
Speaker 3: And just who is this man?
Speaker 4: His name's Richard Diamond.
Speaker 3: Well, no, wonder he's been bothering you. You've been bothering him.
Speaker 7: You take my case.
Speaker 3: Just as far as my apartment, we'll open it up
and have a party. A ridiculous only when I try hard.
Speaker 4: I miss you.
Speaker 3: I saw you last night. You're just bored and I
miss you. I'm broke. I gotta hang around and pray
for a client.
Speaker 4: Well, I've got a wonderful suggestion. Why don't you?
Speaker 8: Oh what?
Speaker 3: Why? Yes? Come in?
Speaker 4: Who is it?
Speaker 3: No, but I'm making plans for some extensive research.
Speaker 9: I didn't mean to disturb you.
Speaker 3: I don't know how you could help it.
Speaker 4: Rick, Who is that?
Speaker 3: I'll call you back when I find out that's a girl.
It certainly is not wrecked.
Speaker 9: Your girl on the phone.
Speaker 3: Oh oh h, just an old wealthy aunt she's leaving
me her lumber fortune. Yes, sit down, Sit down.
Speaker 10: Mis Simpson.
Speaker 9: Missus. Oh now so you have an aunt in lumber.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, broke one day, made a million the next
discovered trees on her property. Tree's on her property? What
are you going to do?
Speaker 9: I came in to hire mister.
Speaker 3: You have a kind heart and plenty of money. I
hope my husband need protection. Yeah, I beg your pardon.
Nothing nothing, just snapping at judgments. Occupational hazard.
Speaker 9: My husband is John Simpson.
Speaker 3: Have you heard of him, the John Simpson.
Speaker 9: Yes, no, he's your tired. He discovered oil on his property.
Speaker 3: Ooh that one. Oh sure. He was responsible for my
bearings burning out at seven hundred thousand miles.
Speaker 9: He's walking in the garden the other day.
Speaker 3: To drill in a daisy bed.
Speaker 9: Someone shot at him. Oh he's all right. They didn't
hit him. But I've been terribly worried ever since.
Speaker 3: Not to mention how your husband feels.
Speaker 9: He wouldn't call the police and wouldn't give me a reason.
Speaker 3: But he wants me to protect him.
Speaker 9: He doesn't need to know I've come.
Speaker 3: To see you. Well, what's he going to say?
Speaker 9: I'm hiring you and I hope you'll understand.
Speaker 3: Well, I hope so too. I charge one hundred a
day at expenses.
Speaker 9: I had my own bank account.
Speaker 3: Hannah did whoa Aunt Hannah?
Speaker 10: What?
Speaker 3: Oh that's nice, Aunt Hannah. I think spruce is just
a thing.
Speaker 11: Aunt Hannah spouce Richard Diamond, Because Aunt Hannah, I'll talk
to you like her.
Speaker 3: I knew what.
Speaker 7: She's a blonde.
Speaker 3: She sure is, Aunt Hannah. Aunt Hannah the one with
the trees, thinking of buying a Carlo to spruce. Nice
am I hired? Of course, Then let's get out of here.
Aunt Hannah might be over with a bat spruce of course.
Well that's how it started. A lovely blonde named Simpson
with a wealthy husband. The husband a doctor bullet in
his garden, and now the lovely blond wanted protection for him.
A few casual jokes, the fat retainer, and Richard Diamond
was once more in the ranks of the employer. We
left the office and climbed in a station wagon. Forty
minutes later we were pulling up in front of the
Simpson house on Long Island. Ah. Quite a place.
Speaker 9: It's beautiful, isn't it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if you like money.
Speaker 9: John's probably in the study. May I take your hat?
Speaker 3: Well, I'll just keep it with me. Your husband might
not want a body guard.
Speaker 12: Well you're a hurry.
Speaker 9: Well, this is mister Diamond.
Speaker 10: Glad to meet you, mister Diamond.
Speaker 9: Hello, missus Ralph Simpson, mister Diamond, my stepson.
Speaker 3: People am more inclined to think where brother and sister.
Speaker 9: I can understand Ralph was the one who suggested you.
Speaker 3: Oh, I mean even reputation looks like everyone knows about me.
But the man I'm supposed to protect, and he won't
like it much at first. I've already been brief. But
whether he understands or not, it's most necessary he has protection. Well,
let's get it over with.
Speaker 12: Hello, dear, what is this a convention?
Speaker 3: Hello Jane, Professor?
Speaker 12: Whoere is this man? This person with the hat?
Speaker 9: This is mister Diamond, John, mister Diamond, This is my husband,
mister Simpson, Yeah, charmed, And this is Professor Fisher.
Speaker 3: How do you do, mister Diamond, I love, Professor.
Speaker 12: Where do you do? Young man?
Speaker 9: Do Mister Diamond is a private detective?
Speaker 3: Dear? What now?
Speaker 13: Dear?
Speaker 3: It was my idea a private detect Now just relax.
Oh boy, I've been relaxing enough.
Speaker 12: I can't think straight anymore. You've been making me relax
so much.
Speaker 3: If you're not carefull.
Speaker 14: I told you I didn't want anyone, but after being
shot at, you pay your retainer.
Speaker 12: Diamond.
Speaker 14: Yeah, did she explain my feeling on this subject. Well, yeah,
and you still took the money.
Speaker 3: I've been poor.
Speaker 12: I told every one of you I can take care
of myself.
Speaker 3: You know, I think he's right. Here's your retainer, mister Diamond.
Speaker 7: Please, where do.
Speaker 3: You think you're going. I have to find the guy
who took a shot at you and give him some
target practice.
Speaker 12: You've been paid a retainer to do a job. Now
let's see you do it.
Speaker 9: John.
Speaker 12: I had a feeling you were going to do something
like this, bring in.
Speaker 14: A private detective or a policeman or something. Well, if
he's supposed to give me a protection, that's what he'll do.
Speaker 3: Now, all of you get out of here. I want
to talk to this mister Diamond.
Speaker 9: Thank you, John.
Speaker 12: I'll see you at dinner.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Now, you take care of yourself, you old scone.
Oh beat it, goodbye, mister Diamond. Nice man of your professor. Well,
mister Diamond, I have a feeling you might read regret
this job. It's possible I really wanted you. I was
just keeping up a front for the benefit of the family.
Is Professor Fisher one of the family, an old friend.
Professor Fisher as a psychologist.
Speaker 12: After my stroke, he came to help me. He teaches
me how to relax.
Speaker 3: You had a stroke three months ago. The professor has
been a great help. You have a physician also, I don't.
Speaker 12: Need one now.
Speaker 3: Long you're here to protect me, I might as well
tell you what it's all about. Answer me one question first,
I'll drive. Why not calling the police?
Speaker 12: I have you do? I need the police now.
Speaker 3: When someone takes a shot at someone, I think the
police should be the first to do about it. Now,
if you are quite done, mister Diamond, i'll continue. I'm
well done this morning. If my wife had brought you in,
I would have had to thrown out. I didn't want
any outsiders mixed up in this. What saves your mind?
Speaker 10: A letter?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 12: Oh read it all right?
Speaker 3: I will. I missed you in the garden. I won't
miss again. You will pay for a shan Ashanti. It's
in Africa. Oh, twenty years ago, I was in the
mining business. I had a partner, Frank Victor. We didn't
get along and there was an argument one day in
the mind. It was quite a scrap and there was
a cave in. I got out, Frank didn't. There was
an investigation and I was cleared. Why tell me the
shooting in the garden could have been any crack pop.
I didn't want any publicity, so I didn't want any outsiders.
Speaker 12: Then this letter. I have to confide in someone so them.
Speaker 3: Know who to look for. Who else knew about it?
No one that it should make any difference to Victor
was a bachelor without a family. Could be blackmail someone
who was there or at the investigation. Then why shoot
at me To give you a good scare, You'll probably
get another lad of demanding money. This person must be coped.
In my position, I can't afford the scandal. You say,
I'm the first one you've told outside of your family.
I haven't told my family a thing. Even my first
wife didn't know about it. You've heard nothing of the
incident for twenty years. Nothing. Uh huh. I'll see what
I can find out. I promised John Simpson my confidence.
He offered me a large bonus if I should discover
who had sent him a threatening letter. Then I borrowed
one of his cars and drove back to the city,
where I looked up an old friend, Lieutenant Lemonson's Fifth
Precinct Police Station, where smiling gumshoe, Hello, happiness and light
wander be a favor depends you can strain your arches.
I'd like some confidential information on a few people. What
is in it for me? I promise not to tell
anyone about a mercenary policeman.
Speaker 10: You are.
Speaker 3: I like dinner, maybe a big state. You'll get dinner.
Maybe y'all name You've got to deal with that restaurant.
Certainly they saved me all the leftover fortunes stuck in
the cookies. Who he interested in? I want to know
about a young guy named Ralph Simpson, an attractive blonde
named Missus Simpson, and a man named Professor Fisher Simpson,
Simpson and Fisher. The boy named Ralph was the son
of John Simpson. No, yeah, he John Simpson know who
he is? No, Well, I'm like my aunt Hannah, who
discovered trees and her property. An Hannah Simpson discovered oil.
Oh that one his wife is the blonde which blonde
the one. I want you to check on Missus Simpson. Oh,
how silly I should have know. Don't forget the professor.
I thought you said his name was Fisher, I did.
How does he fit in with Simpson? A friend of
the family. Now you got everything? Sure? Sure, blonde named
Missus Simpson, her son named Ralph. He's not her son? Well,
you just said he was John's son. Who's the blonde?
John's other wife? John's on the wife, that's right, Oh,
he's her stepson. Oh well, Ryther devil. You want me
to check on these people? I'm thinking about having a
bridge party.
Speaker 10: Give me the rundown on him? Sure?
Speaker 3: Uh, well, eh, but yours on?
Speaker 10: Oh?
Speaker 3: I gave Walter run down. He watted and headed for
the newspaper, where I knew I could waller to the
Morgue fire and not be disturbed. I went back twenty years, and,
after wallowing for three or four hours, found a small
article dated a Shanty Africa, nineteen thirty. It didn't say
much more than what John Simpson had already told me.
It mentioned the mind cave in a depending investigation on
the death to Frank Victor, and in addition, dated three
weeks later, I found the account of the investigation and
it verified Simpson's story. I left the newspaper, went back
to my office to check on a few things. Then
as I was about to leave and close up until
I'd finished the case, I got a phone.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, this is John Simpson. I took a chance
you might be in your office.
Speaker 3: Oh, I was just coming back out there.
Speaker 4: This is John Simpson. I took a chance you might
be in your office.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, you said that.
Speaker 4: I'd like you to pick up something for me.
Speaker 3: Oh sure, it's a package.
Speaker 4: It's at a bar on fifty seventh Street, the Blue Pheasant.
Speaker 3: The Blue Pheasant on fifty seventh.
Speaker 4: Street, Diamond. This is Johnson.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, I know, I know anything else. Hello, mister Simpson.
Speaker 4: Bring it out to me right away. It's very important.
Speaker 3: I'll pick it up and break it right hard. Something wrong,
mister Simpson. Hello, Oh funny.
Speaker 2: And now back to Richard Diamond, Private Detective and starring
Dick Powell.
Speaker 3: I left the office and went down to fifty seventh
Street and the Blue What. I told the bartender who
I was, and he handed me the package Simpson that
wanted me to pick up for him. I drove back
out of the house on Long Island. The maid let
me in, and Missus Simpson met me at the study door. Hello, well,
I where's your husband?
Speaker 9: I think he's still in the study.
Speaker 3: He was a little while ago.
Speaker 9: You're going on some shopping. You're staying for dinner.
Speaker 3: Where's your stepson?
Speaker 9: Ralph went out just after you left. Did you want him?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 9: No, just wondered then shopping.
Speaker 3: Oh, this is a package for your husband. Wanted me
to pick it up. And is it seven, Missus Simpson.
Professor Fisher, what about him? How long have you known him?
Speaker 9: Since I've been married to John.
Speaker 3: Your husband said he was helping him to relax.
Speaker 12: Yes, is there something wrong?
Speaker 3: I don't know. I talked to your husband earlier when
he asked me to pick up this package. He sounded
rather strange, kept repeating himself since.
Speaker 9: He had a stroke. He does that sometimes.
Speaker 3: Should he have a nurse?
Speaker 9: He should, but he won't if something should happen. Professor
Fisher's numbers in the book on John's desk. I'll call
the maid.
Speaker 3: I'm saying by, well, hello, mister Simpson. I've got the package.
Give me the package, mister Simpson, give me the package.
Are you feeling all right? Give me the package? Okay? Yeah, Oh,
I did some checking on your story about a shoppy.
Speaker 12: You're not give me the package?
Speaker 3: You've got it, mister Simpson. Hey, what's wrong, mister Simpson?
Did you hear me? I better get the maid maid made?
Speaker 10: Mister Diamond?
Speaker 12: Yeah, Ron, Yeah, what's wrong?
Speaker 3: I don't know your father's all like. The whole building
was coming down around my ears. Ralph and I were
thrown back against the wall, and by the time we
got out, the study was a smoking black hole. I
stumbled in after Rock, but there wasn't much to stumble
in after John Simpson had been blown to Kingdom. Come,
you're sure it was Simpson on the phone. Sure, I'm
sure it was Simpson on the phone. Wall.
Speaker 10: He asked you to pick up the package.
Speaker 3: That's right. He wanted it when I brought it into it.
He wouldn't say anything else. He just demanded that package.
He'd been pretty sick and me. Yeah, but a man
doesn't go to that much trouble to commit suicide. No,
maybe somebody planted the bomb. Looks let's check with that.
Bartend at the Blue Pheasant. I want to talk to
the rest of the family first. And by the way,
why did you find out about them? No, police records
can't find out much about the professor. He has no practice,
no license in the state. I'll see if you can
find out something interested. Yeah, it's funny, and a man
as a high condition and won't have a doctor. I'll
drag a professor interfew. No, no, no, you go talk
to the family. I'll go and check for the bartender.
Wait a minute, Sherlock, you better tell me how you
got into this, miss Okay, fatty, I guess it won't
hurt now. I told Wald everything the late mister Simpson
had told me, then headed back to town and the
Blue Pheasant on fifty seventh Street. By the time I
got there, the place was pretty well felled. But the
bartender who had given me the package that afternoon wasn't
in sight. Yeah, will it be? Where's the bartender who
was working this afternoon? How do I know he just
works in the afternoon. Where's he lived? Why? Well, I'm
collecting addresses of bartenders. Now where does he live? You
collect addresses? I collect wise?
Speaker 12: Guys?
Speaker 3: Beat it? You mean I got to show my little
old badge, A little old badge like you say so complex.
He lives at five hundred West, one hundred and fifty
seventh Street. What's his name, well, Earl Collins. Relations of time,
no relation at the time. What you gotta do? I
pile out of the bar and back in the car.
Drove across town to one hundred and fifty seventh Street
and five hundred West. It was a big apartment house
and Earl Collins was registered in four h five. I
climbed the stairs and knocked, gave him a few minutes
while I knocked my knuckles close, then went and dug
up the landlady to have her open the door. She
was a charmer, about four years older than Grant's tomb,
with a gin disposition that would make a loss of
weekend seem like Am I any vacation the type that
should never have been dug up?
Speaker 10: No, honey, I got cleaning to do, sweetheart, sweetheart.
Speaker 3: An expression of funding Dermo mustard.
Speaker 10: Don't give me no worriage longer than one.
Speaker 3: Terrible cop, will you? Yes, mother, mother, sweetheart, some cop.
We'll discuss my qualifications as soon as you open that door. Okay,
sweet good, there you are.
Speaker 7: Holy.
Speaker 3: You said it.
Speaker 10: Is?
Speaker 3: He dead as dead as he can get m still warming.
I'm not interested. I needed to drink. Did you see
him come in?
Speaker 13: No?
Speaker 3: Did you see anybody else come in? I've been in
my apartment all afternoon. I'm going back there. Show you
something awfully sharp. Neat, job, neat? What are you looking at?
What's that other room?
Speaker 7: Hi?
Speaker 3: What's room?
Speaker 10: Keep it quiet?
Speaker 3: What's that room?
Speaker 10: Oh?
Speaker 9: Good, gosh?
Speaker 10: Bedroom?
Speaker 3: Any other rooms?
Speaker 1: Hi?
Speaker 3: Answer me? Lassroom, fire escape?
Speaker 15: Huh?
Speaker 10: Where is it? Into the hall?
Speaker 3: Look, there's some blood leading to that bedroom. Now take
it easy, go downstairs and call Lieutenant Walter Levinson. You'll
tell eleven Warson Walter goodbye. There were several drops of
blood leading to the bedroom door. There was a good
chance that the killer had been surprised and.
Speaker 10: Couldn't get out.
Speaker 3: I went to the door and tried it as quietly
as I could. It gave and I kicked it open.
The shades were down. The room was dark enough to
make it difficult to spot anyone. I moved in with
my gun in front of me. He was standing right
by the door, and he had a knife drop it.
You should have listened. Want sorry, professor, don't be better
this way. Look, look you're in bad shape. Better tell
me about it. You fired the shot in the garden
and sent the letter. Yeah, help me sit up? Okay, yeah,
let me get the wall here. I still can't figure
why Simpson had me pick up that bomb. I made him,
you did. I've been treating him for nerves.
Speaker 16: I started giving him a hypnotic when he had his
first spells. Doing one of those times, he re enacted
the Ashanti affair. So you decided to blackmail him first,
and when you took the case, we decided to eliminate him.
Speaker 3: We missus Simpson and I have been that much time
internal bleeding place will be here pretty quick.
Speaker 16: Decided to kill the old man. Jane would get to state.
I thought you'd be blown up with him.
Speaker 3: Mister Simpson was under some sort of influence when I
walked into the study, my profession.
Speaker 16: After you left, I returned and talked him into a
deep sleep.
Speaker 3: I had him call you or ours. He nearly messed
it up hypnosis, I think, unusual simple suggestions. And when
I walked into the study, he'd been ordered to ask
for the package and open it. You mean he was
asleep when I walked in. Yes, too late.
Speaker 10: You have to guess the rest bleeding in Mm.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well you better lie down again, Professor. You'll have
to get used to it.
Speaker 7: Ready to kill the bartender.
Speaker 3: While Chact and the Professor had been coming into the
bar for some time in the afternoons, he made friends
with Earl. The bartender left the package with him when
he found out I hadn't been killed in the last
He killed Earl to keep him from an fine ye
like an asylum and an earthquake.
Speaker 9: Well, I told you to stick to redheads.
Speaker 3: Oh ready, Well you know any available ones? One how available?
Speaker 7: You'll have to do some extensive research.
Speaker 3: Okay, after dinner. I do not do any research on
a schedule.
Speaker 9: Don't you want any dinner?
Speaker 3: For sure?
Speaker 10: Get wick.
Speaker 3: I'm hungry, Oh for peace?
Speaker 9: You sing something? Well, I go put the food on
a train. We need in here by the fire.
Speaker 3: You're gonna get fat and sassy.
Speaker 13: Nick.
Speaker 3: I take it back, you're already sassy.
Speaker 9: You sing something.
Speaker 7: Let me right back.
Speaker 10: I'll be right back.
Speaker 3: I'll be right back. I gonna sing for everything.
Speaker 13: Oh do do do, do, do do do that's nice.
Speaker 3: Just get the food.
Speaker 4: Huh.
Speaker 3: I think of you with every breathty, and every breath
becomes sor. Not a sign of despair, but a sign
that I care for you. I hear your name with
every breath ofty on every breeze. That one is my
and your name is a song I remember the long is.
Even though I war, you guide me in the darkest,
You light my way and all the wild inside me,
love seems to say some day day, And when I
sleep you keep.
Speaker 7: My heart away.
Speaker 3: But when I wake from dreams, divide every breath that
I take.
Speaker 10: Here's a prayer that I'll me.
Speaker 3: You mind. Y mm hmm.
Speaker 7: Is there really anything to the hypnosis?
Speaker 3: Well? Sure is. The old professor made Simpson open that package.
Speaker 7: Is it hard to do?
Speaker 3: Look, I'll show you. Just sit right, there's all right.
Just look me right in the eye. You're going to sleep.
You're going to sleep. You just want to go to sleep.
Nothing makes any difference.
Speaker 8: Just sleep, Sleep, Sleep, sep deep sleep and deep Shaw.
Speaker 6: Pull Dick Powell will return in just a minute.
Speaker 2: Tonight's transcribed Adventure of Richard Diamond was written and directed
by Blake Edwards, with music by Frank Worth. Virginia Gregg
played the part of Helen Asher and Alan Reed was
Lieutenant Levinson. Others in the cast were Gene Bates, Herbert Butterfield,
and Tony Michaels. Be sure to listen to another great
Camel show, Von Monroe and the Camel Caravan every Saturday night.
Speaker 1: Welcome Come Back a somewhat typical Diamond story for the era,
with some nice humorous moments and I thought a really
solid musical number at the end. One challenge with Richard
Diamond was that in order to facilitate the separate music
and comedy portions, they tended to occasionally abbreviate the stories,
which really could have been fleshed out a bit more.
It was also kind of interesting to hear a conversation
with Walt Levinson really driving so much of the humor.
That's really different from the early days of the series,
when Diamond would be this very strong comic figure to
Levinson as the absolute straight man. Of course, that was
back when Ed Begley played Lovinson. Alan Reid was the
fourth and final actor to play Walt. We only have
a relative handful of episodes with him in that role,
and it would be more interesting if more merged so
we could get a better idea of what his performance
was like. In a typical episode. Well, now let's get
into the Johnny Dollar. This one star john one. The
original air ed eate on this one is June the
twenty third, nineteen fifty three, and this one is the
Jonathan Bellows matter.
Speaker 10: By Dolly.
Speaker 3: You must leave me, oh me.
Speaker 17: When we get to our new Stateside installation, the housing
with Locus, they'll be the answerta housing need, Sheila.
Speaker 10: The housing referro low.
Speaker 17: Will help us get housed quickly, adequately, suitably.
Speaker 3: And economically.
Speaker 7: Que is reasonably close to the installation.
Speaker 11: Oh san, Sheila, Well you're listening on enjoyment John long as.
Speaker 10: Johnny, Oh darn? What can I do for you?
Speaker 13: We insure Jonathan Fellows. Nobody trying to kill him?
Speaker 10: Is that the Jonathan but the industrialists? Yeah?
Speaker 13: His wife went to the police, but Fella's refuses any protection.
Doesn't seem worried. Considers the potential assasin. Get the crank.
Speaker 10: What do you want me to do?
Speaker 13: Look into it. We ensure Fellows for a half million.
I suggest you talk to me the white first. She's
staying at the town apartment number one, part Fellows. She'll
expect you.
Speaker 10: Right now. I'd like to take a few minutes of
your time to pass on a plump, which incidentally concerns time.
According to the Bible, to everything, there is a season
and a time to every purpose under the heaven. We
all agree on that, I'm sure, And we'll all also
agree that the regulation of time also depends on the season.
For example, did it ever occur to you who decided
where are four time zones in America should be? Exactly? Well,
back maybe seventy five years ago, there were about one
hundred and fifty different time zones which were set up
according to the whim of the local inhabitants. Most of
the time was called sun time, and there could be
fifteen minutes difference between the clocks of two towns only
ten miles apart. So to get rid of the confusion,
the Interstate Commerce Commission was established. It divided the United
States into four standard time zones so that railroads, planes, buses,
and the mail could run on schedule. Of course, if
the city wants to go on daylight saving time during
the summer, that's the decision which is made locally. The
standard time remains the same everywhere else, But setting the
nation's clock isn't the only job of the Interstate Commerce Commission. However,
it also makes rules and regulations for the various means
of transportation which goes from one state to another. It
seems that railroads, truck line margism boats operate safely, charge
reasonable rates, and give good, dependable service. It also protects
trucks and bus drivers from working such long hours that
they might fall asleep while they're driving. The Commission also
demands that trains, engines, and machines have safety and stop devices.
It is in itself a safety device to assure every
one of us freedom from danger as we travel above
our companies. Expense account submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar
to Home Office, Intercontinental Indemnasy and Bonding Corporation, New York City.
Speaker 3: The following is.
Speaker 10: An accounting of expenditures during my investigation of the Jonathan
Bellows matter. Expense account. I don't want twenty nine dollars
and sixty five cents mileage and incidentals between Hartford and
New York City. I arrived at number one Pod Avenue
close to two o'clock. Missus Edith Bellows, a very attractive
redhead somewhere in the early thirties, met me at the
door and showed me into her luxurious apartment.
Speaker 7: John Dollar, thank you. Mister Jane explained the situation to.
Speaker 10: Him, only that someone tried to kill your husband.
Speaker 7: Yeah, day before yesterday, Jonathan was walking in the garden.
Someone shot at him. Fortunately they knew.
Speaker 10: Mister Stearns said, your husband refused police.
Speaker 7: Protection in very unusual man.
Speaker 18: Mister Dollar, I would say so, it's not a ung
man sixty three retiring and doesn't particularly care for people,
especially people who meddle.
Speaker 7: Unfortunately, he considers the police medlers.
Speaker 10: Has he hired any kind of protection? No, Doesny worried?
Speaker 7: He doesn't show it. But knowing him as I do,
I'd say he's mild as concerned.
Speaker 10: Someone takes a shot at him, and he's only mildly concerned.
Speaker 7: It's the NATO to be dollars.
Speaker 10: Well, I'm sure you're aware that intercommon Metal Indemnity is
more than mildly concerned.
Speaker 7: Yes, so am I for the whole family for that matter,
certainly give you're all a cooperation that I can. I
think everyone else in the family will be.
Speaker 10: Greatly relieved, except your husband.
Speaker 7: I would say he won't last as much.
Speaker 10: It'll be pretty hard investigating if he has me thrown
out of my ear.
Speaker 7: One thing in your favor. You're not a policeman.
Speaker 10: Yeah, but when I'm on a job, Missus Bellows, I've
been known to metal and metal and metal. We talked
some more about Jonathan Bellows. Missus Bellows had married him
eight years before, taking her place as number three in
his collection of wives. Her predecessors had retired to lives
of leisure on their alimony. Fellows had one son, Ralph,
by his first marriage, now twenty three years old. Around
three o'clock we went downstairs and climbed into a bright
news station wagon. An hour later we were driving up
a long circular driveway the bed of the Bellows mansion.
We parked and went in.
Speaker 7: Jonathan's in the library.
Speaker 18: All right, oh hello, mister Dollars, Missus Ralph Fellows.
Speaker 10: You do the insurance. Yeah, everyone know about this. Everyone
your husband. Yeah, he's in the library with Professor Wilks,
going to blow up. He's going to be funny. Huh,
well in a way. Yeah, you might not get.
Speaker 7: Much of that, Ralph. That's not very considerous.
Speaker 17: Well, that's the truth, you know it. The old man
is gonna take off like a skyrocket. I personally think
it's very funny. I'm not being vindictive. I'm just staying honest.
I haven't anything against you. I don't even know you.
But my father's a tough, bigoted.
Speaker 10: Unreasonable old man, and I've had to put up with
it all my life. Well, well that's the truth. I
mean a half percent of the time he gets his
own way, but when he doesn't, he creates the most
magnificent explosion you've ever seen.
Speaker 17: Clothingly, I am proud to say that I have been
responsible on several occasions for liking the cubes.
Speaker 10: Do you want a gun? I don't be ridiculous. I
didn't take that shot.
Speaker 7: Out, Oh no, course, but just as concerned as the
rest of it, I think the better.
Speaker 10: Can you take it? Mister? That's why I'm here, and
allow me to escort you to the library.
Speaker 7: You're spoiled, well.
Speaker 10: Rob, the Atomic Energy commissioned. What you have visits? Did
you say about your How are you beating three straight games?
Who did with you? This is he's going to find out.
Speaker 7: Shot at what now? John? He is an insurance man.
Speaker 10: Insurance man. I'll just sit over here. I'm within a
con medal indemn What are you doing here? Who say
for you?
Speaker 4: I want to know.
Speaker 7: You?
Speaker 10: Stay out, young man? Who told you I was retained
by mister Sterne. I didn't tell ster understand anyone over
here to meddle in my affairs.
Speaker 7: Got him here?
Speaker 10: You did? Why he did. We've discussed this whole jo
and if you don't take it easy to get out
of here, mister sure dollar, get out?
Speaker 7: Donald?
Speaker 10: Are you going to get out of here? Possibly? Let's
stop looking like you're gonna throw me out, young man.
Just let me take you. No, I've got a better idea.
Sit down, Sit down? Are you you sit down? I've
got something to say, and you're gonna hear me out here.
Mister you've got no right for you, professor will Johnny Dollar? Okay, professor,
I'm going to say what I've got to say, whether
you think I've got any right to or not. If
you want to listen, you're welcome. Well well, young man,
if you have something to say, shay it and get
out and place you call your company and see that
you're immediately to charge. Do it for a big shot.
I don't know how interested you are and maintaining your
insurance policy. If this attempt on your life is an investigated.
You're not going to have a policy are No, that's
not what I wanted to say. It's this, I've never
met you before, I don't know you, and I don't
want to. You're a big man in your field, but
that doesn't entice you to be rude to me. Ill go,
But if you ever tried throwing your way to and again,
I'll turn you over my knee and make up for
the spankings you must have missed a long time ago.
I'm sorry, missus Bellows. It's pretty obvious your husband doesn't
care how much his family worries about him. Now, if
you'll let me call a cab, I'll get out of here.
Mister Dellar, Yeah, would you stay a moment? Now? Count
found the young man. Now we're being rude compared to you,
I'm still in the bush league. Would you please stay
for a moment. I'd like very much to talk to you. Please, Miserable,
do you keep your mouth shut? Ralph? Yes? Well, mister Dollar, Okay, there,
huge shous I'd like to be alone with mister Dollar.
We'll finished the game later, Professor, and I want to
see you later. Alph. Of course, let's keep it this
way I'm still a little nervous. How much do you
know about this shooting? Only does someone try that I know,
I know who shot at me. Do yeah read this letter?
I have missed you in the guard I won't miss
you again. You'll pay for a shot. At Isian Africa
thirty years ago, I was in the mining business. I
had a partner, Frank Victor. We didn't get along and
there was an argument one day on the mind. The
scratch scrapped and there was a cave in. I got out,
Frank didn't. There was an investigation and I was cleared.
Why are you telling me this because I've decided to
trust you. I'm not particularly fond of you, but I
believe that you can get things done. I'm working for
the insurance company, mister Bella, certainly, but I'm sure you
must have gathered this sort of think and create some
very unfavorable publicity. Do you think this Frank Victor is
a liar?
Speaker 3: He must be.
Speaker 10: I've never told anyone of this incidents how there were
certainly other people involved, and it happened. Yes, got no
one who allowed to get me. Why would anyone else
but Frank Victor want kill me? But he didn't kill here.
Maybe it was someone who knew of the accident. What
would he have to gain blackmail? Maybe I told you
it was an accident. Sure, but maybe someone figured they
could scare you into believing Frank Victor was still alive.
How to kill you? You pay over enough money and
not on your life, Not my life, Debella's yours? Why
wait this long thirty years? I have to admit that
kind of stops me. You've been a big man in
the business world for a long time. Nobody ever have
any trouble locating. What are you intend doing first going
back to New York? Why? Oh, lots of little things,
mister Dellar. As long as I have taken you into
my confidents, someone took a shot at you. It might
happen again, and you might be dead. Now. If you
want me to prevent something like that, you just have
to trust me. My wife drove you here. Yes, then
you need a car take the station wagon. Well good,
be returning probably tomorrow, and you can stay at the
town appointment. I want to be in touch with you.
You might just as well take advantage of the empty
apartment at number one fourth Avenue. Yes, I know, I'll
see you tomorrow. I left without saying goodbye to the
rest of the family and drove the Bright news station
wagon back to town. I stopped off at the time
where I wandered to the Mors file for three or
four hours. I went back thirty years to find what
I was looking for, a small article dated Ashanti Africa
in nineteen twenty three. I didn't say much more than
what Jonathan Bellows had already told me. Had mentioned the
mind cave in an appending investigation into the death of
Frank Victor, Jonathan Bellow's a partner in In addition, dated
three weeks later, I found the account of the investigation
and a verified Bellow's story about the verdict that is right.
I left the newspaper and drove the number one Park Avenue,
where I received a royal greeting from the door man
informed me that mister Bellows had phoned to make sure
I had everything I needed in the apartment. I poured
myself a drink, took off my shoes, stretched out on
the sofa and put in a call to Roger Stern.
I want some information on the Bellows family passed in prison.
Sure find out where his other two wives are and
how long they've been there, and find out about a
professor Wilton Wilt, Yeah, Wilt, I think friend of Bellows
play chess with him. Also, i'll need a background on
all the servants.
Speaker 13: What do you want it?
Speaker 10: Pick it up tomorrow morning if you want to reach me,
I meant to wait a minute. Plaza five two oh
nine nine, number one, Park Avenue, How I wish you
were right. Apartment belongs to Bellows. Can you let me
use the station wagon too? I don't believe it. It's
my big blue eyes. I just batted them a couple
of times and two sure station wagon, Park Avenue apartment,
and it better be nice to me a couple of
more bats, and you might buy me my own insurance
company expens to count item two seven dollars and fifty cents. Dinner,
after which I returned to the apartment considered making a
few calls that might relieve alone. The evening, I referred
to my meager list of availables and was just about
to try my luck when the phone rang Johnny Dollar. Mister, yeah, I'd.
Speaker 13: Like you to take something up for me.
Speaker 10: I was just trying to do the same for myself.
Speaker 4: I'd like you to go.
Speaker 13: To ninety five each one hundred and eighth streets and
pick up.
Speaker 10: Yes, mister Bellas, big package for me, bring it right out.
Sure is anything wrong, mister Bella, nothing's wrong.
Speaker 13: Mister Dollars does pick up the package and bring it
right out to me.
Speaker 10: Well, sure, nine to fifty five East one hundred and
eighth Street.
Speaker 13: Yes, it's a bar at the bartender for the package.
Bring it right out.
Speaker 10: Okay, goodbye, it's de Bellos. Are you sure there isn't
something that's a bellos? That's a Bellos?
Speaker 11: H And now, with our star John Lund, we bring
you the second act of your truly Johnny Dollars.
Speaker 10: I went downstairs, climbed into the station wagon, and wielded
east to one hundred and eighth Street, where I located,
number nine to five five. It was a blue pheasant.
I parked and went in. I introduced myself to the
bartender and he gave me the package Fellows wanted. Then
I left and drove up state to the Bellows mansioned, hello,
what do you mean? Where's your husband?
Speaker 7: Then you showed the study was a little while ago.
Speaker 10: Are you going out?
Speaker 7: Yes? To see some friends?
Speaker 10: Where's row?
Speaker 7: What just after you this afternoon. Jonathan gave him a
pretty harsh scolding. Uh huh.
Speaker 10: Package for your husband called me about an hour and
a half ago, wanted me to pick it up.
Speaker 7: What is it?
Speaker 10: I don't know what. It's heavy.
Speaker 7: Well, i'll see ladies to do.
Speaker 10: Uh missus bellows. Yes, your husband's a healthy man, isn't it.
Speaker 7: Yes, of course?
Speaker 10: Why well, when I talked to him on the phone,
he sounded well, I don't know. It's strange.
Speaker 5: I just said good bye to a fine He played
the pond until about seven. I saw him right after that,
some fine man. There's nothing the matter with my husband.
Mister Dallas.
Speaker 10: H he's in the library. Huh, yes, I have a
good time.
Speaker 7: Oh, thank you bye.
Speaker 10: Yeah. Believing. Yeah, I thought you weren't coming back to
the tomorrow dollar what you said when you left, you
weren't coming back to tomorrow when I talked to you
on the phone to be on the phone. Yeah, when
you asked me to pick up his package? Package? Yeah
here from that bar. Oh, yes, the package. Give me
the package. What's wrong with you? Nothing's wrong? Just give
me the package. Very important. I've got to open it. Okay,
they're sure you're all right, mister Bellant. Well, well, mister Dollon, Oh, Ralph,
but you've gone out. Yeah, I just got in. I
was just calling a company doctor. Doctor, I think there's
something wrong with your father. What do you mean? He
called me about an hour and a half ago, told
me to pick up a package. I just brought it
into him and he acted like he never even phoned me. Well,
maybe he didn't, Maybe someone else. When he saw the package.
You seemed to know all about it. It was on.
It was as though I suddenly wasn't even in the room.
He took the package. Felt like the whole building was
coming down around my ears, Ralph when I was thrown
back against the wall. By the time we got up,
the library was a smoking black hole. Jonathan Bellows had
been blown the Kingdom come. It was a bomb, a
big one, flattered in the package I'd given him. I
called the police, and Ralph located Missus Bellows and I
jumped back into the station wagon and doubled the speed
limit getting back to town. The police would be busy
enough until I got back. I wanted to get hold
of that bartender would give me the package. By the
time I got to the Blue peasant. It was pretty
well filled with customers. But the bartender I was looking
for I wasn't in sight. Yeah, whereas the bartender was
working here earlier. You get up at eight? Where does
he live?
Speaker 7: What?
Speaker 10: I'm collecting addresses? Now? Where does he live? You collect?
Thats right? Collect white guys? Beat it. Look fram me
that bartender is mixed up in a killing, but murder.
He's a bad boy. You want to give me his address?
Or do I make a call and plug this place
with cops? You know when someone dies the hard way
and society frowned. Now, come on, what's his name? Where
did he live? Who? Oh? Phillips, five eight and fifty
seventh Street. Thanks even just wonderful. Look, I didn't know
as anything like murder. Honest, if I'd have known, I
wouldn't have given you any Please, please, I'm getting all
choked up. I drove across town to one hundred and
fifty seventh Street and found the five hundred and eighty
eight East, a big apartment house. Earl Phillips was registered
in four oh five. I gave him a few minutes
when I knocked my knuckles loose, then went and dug
up the landlady to have her open the door. She
was a dream about four years older than Grant's tomb.
For the gin disposition that would make a last weekend
seem like a Miami vacation, the type that should never
have been dug up.
Speaker 7: Honey, I got clinging to do.
Speaker 10: Look sweethearts, sweet shot, an expression of fun.
Speaker 15: Don't give me no work longer than one syllable cop.
You cops got badger, don't look like a badge to me.
Speaker 10: These are my adgers, John Johnny, I should have brought
up my glasses, Johnny Dollar insurance investigator. And sure, let
me explain, madam. I work with the police. I don't
sell policies. I'm an investigator. I investigating.
Speaker 15: Yeah yeah, well, supposed to tell me what you're investigating?
Speaker 10: Murder?
Speaker 15: Murder, mister Phillips.
Speaker 10: With the door open, we'll both know so much.
Speaker 7: Oh A.
Speaker 10: Turn on the lights, Oh my land, Yeah mine too.
Speaker 3: He sure is.
Speaker 10: Still warm.
Speaker 7: I'm not interrupted.
Speaker 10: I'm going to drink. Did you see him come in?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 10: Do you see anybody else come in?
Speaker 7: I've been in my apartment all afternoon. I'm going right
back there.
Speaker 13: Come here?
Speaker 7: Do I have to watch a war on the bedroom.
Why are we whispering for the other by answer.
Speaker 10: Methrooms under the hall? Please not what are we whispering for?
Speaker 7: Go down to the police and calls there.
Speaker 15: I got a good bar.
Speaker 10: Ernie Phillips, the bartender, give me the package with the bomb,
and it had been stabbed. At that there were several
drops of blood leading in the bedroom door. There was
a good chance to kill her. Had been surprised and
couldn't get out. I went to the door and tried
it as quietly as I couldn't cave and I kicked
it open. Were standing right by the door, and he
got a knife.
Speaker 3: We got.
Speaker 10: No. You should have listened to paper bad Yes, land
lady's after the police. You want to tell me about it?
S sure? Help me sit up all right?
Speaker 8: Thank you?
Speaker 10: As suppose you won the bellows call for that package
with a bomb. It was his voice. It was Bella.
I've known him for a number years. I was treating
him for his nurves. Do you know what I'm d now?
Years ago I worked in a connoy at the Carnival
card tricks, you know, magic hypnosis. I finally managed to
save enough and set myself up as a psychotherapist it
was arranged. I meet Bella's at the party, told him
I could help him. Actually I did help him. Simple
hypnosis turned out to be a good set up. Paid
me well. I had him on a I learned a
lot about.
Speaker 7: His businesses in his personal line.
Speaker 10: He told her about the shoddy affair. Yes, we decided
to make it look like blackmail. We that's Edith, missus Bella.
She was got in half of the estate and the
other half to row mister Della. I think I'm the
police should be here any minute, But it was Edith's idea.
I met her some time ago. She reigned the meeting
with Jonathan, he was hypnotized and he called me. Yes,
I left the bomb with her and the as a
bartender know him for a long time. He didn't know
anything about it, but he would have identified me as
the one who gave him the package. And Vella's was
hypnotized when I walked into the library with the package.
No post, if not a suggestion, told him when he
was given the package, you take it immediately openly. You
can hypnotize a man tell him to do something hours later,
when he's awakening, he'll do it. He did it didn't
he yeah, he certainly did. Well had they come and mean, uh, sirens,
can't you hear him? But I said sirens. That's how
I knew the police was professor. Professor, well, he wouldn't
have liked the sound anyway. Missus Bellows was arrested for
her share of the crime. And as you know, the
case comes up next week, and that's the way it
shapes up. They needed someone to be a witness to
the letter and hear the old man's story firsthand. And
I wound up the Petsy expense account item three hundred
forty one dollars and eighty cents hotel and incidentals while
I stayed in town, tying up the ends for the
law Item four twenty nine dollars and sixty five cents
mileage and incidentals between New York and Hartford expense account
total two hundred and eight dollars and sixty cents. Here's truly,
Johnny dollars. You know, many great men have attained the
highest office in our land, the presidency of the United States.
Can you guess the name of this man? The son
of a Baptist minister. He entered Union College that's connected
in New York at the age of fifteen. He was
the fourth vice president to become president through the death
of the chief executive. One of his first acts as
president was the signing of the Civil Service Act. The
Territory of Alaska was organized during his administration, and standard
time was adopted throughout the country. If you don't know
his name by now, here are two more clues. While
he was president, the American Federation of Labor was organized
and the Brooklyn Bridge was completed. Who was he? Chester
Allen author, Welcome back.
Speaker 1: Usually the PSAs are unrelated, but you noticed the first
PSA was about standard time, the second PSA was about
Chester A. Arthur, and they mentioned how standard time was
implemented during his administration. It all came together and makes
me feel like I should read up on Chester A.
Speaker 4: Arthur.
Speaker 1: In terms of the episode, Blake Edwards did a good
job flashing out the story and fitting it to Johnny Dollar.
I tend to think that a lot of the early
lunch stories that were recycled from elsewhere weren't properly set
to fit his characterization of Johnny Dollar, but here it
really is. Pitt's just right. I thought the change to
the scene where Johnny nearly walked out on Bellows was
really well handed, and Edwards did a good job of
making it fit with the way that an insurance investigator
would relate to an ensured I also liked how they
shortened the scene where Bellows was repeating the introduction like
some tape recording. It didn't speak well for Diamond that
he wasn't more alarmed by that. I think in this
case it was believable the degree to which Johnny was
concerned about it.
Speaker 7: There were a lot of.
Speaker 1: Portions near the end, when you were approaching the climactic
confrontation that were practically word for word from the Diamond episode,
but I think that was to be expected. It's note
that the only person who appear in both scripts was
Virginia Gregg, who played Helen, but wasn't part of the
main action in the Richard diamond An episode. Now let's
turn to the TV adaptation of the script for Peter Gunn.
Peter Gunn was a private eye series created by Blake
Edwards with an absolute banger of a theme by Henry Mancini.
It starred Craig Stevens as Gun and ran for three seasons.
This episode was the sixteenth episode of season two, the
Spell of Murder, and was released on January eleventh, nineteen sixty.
There are some great old time radio connections on this episode.
The director was Lamont Johnson, who had been an actor
during the Golden Age of radio and was one of
the many actors to play Archie good Win opposite Sidney
green Street's neural Wolf. Charles Calvert, who played Sergeant Tartaglia
on Broadways My Beat, played the role of the Bartender
and the Blake Edward. Their story was co adapted by
Tony Barrett, who of course was a noted old time
radio actor and actually played the son in the Yours
Truly Johnny Dollar script. Peter Gunn was not a series
that relied on narration, so you have a lot more
events happening on screen rather than being exposited. We actually
see the first shooting attempt, which is made really interesting
by the presence of a cat who gets nervous, spots
the shooter and runs to try to get out of
the way. And then the wife of Arnold Simpson, the
target of the attack, goes to Peter Gunn and asks
for his help, and she's talking to gun while his
girlfriend Eve sings at Mother's which was his out and
she's singing a great rendition of its wonderful I did
find a couple of points interesting in terms of showing
how even in eight years, times had change, and the
Richard Diamond episode, and in Diamond in general, he tended
to drop Helen from the conversation or runoff after whichever
female client came in the office without much regards for
what her feelings might be. However, in the TV version,
before gun leaves, he spends some time with ev sweet
talking her and being very kind about the fact that
he got called away to do this job. I do
think romance was a big part of Peter Gunn, but
it definitely speaks to a change in what the audience
would expect in the course of just a relatively short
period of time of eight years. The other thing that
was interesting is in the radio version, the detectives go
down in the car with the wife and then they
borrow a car with Johnny's. It was a station wagon
from the client. However, by the end of the nineteen
fifties and the early nineteen sixties, detectives became associated with
having really cool cars. In fact, Peter Gun's nineteen fifty nine,
Plymouth Fury landed on the fourteenth spot in Street Muscle
Magazine's list of the top fifty TV cars of all time. So,
as a general rule, Peter gun was not going to
be hitching a ride with somebody and then jumping behind
the wheel of a station wagon and a Street Musclemane
magazine also pointed out Plymouth was a sponsor of Peter
Gunn and Generic station Wagon was not a sponsor, so
Peter Gunn followed Missus Simpson to the address. Now, the
script makes a lot of changes in the TV episode,
and I don't want to labor all of them. I
think what the writers tried to do is take the
key elements of Blake Edward's story and create opportunities for
powerful visuals and solo dramatic moments. For example, they made
the mind incident more recent and had it happen only
fifty miles away, so Peter Gunn could investigate in his
rather stylish automobile rather than calling someone up on the phone.
And mostly I felt the episode was pretty effective. There
are some TV series from the nineteen fifties that I
feel are kind of rough visually and don't really take
advantage of the opportunities you have. But Peter Gunn was
one of the better TV programs when it came to
making the episode visually interesting and eye cashing and drawing
your attention. The only two things that I kind of
would have an issue with is I don't think the
scene where he got the bartender's address was as effective
as it was an either radio version. They did beef
up the climactic scene to make it more visually interesting
and dramatic. They had it raining outside and they had
their fight end up going on to the fire skate.
As a concept, it was great, and having the death
scene being the Professor lying dying on the pavement and
the rain as kind of a classic noir image. But
what I think we call the fight choreography between Peter
Gunn and the Professor was not great. But other than that,
it was an interesting TV episode and just as fascinating
to see how they took a story from nineteen fifty
two and nineteen fifty three and made it fit nicely
into a nineteen sixty detective TV series. Now, if you
do want to watch this episode of Peter Gunn, the
episode is the Spell of Murder from season two and
I watched it on Prime Video. However, Peter Gunn is
one of those series that, as of this recording date,
is distributed at a lot of places online. It is
available on both Pluto and tub if you don't have
Prime at least that's the availability.
Speaker 3: In the United States.
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Speaker 3: All right, Gregor?
Speaker 10: Where is she?
Speaker 3: What are you getting so excited about? What happened to us?
Is New York broad Daylight? What could happen?
Speaker 10: Look?
Speaker 19: Creg Hey, hold on on, my cod ain't going to
bring it back. If you really want to, all you
got to do is say the word.
Speaker 10: What's the word?
Speaker 3: Yes? Yes?
Speaker 7: What?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 10: You work for Bill Palmer? What are you talking about it?
Speaker 19: Did you read about this jerk Downy Bell getting himself
knocked off last night? Well, well the cops think of boss,
did it? Why did you try to reason with a cop? Yes,
you've been pretty successful. That's why Pama wants you to
work for him.
Speaker 12: Was it his idea to grab Louise?
Speaker 3: Who says anybody grab me? You jump the conclusion?
Speaker 10: All right? All right?
Speaker 3: When won't you be released in a minute? I get
your word, you go to work.
Speaker 10: How do you know I won't break it?
Speaker 19: That's what guys like us got the advantage of it.
Speaker 3: Guys like you, we trust you. I suppose I turn
up evidence to prove that your boss did kill Danny Bell,
and he deserves to.
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