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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho.

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This is your host, Adam Grant. We're going to be

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celebrating the fifteenth anniversary of our first regular run of episodes.

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In a moment, I'll talk briefly about how we got started,

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and then we'll welcome our sound producer, the incomparable Andrew Rhines,

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to provide his memories and feedback on the start of

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the program, and then we're going to present our first

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week of regular programming. So for Old Time Radio Detective Podcast,

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I'm going to offer my commentary on both the programs

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as well as the thoughts that I shared at the time.

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So first things first, very briefly, I've been hosting the

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Old Time Dragnet show since March two thousand and seven,

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and people kept suggesting other shows that I could do

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a podcast on, and I said no. For a long time,

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my thought was that while Dragnet had recognition in popular culture,

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a lot of these programs didn't, and you quickly run

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out of episodes before anyone would find it, and you

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actually be able to grow the podcasts. But then I

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came up with the idea of having a podcast where

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we would go through different detective programs from their first

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available episode to their final bow. I settled on a

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concept and we would start out every day Monday through Fridays.

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And in addition to myself, one other person was here

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right from the start. So we're as we're talking about

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this fifteenth anniversary, I'm joined now by Andrew Rhymes, who

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for fifteen years has been editing the has been editing

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the podcast. Andrew, glad to have you on once again.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, glad to be here.

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Speaker 1: So fifteen years ago, what do you remember about when

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we started doing this.

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Speaker 3: Well, we had just done the Dragnet series and that's

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kind of where everything started for me. And then you're like, hey,

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let's start a new series and do you mind editing it?

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And I'm like, yeah, let's go ahead and do it.

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So it was kind of a new adventure. We hadn't

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done detectives at all, and I was doing my Western

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so I was like, let's see what we get.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I actually, you know, I was reluctant to ask you

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because I knew it would be a lot of work,

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but you you just kind of volunteered when you found

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out I was doing it.

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Speaker 5: So I.

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Speaker 4: Appreciated that so so much.

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Speaker 1: And when we started out, we were kind of doing

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I remember we used to do like pretty low quality outputs,

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but that was still like AM quality radio, so it

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was it was still very staticky, very old radio style

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audio and is very compressed.

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, And that was mainly and I think you know,

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when we were first started out, it was concerns about

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things like you know, like I think me personally, I

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just left dial up, so I was sensitive to that.

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Speaker 3: Well, in story was horrible. I mean it was it

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was costing us a ton of money to to try

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to house all these files for people to download.

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Speaker 6: It was not cheap, that's for sure.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we were self hosting.

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Speaker 1: So uh though, you know, it's like, you know, now

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we've got everything, you know where they you know where

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it's it's just a much better situation for podcasters starting

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now where people have got these connections.

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Speaker 4: But those those were challenging.

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Speaker 6: Times to say the least.

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Speaker 1: Is yes, now, one thing because I think if people

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started listening to the podcast anytime after the first four

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weeks they they heard our theme, which is a little

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bit of Shostakovich. Uh, But that was not the original

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theme for Great Detectives, and I think I think we

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were using this on the old time drag Net show

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as well. We had we had a very different theme

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that people are going to hear.

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Speaker 7: Uh.

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Speaker 1: Could you tell us a little bit about that and

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why you selected that for the podcast.

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fit what we were getting into, right, so Box thirteen,

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Johnny Dollar. We were new we were going to do.

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the background. So it was just trying to find something.

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had to find something that wasn't going to cost us

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money and wasn't going to you know, DMCA strike us

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that was kind of upbeat, and this was very upbeat,

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and listening to re listening to it really makes you

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go back and go, yeah, that really doesn't fit, you know,

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now that we've been doing this for so long, it

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really didn't fit the detective genre in a hole.

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ways I think it's the right direction because uh, you know,

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tail end of uh Pat Novak for Hire, and this

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was performed for the A f R s that we

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more lighter than other than other classical artists. So it

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Speaker 6: Yeah, that's for sure.

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Speaker 1: Now, when you look across last fifteen years, was there

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any particular program or episodes set up that really sticks

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out to you as something that was particularly interesting to

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work on or edit?

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Speaker 3: Are yearly ones that we're doing because we do Christmas specials.

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part series. That's really lends itself to podcasting because we

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don't need to wait for four parts, we can just

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another and trying to find that happy medium of you know,

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seamless connection. So that way the listener doesn't even know

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where it began or where it started. So that's been

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the fun one. Dragonet's always good. I love Dragnet's probably

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may be lending to that. So yeah, for me, it's

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very very much. The multi series ones are always fun

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think that that's the good thing because

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guess it's interesting to say that probably everybody would edit

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them a little differently, and we might even edit them

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sound effect work into Dragnet, particularly those early episodes.

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back end, that's always nice too. And there are many

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them something that we would listen to nowadays is kind

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of a special thing for us because old time radio

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you know, putting it back out there for people to

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you put in over the past fifteen years, and we've

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we've put in some really interesting efforts and we're going

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to take a lesson to these programs now. Will start

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out with the first episode of Box thirteen and go

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from there. But Andrew, thank you so much for joining

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for joining me on this special anniversary episode.

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guys enjoy and you find it as interesting as we

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Speaker 1: Thanks Andrew well for our initial lineup. We had Box thirteen,

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Pat Novak for hire, Let George do It, Sherlock Holmes,

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and yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Now a note that we

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won't be hearing the Sherlock Holmes episode I played that

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first week, as I learned later that the episode had

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and starred Richard Gordon, but it was actually a very

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the best available sources that we have today in place

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of the older encode, So it's a bit of a remaster. First,

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we'll be Box thirteen. The only thing I'll note ahead

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of time is that at the time that I was

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first going through the series, I believe that Box thirteen

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it was a syndicated program, and the nature of syndicated

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series in old time radio research is that you often

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learn that another station somewhere started running the series earlier

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than your earliest record. In this case, later research showed

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that the first letter the episode we're about to play,

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first aired October seventeenth, nineteen forty seven. Now let's go

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ahead and listen to the very first regular episode of

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the series. Original release date October twenty six, two thousand

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and nine. Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time

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Radio from Boise, Idaho. This is your host, Adam Graham,

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coming to you with the first of our five weekly features.

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The way this podcast works is we have five detectives,

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one for each day of the week, and Monday it's

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going to be It's going to be Alan Ladd playing

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Dan Holiday, and so thus we can say every Monday

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Speaker 1: I've gone through and I've listened to four separate episodes.

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Speaker 2: I want to head and I listened to the.

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Speaker 1: First three, then I went and did one in the middle,

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just to make sure it kept up the quality, and

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it's outstanding. It's a very interesting premise because because Dan

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Holiday is very different from some of the other detectives

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we'll have on the show, the professional detectives, you know,

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Sherlock Holmes, Pat Novak for Hire, Johnny Dollar, George Valentine,

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these guys professionals.

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Speaker 2: They do it for the money.

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Speaker 1: He does it to get ideas for his novels, and

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he puts it in ad stating his willingness to go

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on in adventure, to do anything, to go anywhere, and

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figures at the end of the day he'll have a good,

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solid story idea given all the trouble he goes to.

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Some of us might suggest free writing, brainstorming, any other

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number of methods, but this is Dan Holliday's method and

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it works out to some great radio And really, I

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think you're gonna enjoy this. So we're gonna find out

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about the first letter he gets from Box thirteen let's

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go ahead and listen to the episode entitled, ironically enough,

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the First Letter, and then we'll be right back.

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Speaker 8: Box thirteen with a Star of Paramount Pictures Alan Ladd

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as Dan Holliday.

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Speaker 9: Box thirteen, Box thirteen, Box thirteen, Box thirteen Box.

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Speaker 10: Well, this is great rain, rain rain. I bet even

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the ducks wouldn't come out weather like this. But me,

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I'm an idiot. I gotta go and take up a

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profession like being a writer. I couldn't take up something easy,

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I can be out on nice, cold wet nights beating

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my brains out looking for an idea. IDA deadline, Oh sure,

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I mustn't forget that E eleven deadline. By the way,

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to make a living, I could have stayed a rape

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for her at the start times and had nice assilence

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like listening to political speeches. Are covering the opening of

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a new manhole. Oh no, but not me. I have

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to write fiction, do it the hard way. Well, I

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might as well take the usual hand, open the usual

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door to the usual place, and hear the usual cons.

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Speaker 11: I am mister Holiday copy covey boy.

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Speaker 12: Are you Dan?

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Speaker 10: What do you say, ed, Holiday a pretty good How.

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Speaker 13: Are you.

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Speaker 14: Hire you to Holiday?

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Speaker 10: Hello, Susie? Anything in Box thirteen?

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Speaker 8: Box thirteen starring Allen Ladd as Dan Holiday Now for

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Box thirteen starring Ellen Ladd as Dan Holiday.

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Speaker 10: What a character? I am standing here in front of

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the water edd countering a newspaper office while the rain

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runs down off my coat, collar, uner my shoe. Mister Holliday,

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I got to ruin my last pair of Huh, what's that, Susie?

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Speaker 14: I said? There's a message in box thirteen for you here?

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Speaker 10: Oh, thanks, Susie.

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Speaker 14: You'll mention it. Hey, aren't you going to open it?

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Speaker 10: Sorry? Not here, Susie.

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Speaker 14: You know you got all of us down here at

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the star. Time's awful? Curious? Mister Holiday running down?

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Speaker 10: Have I?

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Speaker 14: You've been running it for months? Why don't you change it?

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Speaker 10: Well? I haven't read it for so long I've forgotten

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the words. How's it go?

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Speaker 14: Don't you remember advent? You wanted? We'll go any place?

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Do anything? How about that?

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Speaker 10: I still like it?

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Speaker 14: You do a lot better with adventure if you ran

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your picture with the ad.

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Speaker 10: Oh thanks, Just keep on running it the way it is, Pattie.

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Speaker 14: Aren't you ever going to tell us what you do

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for a living? Why you keep running.

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Speaker 10: That ad, Susie, Same old question, same old answer. No, Well,

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if I'm not doing anything else, at least I've got

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the people at the Star Times curious. They think my

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brain cells. We're ten feet off first base. If they

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knew why I really run that ad, maybe they are.

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You can help a person out of great trouble and

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gain an adventure for yourself if you call Chester eight

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nine four five and ask for Carla Williams, Chester eight

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nine four five. Carla Williams sounds like an interesting name.

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Well that helps You's home? Hello, Oh, this is the

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man from box thirteen.

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Speaker 15: Tell me are you serious?

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Speaker 11: It was that ad?

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Speaker 15: Just a joke?

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Speaker 10: No joke, Miss Williams.

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Speaker 15: Are you willing to try anything?

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Speaker 10: Well, that depends what's on your mind.

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Speaker 15: I can't discuss it over the phone.

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Speaker 6: Will you meet me?

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Speaker 10: Of course, there's.

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Speaker 15: A little French restaurant down on led Street.

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Speaker 12: Meet me there in the cocktail lot.

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Speaker 10: Uh, what time make at ten o'clock to night?

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Speaker 15: Tell about and do you want to speak to Carla Williams.

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Speaker 10: French restaurant on Ledg's ten o'clock? Oh, my block number.

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Speaker 14: Six hundred block. You won't fail me.

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Speaker 10: You'll be there, lady. If it were a winter, I

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come with bells on. This sounds like the beginning of

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a very interesting story. Beautiful woman in distress calls on

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struggling writer for help. Only she doesn't know I'm a writer,

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and I don't know she's beautiful. What's yours, messa? Oh

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I'm I'm looking for a Carlo Williams.

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Speaker 16: Oh yeah, she's sitting over there in that front of booth.

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Speaker 10: Thanks. Uh, Carla Williams. Yes, oh, Carlo Williams could be

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material for a love story or an adventure story, or

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maybe both.

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Speaker 15: And do you have a name?

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Speaker 10: Oh? Yes, Dan Holliday.

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Speaker 9: I sit down.

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Speaker 10: Oh thanks.

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Speaker 17: I'm agreeably surprised. I didn't think a person would get

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such a satisfactory reply from a water.

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Speaker 10: Head, and I didn't think i'd get such a nice replier.

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Speaker 17: You're wondering about me, aren't you. You're wondering why you're

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here naturally. Well, I'm being blackmail.

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Speaker 10: That's a very nasty business.

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Speaker 17: I've been paying black mail for five years, but tonight's

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the end. I'm a medium in fifteen minutes and make

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the final payment and get the.

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Speaker 10: Letters well, that sounds like the end of your troubles.

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Speaker 18: But is it.

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Speaker 15: I can't be sure. That's why I need your help.

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Speaker 17: But what can I You can be there as a witness.

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You can make sure this is the end. You can

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see that I get the letters and get away safely.

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Speaker 10: Lady, you need the police.

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Speaker 17: Why to make sure everything I've kept hidden for five

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years comes out in the open.

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Speaker 10: Maybe a friend could do it.

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Speaker 15: My friends would be the last ones on earth. I'd

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want to know.

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Speaker 9: Are you afraid?

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Speaker 15: No, you advertised for adventure.

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Speaker 10: Blackmail isn't my idea of adventure.

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Speaker 15: I'm sorry if my trouble doesn't measure up to your expectations.

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The best I could do on such short notice.

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Speaker 10: Oh uh, well, I guess I had that coming.

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Speaker 15: Maybe this isn't your idea of adventure. But I do

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need help.

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Speaker 19: I need help badly.

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Speaker 15: Let's leave it at head now.

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Speaker 10: That might appeal to my early boy scout training.

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Speaker 15: Then you will.

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Speaker 10: I always help ladies across blackmail wraps what happens if

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your friend makes trouble.

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Speaker 18: We can't make any trouble.

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Speaker 10: He seems to have done all right for the past

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five years.

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Speaker 15: There won't be any trouble. If you're alone here, reach

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under the table.

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Speaker 12: Take this.

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Speaker 10: Oh, I'll wait a minute. It's a gun.

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Speaker 9: Put it in your pocket. Don't let anyone see it.

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Speaker 10: This is supposed to make everything all right, but you.

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Speaker 15: Won't need it.

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Speaker 12: Believe me.

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Speaker 15: I thought it would make you feel better.

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Speaker 10: It makes me feel like a policeman. And I still

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think a policeman is what you want. But you promised,

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I said, maybe I have.

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Speaker 15: To meet him in fifteen minutes. Please help me.

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Speaker 10: Where do we go? His apartment far from here.

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Speaker 15: We can make it if we leave.

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Speaker 6: Now, what do you say?

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Speaker 10: Maybe I should never have been a boy scout. I

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watched Carla Williams closely as we ride over to the

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apartment where she used to meet this man she's been

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talking about. She's perfectly groomed, with a certain niceness of

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her except for those twin furrows, a worry between her eyes,

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and a cold look of anxiety. I don't think I

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would like to have her angry at me, though.

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Speaker 15: That's funny. You should have been here twenty minutes ago.

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Speaker 10: Huh uh? Why don't you try to do her?

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Speaker 5: It was unlocked.

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Speaker 10: Might as well wait inside unless you have any objections.

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Speaker 20: Not at all.

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Speaker 15: There's a light switch on your right. The living room

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is straight ahead.

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Speaker 10: Say you sound like you're familiar with the place.

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Speaker 15: Why not, I've been here many times before.

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Speaker 10: There's a light on him there. Suppose he might have fallen.

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Speaker 15: Asleep waiting for his money hardly?

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Speaker 10: Well, yeah, this is more I like it. This spot

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is nicely furnished with my money.

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Speaker 15: At least we can sit down and make us it

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make us.

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Speaker 10: Oh no, that's Williams. What's the matter?

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Speaker 6: What happened the floor by the desk?

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Speaker 10: Look you stay here? Well, well you'd better call the police.

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He's dead dead. Yeah, he's been shot once through the heart.

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I'm glad he's the one, the man who was blackmailing.

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Speaker 17: Would you could you go through his pockets? He must

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have some of those letters with him. Look at his

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coat pocket.

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Speaker 10: Just a minimus, Williams. You don't understand. This man has

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been murdered. We've got to call the police.

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Speaker 11: Murdered.

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Speaker 19: What makes you so sure there's.

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Speaker 10: No gun around any place?

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Speaker 15: Just the same before the police come.

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Speaker 11: His pockets.

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Speaker 15: Please, I've got to have those letters.

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Speaker 10: Okay, but it isn't right at least what you wanted.

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Speaker 15: Let me see. Yeah, yeah, they're all here.

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Speaker 10: Now, where's a telephone. They've got to get the police

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up here and fast.

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Speaker 15: There's no phone.

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Speaker 10: No, how do you know without looking?

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Speaker 15: Listen, I told you I've been here before.

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Speaker 10: Oh yes, I forgot. I'll go downstairs as a paphone

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in the lobby. Tell the police's come up here right

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away and come back, and we wait for them.

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Speaker 15: You're not planning to leave rolling downstairs, are you?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 10: Here, here's a nickel. Just dialog and tell the operator

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you want the.

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Speaker 15: Police hurry, but you'll be here.

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Speaker 10: Carl I said, I wanted adventures, so I put an

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ad in a newspaper and I certainly found what I wanted.

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Only this isn't good. The man is lying dead on

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the floor of this apartment, and Carla Williams and I

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will have to get down to the police headquarters and

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answer a million questions, all of them embarrassing. I hope

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she's made the calls say that's funny. Why would there

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be a telephone director in a place where there's no phone?

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Or maybe there is one, of course right here in

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the hallway. Well know why she said there was no

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phone here? Maybe it's been disconnected.

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Speaker 14: M operator.

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Speaker 10: This is the Oh fine. I've written a dozen stories

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like this, and whenever I've reached this point, the hear

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always finds that he's been framed. M framed the gun,

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and I'm gonna look at that gun. I gotta find

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out if it's been fired. One shot has been fired,

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and the police surgeon will probably find a bullet from

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this gun in a dead man's body. The police seems

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like little color to care that.

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Speaker 12: Me.

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Speaker 10: I'm going to take care of something else. I'm leaving.

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Speaker 8: You are listening to Box thirteen starring Alan Ladd as

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Dan Holliday. Once again, Box thirteen starring Alan Ladd as

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Dan Holliday.

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Speaker 10: All right, now, I'm wishing I were half as smart

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as the heroes of some of my stories. I've got

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a murder, strange woman, a strange apartment, and a strange

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feeling that this might not work out to a happy ending.

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But I needed a cab, a quick flip home, a

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short drink, kind of long long think.

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Speaker 11: Sure is a rough night to be out?

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Speaker 10: Yeah, sure is.

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Speaker 11: I've never seen such rain.

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Speaker 10: Not so good.

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Speaker 11: That's a sure busy tonight.

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Speaker 10: Sounds like it.

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Speaker 11: I wonder who they're after.

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Speaker 10: I wouldn't have any idea. It could be a murderer,

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you know, yeah, it just could be.

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Speaker 11: Just to night for a murder.

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Speaker 10: Perfect.

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Speaker 11: I'll come.

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Speaker 12: You got so wet it's raining, I know, but i'll come.

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Speaker 10: My umbrella needs recovering.

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Speaker 11: Do you want to know? Many arms?

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Speaker 12: That's right, that's your building up ahead. But it looks

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like you've got lots of company.

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Speaker 10: What do you mean?

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Speaker 12: I as proud cause mister all over the place.

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Speaker 10: Oh, this is very nice. Carlo Williams called the police

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and must have mentioned my name in passing and the

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type of interesting young fella that any cop would like

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to meet, especially with a murder weapon in my pocket. Tonight,

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mister Holliday, I think you will sleep elsewhere.

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Speaker 11: I want me to pull right in where all them

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cops are.

477
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Speaker 10: No, they look busy, so maybe we'd better not bother them.

478
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Just keep on driving.

479
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Speaker 11: This is where you live in it.

480
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Speaker 10: I don't feel like going home tonight.

481
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Speaker 12: I could shove them cops aside, you know, Oh this

482
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is legitimate.

483
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Speaker 10: Heck that would be fun, but don't bother.

484
00:30:43,319 --> 00:30:45,359
Speaker 11: Yeah, the boss, mister where two?

485
00:30:47,319 --> 00:30:50,160
Speaker 10: There's a place down on Franklin Avenue sixteen twelve.

486
00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:53,920
Speaker 12: I think I know that place that's the cheapest hotel

487
00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:54,400
in town.

488
00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:56,240
Speaker 10: Yes, I believe it is.

489
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Speaker 12: Hey, how do you know about a place like that?

490
00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:02,319
Speaker 10: I got information there for a story, but.

491
00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:04,680
Speaker 12: A joint like that? What are you going there to

492
00:31:04,799 --> 00:31:09,079
night for to sleep? You're writing another story?

493
00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:15,039
Speaker 10: I'm living one, living one. Yes, I left my typewriter

494
00:31:15,119 --> 00:31:15,519
at home.

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Speaker 12: Well, mister Holiday, to what do we owe this great pleasure?

496
00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:33,079
Speaker 10: Maybe you're just lucky more research.

497
00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:34,440
Speaker 21: On the seamiest side of life.

498
00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:37,039
Speaker 10: Oh not tonight. I'm looking for a room.

499
00:31:37,279 --> 00:31:40,880
Speaker 21: A room, Might I remind you, mister Holiday, this ain't

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00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:41,880
the roney pleasure?

501
00:31:42,519 --> 00:31:43,319
Speaker 10: Have you got a room?

502
00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:45,839
Speaker 5: Any particular exposure you might like?

503
00:31:46,960 --> 00:31:47,599
Speaker 10: Less the better.

504
00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:50,839
Speaker 21: I'm sure we can fix you up, that is, if

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00:31:50,839 --> 00:31:53,880
you're willing to pay in advance, buck bucking, I have

506
00:31:54,039 --> 00:31:54,440
how much?

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Speaker 22: Twenty five dollars, mister Holiday.

508
00:31:57,759 --> 00:32:01,519
Speaker 10: Twenty five dollars, and if you commit the murder, it'll

509
00:32:01,559 --> 00:32:05,440
be fifty dollars. Mister Holiday, Come on, talk straight. I

510
00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:07,920
don't want any trouble with the police. What makes you

511
00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:09,319
think I'll cause you trouble with the police.

512
00:32:09,319 --> 00:32:12,079
Speaker 5: A little box called the radio police calls.

513
00:32:12,799 --> 00:32:14,160
Speaker 22: It's a lot of fun to listen.

514
00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:14,839
Speaker 5: To, mister Holiday.

515
00:32:15,519 --> 00:32:16,359
Speaker 10: Ah, I bet they are.

516
00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:20,119
Speaker 5: You'll be comfortable here and safe.

517
00:32:20,839 --> 00:32:22,960
Speaker 10: I'm beginning to wonder if I could afford it with

518
00:32:23,119 --> 00:32:27,680
your money. It don't make me laugh. I wasn't trying to.

519
00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:29,119
How's your phone?

520
00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:31,279
Speaker 22: The one on the wall across a nickel?

521
00:32:31,799 --> 00:32:33,839
Speaker 10: Thanks, you're staying.

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00:32:33,559 --> 00:32:52,960
Speaker 20: The night, mister Holiday.

523
00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:56,759
Speaker 10: Hello you got back then?

524
00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:57,559
Speaker 5: Hurry you?

525
00:32:58,119 --> 00:33:02,519
Speaker 10: Where are you still in time? What about the police?

526
00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:03,119
Stay with you?

527
00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:04,160
Speaker 12: What do you think?

528
00:33:05,359 --> 00:33:07,480
Speaker 10: Thanks for putting in a good word for me to.

529
00:33:07,599 --> 00:33:09,440
Speaker 15: They made me look at I want to talk to you.

530
00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:12,640
Speaker 10: I know that feeling. I want to talk to you too.

531
00:33:12,839 --> 00:33:14,440
Speaker 15: I can explain everything.

532
00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:17,039
Speaker 10: Like a gun with one bullet fire. Yes, I'm missing telephone.

533
00:33:17,039 --> 00:33:21,680
There wasn't that too, And you're just a little girl

534
00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:22,079
I want to.

535
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Speaker 6: Have words with Can you come over here right away?

536
00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:27,960
Speaker 10: The police there, that's right, name the police. I'll meet

537
00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:31,000
you the corner of sixth and Victor. Ten minutes right.

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Speaker 21: Follow me, mister Holiday, hour too, your room. This ain't

539
00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:39,880
the Roney Plaza. But this service is.

540
00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:41,720
Speaker 10: Just to say I've changed my mind.

541
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Speaker 13: You know it's staying.

542
00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:46,160
Speaker 10: Your rates are too high. I'll drop in again after

543
00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:53,079
I made a fortune. Now I know how the fox

544
00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:57,039
feels when the hounds are closing in. Someday I'll have

545
00:33:57,039 --> 00:33:59,759
to write a story about a fox. Put that guy

546
00:34:00,079 --> 00:34:01,920
urges and is Peter Rabbit out of business?

547
00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:10,719
Speaker 11: Hey, cab, oht you again?

548
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:12,400
Speaker 10: Yeah? I get around, don't I?

549
00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:13,719
Speaker 11: I thought you were set for the night?

550
00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:16,559
Speaker 10: No running ice water, Sixth and Victor.

551
00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:22,719
Speaker 12: Where'd you say you wanted to go?

552
00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:24,599
Speaker 10: Sixth and Victor.

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00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:26,519
Speaker 11: There ain't no place to sleep there.

554
00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:30,239
Speaker 10: I'm not sleepy. I just want to examine a fire hydrant.

555
00:34:30,559 --> 00:34:33,960
Speaker 12: Okay, mister, I'm glad that your money you're not mine.

556
00:34:35,039 --> 00:34:36,800
Speaker 10: If we keep on, it will be your money.

557
00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:38,599
Speaker 11: Yeah, that's pretty good.

558
00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:42,400
Speaker 10: Yeah, say is that the night's extra lying up there?

559
00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:43,039
Speaker 13: Sure?

560
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Speaker 11: I want to take a look at it.

561
00:34:44,719 --> 00:34:44,840
Speaker 15: Oh.

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Speaker 10: Thanks.

563
00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:48,159
Speaker 12: That picture they got of you on the front page

564
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is lousy.

565
00:34:49,440 --> 00:34:50,880
Speaker 10: What picture you look like?

566
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Speaker 12: He was facing the camera through a screen door.

567
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Speaker 10: He let me see that. Well, well, well, this is

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your wonderful prominent writer named by police. Carlo Williams accuses

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Dana Holiday of the murder of Harry Granger, grief stricken girl,

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witnessed the murder of fiance and nice going conor. It's

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00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:17,880
your word against mine, plus the evidence against me. Now

572
00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:20,320
I know why they wrote that song I get along

573
00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:21,679
without you very well.

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Speaker 11: Well, there's sixth Victor.

575
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Speaker 10: Cruise on by.

576
00:35:28,639 --> 00:35:29,400
Speaker 11: Are you going to stop?

577
00:35:29,840 --> 00:35:31,000
Speaker 10: I haven't made up my mind.

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00:35:31,480 --> 00:35:34,159
Speaker 12: There's like a couple of cops waiting around for somebody.

579
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Speaker 10: That's the way it looks to me.

580
00:35:36,519 --> 00:35:37,719
Speaker 11: That might be the law.

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00:35:39,079 --> 00:35:40,159
Speaker 10: Yes, they might be.

582
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Speaker 12: What do you want to do?

583
00:35:41,440 --> 00:35:41,719
Speaker 11: Now?

584
00:35:42,480 --> 00:35:45,360
Speaker 10: Get away from here and find a city directory. A

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chat by the name of Harry Granger should have a home,

586
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and he should have stayed in it. I'm either just

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ahead of the police or right behind them, and if

588
00:35:59,840 --> 00:36:02,400
this gang keeps up much longer, I'll be riding with him.

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Speaker 23: Yeah, oh, Harry Grangually he did, you're the police?

590
00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:10,519
Speaker 10: Well no, not exactly a reporter. I used to be.

591
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Speaker 21: Come here you.

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Speaker 12: I wonder if you're one of them blackmailers.

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00:36:15,639 --> 00:36:18,239
Speaker 10: Just a minute, friend, my coat rips eazy.

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00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:22,280
Speaker 12: No, I guess not. If you were, you wouldn't be here.

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Speaker 10: Mind if I step in, come.

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Speaker 12: In, come in this whole thing. Get me all upset.

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Speaker 10: You don't say, oh, you said something about a blackmailer.

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Speaker 12: That's what I'm here for. I came to help Harry

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get rid of those rats.

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Speaker 10: You mean he was being blackmail for five years.

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Speaker 23: I lent him most of the money to pay off

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with I told him he was a sucker. But it

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00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:46,440
looks like I got here too late. You heard what

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happened starred in the papers. On my way from the station,

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they told the police not yet, but.

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Speaker 12: I'm going to Who did you say you were?

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Speaker 10: I didn't say you know something about this? I think

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I do. And now I began to see the light

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when the city directory listed this place's ranger's apartment?

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Speaker 11: Can I help?

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Speaker 10: Am I getting the trouble breaking into a woman's apartment?

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00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:20,239
After this, I'll use a fire escape and more of

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my stories are the most interesting things about a building

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from homicide. Will be out in the hall, seeing that

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no one comes in here. I have to work fast holiday.

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00:37:32,079 --> 00:37:34,239
You'll have to find something that the police weren't looking for.

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00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:41,440
There must be something tells letters cards, that's no good

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00:37:41,480 --> 00:37:44,320
look for the obvious. That that's what I always have

619
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my hero doing. Let's see what's the obvious or the

620
00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:53,039
living room now, let's see that's where the body was.

621
00:37:53,199 --> 00:38:06,159
Nothing obvious there on the desk, now the table, fireplace? Hello, Hello, Hello,

622
00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:11,199
a small frame snapshot, and I think it might be

623
00:38:11,599 --> 00:38:17,440
just what I'm looking for my old friend, the bartender,

624
00:38:18,360 --> 00:38:22,760
Karla Williams. And with your arms around each other, you

625
00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:25,559
know you two make a nice couple, of wonderful couple.

626
00:38:26,480 --> 00:38:28,840
I wonder if to let you have your arms around

627
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each other in the electric chair.

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Speaker 8: You are listening to Box thirteen, starring Allen Ladd as

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Dan Holliday.

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Speaker 10: Well, I finally made it. I'm down at police headquarters

631
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in the office of a tall gangly care to name,

632
00:39:00,480 --> 00:39:05,280
Lieutenant Kling. Of course, a few things have happened. Carlin

633
00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:09,000
and the Bartender were brought in two so much cooler

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00:39:09,039 --> 00:39:12,880
than I am. Oh, those cell bars give you such

635
00:39:13,119 --> 00:39:17,719
fine ventilation. Holiday. What's that, Lieutenant?

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Speaker 16: I said you were a very lucky citizen. After what

637
00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:23,199
Carla Williams told us, we thought you were guilty.

638
00:39:23,119 --> 00:39:25,199
Speaker 10: I should have told me that story to believe it myself.

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Approving that she and the bartender were married, put a

640
00:39:27,920 --> 00:39:29,480
crimp in her act as the injured fiance.

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Speaker 16: Yeah, you showed it up as the same old record.

642
00:39:32,360 --> 00:39:35,360
Smart woman teams up with smart man, the blackmail innocent citizens,

643
00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:38,239
just the same. I think you should stick to your

644
00:39:38,239 --> 00:39:39,800
writing and let police work alone.

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00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:42,679
Speaker 10: Lieutenant. I'll have that printed and framed in blonde walnut

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hanging on the wall. No around my neck.

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Speaker 16: I'm glad to hear you say that you may not

648
00:39:48,920 --> 00:39:50,920
always have a guy like this grant who backed up

649
00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:51,440
your story.

650
00:39:51,920 --> 00:39:54,639
Speaker 10: Oh grangerous friend that's still say he's a nice fella.

651
00:39:55,519 --> 00:39:58,239
Wants me to visit him on his ranch. Why don't

652
00:39:58,239 --> 00:40:01,320
you do that the range all day when I could

653
00:40:01,360 --> 00:40:02,519
be cooking in tom.

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00:40:03,480 --> 00:40:09,599
Speaker 16: Pardon me, homicide retentacling. Oh yes, yes, he's here, see

655
00:40:09,639 --> 00:40:10,199
you Holiday.

656
00:40:10,480 --> 00:40:13,400
Speaker 10: Oh thanks, Hello, mister Holiday.

657
00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:14,239
Speaker 14: This is Susie.

658
00:40:14,559 --> 00:40:15,760
Speaker 10: Yes, Susie, can you.

659
00:40:15,679 --> 00:40:17,239
Speaker 14: Come down this good town's right away?

660
00:40:17,639 --> 00:40:18,599
Speaker 10: Oh what's the matter.

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Speaker 14: There's another letter for you in box thirteen.

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00:40:21,679 --> 00:40:24,760
Speaker 10: Oh no, no, no, Should I open it and read

663
00:40:24,800 --> 00:40:27,760
it to you? Oh not now, Susie. I've got enough

664
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material to last me for a month, three weeks of

665
00:40:30,719 --> 00:40:31,599
which will be a rest.

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00:40:32,039 --> 00:40:35,800
Speaker 14: Tell me where maybe I can come down and help you.

667
00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:37,559
Speaker 10: You really want to help me?

668
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:39,480
Speaker 14: Sure I do, mister Holiday.

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Speaker 10: Then put that letter back in box thirteen.

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00:40:43,559 --> 00:40:45,880
Speaker 14: But mister Holiday, good.

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00:40:45,719 --> 00:40:46,639
Speaker 10: Night, Susie.

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Speaker 8: Next week, same time. Ellen ladds dars as Dan Holiday

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in box thirteen. Alan Ladd appears through the courtesy of

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Paralnetec Shures and may Card Lay Be Seen and Wild

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high List.

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Speaker 11: Box thirteen is.

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Speaker 8: Written and directed by Ted Hedeger. Original music composed and

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conducted by Rudy Scheger. This is a Mayfair production.

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Speaker 1: Welcome Back.

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Speaker 2: What was an ending like that to the episode? You

681
00:41:31,119 --> 00:41:34,280
will have? You would expect if this were a movie for.

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Speaker 1: Dan Holiday to have learned his lesson about seeking out

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adventure in the classifieds. Now not so obviously, because if

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that were the case, we wouldn't have made this the

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first series.

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Speaker 2: But this is in so many ways.

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Speaker 1: This was such a well crafted, well put together episode.

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Really a lot of adventures, a lot of twist and turns.

689
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This really tells some of the great things we're gonna

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see from this series. So we'll be back next Monday

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with another Holiday episode of Box thirteen. Check out the

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show notes side Great detectives dot Net. Got any comments,

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Feel free to email me Box thirteen at Great Detectives

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dot Net. From Boise, Idaho, this is your host, Adam

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Graham signing.

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Speaker 4: Off Welcome Back.

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Speaker 1: One thing I won't do is be super critical of

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my past self. Sometimes I've heard content creators go back

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and listen to themselves or watch themselves and voice some

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very harsh criticisms, and it comes off to me as

701
00:42:44,639 --> 00:42:48,199
either trying to suggest how great they are now or

702
00:42:48,360 --> 00:42:53,239
trying to silence potential criticism of their passwords and actions.

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This makes me a bit uncomfortable because it either comes

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off as trying to pre rebut criticism.

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Speaker 4: Or trying to be like, I'm so awesome.

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Speaker 1: I think this can also be discouraging for new creators

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who might listen or watch. So I want to be

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more measured and more reasonable in what I say now.

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You might compare my pacing back then am I pacing now?

710
00:43:17,280 --> 00:43:20,519
And ask were you on something back then? Because I

711
00:43:20,719 --> 00:43:24,360
was talking so fast. Well, I was drinking a lot

712
00:43:24,400 --> 00:43:29,000
more coke zero hardly get that anymore unless I go

713
00:43:29,039 --> 00:43:32,000
to a restaurant. What you hear there is a little

714
00:43:32,039 --> 00:43:35,239
bit of nervousness because I was starting a daily podcast

715
00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:38,440
and had never done that before, didn't know where this

716
00:43:38,679 --> 00:43:41,960
was going to go. And also a whole lot of excitement.

717
00:43:42,440 --> 00:43:45,679
And one thing I tend to do by default is

718
00:43:45,719 --> 00:43:47,440
when I'm excited.

719
00:43:47,039 --> 00:43:49,840
Speaker 4: I talk really fast. I have to learn to.

720
00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:50,440
Speaker 6: Rain that in.

721
00:43:50,760 --> 00:43:54,440
Speaker 1: So I expressed myself better. But let me say how

722
00:43:54,480 --> 00:43:59,480
incredibly excited I was. I had stumbled down a rabbit

723
00:43:59,599 --> 00:44:04,280
hole discovered all of these radio detective programs existed that

724
00:44:04,440 --> 00:44:07,800
I never knew about, and I wanted to share them

725
00:44:07,800 --> 00:44:12,119
with everyone and tell everyone just how great they all were.

726
00:44:12,440 --> 00:44:13,679
Speaker 4: And I also.

727
00:44:13,519 --> 00:44:16,440
Speaker 1: Wanted to listen to as many as I could. I

728
00:44:16,480 --> 00:44:20,320
do want to comment on the opening theme, and it's

729
00:44:20,480 --> 00:44:25,639
definitely a great piece of music. It's really energetic, exciting

730
00:44:26,119 --> 00:44:29,440
and whimsical. It didn't quite fit what we would go

731
00:44:29,519 --> 00:44:32,760
for in the end, but I do like it. I'll

732
00:44:32,800 --> 00:44:37,119
admit that I didn't have a whole lot of context,

733
00:44:38,239 --> 00:44:41,119
which is why my commentary is a bit limited at

734
00:44:41,159 --> 00:44:44,400
the end. For example, when I first heard Box thirteen,

735
00:44:45,280 --> 00:44:49,440
I didn't know anything about Alan Ladd. I'd never seen

736
00:44:49,559 --> 00:44:52,599
his films or seen him in anything at all. I

737
00:44:52,679 --> 00:44:59,559
also didn't fully grasp that he owned Mayfair Productions and

738
00:44:59,719 --> 00:45:03,519
was a actively self producing and syndicating this series. He

739
00:45:03,559 --> 00:45:06,360
had been cast in a lot of tough guy goals

740
00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:10,000
as somewhat a moral characters and things like this Gun

741
00:45:10,079 --> 00:45:14,360
for Hire or the Glass Key, so this was not

742
00:45:14,480 --> 00:45:18,360
only a money making proposition for him. This was a

743
00:45:18,440 --> 00:45:23,599
way to show listeners a different side of his acting

744
00:45:23,719 --> 00:45:29,760
ability and show him playing a much more unambiguously heroic character,

745
00:45:30,159 --> 00:45:34,079
while also showing some complexity as the series ran on.

746
00:45:34,599 --> 00:45:39,800
As for this particular episode, I still enjoyed it, but

747
00:45:39,880 --> 00:45:43,000
my praise is a bit more measured. I loved the

748
00:45:43,159 --> 00:45:46,440
concept back in two thousand and nine, and I was

749
00:45:46,559 --> 00:45:51,800
dazzled by the episodes I'd listened to. But today this

750
00:45:51,960 --> 00:45:56,480
feels a lot like a pilot or an audition, perhaps

751
00:45:56,519 --> 00:46:01,920
for investors for Mayfair Production or for stations. They were

752
00:46:01,960 --> 00:46:05,719
interested in selling the series too, and it went from

753
00:46:05,760 --> 00:46:09,000
being an audition to them just going ahead and making

754
00:46:09,039 --> 00:46:11,039
it the first episode of the series.

755
00:46:11,239 --> 00:46:13,840
Speaker 4: There are definitely some rough.

756
00:46:13,719 --> 00:46:14,280
Speaker 2: Edges to this.

757
00:46:14,880 --> 00:46:19,320
Speaker 1: I will say that I love that Box thirteen whisper

758
00:46:19,360 --> 00:46:22,320
at the start of the episode. It was a really

759
00:46:22,440 --> 00:46:26,000
nice touch. Now there are some series that did something

760
00:46:26,840 --> 00:46:31,679
a little bit similar, but with harsher masculine voices announcing

761
00:46:31,679 --> 00:46:35,519
the titles, such as Nightbeat and the first two episodes

762
00:46:35,519 --> 00:46:38,519
of Dragnet. The way they did it here with a

763
00:46:38,719 --> 00:46:42,119
softer voice and then the sort of fade out is

764
00:46:42,199 --> 00:46:46,199
really just a nice way to open the episode and

765
00:46:46,320 --> 00:46:50,239
draw you in. The introduction of Dan Holiday, on the

766
00:46:50,280 --> 00:46:54,840
other hand, seems an odd creative choice. You know how

767
00:46:54,880 --> 00:46:59,039
we should introduce our hero, have him why about his

768
00:46:59,320 --> 00:47:02,840
lot in life for a solid minute. And some of

769
00:47:02,880 --> 00:47:08,440
his complaints are odd. For example, he's bemoaning deadlines and

770
00:47:08,519 --> 00:47:11,159
suggesting he should have stuck to being a reporter.

771
00:47:11,760 --> 00:47:12,000
Speaker 2: Ah.

772
00:47:12,079 --> 00:47:16,199
Speaker 1: Yes, newspaper reporters, a profession not known for having to

773
00:47:16,239 --> 00:47:20,119
deal with deadlines. And the whole basis of the complaint

774
00:47:20,440 --> 00:47:23,679
that starts the whole thing is that he's upset about

775
00:47:23,760 --> 00:47:28,800
being in the awful weather. Here's the thing. Inclement weather

776
00:47:29,079 --> 00:47:35,199
is not typically a hazard of writing mysteries. He's out

777
00:47:35,199 --> 00:47:38,440
in this awful we because he got up and decided

778
00:47:38,480 --> 00:47:40,559
today was the day to go out in the rain

779
00:47:41,000 --> 00:47:43,840
and check the po box. It has nothing to do

780
00:47:43,920 --> 00:47:48,000
with him being a writer, except maybe tangentially. Then there's

781
00:47:48,039 --> 00:47:50,920
also a bit of inconsistency in the story as to

782
00:47:50,960 --> 00:47:55,280
holiday status. For example, he describes himself as a struggling

783
00:47:55,400 --> 00:47:59,800
writer who's using box thirteen to find plots. Yet he

784
00:48:00,239 --> 00:48:03,840
references having a deadline, which suggests someone has given him

785
00:48:03,880 --> 00:48:07,440
a contract for a book. So did his publisher sign

786
00:48:07,519 --> 00:48:10,599
off on the whole Box thirteen? And he's got in advance,

787
00:48:10,639 --> 00:48:12,519
but he's got to come up with a story soon,

788
00:48:13,039 --> 00:48:16,119
and then the newspaper calls him a prominent writer when

789
00:48:16,119 --> 00:48:19,239
he's wanted for murder, though it'll be fair that could

790
00:48:19,239 --> 00:48:22,000
be just a matter of the paper puffing him up

791
00:48:22,079 --> 00:48:26,000
in order to sell papers. These aren't huge details, but

792
00:48:26,079 --> 00:48:28,639
these are the things you notice after a few times

793
00:48:28,639 --> 00:48:31,719
of listening to an episode that show that there are

794
00:48:31,800 --> 00:48:36,280
many aspects of Dan Holiday's work in life that haven't

795
00:48:36,320 --> 00:48:39,840
been thought out in future episodes. Most of these wouldn't

796
00:48:39,840 --> 00:48:43,559
really be resolved, but they also wouldn't be addressed or

797
00:48:44,119 --> 00:48:48,519
brought up in ways that were inconsistent or confusing. Once

798
00:48:48,559 --> 00:48:53,559
the story gets going, it does work, and it is entertaining,

799
00:48:53,840 --> 00:48:56,719
and there are some nice twists, although it does feel

800
00:48:56,760 --> 00:49:00,960
like the mystery gets resolved a bit quickly and maybe

801
00:49:00,960 --> 00:49:04,880
a bit easily, because they spend so much time establishing

802
00:49:04,920 --> 00:49:08,000
the concept. The one thing that was kind of weird

803
00:49:08,039 --> 00:49:11,599
in this episode is that the Cabby found out Dan

804
00:49:11,719 --> 00:49:15,840
Holiday was wanted by the police, but helped him anyway,

805
00:49:16,079 --> 00:49:19,559
and there's never a good reason given as to why

806
00:49:19,599 --> 00:49:20,079
he did that.

807
00:49:20,559 --> 00:49:21,480
Speaker 4: It is also.

808
00:49:21,400 --> 00:49:27,000
Speaker 1: Worth noting that Box thirteen did another story where a

809
00:49:27,119 --> 00:49:31,719
letter to Box thirteen ends up with Dan being wanted

810
00:49:31,719 --> 00:49:35,440
by the police for murder. It's an episode called Hare

811
00:49:35,559 --> 00:49:38,079
and Hounds, and it's actually one of my favorites of

812
00:49:38,119 --> 00:49:40,840
the series, and it's a better story over all than

813
00:49:40,880 --> 00:49:43,440
this because it doesn't have to spend so much time

814
00:49:44,159 --> 00:49:47,559
establishing the concept or having Dan complain.

815
00:49:47,280 --> 00:49:51,000
Speaker 4: About the weather. Despite my complaints, I think that.

816
00:49:50,960 --> 00:49:55,960
Speaker 1: This episode does do a good job in getting Dan

817
00:49:56,039 --> 00:50:00,440
Holiday going in the right direction for where lads wanting

818
00:50:00,480 --> 00:50:04,119
to take his image. The boy scout ideal is a

819
00:50:04,119 --> 00:50:07,920
good representation of the character. He's a bit too naive

820
00:50:08,000 --> 00:50:11,760
in this episode. Holiday wouldn't be so easily fooled in

821
00:50:11,800 --> 00:50:14,679
the future. He'd be fooled in the future, just not

822
00:50:14,920 --> 00:50:19,400
that easily. The ending remark about Susie as a sort

823
00:50:19,400 --> 00:50:23,079
of flat out no is a bit ironic because he

824
00:50:23,119 --> 00:50:26,239
would end up hiring Susie as his secretary in the

825
00:50:26,360 --> 00:50:30,360
fourth episode. This would be great for pacing, so they

826
00:50:30,360 --> 00:50:32,960
didn't have to take up time in the story every

827
00:50:33,000 --> 00:50:35,960
episode by having Dan go down to the newspaper office

828
00:50:36,239 --> 00:50:39,480
to get the letter from Box thirteen. Susie would do

829
00:50:39,559 --> 00:50:42,840
that off air and still be able to do their

830
00:50:42,880 --> 00:50:46,480
little bit of banter. Another thing I'll note here is

831
00:50:46,679 --> 00:50:49,519
I mentioned the number of episodes i'd listen to of

832
00:50:49,679 --> 00:50:53,159
Box thirteen, and I really did have that as a

833
00:50:53,199 --> 00:50:57,880
bit of a standard practice when I was considering and

834
00:50:58,000 --> 00:51:01,840
evaluating whether a series would work for the podcast. The

835
00:51:01,920 --> 00:51:04,639
episode number might be a bit lower if I was

836
00:51:04,800 --> 00:51:08,440
dealing with the series that had less episodes in circulation,

837
00:51:09,079 --> 00:51:14,320
and I would typically listen to tective series I hadn't

838
00:51:14,360 --> 00:51:19,079
played or weren't coming up anytime soon in rotation, so

839
00:51:19,199 --> 00:51:23,920
I might listen to a couple episodes of Boston Black In,

840
00:51:24,119 --> 00:51:28,760
a couple episodes of Broadways my beat in Casey Crime Photographer.

841
00:51:29,440 --> 00:51:33,079
But I like the idea of not listening to all

842
00:51:33,159 --> 00:51:37,000
of the episodes of a series until we were listening

843
00:51:37,079 --> 00:51:39,800
to them together on the podcast, because then I would

844
00:51:39,840 --> 00:51:42,960
come at it a bit fresher and with not a

845
00:51:43,000 --> 00:51:46,880
whole lot of preconceived ideas about the episode. And I

846
00:51:47,000 --> 00:51:49,480
try to do that as much as possible, though some

847
00:51:49,639 --> 00:51:52,400
of the shorter and even mid range series I didn't

848
00:51:52,400 --> 00:51:55,400
get through all of the episodes before I ended up

849
00:51:55,440 --> 00:51:58,320
playing them. Now, let's go ahead and move on to

850
00:51:58,559 --> 00:52:02,679
our second episodead This is Pat Novac for Hire. The

851
00:52:02,760 --> 00:52:06,760
original release date October twenty seventh, two thousand and nine,

852
00:52:13,719 --> 00:52:18,159
our second show in the series, Pat Novak for Hire. Now,

853
00:52:18,280 --> 00:52:23,800
I'll make a confession, I actually planned on going through

854
00:52:23,960 --> 00:52:29,920
each series in a five times a week marathon. So

855
00:52:30,000 --> 00:52:34,079
thus we go through let George do it all two

856
00:52:34,119 --> 00:52:37,599
hundred plus episodes in existence, and we go through Sherlock

857
00:52:37,679 --> 00:52:42,159
Holmes and we just do every single episode. Then I

858
00:52:43,000 --> 00:52:47,239
working through this series give me the picture that if

859
00:52:47,280 --> 00:52:51,880
I just went with Pat Novak, even for the limited

860
00:52:51,920 --> 00:52:55,679
time that this series was in existence, and so therefore

861
00:52:55,719 --> 00:52:58,840
the limited number of episodes I ended up getting, I

862
00:52:59,000 --> 00:53:01,800
might not have anybody listening by the time we got

863
00:53:01,840 --> 00:53:05,840
through the end, because it can be a little bit of.

864
00:53:05,800 --> 00:53:07,480
Speaker 2: A different series.

865
00:53:07,719 --> 00:53:10,840
Speaker 1: But the big thing that occurred to me, particularly when

866
00:53:10,880 --> 00:53:13,719
you think about some of the bigger series, was that

867
00:53:13,800 --> 00:53:16,159
it made a lot more sense.

868
00:53:18,079 --> 00:53:19,519
Speaker 2: To go ahead and to do.

869
00:53:21,599 --> 00:53:25,960
Speaker 1: For to do five different detectives so people get some variety,

870
00:53:26,480 --> 00:53:28,719
but they also get some consistency so they know what

871
00:53:28,719 --> 00:53:33,440
they're expecting. Unfortunately, what this meant is we had to

872
00:53:33,559 --> 00:53:37,519
go ahead and redo a lot of the intros and outros.

873
00:53:37,519 --> 00:53:40,559
So we're redoing the intros and outros because they reference

874
00:53:41,039 --> 00:53:43,400
we'll see you tomorrow when you're not going to get

875
00:53:43,440 --> 00:53:48,719
another episode of Pat Novac to next Tuesday. So, buddy,

876
00:53:48,920 --> 00:53:53,079
it's a series I actually like, this is actually this

877
00:53:53,159 --> 00:53:58,079
is Pat Novacs first, I mean, not Pat Novac, but

878
00:53:58,239 --> 00:54:03,039
this is Jack Webb's first serious series as a detective,

879
00:54:03,519 --> 00:54:08,760
coming on at age twenty six to begin the role

880
00:54:09,039 --> 00:54:15,000
of Pat Novak. And in many ways this is incredible,

881
00:54:15,119 --> 00:54:18,480
just in terms of in terms of the dialogue that

882
00:54:19,320 --> 00:54:24,840
this series is some of the most incredible dialogue for

883
00:54:25,039 --> 00:54:28,719
good or for ill that that you'll hear anywhere. This series,

884
00:54:28,840 --> 00:54:33,519
written by Richard Breen, star Jack Webb as pant Novac,

885
00:54:34,400 --> 00:54:41,000
began to originated from San Francisco on KFO. So this

886
00:54:41,000 --> 00:54:44,159
this is a This is the very first this is

887
00:54:44,199 --> 00:54:49,719
the only San Francisco originating episode of Pat Novack we

888
00:54:49,840 --> 00:54:55,760
actually have featuring Jack web anyway, so this is a

889
00:54:55,880 --> 00:54:58,320
very special episode. We're going to get into it without

890
00:54:58,360 --> 00:55:04,079
any further Ado. Let's go ahead and get into tonight's episode,

891
00:55:04,639 --> 00:55:06,880
Go Away, Di Sigillion.

892
00:55:07,800 --> 00:55:24,480
Speaker 24: Gallon Caps Present Cap Pat Novak, four Hire.

893
00:55:18,159 --> 00:55:23,639
Speaker 25: Lostic Shoe into Chicago, Mad with Lovely Suit, Cooker rules

894
00:55:23,719 --> 00:55:27,440
from vallencashead.

895
00:55:26,920 --> 00:55:30,199
Speaker 24: Four miles to a gallon cap, Yes, gallon caps. The

896
00:55:30,239 --> 00:55:33,440
family Shoe Stars with the Yellow Fronts, the largest shoe

897
00:55:33,480 --> 00:55:36,199
chain in the West, with stores from Canada to Mexico

898
00:55:36,400 --> 00:55:37,280
to serve the West.

899
00:55:37,760 --> 00:55:38,760
Speaker 11: G A. L. L. E.

900
00:55:38,920 --> 00:55:44,960
Speaker 24: N KA MTS Gallon Caps present Pat Novak four hire.

901
00:56:04,639 --> 00:56:20,360
Speaker 5: Sure. I'm Pat Novak for hire. That's what the sign

902
00:56:20,360 --> 00:56:23,559
out in front of my office says. Pat Novak for Hire.

903
00:56:24,440 --> 00:56:26,559
Down on the water front in San Francisco, you always

904
00:56:26,559 --> 00:56:28,880
bite off more than you can chew. It's tough on

905
00:56:28,920 --> 00:56:32,159
your windpipe, but you don't go hungry down here. A

906
00:56:32,199 --> 00:56:33,880
lot of people figure it's better to be a fat

907
00:56:33,920 --> 00:56:36,119
guy in a graveyard than a thin guy in a stew.

908
00:56:36,719 --> 00:56:39,719
That way you can be sure of a tight fit. Oh,

909
00:56:39,760 --> 00:56:42,039
I rent boats and do anything else that makes a

910
00:56:42,159 --> 00:56:45,159
sound like money. It works out all right, if your

911
00:56:45,159 --> 00:56:47,440
mother doesn't mind you coming home for Christmas in a box.

912
00:56:48,400 --> 00:56:51,239
I found that out Wednesday night, about nine o'clock. I

913
00:56:51,280 --> 00:56:53,880
closed the shop early, and I came home to read. Oh,

914
00:56:53,920 --> 00:56:56,320
it wasn't a bad book. If you ever wanted to

915
00:56:56,320 --> 00:56:59,280
start a forest fire was one of those historical things.

916
00:56:59,320 --> 00:57:02,039
And the girl in it was just getting her second

917
00:57:02,039 --> 00:57:04,000
wind and her third man when the door of my

918
00:57:04,039 --> 00:57:07,360
apartment opened and the place began to get crowded. From

919
00:57:07,360 --> 00:57:10,159
where I sat, the crowd looked good. She sought her in,

920
00:57:10,440 --> 00:57:12,599
moving slowly from side to side like one hundred and

921
00:57:12,639 --> 00:57:16,239
eighteen pounds of warm smoke. Her voice was all right too.

922
00:57:16,880 --> 00:57:19,360
It reminded you of a furnace full of marshmallows.

923
00:57:19,400 --> 00:57:20,000
Speaker 9: Good evening.

924
00:57:20,559 --> 00:57:21,679
Speaker 5: Yeah, thanks for knocking.

925
00:57:21,880 --> 00:57:24,239
Speaker 9: I don't think you mind my coming in without warning.

926
00:57:24,360 --> 00:57:26,800
Speaker 5: No, I get the cabbage smell from next door the

927
00:57:26,840 --> 00:57:27,400
same way.

928
00:57:27,559 --> 00:57:28,719
Speaker 9: Does it pay to be that for light?

929
00:57:28,800 --> 00:57:31,920
Speaker 5: Miss Novak saves you the trouble of saying, please, what's

930
00:57:31,920 --> 00:57:32,480
on your mind?

931
00:57:32,679 --> 00:57:34,960
Speaker 9: That bottle in front of you? Would you pour me

932
00:57:35,000 --> 00:57:35,400
a drink?

933
00:57:35,519 --> 00:57:38,039
Speaker 5: No, you'll save dough if you look up a bartender.

934
00:57:38,400 --> 00:57:41,199
Speaker 9: All right, I came to use you instead of your whiskey.

935
00:57:41,239 --> 00:57:42,239
Speaker 5: Anyway, talk.

936
00:57:42,960 --> 00:57:45,800
Speaker 9: My name is Lee Underwood. I'll give you three hundred

937
00:57:45,800 --> 00:57:48,079
dollars to do something for me. It'll only take an hour.

938
00:57:48,199 --> 00:57:50,639
Speaker 5: That's too much dough unless it's murder. Then if it

939
00:57:50,679 --> 00:57:51,760
is murther, it's not enough dough.

940
00:57:51,840 --> 00:57:52,599
Speaker 9: Are you afraid?

941
00:57:53,239 --> 00:57:55,480
Speaker 5: I just don't like paid murder. I told you, when

942
00:57:55,519 --> 00:57:57,360
you get caught, the pain gets expensive.

943
00:57:57,440 --> 00:58:00,599
Speaker 9: If it were murder, I'd do it myself mister Novak,

944
00:58:00,639 --> 00:58:02,320
I want you to frighten someone for me.

945
00:58:02,559 --> 00:58:04,480
Speaker 5: Why don't you hire a friend? Are they too pretty?

946
00:58:04,639 --> 00:58:07,199
Speaker 9: It's a man named Dixie Gideon. You'll find him in

947
00:58:07,239 --> 00:58:10,360
an office down on Pulson Street at this address. I

948
00:58:10,440 --> 00:58:11,639
promise nothing will happen to you.

949
00:58:11,760 --> 00:58:13,159
Speaker 5: That's what they told Billy Khns.

950
00:58:13,199 --> 00:58:16,000
Speaker 9: He'll be in this office until eleven tonight. I want

951
00:58:16,039 --> 00:58:18,320
you to go in and see. Tell him you're from Adrian,

952
00:58:18,760 --> 00:58:20,480
that he's to get out of town by tomorrow noon.

953
00:58:20,760 --> 00:58:22,239
Speaker 5: I suppose he wants to put it off.

954
00:58:22,280 --> 00:58:24,920
Speaker 9: He won't. Don't let him know who hired you. Just

955
00:58:24,920 --> 00:58:28,679
tell him. Adrian said to lead, Yeah, you better go home.

956
00:58:29,039 --> 00:58:31,360
Speaker 5: For three hundred bucks, I won't buy a tissue paper

957
00:58:31,400 --> 00:58:33,639
plat not tell me more or say goodbye.

958
00:58:34,000 --> 00:58:36,159
Speaker 9: There's not much more I can tell you except there

959
00:58:36,199 --> 00:58:38,880
won't be any trouble. He's a rotten little beast and

960
00:58:38,920 --> 00:58:42,280
I want him frightened badly. Why he's been bothering my sister?

961
00:58:42,559 --> 00:58:45,800
Why does he bother you because I bothered back too fast?

962
00:58:46,719 --> 00:58:48,199
Do you want the three hundreds to know that?

963
00:58:49,079 --> 00:58:51,360
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's going to be a long winter. Put it

964
00:58:51,360 --> 00:58:51,679
on the.

965
00:58:51,599 --> 00:58:54,880
Speaker 9: Table good, and you'll need this too, no, you keep it.

966
00:58:54,880 --> 00:58:55,519
Speaker 5: I don't want a gun.

967
00:58:55,639 --> 00:58:59,719
Speaker 9: It's empty. Don't worry, see no shells. It's perfectly safe.

968
00:59:00,320 --> 00:59:02,280
Speaker 5: I got a nasty disposition. You can lit that for

969
00:59:02,320 --> 00:59:04,079
three hundred bucks. But if you want more, find a

970
00:59:04,119 --> 00:59:05,679
gun sel or an off duty copper.

971
00:59:05,960 --> 00:59:07,519
Speaker 9: I don't want you to be a gunsle That's why

972
00:59:07,519 --> 00:59:09,719
I want you to use this gun. I know it's empty.

973
00:59:10,079 --> 00:59:12,559
If you use it on Dixie, he'll scare fast. It's

974
00:59:12,639 --> 00:59:13,800
just a way to save some breath.

975
00:59:13,880 --> 00:59:17,199
Speaker 5: All right, it's your three hundred You better go now. Yeah,

976
00:59:17,320 --> 00:59:21,079
where do I get a cotd? If your doorbell rings?

977
00:59:21,079 --> 00:59:21,920
Don't play mouse?

978
00:59:22,159 --> 00:59:22,519
Speaker 9: Oh?

979
00:59:22,519 --> 00:59:24,320
Speaker 5: Because I may look you up?

980
00:59:24,639 --> 00:59:25,880
Speaker 9: Am I too young to ask?

981
00:59:25,960 --> 00:59:26,280
Speaker 11: Quaws?

982
00:59:26,320 --> 00:59:28,679
Speaker 5: Because if anything goes wrong, I'll be around looking for

983
00:59:28,719 --> 00:59:31,079
you from there on. It won't be nice. I'll didd

984
00:59:31,199 --> 00:59:32,800
you up like a locker room towel.

985
00:59:32,760 --> 00:59:35,519
Speaker 9: Me relaxed, Patsy, He'll never land a fall in love

986
00:59:35,559 --> 00:59:40,760
that way.

987
00:59:42,159 --> 00:59:44,280
Speaker 5: She handed me the gun and walked out of my apartment.

988
00:59:44,760 --> 00:59:47,440
Seeing her leave made you feel like Frank Buck losing

989
00:59:47,440 --> 00:59:50,519
an argument. She walked with a nice, easy swing of

990
00:59:50,519 --> 00:59:53,039
a satisfied leopard, and for a small leopard, she had

991
00:59:53,079 --> 00:59:55,559
pretty good spots too. I put the gun in my

992
00:59:55,599 --> 00:59:58,440
overcoat pocket and I went down to Folsome Street. The

993
00:59:58,480 --> 01:00:00,519
address was down near the bridge entrance, and the street

994
01:00:00,519 --> 01:00:02,320
was deserted except for a couple of whinos near the

995
01:00:02,320 --> 01:00:04,480
corner trying to buy back nineteen twenty six of the

996
01:00:04,519 --> 01:00:07,119
dollar a jug. I stopped in front of the place.

997
01:00:07,119 --> 01:00:09,559
It was a machinery company. I could see a light

998
01:00:09,639 --> 01:00:12,480
burning in the bank. I began to walk through the place.

999
01:00:12,719 --> 01:00:14,480
It was so quiet you could hear a worm with

1000
01:00:14,559 --> 01:00:16,599
hooping cough, and they run enough shadows around to keep

1001
01:00:16,599 --> 01:00:19,239
a ghost happy for years. When I got to the

1002
01:00:19,239 --> 01:00:21,760
office back in the corner, through the glass, I could

1003
01:00:21,800 --> 01:00:24,199
see a man sitting at the desk. When I opened

1004
01:00:24,239 --> 01:00:27,159
the door and walked in, he didn't seem surprised.

1005
01:00:28,079 --> 01:00:31,800
Speaker 26: Come on in, mister bad noise. Yeah that's right. You

1006
01:00:31,880 --> 01:00:33,239
make too much for a thief or not enough for

1007
01:00:33,280 --> 01:00:34,880
a customer. What do you want about ten words?

1008
01:00:34,920 --> 01:00:36,880
Speaker 5: If you're Dixie Gillion, go ahead, you better look up

1009
01:00:36,920 --> 01:00:37,480
a timetable.

1010
01:00:37,519 --> 01:00:40,519
Speaker 26: What makes you that tough this? Why do you look

1011
01:00:40,559 --> 01:00:42,159
toughing with the gun? Does it make you talk faster?

1012
01:00:42,199 --> 01:00:44,599
Speaker 5: I'm going to say it's slow, mister, Pack up your robbers.

1013
01:00:44,599 --> 01:00:45,039
And get out.

1014
01:00:45,119 --> 01:00:46,480
Speaker 6: Is that you talking to somebody else.

1015
01:00:46,480 --> 01:00:48,400
Speaker 5: I'm just the guy with a gun. Adrian does the

1016
01:00:48,440 --> 01:00:50,760
talking and he says, get out. That's right. You've got

1017
01:00:50,760 --> 01:00:52,239
the whole message now, all right?

1018
01:00:52,320 --> 01:00:54,000
Speaker 26: You told me so, wan are out and spent it,

1019
01:00:54,079 --> 01:00:55,840
though I will. You'll need part of it though, because

1020
01:00:55,840 --> 01:00:57,599
I'm going to give you an ask for Adrian. I've

1021
01:00:57,639 --> 01:00:59,320
got to take that gun away from you. Mister, you

1022
01:00:59,360 --> 01:01:00,800
can pick the peace is out of your head on

1023
01:01:00,800 --> 01:01:01,199
the way home.

1024
01:01:01,239 --> 01:01:02,800
Speaker 5: You better stand back or I'll show it with you.

1025
01:01:02,800 --> 01:01:03,880
You got your offer, mister.

1026
01:01:04,280 --> 01:01:05,400
Speaker 6: Let's see you make good here.

1027
01:01:05,639 --> 01:01:13,719
Speaker 5: Save your muscle. When you save your muscles the contemptish See,

1028
01:01:13,800 --> 01:01:18,679
somebody fools sometimes can get a home run with a

1029
01:01:18,679 --> 01:01:21,519
half swing. That's the way it was. This time. He

1030
01:01:21,519 --> 01:01:23,639
couldn't have made it with a prayer book in both hands.

1031
01:01:24,280 --> 01:01:26,159
He slid down to the floor and trembled for a moment,

1032
01:01:26,199 --> 01:01:27,840
and then flattened out like a leaf in a pool

1033
01:01:27,840 --> 01:01:30,599
of water. Just before he died, he grabbed his side

1034
01:01:30,639 --> 01:01:32,119
as if he didn't like the way it hurt, and

1035
01:01:32,159 --> 01:01:34,679
then he didn't care. I rolled him on his back

1036
01:01:34,679 --> 01:01:36,519
and let him look at the ceiling. His eyes were

1037
01:01:36,559 --> 01:01:38,760
open and he looked surprised, like a guy who didn't

1038
01:01:38,800 --> 01:01:40,960
figure on a chains in the weather. There was a

1039
01:01:40,960 --> 01:01:43,079
scar that ran across his forehead and dug deep into

1040
01:01:43,079 --> 01:01:45,639
his hairline, and he was lying there with a bunch

1041
01:01:45,679 --> 01:01:47,239
of pink gums, showing as if he was trying to

1042
01:01:47,239 --> 01:01:50,000
pick up a few bucks with a toothpaste. Add I

1043
01:01:50,000 --> 01:01:51,920
didn't have time to tell him how sorry I was,

1044
01:01:52,199 --> 01:01:54,239
because if homicide caught me here, I'd have about as

1045
01:01:54,320 --> 01:01:56,920
much chance as a canary and a basement full of cats.

1046
01:01:57,360 --> 01:02:00,480
I started for the door right then. Who I could

1047
01:02:00,519 --> 01:02:04,800
start ordering bird seed? It was Hellman, and he walked

1048
01:02:04,800 --> 01:02:11,880
over to have a look at the body. Hello, Novak,

1049
01:02:12,480 --> 01:02:15,159
The guy looks embarrassed. Yeah, I guess he is Helman.

1050
01:02:15,199 --> 01:02:17,760
What's it going dead putting in a beef somewhere? I

1051
01:02:17,800 --> 01:02:20,079
guess he rates it. He'll like you for that, Novak.

1052
01:02:20,760 --> 01:02:23,199
How did it happen? A team play? We worked it

1053
01:02:23,239 --> 01:02:27,079
out together. But you've got the gun, that's right, I

1054
01:02:27,119 --> 01:02:30,800
got the gun. You feel like a bet. No, just

1055
01:02:30,920 --> 01:02:33,960
keep stealing the old way. You know how I feel, Novak? Yeah,

1056
01:02:34,000 --> 01:02:36,480
you feel flabby to anybody else but yourself. I suppose

1057
01:02:36,519 --> 01:02:38,840
you feel good now. Look I walked in here with

1058
01:02:38,880 --> 01:02:40,599
a gun. There was some quick fight talk and I

1059
01:02:40,679 --> 01:02:42,159
killed him. But it's still not a good rap. I

1060
01:02:42,199 --> 01:02:43,840
can get a long price on it for you, Nova,

1061
01:02:43,880 --> 01:02:45,360
I'll bet you can. Helman, you can give me a

1062
01:02:45,360 --> 01:02:46,880
bad deal. But part of the time it'll be from

1063
01:02:46,880 --> 01:02:48,719
the other side of the deck. Worse than that, Novak.

1064
01:02:48,920 --> 01:02:50,679
It'll be all the time, And I want to watch

1065
01:02:50,679 --> 01:02:52,119
it because I think you're going to be a cribate.

1066
01:02:52,239 --> 01:02:53,960
I'm gonna screen if that's what you mean, Heilman. I'm

1067
01:02:53,960 --> 01:02:55,519
gonna screen about a gall that sent me in here

1068
01:02:55,519 --> 01:02:57,199
with an empty gun. That's a big hole for a

1069
01:02:57,280 --> 01:02:57,880
cat pistol.

1070
01:02:57,880 --> 01:02:58,199
Speaker 10: Novak.

1071
01:02:58,239 --> 01:03:01,440
Speaker 5: I got a last minute curve. It was fifty once. Yeah,

1072
01:03:01,519 --> 01:03:03,320
that's the only way to make a gun. No back.

1073
01:03:04,239 --> 01:03:05,719
I don't want you for an hour ago. I want

1074
01:03:05,719 --> 01:03:07,239
to put this dead guy on the floor, all right,

1075
01:03:07,280 --> 01:03:08,679
all right, I told you I didn't come in here

1076
01:03:08,679 --> 01:03:10,119
to kill the guy. I don't know him. He may

1077
01:03:10,119 --> 01:03:13,480
even be a good guy. I'm sorry he's dead, all right, Nova,

1078
01:03:13,519 --> 01:03:15,719
I just wait a few weeks and you can tell

1079
01:03:15,800 --> 01:03:25,719
him personally. Hellman had me up against the rail and

1080
01:03:25,719 --> 01:03:28,400
he knew it. When he left there. He was wearing

1081
01:03:28,440 --> 01:03:31,079
a big toothy smile that was big enough to sow

1082
01:03:31,079 --> 01:03:33,639
in his ears. He called the corner and he told

1083
01:03:33,719 --> 01:03:35,679
him to pick up the stiff, and then we rode downtown.

1084
01:03:36,239 --> 01:03:38,239
He got the gun into ballistics and he hauled me

1085
01:03:38,239 --> 01:03:41,000
into his office. The reporters were there. He gave him

1086
01:03:41,000 --> 01:03:43,079
the whole story and told him how to spell Helman.

1087
01:03:44,039 --> 01:03:45,400
After that, we wound up at the desk and he

1088
01:03:45,440 --> 01:03:48,199
booked me on suspicion of murder. The next hour and

1089
01:03:48,239 --> 01:03:49,880
a half of the kind of stuff they don't write

1090
01:03:49,920 --> 01:03:53,559
about in the paper. They call it interrogation. When you're finished,

1091
01:03:53,559 --> 01:03:55,519
you've been through a lot of tight spots, like a

1092
01:03:55,519 --> 01:03:58,639
piece of bubblegum and a set of false teeth. About

1093
01:03:58,679 --> 01:04:01,079
eleven o'clock, Hellman brought me in officer. From there on,

1094
01:04:01,239 --> 01:04:03,360
it happened kind of fast. I just talked to the DA.

1095
01:04:03,559 --> 01:04:06,000
He's gonna streamline things for you, but he's gonna look funny.

1096
01:04:06,000 --> 01:04:07,840
I want to trial on the guy. You can't identify it.

1097
01:04:07,880 --> 01:04:10,000
I won't pressure. I don't have to know that. I've

1098
01:04:10,000 --> 01:04:13,039
got the only party I need you, the dead guy

1099
01:04:13,039 --> 01:04:19,599
in a big fat murder gun. Yeah, yeah, Helman Parking, Yeah,

1100
01:04:19,639 --> 01:04:22,920
I know it was a thirty eight, that crazy down

1101
01:04:22,920 --> 01:04:24,920
in ballistics. I saw him standing over the dead guy.

1102
01:04:26,239 --> 01:04:29,280
It must have made a mistake, that's all. No, I

1103
01:04:29,280 --> 01:04:31,079
don't want him in here. I don't want him in here.

1104
01:04:31,119 --> 01:04:34,800
Speaker 27: Hey, Tony, Tony, you're getting pale.

1105
01:04:34,880 --> 01:04:38,639
Speaker 5: You need some more ruge, Helmet, I got some bad news,

1106
01:04:38,679 --> 01:04:41,119
inspect Well keep it or you'll take more home to

1107
01:04:41,119 --> 01:04:43,559
your wife. I'll talk to you later. Now, talk to him, no, Helman,

1108
01:04:43,639 --> 01:04:45,559
if the bullet doesn't match the gun, talk to him now.

1109
01:04:45,800 --> 01:04:48,800
Speaker 28: That's right, Inspector, thirty eight bullet, but it won't match

1110
01:04:48,840 --> 01:04:49,760
the gun you brought in.

1111
01:04:49,960 --> 01:04:52,159
Speaker 5: It's got a match. I came in and found him

1112
01:04:52,199 --> 01:04:54,199
standing there. He admits it.

1113
01:04:54,199 --> 01:04:54,960
Speaker 6: It's a neat trick.

1114
01:04:55,039 --> 01:04:56,960
Speaker 28: Then if you fired the bullet out of that gun,

1115
01:04:57,079 --> 01:04:58,760
he retold it in mid air and.

1116
01:04:58,840 --> 01:05:01,280
Speaker 5: Let that fast. Helman. Get out of that chair, so

1117
01:05:01,320 --> 01:05:03,559
you'll have room to square. You'll keep still mobile. Oh

1118
01:05:03,599 --> 01:05:05,960
I won't, Bobby. I'm going home. I'm walking out of

1119
01:05:05,960 --> 01:05:08,519
your jail. Helmet. You've got a broken down thirty eighth

1120
01:05:08,519 --> 01:05:10,480
that won't get anything but your thumbs. You can't hold

1121
01:05:10,519 --> 01:05:12,119
me on that. I've found you over the butt. I

1122
01:05:12,119 --> 01:05:13,920
can hold you on suspicion of much, but it'll hurt

1123
01:05:13,920 --> 01:05:16,320
tomorrow morning, helmet, the papers will be down here for

1124
01:05:16,360 --> 01:05:18,039
a follow up, and you'll have to tell them what

1125
01:05:18,079 --> 01:05:20,039
it looks like out in left field. I'll handle them.

1126
01:05:20,119 --> 01:05:21,800
You can't afford to let them start laughing at you.

1127
01:05:21,800 --> 01:05:23,400
If people will get the idea at your face, you

1128
01:05:23,440 --> 01:05:26,159
can save coff if you stay right here, because I'll

1129
01:05:26,199 --> 01:05:28,480
have you back by known tomorrow. You'll let that good helmet.

1130
01:05:28,559 --> 01:05:30,480
You couldn't hold them mark with a searchlight. The town

1131
01:05:30,559 --> 01:05:32,719
ot a thank you. Oh it's a nice jail helmet,

1132
01:05:32,760 --> 01:05:38,440
and with you around, it'll last for years.

1133
01:05:41,639 --> 01:05:49,280
Speaker 24: Well, they turned the pope mobick in a moment. You're

1134
01:05:49,320 --> 01:05:52,119
gonna put extra warmth and comfort in your Christmas wishes

1135
01:05:52,159 --> 01:05:52,519
this year.

1136
01:05:53,000 --> 01:05:53,559
Speaker 5: How do I know?

1137
01:05:53,960 --> 01:05:57,159
Speaker 24: Well, because I've seen the Gallon Camp Christmas gift slipper collection.

1138
01:05:57,639 --> 01:06:00,360
You know everybody's talking about it as the gas lightest

1139
01:06:00,400 --> 01:06:03,559
ideal on the gift shopping horizon. When you visit your

1140
01:06:03,559 --> 01:06:07,199
neighborhood Gallon Camp store, then you'll know why. There you'll

1141
01:06:07,199 --> 01:06:10,920
find slippers for every member of the family, soft and cuddly,

1142
01:06:10,960 --> 01:06:15,239
warm ski capers, persist, handsome and broader Chinese slippers for mom,

1143
01:06:15,719 --> 01:06:19,360
warm sheeraling lined opera slippers for brother, and good looking

1144
01:06:19,519 --> 01:06:23,760
smooth kid opera slippers for Dad's fireside loafing. Yes, and

1145
01:06:23,840 --> 01:06:27,920
they are appealingly soft and gorgeously colored. Cheering scuffs to

1146
01:06:27,960 --> 01:06:30,760
delight the heart of any young lady from sixteen to

1147
01:06:30,840 --> 01:06:32,840
sixty and slippers for.

1148
01:06:32,920 --> 01:06:33,840
Speaker 5: The little nippers.

1149
01:06:34,199 --> 01:06:39,880
Speaker 24: All are irresistibly comfortable, good looking, and irresistibly Gallon Camp price.

1150
01:06:40,599 --> 01:06:41,880
Speaker 6: Go to Gallon Camps the.

1151
01:06:41,880 --> 01:06:44,880
Speaker 24: Store with a yellow front near you to buy Christmas

1152
01:06:44,920 --> 01:06:48,880
gift slippers that'll say Merry Christmas in a heartwarming way

1153
01:06:49,400 --> 01:06:53,400
if more smiles with a Gallon Camp slipper gift.

1154
01:06:58,239 --> 01:06:59,960
Speaker 13: An all back to Pat Novak.

1155
01:07:04,480 --> 01:07:06,559
Speaker 5: When I walked out a headquarters, I had a nice

1156
01:07:06,639 --> 01:07:08,920
mess to juggle. Was like trying to walk the baby

1157
01:07:08,920 --> 01:07:11,719
on a floor full of marbles. If things didn't matterup

1158
01:07:11,760 --> 01:07:14,320
for hellman, they weren't doing any better for me. I

1159
01:07:14,400 --> 01:07:16,880
knew the gun I had went off. If it did,

1160
01:07:16,920 --> 01:07:18,960
what happened to the bullet? Where did the other one

1161
01:07:19,000 --> 01:07:22,559
come from? Why weren't there two shots? Oh? I couldn't

1162
01:07:22,559 --> 01:07:24,639
put my finger on a thing, and nothing added up.

1163
01:07:24,679 --> 01:07:27,199
It was like trying to follow a grain of rice

1164
01:07:27,239 --> 01:07:30,559
in a Shanghai suburb. I looked up Lee Underwoods address,

1165
01:07:30,559 --> 01:07:33,079
and I went by her apartment. A girl downstairs told

1166
01:07:33,079 --> 01:07:34,760
me she worked at the nightclub out in the Bay

1167
01:07:34,800 --> 01:07:38,159
Shore Highway, and I had a couple of places to hit,

1168
01:07:38,239 --> 01:07:39,880
so I looked up the only honest guy I know,

1169
01:07:40,960 --> 01:07:42,440
an next doctor and a boozer by the name of

1170
01:07:42,519 --> 01:07:45,119
Jack o' madigan, a good man until he began to

1171
01:07:45,159 --> 01:07:46,960
figure the last drink in a bottle is just as

1172
01:07:46,960 --> 01:07:48,079
easy to get as the first.

1173
01:07:48,960 --> 01:07:49,159
Speaker 10: Well.

1174
01:07:49,199 --> 01:07:51,440
Speaker 5: I found him in a little leather trim sink on

1175
01:07:51,519 --> 01:07:54,480
Powell Street with a grimy little hole where they washed

1176
01:07:54,480 --> 01:07:57,159
the glasses once a week in stale beer. But Jocko

1177
01:07:57,280 --> 01:08:00,400
was more at home than a vulture in Calcutta.

1178
01:08:01,159 --> 01:08:05,000
Speaker 27: Uh, Petsy, Or just in time to celebrate my return

1179
01:08:05,039 --> 01:08:09,480
to health, something mild from mister Novak a double stinger.

1180
01:08:09,840 --> 01:08:11,400
Speaker 5: Forget a Jucko, I gotta talk to him.

1181
01:08:11,320 --> 01:08:14,559
Speaker 27: Petsy, I've just passed through a crisis. A few minutes ago.

1182
01:08:14,639 --> 01:08:17,800
They set before me a glass with a woman's lipstick.

1183
01:08:17,399 --> 01:08:19,199
Speaker 13: All around the rim, or a jackal.

1184
01:08:19,239 --> 01:08:21,399
Speaker 27: I took one galp and looked at the glass, and

1185
01:08:21,479 --> 01:08:23,760
in this dim light, I thought I was bleeding to

1186
01:08:23,800 --> 01:08:27,479
get the bleeding to death. It took them ten minutes

1187
01:08:27,520 --> 01:08:29,159
and three mirrors to calm.

1188
01:08:28,960 --> 01:08:31,039
Speaker 5: Me down, JACKO, I'm in trouble. You gotta help me.

1189
01:08:31,119 --> 01:08:33,960
Speaker 13: No, but they washed the glass for me and in ammonia.

1190
01:08:34,439 --> 01:08:36,520
Speaker 27: They must have left a little ammonia in the glass,

1191
01:08:36,560 --> 01:08:39,319
because the next drink had a very odd tang about it.

1192
01:08:39,840 --> 01:08:42,560
I've had three more just like it, a sort of

1193
01:08:42,560 --> 01:08:45,880
ammonia colling. All right, All so far they've been using

1194
01:08:45,880 --> 01:08:49,039
domestic ammonia. When the important stuff comes in, I may

1195
01:08:49,079 --> 01:08:50,560
give up whiskey altogether.

1196
01:08:50,720 --> 01:08:53,880
Speaker 5: Calmed down with your jackal. I got a bum shake tonight.

1197
01:08:54,159 --> 01:08:55,720
Speaker 13: Yeah, I either killed the guy.

1198
01:08:55,680 --> 01:08:56,960
Speaker 5: I thought I did that?

1199
01:08:57,159 --> 01:09:00,399
Speaker 13: Uses up the alternative. What are you doing now? Taking

1200
01:09:00,399 --> 01:09:00,720
a voat?

1201
01:09:01,000 --> 01:09:03,199
Speaker 5: I got hired to scare a guy down on Fulsom Street.

1202
01:09:03,479 --> 01:09:04,920
Ten minute later the guy was dead.

1203
01:09:05,039 --> 01:09:08,600
Speaker 27: Oh, Patsy, you'd take your work too seriously. Couldn't you

1204
01:09:08,800 --> 01:09:12,039
just scared him into a lingering illness instead of killing him.

1205
01:09:12,079 --> 01:09:14,399
Speaker 5: One of the props was an empty gun, only when

1206
01:09:14,399 --> 01:09:17,159
a fight came it grew bullets. Helman walked in right

1207
01:09:17,199 --> 01:09:18,399
after on a telephone tip.

1208
01:09:18,760 --> 01:09:20,840
Speaker 27: What are you doing out of the electric chair?

1209
01:09:21,000 --> 01:09:23,840
Speaker 5: All the whole thing backfired down at headquarters. The bullet

1210
01:09:23,880 --> 01:09:25,439
and the phony gun wouldn't match.

1211
01:09:26,800 --> 01:09:27,079
Speaker 6: Jaco.

1212
01:09:27,119 --> 01:09:27,880
Speaker 10: What doesn't add up?

1213
01:09:28,039 --> 01:09:31,159
Speaker 5: But call the helman's a tip off? I was framed.

1214
01:09:31,319 --> 01:09:32,399
Why wasn't I framed.

1215
01:09:32,119 --> 01:09:32,560
Speaker 2: All the way?

1216
01:09:32,920 --> 01:09:33,920
Speaker 13: Who is the dead man?

1217
01:09:34,479 --> 01:09:36,800
Speaker 5: The guy with a falling blood time? His name was

1218
01:09:36,840 --> 01:09:39,479
supposed to be Dixie Gillian. If there's no identification and

1219
01:09:39,520 --> 01:09:42,239
no record on him, you shouldn't have hired out as

1220
01:09:42,239 --> 01:09:44,039
a gun So I told you. I didn't hire out

1221
01:09:44,039 --> 01:09:45,600
as a gun sole. It was somebody else's idty.

1222
01:09:45,720 --> 01:09:47,680
Speaker 13: Oh you have no conscience, Patsy.

1223
01:09:47,960 --> 01:09:50,279
Speaker 27: Just a sort of soap opera rule of thumb you

1224
01:09:50,359 --> 01:09:53,359
put into practice now and then, but no real conscience.

1225
01:09:53,680 --> 01:09:55,960
You'd let a dying woman lie in the middle of

1226
01:09:56,000 --> 01:09:58,680
the highway unless a head was resting on a pile

1227
01:09:58,720 --> 01:10:00,279
of war bonds a JACKO.

1228
01:10:00,359 --> 01:10:02,520
Speaker 5: I'll cry with you later. I need help now, I

1229
01:10:02,840 --> 01:10:04,319
sort of help. I want you to break into a

1230
01:10:04,359 --> 01:10:07,079
girl's apartment. Yes, don't worry, she won't be home.

1231
01:10:07,319 --> 01:10:09,920
Speaker 13: Oh that's supposed to be an incentive here.

1232
01:10:09,960 --> 01:10:12,159
Speaker 5: It's at this address up on O'Farrell. Her name is

1233
01:10:12,199 --> 01:10:14,119
Lee Underwood. She's the one who hired me.

1234
01:10:14,439 --> 01:10:16,600
Speaker 27: If the girl's not there, what am I supposed to

1235
01:10:16,600 --> 01:10:17,479
find me anything?

1236
01:10:17,720 --> 01:10:19,680
Speaker 5: But it'll connect her with a dead man. He's a

1237
01:10:19,680 --> 01:10:22,479
big guy with a scar that doesn't have much you

1238
01:10:22,560 --> 01:10:24,800
can't miss. Go through the desk, in the drawers, pick

1239
01:10:24,840 --> 01:10:26,399
up everything you can. Leave him as he did.

1240
01:10:26,239 --> 01:10:28,399
Speaker 27: My place as soon as I finished the strings.

1241
01:10:28,439 --> 01:10:30,399
Speaker 5: Hurry up, we did, JACKO. Leave the glass alone and

1242
01:10:30,399 --> 01:10:30,800
get going.

1243
01:10:30,960 --> 01:10:32,359
Speaker 13: Don't rush, merry up.

1244
01:10:32,399 --> 01:10:34,119
Speaker 5: The glass is empty anyway.

1245
01:10:34,159 --> 01:10:36,720
Speaker 27: That's what you thought about the gun. But the fellow

1246
01:10:36,720 --> 01:10:38,119
got an all through. Joe's out of it.

1247
01:10:39,359 --> 01:10:43,079
Speaker 13: Good night, lover.

1248
01:10:48,520 --> 01:10:50,640
Speaker 5: I went by a horse parlor on O'Farrell's street and

1249
01:10:50,640 --> 01:10:53,079
borrowed a car from a guy. Was after midnight when

1250
01:10:53,119 --> 01:10:55,039
I started down the Bay Shore a highway, and about

1251
01:10:55,039 --> 01:10:56,479
a half hour later I pulled up in front of

1252
01:10:56,479 --> 01:10:59,319
the Cat's Paw. There was a long rambling place on

1253
01:10:59,359 --> 01:11:01,880
the left side of the road. No, there was no plan.

1254
01:11:02,000 --> 01:11:04,199
It just followed the erosion line until they ran out

1255
01:11:04,239 --> 01:11:06,840
of material. There was enough neon in front the light

1256
01:11:06,880 --> 01:11:09,760
a main intersection in Heaven. I asked a fifty year

1257
01:11:09,800 --> 01:11:11,640
old bus boy and he said Lee Underwood was back

1258
01:11:11,640 --> 01:11:13,680
in her dressing room getting ready for the one o'clock show.

1259
01:11:14,760 --> 01:11:16,319
When I walked in, she was sitting in front of

1260
01:11:16,359 --> 01:11:19,520
a mirror, working on enough swept hairdool. If she swept

1261
01:11:19,520 --> 01:11:22,039
it up anymore, it was gonna leave her head. I

1262
01:11:22,079 --> 01:11:24,239
stood behind her, looking at the pink fresh part of

1263
01:11:24,239 --> 01:11:26,079
her neck that didn't show, and her hair was down.

1264
01:11:26,279 --> 01:11:27,960
Speaker 9: He seemed fascinated, Patsy.

1265
01:11:28,600 --> 01:11:30,960
Speaker 5: No, I just want to know where to break it.

1266
01:11:31,119 --> 01:11:34,039
Speaker 9: Oh, sit down on the footstool here next to me.

1267
01:11:35,359 --> 01:11:35,720
Speaker 6: That's it.

1268
01:11:37,000 --> 01:11:40,239
Speaker 9: I like to look down on people. You let me

1269
01:11:40,279 --> 01:11:42,600
brush that strand of hair back. Why do you like

1270
01:11:42,680 --> 01:11:43,359
it in your eyes?

1271
01:11:43,520 --> 01:11:46,840
Speaker 5: Brush it? Fact so I can see your answers. Who's

1272
01:11:46,840 --> 01:11:47,520
Dixie Gillion?

1273
01:11:47,760 --> 01:11:48,800
Speaker 9: What difference does it make?

1274
01:11:48,960 --> 01:11:51,000
Speaker 5: None to him and some to me? He's dead?

1275
01:11:51,319 --> 01:11:52,840
Speaker 9: No, well, he couldn't be dead.

1276
01:11:52,960 --> 01:11:56,039
Speaker 5: He'd like to believe that too. I couldn't sell him

1277
01:11:56,039 --> 01:11:57,359
that story about an empty gun.

1278
01:11:57,479 --> 01:11:59,600
Speaker 9: He couldn't have been killed with that gun. No, No,

1279
01:11:59,640 --> 01:12:00,960
I put in a blind Patsy.

1280
01:12:01,079 --> 01:12:02,760
Speaker 5: Somebody used a hard working bullet.

1281
01:12:02,760 --> 01:12:04,159
Speaker 6: Because Dixie's dead, there.

1282
01:12:04,039 --> 01:12:05,119
Speaker 18: Was no reason to kill him.

1283
01:12:05,239 --> 01:12:06,840
Speaker 9: I don't understand that makes you.

1284
01:12:06,840 --> 01:12:08,680
Speaker 5: Even with homicide. But they got a bigger team.

1285
01:12:08,800 --> 01:12:12,439
Speaker 9: I don't understand that, Patsy, who's Dixie Gillian? He was

1286
01:12:12,479 --> 01:12:14,800
after some microfilm. I thought I could scare him away.

1287
01:12:15,119 --> 01:12:17,800
Speaker 5: You better be ready to identify him, because homicide stopped.

1288
01:12:18,560 --> 01:12:21,439
Even the sky didn't help. What's gone the scar across

1289
01:12:21,479 --> 01:12:22,720
his face, there's no record on him.

1290
01:12:22,760 --> 01:12:22,920
Speaker 6: All.

1291
01:12:23,039 --> 01:12:27,039
Speaker 9: Oh, no, Patsy, everything goes wrong. Everything you touch goes wrong.

1292
01:12:27,640 --> 01:12:29,039
That's the wrong man, Patsy.

1293
01:12:29,520 --> 01:12:31,960
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, it's too late for a recount.

1294
01:12:31,960 --> 01:12:33,960
Speaker 9: You've got to get to that body, Patsy. I don't

1295
01:12:33,960 --> 01:12:36,159
know how, but someway, you've got to get to him.

1296
01:12:36,760 --> 01:12:39,119
Speaker 6: You look good, you'll make a nice picture.

1297
01:12:39,239 --> 01:12:41,119
Speaker 29: Wait a minute, Dixie, you don't need your coat.

1298
01:12:41,239 --> 01:12:41,640
Speaker 6: Come on.

1299
01:12:41,800 --> 01:12:43,520
Speaker 9: I don't know how it happened, Dixie. I didn't mean

1300
01:12:43,560 --> 01:12:44,279
it that way.

1301
01:12:44,319 --> 01:12:46,520
Speaker 10: If you like it that way, all right, bring your

1302
01:12:46,520 --> 01:12:47,479
boyfriend too.

1303
01:12:47,479 --> 01:12:48,520
Speaker 19: No, don't letting, Patsy.

1304
01:12:48,640 --> 01:12:52,159
Speaker 5: Oh, the gun's too big. I'm going with him. There

1305
01:12:52,279 --> 01:12:54,000
was a short trip. He let us out of a

1306
01:12:54,079 --> 01:12:56,279
dressing room and down a thin hall to the back door.

1307
01:12:57,039 --> 01:12:59,159
On the way past the kitchen, you could smell onions

1308
01:12:59,159 --> 01:13:01,520
and used grease, and that's all you noticed except the

1309
01:13:01,560 --> 01:13:04,319
sound of a jukebox somewhere out in the front, and

1310
01:13:04,399 --> 01:13:07,880
someone laughing in a loud, mirthless way. When they got

1311
01:13:07,920 --> 01:13:11,039
to the door, it was raining outside. They walked about

1312
01:13:11,079 --> 01:13:13,760
forty feet over near some trees where the dark was

1313
01:13:13,760 --> 01:13:18,399
working overtime, and the gunsow made her stop. And that's

1314
01:13:18,399 --> 01:13:25,359
where it happened. She's gonna get wet, mister, you'll have

1315
01:13:25,399 --> 01:13:39,640
a little trouble to yourself. When I woke up, it

1316
01:13:39,680 --> 01:13:41,319
was still raining, and I was lying on top of

1317
01:13:41,399 --> 01:13:44,880
the mud like a stubborn seed. My wallet was gone,

1318
01:13:44,920 --> 01:13:47,600
and the gun slid ripped up in my pockets. I

1319
01:13:47,640 --> 01:13:49,479
stood up and I walked over for a last look

1320
01:13:49,479 --> 01:13:52,560
at Lee. The rain had washed the makeup off her face,

1321
01:13:52,600 --> 01:13:54,960
and she looked small and tired as she lay there,

1322
01:13:55,439 --> 01:13:57,399
like a broken doll that had been tossed out from

1323
01:13:57,399 --> 01:14:01,279
the rain. I guess she was. I got to the

1324
01:14:01,279 --> 01:14:04,039
car and I drove back to town. I checked my place,

1325
01:14:04,079 --> 01:14:05,600
but there was no word from Jacko. So I went

1326
01:14:05,680 --> 01:14:08,000
up to Lee's apartment. When I opened the door, the

1327
01:14:08,079 --> 01:14:10,000
room was dark, but I knew someone was on the floor.

1328
01:14:10,119 --> 01:14:12,239
Either that or they'd varnished the floor with bourbon. I

1329
01:14:12,279 --> 01:14:16,479
flipped on the light and bent over. Jacko, Ah, wake up, JACKO,

1330
01:14:16,920 --> 01:14:18,840
Come on all right, JACKO, wake up.

1331
01:14:19,199 --> 01:14:23,079
Speaker 27: Oh, a little money, A little money I think would

1332
01:14:23,079 --> 01:14:23,920
bring me around.

1333
01:14:24,000 --> 01:14:24,560
Speaker 10: What happened?

1334
01:14:25,159 --> 01:14:29,079
Speaker 5: I sap? Yes, yeah, everybody's got the same act tonight.

1335
01:14:29,720 --> 01:14:30,359
Speaker 13: Help me up?

1336
01:14:30,439 --> 01:14:30,760
Speaker 10: All right?

1337
01:14:30,760 --> 01:14:33,680
Speaker 13: Come on, where have you been?

1338
01:14:34,079 --> 01:14:35,439
Speaker 5: And I went down to meet the girl?

1339
01:14:35,600 --> 01:14:38,079
Speaker 13: Eh, where's your meet? We're in the swimming pool.

1340
01:14:38,239 --> 01:14:41,159
Speaker 5: I've been in the rain all night. She's gonna stay longer.

1341
01:14:41,640 --> 01:14:42,439
What'd you find out?

1342
01:14:42,760 --> 01:14:42,920
Speaker 10: Uh?

1343
01:14:43,039 --> 01:14:46,600
Speaker 13: The fellow with the sky's a husband. Yeah, there's a picture.

1344
01:14:46,319 --> 01:14:48,439
Speaker 5: In the desk. Are there any more pictures?

1345
01:14:48,479 --> 01:14:49,960
Speaker 13: A few? Take it a look.

1346
01:14:52,279 --> 01:14:53,600
Speaker 5: Wearing here? Yes?

1347
01:14:55,399 --> 01:14:55,760
Speaker 10: Well?

1348
01:14:55,800 --> 01:14:59,800
Speaker 5: Well who is he? Must be Dixie Gillian. He was

1349
01:14:59,800 --> 01:15:01,479
down to pay off a debt tonight. She called him

1350
01:15:01,479 --> 01:15:02,159
Dixie once.

1351
01:15:02,560 --> 01:15:04,720
Speaker 27: There's a note with that name and address in the

1352
01:15:04,760 --> 01:15:05,319
other drawer.

1353
01:15:05,520 --> 01:15:08,000
Speaker 5: He's our boy. We better get up there out.

1354
01:15:07,800 --> 01:15:09,760
Speaker 27: If he's already killed two other people.

1355
01:15:09,840 --> 01:15:11,720
Speaker 5: We can't wait for a helman. If he gets away,

1356
01:15:11,720 --> 01:15:13,279
I'm all through. I won't have a leg to stand

1357
01:15:13,279 --> 01:15:13,520
on it.

1358
01:15:13,520 --> 01:15:14,239
Speaker 13: It's my prime.

1359
01:15:14,359 --> 01:15:16,800
Speaker 27: When the other fellow gets through with us, we won't

1360
01:15:16,840 --> 01:15:18,119
have much standing to do.

1361
01:15:27,720 --> 01:15:30,239
Speaker 5: I felt better now. Gillian was the only guy left

1362
01:15:30,239 --> 01:15:32,199
in the picture, so I dragged Jacko up to his

1363
01:15:32,279 --> 01:15:35,680
place was an apartment on Post Street. The elevator operator

1364
01:15:35,680 --> 01:15:37,479
took us to the eighth floor and said that Gillian

1365
01:15:37,520 --> 01:15:40,119
had come in a few minutes before. There was no answer,

1366
01:15:40,479 --> 01:15:43,600
so we tried the door and it was opened. Jocko

1367
01:15:43,680 --> 01:15:44,520
didn't like the idea.

1368
01:15:44,680 --> 01:15:48,520
Speaker 27: Oh, Patsy, this is Polly. Risking my life is one

1369
01:15:48,560 --> 01:15:49,920
of the bravest things you do.

1370
01:15:50,039 --> 01:15:52,119
Speaker 5: Keep still, Jacko, what are we supposed to do? The

1371
01:15:52,159 --> 01:15:53,239
door was open when him so.

1372
01:15:53,439 --> 01:15:55,840
Speaker 13: A lot of grieves, but I've never been tempted.

1373
01:15:55,920 --> 01:15:58,359
Speaker 5: He look at the furniture. There's been a fight here.

1374
01:15:58,920 --> 01:16:00,600
I'll look in here. You checking bedroom.

1375
01:16:01,000 --> 01:16:03,520
Speaker 13: If I'm not right back, don't expect me at all.

1376
01:16:03,680 --> 01:16:13,479
Speaker 27: Yeah, Percy, Percy, come here. Yeah, there's somebody on the

1377
01:16:13,479 --> 01:16:16,359
fire escape. Stand back here, and he's not moving. He

1378
01:16:16,520 --> 01:16:18,239
was leaning that way when I first saw it.

1379
01:16:18,319 --> 01:16:21,680
Speaker 5: I'll get on the side. You raise the window. Go easy, Jocko.

1380
01:16:22,119 --> 01:16:23,000
Can you see him from there?

1381
01:16:23,239 --> 01:16:24,079
Speaker 22: Raise it a little off.

1382
01:16:25,880 --> 01:16:28,479
Speaker 5: He's still leaning there. I can reach out and I

1383
01:16:28,560 --> 01:16:30,439
watch yourself. If he's kidding, you're los an arm.

1384
01:16:31,520 --> 01:16:33,119
Speaker 22: I've got him raised the window.

1385
01:16:33,159 --> 01:16:35,159
Speaker 13: Mark. Yeah, Patsy, he's.

1386
01:16:35,039 --> 01:16:37,159
Speaker 5: Fully give me a handle here, let me through there.

1387
01:16:37,560 --> 01:16:38,920
Speaker 6: It's too late. I can't hold it.

1388
01:16:41,119 --> 01:16:42,119
Speaker 13: I'm suy.

1389
01:16:42,199 --> 01:16:44,399
Speaker 5: Yeah, he was probably dead anyway.

1390
01:16:44,840 --> 01:16:47,319
Speaker 13: If he wasn't, that was a step in the right direction.

1391
01:16:56,720 --> 01:16:59,199
Speaker 5: It was an easy night to die. Three of them

1392
01:16:59,239 --> 01:17:00,920
have checked out, all right, I know it's still time

1393
01:17:00,960 --> 01:17:03,680
to look for more Jacko. When I went downstairs to

1394
01:17:03,720 --> 01:17:06,119
see the guy who was lying face down on the alley,

1395
01:17:06,159 --> 01:17:07,479
and as you looked at him, you got the funny

1396
01:17:07,479 --> 01:17:10,399
feeling he belonged there. He didn't disturb the scene. He

1397
01:17:10,479 --> 01:17:12,840
just fit it in like a dirty, wet newspaper under

1398
01:17:12,840 --> 01:17:15,520
a grandstand. There was a gun in his pocket, probably

1399
01:17:15,560 --> 01:17:16,920
the same one that killed the girl, but there was

1400
01:17:16,960 --> 01:17:19,399
no way of knowing jack when I watched him for

1401
01:17:19,479 --> 01:17:22,279
a moment. But your eyes begin to hurt when you

1402
01:17:22,359 --> 01:17:25,800
see your only warm lead in a deep freeze. And

1403
01:17:26,000 --> 01:17:28,119
it was past two when I got down at headquarters

1404
01:17:28,159 --> 01:17:30,159
and I looked up Helman. I briefed him on the

1405
01:17:30,159 --> 01:17:31,960
girl and the guy on the alley, and then I

1406
01:17:32,000 --> 01:17:34,000
asked him if any microfilm had turned up on the

1407
01:17:34,000 --> 01:17:36,239
first guy in the morgue. There was a waste of time.

1408
01:17:36,319 --> 01:17:38,760
Hilman couldn't find a brass ring in a dead man's nose,

1409
01:17:38,800 --> 01:17:40,760
But we went over to the morgue for another look.

1410
01:17:41,359 --> 01:17:43,479
So far it was working out like a crossword puzzle

1411
01:17:43,520 --> 01:17:48,359
torn in half. It's your time, though, fact I got

1412
01:17:48,399 --> 01:17:51,439
more after tomorrow, you haven't. The microfilm must be on

1413
01:17:51,479 --> 01:17:53,600
the guy. Three people have been killed for it, and

1414
01:17:53,680 --> 01:17:55,920
I got roughed up just to laugh. We searched the

1415
01:17:55,920 --> 01:18:05,760
guy once there it is, help me rolling out? Yeah, well,

1416
01:18:05,760 --> 01:18:08,560
well he sure got thin and that she didn't wait

1417
01:18:08,680 --> 01:18:11,640
a minute. Oh you run a good war, Heilman. What'll

1418
01:18:11,640 --> 01:18:13,359
the papers say when they hear the stiff got up

1419
01:18:13,399 --> 01:18:15,359
and walked up? They got him in the wrong place

1420
01:18:15,479 --> 01:18:17,520
or something. He didn't walk out. He's gone, Heilman, Have

1421
01:18:17,560 --> 01:18:19,239
you got an answer? He's been moved. I tell you

1422
01:18:19,279 --> 01:18:20,920
the guy was dead and I saw him put him here.

1423
01:18:21,159 --> 01:18:22,640
He couldn't be walking around with a hole in the

1424
01:18:22,640 --> 01:18:24,199
middle of his back for I don't know, Helman. You

1425
01:18:24,199 --> 01:18:25,680
can do it with one in your head. Don't sell

1426
01:18:25,720 --> 01:18:26,560
the guy short.

1427
01:18:32,199 --> 01:18:34,359
Speaker 6: Well returned to Patna back in a moment.

1428
01:18:40,199 --> 01:18:43,800
Speaker 25: Cindarella lost his shoe, and so she got a mate

1429
01:18:44,199 --> 01:18:49,039
with lovely shoes who grew Khilton him Gallen camp shoe.

1430
01:18:50,039 --> 01:18:51,399
Speaker 10: What girl hasn't dreamed?

1431
01:18:51,399 --> 01:18:53,920
Speaker 24: Cinderella dreams of her own and wished for a fairy

1432
01:18:54,039 --> 01:18:57,359
godmother to make those dreams come true. Here's what the

1433
01:18:57,439 --> 01:19:00,279
newest Cinderella Malan Duford, Miss America.

1434
01:19:00,920 --> 01:19:04,039
Speaker 30: The modern girl doesn't waste time dreaming. She makes her

1435
01:19:04,119 --> 01:19:07,079
dreams come true. And she needs no fairy godmother to

1436
01:19:07,079 --> 01:19:10,640
give her lovely shoes. She doesn't, that is if she

1437
01:19:10,680 --> 01:19:13,560
has discovered my favorite shoe store, Gallon Camp.

1438
01:19:13,720 --> 01:19:17,439
Speaker 24: Yes, Malyn, for gracefully lovely shoes, flattering and in the

1439
01:19:17,479 --> 01:19:21,880
latest fashions. Wise girls go to Gallon Camp's. Gallon Camps

1440
01:19:21,920 --> 01:19:24,000
are shoe style leaders.

1441
01:19:23,800 --> 01:19:26,560
Speaker 30: And so amazingly priced a girl can afford to have

1442
01:19:26,680 --> 01:19:28,000
all the shoes she needs.

1443
01:19:28,079 --> 01:19:31,840
Speaker 24: And here's extra good news of a special Thanksgiving shoe sale. Yes,

1444
01:19:31,960 --> 01:19:34,720
prices are actually going down on many of the up

1445
01:19:34,720 --> 01:19:38,239
to the minute shoe styles tomorrow at Gallon Camp's. So

1446
01:19:38,439 --> 01:19:40,920
shot this sale at the Gallon Camp's store near you

1447
01:19:41,039 --> 01:19:45,680
tomorrow to step assured into the exciting holiday activities ahead.

1448
01:19:46,199 --> 01:19:48,800
Speaker 6: Look lovely in Gallon Camps.

1449
01:19:49,720 --> 01:19:53,319
Speaker 25: Cinderella lost a shoe, and so she got a mate

1450
01:19:53,760 --> 01:19:59,159
with lovely shoes and girl Clintons in Gallen Camp Shoes.

1451
01:19:59,520 --> 01:20:01,720
Speaker 6: And I'll back to Pat Novak.

1452
01:20:08,840 --> 01:20:11,000
Speaker 5: When Helman found out the body was gone. He stood

1453
01:20:11,000 --> 01:20:13,199
there and stared at the empty slab, and then he

1454
01:20:13,199 --> 01:20:15,600
started looking around in a nervous way, like a man

1455
01:20:15,640 --> 01:20:17,720
trying to find the sugar bowl at a restaurant counter.

1456
01:20:18,399 --> 01:20:20,279
A few moments later he turned and walked out of

1457
01:20:20,279 --> 01:20:23,319
the morgue, and we were halfway downtown when it happened.

1458
01:20:23,760 --> 01:20:26,000
It must have hit us at the same time, sharp

1459
01:20:26,000 --> 01:20:28,239
and quick, like a piece of candy and a bad tooth.

1460
01:20:29,119 --> 01:20:31,039
That guy back in the alley had come off that

1461
01:20:31,159 --> 01:20:33,680
slab in the morgue. We got out to Dixie's place

1462
01:20:33,720 --> 01:20:35,920
and we began to check. There was a phone operator

1463
01:20:35,960 --> 01:20:37,720
downstairs and she said Dixie had put to a call

1464
01:20:37,760 --> 01:20:40,399
about two hours ago. Helman checked the number and it

1465
01:20:40,439 --> 01:20:43,039
was the ticket office of a railroad. We got downtown

1466
01:20:43,079 --> 01:20:45,640
and we ran through the timetable. There was a train

1467
01:20:45,760 --> 01:20:47,800
leaving the Oakland Mole in forty minutes, so it was

1468
01:20:47,840 --> 01:20:49,960
an outside chance, but tonight that was the only kind

1469
01:20:50,000 --> 01:20:53,119
for sale. We got down in time to slide on

1470
01:20:53,119 --> 01:20:55,159
the last ferry over to the mole. It was still

1471
01:20:55,239 --> 01:20:57,039
dark out when the ferry pulled away from the slip

1472
01:20:57,079 --> 01:21:02,800
and started across the bay over toward the Berkeley hills.

1473
01:21:02,800 --> 01:21:04,840
It was beginning to get light. The sky was the

1474
01:21:04,840 --> 01:21:09,520
color of a bruise spot on a man's arm. We'll

1475
01:21:09,560 --> 01:21:11,319
get up to the pilot house and tell him not

1476
01:21:11,359 --> 01:21:13,920
the dock until we've gone through all the passengers. He

1477
01:21:14,000 --> 01:21:15,680
doesn't have to be in on this one. He'll check

1478
01:21:15,720 --> 01:21:18,680
the train when he gets the Wait a minute, you

1479
01:21:18,720 --> 01:21:22,359
don't have to check. There's your boy well up there

1480
01:21:22,800 --> 01:21:24,640
on the rail, and you better go easy. He's not

1481
01:21:24,680 --> 01:21:25,479
a scale model.

1482
01:21:25,840 --> 01:21:27,920
Speaker 6: Just walk quietly until we're behind him.

1483
01:21:28,000 --> 01:21:36,920
Speaker 5: Yeah, Centera, mister, he'll got a better view.

1484
01:21:37,119 --> 01:21:41,159
Speaker 10: M oh, hello, Novac.

1485
01:21:42,000 --> 01:21:43,720
Speaker 6: How was the wind in the rain in your hair made?

1486
01:21:43,800 --> 01:21:46,279
Speaker 5: Inspect your helmet? You better turn in your ticket. I

1487
01:21:46,840 --> 01:21:48,479
hope you brought your muscle, Helman.

1488
01:21:48,840 --> 01:21:51,319
Speaker 27: That's what I'm I'm trying to do, all right, Copper,

1489
01:21:51,760 --> 01:21:54,119
what I've been pushed over the rail again.

1490
01:21:54,199 --> 01:21:55,880
Speaker 5: I'm worried, Helman, watch it back.

1491
01:21:56,359 --> 01:21:58,560
Speaker 11: I'm going over.

1492
01:22:01,600 --> 01:22:03,439
Speaker 6: There's one dollar, mister, now for you.

1493
01:22:08,439 --> 01:22:10,000
Speaker 5: Well. I landed on the deck and I watched him

1494
01:22:10,000 --> 01:22:12,319
disappear in the dark. Halfway down the guy turned in.

1495
01:22:12,520 --> 01:22:14,479
I followed him down the ladder along the main deck.

1496
01:22:14,680 --> 01:22:16,279
He ducked into one of the engine spaces and I

1497
01:22:16,279 --> 01:22:18,399
started in to look for him. Oh, it didn't take

1498
01:22:18,439 --> 01:22:19,880
long because he turned out to be helpful.

1499
01:22:20,920 --> 01:22:22,000
Speaker 11: He got the idea yet.

1500
01:22:21,920 --> 01:22:25,039
Speaker 5: No, I'll come closer. Tell me then, huh, loot yourself

1501
01:22:25,039 --> 01:22:28,199
and I'll knock you down hard on your show. Hey,

1502
01:22:28,199 --> 01:22:28,960
watch that platform.

1503
01:22:28,960 --> 01:22:31,800
Speaker 6: You're backing into trouble. Heay back then OVAC, watch.

1504
01:22:31,520 --> 01:22:32,439
Speaker 11: Out for that platform.

1505
01:22:32,479 --> 01:22:33,680
Speaker 22: You're backing into that engine.

1506
01:22:33,960 --> 01:22:36,960
Speaker 7: Look out.

1507
01:22:48,439 --> 01:22:50,720
Speaker 13: Kind of wound up last time.

1508
01:22:51,039 --> 01:22:55,840
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's what it looks. Did he get the microfilm?

1509
01:22:55,960 --> 01:22:59,159
Speaker 10: Yeah?

1510
01:22:59,199 --> 01:23:00,239
Speaker 2: I got a big hur heard it?

1511
01:23:01,720 --> 01:23:03,079
Speaker 5: Is it show a little?

1512
01:23:04,119 --> 01:23:09,680
Speaker 29: Yeah, it's been a long night. No that hun.

1513
01:23:09,800 --> 01:23:12,359
Speaker 5: Yeah, but you're worries it over it's almost dawn.

1514
01:23:13,720 --> 01:23:14,199
Speaker 10: I don't know.

1515
01:23:16,600 --> 01:23:20,279
Speaker 5: I don't know if I can use it, but I'll

1516
01:23:20,279 --> 01:23:35,279
give it to you. Oh well. They faced helmet out

1517
01:23:35,319 --> 01:23:37,640
of an oil slick a few minutes later. It was

1518
01:23:37,680 --> 01:23:41,039
the first time his hair ever looked good. Mix Sigillion

1519
01:23:41,159 --> 01:23:43,840
lasted long enough to piece the story together. For homicide,

1520
01:23:45,039 --> 01:23:47,760
Lee Underwood was on the level. She knew her husband

1521
01:23:47,800 --> 01:23:50,800
was carrying microfilm and was worried, so she hired me

1522
01:23:50,880 --> 01:23:54,159
to scare off Gillian. It might have worked, too, because

1523
01:23:54,239 --> 01:23:57,119
Adrian was too big for Gillian to argue with. But

1524
01:23:57,199 --> 01:23:59,479
the first slip came when Lee's husband went by to

1525
01:23:59,479 --> 01:24:02,560
make a deal Dixie without telling it. Well, when I

1526
01:24:02,640 --> 01:24:04,640
jumped him, Dixie was outside and figured it was a

1527
01:24:04,640 --> 01:24:07,399
double cross. He didn't have time to figure it, but

1528
01:24:07,560 --> 01:24:10,239
he killed him with a silencer when Lee's fully gun

1529
01:24:10,279 --> 01:24:12,840
went off. Well, he spent the rest of the time

1530
01:24:12,840 --> 01:24:15,880
looking for the microfilm. That's why Jocko got sapped and

1531
01:24:15,920 --> 01:24:18,319
the girl got hers, And by that time Dixie knew

1532
01:24:18,359 --> 01:24:20,520
the microfilm was still on a dead man. The only

1533
01:24:20,560 --> 01:24:22,640
way he could be sure was to get the body

1534
01:24:22,640 --> 01:24:25,119
out of the moor. He took it up to his apartment.

1535
01:24:25,479 --> 01:24:27,319
When he got the film, he planted the gun and

1536
01:24:27,680 --> 01:24:29,920
put the body on the fire escape. It was safer

1537
01:24:30,039 --> 01:24:31,960
that way. It was a fifty to fifty chance the

1538
01:24:31,960 --> 01:24:33,920
police had missed it the first time around, and we'd

1539
01:24:33,960 --> 01:24:35,600
have a fair lead. It almost worked out for him,

1540
01:24:35,600 --> 01:24:38,800
except for that phone call. The microfilm was in a

1541
01:24:38,840 --> 01:24:41,159
capsule next to the roof of the guy's mouth. Yeah,

1542
01:24:41,359 --> 01:24:45,399
so old, it was new again. Well, Hellman asked only

1543
01:24:45,439 --> 01:24:48,279
one question in that fight. Did I have anything to

1544
01:24:48,319 --> 01:24:51,239
do with pushing him against the rail? I told him

1545
01:24:51,439 --> 01:24:54,279
sometimes those ferry boats roll as much as forty five degrees.

1546
01:24:58,880 --> 01:25:01,399
Speaker 24: He's short had gone US next Monday evening and every Sunday,

1547
01:25:01,439 --> 01:25:04,279
same time, same station for radio's newest Shaw.

1548
01:25:04,439 --> 01:25:05,720
Speaker 11: Pat Novak will hire.

1549
01:25:06,000 --> 01:25:08,079
Speaker 24: I don't forget the star with the yellow front is

1550
01:25:08,119 --> 01:25:10,760
the Gallon Camp shoes. Star Gallon Camp.

1551
01:25:10,560 --> 01:25:11,920
Speaker 13: Shoes are good shoes.

1552
01:25:12,159 --> 01:25:15,760
Speaker 24: There's something about them you'll like. Franklyn Evans speaking, This

1553
01:25:15,920 --> 01:25:21,800
is ABC, the American Broadcasting Company, Welcome Back.

1554
01:25:22,319 --> 01:25:27,960
Speaker 1: Definitely a very different series from Dragnet. In fact, Webb's

1555
01:25:28,000 --> 01:25:32,960
first tries on the radio, he would either play do

1556
01:25:33,119 --> 01:25:37,479
some guest spots, oftentimes as Underworld figures, or he would

1557
01:25:37,479 --> 01:25:42,399
do the private Eye who was always showing up the police,

1558
01:25:43,159 --> 01:25:49,159
which of course led to his famous crossing paths with

1559
01:25:49,239 --> 01:25:53,720
a police officer who suggested a series that told the

1560
01:25:53,760 --> 01:25:57,279
truth of what police work was, leading of.

1561
01:25:57,199 --> 01:25:59,920
Speaker 2: Course to Dragnet.

1562
01:26:01,319 --> 01:26:06,000
Speaker 1: The mystery here, the actual mystery yet admit, is kind of.

1563
01:26:07,920 --> 01:26:12,399
Speaker 2: Uh. It is kind of a weak rule here. It's uh.

1564
01:26:12,479 --> 01:26:14,079
There's not a whole lot of depth to it.

1565
01:26:14,079 --> 01:26:18,359
Speaker 1: It really plays on the adventure on comedy elements. And

1566
01:26:18,399 --> 01:26:20,880
in some ways, as I listened to these shows, I

1567
01:26:20,920 --> 01:26:24,119
tend to think Pat Novac may have been better Off

1568
01:26:24,159 --> 01:26:29,520
as Better Off as straight up comedy, but I don't

1569
01:26:29,640 --> 01:26:32,680
think that was necessarily Breen's talent or style. But this

1570
01:26:32,800 --> 01:26:37,319
is an early episode, so there are are several better ones.

1571
01:26:37,800 --> 01:26:43,640
You just have to be patient and listen to them.

1572
01:26:43,840 --> 01:26:44,560
Speaker 4: Welcome back.

1573
01:26:44,680 --> 01:26:48,319
Speaker 1: The first thing I should correct is that Pat Novac

1574
01:26:48,439 --> 01:26:54,079
began airing over k GFO, not CAFO. As I said

1575
01:26:54,960 --> 01:26:58,920
that correction done, I found some really intriguing points. Of

1576
01:26:58,920 --> 01:27:03,560
the four episodes were playing, this is probably the most

1577
01:27:03,600 --> 01:27:08,479
fully formed, as the other three are two first episodes

1578
01:27:08,720 --> 01:27:12,119
and an audition. By comparison, this series had been running

1579
01:27:12,199 --> 01:27:15,119
for three months now. What I said on this episode

1580
01:27:15,119 --> 01:27:19,119
about my initial plans for the podcast was an interesting

1581
01:27:19,239 --> 01:27:23,319
road not taken. The idea of Mara thought earning my

1582
01:27:23,479 --> 01:27:26,960
way through each series five episodes a week was my

1583
01:27:27,119 --> 01:27:31,399
first thought, and I think I recorded commentaries for nearly

1584
01:27:31,479 --> 01:27:35,760
every episode of Pat Novak before changing my mind. And

1585
01:27:35,840 --> 01:27:40,079
I think that my initial thought of doing Pat Novak

1586
01:27:40,359 --> 01:27:43,640
was a good thing, because that was such a polarizing

1587
01:27:43,800 --> 01:27:47,680
series that it brought me to the realization that I

1588
01:27:47,760 --> 01:27:51,800
really probably shouldn't go that way. I did have concerns

1589
01:27:51,840 --> 01:27:55,640
about including it in the initial lineup. I thought it

1590
01:27:55,800 --> 01:27:58,479
made sense in one way to do it, because I

1591
01:27:58,520 --> 01:28:01,279
thought it would be a good jumping on point for

1592
01:28:01,399 --> 01:28:05,399
listeners to the old time drag Net show, because we

1593
01:28:05,439 --> 01:28:09,560
would have another Jack Web series that would be an

1594
01:28:09,600 --> 01:28:15,960
appeal to that existing audience. But I'd actually serialized an

1595
01:28:16,039 --> 01:28:19,840
episode of Pat Novak back in two thousand and eight,

1596
01:28:20,039 --> 01:28:22,479
and some of the feedback made me a bit nervous

1597
01:28:22,720 --> 01:28:23,920
about doing this.

1598
01:28:24,079 --> 01:28:24,199
Speaker 15: Now.

1599
01:28:24,239 --> 01:28:26,039
Speaker 4: I think I was hedging my bets a.

1600
01:28:25,960 --> 01:28:29,359
Speaker 1: Bit a little in the way I opened it, because

1601
01:28:29,399 --> 01:28:35,159
some people really truly hate Pat Novak, who loved Dragnet.

1602
01:28:35,199 --> 01:28:39,000
For many people, Jack Webs Joe Friday and their imagination,

1603
01:28:39,640 --> 01:28:42,319
and it cannot go to him playing a character like

1604
01:28:42,439 --> 01:28:46,920
Pat Novak, even though it got him on the national radar.

1605
01:28:47,279 --> 01:28:50,720
I also think the series didn't jive with a lot

1606
01:28:50,760 --> 01:28:54,479
of people in general. They just didn't get it. The

1607
01:28:54,520 --> 01:28:57,720
more I think about it, I think that when I

1608
01:28:57,840 --> 01:29:02,680
started playing Great attack Is, I liked Pat Novak, but

1609
01:29:02,760 --> 01:29:06,279
I don't think I really understood it. I just didn't

1610
01:29:06,359 --> 01:29:10,680
have the context of having experienced a lot of radio

1611
01:29:10,840 --> 01:29:15,880
mysteries and very little noir. I also had the perspective

1612
01:29:16,000 --> 01:29:18,720
that the quality of a mystery and how clever it

1613
01:29:18,880 --> 01:29:20,439
was determine.

1614
01:29:20,000 --> 01:29:21,840
Speaker 2: How good it was.

1615
01:29:22,439 --> 01:29:25,279
Speaker 1: I've come to appreciate that a lot of detective stories

1616
01:29:25,359 --> 01:29:28,239
are enjoyed for things other than the cleverness of the

1617
01:29:28,279 --> 01:29:29,399
crime or the solution.

1618
01:29:29,840 --> 01:29:31,880
Speaker 4: Here, it's the dialogue.

1619
01:29:31,960 --> 01:29:36,960
Speaker 1: It's the artistry of this dance, even if it's predictable,

1620
01:29:37,079 --> 01:29:41,159
or even if the solution isn't the most important thing.

1621
01:29:41,279 --> 01:29:44,760
And so my appreciation for Pat Novak as this very

1622
01:29:44,840 --> 01:29:48,680
unique series has increased over the years. Yes, it's formulaic,

1623
01:29:48,800 --> 01:29:51,800
but that formula is a frame for bringing us some

1624
01:29:51,840 --> 01:29:56,119
of the most creative and over the top dialogue ever written.

1625
01:29:56,279 --> 01:29:59,600
I honestly don't remember what I meant by saying this

1626
01:29:59,600 --> 01:30:02,399
should be straight up comedy. I think it was a

1627
01:30:02,439 --> 01:30:05,560
wonderfully quirky show as it is, and I don't know

1628
01:30:05,640 --> 01:30:09,279
if I would consider Dixie Illion as a lower quality

1629
01:30:09,359 --> 01:30:13,319
episode or not. It's actually rather good. I love the

1630
01:30:13,359 --> 01:30:18,079
opening monologue, and Jocko's line risking my life is one

1631
01:30:18,119 --> 01:30:21,560
of the bravest things you do is his best one

1632
01:30:21,640 --> 01:30:24,520
liner in the series. I think there's at least one

1633
01:30:24,520 --> 01:30:28,560
episode i'd consider better, the very last episode of the

1634
01:30:28,680 --> 01:30:31,840
National Run, Little Jake Siegel and There might be some

1635
01:30:32,039 --> 01:30:34,920
that I think are better, but this is pretty solid.

1636
01:30:35,159 --> 01:30:37,920
I didn't talk about the sponsor ads back in two

1637
01:30:38,000 --> 01:30:40,680
thousand and nine, and that was my only chance to

1638
01:30:40,760 --> 01:30:44,600
do so in that run. I love the Gallen Camp

1639
01:30:44,680 --> 01:30:49,920
shoe ads. They are so lovely, lot and elegant. That said,

1640
01:30:50,079 --> 01:30:54,039
the sponsorship seems a weird match because we're in an

1641
01:30:54,119 --> 01:30:58,399
era where programs are sponsored by the company, and Gallen

1642
01:30:58,520 --> 01:31:03,359
Camp is running these light, airy, fluffy ads on this

1643
01:31:03,680 --> 01:31:08,479
really rough and tumble, often violent program. If they were

1644
01:31:08,520 --> 01:31:11,760
a national company, you'd expect these sort of ads on

1645
01:31:11,800 --> 01:31:15,159
a light drama, or you would expect them to change

1646
01:31:15,199 --> 01:31:19,239
the tenor of the show in order to fit the

1647
01:31:19,279 --> 01:31:22,439
image of their company. A few years ago, we played

1648
01:31:22,560 --> 01:31:27,560
Casey Crime Photographer, and when the Tony Holme Permanent System

1649
01:31:27,600 --> 01:31:32,319
took over sponsorship, they had the tone shift to lighter

1650
01:31:32,359 --> 01:31:36,800
stories with less violence. If I were to hazard a guess,

1651
01:31:36,920 --> 01:31:39,920
I think this is a case where the decision was

1652
01:31:39,960 --> 01:31:44,239
made to sponsor the series based on its potential local

1653
01:31:44,359 --> 01:31:48,800
popularity in the San Francisco rather than it being a

1654
01:31:48,840 --> 01:31:53,079
really good fit for the company. Kat Novak had actually

1655
01:31:53,199 --> 01:31:56,760
been on the air for about a month before Gallen

1656
01:31:56,880 --> 01:32:01,000
Camp took over sponsorship, so it's fair to imagine it

1657
01:32:01,039 --> 01:32:05,720
had good audience reaction to gain that sponsorship. I should

1658
01:32:05,760 --> 01:32:09,439
also say that another episode of the San Francisco series

1659
01:32:09,479 --> 01:32:12,960
did come into circulation several years back, and we played

1660
01:32:13,000 --> 01:32:17,000
that on the podcast in twenty seventeen, but this was

1661
01:32:17,039 --> 01:32:21,479
the earliest available episode when we started. Well, as I said,

1662
01:32:21,479 --> 01:32:24,479
this was a fully formed series. The one thing that

1663
01:32:24,600 --> 01:32:30,079
I did miss was Raymond Burr as Inspector Hellman. He

1664
01:32:30,239 --> 01:32:34,399
would come along when the series was broadcast nationally in

1665
01:32:34,560 --> 01:32:37,960
nineteen forty nine. What we got in this episode was

1666
01:32:38,039 --> 01:32:41,640
not bad by any means, but Raymond Burr always added

1667
01:32:41,680 --> 01:32:45,760
a little bit extra to whatever part he took on. Well,

1668
01:32:45,800 --> 01:32:50,760
now it's time for the third episode. This one originally

1669
01:32:50,880 --> 01:32:54,159
was released on October twenty eighth, two thousand and nine,

1670
01:32:54,279 --> 01:32:56,520
and it's let George do It. Let's go ahead and

1671
01:32:56,560 --> 01:33:08,680
listen as we get started with our new with the

1672
01:33:08,720 --> 01:33:12,680
new series. Our next show is gonna be Let George

1673
01:33:12,720 --> 01:33:17,800
do It. Now, Let George do It. Really is one

1674
01:33:17,800 --> 01:33:20,840
of those series that got better as time went along,

1675
01:33:21,800 --> 01:33:24,960
and that I think partially explains why we've got so

1676
01:33:25,159 --> 01:33:28,960
few episodes from the nineteen forty six forty seven season.

1677
01:33:29,760 --> 01:33:32,479
Many of the sides said the show was more sitcom

1678
01:33:32,600 --> 01:33:38,319
than a detective show, and indeed, it's the initial audition

1679
01:33:38,399 --> 01:33:42,239
episode we're gonna listen to from May of nineteen forty six.

1680
01:33:42,960 --> 01:33:49,319
Was kind of a lighthearted, lighthearted thing. The show stars

1681
01:33:49,359 --> 01:33:55,479
Bob Bailey, who would go on actually to after Let

1682
01:33:55,520 --> 01:34:00,560
George Do It, would go on to star as the

1683
01:34:00,920 --> 01:34:04,279
as Johnny Dollar, and he played Johnny Dollar in more

1684
01:34:04,319 --> 01:34:10,680
episodes than any of the other Johnny Dollars combined. However,

1685
01:34:11,079 --> 01:34:13,479
this Let George Do It was a great show in

1686
01:34:13,520 --> 01:34:18,880
its own right. The show was on the air from

1687
01:34:18,960 --> 01:34:23,279
forty six until fifty four. This was a solid run

1688
01:34:23,279 --> 01:34:28,560
of shows and really a good performance by Bob Bailey,

1689
01:34:29,279 --> 01:34:30,880
and I think we're going to see a lot of

1690
01:34:30,920 --> 01:34:34,840
that in this show. Let's go ahead and get into

1691
01:34:35,760 --> 01:34:40,640
tonight's episode of Let George Do It. Here on the

1692
01:34:40,680 --> 01:34:43,239
Great Detectives of Old Time Radio.

1693
01:34:51,199 --> 01:34:57,159
Speaker 31: Your neighborhood Chevron gas Station invites you to.

1694
01:34:56,279 --> 01:34:57,279
Speaker 6: Let George Do It.

1695
01:34:57,439 --> 01:34:59,960
Speaker 32: Rot to you by the makers of Chevron, Supreme Gasoline

1696
01:35:00,159 --> 01:35:17,520
and RPM Motor Oil.

1697
01:35:22,560 --> 01:35:26,239
Speaker 33: George Valentine has been out of uniform only a few weeks.

1698
01:35:26,079 --> 01:35:29,359
Speaker 32: Last with an abundance of energy and adventuresome spirit, and

1699
01:35:29,399 --> 01:35:30,439
not too much money.

1700
01:35:30,840 --> 01:35:33,159
Speaker 33: He has sunk his last dime in office rant, a

1701
01:35:33,159 --> 01:35:35,880
few pieces of furniture, and an ad in the classified

1702
01:35:35,880 --> 01:35:39,159
section of the daily paper, an ad which reads, you

1703
01:35:39,279 --> 01:35:41,880
have a crime that needs solving, You have a dog

1704
01:35:41,920 --> 01:35:43,560
that needs walking, you have a.

1705
01:35:43,520 --> 01:35:46,560
Speaker 6: Wife that needs spanking. Let George do it now.

1706
01:35:46,600 --> 01:35:49,039
Speaker 33: Three days are past, and George, sitting in his swivel

1707
01:35:49,159 --> 01:35:51,399
chair with his feet up on the desk, is still

1708
01:35:51,560 --> 01:35:53,000
anxiously waiting for a client.

1709
01:35:53,439 --> 01:35:54,720
Speaker 10: Suddenly the door burst over.

1710
01:35:56,560 --> 01:36:00,800
Speaker 6: Yes, George Valentine, Yes, yes, come rite in, have a seat.

1711
01:36:00,920 --> 01:36:02,479
Oh here, take this when it's asted.

1712
01:36:02,640 --> 01:36:03,560
Speaker 9: Oh thank you.

1713
01:36:03,560 --> 01:36:07,239
Speaker 6: Oh don't mention it, haven't you guy? I'm sorry you're

1714
01:36:07,279 --> 01:36:09,720
too young. Here wait a minute, here have a chocolate

1715
01:36:09,720 --> 01:36:10,520
bar with amon.

1716
01:36:10,840 --> 01:36:11,840
Speaker 29: Oh thank you.

1717
01:36:12,520 --> 01:36:13,920
Speaker 6: Now. Then, what can I do for you?

1718
01:36:14,359 --> 01:36:15,479
Speaker 29: Well, I came to work.

1719
01:36:15,319 --> 01:36:16,399
Speaker 11: For you work.

1720
01:36:16,720 --> 01:36:17,760
Speaker 6: I thought you were a client.

1721
01:36:17,920 --> 01:36:20,640
Speaker 29: Oh no, sir, that's all right, I'll get it. Hey,

1722
01:36:20,640 --> 01:36:22,920
wait a minute, Good morning, Let George do it.

1723
01:36:22,960 --> 01:36:23,840
Speaker 6: Oh do you like that?

1724
01:36:24,039 --> 01:36:24,159
Speaker 11: Oh?

1725
01:36:24,199 --> 01:36:26,520
Speaker 29: I can make an appointment for you. I'm mister Valentine's

1726
01:36:26,520 --> 01:36:27,479
confidential assistance.

1727
01:36:27,520 --> 01:36:28,399
Speaker 6: Well that's nice to know.

1728
01:36:28,880 --> 01:36:32,399
Speaker 29: Well, if you're that close and come right up, mister Winters. Yeah, goodbye, sir.

1729
01:36:33,520 --> 01:36:34,880
Speaker 6: Now look here bottom button.

1730
01:36:35,000 --> 01:36:36,720
Speaker 29: I'm Sonny Brooks. You can call me son.

1731
01:36:36,760 --> 01:36:38,600
Speaker 6: Well, now look here, Sonny, who hired you?

1732
01:36:38,960 --> 01:36:41,680
Speaker 29: I come with your office? You see Caleb the elevator

1733
01:36:41,680 --> 01:36:43,760
man is my friend. He knew I was looking for

1734
01:36:43,800 --> 01:36:46,359
a job, so he said, Sonny. Whoever gets that office

1735
01:36:46,479 --> 01:36:47,039
gets you too.

1736
01:36:47,159 --> 01:36:49,199
Speaker 6: Yeah, well you're too young, Sonny. Things may get a

1737
01:36:49,199 --> 01:36:50,199
little rough around here.

1738
01:36:50,399 --> 01:36:54,560
Speaker 29: Oh that's okay, sir. I'm a very rugged character. Now then,

1739
01:36:54,600 --> 01:36:55,800
mister Winters will be here.

1740
01:36:55,680 --> 01:36:57,520
Speaker 6: Soon, Winters the mystery writer.

1741
01:36:57,720 --> 01:37:00,960
Speaker 29: Yes, Sir, Jonathan Winters, he just phoned. Oh we can

1742
01:37:01,000 --> 01:37:03,399
discuss my salary later. I'll go on the payroll as

1743
01:37:03,439 --> 01:37:03,840
of today.

1744
01:37:04,079 --> 01:37:05,199
Speaker 6: Uh huh, whether I like it or not.

1745
01:37:05,359 --> 01:37:05,479
Speaker 9: Uh.

1746
01:37:05,880 --> 01:37:08,439
Speaker 29: I have a feeling you're gonna become very fond of me, sir.

1747
01:37:09,119 --> 01:37:10,159
I grow on people.

1748
01:37:10,399 --> 01:37:13,399
Speaker 6: Yeah, like a ward. All right, Sonny, call an employment

1749
01:37:13,439 --> 01:37:14,720
agency and get me a secretary.

1750
01:37:14,840 --> 01:37:17,119
Speaker 29: Oh that won't be necessary, sir, Why.

1751
01:37:17,039 --> 01:37:17,960
Speaker 6: Don't tell me you type?

1752
01:37:18,000 --> 01:37:22,039
Speaker 29: Also, no, but my sister does your sister Claire, she'll

1753
01:37:22,079 --> 01:37:23,319
be here soon to start to work.

1754
01:37:23,560 --> 01:37:25,640
Speaker 6: Well, say, does your whole family go with this office?

1755
01:37:26,039 --> 01:37:29,000
Speaker 29: Oh, well, I don't have much of a family, just

1756
01:37:29,760 --> 01:37:30,319
Claire and me.

1757
01:37:31,720 --> 01:37:35,000
Speaker 6: Oh well, that's tough shit. If you're lucky, I haven't

1758
01:37:35,000 --> 01:37:38,680
even got a sister. Tell you what, Maybe we can

1759
01:37:38,720 --> 01:37:40,239
sort of look after each other, how about it.

1760
01:37:40,640 --> 01:37:44,680
Speaker 29: Oh I'll be swelling, mister Valentine. I'll be glad to

1761
01:37:44,720 --> 01:37:45,640
take care of you. Stair.

1762
01:37:47,039 --> 01:37:47,960
Speaker 6: You're okay, Sonny.

1763
01:37:48,119 --> 01:37:51,840
Speaker 29: Oh you like Claire too. She's prettier than I am.

1764
01:37:52,319 --> 01:37:54,800
Speaker 6: Oh perfect. It doesn't matter if she can type or

1765
01:37:54,800 --> 01:37:58,039
take dictation, just so she's prettier than you are, mister

1766
01:37:59,239 --> 01:38:05,760
valent Oh yes, mister Winners, come right in. Val I'm

1767
01:38:05,800 --> 01:38:07,760
here because well, it doesn't matter what the job is,

1768
01:38:07,800 --> 01:38:10,159
mister Winners, I'm your man. Just throw your problem in

1769
01:38:10,199 --> 01:38:12,199
my lap and I'll come up with the right answers.

1770
01:38:11,800 --> 01:38:14,800
Speaker 12: To Valentina, I'm about to be murdered.

1771
01:38:14,800 --> 01:38:16,399
Speaker 6: Well, I don't take it too seriously. A lot of

1772
01:38:16,399 --> 01:38:22,479
people murdered murdered. You're you're joking. I hope, I'm not sure.

1773
01:38:23,119 --> 01:38:27,239
Oh well, that's a little out of my line, mister

1774
01:38:27,279 --> 01:38:34,279
Winnis I mean to Valentine, Hi, I have been murder.

1775
01:38:35,520 --> 01:38:36,399
Speaker 29: Sufran Catic.

1776
01:38:36,680 --> 01:38:41,399
Speaker 6: Well, don't stand this, honey, do something. Call somebody, the police,

1777
01:38:41,439 --> 01:38:44,439
the fire department. Yeah, I'll get a doctor and Sonny Valentine.

1778
01:38:44,520 --> 01:38:47,319
Don't get excited. Look at me. I'm perfectly calm.

1779
01:38:57,760 --> 01:39:00,880
Speaker 19: Gon up, miss is mister Valentine's office in this building.

1780
01:39:00,760 --> 01:39:01,279
Speaker 7: Fifth floor.

1781
01:39:01,439 --> 01:39:01,840
Speaker 12: Step in.

1782
01:39:02,000 --> 01:39:05,800
Speaker 7: Oh thank you, you're you're clear, ain't you?

1783
01:39:05,800 --> 01:39:05,960
Speaker 18: Well?

1784
01:39:06,000 --> 01:39:10,399
Speaker 7: How did you family resemblance? You look like Sonny, nice boy, Sonny.

1785
01:39:10,680 --> 01:39:13,199
Speaker 19: I think so too. Of course I'm prejudiced, you know it,

1786
01:39:13,359 --> 01:39:13,920
just as alike.

1787
01:39:14,159 --> 01:39:17,840
Speaker 7: Yes, I'm the same way about Georgie Georgie.

1788
01:39:18,039 --> 01:39:19,399
Speaker 19: Oh you don't mean mister Valentine.

1789
01:39:19,439 --> 01:39:21,479
Speaker 7: Of course you do know him for years, used to

1790
01:39:21,520 --> 01:39:23,800
work for his father. Georgie and I got to be

1791
01:39:23,840 --> 01:39:26,079
good friends on account of his curls.

1792
01:39:26,119 --> 01:39:26,760
Speaker 18: Curls.

1793
01:39:27,039 --> 01:39:29,079
Speaker 7: It must have been all of four years old then,

1794
01:39:29,319 --> 01:39:31,399
had the prettiest long curl you.

1795
01:39:31,399 --> 01:39:32,600
Speaker 29: Ever did see?

1796
01:39:32,800 --> 01:39:34,920
Speaker 7: Really, Yes, I talked to his more to having him

1797
01:39:34,920 --> 01:39:35,439
cut off.

1798
01:39:35,680 --> 01:39:37,960
Speaker 6: Georgie and me has been close friends ever seen.

1799
01:39:38,079 --> 01:39:41,479
Speaker 29: I can understand that you wouldn't gonna work for him.

1800
01:39:41,560 --> 01:39:43,520
Speaker 19: Well, I'm gonna apply for the job.

1801
01:39:43,640 --> 01:39:43,720
Speaker 22: Uh.

1802
01:39:43,960 --> 01:39:45,680
Speaker 7: Well, you keep an eye on him, hear me. Well,

1803
01:39:45,720 --> 01:39:49,159
I that boy never thinks to eat unless someone reminds him.

1804
01:39:49,600 --> 01:39:49,760
Speaker 15: Oh.

1805
01:39:49,760 --> 01:39:50,760
Speaker 6: Here we are fifth floor.

1806
01:39:51,000 --> 01:39:53,359
Speaker 7: Oh, don't let his talk fool you try to ak

1807
01:39:53,479 --> 01:39:56,359
hard boy, but I know Georgia underneath it all, he's

1808
01:39:56,359 --> 01:39:59,960
still a little boy. Then pretty long curves, first.

1809
01:39:59,760 --> 01:40:00,520
Speaker 6: Door, you're left.

1810
01:40:00,920 --> 01:40:02,840
Speaker 12: Oh there is no cat.

1811
01:40:02,960 --> 01:40:04,079
Speaker 6: Get a doctor up here right away.

1812
01:40:04,199 --> 01:40:05,560
Speaker 7: I ear noder shnam.

1813
01:40:05,840 --> 01:40:07,600
Speaker 6: I don't care. Get a doctor.

1814
01:40:07,720 --> 01:40:09,640
Speaker 7: I'll get doctor. Max took very good care of you

1815
01:40:09,640 --> 01:40:11,319
when you had that bad cold.

1816
01:40:11,399 --> 01:40:13,800
Speaker 19: Miss Valentine. Well, is anything wrong?

1817
01:40:13,960 --> 01:40:17,439
Speaker 6: Oh no, no, nothing trifling. Now run along, Sweethearten. If

1818
01:40:17,439 --> 01:40:18,760
you're a client, come back tomorrow, will you.

1819
01:40:18,880 --> 01:40:20,520
Speaker 19: I'm Claire Brooks sonny sister.

1820
01:40:20,600 --> 01:40:22,560
Speaker 6: You will come back tomorrow, mister Valentine.

1821
01:40:22,640 --> 01:40:24,880
Speaker 18: Well, you're going to talk to me about that job, whether.

1822
01:40:24,720 --> 01:40:27,039
Speaker 19: You like it or not. I spent ten cents on

1823
01:40:27,119 --> 01:40:28,239
bus fare to come here.

1824
01:40:28,520 --> 01:40:30,399
Speaker 6: Well, look, here's a dime, and I'll be a good

1825
01:40:30,399 --> 01:40:31,159
girl and beat it.

1826
01:40:31,479 --> 01:40:32,680
Speaker 29: I certainly will.

1827
01:40:33,119 --> 01:40:34,520
Speaker 34: I wouldn't work for you if you offered me one

1828
01:40:34,520 --> 01:40:36,199
thousand dollars a week to sit behind a desk and

1829
01:40:36,239 --> 01:40:37,680
do nothing but pot of my nose.

1830
01:40:38,199 --> 01:40:40,079
Speaker 6: Well you can stand a little potter at that. Oh

1831
01:40:40,520 --> 01:40:43,319
oh wait a minute. You had any experience as a secretary,

1832
01:40:43,560 --> 01:40:46,840
of course, and your men's socks, men's socks, iron shirts,

1833
01:40:46,880 --> 01:40:49,600
so buttons, cook breakfast over a canisternal.

1834
01:40:49,119 --> 01:40:51,880
Speaker 19: Mister Valentine, are you looking for a secretary.

1835
01:40:51,359 --> 01:40:51,880
Speaker 7: Or a wife?

1836
01:40:52,039 --> 01:40:52,239
Speaker 5: Oh?

1837
01:40:52,319 --> 01:40:55,760
Speaker 6: A secretary. I'm still a Vatchley, not gone. Would had

1838
01:40:55,760 --> 01:40:57,920
one close call, though, but I got away from her.

1839
01:40:59,319 --> 01:41:01,960
Speaker 18: Lucky guy, lucky girl.

1840
01:41:03,279 --> 01:41:05,319
Speaker 6: Hey you're all right. Okay, you're hired.

1841
01:41:05,760 --> 01:41:06,319
Speaker 19: Thank you.

1842
01:41:06,640 --> 01:41:07,880
Speaker 6: Now give me back that dime.

1843
01:41:08,319 --> 01:41:10,720
Speaker 29: What about salary, oh.

1844
01:41:10,159 --> 01:41:13,000
Speaker 6: Sali, Well we'll discuss that after I collect from my

1845
01:41:13,000 --> 01:41:13,600
first client.

1846
01:41:13,760 --> 01:41:15,600
Speaker 19: How do I know you'll ever get a first client?

1847
01:41:15,880 --> 01:41:18,560
Speaker 6: My first client? Oh, I've got one. Now. I don't

1848
01:41:18,560 --> 01:41:19,720
know what I'm going to do with him, but I've

1849
01:41:19,720 --> 01:41:22,560
got him. Come on in and see for yourself that

1850
01:41:22,760 --> 01:41:29,039
gentleman stretched out on the floor as my sonny sonnye? Well,

1851
01:41:29,039 --> 01:41:31,279
where is he? Where's the body? Where's mister Winners?

1852
01:41:31,720 --> 01:41:32,600
Speaker 18: Suffering cats?

1853
01:41:32,600 --> 01:41:38,720
Speaker 29: Mister Valentine, He's gone.

1854
01:41:42,279 --> 01:41:44,720
Speaker 6: That'll makes sense. Well, your mister Winters couldn't have just

1855
01:41:44,920 --> 01:41:46,239
disappeared into thin air.

1856
01:41:46,399 --> 01:41:49,039
Speaker 29: Well, it's like I told you, mister Valentine. I went

1857
01:41:49,079 --> 01:41:50,960
into the waiting room to phone the police, and the

1858
01:41:51,000 --> 01:41:53,359
next thing I knew you were out here yelling for me. Look,

1859
01:41:53,920 --> 01:41:55,720
this window is open or what of it?

1860
01:41:56,000 --> 01:41:56,800
Speaker 18: Don't you see?

1861
01:41:57,000 --> 01:41:58,159
Speaker 19: It leads to the fire.

1862
01:41:58,039 --> 01:42:00,760
Speaker 6: Escape, and this door leads to a and that door

1863
01:42:00,840 --> 01:42:02,319
leads to the well.

1864
01:42:02,359 --> 01:42:06,079
Speaker 34: Never mind, will you be serious? Mister Winters was shot? Well,

1865
01:42:06,319 --> 01:42:09,039
maybe his murderer followed him here to your office. Maybe

1866
01:42:09,039 --> 01:42:11,239
he hit out of the fire escape listening. Then when

1867
01:42:11,239 --> 01:42:13,560
you left the office he dragged the body out. I'll

1868
01:42:13,560 --> 01:42:14,359
bet sister is right.

1869
01:42:14,479 --> 01:42:16,720
Speaker 6: Oh look, kids, we haven't got time to puzzle over it.

1870
01:42:16,800 --> 01:42:17,039
Speaker 9: Now.

1871
01:42:17,319 --> 01:42:19,840
Speaker 6: I'm in a jam. The police will be here any minute,

1872
01:42:19,920 --> 01:42:23,199
the police, Well, of course, Sonny phoned them. Gosh, I

1873
01:42:23,279 --> 01:42:25,920
look pretty silly trying to explain that the body disappeared

1874
01:42:27,039 --> 01:42:28,720
my first case, and I make a mess of it.

1875
01:42:30,359 --> 01:42:32,560
Speaker 29: Don't get discouraged, mister Valentine.

1876
01:42:33,239 --> 01:42:34,720
Speaker 6: But to tell you the truth, Sonny, I don't know

1877
01:42:34,760 --> 01:42:37,159
what to do next. I haven't even got a clue.

1878
01:42:38,119 --> 01:42:39,359
Speaker 7: Still, the little boy and.

1879
01:42:39,399 --> 01:42:42,680
Speaker 6: Carol curls, Oh, Kayla's been talking to you.

1880
01:42:42,760 --> 01:42:43,319
Speaker 5: Huh.

1881
01:42:43,399 --> 01:42:45,359
Speaker 6: He's a swell guy. But don't take him too seriously.

1882
01:42:45,439 --> 01:42:48,199
Why not, Well, because he thinks I know all the answers.

1883
01:42:48,640 --> 01:42:51,520
Speaker 19: And look at me, mister Valentine, Why don't you go

1884
01:42:51,600 --> 01:42:52,720
out and find the clue?

1885
01:42:53,159 --> 01:42:54,079
Speaker 6: Find one where.

1886
01:42:54,560 --> 01:42:56,960
Speaker 19: Well did mister Winters have a family.

1887
01:42:57,479 --> 01:43:01,199
Speaker 6: Why hey, wait a minute, I've seen pictures of his

1888
01:43:01,199 --> 01:43:02,359
wife in society papers.

1889
01:43:02,439 --> 01:43:02,800
Speaker 5: Good.

1890
01:43:03,399 --> 01:43:06,239
Speaker 6: Oh, Claire, you're wonderful. Remind me to raise your salary.

1891
01:43:06,640 --> 01:43:07,760
Speaker 15: What salary?

1892
01:43:08,079 --> 01:43:10,000
Speaker 6: Well, when you get one, remind me to raise it.

1893
01:43:10,039 --> 01:43:10,560
Speaker 5: See you later.

1894
01:43:10,600 --> 01:43:11,880
Speaker 29: Where are you going, mister Valentine?

1895
01:43:11,880 --> 01:43:14,560
Speaker 6: So mister Winner's home? And when the police comes stolen.

1896
01:43:14,199 --> 01:43:15,960
Speaker 19: With mister Valentine? What I tells them?

1897
01:43:16,039 --> 01:43:19,479
Speaker 6: Tell them nothing. You've got charm, haven't you well use it?

1898
01:43:32,159 --> 01:43:34,840
Speaker 18: Mister Valentine. I've got to know. What do you think

1899
01:43:34,920 --> 01:43:35,880
happened to my husband?

1900
01:43:35,920 --> 01:43:36,079
Speaker 22: Oh?

1901
01:43:36,159 --> 01:43:37,640
Speaker 6: No, just take it easy, missus Winners.

1902
01:43:37,760 --> 01:43:40,760
Speaker 18: I was afraid something would happen to him. Why well,

1903
01:43:41,399 --> 01:43:43,920
he was so worried. I thought it was because his

1904
01:43:43,960 --> 01:43:46,560
writing wasn't going too well. He hadn't been able to

1905
01:43:46,560 --> 01:43:47,960
write a thing in a long time.

1906
01:43:48,279 --> 01:43:48,800
Speaker 5: Uh huh.

1907
01:43:48,880 --> 01:43:51,800
Speaker 6: Your husband is the famous mystery writer, isn't he? Yes? Yeah,

1908
01:43:51,800 --> 01:43:53,760
I've read some of his stuff. The Case of the

1909
01:43:53,800 --> 01:43:56,199
Body in the Bathtub Murder has the hiccups.

1910
01:43:57,119 --> 01:43:58,000
Speaker 18: This is his study.

1911
01:44:00,159 --> 01:44:01,079
Speaker 6: Say quite a layout?

1912
01:44:02,079 --> 01:44:02,239
Speaker 11: Eh?

1913
01:44:02,439 --> 01:44:03,359
Speaker 6: What are all these papers?

1914
01:44:03,520 --> 01:44:06,560
Speaker 18: His manuscript? He was working on The Lost Course.

1915
01:44:06,439 --> 01:44:09,199
Speaker 6: The Lost Corpse? Cute title.

1916
01:44:09,560 --> 01:44:12,000
Speaker 18: It wasn't coming easy. He knew it had to be

1917
01:44:12,039 --> 01:44:15,920
good or it would mean the end. Mister Valentine, what

1918
01:44:16,000 --> 01:44:17,720
are you looking for in that waste paper basket?

1919
01:44:17,920 --> 01:44:20,680
Speaker 6: Well, I don't know exactly. I just got a hunch.

1920
01:44:21,079 --> 01:44:23,600
Speaker 18: I want the truth. What's he murdered?

1921
01:44:23,720 --> 01:44:26,479
Speaker 6: Oh, relaxed, Missus Winders, relaxed. The best man in town

1922
01:44:26,600 --> 01:44:30,479
is on the job. Hey, of course is this the

1923
01:44:30,560 --> 01:44:31,000
lost court?

1924
01:44:31,039 --> 01:44:32,680
Speaker 18: I'll put that manuscript down. Don't look at it?

1925
01:44:32,760 --> 01:44:33,039
Speaker 6: Why not?

1926
01:44:33,880 --> 01:44:39,199
Speaker 18: Oh? Sorry, it's just a superstition. Jonathan never wanted anyone

1927
01:44:39,239 --> 01:44:40,680
to read what he was working on.

1928
01:44:40,920 --> 01:44:42,840
Speaker 6: Oh then, of course you haven't read this.

1929
01:44:44,039 --> 01:44:45,760
Speaker 18: No, no, no, certainly not.

1930
01:44:46,439 --> 01:44:48,359
Speaker 6: Did your husband have any domestic trouble?

1931
01:44:48,640 --> 01:44:52,000
Speaker 18: Domestic trouble? Jonathan was devoted to me?

1932
01:44:52,239 --> 01:44:53,199
Speaker 6: Why is why the past?

1933
01:44:53,199 --> 01:44:53,359
Speaker 2: Ten?

1934
01:44:53,479 --> 01:44:53,560
Speaker 5: What?

1935
01:44:54,479 --> 01:44:59,079
Speaker 18: Well, I don't know what I'm saying. Yes, just what

1936
01:44:59,239 --> 01:44:59,399
is it?

1937
01:45:00,000 --> 01:45:00,920
Speaker 19: From downstairs?

1938
01:45:01,039 --> 01:45:02,640
Speaker 6: He wants to talk to a policeman.

1939
01:45:02,840 --> 01:45:03,720
Speaker 18: Well, I'll be right down.

1940
01:45:03,800 --> 01:45:06,680
Speaker 6: Look, Missus Winners, you haven't seen me. Understand your husband

1941
01:45:06,720 --> 01:45:08,039
trusted me. Why don't you try it?

1942
01:45:08,359 --> 01:45:09,560
Speaker 18: All right, mister Valentine.

1943
01:45:09,640 --> 01:45:11,159
Speaker 6: Anyway I can get out of here without going down

1944
01:45:11,159 --> 01:45:11,600
the stairs.

1945
01:45:11,640 --> 01:45:14,399
Speaker 18: Oh, that door leads to my husband's private elevator. It'll

1946
01:45:14,399 --> 01:45:15,479
take you to the back entrance.

1947
01:45:15,520 --> 01:45:16,560
Speaker 6: He he thought of everything?

1948
01:45:16,640 --> 01:45:18,880
Speaker 18: Would he liked to come and go without disturbing the

1949
01:45:18,880 --> 01:45:19,800
rest of the household?

1950
01:45:20,159 --> 01:45:22,439
Speaker 6: A clever man, Okay, missus Winters, I'll get in touch

1951
01:45:22,479 --> 01:45:23,039
with you tomorrow.

1952
01:45:23,159 --> 01:45:26,520
Speaker 18: Tomorrow you mean you'll have news for me, Well.

1953
01:45:26,760 --> 01:45:29,199
Speaker 6: Maybe it'll be noosed to here. And then again, Missus

1954
01:45:29,199 --> 01:45:31,239
winner is maybe it won't.

1955
01:45:44,119 --> 01:45:46,920
Speaker 19: Mister Valentine, what's the idea of dragging me out here

1956
01:45:46,960 --> 01:45:47,840
in the middle of the night.

1957
01:45:48,079 --> 01:45:49,840
Speaker 6: Keep your pretty little mouse shut, will you?

1958
01:45:49,840 --> 01:45:50,119
Speaker 10: Claire?

1959
01:45:51,079 --> 01:45:52,560
Speaker 19: What is this place anyway?

1960
01:45:52,720 --> 01:45:54,239
Speaker 6: The back entrance to the Winter's home.

1961
01:45:54,439 --> 01:45:55,680
Speaker 19: Haven't they got a front entrance?

1962
01:45:56,199 --> 01:45:58,199
Speaker 6: Sure they have a We're not using it. We're here

1963
01:45:58,199 --> 01:45:59,640
to steal something steal.

1964
01:46:00,680 --> 01:46:03,279
Speaker 19: I'm supposed to be a secretary, not a second story man.

1965
01:46:03,840 --> 01:46:05,439
Keep quiet, mister Valentine.

1966
01:46:05,560 --> 01:46:06,119
Speaker 9: I quit.

1967
01:46:06,279 --> 01:46:08,359
Speaker 6: Yeah, some other time, I'll step into that elevator.

1968
01:46:08,439 --> 01:46:09,359
Speaker 19: An elevator.

1969
01:46:10,479 --> 01:46:14,039
Speaker 35: Where will this thing take us up to mister Winder's workroom?

1970
01:46:14,800 --> 01:46:15,880
Speaker 19: Pitch black in here?

1971
01:46:16,520 --> 01:46:18,199
Speaker 29: I don't feel safe.

1972
01:46:18,520 --> 01:46:20,319
Speaker 19: I'm here, That's what I mean.

1973
01:46:24,680 --> 01:46:28,560
Speaker 6: Sh I'll keep quiet. Who what's the matter?

1974
01:46:29,439 --> 01:46:30,720
Speaker 19: You don't have to hold my hand.

1975
01:46:31,399 --> 01:46:34,199
Speaker 6: I'm not holding your hand. Well someone is well, scream,

1976
01:46:34,239 --> 01:46:35,199
I got him covered, put him up.

1977
01:46:35,199 --> 01:46:37,119
Speaker 29: He'll get that good out of my ribs.

1978
01:46:37,159 --> 01:46:39,199
Speaker 6: Done, Sonny, I told you to go home.

1979
01:46:39,720 --> 01:46:41,359
Speaker 29: I have a feeling you're going to be very glad.

1980
01:46:41,439 --> 01:46:42,640
I'm along, mister Valentine.

1981
01:46:42,800 --> 01:46:45,880
Speaker 6: You might need me, Yeah, like I need a second head.

1982
01:46:46,039 --> 01:46:47,479
Speaker 18: You could use too.

1983
01:46:50,560 --> 01:46:52,880
Speaker 6: Now both, you stay right here. I know where the

1984
01:46:52,920 --> 01:46:53,399
desk is.

1985
01:46:53,560 --> 01:46:54,479
Speaker 19: What do you want in there?

1986
01:46:54,680 --> 01:46:56,279
Speaker 6: Well, I've got to get the Lost Corpse.

1987
01:46:56,359 --> 01:46:57,199
Speaker 18: The lost corpse?

1988
01:46:57,720 --> 01:46:59,720
Speaker 29: You mean you think mister Winter's body's in there?

1989
01:47:00,680 --> 01:47:02,640
Speaker 6: No, No, the manuscript of his book.

1990
01:47:02,920 --> 01:47:03,720
Speaker 29: I'll keep quiet.

1991
01:47:04,199 --> 01:47:04,920
Speaker 5: Don't make a sound.

1992
01:47:08,640 --> 01:47:09,920
Speaker 7: Oh what was that all?

1993
01:47:10,640 --> 01:47:11,840
Speaker 6: Just an old shin of mine?

1994
01:47:11,960 --> 01:47:14,039
Speaker 29: Hey, I hear's somebody coming up the stairs.

1995
01:47:14,079 --> 01:47:16,279
Speaker 6: Okay, kids, we can beat it. Now, everything's under control.

1996
01:47:16,319 --> 01:47:17,479
I've got the Lost Corpse.

1997
01:47:28,439 --> 01:47:31,640
Speaker 29: Is it a good story? Mister Valentine read it?

1998
01:47:31,720 --> 01:47:32,880
Speaker 6: Missus Winters wouldn't approve?

1999
01:47:34,119 --> 01:47:35,680
Speaker 18: What's she liked? She attracted?

2000
01:47:35,960 --> 01:47:38,720
Speaker 29: Never mind, Missus Winters? What about the Lost Corpse?

2001
01:47:38,920 --> 01:47:42,520
Speaker 6: Well, it's it's a very unusual story about a man

2002
01:47:42,560 --> 01:47:45,720
and his wife, all original. The wife would like to

2003
01:47:45,720 --> 01:47:47,239
give him the gate, but she hasn't any money of

2004
01:47:47,239 --> 01:47:49,439
her own. However, she stands to collect a lot if

2005
01:47:49,439 --> 01:47:50,720
her husband ever kicks the bucket.

2006
01:47:50,800 --> 01:47:51,399
Speaker 29: Is there a murder?

2007
01:47:51,600 --> 01:47:54,680
Speaker 6: Of course. The husband is shot, but he manages to

2008
01:47:54,680 --> 01:47:56,880
make his way to a private investigator's office.

2009
01:47:57,960 --> 01:48:00,239
Speaker 29: Is that in the story. Sure, but that's what mister

2010
01:48:00,279 --> 01:48:00,880
Winters did.

2011
01:48:01,199 --> 01:48:03,760
Speaker 6: The husband tells the investigator he's about to be murdered.

2012
01:48:03,880 --> 01:48:05,439
Speaker 29: Hey, that's what he told you.

2013
01:48:05,600 --> 01:48:08,640
Speaker 6: Then he collapses. When the investigator steps out of his office,

2014
01:48:08,840 --> 01:48:10,640
the wounded man disappears.

2015
01:48:10,399 --> 01:48:11,640
Speaker 29: Just like mister Winters did.

2016
01:48:11,840 --> 01:48:13,479
Speaker 19: That's what actually happened.

2017
01:48:13,720 --> 01:48:16,119
Speaker 6: It is, Oh, what do you know about that?

2018
01:48:16,520 --> 01:48:16,640
Speaker 11: Oh?

2019
01:48:16,760 --> 01:48:17,880
Speaker 29: Go on, mister Valentine.

2020
01:48:17,960 --> 01:48:20,439
Speaker 6: Then what Well? Later the guy returns to his wife

2021
01:48:20,479 --> 01:48:22,600
and he says, you thought you killed me, but I'm

2022
01:48:22,600 --> 01:48:23,199
not dead yet?

2023
01:48:23,319 --> 01:48:24,159
Speaker 10: You you?

2024
01:48:25,279 --> 01:48:25,520
Speaker 19: Yes?

2025
01:48:26,000 --> 01:48:26,279
Speaker 18: Go on?

2026
01:48:27,359 --> 01:48:29,840
Speaker 6: Well that's all. That's as far as mister Winter's got

2027
01:48:29,840 --> 01:48:30,399
with his story.

2028
01:48:30,680 --> 01:48:32,840
Speaker 19: No wonder missus Winters didn't want you to read it.

2029
01:48:33,000 --> 01:48:34,199
It's the story of their life.

2030
01:48:34,279 --> 01:48:36,399
Speaker 29: It's shows she's guilty, she killed her husband.

2031
01:48:36,920 --> 01:48:39,800
Speaker 7: Georgie, Okay, Georgie, yeah, Caleb, what do you want?

2032
01:48:40,399 --> 01:48:44,079
Speaker 6: Where's missus Winterers? Sure, right now, this is Winterers. What

2033
01:48:44,119 --> 01:48:44,920
are you talking about?

2034
01:48:45,079 --> 01:48:47,000
Speaker 7: I left in your waiting room. She comes to see

2035
01:48:47,199 --> 01:48:50,159
when was this a few minutes ago? Shack's kind of funny,

2036
01:48:50,279 --> 01:48:51,520
like maybe she was shak Orsham.

2037
01:48:51,560 --> 01:48:55,720
Speaker 6: Come on, not a sign of her Kitla. But are

2038
01:48:55,720 --> 01:48:57,680
you sure you left missus Winters here in my waiting room?

2039
01:48:57,720 --> 01:49:01,319
Speaker 18: Well, Valentine, look on the table a woman's purse with

2040
01:49:01,399 --> 01:49:02,039
initials on it.

2041
01:49:02,239 --> 01:49:04,399
Speaker 6: MW MW Marsha Winters.

2042
01:49:04,439 --> 01:49:06,640
Speaker 29: Do you think the same thing happened to her, mister Valentine,

2043
01:49:06,640 --> 01:49:09,000
someone followed her here and hit out on the fire escaping.

2044
01:49:09,039 --> 01:49:11,560
Speaker 6: No, no, I don't think so. She heard us talking.

2045
01:49:11,840 --> 01:49:14,000
She knew he thought she was guilty. Oh of course.

2046
01:49:14,319 --> 01:49:16,920
All right, Caleb, thanks a lot. All right, Jogie call

2047
01:49:17,039 --> 01:49:19,960
me if you're need Yeah, yeah, sure, Caleb. See how

2048
01:49:20,000 --> 01:49:21,039
are you two at playing.

2049
01:49:20,880 --> 01:49:23,239
Speaker 19: Games games at a time like this?

2050
01:49:23,439 --> 01:49:25,840
Speaker 6: Uh, Sonny you'll be Sonny, I'll be George Valentine, and

2051
01:49:25,840 --> 01:49:28,760
Claire you'll be mister Winters. What now, Claire, step outside

2052
01:49:28,760 --> 01:49:30,960
the office, give us a few minutes, then come in

2053
01:49:31,000 --> 01:49:32,239
and say you expect to be murdered.

2054
01:49:32,600 --> 01:49:35,319
Speaker 29: Oh I get it. You want to reenact the crime?

2055
01:49:36,079 --> 01:49:38,600
Speaker 6: Smart boy? Okay, Claire, get going first.

2056
01:49:38,600 --> 01:49:40,720
Speaker 19: I'm a second story man and now I'm an actress.

2057
01:49:41,000 --> 01:49:41,520
Speaker 9: I quit.

2058
01:49:41,680 --> 01:49:43,920
Speaker 6: Oh come on, Claire, be a good sport.

2059
01:49:43,720 --> 01:49:45,600
Speaker 9: Humor, mad I said, I quit.

2060
01:49:45,680 --> 01:49:47,720
Speaker 6: Yeah, Oh, we haven't got time. Now you can quit tomorrow.

2061
01:49:47,920 --> 01:49:52,520
Speaker 34: Oh all right, but you can think of the silliest.

2062
01:49:54,760 --> 01:49:57,199
Speaker 6: Now what do we do, mister Valentine, Just exactly what

2063
01:49:57,199 --> 01:50:00,680
we did when mister Winters first stepped into this office. Okay, Claire,

2064
01:50:00,720 --> 01:50:01,079
come on in.

2065
01:50:02,760 --> 01:50:03,680
Speaker 29: I don't think she heard you.

2066
01:50:04,239 --> 01:50:07,359
Speaker 6: All right, Claire, we're ready. What's the matter with her?

2067
01:50:07,439 --> 01:50:12,079
Speaker 29: I'll get her, Claire, you can come in now. Where

2068
01:50:12,159 --> 01:50:13,520
is she suffering?

2069
01:50:13,720 --> 01:50:14,119
Speaker 18: Cats?

2070
01:50:14,520 --> 01:50:17,640
Speaker 29: What a mess? Now my sister's disappeared.

2071
01:50:19,279 --> 01:50:21,920
Speaker 33: It's only natural, I guess, for the carpenter to build

2072
01:50:21,920 --> 01:50:25,000
his own house a little stronger, for the cobbler to

2073
01:50:25,039 --> 01:50:28,239
cut his own shoes a little more generously, or the

2074
01:50:28,319 --> 01:50:32,520
farmer to select the juiciest apples for his own barrel. Frankly,

2075
01:50:32,680 --> 01:50:35,079
that's one reason why you can count on a little

2076
01:50:35,159 --> 01:50:37,560
something extra in the way of service when you stop

2077
01:50:37,600 --> 01:50:41,039
at a home owned Chevron gas station. You see, the

2078
01:50:41,119 --> 01:50:44,199
Chevron dealer is building his own business. He's got a

2079
01:50:44,239 --> 01:50:47,079
big stake in making you want a trade with him.

2080
01:50:47,359 --> 01:50:50,359
That's why his smiles a little friendlier and his service

2081
01:50:50,479 --> 01:50:53,560
a little more thorough. And of course he's offering your

2082
01:50:53,600 --> 01:50:57,800
car the best climate tailored Chevron Supreme gasoline and r

2083
01:50:57,880 --> 01:51:01,479
p M compounded motor oil. It's only natural, too for

2084
01:51:01,560 --> 01:51:05,039
you to like doing business with a neighborly conscientious kind

2085
01:51:05,039 --> 01:51:07,720
of a fellow. So look up the Chevron dealer in

2086
01:51:07,760 --> 01:51:11,880
your neighborhood. Remember his Chevron gas station is home owned.

2087
01:51:21,399 --> 01:51:33,079
Why George doesn't seem to have gotten very far in

2088
01:51:33,159 --> 01:51:36,239
his solution of this case. First a murdered man disappeared

2089
01:51:36,239 --> 01:51:38,800
from right under his nose, and the murdered man's wife

2090
01:51:38,840 --> 01:51:42,880
mysteriously departed, and now his secretary is vanished into thin air?

2091
01:51:43,920 --> 01:51:45,680
Speaker 29: Are you just going to sit here in your office,

2092
01:51:45,680 --> 01:51:49,119
mister Valentine? Aren't you going to do anything? She's my sister,

2093
01:51:49,159 --> 01:51:50,520
She's the only sister I've gone.

2094
01:51:50,560 --> 01:51:52,720
Speaker 6: Oh no, I'll take it easy, Sonny. If I thought

2095
01:51:52,760 --> 01:51:54,560
anything had happened to Claire, I'd be out searching every

2096
01:51:54,600 --> 01:51:55,640
house in this town.

2097
01:51:55,640 --> 01:51:56,159
Speaker 11: Where is she?

2098
01:51:56,479 --> 01:51:58,760
Speaker 6: Well, she couldn't take it, that's all, so she quit,

2099
01:51:59,039 --> 01:52:01,560
walked out on us. I can't say I blame her.

2100
01:52:01,800 --> 01:52:03,119
Speaker 29: That doesn't sound like Claire.

2101
01:52:03,760 --> 01:52:04,119
Speaker 11: Georgi.

2102
01:52:04,319 --> 01:52:06,520
Speaker 6: Yeah, Caleb, you haven't not your dinner?

2103
01:52:06,600 --> 01:52:08,039
Speaker 7: Yeah, don't you think you better go out and get

2104
01:52:08,119 --> 01:52:11,319
your some bee. Oh not now, Caleb, you could leave

2105
01:52:11,399 --> 01:52:12,640
by the fire escape.

2106
01:52:12,840 --> 01:52:16,520
Speaker 6: The fire escape. Uh huh, please card your stuffed in front.

2107
01:52:16,359 --> 01:52:18,159
Speaker 29: Oh stuffer and taps the police.

2108
01:52:18,560 --> 01:52:19,960
Speaker 7: Get yourself from nice steak.

2109
01:52:20,159 --> 01:52:22,119
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's just what I'll do. Come on, Sonny, I'll

2110
01:52:22,119 --> 01:52:24,319
get down there, install them, Caleb. Oh, I intend to.

2111
01:52:24,840 --> 01:52:27,399
Speaker 7: Now you take your time and die. Yes, your dinner good.

2112
01:52:27,359 --> 01:52:27,680
Speaker 11: You hear me?

2113
01:52:27,880 --> 01:52:30,600
Speaker 6: Oh sure, sure, let's go, Sonny, the fire escape. Oh ands, Sonny, Yeah,

2114
01:52:30,640 --> 01:52:33,439
mister Valentine, better bring missus Winner's purse along with you.

2115
01:52:45,119 --> 01:52:48,359
Speaker 29: Excuse me, mister Valentine, But aren't you gonna stop and

2116
01:52:48,520 --> 01:52:49,199
get something beat?

2117
01:52:49,840 --> 01:52:52,319
Speaker 6: That's the trouble with women. As soon as it going

2118
01:52:52,359 --> 01:52:53,880
gets a little tough, they walk out on you.

2119
01:52:54,279 --> 01:52:55,000
Speaker 29: Didn't you promise?

2120
01:52:55,079 --> 01:52:55,359
Speaker 6: Caleb?

2121
01:52:55,439 --> 01:52:59,800
Speaker 29: You get yourself a steak boy, a big beautiful steak.

2122
01:53:00,319 --> 01:53:01,600
Speaker 6: But you're certainly right, Sonny.

2123
01:53:02,039 --> 01:53:02,399
Speaker 5: She is.

2124
01:53:03,760 --> 01:53:06,000
Speaker 6: She is, sir, much prettier.

2125
01:53:05,720 --> 01:53:08,880
Speaker 29: Than you, mister Valentin. If we're not gonna eat, we

2126
01:53:09,000 --> 01:53:11,680
can't just drive around all night. We've got to find

2127
01:53:11,680 --> 01:53:13,600
out who murdered mister Winters and what they did with

2128
01:53:13,720 --> 01:53:16,199
his body, and where missus Winters disappeared to and what

2129
01:53:16,279 --> 01:53:19,399
happened to Claire? Isn't that right, sir? And she's very intelligent,

2130
01:53:19,960 --> 01:53:22,600
that is for a woman, mister Valentine.

2131
01:53:23,479 --> 01:53:26,119
Speaker 6: Oh okay, sonny, look at the address on that letter.

2132
01:53:27,000 --> 01:53:27,680
Speaker 29: What letter, sir?

2133
01:53:27,840 --> 01:53:31,039
Speaker 6: The one? And missus Wedder's purse is the letter in here?

2134
01:53:31,239 --> 01:53:31,359
Speaker 11: Well?

2135
01:53:31,399 --> 01:53:33,119
Speaker 6: Didn't you notice it when Claire opened the purse?

2136
01:53:34,479 --> 01:53:34,720
Speaker 11: Oh?

2137
01:53:34,960 --> 01:53:35,560
Speaker 2: Oh, here it is.

2138
01:53:36,640 --> 01:53:41,840
Speaker 29: It's addressed to missus Marshall Winters, three hundred pepper Tree Laying, Cedarhurst. Hey,

2139
01:53:42,560 --> 01:53:43,319
that's in the country.

2140
01:53:43,439 --> 01:53:46,600
Speaker 6: Yeah, they must have a country place too, And that's.

2141
01:53:46,439 --> 01:53:50,079
Speaker 29: Out on Highway six right, and you're hey, we're on

2142
01:53:50,279 --> 01:53:52,199
Highway six. We're headed towards Cedarhurst.

2143
01:53:52,279 --> 01:53:56,479
Speaker 6: Now, Oh, brilliant production, sonny. I'll increase your ration of bubblegum.

2144
01:54:06,760 --> 01:54:09,119
Speaker 11: I felled a rupture oil water.

2145
01:54:09,279 --> 01:54:12,119
Speaker 6: No thanks, washing wind she you no, don't bother. I

2146
01:54:12,319 --> 01:54:13,680
washed it once and couldn't do a thing with it.

2147
01:54:13,840 --> 01:54:15,840
Speaker 12: Don't get them in a cust around here at nine

2148
01:54:16,159 --> 01:54:17,399
pretty deserted rule.

2149
01:54:17,479 --> 01:54:20,199
Speaker 6: That's all. I'll bet where the first car you've seen

2150
01:54:20,239 --> 01:54:20,680
this evening?

2151
01:54:20,760 --> 01:54:21,239
Speaker 22: I try it.

2152
01:54:21,560 --> 01:54:23,000
Speaker 11: Oh, except for that cab.

2153
01:54:23,199 --> 01:54:23,800
Speaker 6: Cab with a woman.

2154
01:54:23,880 --> 01:54:27,399
Speaker 29: And now, how did you guess Hey, I'll bet it

2155
01:54:27,479 --> 01:54:28,159
was missus Winters.

2156
01:54:28,279 --> 01:54:29,760
Speaker 6: Hang on, sunny, we're getting warm.

2157
01:54:53,279 --> 01:54:54,479
Speaker 29: Is this it, mister Valentine?

2158
01:54:54,600 --> 01:54:55,279
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm careful.

2159
01:54:55,279 --> 01:54:58,239
Speaker 35: Don't make any noise. There's a light inside the cabin

2160
01:54:59,079 --> 01:55:02,359
and a woman see him moving around? Oh yeah, I

2161
01:55:02,399 --> 01:55:04,479
can make out her shadow. Now, all right, Sonny, you

2162
01:55:04,560 --> 01:55:06,880
stay out here, mister Valentine. Sorry, Sonny, but there may

2163
01:55:06,920 --> 01:55:08,600
be trouble and I can't let anything happen to you.

2164
01:55:08,920 --> 01:55:09,399
Speaker 1: But I'm in this.

2165
01:55:09,479 --> 01:55:09,800
Speaker 29: Would you?

2166
01:55:10,039 --> 01:55:12,279
Speaker 6: Don't you remember I was going to look out for you, but.

2167
01:55:12,359 --> 01:55:14,439
Speaker 29: You may need meat cheapers, mister Valentine.

2168
01:55:14,600 --> 01:55:17,000
Speaker 6: Right, Sonny, you'll win, but stick close to me. I understand.

2169
01:55:17,359 --> 01:55:21,479
Speaker 29: Yesterday, are we going to walk right in?

2170
01:55:22,119 --> 01:55:22,159
Speaker 10: No?

2171
01:55:22,680 --> 01:55:25,960
Speaker 6: No, of course not. That's no fun. What were they doing?

2172
01:55:26,000 --> 01:55:30,319
A mystery show? They climb in a window. Then we'll

2173
01:55:30,359 --> 01:55:37,600
climb in a window, Valentine.

2174
01:55:37,680 --> 01:55:41,840
Speaker 29: She turned off the light. Shall I go in first?

2175
01:55:42,079 --> 01:55:42,119
Speaker 11: No?

2176
01:55:42,399 --> 01:55:44,119
Speaker 6: Are you getting back of me? I mean handless?

2177
01:55:44,640 --> 01:55:57,359
Speaker 29: Yes, sir, I'll take it easy, Sonny. Okay, I've got her.

2178
01:55:57,920 --> 01:55:58,399
Speaker 32: No you don't.

2179
01:55:58,439 --> 01:56:01,600
Speaker 6: You'll stay right here. Turn then let see what we've

2180
01:56:01,640 --> 01:56:07,600
bagged Claire. Well, well, if it isn't second story, Clariss.

2181
01:56:07,319 --> 01:56:08,600
Speaker 18: Did you have to be so rough.

2182
01:56:08,960 --> 01:56:10,279
Speaker 29: I'll bet you crack two ribs.

2183
01:56:10,359 --> 01:56:11,760
Speaker 6: Sorry, I don't know my own strength.

2184
01:56:11,920 --> 01:56:13,560
Speaker 19: Well, now that you see who I am, you don't

2185
01:56:13,600 --> 01:56:14,560
have to keep on holding me.

2186
01:56:14,840 --> 01:56:17,600
Speaker 29: No, but it's fun, Claire, What are you doing here?

2187
01:56:17,800 --> 01:56:17,920
Speaker 10: Oh?

2188
01:56:18,000 --> 01:56:19,880
Speaker 6: Well, she saw the address on the letters, so she

2189
01:56:20,000 --> 01:56:21,239
decided to follow the clothes.

2190
01:56:21,319 --> 01:56:22,880
Speaker 29: Yeah, but why didn't she let us in on it?

2191
01:56:23,079 --> 01:56:25,079
Speaker 6: Because she thought I was a dope, Sonny, so she

2192
01:56:25,239 --> 01:56:25,640
took over.

2193
01:56:25,880 --> 01:56:29,520
Speaker 19: You know, all the answers don't not quite what happened

2194
01:56:29,560 --> 01:56:30,640
when you got here. Nothing.

2195
01:56:31,119 --> 01:56:32,119
Speaker 18: The place looked deserted.

2196
01:56:32,399 --> 01:56:33,479
Speaker 19: I crawled in the window too.

2197
01:56:33,920 --> 01:56:34,439
Speaker 6: No one here.

2198
01:56:34,640 --> 01:56:35,600
Speaker 19: I couldn't see anyone.

2199
01:56:36,000 --> 01:56:37,159
Speaker 6: Are you sure of course?

2200
01:56:38,079 --> 01:56:42,399
Speaker 19: Well, I've had the strangest feeling, Yeah, as though someone's

2201
01:56:42,439 --> 01:56:43,079
been watching me.

2202
01:56:44,239 --> 01:56:47,399
Speaker 6: Uh huh. Stay here with Sonny.

2203
01:56:47,479 --> 01:56:51,520
Speaker 29: I'll have a look around some cats as you sure

2204
01:56:51,600 --> 01:56:52,319
had me scared.

2205
01:56:52,560 --> 01:56:55,279
Speaker 19: I'm sorry, Sonny, but mister Valentine didn't seem to be

2206
01:56:55,319 --> 01:56:56,439
making any effort.

2207
01:56:56,159 --> 01:56:56,960
Speaker 9: To solve the cake.

2208
01:56:57,279 --> 01:56:59,880
Speaker 29: Yeah, don't kid yourself. It just keeps things to him.

2209
01:57:00,520 --> 01:57:08,039
Speaker 6: Well, everything seems to be in apple pie order. Hey listen, oh, Sonny, Claire,

2210
01:57:08,119 --> 01:57:09,720
stand back there in the corner. I'll cover the door.

2211
01:57:09,760 --> 01:57:11,439
Speaker 19: I'll be careful, mister Valentine.

2212
01:57:11,520 --> 01:57:13,119
Speaker 6: Do I detect concern in your voice?

2213
01:57:13,359 --> 01:57:15,439
Speaker 19: Well, I don't want to see you get shot right

2214
01:57:15,520 --> 01:57:16,039
in front of it.

2215
01:57:16,359 --> 01:57:25,840
Speaker 6: Oh, then close your eyes. Well, good evening, Missus Winters.

2216
01:57:25,960 --> 01:57:29,079
Oh may I present my two assistants, Claire and Sonny Brooks.

2217
01:57:29,159 --> 01:57:31,199
Speaker 18: How did you know i'd see here? What do you want?

2218
01:57:31,399 --> 01:57:33,279
Speaker 6: Just want to make talk, mister Valentine.

2219
01:57:33,319 --> 01:57:35,880
Speaker 18: You've got to believe me. I'm not like the woman

2220
01:57:35,960 --> 01:57:38,119
in his story. I love Jonathan.

2221
01:57:38,319 --> 01:57:40,159
Speaker 6: Uh huh. And you're the girl who never reads his

2222
01:57:40,239 --> 01:57:41,520
manuscripts until they're finished.

2223
01:57:41,600 --> 01:57:41,840
Speaker 15: Well, I.

2224
01:57:43,760 --> 01:57:46,239
Speaker 18: Oh, go ahead, turn me over to the police.

2225
01:57:47,000 --> 01:57:47,479
Speaker 6: Don't care.

2226
01:57:49,079 --> 01:57:51,079
Speaker 19: That's as good as a confession, mister Valentine.

2227
01:57:51,239 --> 01:57:54,399
Speaker 6: Well, I'm in no mood for confessions. Come on, we're

2228
01:57:54,439 --> 01:57:57,920
gonna play a little game. Oh not again, Hey, Sonny,

2229
01:57:57,960 --> 01:57:59,880
you keep your eye on Missus Winters. Don't let her leave.

2230
01:58:00,399 --> 01:58:01,520
Speaker 18: I won't try to run away.

2231
01:58:01,720 --> 01:58:03,800
Speaker 6: All right, Claire, you're the wife and the lost corpse.

2232
01:58:03,920 --> 01:58:04,600
Speaker 19: More acting.

2233
01:58:05,159 --> 01:58:08,000
Speaker 6: I quit tomorrow now. Then I'll be the husband and

2234
01:58:08,039 --> 01:58:10,479
mister Wenner's story. And here are some lines for you

2235
01:58:10,520 --> 01:58:10,760
to read.

2236
01:58:10,800 --> 01:58:11,039
Speaker 11: Claire.

2237
01:58:11,239 --> 01:58:12,720
Speaker 19: You came all prepared, didn't you?

2238
01:58:13,039 --> 01:58:14,760
Speaker 29: Is this stuff that you wrote, mister Valentine.

2239
01:58:15,119 --> 01:58:17,920
Speaker 6: Of course, I'm a man of many talents. Now then

2240
01:58:18,000 --> 01:58:19,720
let's see. Oh, we'll skip to the part where I

2241
01:58:19,800 --> 01:58:21,800
walk in wound it and say, yeah, you thought you

2242
01:58:21,920 --> 01:58:24,439
killed me, but I'm not dead yet. I'll say, alright,

2243
01:58:24,520 --> 01:58:27,359
let's go. You thought you killed me, but I'm not

2244
01:58:27,399 --> 01:58:27,800
dead yet.

2245
01:58:27,960 --> 01:58:31,079
Speaker 19: No, No, I didn't shoot you. I swear I didn't.

2246
01:58:31,119 --> 01:58:33,720
Speaker 6: But oh, believe you. The police all close point to you.

2247
01:58:34,000 --> 01:58:36,239
Do you mean, yes, my dear, you wanted me out

2248
01:58:36,279 --> 01:58:39,359
of the way. Well you got your wish. I shot myself. No, no,

2249
01:58:39,640 --> 01:58:42,079
I kill myself. But they'll think you're guilty. You'll pay

2250
01:58:42,159 --> 01:58:45,439
for it. I'll get a doctor too late, too late. Goodbye,

2251
01:58:45,560 --> 01:58:46,960
my dear, goodbye.

2252
01:58:48,560 --> 01:58:49,119
Speaker 5: Then I die.

2253
01:58:49,960 --> 01:58:53,760
Speaker 29: What a performance? I don't get it, mister Valentine.

2254
01:58:53,960 --> 01:58:55,520
Speaker 19: You wrote this ending for his story?

2255
01:58:55,640 --> 01:58:55,960
Speaker 32: Is that it?

2256
01:58:56,159 --> 01:58:56,399
Speaker 11: Sure?

2257
01:58:56,439 --> 01:58:58,000
Speaker 6: Of course? What's the story without an ending?

2258
01:58:58,039 --> 01:59:00,560
Speaker 18: I'll tell you what mister Valentine is getting at. He's

2259
01:59:00,640 --> 01:59:04,039
trying to prove that my husband shot himself, shot himself

2260
01:59:04,039 --> 01:59:05,520
in such a way that it would look as though

2261
01:59:05,600 --> 01:59:08,800
I murdered him. Why would Jonathan do such a thinking

2262
01:59:08,880 --> 01:59:09,720
you I loved him.

2263
01:59:09,840 --> 01:59:11,359
Speaker 19: You don't have to put on an act for us,

2264
01:59:11,399 --> 01:59:12,000
missus Wyndley.

2265
01:59:12,079 --> 01:59:13,840
Speaker 29: Yeah, why don't you turn her over to the police.

2266
01:59:14,039 --> 01:59:16,359
Speaker 6: I just keep your shirt on, Sonny, and everybody stand

2267
01:59:16,399 --> 01:59:16,840
where you are.

2268
01:59:17,239 --> 01:59:17,960
Speaker 5: They'll make a move.

2269
01:59:18,560 --> 01:59:19,640
Speaker 6: Understand, what are you going to do?

2270
01:59:20,159 --> 01:59:23,520
Speaker 29: You'll see mister Valentine, why are you opening that door?

2271
01:59:23,920 --> 01:59:25,880
Speaker 6: We're going to have some company company.

2272
01:59:26,479 --> 01:59:27,960
Speaker 19: Then somebody is hiding here.

2273
01:59:28,439 --> 01:59:30,680
Speaker 6: Okay, come on now, who are you calling?

2274
01:59:30,800 --> 01:59:31,680
Speaker 29: Hey? You mean the police.

2275
01:59:31,720 --> 01:59:34,000
Speaker 19: You're here, police, You've said a trap for me?

2276
01:59:34,279 --> 01:59:35,600
Speaker 6: Come on out, mister Winters.

2277
01:59:36,600 --> 01:59:38,720
Speaker 29: Mister Winters, how did you know why I was hiding

2278
01:59:38,760 --> 01:59:39,039
in there?

2279
01:59:39,319 --> 01:59:39,560
Speaker 18: John?

2280
01:59:40,159 --> 01:59:40,399
Speaker 22: Well?

2281
01:59:40,520 --> 01:59:42,600
Speaker 6: How'd you like my way of ending your story? Mister Winners?

2282
01:59:42,680 --> 01:59:42,840
Speaker 22: Why?

2283
01:59:42,880 --> 01:59:45,560
Speaker 6: It was very clever, mister Valentine, Jonathon, you're not hurt.

2284
01:59:45,960 --> 01:59:46,680
Speaker 18: You was shot.

2285
01:59:46,960 --> 01:59:48,800
Speaker 10: I'm terribly s are your wordling?

2286
01:59:49,319 --> 01:59:49,520
Speaker 15: Yeah?

2287
01:59:49,520 --> 01:59:50,079
Speaker 19: I don't get this.

2288
01:59:50,279 --> 01:59:52,439
Speaker 6: Well, mister Winters couldn't find an ending for his story

2289
01:59:52,520 --> 01:59:54,960
the Lost Corpse. But how did you know that searched

2290
01:59:55,039 --> 01:59:57,319
his waste paper basket found it full of rejected.

2291
01:59:57,199 --> 01:59:57,840
Speaker 11: That's quite right.

2292
01:59:57,920 --> 01:59:59,800
Speaker 36: Finally I decided to do just what the hero in

2293
01:59:59,800 --> 02:00:02,600
my book did. So I went to mister Valentine. S yes, ah,

2294
02:00:02,640 --> 02:00:04,720
he's ad in the paper, said he could solve anything.

2295
02:00:04,920 --> 02:00:06,600
Speaker 6: Then when he tried to go home and explain to you,

2296
02:00:06,720 --> 02:00:08,920
missus Winters, he saw the police there, so he came

2297
02:00:08,960 --> 02:00:11,640
out here to hide, right, mister Winter, Absolutely right. I

2298
02:00:11,720 --> 02:00:13,880
know i'd find him here. Then when I searched this cabin,

2299
02:00:13,920 --> 02:00:15,039
I saw him hiding in the closet.

2300
02:00:15,159 --> 02:00:16,479
Speaker 19: Why didn't you say something?

2301
02:00:16,760 --> 02:00:16,920
Speaker 5: Oh?

2302
02:00:17,479 --> 02:00:20,359
Speaker 6: I wanted to sort of put on a show for Jonathan.

2303
02:00:20,640 --> 02:00:24,359
Oh forgive me. Oh, come on, kids, they don't need

2304
02:00:24,399 --> 02:00:24,800
an audience.

2305
02:00:24,840 --> 02:00:26,119
Speaker 11: The no winmen, mister Valentine.

2306
02:00:26,479 --> 02:00:28,399
Speaker 36: I got the ending to my story thanks to you,

2307
02:00:28,760 --> 02:00:31,159
and with all that publicity in the papers, it's sure

2308
02:00:31,159 --> 02:00:32,039
to have a big sale.

2309
02:00:32,560 --> 02:00:34,159
Speaker 10: So name your fee.

2310
02:00:35,000 --> 02:00:41,720
Speaker 6: Oh well, I don't know, mister Whinners. I hadn't really

2311
02:00:41,880 --> 02:00:46,960
thought about it. I say an even thousands. I'll send

2312
02:00:46,960 --> 02:00:49,000
you a check in my morning. Oh no hurry, no hurry,

2313
02:00:49,119 --> 02:00:52,800
no hurry. I just happened to have a pen and

2314
02:00:52,880 --> 02:00:55,640
a blank check with me though. As a matter of fact,

2315
02:00:55,720 --> 02:00:58,359
here it is all made out. Just need your signature

2316
02:00:58,399 --> 02:00:59,239
and mister Winning.

2317
02:00:59,640 --> 02:01:04,439
Speaker 36: Oh went, of course, cats a thousand busow.

2318
02:01:04,800 --> 02:01:08,039
Speaker 6: Thanks. Thanks, well, let's go kids. Good night, mister Winters.

2319
02:01:08,199 --> 02:01:15,199
And if you ever get stuck again, what a day.

2320
02:01:16,079 --> 02:01:20,319
Speaker 19: Now, I feel like collapsing, Sonny, come here and put

2321
02:01:20,359 --> 02:01:21,000
your arm around.

2322
02:01:21,760 --> 02:01:23,560
Speaker 29: Oh sure, go.

2323
02:01:23,600 --> 02:01:26,800
Speaker 6: Away, Sonny. Let George do it.

2324
02:01:35,680 --> 02:01:38,439
Speaker 33: Your neighborhood Chevron dealer asked me to pass along this

2325
02:01:38,680 --> 02:01:41,760
touring tip to you folks taking weekend trips this fall.

2326
02:01:42,520 --> 02:01:45,000
He wants me to remind you that a Chevron credit

2327
02:01:45,079 --> 02:01:48,640
card makes a mighty handy traveling companion. If you don't

2328
02:01:48,680 --> 02:01:51,039
have one, you can apply at any Chevron gas station.

2329
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If you do have one and haven't been using it,

2330
02:01:54,319 --> 02:01:58,359
don't forget these credit card advantages. First, they help conserve

2331
02:01:58,439 --> 02:02:02,760
your travel cash. You can charge most of your car expenses. Second,

2332
02:02:03,279 --> 02:02:07,079
they're good everywhere in the US and Canada too. Third,

2333
02:02:07,399 --> 02:02:11,960
they wrap up all car expenses into one convenient monthly bundle.

2334
02:02:12,680 --> 02:02:15,600
Chevren credit cards are good at home owned Chevron gas

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02:02:15,680 --> 02:02:18,760
stations all over the West. So watch for those cream,

2336
02:02:18,800 --> 02:02:21,880
green and burgundy stations on the road this weekend and

2337
02:02:22,079 --> 02:02:23,880
use your Chevron credit card.

2338
02:02:31,640 --> 02:02:32,520
Speaker 10: Well next week.

2339
02:02:32,600 --> 02:02:35,720
Speaker 33: A former army buddy comes to George Valentine with a

2340
02:02:36,000 --> 02:02:37,159
very delicate problem.

2341
02:02:37,359 --> 02:02:39,439
Speaker 29: George, I'm desperate. J're my only bet.

2342
02:02:39,680 --> 02:02:42,279
Speaker 6: You're the only one that can help me. Now, relax, Tommy,

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02:02:42,319 --> 02:02:43,279
you came to the right man.

2344
02:02:43,520 --> 02:02:45,079
Speaker 36: What can I do for will I've got to go

2345
02:02:45,119 --> 02:02:47,000
out of town to look for a job, and what

2346
02:02:47,159 --> 02:02:48,960
I want to know is, in case I don't get

2347
02:02:49,000 --> 02:02:51,840
back in time, will you have my baby for me?

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02:03:17,560 --> 02:03:20,399
Speaker 33: Chevron gas stations all through the West invite you to

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02:03:20,479 --> 02:03:23,199
be with us again next week or another chapter of

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02:03:23,319 --> 02:03:25,439
Let George Do It. Brought to you by the makers

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02:03:25,479 --> 02:03:30,000
of Chevron Supreme Gasoline and RPM Motor Oil. Let George

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02:03:30,039 --> 02:03:33,119
Do It, starring Robert Bailey as George, with Francis Robinson

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02:03:33,159 --> 02:03:36,399
as Claire and Eddie Firestone Junior as Sonny, is written

2354
02:03:36,399 --> 02:03:39,399
by Pauline Hopkins, produced and directed by Owen Vincent.

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02:03:40,039 --> 02:03:41,159
Speaker 10: Others in the cast.

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02:03:40,960 --> 02:03:44,359
Speaker 33: Were Joe Kerns as Caleb, Rena Craig as Missus Winters,

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02:03:44,479 --> 02:03:47,399
Howard mcneer as mister Winters, and Horace Murphy as the

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02:03:47,439 --> 02:03:51,359
filling station attendant. Music was composed and conducted by Charles

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02:03:51,479 --> 02:03:56,279
dan You're announcer John Heaston. Listen again next week, same time,

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02:03:56,479 --> 02:03:57,520
same station to.

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02:03:58,199 --> 02:04:04,880
Speaker 6: Let George Do It. This is the mutual Don Lee Broadcasting.

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02:04:04,359 --> 02:04:16,000
Speaker 2: System Welcome back.

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02:04:18,079 --> 02:04:23,319
Speaker 1: Definitely not the hard boiled stories would get from a

2364
02:04:23,399 --> 02:04:28,239
detective like Pat Novak. But I have to say collecting

2365
02:04:28,439 --> 02:04:31,439
one thousand dollars for a few hours work where he

2366
02:04:31,640 --> 02:04:36,279
wasn't even knocked out, makes Pat Novak's right seem quite

2367
02:04:37,720 --> 02:04:43,239
small in comparison. Uh yeah, I don't think Pat Novak

2368
02:04:43,279 --> 02:04:46,800
would have taken to this case. What is this you're

2369
02:04:46,880 --> 02:04:52,800
trying to do here here and include whys Cracker? But

2370
02:04:53,279 --> 02:04:57,119
this show, I think was it was pretty interesting and

2371
02:04:57,199 --> 02:04:59,720
I think you see the promise and potential of the show.

2372
02:05:00,520 --> 02:05:02,880
It's got a lot of growing to do. And I

2373
02:05:03,159 --> 02:05:05,039
like it when we can see the development of a

2374
02:05:05,119 --> 02:05:07,720
show and see when it really hits it stride. And

2375
02:05:07,840 --> 02:05:09,720
I've heard some of the episodes from later on, so

2376
02:05:09,840 --> 02:05:14,000
it does hit a very strong stride. But you see

2377
02:05:14,039 --> 02:05:16,920
a just a you know, great connection from Bob Bailey

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02:05:17,600 --> 02:05:23,079
and a pretty fine little story, even if it wasn't

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02:05:23,840 --> 02:05:25,720
the greatest detective story ever told.

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02:05:26,760 --> 02:05:29,039
Speaker 2: So we'll be looking for more next week when we'll

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02:05:29,079 --> 02:05:29,840
let George do it.

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02:05:30,239 --> 02:05:34,760
Speaker 1: Tomorrow, We're going to go ahead and play an episode

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02:05:35,000 --> 02:05:39,840
of Sherlock Holmes. That's the oldest episode I think I've

2384
02:05:39,880 --> 02:05:43,920
ever played. If I've dated the episode right in the

2385
02:05:44,000 --> 02:05:48,840
place I downloaded the uh downloaded the audio from it

2386
02:05:49,039 --> 02:05:53,920
dated the episode right on you leave comments on the show,

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02:05:54,079 --> 02:05:58,399
those will be read before Friday's airing on our Dollar

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02:05:58,520 --> 02:05:59,640
Day of Johnny.

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02:05:59,319 --> 02:06:09,439
Speaker 4: Doller Welcome Back.

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02:06:09,880 --> 02:06:13,319
Speaker 1: One thing I was under a bit of a misapprehension

2391
02:06:13,399 --> 02:06:16,800
about was my thinking that the lack of early episodes

2392
02:06:16,840 --> 02:06:20,199
of Let George Do It was because of them not

2393
02:06:20,479 --> 02:06:24,840
being popular or of high quality. One thing I've come

2394
02:06:24,920 --> 02:06:27,479
to understand over the years is the nature of old

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02:06:27,560 --> 02:06:32,079
time radio collectors is to collect programs, and for most

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02:06:32,119 --> 02:06:34,520
of the old school collectors, this was.

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02:06:34,600 --> 02:06:37,479
Speaker 4: Not just collecting things you personally liked.

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02:06:38,079 --> 02:06:41,119
Speaker 1: Plus, tapes could be made and traded, so even if

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02:06:41,159 --> 02:06:44,239
you didn't care for a particular programs, someone else might,

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02:06:44,720 --> 02:06:46,800
and you might be able to trade for something that

2401
02:06:46,960 --> 02:06:52,079
you didn't have. In addition, I think many collectors, both

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02:06:52,119 --> 02:06:54,800
the Old School on Knew, are very cognizant of the

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02:06:54,880 --> 02:06:58,560
fact that they're dealing with pieces of history, and most

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02:06:58,640 --> 02:07:02,800
people I've met to preserve as much radio history as

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02:07:02,920 --> 02:07:05,079
they can, whether it's their cup of tea or not.

2406
02:07:05,960 --> 02:07:09,239
There are lots of issues and challenges in collecting old

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02:07:09,319 --> 02:07:13,720
time radio transcriptions and tapes and programs coming into circulation,

2408
02:07:14,439 --> 02:07:17,880
but personal likes for particular show, don't really enter into

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02:07:17,960 --> 02:07:21,359
it that much. And actually, more of these early episodes

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02:07:21,520 --> 02:07:24,960
have come into circulation, and we played them on the

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02:07:25,119 --> 02:07:29,800
podcast in twenty nineteen and I learned more about Let

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02:07:29,960 --> 02:07:35,279
George Do It and sort of the pre broadcast history.

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02:07:35,399 --> 02:07:39,000
There were actually three different auditions made, which I've not

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02:07:39,279 --> 02:07:42,720
heard of being done for any other radio program. The

2415
02:07:42,840 --> 02:07:46,640
most I've ever heard of is two, particularly when you're

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02:07:46,760 --> 02:07:52,199
dealing with the same actor. And actually, in the first

2417
02:07:52,800 --> 02:07:56,640
draft of Let George Do It, the lead character was

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02:07:56,760 --> 02:08:01,600
named George Lincoln. George Lincoln was a combination of the

2419
02:08:01,760 --> 02:08:05,680
first name of George Washington the last name of Abraham Lincoln,

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02:08:05,800 --> 02:08:12,000
because patriotism was still a very high national ideal right

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02:08:12,079 --> 02:08:15,239
after World War Two, and what better name for a

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02:08:15,359 --> 02:08:20,560
detective than a combination of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Now,

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02:08:20,600 --> 02:08:24,319
while I'm not able to officially confirm this, this does

2424
02:08:24,560 --> 02:08:29,560
suggest an origin for the name George Valentine, because once

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02:08:29,680 --> 02:08:33,600
they determined they couldn't use George Lincoln. If you look

2426
02:08:33,680 --> 02:08:39,119
at the calendar, the next holiday after Lincoln's birthday is

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02:08:39,680 --> 02:08:43,199
Valentine's Day. And that's my theory and I'm sticking to it.

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02:08:43,439 --> 02:08:47,520
In addition to the auditions, we also got to hear

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02:08:47,840 --> 02:08:53,359
more of the sitcom episodes, including the Kleptomania episode, which

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02:08:53,560 --> 02:08:57,000
was teased at the end of the audition we heard today.

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02:08:57,520 --> 02:09:00,720
I'm kind of thankful we didn't have them when we

2432
02:09:00,880 --> 02:09:04,720
started in two thousand and nine. I remember, I think

2433
02:09:04,760 --> 02:09:08,439
it was like the third week. I got an angry

2434
02:09:09,239 --> 02:09:12,039
person contacting me sane I thought, you said you were

2435
02:09:12,079 --> 02:09:15,399
going to play detective programs, and I said, well, this

2436
02:09:15,600 --> 02:09:17,239
is kind of a detective comedy.

2437
02:09:17,399 --> 02:09:20,159
Speaker 4: It's going to change, and he was like, well it better.

2438
02:09:20,880 --> 02:09:24,119
Speaker 1: I'm kind of glad that we only had like four

2439
02:09:24,239 --> 02:09:27,439
of those back in two thousand and nine, so we

2440
02:09:27,520 --> 02:09:30,319
could just play them and then get into the more

2441
02:09:30,439 --> 02:09:36,239
detective themed traditional programs. As for this particular episode, in general,

2442
02:09:36,399 --> 02:09:39,439
I stand by what I felt back in two thousand

2443
02:09:39,439 --> 02:09:42,319
and nine. I think that this was a series that

2444
02:09:43,239 --> 02:09:44,439
had some potential.

2445
02:09:44,560 --> 02:09:45,840
Speaker 2: As it was cast.

2446
02:09:46,479 --> 02:09:50,840
Speaker 1: You have a fantastic cast for comedy detective program Shirley

2447
02:09:50,920 --> 02:09:55,239
Mitchell would make an interesting choice to play Brooksy. She

2448
02:09:55,439 --> 02:09:59,760
did a lot of radio comedy work and usually I've

2449
02:09:59,800 --> 02:10:04,359
heard he her with a Southern bell accent in roles

2450
02:10:04,560 --> 02:10:07,680
like Leela Ransom on the Great Gilder Sleeve. And of

2451
02:10:07,760 --> 02:10:12,199
course you've got Joseph Kerns, who was one of the

2452
02:10:12,520 --> 02:10:16,600
Golden Age of radio's greatest actors, was just in a

2453
02:10:16,840 --> 02:10:22,560
massive amount of projects. Eddie Firestone Junior, who played Sonny,

2454
02:10:23,279 --> 02:10:27,039
actually was in a series called That Brewster Boy when

2455
02:10:27,199 --> 02:10:31,840
both he and Bob Bailey were acting in Chicago, and

2456
02:10:32,399 --> 02:10:37,640
Bob Bailey was a supporting actor in That Brewster Boy

2457
02:10:37,760 --> 02:10:40,840
and Firestone was the star, so they had a history

2458
02:10:40,920 --> 02:10:44,840
together and were reunited on What George Doing. I think

2459
02:10:44,880 --> 02:10:49,439
there were two big problems with the series as a comedy.

2460
02:10:49,640 --> 02:10:54,119
The biggest is that so many episodes make George into

2461
02:10:54,199 --> 02:10:58,159
an idiot or totally ridiculous figure. I love a good

2462
02:10:58,199 --> 02:11:00,640
detective comedy series, but I think I think the ones

2463
02:11:00,720 --> 02:11:03,840
that tended to work didn't make the detectives look stupid.

2464
02:11:03,920 --> 02:11:07,239
I think of series like The Thin Man or Mister

2465
02:11:07,359 --> 02:11:11,119
and Missus North or le Auditus Witherall, and the heroes

2466
02:11:11,359 --> 02:11:14,960
tended to be very kenny, but maybe a bit eccentric,

2467
02:11:15,399 --> 02:11:18,439
and much of the comedy is provided by the oddball

2468
02:11:18,680 --> 02:11:23,800
characters they meet as well as their own just little eccentricities. Second,

2469
02:11:23,960 --> 02:11:28,880
the plots are not great and often feel weak rather

2470
02:11:29,079 --> 02:11:32,439
than funny. The idea of a writer faking his own

2471
02:11:32,640 --> 02:11:35,479
death to get a solution to a mystery, particularly as

2472
02:11:35,760 --> 02:11:39,199
simple as the solution George gave him, is just too silly.

2473
02:11:39,800 --> 02:11:42,039
One thing I thought about the story is that it's

2474
02:11:42,159 --> 02:11:45,000
almost the opposite of Box thirteen, where you have a

2475
02:11:45,119 --> 02:11:48,840
mystery writer becoming an adventurer detective to find a plot,

2476
02:11:48,920 --> 02:11:51,439
and in this story you have a mystery writer conning

2477
02:11:51,560 --> 02:11:55,520
a detective to give him a solution. The one thousand

2478
02:11:55,560 --> 02:12:00,000
dollars payment might sound generous for nineteen thirty six dollars,

2479
02:12:00,720 --> 02:12:04,359
but George was effectively being a book doctor in this episode,

2480
02:12:04,520 --> 02:12:07,399
so he probably earned it based on the going rate.

2481
02:12:08,079 --> 02:12:09,520
Speaker 4: Despite my problems with.

2482
02:12:09,640 --> 02:12:13,279
Speaker 1: The way this was executed, I think that the sitcom

2483
02:12:13,399 --> 02:12:15,520
has pitched in this pilot could have worked with a

2484
02:12:15,600 --> 02:12:19,119
few tweeks and the right writer, though I'm kind of

2485
02:12:19,199 --> 02:12:22,520
glad it didn't, because after a few months as a

2486
02:12:22,600 --> 02:12:26,119
sitcom it shifted to a more serious mystery program with

2487
02:12:26,359 --> 02:12:31,399
Francis Robinson continuing on a Brooksy as Sureley Mitchell didn't

2488
02:12:31,479 --> 02:12:35,039
continue to the rule once it went to broadcast, and

2489
02:12:35,439 --> 02:12:38,880
Sonny went the way of Chuck Hunningham disappeared from the

2490
02:12:38,960 --> 02:12:43,359
series without explanation as far as we know, and it opened.

2491
02:12:43,079 --> 02:12:43,680
Speaker 4: Doors for me.

2492
02:12:44,319 --> 02:12:47,000
Speaker 1: Let George Do It really has a special place in

2493
02:12:47,119 --> 02:12:49,520
my heart. It was actually the series that got me

2494
02:12:49,640 --> 02:12:54,319
interested in other old time radio detective programs that weren't

2495
02:12:54,479 --> 02:12:58,720
Dragging It because people mentioned other programs to me, but

2496
02:12:58,840 --> 02:13:01,680
I didn't really let listen to them, other than a

2497
02:13:01,840 --> 02:13:06,720
few with Jack Webb, which I did for the Old

2498
02:13:06,800 --> 02:13:10,720
Time Dragnet Show. But then I found an episode of

2499
02:13:10,960 --> 02:13:14,880
Let George Do It playing on an online radio station,

2500
02:13:15,439 --> 02:13:17,600
and I fell in love with the series. It had

2501
02:13:17,680 --> 02:13:22,319
clever mysteries, a lockable lead, and had nice little comedic

2502
02:13:22,439 --> 02:13:26,479
and dramatic beats. It's still a series that gets underrated,

2503
02:13:27,000 --> 02:13:31,600
perhaps in part due to the quality of these first

2504
02:13:31,760 --> 02:13:38,359
couple of episodes, but honestly, once the series shifted gears.

2505
02:13:38,479 --> 02:13:41,720
Speaker 4: It had a lot going for it. Bob Bailey was.

2506
02:13:41,720 --> 02:13:45,520
Speaker 1: Storing in it until late nineteen fifty three, with Francis

2507
02:13:45,720 --> 02:13:50,560
Robinson and later Virginia Gregez Brooksy. You had Wally Mayors

2508
02:13:50,600 --> 02:13:54,039
Lieutenant Riley for the first couple of seasons, and they've

2509
02:13:54,119 --> 02:13:57,880
got a veritable who's who of radio character actors who

2510
02:13:57,920 --> 02:14:02,159
played the guest parts, and the bulk of the writing

2511
02:14:02,399 --> 02:14:06,439
was done by David Victor, Herbert Little Junior, and Jackson Gillis.

2512
02:14:06,600 --> 02:14:10,000
All these men would have huge careers writing and producing

2513
02:14:10,079 --> 02:14:14,000
in television, with Victor and Little both writing for gun

2514
02:14:14,119 --> 02:14:16,279
Smoke and Gillis writing for Colombo.

2515
02:14:16,800 --> 02:14:18,239
Speaker 4: In my mind, once you get.

2516
02:14:18,159 --> 02:14:21,800
Speaker 1: Past the early comedy episodes, this becomes one of the

2517
02:14:21,920 --> 02:14:25,399
best detective series on the air. So don't let this

2518
02:14:25,600 --> 02:14:29,279
first episode put you off the series. Now it's time

2519
02:14:29,439 --> 02:14:32,600
for us to shift to yours truly, Johnny Dollar, because

2520
02:14:32,680 --> 02:14:37,159
as I mentioned at the start of this special, the

2521
02:14:37,279 --> 02:14:42,199
episode of Sherlock Holmes I played was not dated as

2522
02:14:42,279 --> 02:14:46,520
the website indicated and was widely off It's under copyright,

2523
02:14:46,640 --> 02:14:49,680
and so we don't play that. One quick note before

2524
02:14:49,760 --> 02:14:53,239
we play this episode, I do answer listener comments at

2525
02:14:53,279 --> 02:14:56,960
the end. Many of these questions are in regards to

2526
02:14:57,079 --> 02:15:00,560
a pilot episode I did back in two thousand nine.

2527
02:15:00,760 --> 02:15:04,319
Podcast trailers hadn't been invented, or if they had, I

2528
02:15:04,479 --> 02:15:08,319
didn't know it. So I released a pilot episode on

2529
02:15:08,520 --> 02:15:13,760
October twelfth, two weeks before the podcast was launched, in

2530
02:15:13,880 --> 02:15:16,600
which we played an episode of the Screen Guild Theater

2531
02:15:16,760 --> 02:15:21,199
with Jimmy Stewart in called Northside seven seven seven, so

2532
02:15:21,439 --> 02:15:25,479
that the podcast would show up in the iTunes store

2533
02:15:25,680 --> 02:15:29,199
as it was known then and I still occasionally call

2534
02:15:29,319 --> 02:15:32,880
it now, and people could get subscribed and be able

2535
02:15:32,960 --> 02:15:36,399
to start listening to our first regular episode. So that's

2536
02:15:36,479 --> 02:15:40,800
what's being referenced. So here now from October the thirtieth

2537
02:15:41,119 --> 02:15:45,640
of two thousand and nine is Yours truly, Johnny Dowler.

2538
02:15:53,720 --> 02:15:57,560
Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio. This

2539
02:15:57,760 --> 02:16:01,399
is your host, Adam Graham. Hope you've enjoyed the first

2540
02:16:01,640 --> 02:16:05,720
four episodes, and I really hope you enjoy what we

2541
02:16:05,840 --> 02:16:11,199
have for you today, Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. We're breaking

2542
02:16:11,319 --> 02:16:15,600
some podcast ground here. Other series like Boston Blackie and

2543
02:16:15,800 --> 02:16:22,640
Perry Mason have had have had podcast made surrounding those characters,

2544
02:16:23,560 --> 02:16:26,960
but not yours truly, Johnny Dollar. What makes this so

2545
02:16:27,119 --> 02:16:31,760
surprising is that the show remains very popular. I found

2546
02:16:31,840 --> 02:16:37,440
two separate polls that Johnny Dollar won for the best

2547
02:16:37,840 --> 02:16:44,079
private detective series. There was, in particular, the Nostalgia Pages

2548
02:16:44,159 --> 02:16:48,639
poll of two hundred and forty one old time radio fans,

2549
02:16:49,000 --> 02:16:51,479
and then there was the Thrilling Detective Poll back in

2550
02:16:51,639 --> 02:16:56,280
nineteen ninety nine. They came up with different second and

2551
02:16:56,479 --> 02:17:01,399
third place winners, but Johnny Doll still came out on top.

2552
02:17:02,040 --> 02:17:05,040
And when you're looking at a competition like Sam Spade

2553
02:17:05,200 --> 02:17:09,079
and Richard Marlow, you know this show had something special

2554
02:17:09,200 --> 02:17:14,479
going for it. In one way, it's reminiscent of James Bond,

2555
02:17:15,479 --> 02:17:20,040
not in the secret agent sense, obviously, but it's a

2556
02:17:20,159 --> 02:17:24,360
show where the adventure travels. You go to twenty four

2557
02:17:24,479 --> 02:17:30,840
different foreign countries along with thirty nine states to experience

2558
02:17:31,120 --> 02:17:36,239
all of the Johnny Dollar thrills and excitement. And then

2559
02:17:36,319 --> 02:17:40,760
you have different actors playing Johnny Dollar. There were a

2560
02:17:40,879 --> 02:17:44,399
total of eight different actors that took this role, six

2561
02:17:44,840 --> 02:17:48,360
who went on the air and two editions, one of

2562
02:17:48,399 --> 02:17:50,879
which we're going to hear today. And each brought their

2563
02:17:50,959 --> 02:17:55,879
own spin and their own their own way of performing

2564
02:17:55,959 --> 02:18:01,719
this character, which gives it a death thingness. It's really

2565
02:18:01,799 --> 02:18:07,239
quite remarkable. In the remarkable detective genre of old time radio.

2566
02:18:08,040 --> 02:18:11,920
The first Johnny Dollar was Dick Powell. Now Dick Powell

2567
02:18:12,040 --> 02:18:14,959
is not perhaps someone that's a household name today, but

2568
02:18:15,120 --> 02:18:19,319
he was a very important actor in the world of

2569
02:18:19,719 --> 02:18:23,319
not only old time radio, but films. Prior to nineteen

2570
02:18:23,440 --> 02:18:27,200
forty four, he had been known basically as a light

2571
02:18:27,399 --> 02:18:31,200
comedic actor and singer, and he had that struggle that

2572
02:18:31,319 --> 02:18:33,920
a lot of actors do in that role. They want

2573
02:18:34,000 --> 02:18:39,280
to take on the harder, deeper, more serious roles and

2574
02:18:39,559 --> 02:18:45,639
have basically gotten typecast for light work. And it wasn't

2575
02:18:45,719 --> 02:18:48,959
until the age of forty that Dick Powell was finally

2576
02:18:49,000 --> 02:18:51,440
able to break the mold. And that was when he

2577
02:18:51,639 --> 02:18:55,479
landed the part of Philip Marlowe in Murder My Suite

2578
02:18:56,280 --> 02:18:59,239
and was the first actor to play marlow brought a real,

2579
02:19:00,079 --> 02:19:04,360
real presence and showed his skill well. He was off

2580
02:19:05,079 --> 02:19:12,600
the rest of the forties, playing mostly near heroes and

2581
02:19:12,799 --> 02:19:17,840
oftentimes some very dark and troubled characters such as Johnny o'clock,

2582
02:19:19,079 --> 02:19:21,799
and so he you know, he really wanted to be

2583
02:19:22,159 --> 02:19:25,399
seen as a tough guy, and you see that in

2584
02:19:25,479 --> 02:19:28,159
his portrayal of Johnny Dollars.

2585
02:19:28,479 --> 02:19:30,520
Speaker 4: He's still kind of in that stage of his career.

2586
02:19:31,479 --> 02:19:34,840
Speaker 1: Ironically enough, I think after he'd established that he could

2587
02:19:34,879 --> 02:19:38,399
play the tough guys, he kind of found a happy medium.

2588
02:19:39,079 --> 02:19:41,760
On The Richard Diamond Show between the light between the

2589
02:19:41,840 --> 02:19:46,639
light comedic. First part of his career and the nore

2590
02:19:47,120 --> 02:19:50,000
part of his career kind of came up with a

2591
02:19:50,120 --> 02:19:52,280
balance that worked really well, and I think you'll find

2592
02:19:52,319 --> 02:19:55,120
that when we get to the Richard Diamond series. But

2593
02:19:55,239 --> 02:19:59,000
in Johnny Dollar, he's adding a little bit of extra

2594
02:19:59,239 --> 02:20:04,319
rogue to the character he played in Rogue's Gallery, Richard Rogue.

2595
02:20:05,559 --> 02:20:10,360
And so this is a very very interesting take on

2596
02:20:10,479 --> 02:20:14,879
Johnny Dollar. And we'll actually see this same story performed

2597
02:20:15,479 --> 02:20:19,440
in five weeks when Charles Russell, who was the first

2598
02:20:19,639 --> 02:20:23,799
on air Johnny Dollar, does his take on the script

2599
02:20:24,200 --> 02:20:27,000
and the writers have their turn at it. But for now,

2600
02:20:27,079 --> 02:20:30,159
let's go ahead and listen to what might have been

2601
02:20:30,360 --> 02:20:33,360
had Dick Powell decided to take the role of Johnny

2602
02:20:33,440 --> 02:20:37,520
Dollar on the air. With this the first episode of

2603
02:20:37,680 --> 02:20:39,760
Yours Truly Johnny.

2604
02:20:39,479 --> 02:20:57,680
Speaker 28: Dollar, Columbia Broadcasting System presents a thrilling new adventure series

2605
02:20:57,760 --> 02:21:09,680
starring Dick Powell. I'm an insurance investigator. My name is

2606
02:21:09,760 --> 02:21:13,079
Johnny Dollar. What you heard me, Johnny Dollar? And I

2607
02:21:13,120 --> 02:21:15,040
can padd an expense account with the best of them.

2608
02:21:21,120 --> 02:21:21,319
Speaker 5: Yep.

2609
02:21:21,360 --> 02:21:24,600
Speaker 28: I'm a free lance insurance investigator and I live in Hartford, Connecticut.

2610
02:21:24,719 --> 02:21:27,719
At least that's where I pay rent. My work sees

2611
02:21:27,760 --> 02:21:30,000
to it that I really live anywhere except at home.

2612
02:21:30,520 --> 02:21:33,920
I'm free white thirty four and so forth. If you're

2613
02:21:34,040 --> 02:21:36,840
interested in buying me Christmas presents, I take size forty two,

2614
02:21:36,920 --> 02:21:40,360
suit church fifteen and a half collars, leave length thirty three.

2615
02:21:41,559 --> 02:21:43,879
My hat size is seven and eighth except when I

2616
02:21:44,120 --> 02:21:47,159
wind up a successful case, then it runs about seven

2617
02:21:47,200 --> 02:21:51,440
and three eighths. At insurance investigation, I'm just an expert

2618
02:21:52,040 --> 02:21:55,479
at making out my expense account. I'm an absolute genius

2619
02:22:02,399 --> 02:22:07,719
expense account submitted by investigator Johnny Dollar two home Office,

2620
02:22:07,799 --> 02:22:13,040
East Coast, Underwriters, Terminal Building, Hartford, Connecticut. Attention Austin Farnswer,

2621
02:22:13,159 --> 02:22:16,239
the general manager. The following is an accounting of my

2622
02:22:16,399 --> 02:22:20,319
expenditures and the investigation of Milfred Brooks the third. For

2623
02:22:20,440 --> 02:22:25,559
your company expense account Item one cab fair to your

2624
02:22:25,600 --> 02:22:28,200
office and answer to your original call seventy five cents

2625
02:22:29,000 --> 02:22:34,920
tip to driver one dollar. Expense account Item two shoe

2626
02:22:34,959 --> 02:22:38,760
shine twenty five cents. You'll remember I got my shoes

2627
02:22:38,840 --> 02:22:41,799
scuffed when I unsuspectingly walked into your private.

2628
02:22:41,520 --> 02:22:43,799
Speaker 6: Office, Milford.

2629
02:22:47,719 --> 02:22:48,200
Speaker 29: That window.

2630
02:22:49,719 --> 02:22:54,120
Speaker 6: No, no, you don't call me, call me. The better

2631
02:22:54,159 --> 02:22:55,680
ways of making a big splash in life.

2632
02:22:55,760 --> 02:22:56,479
Speaker 29: Get away?

2633
02:22:57,639 --> 02:22:57,840
Speaker 12: Wow?

2634
02:22:58,239 --> 02:23:00,799
Speaker 6: Nice, try Sonny, Now pay a ten to the teacher.

2635
02:23:04,639 --> 02:23:06,520
Oh I didn't know I had it end me?

2636
02:23:06,719 --> 02:23:10,079
Speaker 37: Oh goodness, gracious, Dollar, did you have to hit him

2637
02:23:10,120 --> 02:23:10,399
so hard?

2638
02:23:10,440 --> 02:23:12,600
Speaker 6: I hope you haven't killed him. He isn't too strong,

2639
02:23:12,680 --> 02:23:14,040
you know, don't worry.

2640
02:23:15,159 --> 02:23:19,120
Speaker 28: Eh Well, now, now, mister Farnsworth, would you mind telling

2641
02:23:19,200 --> 02:23:22,239
me on whose head have I the dubious pleasure to

2642
02:23:22,319 --> 02:23:22,719
be sitting?

2643
02:23:22,920 --> 02:23:22,959
Speaker 13: That?

2644
02:23:23,120 --> 02:23:26,040
Speaker 37: Sir is Milford Brooks the third. His policy with his

2645
02:23:26,120 --> 02:23:28,120
company is in the amount of two million dollars.

2646
02:23:28,200 --> 02:23:28,479
Speaker 13: Wow.

2647
02:23:28,760 --> 02:23:32,200
Speaker 6: Yes, and the boy seems bent on committing suicide. Dollar,

2648
02:23:32,319 --> 02:23:34,120
I want you to stop him. What do you want

2649
02:23:34,159 --> 02:23:36,719
me to do? Threaten him with death? Anything? Anything?

2650
02:23:37,040 --> 02:23:39,120
Speaker 37: The conditions of his policy are such we would be

2651
02:23:39,200 --> 02:23:40,719
forced to meet with the claim in the event of

2652
02:23:40,799 --> 02:23:43,600
his suicide. Oh, I say, Dollar, sitting on his head

2653
02:23:43,639 --> 02:23:45,840
that way, aren't you in danger of smothering the boys?

2654
02:23:46,000 --> 02:23:48,879
Speaker 28: Smothering him doesn't worry me. But these crewe haircuts don't

2655
02:23:48,879 --> 02:23:55,360
make very comfortable cushions. I'll move down a little now there, Okay, okay,

2656
02:23:55,559 --> 02:23:57,399
some of her. I know this kid is insured for

2657
02:23:57,440 --> 02:23:59,920
two million, and that his policy pays off on suicide.

2658
02:24:00,360 --> 02:24:00,799
Speaker 10: What else?

2659
02:24:00,959 --> 02:24:03,719
Speaker 37: One half hour ago, Milford Brooks walked into this office

2660
02:24:03,959 --> 02:24:06,799
and changed the beneficiar in his policy. Then, Sir, he

2661
02:24:06,879 --> 02:24:09,760
proceeded a demand, not request, mind you, but demand a

2662
02:24:09,879 --> 02:24:12,000
loan of five hundred thousand dollars.

2663
02:24:12,120 --> 02:24:12,680
Speaker 6: Quite a touch.

2664
02:24:12,760 --> 02:24:14,680
Speaker 37: When I explained to him that there were no provisions

2665
02:24:14,719 --> 02:24:18,200
for a loan in his policy, he threatened suicide, which.

2666
02:24:17,959 --> 02:24:20,000
Speaker 6: Would cost you two million. So all we have to

2667
02:24:20,079 --> 02:24:20,920
do is keep him alive.

2668
02:24:21,000 --> 02:24:23,559
Speaker 37: Huh, And he's managed to make that no small problem.

2669
02:24:24,159 --> 02:24:27,239
His choice of a new beneficiar is downright frightening. One

2670
02:24:27,280 --> 02:24:29,799
of the most notorious gamblers in the East. His name

2671
02:24:29,879 --> 02:24:33,319
is Hatcher. Harold Hatcher out Do you know him?

2672
02:24:33,520 --> 02:24:36,120
Speaker 6: Sure? That kid's been a post office pen up boy

2673
02:24:36,200 --> 02:24:37,079
for a lot of years.

2674
02:24:37,559 --> 02:24:41,040
Speaker 37: Well, that's the situation. I'm engaging you to protect Milford

2675
02:24:41,079 --> 02:24:44,959
Brook's future dollar. I want you to protect the boy.

2676
02:24:45,879 --> 02:24:48,600
Give him something to live for, you know, an interest

2677
02:24:48,680 --> 02:24:49,399
in life.

2678
02:24:49,280 --> 02:24:55,799
Speaker 6: An interest in life. Let's see. Oh, I know here,

2679
02:24:56,200 --> 02:24:57,719
this should help. What's that you got there?

2680
02:24:57,879 --> 02:25:00,000
Speaker 28: And that's what's commonly referred to in the more success

2681
02:25:00,120 --> 02:25:03,559
est full of bachelor's circles is my little black book. Well,

2682
02:25:03,840 --> 02:25:10,479
now let's let's see. Mm hmmmm Ruby, No, no, her

2683
02:25:10,520 --> 02:25:18,319
favorite expression has dropped dead. Uh Bernardine, No, she'd be

2684
02:25:18,360 --> 02:25:21,360
the new beneficiary by midnight. Oh dear, now here here

2685
02:25:21,639 --> 02:25:24,559
here's the one, butter, say Farnsworth, would you mind passing

2686
02:25:24,600 --> 02:25:26,200
me that phone, the one with a long cord?

2687
02:25:26,319 --> 02:25:30,879
Speaker 6: Oh no, no, I still muster. My little friend here

2688
02:25:30,879 --> 02:25:33,559
is showing signs of life. Here here you are. Maybe

2689
02:25:33,600 --> 02:25:36,399
you should let him breathe a bit more. I don't worry,

2690
02:25:36,440 --> 02:25:37,399
don't worry. He'll be all right.

2691
02:25:38,159 --> 02:25:41,440
Speaker 28: Hello, Oh hello, I want to call New York. Yeah, yeah,

2692
02:25:42,639 --> 02:25:45,399
Hudson two four two nine two dollar. You're not thinking

2693
02:25:45,479 --> 02:25:47,040
of taking this boat to New York, are you?

2694
02:25:47,159 --> 02:25:47,319
Speaker 24: Well?

2695
02:25:47,360 --> 02:25:49,280
Speaker 28: I'm going there myself. You want me to keep an

2696
02:25:49,280 --> 02:25:52,000
eye on him, don't you. Naw, don't fret, Farnsworth, all.

2697
02:25:51,959 --> 02:25:54,520
Speaker 6: Is not lost. Do worry me sitting on his chest

2698
02:25:54,639 --> 02:25:55,399
that way? Allah?

2699
02:25:56,239 --> 02:26:00,399
Speaker 28: Hello, oh butter, this is Johnny. Yeah, I'll be in

2700
02:26:00,440 --> 02:26:02,520
town to I don't want to see you. And look,

2701
02:26:02,559 --> 02:26:05,719
here's what I want you to do. Yes, yes, it's

2702
02:26:05,719 --> 02:26:08,319
all right to say over the telephone. I want you

2703
02:26:08,319 --> 02:26:10,319
to reserve a table at the hatchery in my name

2704
02:26:10,399 --> 02:26:14,159
for ten o'clock tonight will you do that? Okay, I'll

2705
02:26:14,200 --> 02:26:17,479
see you at your apartment in a few hours. Well, honey,

2706
02:26:17,479 --> 02:26:20,120
I can't make it any earlier. I'm sitting up on

2707
02:26:20,200 --> 02:26:22,760
a sick friend. Okay, goodbye.

2708
02:26:23,280 --> 02:26:26,040
Speaker 6: I'm not sure that I agree with your methods. Oh,

2709
02:26:26,479 --> 02:26:28,079
what's the matter? Did he hit you?

2710
02:26:28,319 --> 02:26:28,639
Speaker 19: Hit me?

2711
02:26:29,159 --> 02:26:29,799
Speaker 20: He bit me?

2712
02:26:37,079 --> 02:26:43,040
Speaker 28: Expense account Item three liquor eighteen dollars keeping Milford Brooks,

2713
02:26:43,079 --> 02:26:46,120
the third Peaceful seemed to be the immediate problem, and

2714
02:26:46,239 --> 02:26:48,159
a bottle of rare old brandy seemed to be the

2715
02:26:48,239 --> 02:26:51,319
immediate answer. I poured most of it into him, and

2716
02:26:51,399 --> 02:26:53,399
with the time he started to tick again, he'd gone

2717
02:26:53,440 --> 02:26:55,760
through the unusual process of going.

2718
02:26:55,639 --> 02:26:59,040
Speaker 6: To sleep sober and waking up and chant him. I

2719
02:26:59,159 --> 02:27:01,239
loaded him into my and we headed for New York.

2720
02:27:02,120 --> 02:27:04,479
Speaker 28: As we passed through to Haven, he opened one eye,

2721
02:27:04,600 --> 02:27:07,559
looked up, saw the Yale bowl, and gave three cheers.

2722
02:27:07,280 --> 02:27:14,239
Speaker 6: For all Eli Ray Ray Ray Old Yale would sure

2723
02:27:14,319 --> 02:27:17,680
be proud of you. Why anybody would want to insure

2724
02:27:17,680 --> 02:27:19,079
you for two million dollars is more than.

2725
02:27:19,000 --> 02:27:19,559
Speaker 10: I can figure.

2726
02:27:21,520 --> 02:27:25,479
Speaker 38: My daddy loved me very much, and my mother loved

2727
02:27:25,520 --> 02:27:28,360
me very much. No, that's nice, and not only that,

2728
02:27:28,719 --> 02:27:32,559
but I love somebody very much. And not only that,

2729
02:27:33,000 --> 02:27:37,600
but I hate somebody very much. That's interesting, you know

2730
02:27:37,760 --> 02:27:43,239
something next to one other guy. I hate you more

2731
02:27:43,360 --> 02:27:44,879
than anybody else.

2732
02:27:45,200 --> 02:27:47,239
Speaker 6: Oh here, love a boy. It's a cocktail hour again,

2733
02:27:47,719 --> 02:27:59,600
Time for your bottle. Rolling along the Merritt Parkway.

2734
02:27:59,360 --> 02:28:02,319
Speaker 28: I felt very much along with my thoughts, and believe me,

2735
02:28:02,399 --> 02:28:05,559
they weren't a very pleasant company the way it stacked

2736
02:28:05,639 --> 02:28:08,239
up for me. Brooks had built up a fat gambling

2737
02:28:08,319 --> 02:28:11,399
debt with Harold Hatcher and had been forced into making

2738
02:28:11,479 --> 02:28:14,959
him his beneficiary. The suicide threat that he was holding

2739
02:28:15,000 --> 02:28:17,520
over the insurance company was a little tougher to figure

2740
02:28:18,399 --> 02:28:20,879
unless he was trying to finance a trip for himself

2741
02:28:21,000 --> 02:28:23,760
to get away from the man with a murder motive Hatcher.

2742
02:28:25,760 --> 02:28:28,840
My hungry little mind nibbled away on those unsavory morsels

2743
02:28:28,879 --> 02:28:31,120
of food for thought all the way to Butter's apartment.

2744
02:28:38,719 --> 02:28:40,959
Speaker 11: Hey, Hey, where are you're taking me?

2745
02:28:41,680 --> 02:28:42,760
Speaker 9: I want to go to New York.

2746
02:28:42,799 --> 02:28:44,600
Speaker 6: If you don't behave buster, I'll punch your ticket.

2747
02:28:45,520 --> 02:28:47,479
Speaker 29: Johnny Darling, welcome to New York.

2748
02:28:47,760 --> 02:28:49,840
Speaker 6: Well that's the fastest ship I have had.

2749
02:28:50,000 --> 02:28:52,239
Speaker 19: Quiet, Well, where did you find this in.

2750
02:28:52,280 --> 02:28:54,040
Speaker 6: A box of Crackerjack. Let us end there.

2751
02:28:54,239 --> 02:28:55,120
Speaker 11: I don't know about you.

2752
02:28:55,760 --> 02:28:58,040
Speaker 19: Some men bring me flowers, some bring me candy.

2753
02:28:58,559 --> 02:29:01,440
Speaker 29: Why do you bring me a boiled and Brooks Brothers suit?

2754
02:29:01,520 --> 02:29:02,479
Please to reach you.

2755
02:29:02,879 --> 02:29:05,120
Speaker 6: Let's try him into the bedroom, honey, look more at.

2756
02:29:05,079 --> 02:29:08,239
Speaker 19: Home in the bathtub. I mean to pull down the cup.

2757
02:29:09,239 --> 02:29:13,840
Speaker 28: All right, I'll come on, buster, lie down, charm, charp, charp.

2758
02:29:16,600 --> 02:29:18,360
That kid's liquor sure can hold him.

2759
02:29:18,559 --> 02:29:20,079
Speaker 19: How long he's been playing nurse maid?

2760
02:29:20,159 --> 02:29:20,840
Speaker 29: Did this bottle?

2761
02:29:20,920 --> 02:29:21,239
Speaker 19: Baby?

2762
02:29:22,399 --> 02:29:24,079
Speaker 6: Get behind that bar suite and I'll tell you all

2763
02:29:24,120 --> 02:29:24,440
about it?

2764
02:29:24,639 --> 02:29:27,280
Speaker 29: Sure, horrible examples don't seem to bother you?

2765
02:29:27,479 --> 02:29:30,159
Speaker 6: Do if you knew how that guy has been bothering me?

2766
02:29:30,399 --> 02:29:31,200
Speaker 19: What did he do to you?

2767
02:29:31,719 --> 02:29:35,639
Speaker 6: Well, let's just say he put the bite on me. Gosh,

2768
02:29:35,719 --> 02:29:37,319
the river sure does look pretty today.

2769
02:29:38,600 --> 02:29:42,479
Speaker 28: Please anything but brandy, I've been sniffing that second hand

2770
02:29:42,520 --> 02:29:45,280
all the way from Hartford, Butter.

2771
02:29:45,959 --> 02:29:47,120
Speaker 6: See that big boat out there.

2772
02:29:48,879 --> 02:29:51,040
Speaker 28: I should would like to be on it with you,

2773
02:29:51,760 --> 02:29:54,159
sailing off the far away aromatic places.

2774
02:29:54,440 --> 02:29:55,360
Speaker 9: Get with it, darling.

2775
02:29:55,440 --> 02:29:57,200
Speaker 19: That's one hundred and twenty fifth Street, Ferry.

2776
02:29:57,559 --> 02:29:58,799
Speaker 29: Oh here's your drink.

2777
02:29:59,600 --> 02:30:01,319
Speaker 19: Come on now, tell better.

2778
02:30:01,239 --> 02:30:01,959
Speaker 18: All about it?

2779
02:30:02,719 --> 02:30:05,280
Speaker 6: So friend Bourbon and I proceeded to tell her all

2780
02:30:05,319 --> 02:30:07,079
about it. It wasn't easy.

2781
02:30:08,120 --> 02:30:11,079
Speaker 28: Everything about her kept flagging down my train of thought.

2782
02:30:12,079 --> 02:30:14,440
The longer she looked at me, the less I wanted

2783
02:30:14,479 --> 02:30:17,760
of Milford Brooks the third, and the more I wanted

2784
02:30:17,840 --> 02:30:22,319
a beautiful butter the first and only. She was a

2785
02:30:22,360 --> 02:30:24,799
sympathetic listener to my story until I gave her the

2786
02:30:24,879 --> 02:30:27,079
answer to her first and only question.

2787
02:30:27,959 --> 02:30:29,319
Speaker 19: And where do I fit into all this?

2788
02:30:29,959 --> 02:30:30,280
Speaker 10: Baby?

2789
02:30:30,440 --> 02:30:33,600
Speaker 28: I thought you understood. My job is to give this poor,

2790
02:30:33,680 --> 02:30:38,959
misguided boy something to live for. That's you will, now, Honey,

2791
02:30:39,079 --> 02:30:41,719
hold everything, don't go get in your corn all popped

2792
02:30:41,760 --> 02:30:42,920
you You misunderstand.

2793
02:30:43,559 --> 02:30:44,280
Speaker 6: I really mean it.

2794
02:30:45,280 --> 02:30:47,000
Speaker 28: I thought, if he'd just got to look at you

2795
02:30:47,200 --> 02:30:51,159
and realize that things like you exist, why you'd make

2796
02:30:51,159 --> 02:30:55,079
any man glad to be alive. A come on now,

2797
02:30:55,159 --> 02:30:58,399
butter melted a little. I wouldn't let anything happen to you.

2798
02:30:58,840 --> 02:30:59,520
Speaker 11: You know that?

2799
02:31:00,319 --> 02:31:01,000
Speaker 29: Did I hurt you?

2800
02:31:01,520 --> 02:31:01,680
Speaker 2: Oh?

2801
02:31:01,879 --> 02:31:04,399
Speaker 6: No, I'm getting used to it. People have been taking

2802
02:31:04,440 --> 02:31:05,360
pokes at me all day.

2803
02:31:05,719 --> 02:31:06,479
Speaker 9: I'm sorry.

2804
02:31:07,360 --> 02:31:08,719
Speaker 6: Ah, that's better.

2805
02:31:09,799 --> 02:31:10,840
Speaker 19: You want some more bourbon?

2806
02:31:11,879 --> 02:31:12,000
Speaker 5: Uh?

2807
02:31:12,079 --> 02:31:12,200
Speaker 13: Huh?

2808
02:31:13,280 --> 02:31:14,000
Speaker 6: I want some more?

2809
02:31:14,079 --> 02:31:16,319
Speaker 9: You well help.

2810
02:31:16,159 --> 02:31:40,360
Speaker 6: Yourself, Honey, it's getting late. Let's make this the last drink.

2811
02:31:41,600 --> 02:31:42,399
Speaker 19: What time is it?

2812
02:31:42,920 --> 02:31:46,079
Speaker 6: No, it's a it's a twenty to ten. My reservation

2813
02:31:46,200 --> 02:31:47,280
that the hatchery is for ten?

2814
02:31:47,840 --> 02:31:53,360
Speaker 9: Here thanks cigarette? Oh empty some more out in the

2815
02:31:53,440 --> 02:31:53,760
other room.

2816
02:31:53,760 --> 02:31:56,760
Speaker 6: I'll get I'd love to get you in a slow

2817
02:31:56,879 --> 02:32:01,879
boat to China. Johnnyton coming, God what well he can't

2818
02:32:01,920 --> 02:32:02,520
be but he is.

2819
02:32:02,680 --> 02:32:04,200
Speaker 19: The windows wide open.

2820
02:32:04,360 --> 02:32:07,520
Speaker 6: Oh, the fire escape. What a smart guy. I am

2821
02:32:07,840 --> 02:32:09,959
trading three drinks of bourbon for two million.

2822
02:32:09,760 --> 02:32:13,040
Speaker 28: Bucks on the hoof. Oh, that's the biggest bar check

2823
02:32:13,120 --> 02:32:28,440
I ever picked up. That's a big bar check for

2824
02:32:28,520 --> 02:32:30,639
anyone to pick up. As a matter of fact, it's

2825
02:32:30,680 --> 02:32:33,000
a bigger barcheck than you've ever heard of anyone picking

2826
02:32:33,079 --> 02:32:35,520
up before. And that should give you an idea of

2827
02:32:35,639 --> 02:32:38,120
what to expect in the second act as you follow

2828
02:32:38,159 --> 02:32:41,319
this new CBS series starring Dick Powell in the title role,

2829
02:32:41,840 --> 02:32:54,840
Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Well, nobody could say I wasn't

2830
02:32:54,879 --> 02:32:57,200
working fast. I'd only been in town for an hour,

2831
02:32:57,239 --> 02:32:58,159
and I'd already.

2832
02:32:57,879 --> 02:32:59,840
Speaker 6: Succeeded in losing Belted Brooks Affairs.

2833
02:33:01,239 --> 02:33:03,600
Speaker 28: I spent another hour of his all too short life

2834
02:33:04,399 --> 02:33:08,399
expectancy unsuccessfully shaking down the neighborhood for him, and then,

2835
02:33:08,520 --> 02:33:10,799
feeling very much like a bloodhound that had flunked his

2836
02:33:10,879 --> 02:33:21,520
sniffing exam, I went back to Butter's apartment. Johnny, Oh, sure,

2837
02:33:21,639 --> 02:33:22,239
plenty of luck?

2838
02:33:22,440 --> 02:33:22,920
Speaker 10: All bad?

2839
02:33:23,159 --> 02:33:24,440
Speaker 29: Is there anything I can do to hell?

2840
02:33:25,280 --> 02:33:25,879
Speaker 6: Kiss for luck?

2841
02:33:27,879 --> 02:33:28,479
Speaker 29: What are you going to do?

2842
02:33:29,000 --> 02:33:37,920
Speaker 6: Nothing? Just a little phone calls. This is Johnny Dollar.

2843
02:33:38,200 --> 02:33:41,440
Speaker 28: Give me a missing persons, any particular one. Don't be

2844
02:33:41,520 --> 02:33:47,479
a wise guy. Lieutenant Fishery, Lieutenant Fisher Fisher, there is

2845
02:33:47,559 --> 02:33:48,159
Johnny Dollar.

2846
02:33:48,479 --> 02:33:50,079
Speaker 39: Hello, doll, who would you lose?

2847
02:33:50,639 --> 02:33:50,799
Speaker 6: One?

2848
02:33:50,920 --> 02:33:51,079
Speaker 18: Man?

2849
02:33:51,239 --> 02:33:51,719
Speaker 10: My mind?

2850
02:33:51,760 --> 02:33:54,360
Speaker 28: And if I'm not careful in my professional reputation, the

2851
02:33:54,440 --> 02:33:57,399
guy's name is Brooks Milford. I got anything on him?

2852
02:33:58,479 --> 02:33:58,840
Speaker 10: All right?

2853
02:34:00,639 --> 02:34:03,680
Speaker 19: Don't look at me like that wasn't all my fault.

2854
02:34:04,440 --> 02:34:04,760
Speaker 13: Tala.

2855
02:34:05,079 --> 02:34:07,319
Speaker 39: Yeah, we haven't found him yet, but we think we

2856
02:34:07,440 --> 02:34:08,040
know where he is.

2857
02:34:08,520 --> 02:34:08,719
Speaker 2: Huh.

2858
02:34:09,280 --> 02:34:13,040
Speaker 39: The Hudson River at eleven fifteen tonight, its top code,

2859
02:34:13,079 --> 02:34:15,639
complete with identification, was found taking a ride on one

2860
02:34:15,719 --> 02:34:17,040
hundred and twenty fifth Street Ferry.

2861
02:34:17,600 --> 02:34:19,479
Speaker 6: Oh anything else?

2862
02:34:20,399 --> 02:34:23,920
Speaker 39: Nothing much. A package of matches was found under the

2863
02:34:24,040 --> 02:34:27,520
coat monogram. You don't happen to know anybody whose initials

2864
02:34:27,600 --> 02:34:28,559
are ragh, do you?

2865
02:34:29,079 --> 02:34:29,360
Speaker 13: Hh?

2866
02:34:29,920 --> 02:34:33,479
Speaker 6: Is always hard as height. Thanks Fisher. I'll check back

2867
02:34:33,520 --> 02:34:37,879
with you later. I HH, Harold.

2868
02:34:37,600 --> 02:34:41,200
Speaker 19: Hatcher, you mumbling about bad news?

2869
02:34:41,520 --> 02:34:45,680
Speaker 28: Looks like about two million bucks worth. They found Milford's

2870
02:34:45,719 --> 02:34:47,520
Cold on one hundred and twenty fifth Street, Ferry.

2871
02:34:48,719 --> 02:34:52,799
Speaker 9: You and your far away romantic places very funny.

2872
02:34:53,440 --> 02:34:55,399
Speaker 28: Now, I'll see you later, honey, and maybe about eleven

2873
02:35:04,959 --> 02:35:09,760
expense account Item four nightclubs twenty eight dollars.

2874
02:35:10,559 --> 02:35:12,079
Speaker 6: Harold Hatcher's Hatchery was.

2875
02:35:12,079 --> 02:35:14,120
Speaker 28: In a cellar under a hotel, but the prices were

2876
02:35:14,200 --> 02:35:20,959
high enough to rate a prenhouse. The club was draped

2877
02:35:20,959 --> 02:35:23,680
in too much satin its lady customers and too little.

2878
02:35:24,079 --> 02:35:26,760
That decors was French provincial. The music was Brazilian and

2879
02:35:26,840 --> 02:35:31,280
the food was from Dixie. The drinks looked weak, and

2880
02:35:31,319 --> 02:35:34,280
the way they looked strong. All in all, the joint

2881
02:35:34,360 --> 02:35:34,799
was a sight.

2882
02:35:34,799 --> 02:35:38,360
Speaker 6: For sore eyes, for making them sore. The only pretty

2883
02:35:38,399 --> 02:35:39,600
thing in the place was a blonde.

2884
02:35:40,399 --> 02:35:43,319
Speaker 28: She came strolling up to my table, her hips unconsciously

2885
02:35:43,440 --> 02:35:45,239
sending subtle little messages.

2886
02:35:44,840 --> 02:35:45,879
Speaker 6: Back to the rumber band.

2887
02:35:46,959 --> 02:35:49,520
Speaker 28: She opened her mouth, slid her tongue over her lower lip,

2888
02:35:49,639 --> 02:35:51,040
and let a few warm.

2889
02:35:50,920 --> 02:35:52,520
Speaker 6: Soft words slide out.

2890
02:35:53,280 --> 02:35:55,079
Speaker 19: Lucking for someone, and.

2891
02:35:55,280 --> 02:35:57,639
Speaker 6: You'll do until the real thing comes along its alarm.

2892
02:35:58,440 --> 02:36:02,079
Speaker 19: Thanks, I won't have a drink.

2893
02:36:02,440 --> 02:36:03,120
Speaker 6: I didn't ask you.

2894
02:36:03,879 --> 02:36:04,840
Speaker 19: My name is Janelle.

2895
02:36:05,040 --> 02:36:07,200
Speaker 6: Janelle. Wow, it's a nice name.

2896
02:36:07,639 --> 02:36:10,399
Speaker 19: I understand you were asking about mister Hatchet, and I.

2897
02:36:10,479 --> 02:36:12,159
Speaker 6: Asked if he was in. The waiter said he wasn't.

2898
02:36:12,559 --> 02:36:14,639
Speaker 19: Do you know him more than somewhat?

2899
02:36:15,479 --> 02:36:17,600
Speaker 6: What do you want to see him by a mutual friend?

2900
02:36:17,680 --> 02:36:18,399
Milford Brooks?

2901
02:36:19,319 --> 02:36:19,440
Speaker 11: Uh?

2902
02:36:19,600 --> 02:36:19,760
Speaker 29: Huh.

2903
02:36:21,520 --> 02:36:23,799
Speaker 17: I know most of the quiet clothes boys around here.

2904
02:36:23,959 --> 02:36:26,440
So you want a cop? You don't look like the type.

2905
02:36:26,440 --> 02:36:28,760
There would be a society friend of the Brooks family.

2906
02:36:28,959 --> 02:36:29,719
Speaker 18: So what are you?

2907
02:36:30,319 --> 02:36:30,600
Speaker 6: I'll like?

2908
02:36:30,719 --> 02:36:33,360
Speaker 28: Know it that one is hatche around he might be.

2909
02:36:33,879 --> 02:36:36,239
Come on, where's his office? The top of those two

2910
02:36:36,559 --> 02:36:37,959
an I expecting the trouble getting in.

2911
02:36:38,760 --> 02:36:39,959
Speaker 19: You won't have any trouble.

2912
02:36:40,120 --> 02:36:40,639
Speaker 32: How do you know?

2913
02:36:41,120 --> 02:36:44,440
Speaker 19: Because Harold sent me down. He had to look you over. Oh,

2914
02:36:46,000 --> 02:36:47,120
I think you're all right.

2915
02:36:47,520 --> 02:36:50,319
Speaker 6: So I won myself the good housekeeping seal of approval.

2916
02:36:50,399 --> 02:36:52,680
Speaker 19: Huh keeping a house with you with me?

2917
02:36:52,920 --> 02:36:54,600
Speaker 9: With my approval, I.

2918
02:36:54,840 --> 02:36:57,920
Speaker 28: Ran for my life at a slow walk up the stairs.

2919
02:36:59,319 --> 02:37:01,600
When I located the door to Hatcher's office, I knocked

2920
02:37:01,639 --> 02:37:06,159
once and went in. Come on in, thanks.

2921
02:37:06,840 --> 02:37:07,680
Speaker 6: I'm Johnny Dollar.

2922
02:37:07,760 --> 02:37:10,120
Speaker 28: I was hired by East Coast Underwriders to protect the

2923
02:37:10,159 --> 02:37:11,799
interest of a kid named Milford.

2924
02:37:11,479 --> 02:37:12,120
Speaker 6: Brooks, the Third.

2925
02:37:12,319 --> 02:37:13,639
Speaker 22: Oh, what's that's supposed to mean to me?

2926
02:37:13,840 --> 02:37:14,559
Speaker 6: You know him, don't you?

2927
02:37:15,159 --> 02:37:17,079
Speaker 22: He isn't exactly one of my boozing buddies.

2928
02:37:17,200 --> 02:37:18,360
Speaker 6: How much money does he show you?

2929
02:37:18,799 --> 02:37:18,920
Speaker 2: Now?

2930
02:37:18,959 --> 02:37:20,600
Speaker 22: We've got him on the books for a few Bob.

2931
02:37:20,719 --> 02:37:22,799
Speaker 28: Why they picked up his top coat tonight on the

2932
02:37:22,799 --> 02:37:25,239
one hundred and twenty fifth Street Ferry. He wasn't in it.

2933
02:37:25,840 --> 02:37:27,799
It might have been suicide. It might have been a knockover.

2934
02:37:27,840 --> 02:37:30,040
It made to look like a suicide. What's your choice?

2935
02:37:30,280 --> 02:37:32,159
Speaker 22: What do you get off asking me about my choice?

2936
02:37:32,200 --> 02:37:34,399
Speaker 6: Where were you between eleven and eleven thirty tonight? Let's

2937
02:37:34,479 --> 02:37:35,120
it to you now?

2938
02:37:35,200 --> 02:37:37,120
Speaker 28: I thought you might like to rehearse some answers. They

2939
02:37:37,200 --> 02:37:39,120
ll all'll be asking some questions real soon.

2940
02:37:39,200 --> 02:37:39,319
Speaker 2: Now.

2941
02:37:40,079 --> 02:37:41,319
Speaker 22: I don't know why I should tell you, but I

2942
02:37:41,399 --> 02:37:43,639
was driving around in my car getting some Oh.

2943
02:37:43,799 --> 02:37:46,120
Speaker 28: Now, you will have to do better than that. They

2944
02:37:46,200 --> 02:37:48,360
found one of your match folders on a Brook's coat.

2945
02:37:48,559 --> 02:37:49,440
Speaker 22: You're out of your mind.

2946
02:37:50,120 --> 02:37:50,760
Speaker 6: Let me ask you.

2947
02:37:51,399 --> 02:37:53,079
Speaker 22: The kid owed me a couple one hundred thousand you

2948
02:37:53,120 --> 02:37:55,079
think I'm going around knocking off my own assets.

2949
02:37:56,360 --> 02:37:58,479
Speaker 6: Hatcher, I don't know whether you're stupid or bright.

2950
02:37:58,600 --> 02:37:59,399
Speaker 22: Don't worry about it.

2951
02:37:59,520 --> 02:38:01,280
Speaker 6: I know what about that insurance policy?

2952
02:38:01,360 --> 02:38:02,479
Speaker 22: What insurance policy?

2953
02:38:02,600 --> 02:38:02,680
Speaker 12: Now?

2954
02:38:02,799 --> 02:38:04,319
Speaker 6: Look, Hatcher, we're big boys.

2955
02:38:04,399 --> 02:38:07,159
Speaker 28: We both know the changing of beneficiary and an insurance

2956
02:38:07,239 --> 02:38:08,719
policy is a legal transaction.

2957
02:38:08,879 --> 02:38:11,319
Speaker 6: That means witnesses. That means it isn't secret.

2958
02:38:11,440 --> 02:38:12,520
Speaker 22: What are you talking about?

2959
02:38:12,719 --> 02:38:14,520
Speaker 6: But you and East Coast Underwriters and.

2960
02:38:14,559 --> 02:38:17,879
Speaker 28: I all know that books made you the beneficiary and

2961
02:38:17,959 --> 02:38:19,840
his policy, and that you stand to come into two

2962
02:38:19,879 --> 02:38:21,520
million bucks when they fish out his body.

2963
02:38:21,559 --> 02:38:22,600
Speaker 22: I don't know anything about it.

2964
02:38:23,120 --> 02:38:24,360
Speaker 6: Motives don't come much bigger.

2965
02:38:24,399 --> 02:38:26,239
Speaker 22: I'm telling you. That's our news to me and you

2966
02:38:26,360 --> 02:38:28,000
and nobody else is going to make me move.

2967
02:38:27,959 --> 02:38:28,639
Speaker 6: Off that story.

2968
02:38:28,840 --> 02:38:31,120
Speaker 28: I feel the same about mine. It doesn't take a

2969
02:38:31,159 --> 02:38:33,200
genius to know that Brooks didn't love you two million

2970
02:38:33,239 --> 02:38:36,120
dollars worth. There's only one logical reason for his making

2971
02:38:36,200 --> 02:38:39,559
you the beneficiary. You forced him into it. Would believe

2972
02:38:39,600 --> 02:38:40,319
anything else.

2973
02:38:40,239 --> 02:38:42,680
Speaker 22: Who cares, they'd have to prove it, and brother, that

2974
02:38:42,840 --> 02:38:44,120
can't be done. Now, how would you?

2975
02:38:45,360 --> 02:38:45,600
Speaker 10: Yeah?

2976
02:38:48,520 --> 02:38:51,360
Speaker 22: Okay, Rocket, thanks for the news. Take the inspector into

2977
02:38:51,360 --> 02:38:51,639
the barn.

2978
02:38:51,680 --> 02:38:52,239
Speaker 6: Buy him a drink.

2979
02:38:52,280 --> 02:38:52,920
Speaker 5: I'll be right down.

2980
02:38:54,000 --> 02:38:54,280
Speaker 6: Dollar.

2981
02:38:54,360 --> 02:38:55,399
Speaker 22: Did you turn me in?

2982
02:38:55,840 --> 02:38:58,879
Speaker 6: They're here? Huh, Yeah, No, I didn't turn you in.

2983
02:38:59,079 --> 02:39:04,360
I'm not a cop. Yeah, have a cigarette, thanks, here's

2984
02:39:04,399 --> 02:39:04,680
a light.

2985
02:39:08,520 --> 02:39:12,000
Speaker 22: Well, come on, maybe they just want to sell me

2986
02:39:12,079 --> 02:39:13,879
some tickets to the Policeman's Ball.

2987
02:39:15,840 --> 02:39:18,159
Speaker 28: For a guy in a hot spot, Hatchet was certainly

2988
02:39:18,200 --> 02:39:21,440
a cool customer. I followed him out of the office,

2989
02:39:21,760 --> 02:39:24,719
down the stairs, and back into the club. Janelle was

2990
02:39:24,760 --> 02:39:26,799
sitting there right where I had left her. When I

2991
02:39:26,879 --> 02:39:30,200
thought to myself, now there's a gal who should never

2992
02:39:30,280 --> 02:39:32,399
sit down, and she looks so pretty standing up.

2993
02:39:32,840 --> 02:39:35,040
Speaker 22: Jenneal, buy mister Dollar a drink. I have to go

2994
02:39:35,159 --> 02:39:38,120
play twenty questions with some fellas in the baryre.

2995
02:39:38,319 --> 02:39:40,680
Speaker 19: Baby, anything you say anything.

2996
02:39:40,440 --> 02:39:40,959
Speaker 6: I'll see it.

2997
02:39:41,079 --> 02:39:43,799
Speaker 19: Dollar, well, i'd make God.

2998
02:39:44,399 --> 02:39:46,600
Speaker 28: You can never tell about a guy like that. He's

2999
02:39:46,600 --> 02:39:48,600
a smart boy, strong, silent type.

3000
02:39:48,719 --> 02:39:52,079
Speaker 19: Wouldn't talk a real close mart act about what.

3001
02:39:52,639 --> 02:39:54,920
Speaker 6: Oh, just a little dude aad to a million dollar

3002
02:39:55,000 --> 02:39:55,920
life insurance policy.

3003
02:39:56,000 --> 02:39:59,000
Speaker 17: Wait a minute, a young Brooks kid. That's right, I

3004
02:39:59,120 --> 02:40:01,079
knew it. You're telling me to get into trouble. But

3005
02:40:01,079 --> 02:40:01,920
he wouldn't listen to me.

3006
02:40:02,319 --> 02:40:03,079
Speaker 6: Oh, you knew about it?

3007
02:40:03,200 --> 02:40:03,360
Speaker 5: Huh?

3008
02:40:03,920 --> 02:40:05,879
Speaker 6: I suppose you also know what was behind it.

3009
02:40:06,000 --> 02:40:08,479
Speaker 17: Sure, mil purrowed him some money, a lot of money.

3010
02:40:08,559 --> 02:40:11,280
It's in writing, what kind of writing? The personal note

3011
02:40:11,280 --> 02:40:12,680
that Brooks was going to get back if you made

3012
02:40:12,719 --> 02:40:13,719
Harrold beneficiary?

3013
02:40:14,040 --> 02:40:14,959
Speaker 6: Where is this note?

3014
02:40:15,319 --> 02:40:17,000
Speaker 19: So I look like the kind of girl who put

3015
02:40:17,040 --> 02:40:18,319
the finger on her boyfriend.

3016
02:40:19,040 --> 02:40:20,680
Speaker 6: You look, though, like the kind of girl to do

3017
02:40:20,799 --> 02:40:21,719
anything if she wanted to.

3018
02:40:22,639 --> 02:40:26,600
Speaker 19: Thanks. I'll give you a slight hint. It's in his office.

3019
02:40:26,639 --> 02:40:28,399
You'll find it in the inside pocket of one of

3020
02:40:28,440 --> 02:40:31,719
his suits, in the wardrobe. What are you waiting for,

3021
02:40:31,879 --> 02:40:32,639
I'll watch the bar.

3022
02:40:33,200 --> 02:40:34,799
Speaker 6: Nothing, sweetheart, nothing at all.

3023
02:40:44,280 --> 02:40:47,639
Speaker 28: Whatever her reasons, mister Harrold, Hatcher's little female playmate was

3024
02:40:47,680 --> 02:40:49,799
trying awful hard to send him up on a murder

3025
02:40:49,840 --> 02:40:52,200
app and I was going to try awful hard.

3026
02:40:52,079 --> 02:40:55,319
Speaker 6: Not to let her down. Back in Hatcher's office, I

3027
02:40:55,399 --> 02:40:56,479
found myself alone in.

3028
02:40:56,520 --> 02:40:58,959
Speaker 28: A room with the telephone, and being a guy who

3029
02:40:59,040 --> 02:41:02,319
can never resist a free call, I unleashed the magic

3030
02:41:02,440 --> 02:41:03,559
wonders of the at and.

3031
02:41:03,600 --> 02:41:08,280
Speaker 14: T this better be you, Johnny Dollars.

3032
02:41:08,600 --> 02:41:10,399
Speaker 5: Quiet, Butter, I've only got a few seconds.

3033
02:41:10,479 --> 02:41:12,440
Speaker 14: Seems that's all you ever have for me got you.

3034
02:41:12,520 --> 02:41:15,120
Speaker 6: Oh look, angel, Angel, just another hour, I'll get you

3035
02:41:15,200 --> 02:41:15,920
a nice presence.

3036
02:41:16,000 --> 02:41:17,399
Speaker 19: I don't care if you're another century.

3037
02:41:17,680 --> 02:41:19,639
Speaker 14: And as for presents, the last one you brought me

3038
02:41:19,760 --> 02:41:21,479
was a drunk, and you even let him get away

3039
02:41:21,520 --> 02:41:21,799
from me.

3040
02:41:22,000 --> 02:41:22,639
Speaker 19: Good Night.

3041
02:41:25,559 --> 02:41:27,200
Speaker 6: Life presents a gloomy picture.

3042
02:41:27,360 --> 02:41:33,200
Speaker 28: Ever downward toward the tomb, Hadding wasted those few precious

3043
02:41:33,239 --> 02:41:35,719
moments of an already misspent youth. I decided I'd better

3044
02:41:35,760 --> 02:41:38,719
get on my pony before mister Hatcher showed up. I

3045
02:41:38,879 --> 02:41:41,639
found Milford Brooks's personal note in one of Hatcher's suits.

3046
02:41:41,680 --> 02:41:44,559
All right, as a matter of fact, I found something

3047
02:41:44,639 --> 02:41:48,040
in all his suits, A great big glamor of light

3048
02:41:52,840 --> 02:41:58,000
expenser cod Item five taxifair ten dollars. I left the

3049
02:41:58,079 --> 02:42:00,520
office in a hurry. Janelle let her table and Hatcher

3050
02:42:00,559 --> 02:42:02,639
at his bar. I got out of the club and

3051
02:42:02,719 --> 02:42:04,879
into a taxi parked a half block down the street.

3052
02:42:05,680 --> 02:42:09,120
There I waited until my favorite suspect left the hatchery

3053
02:42:09,520 --> 02:42:11,319
and piled into another cab, and off.

3054
02:42:11,280 --> 02:42:15,360
Speaker 6: We went on a chase. It would have made ben

3055
02:42:15,479 --> 02:42:16,879
Her look like a plowing bee.

3056
02:42:23,000 --> 02:42:26,280
Speaker 28: We skittered over to Lexington and headed uptown at seventy second,

3057
02:42:26,319 --> 02:42:28,120
the cab turned right and pulled to a stop.

3058
02:42:28,479 --> 02:42:30,600
Speaker 6: My driver was on his toes, and his toes were

3059
02:42:30,639 --> 02:42:33,319
on his break. We stopped two half a block behind.

3060
02:42:34,040 --> 02:42:34,799
Speaker 10: You want actual wait?

3061
02:42:34,879 --> 02:42:35,079
Speaker 5: Huh?

3062
02:42:35,319 --> 02:42:35,760
Speaker 6: Now I hear you.

3063
02:42:35,879 --> 02:42:44,479
Speaker 28: I keep the change day day. It was a garage

3064
02:42:44,520 --> 02:42:47,120
that belonged to a residence on the parallel street a

3065
02:42:47,159 --> 02:42:50,559
block away. The living quarters upstairs were dark enough to

3066
02:42:50,639 --> 02:42:54,559
look interesting. I indulged in a bit of genteel breaking

3067
02:42:54,639 --> 02:42:58,200
and entering. Entering that old barn didn't take much breaking.

3068
02:43:00,719 --> 02:43:03,959
I crept up the stairs. He sounded like they we

3069
02:43:04,000 --> 02:43:07,079
were left over from an old ghost story. And so

3070
02:43:07,280 --> 02:43:10,120
did the first voice I heard when I stopped halfway up.

3071
02:43:11,000 --> 02:43:13,760
Speaker 6: We've got to be careful, especially about that Johnny Dollar.

3072
02:43:14,239 --> 02:43:15,559
Are you sure he didn't follow you?

3073
02:43:16,879 --> 02:43:19,440
Speaker 28: That voice sounded awfully dry to be coming from a

3074
02:43:19,520 --> 02:43:22,079
guy who supposedly had spent most of the nights loosing

3075
02:43:22,120 --> 02:43:23,399
in the bottom of the Hudson River.

3076
02:43:24,479 --> 02:43:25,719
Speaker 5: It was Mildred Brooks.

3077
02:43:25,799 --> 02:43:30,879
Speaker 6: The third Get up on your feet. Brooks would not

3078
02:43:31,040 --> 02:43:34,920
wake a minutefire. I started the thing slugging you, and

3079
02:43:34,959 --> 02:43:36,280
I might as well finish it the same way.

3080
02:43:37,239 --> 02:43:41,159
Speaker 22: Now, pull in the Clau's angel and set on his lap.

3081
02:43:42,840 --> 02:43:44,840
Speaker 19: You hard for me, I'll kill you.

3082
02:43:45,040 --> 02:43:46,000
Speaker 6: Get off of me.

3083
02:43:47,000 --> 02:43:48,760
Speaker 29: I should have known better than to get mixed up

3084
02:43:48,799 --> 02:43:50,040
with a low class female like you.

3085
02:43:50,319 --> 02:43:53,040
Speaker 6: Why you don't, I'll hold it. We pushed the lady

3086
02:43:53,079 --> 02:43:54,799
around enough, Brooks tell me to be careful?

3087
02:43:54,840 --> 02:43:55,000
Speaker 5: Were you?

3088
02:43:55,159 --> 02:43:56,719
Speaker 6: Why didn't you think of that before you let him here?

3089
02:43:56,799 --> 02:43:57,559
Speaker 22: What your nose?

3090
02:43:57,600 --> 02:43:58,040
Speaker 5: Little boy?

3091
02:43:58,120 --> 02:43:59,799
Speaker 6: Why don't you go getting fat at it? Gorgeous?

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02:44:00,399 --> 02:44:02,559
Speaker 28: Neither one of you were exactly what i'd call master

3093
02:44:02,719 --> 02:44:05,079
minds when you planted that match folder on a little

3094
02:44:05,120 --> 02:44:06,840
boy blue Blood's top got to the ferry boat.

3095
02:44:07,079 --> 02:44:08,479
Speaker 6: You both should have been more careful.

3096
02:44:08,520 --> 02:44:09,040
Speaker 11: You think so?

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02:44:09,319 --> 02:44:09,680
Speaker 5: You bet?

3098
02:44:09,760 --> 02:44:10,280
Speaker 6: I think so.

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02:44:10,920 --> 02:44:13,079
Speaker 28: If I were planning a piece of evidence to incriminate

3100
02:44:13,120 --> 02:44:15,879
mister Harold Hatcher, I would have left a cigarette lighter.

3101
02:44:16,399 --> 02:44:18,040
I found one in the pocket of every suit he

3102
02:44:18,120 --> 02:44:20,799
owns back there in his closet the club. It wasn't

3103
02:44:20,840 --> 02:44:22,840
hard to figure out that that guy never carries a

3104
02:44:22,920 --> 02:44:23,600
book of matches.

3105
02:44:24,280 --> 02:44:24,840
Speaker 5: What do you want?

3106
02:44:25,600 --> 02:44:29,079
Speaker 28: I'm only interested in one thing, saving the insurance company

3107
02:44:29,120 --> 02:44:31,360
two million dollars, and Buster, I think you've done it

3108
02:44:31,479 --> 02:44:32,200
for me dollar.

3109
02:44:32,559 --> 02:44:33,879
Speaker 6: This is insurance fraud.

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02:44:34,360 --> 02:44:36,120
Speaker 28: It has been ever since you put on that fake

3111
02:44:36,200 --> 02:44:39,639
suicide attempt trying to start five hundred thousand bucks out

3112
02:44:39,639 --> 02:44:40,079
of the company.

3113
02:44:40,200 --> 02:44:42,440
Speaker 6: Dollar, Wait a minute, come on, we're leaving.

3114
02:44:42,760 --> 02:44:46,440
Speaker 22: You heard him, Dollar, Hatcher, he said, wait a minute,

3115
02:44:46,959 --> 02:44:47,719
he wants to talk.

3116
02:44:48,079 --> 02:44:50,360
Speaker 6: Yeah, everybody wants to get in on the act. How

3117
02:44:50,399 --> 02:44:51,000
did you get here?

3118
02:44:51,200 --> 02:44:53,120
Speaker 22: And the police in this town think maybe a guy's

3119
02:44:53,159 --> 02:44:55,040
jumped off a ferry boat and nobody said him to

3120
02:44:55,040 --> 02:44:56,959
do it. They checked the counters on the turnstiles at

3121
02:44:57,000 --> 02:44:59,360
each end. In the case of Brooks, as many people

3122
02:44:59,479 --> 02:45:01,200
got off that the boat has got on, it.

3123
02:45:01,200 --> 02:45:03,639
Speaker 28: Don't make sense. They'd hardly hold the guy because somebody

3124
02:45:03,719 --> 02:45:04,440
lost the top coat.

3125
02:45:04,639 --> 02:45:06,239
Speaker 19: H How did you know we were here?

3126
02:45:06,520 --> 02:45:08,479
Speaker 22: You know me, baby, you never go any place, and

3127
02:45:08,479 --> 02:45:11,920
I don't know about Okay, Brooks. You felt like talking,

3128
02:45:12,000 --> 02:45:15,520
now I feel like listening. Get it up. I don't

3129
02:45:15,520 --> 02:45:16,040
know what you mean.

3130
02:45:16,280 --> 02:45:17,360
Speaker 6: I know what you mean, Hatcher.

3131
02:45:17,760 --> 02:45:19,879
Speaker 28: One, he gave you a big fat, two million dollar

3132
02:45:20,000 --> 02:45:22,440
motive for murder, and two he did his best to

3133
02:45:22,479 --> 02:45:23,959
make it look like you did murder him with that

3134
02:45:24,079 --> 02:45:26,079
broken down match cover plant on the ferry boat.

3135
02:45:26,159 --> 02:45:27,120
Speaker 6: It's just that simple.

3136
02:45:27,399 --> 02:45:31,239
Speaker 22: And you, baby, ill please you put him up to it,

3137
02:45:31,319 --> 02:45:33,319
didn't you, you cheap little muscler trying to get rid

3138
02:45:33,319 --> 02:45:33,719
of me, will you?

3139
02:45:34,639 --> 02:45:37,079
Speaker 6: I'll calm down, Hatcher. You don't need any gun around here.

3140
02:45:37,159 --> 02:45:37,840
Their tame, or.

3141
02:45:37,840 --> 02:45:40,520
Speaker 22: Maybe I'm not. Since so many people have gone to

3142
02:45:40,559 --> 02:45:42,239
so much trouble to hand me a nice easy way

3143
02:45:42,319 --> 02:45:45,079
to make two million dollars, maybe I'll just go ahead

3144
02:45:45,079 --> 02:45:47,719
and make it. I'll show these amateurs how these things

3145
02:45:47,760 --> 02:45:51,479
are really done. Come on, Brooks, would you like to

3146
02:45:51,559 --> 02:45:53,959
go for a nice, cool half a ferry boat ride?

3147
02:45:54,239 --> 02:45:56,760
Speaker 6: No, Hatcher, no, look, he's terreful.

3148
02:45:57,159 --> 02:45:59,440
Speaker 22: I'll give you anything you get wrong, Sonny boy, you're

3149
02:45:59,440 --> 02:46:00,719
gonna give me everything.

3150
02:46:00,959 --> 02:46:03,840
Speaker 19: No, No, you can't let me out here.

3151
02:46:04,360 --> 02:46:07,239
Speaker 6: Brooks bulled for the door. Hatch snapped a shot at him,

3152
02:46:07,719 --> 02:46:09,639
and I hit Hatch you with a door died tackle

3153
02:46:09,719 --> 02:46:12,520
from behind. The gun flew out of his hand. Now

3154
02:46:12,600 --> 02:46:14,280
you know I'd beat him to it and swung it

3155
02:46:14,319 --> 02:46:15,440
straight into his skull.

3156
02:46:21,000 --> 02:46:22,959
Speaker 28: Half the people in the room were lying there, bleeding,

3157
02:46:23,799 --> 02:46:27,280
Brooks from gunshot, Hatcher from gun bud. Janelle and I

3158
02:46:27,479 --> 02:46:31,079
stood there panting, but believe me, not for each other.

3159
02:46:32,760 --> 02:46:51,000
We stood that way until the police arrived. Dolla, it's

3160
02:46:51,079 --> 02:46:53,399
beyond me. I sent you out to protect the life

3161
02:46:53,440 --> 02:46:56,680
of a very important policyholder. And now where are we standing?

3162
02:46:56,719 --> 02:46:59,120
In a hospital corridor worrying about whether he's going to

3163
02:46:59,200 --> 02:47:01,479
live or die? As far as I'm concerned, mister Farnsworth,

3164
02:47:01,520 --> 02:47:04,360
you're only half right. I'm just standing in a hospital corridor.

3165
02:47:04,600 --> 02:47:06,159
Speaker 6: Oh dollar, you're heartless.

3166
02:47:06,200 --> 02:47:07,799
Speaker 28: Well, if you'd been bitten where he'd bitten me, you

3167
02:47:07,799 --> 02:47:09,639
wouldn't care if you've lived or died either.

3168
02:47:10,319 --> 02:47:12,000
Speaker 6: I'm getting out of here. Where are you going?

3169
02:47:12,239 --> 02:47:15,120
Speaker 28: It'll be explained in my expense account on the miscellaneous expence,

3170
02:47:15,680 --> 02:47:17,520
or don't fall over when you come to an item

3171
02:47:17,559 --> 02:47:18,920
for three hundred and eighteen.

3172
02:47:18,719 --> 02:47:23,559
Speaker 6: Dollars three hundred and eighteen dollars for what, not for what? Farnsworth?

3173
02:47:24,079 --> 02:47:24,559
Speaker 11: For whom?

3174
02:47:32,760 --> 02:47:35,879
Speaker 28: Expense account total, and it all adds up to a

3175
02:47:35,879 --> 02:47:37,760
little matter of eleven hundred and eighty two dollars and

3176
02:47:37,799 --> 02:47:41,319
twenty three cents, which you may say, mister Farnsworth, is

3177
02:47:41,360 --> 02:47:42,920
a lot of money for one man to spend in

3178
02:47:42,959 --> 02:47:45,959
two days, But you must bear in mind that the

3179
02:47:46,079 --> 02:47:49,399
amount of stake was two million dollars, and you know

3180
02:47:49,440 --> 02:47:50,639
the price of stake these days.

3181
02:47:52,000 --> 02:47:54,079
Speaker 6: It might comfort you to know that I just returned

3182
02:47:54,120 --> 02:47:54,840
from the hospital.

3183
02:47:55,600 --> 02:47:57,799
Speaker 28: Brooks was strong enough to make a full statement, which

3184
02:47:57,840 --> 02:47:59,000
you will find and close.

3185
02:47:59,799 --> 02:48:02,760
Speaker 6: This in itself should prove sufficient to establish evidence of

3186
02:48:02,799 --> 02:48:03,879
a tempered fraud.

3187
02:48:03,600 --> 02:48:07,360
Speaker 28: Against your company, allowing you to immediately avoid his policy.

3188
02:48:08,559 --> 02:48:12,639
It boils down to one sentence to wit, Brooks and

3189
02:48:12,719 --> 02:48:15,280
Janelle wanted to get rid of Hatcher so that they

3190
02:48:15,319 --> 02:48:19,520
could live happily. Ever after knowing those two, they never

3191
02:48:19,680 --> 02:48:25,040
had a chance. And oh yes, that that miscellaneous item,

3192
02:48:25,200 --> 02:48:27,200
the one for three hundred and eighteen dollars.

3193
02:48:28,120 --> 02:48:32,440
Speaker 5: It was a bracelet for a certain party who made this.

3194
02:48:32,680 --> 02:48:37,760
Speaker 28: Special investigation for me, very special. Or if you want

3195
02:48:37,799 --> 02:48:39,840
a receipt for this item, I'll send you a lock

3196
02:48:39,920 --> 02:49:03,120
of her hair. Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. So, with the

3197
02:49:03,159 --> 02:49:06,479
final signature on his expense account, Dick Powell as Johnny Dollar,

3198
02:49:06,520 --> 02:49:08,639
has just closed the books on his first adventure in

3199
02:49:08,719 --> 02:49:12,159
this new CBS series. The script for tonight's broadcast was

3200
02:49:12,159 --> 02:49:14,760
written by Paul Dudley and Gil Daud and the music

3201
02:49:14,840 --> 02:49:17,920
was created and conducted by Dick Rant. The entire production

3202
02:49:18,040 --> 02:49:29,520
was under the direction of Tony Leader. Be sure to

3203
02:49:29,600 --> 02:49:32,319
tune in again next week when the expense account covers

3204
02:49:32,360 --> 02:49:37,479
Special Investigation Singapore, another unusual adventure starring Dick Powell.

3205
02:49:37,280 --> 02:49:41,399
Speaker 11: In Yours.

3206
02:49:43,319 --> 02:49:57,399
Speaker 28: Truly Johnny Dollar. This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.

3207
02:49:57,719 --> 02:50:03,719
Speaker 1: Welcome back. A very interesting show. I think that in

3208
02:50:03,879 --> 02:50:07,559
one way the story didn't fit the opening narration. We

3209
02:50:07,719 --> 02:50:11,520
were told at the beginning that Johnny Dollar knew how

3210
02:50:11,680 --> 02:50:16,120
to pad an expense account like no one else. What

3211
02:50:16,319 --> 02:50:21,120
we saw was that, uh, Johnny Dollar is played by

3212
02:50:21,200 --> 02:50:26,920
Dick Powell, could have taught some some corporate thieves a

3213
02:50:27,079 --> 02:50:33,760
lesson or to in creative accounting, including the shoes sign

3214
02:50:33,959 --> 02:50:39,520
was padding this expense account the three hundred dollar necklace? Yeah,

3215
02:50:39,639 --> 02:50:42,680
I think that that would have been some serious fines

3216
02:50:43,680 --> 02:50:46,440
in today's world. But it's it's old time radio, so

3217
02:50:46,559 --> 02:50:49,719
it's all in good fun, all right. Well, we turned

3218
02:50:49,799 --> 02:50:52,360
to comments. We've we've already gotten a few comments and

3219
02:50:52,559 --> 02:50:53,479
emails on the show.

3220
02:50:53,520 --> 02:50:54,559
Speaker 4: That's much appreciated.

3221
02:50:54,879 --> 02:50:57,120
Speaker 1: I always encourage people to go and cast a vote

3222
02:50:57,120 --> 02:51:01,399
at podcast Alley dot com, even and particularly as we

3223
02:51:01,559 --> 02:51:04,440
were getting started with a new show. Your vote's important

3224
02:51:04,639 --> 02:51:07,760
helping us get started on the right foot. We've got

3225
02:51:07,799 --> 02:51:09,639
a link to go and cast your vote for us

3226
02:51:09,719 --> 02:51:12,520
over at podcast Alley, So just go to Great Detectives

3227
02:51:12,559 --> 02:51:15,040
dot net click the link, or just go to Podcastdolley

3228
02:51:15,079 --> 02:51:20,440
dot com and search for our vote page. We actually

3229
02:51:20,479 --> 02:51:23,559
got actually got a comment that gave me some thought.

3230
02:51:23,639 --> 02:51:28,600
As we were preparing the opening here, Dave from Gega

3231
02:51:28,639 --> 02:51:31,120
Harbor Right said, Hey, Adam and Gang, I'm really looking

3232
02:51:31,200 --> 02:51:34,000
forward to this series. I've continued to enjoy both the

3233
02:51:34,159 --> 02:51:38,520
very different podcast Superman and Dragnet and Adam's friendly introduction

3234
02:51:38,639 --> 02:51:41,879
of these shows. Simply put, I'm a big fan. However,

3235
02:51:41,920 --> 02:51:45,000
I'm a little concerned that those who are unfamiliar with

3236
02:51:45,159 --> 02:51:49,040
Adam's relaxed and informal style may be ever so slightly

3237
02:51:49,120 --> 02:51:51,559
put off by the length of the intro of this

3238
02:51:51,680 --> 02:51:54,879
first podcast. As an attorney, it reminds me of one

3239
02:51:54,920 --> 02:51:58,479
of my very early jury trials where when delivering my

3240
02:51:58,840 --> 02:52:01,600
final argument I went on far too long, and rather

3241
02:52:01,680 --> 02:52:04,639
than hitting them with some wit and pizzazz, I delved

3242
02:52:04,680 --> 02:52:09,760
into the mini mindumming and detailed inter keys of my case.

3243
02:52:09,959 --> 02:52:13,239
I'm afraid I lost that one, Adam. I appreciate your

3244
02:52:13,280 --> 02:52:16,079
love and enthusiasm for this genre and for this new podcast.

3245
02:52:16,399 --> 02:52:19,200
How I'd recommend starting off with a more brief, succinct

3246
02:52:19,280 --> 02:52:22,879
and punchy opening that more quickly leads to the episode

3247
02:52:22,920 --> 02:52:25,360
itself without further ados. You like to say, once your

3248
02:52:25,399 --> 02:52:28,120
audience is hooked on the shows and becomes more familiar

3249
02:52:28,200 --> 02:52:30,680
with your style, things will go well, but don't scare

3250
02:52:30,760 --> 02:52:34,600
them away with too much intro stuff. Well, I appreciate

3251
02:52:34,680 --> 02:52:39,120
the comment. We had a lot going on actually in

3252
02:52:39,200 --> 02:52:42,680
that first episode. It just when you introduce, you're introducing

3253
02:52:42,840 --> 02:52:47,440
so much. We're introducing a great actor and a new

3254
02:52:47,600 --> 02:52:52,040
show and really an entirely different format of doing detective shows.

3255
02:52:52,079 --> 02:52:54,879
So that one was a little bit long. I think

3256
02:52:55,000 --> 02:52:58,959
that the intros this week have been much shorter. And

3257
02:52:59,040 --> 02:53:01,840
the reason for that and why the first part of

3258
02:53:01,879 --> 02:53:05,920
the shows with most is not going to belong except

3259
02:53:05,959 --> 02:53:10,520
perhaps on the Yours Truly Johnny Dollar side, is because

3260
02:53:12,959 --> 02:53:15,680
is because most of the time we don't have the

3261
02:53:16,440 --> 02:53:19,719
listener feedback and email, so that they're gonna be shorter.

3262
02:53:19,879 --> 02:53:23,639
I decided this time, instead of reading emails and stuff

3263
02:53:23,719 --> 02:53:27,079
before the show, to do it afterwards. Just because fans

3264
02:53:27,079 --> 02:53:30,079
of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar, have been waiting so long

3265
02:53:30,200 --> 02:53:33,479
to have a podcast out there covering their show. I

3266
02:53:33,600 --> 02:53:36,079
decided to shorten up the intro on that one, and

3267
02:53:36,200 --> 02:53:39,120
particularly be sensitive to the fact that we are introducing

3268
02:53:39,200 --> 02:53:42,959
the show as well as a great actor in Vick Palce.

3269
02:53:43,040 --> 02:53:48,319
So I appreciate the comment. Another one we got from

3270
02:53:48,479 --> 02:53:51,559
Mike and Hillsboro organ Adam is a great host for

3271
02:53:51,639 --> 02:53:55,879
nostalgic radio programs. Check out his Dragnap podcast too, And

3272
02:53:56,000 --> 02:53:59,280
if you and if you are just listening to to

3273
02:53:59,399 --> 02:54:02,440
this show, uh and having checked out the Dragnet, you

3274
02:54:02,479 --> 02:54:05,239
can go over to radio Dragnet dot com and subscribe

3275
02:54:05,280 --> 02:54:08,799
to that one as well. Emails, I got an email

3276
02:54:08,879 --> 02:54:13,719
from Leslie concerned about the theme. Well, in answer to

3277
02:54:13,799 --> 02:54:18,360
Leslie's question about the theme music, UH, I actually decided

3278
02:54:18,719 --> 02:54:22,600
I wanted a separate theme for this show as opposed

3279
02:54:22,639 --> 02:54:25,799
to Dragnet, so we'll have we'll be having a new

3280
02:54:25,879 --> 02:54:28,959
themes starting in week three. I listen for it. It

3281
02:54:29,079 --> 02:54:33,799
actually came from an Armed Forces Radio Services UH broadcast

3282
02:54:33,879 --> 02:54:37,840
of Pat Novak for Hire. And I think it works

3283
02:54:37,920 --> 02:54:41,200
great for a detective show, and I think I think

3284
02:54:41,239 --> 02:54:43,840
you'll really enjoy it, and I hope that you uh.

3285
02:54:44,319 --> 02:54:48,520
I hope that it becomes a favorite signal. So oh

3286
02:54:48,760 --> 02:54:53,399
and she asked about pointing out Jimmy Stewart on radio

3287
02:54:54,000 --> 02:54:56,000
that one of the best ways to hear Stuart on

3288
02:54:56,120 --> 02:55:00,319
the on the radio is in The Six Shooter. This

3289
02:55:00,479 --> 02:55:03,239
is an old time radio Western series starring Jimmy Stewart

3290
02:55:03,280 --> 02:55:04,479
which I found on iTunes.

3291
02:55:04,520 --> 02:55:05,959
Speaker 2: You might enjoy it well.

3292
02:55:06,040 --> 02:55:09,200
Speaker 1: Thanks, and I appreciate that. Lastly, I had listened to

3293
02:55:09,319 --> 02:55:12,280
one episode. In this past week on Leslie's advice, I

3294
02:55:12,399 --> 02:55:15,120
listened to two more episodes of The Six Shooter. It

3295
02:55:15,280 --> 02:55:18,440
is actually a really good show. It's got a touch

3296
02:55:18,520 --> 02:55:25,000
of lightness in it, particularly particularly once you get past

3297
02:55:25,120 --> 02:55:30,120
the pilot. So yeah, Six Shooter with Jimmy Stewart, if

3298
02:55:30,159 --> 02:55:32,799
you can get it somewhere, it's it is a fun show.

3299
02:55:32,840 --> 02:55:36,799
There weren't too many of them made. The estimates out

3300
02:55:36,840 --> 02:55:39,079
there for the number of shows made is somewhere between

3301
02:55:39,200 --> 02:55:43,440
forty one and forty five, So thanks for the tip. Lastly,

3302
02:55:44,319 --> 02:55:47,920
another email we got here. A big fan of the

3303
02:55:48,000 --> 02:55:51,520
Dragnet podcast. I'm looking forward to the new podcast, especially

3304
02:55:51,600 --> 02:55:54,959
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. I was really close to trying

3305
02:55:55,040 --> 02:55:57,799
my hand at doing my own Yours Truly Johnny Dollar podcast,

3306
02:55:57,879 --> 02:55:59,360
but I was afraid I would not have the time

3307
02:55:59,399 --> 02:56:01,399
to actually come lead it all on a regular basis

3308
02:56:02,440 --> 02:56:05,280
and hope the news shows are successful for you. I

3309
02:56:05,399 --> 02:56:08,239
see you have some good background on yours truly Johnny

3310
02:56:08,280 --> 02:56:11,319
Dollar already on your side, and if you're not, you

3311
02:56:11,399 --> 02:56:14,079
have not. I encourage you to check out the episodes

3312
02:56:14,120 --> 02:56:17,200
of Jim Wittner's podcasts that were focused on yours truly,

3313
02:56:17,239 --> 02:56:20,000
Johnny Dollar. I think you did a great job of

3314
02:56:20,079 --> 02:56:23,000
providing background on the various Johnny dollars and has a

3315
02:56:23,040 --> 02:56:25,760
great podcast that kind of kind of petered out as

3316
02:56:25,799 --> 02:56:27,719
of late due to what I assume is other things

3317
02:56:27,799 --> 02:56:28,159
going on.

3318
02:56:28,280 --> 02:56:28,879
Speaker 2: In his life.

3319
02:56:29,639 --> 02:56:32,120
Speaker 1: And thanks for the email, and I did go ahead

3320
02:56:32,159 --> 02:56:36,760
and listen to that. It's it's a pretty interesting approach.

3321
02:56:36,920 --> 02:56:42,200
He basically took episodes from each of the actors who

3322
02:56:42,280 --> 02:56:46,639
performed as Johnny Dollar and put and put them together

3323
02:56:46,760 --> 02:56:49,600
so you could get a sense of their style. Obviously,

3324
02:56:49,719 --> 02:56:53,600
since I'm doing a different approach going through, you'll get

3325
02:56:53,639 --> 02:56:58,079
to hear the second Johnny Dollar next week and the

3326
02:56:58,159 --> 02:57:01,040
Johnny Dollar after that, however, will be about six months

3327
02:57:01,079 --> 02:57:03,879
down the line. So I'll go ahead and I'll include

3328
02:57:03,920 --> 02:57:06,520
that link in the show notes over at Great Detectives

3329
02:57:06,559 --> 02:57:10,120
dot net so you can go ahead and sample what

3330
02:57:10,280 --> 02:57:13,280
might be ahead in the future of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar.

3331
02:57:14,079 --> 02:57:18,200
All right, well, that's it for this week's show. Come

3332
02:57:18,280 --> 02:57:22,159
back on Monday, Box thirteen. On Monday Tuesday, Pat Novak

3333
02:57:22,239 --> 02:57:27,159
for hire, Wednesday, Let George do It, Thursday Sherlock Holmes,

3334
02:57:27,559 --> 02:57:31,440
and Friday, Yours Truly Johnny Dollar, please join us again

3335
02:57:32,360 --> 02:57:36,239
from Boise, Idaho. This is your host, Adam Graham signing off.

3336
02:57:43,040 --> 02:57:43,879
Speaker 4: Welcome back.

3337
02:57:44,159 --> 02:57:46,799
Speaker 1: I'd forgotten that I was the first one to do

3338
02:57:47,079 --> 02:57:51,639
a regular Yours Truly Johnny Dollar podcast. Now, obviously there

3339
02:57:51,719 --> 02:57:55,239
were series that played a lot of different detective series

3340
02:57:55,959 --> 02:58:00,200
and featured Johnny Dollar every now and again, but I

3341
02:58:00,360 --> 02:58:03,040
was the first one to do it with him in

3342
02:58:03,120 --> 02:58:07,360
his own podcast. And probably one miscalculation I made initially

3343
02:58:08,319 --> 02:58:11,000
was that looking back, I actually think I could have

3344
02:58:11,120 --> 02:58:14,159
done in all Johnny Dollar podcast and that would have

3345
02:58:14,239 --> 02:58:17,520
been pretty successful. But honestly, there have been so many

3346
02:58:17,639 --> 02:58:21,040
fun programs over the last fifteen years that I wouldn't

3347
02:58:21,079 --> 02:58:23,239
have gotten to share, So I'm glad I did it

3348
02:58:23,319 --> 02:58:26,639
the way I did. In terms of the episode, I

3349
02:58:26,719 --> 02:58:30,000
found myself chuckling throughout. There were some great lines, and

3350
02:58:30,239 --> 02:58:34,639
pill had fantastic delivery as this sort of lovable rogue.

3351
02:58:35,239 --> 02:58:37,520
As I said, this feels a bit closer to the

3352
02:58:37,639 --> 02:58:40,280
character he played in Rogue's Gallery than the one he

3353
02:58:40,399 --> 02:58:43,399
ended up creating a few months later in Richard Diamond.

3354
02:58:44,120 --> 02:58:46,280
I love the part of the intro at the start

3355
02:58:46,360 --> 02:58:50,440
where Poll introduced himself as Johnny Dollar and someone said what,

3356
02:58:51,200 --> 02:58:55,399
which I guess is good representation for everyone who ever

3357
02:58:55,719 --> 02:58:58,239
heard that name on the radio and was like, really,

3358
02:58:58,959 --> 02:59:01,559
that's the name you're going on with at this point,

3359
02:59:01,639 --> 02:59:04,840
we've just kind of accepted it, but it is and

3360
02:59:05,239 --> 02:59:08,719
was an unusual name. Powell was able to sell a

3361
02:59:08,799 --> 02:59:13,600
few aspects of his character better than Charles Russell did

3362
02:59:14,200 --> 02:59:18,600
in performing the same script, particularly the Dollar tips. I

3363
02:59:18,719 --> 02:59:21,360
do think it's a performance that works for a single

3364
02:59:21,479 --> 02:59:25,520
episode or to introduce the character, but this sort of

3365
02:59:25,680 --> 02:59:28,959
characterization doesn't hold up long term. It's a little too

3366
02:59:29,120 --> 02:59:32,799
shallow when you look at the long term trajectory. Even

3367
02:59:33,159 --> 02:59:37,040
of characters who are a bit more morally gray, like

3368
02:59:37,200 --> 02:59:41,680
Sam Spade or even Powell's detectives, Richard Rogan, Richard Diamond,

3369
02:59:42,120 --> 02:59:45,159
they had plenty of moments that humanized them and made

3370
02:59:45,280 --> 02:59:48,280
each here for them. With the failing that, despite the

3371
02:59:48,479 --> 02:59:51,479
rough edges, they were still on the side of the Angel.

3372
02:59:51,920 --> 02:59:56,200
It's also interesting that we have a second straight audition

3373
02:59:56,399 --> 03:00:01,200
episode with Joseph Kern's appearing, though a very different role,

3374
03:00:01,319 --> 03:00:03,040
which shows his versatility.

3375
03:00:03,600 --> 03:00:07,120
Speaker 4: The one thing I didn't like in this episode.

3376
03:00:06,719 --> 03:00:07,440
Speaker 2: Is the music.

3377
03:00:08,040 --> 03:00:10,479
Speaker 4: I don't know what they were going for, but it

3378
03:00:10,840 --> 03:00:12,319
just didn't seem to fit.

3379
03:00:13,120 --> 03:00:18,280
Speaker 1: Charles Russell definitely had better music, particularly with his more

3380
03:00:18,479 --> 03:00:22,680
laid back theme. Now, there were a couple of interesting

3381
03:00:22,799 --> 03:00:26,760
things that we referenced in the comments. First, I referenced

3382
03:00:26,879 --> 03:00:30,920
podcast Alley, and when I was doing some research, I

3383
03:00:31,079 --> 03:00:34,639
was actually shocked to find that the website is still

3384
03:00:34,719 --> 03:00:37,000
there as a bit of a ghost website that's not

3385
03:00:37,200 --> 03:00:40,639
been updated in fourteen years. And they also have a

3386
03:00:40,719 --> 03:00:44,079
Twitter feed that's also hasn't been updated in fourteen years.

3387
03:00:44,920 --> 03:00:48,319
But back in the day, it had a podcast directory

3388
03:00:48,600 --> 03:00:51,520
and you could vote for your favorite podcast, and we

3389
03:00:51,600 --> 03:00:55,479
were usually pretty highly ranked, and I encourage people to

3390
03:00:56,200 --> 03:00:58,840
go and vote on podcast Alley. I don't know if

3391
03:00:58,879 --> 03:01:02,920
it helped us grow, but you'll hear about that. For

3392
03:01:03,040 --> 03:01:05,920
the first year or two on the podcast, it was

3393
03:01:06,239 --> 03:01:09,959
just one of those recommended podcast growth strategies that I

3394
03:01:10,079 --> 03:01:13,399
read about back then. The other thing that was referenced

3395
03:01:13,680 --> 03:01:18,040
was Jim Widner and the Radio Detective Story Hour, and

3396
03:01:18,200 --> 03:01:23,840
that also is dormant but still thankfully available, and I've

3397
03:01:23,959 --> 03:01:27,840
actually found it very helpful on a wide variety of

3398
03:01:28,120 --> 03:01:32,959
different programs. His show was just such a great resource

3399
03:01:33,120 --> 03:01:36,520
on so many programs, and then later into some more

3400
03:01:36,600 --> 03:01:40,600
of the mystery anthology stuff where he did some research

3401
03:01:41,680 --> 03:01:45,479
and really went back into studying some of the original

3402
03:01:45,639 --> 03:01:50,000
stories that detective programs were based upon. He retired the

3403
03:01:50,200 --> 03:01:53,639
podcast in two thousand and seven, but you can still

3404
03:01:53,760 --> 03:01:56,760
find it over at OTR dot com. It's a really

3405
03:01:56,840 --> 03:02:01,879
incredible resource. I really appreciated the comments from Dave. From

3406
03:02:02,280 --> 03:02:06,239
Gig Harbor and Leslie, I've heard from Lessie since then,

3407
03:02:06,479 --> 03:02:09,760
but I don't remember if I've heard from Dave. Both

3408
03:02:09,879 --> 03:02:14,000
offered some really good constructive criticism that I took to heart.

3409
03:02:14,719 --> 03:02:19,000
In my pilot episode, I went on and rambled way

3410
03:02:19,120 --> 03:02:23,040
too long at the start of the episode, and even

3411
03:02:23,319 --> 03:02:26,840
back on the Old Time dragon At podcast, I would

3412
03:02:26,879 --> 03:02:31,680
often have lengthy commentary at both the beginning and the end.

3413
03:02:32,280 --> 03:02:35,520
The plan I discussed here was to have all the

3414
03:02:35,639 --> 03:02:40,680
listener feedback on the Johnny Dollar episode and ride at

3415
03:02:40,760 --> 03:02:45,840
the start of the program, and that had some interesting outcomes.

3416
03:02:46,079 --> 03:02:50,399
In some episodes, it would take between ten and twelve

3417
03:02:50,600 --> 03:02:54,559
minutes of going through feedback before we'd actually get into

3418
03:02:54,639 --> 03:02:57,479
Johnny Dollar. We wouldn't have the problem the rest of

3419
03:02:57,559 --> 03:03:01,399
the week, but it would be bit of a traffic

3420
03:03:01,520 --> 03:03:05,879
jam on Johnny Dollar Day. I think that it wasn't

3421
03:03:06,079 --> 03:03:09,600
too long after that, probably within the first hundred episodes,

3422
03:03:09,680 --> 03:03:14,360
that I settled into a system where I would read

3423
03:03:14,479 --> 03:03:18,879
the feedback for the podcast that it was about, so

3424
03:03:18,959 --> 03:03:23,079
I wouldn't read Jeff Reagan feed back on the Johnny

3425
03:03:23,159 --> 03:03:27,959
Dollar Day, and eventually I moved towards trying to be

3426
03:03:28,559 --> 03:03:32,120
more succinct at the front of the podcast and saving

3427
03:03:32,239 --> 03:03:35,879
the feedback and most of the commentary for after the show.

3428
03:03:36,600 --> 03:03:39,680
As a general rule, you know, there are exceptions, but

3429
03:03:39,920 --> 03:03:41,840
that's been what I've gone for, and there are some

3430
03:03:42,079 --> 03:03:45,639
opportunities I have to tighten things up, but I'll talk

3431
03:03:45,719 --> 03:03:50,440
about that tomorrow. It's been fascinating going back and listening

3432
03:03:50,520 --> 03:03:53,680
to these episodes. There were some mistakes made, both in

3433
03:03:53,879 --> 03:03:56,799
facts and presentation, and a lot of things I do

3434
03:03:57,000 --> 03:03:59,959
differently if I were doing it today. But I'm glad,

3435
03:04:00,000 --> 03:04:03,319
glad I started the podcast. When I did the World

3436
03:04:03,399 --> 03:04:06,360
of podcast in two thousand and nine was really a

3437
03:04:06,559 --> 03:04:11,040
wild West, and staking my claim fifteen years ago is

3438
03:04:11,120 --> 03:04:14,000
a big part of why the Great Detectives of Old

3439
03:04:14,040 --> 03:04:18,239
Time Radio has been so successful, And for me, the

3440
03:04:18,600 --> 03:04:22,200
entire fifteen years has been a learning experience with all

3441
03:04:22,280 --> 03:04:27,319
the changes in podcasting. For one, I remember being proud

3442
03:04:27,479 --> 03:04:30,520
not only for my podcast Alley ranking, but when I

3443
03:04:30,600 --> 03:04:35,000
got the podcast optimized for Zoom. That's how long I've

3444
03:04:35,040 --> 03:04:38,319
been doing this. But I've also had an opportunity to

3445
03:04:38,520 --> 03:04:41,600
learn more about old time radio and not only dig

3446
03:04:41,719 --> 03:04:45,600
into old time radio detective programs, but also watch many

3447
03:04:45,959 --> 03:04:49,680
movies and read books I never would have experienced if

3448
03:04:49,719 --> 03:04:54,120
I'd never hosted this podcast, and I'm really thankful for that.

3449
03:04:54,479 --> 03:04:55,799
Speaker 2: And to all of you.

3450
03:04:55,879 --> 03:04:59,319
Speaker 1: Who've listened to the podcast over the years, I really

3451
03:04:59,399 --> 03:05:03,840
appreciate you your support and understanding. I've endeavored to share

3452
03:05:03,920 --> 03:05:07,040
my love of these detective programs with you, and I

3453
03:05:07,159 --> 03:05:11,079
had this vision from the start that we'd have listeners

3454
03:05:11,639 --> 03:05:17,399
essentially virtually gathered around a virtual radio to listen to

3455
03:05:17,479 --> 03:05:21,280
these programs. Your encouragement and support has made it happen,

3456
03:05:21,920 --> 03:05:25,239
and we've had so many great interactions over the years.

3457
03:05:25,440 --> 03:05:28,799
I'm really grateful for it. Now, if you are curious

3458
03:05:28,920 --> 03:05:32,520
to hear more of our back catalog and check out

3459
03:05:32,559 --> 03:05:35,600
our older episodes, I'll share some of the ways that

3460
03:05:35,879 --> 03:05:43,079
you can do That. Podcast was inspired by archive composition

3461
03:05:43,319 --> 03:05:46,319
posts that I've put on YouTube, where I would take

3462
03:05:46,520 --> 03:05:50,040
an entire week of podcasts and combine them into a

3463
03:05:50,319 --> 03:05:55,040
single YouTube video, and you can find those compilations on

3464
03:05:55,159 --> 03:05:56,319
our YouTube channel.

3465
03:05:57,120 --> 03:05:58,879
Speaker 4: We post a week.

3466
03:05:58,799 --> 03:06:03,280
Speaker 1: Worth of episodes twice a week Tuesday and Saturday, and

3467
03:06:03,399 --> 03:06:07,840
we're up to nearly eighty weekly COMPI licens done. In addition,

3468
03:06:08,120 --> 03:06:12,200
podcast wise, I've created archive feeds so that you can

3469
03:06:12,319 --> 03:06:16,559
listen to our old lineups of shows and episodes in

3470
03:06:16,719 --> 03:06:21,120
chronological order. Our Volume one feed is at Volume one

3471
03:06:21,239 --> 03:06:25,840
Dot Great Detectives dot net, collecting seasons one through three.

3472
03:06:26,200 --> 03:06:29,319
Our Volume two feed is at Volume two Dot Great

3473
03:06:29,399 --> 03:06:33,840
Detectives dot net, collecting seasons four through six, and we

3474
03:06:34,120 --> 03:06:38,079
just launched our Volume three feed at Volume three Dot

3475
03:06:38,200 --> 03:06:42,680
Great Detectives dot net, which has a few episodes posted

3476
03:06:42,760 --> 03:06:46,719
for Seed since seven, and we'll continue to add more

3477
03:06:46,799 --> 03:06:50,200
over the next year or so until we have all

3478
03:06:50,440 --> 03:06:54,360
of season seven through nine posted and available for your

3479
03:06:54,479 --> 03:06:58,799
listening pleasure. Now it's time to thank our Patreon supporter

3480
03:06:58,920 --> 03:07:00,399
of the day, and I want to go ahead and

3481
03:07:00,479 --> 03:07:03,920
thank Judith. Judas has been one of our Patreon supporters

3482
03:07:04,319 --> 03:07:08,159
since May of twenty twenty one, currently supporting the podcast

3483
03:07:08,239 --> 03:07:10,879
at the shamest level of four dollars or more per month.

3484
03:07:11,440 --> 03:07:14,879
Thank you so much for your support, and join us

3485
03:07:14,959 --> 03:07:19,399
back here tomorrow as Season sixteen gets underway with an

3486
03:07:19,440 --> 03:07:22,639
episode of the Adventures of the Fall, Can wear all right?

3487
03:07:22,719 --> 03:07:23,479
Speaker 10: Wearing? What's up?

3488
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Speaker 6: And I just lost the client?

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Speaker 10: And I thought you were such a good detective. Yeah,

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so does my client.

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Speaker 6: That's why you hired me.

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Speaker 10: What changed his mind for him?

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Speaker 6: A bullet?

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Speaker 10: You mean I got to go to work?

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Speaker 6: Well, that's up to you. I'm just reporting the murder

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like a good little citizen.

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Speaker 10: When did it happen?

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Speaker 6: Sometime last night?

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Speaker 10: The name of the stiff Spencer Hollister two L's Where'll

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I find him?

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Speaker 6: Get away?

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Speaker 40: Apartments penthas you there now, yep, we'll stay there. I'll

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03:07:48,879 --> 03:07:51,079
be right over all right. But as long as you're

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taking down the vital statistics, wouldn't you like to know

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03:07:53,760 --> 03:07:55,879
the name of the murder, and you got it, got

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a pretty good idea.

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Speaker 10: I'm listening and wearing.

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Speaker 40: Allis to hired up on a character named Jack Landis.

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Landis was soliciting funds and a charity deal big funds.

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Hallisa suspected he was a phony. He hired me to

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03:08:07,840 --> 03:08:10,079
check up, and I found out Holliston was right.

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Speaker 6: Landis was a phony.

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Speaker 5: Yesterday I gave Hollister the dope.

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Speaker 40: Today I dropped ground to pick up the checkie pharmas

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me and found him with a bulletin is inside and

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03:08:17,600 --> 03:08:19,559
you figure Lander's put it there now.

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Speaker 1: In that final episode we played today, I referenced the

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new theme, which we've now been playing for a little

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less than fifteen years. We're going to hear the FSAR

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segment that inspired our theme. It's a bit of an

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03:08:35,959 --> 03:08:41,479
extended edition of the theme with an AFRs announcer interjecting

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a few words, and we'll go out on that from Boise, Idaho.

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This is your host, Adam Graham, thanking you once again

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for fifteen fantastic years and sign and.

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Speaker 41: Off music was composed and conducted by Basil Adnam. Be

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with us again next week when over most of these

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same stations.

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Speaker 6: We'll bring you at Novak for Hire.

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Speaker 41: Hat Novak for Hire was previously released by ABC, the

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American Broadcasting Company, for listeners in the United States and

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03:09:32,760 --> 03:09:36,040
rebroadcast for our men and women overseas. This is the

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United States Armed Forces Radio Service, the Voice of Information

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and Education, a