Podcasts Arts Performing Arts Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives) Episode 550 - First Day of School (The Whistler, Philip Marlowe, I Was a Communist for the FBI, & Dragnet)

Episode 550 - First Day of School (The Whistler, Philip Marlowe, I Was a Communist for the FBI, & Dragnet)

Published: Sept. 3, 2023, 4 a.m.

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It\'s time to sharpen those pencils and hit the books with four radio mysteries set in and around the classroom. First, a chemistry professor tries a blackmail experiment in "Hasty Conclusion" from\\xa0The Whistler (originally aired on CBS on May 19, 1947) and Philip Marlowe\'s latest client is a Nebraska schoolteacher caught up in mystery and murder in "The Rustin Hickory" (originally aired on CBS on September 10, 1949). Then, Dana Andrews tries to thwart a Commie plot to infiltrate a college campus in "Little Red Schoolhouse" from\\xa0I Was a Communist for the FBI and Joe Friday goes back to school to find an assailant targeting students in "The Big Knife" from\\xa0Dragnet (originally aired on NBC on May 11, 1950).

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