August 31, 2025 • 33 mins
Today's Mystery: Andy Hardy takes a job as a night watchman only to seemingly have the whole warehouse he's guarding disappear.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 10, 1951
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Mickey Rooney as Andy Hardy; Fay Holden; Lewis Stone; Eleanore Tanin; Richard Krenna; Eleanore Tanin
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Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 10, 1951
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Mickey Rooney as Andy Hardy; Fay Holden; Lewis Stone; Eleanore Tanin; Richard Krenna; Eleanore Tanin
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Speaker 1 (00:28):
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and I hope you enjoy this special. And now I've
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got to introduce this. I had expected that I would
be doing corrections episodes, but we did those in order
to buy some time to get the Great Adventurers podcast going.
So now I get to do something that I heard
probably a year or so ago, and knew I wanted
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to do this and work this in as a special
during one of our listener support campaigns. And it's a
comedy episode, but it's from a comedy that a lot
of people haven't heard about. Now, we've had a bit
of a nostalgia craze in recent years. There have been
revivals of old TV shows and film franchises, things that
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have been given more chapters and extensions decades after their
last installments. And there are so many reboots sequels, you know,
you just feel like nothing original is being created. Well,
this tendency is not new at all. MGM radio tractions
in the late nineteen forties and early nineteen fifties tapped
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into nostalgia for their earlier works as film stars and
concepts would come into the nineteen fifties in familiar roles.
They brought back Low Airs as Doctor Kildair with Lionel
Barrymore as Doctor Gillespie and Southern as Mazy, a series
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of radio programs based on the nineteen thirties Crime does
Not Pay shorts, And they introduced the MGM Theater of
the Air, which adapted many old MGM films of the
nineteen thirties and early nineteen forties to radios.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
And they brought back.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Mickey Rooney and as Andy Hardy. The Andy Hardy film
series had been big over a five year period from
nineteen thirty seven to nineteen forty two, where thirteen films
were released, with two more films following in nineteen forty
four and nineteen forty six. The Hardy Family radio series
(03:20):
featured Rooney and reunited him with his on screen dad
and mom, Lewis Stone and Fae Holden. The rest of
the Hardy family from the films were absent from this
radio series.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
It's an interesting.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Series, though I guess episode by episode it's a bit
hit and miss in my opinion.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
However, when I heard.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Today's episode, I knew I wanted to play it eventually
as a special an appropriate detective themed episode of a
decidedly non detective theme program. Here from April tenth, nineteen
fifty one is the case of the Vanishing warehouse.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
From Honey One.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Here is Vickey, Rooney, Lewis Stone and they holding in
bah Ardi family.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
That broad present the Hardy Family based on the name
of sdros Rolls the Mamotion picture series which brought the
light the millions and like them common choice and regulations
of the average American family. And now here are the
same gay stars and the marks they created on the screen.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
Lewis Stone, Vickey, Rooney and May holding bah Ardy.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
That way every evening at six o'clock and the Hardy
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explodes through the front door of the Hardy hall like
a long range shell, whistles through the living room and
comes to the rest of the dining room table with.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
A burst of black.
Speaker 7 (05:18):
Judge and Ma Hardy call this operation feedback? Uh what
times y'all? Watch?
Speaker 8 (05:25):
Say any five fifty nine reporters?
Speaker 7 (05:29):
Yeah, mind the same.
Speaker 9 (05:31):
Well, Andrew will be hitting the front door in fifteen seconds.
Speaker 10 (05:35):
Shall we run to the cell as a.
Speaker 9 (05:36):
Nike Now, let's stay here and bring it up five
seconds four three, two one zero.
Speaker 11 (05:49):
Woo A direct him.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
You're looking at the protector of people, champion of justice,
fossil of the law, defender of life, and like a
safe thing.
Speaker 12 (06:00):
Oh James, he's mister district attorney.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
Listened there. One of Carvil's biggest outfits just hired me
as a as a private eye.
Speaker 8 (06:10):
Oh dear, why didn't they hire the grist of here?
Speaker 9 (06:16):
It's somewhat unbelievable, but I think Andrew means he has
become that's right.
Speaker 10 (06:22):
Oh now, Andy, couldn't you find a steady job here?
Speaker 7 (06:25):
Steady job, mom?
Speaker 5 (06:26):
This is a steady job now.
Speaker 12 (06:27):
And the eye listened to Sam Stained, Nick Catt and
Neil Wolf on the radio over time and they never
work over half on her e every week.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
Look there in the first place, I'm not going to
be that kind of private eye. I won't exactly solve
any cases, you see, I'll try to smell out the
crime before it happens.
Speaker 7 (06:46):
Oh, I see, you'll be more of a private nose.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
No, Dad, Look, I'm going to work for the Carvel
Union warehouse as a night guard. A night gard Yeah,
I walked to the warehouse with a flashlight and gun
and look around and see if everything is all right.
Speaker 7 (07:01):
Oh, you mean you're really a private looker.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
I only look around every hour. The rest of the time,
I just sort of sit in the office, that's all. Oh.
Speaker 12 (07:08):
Now, I understand you're a private city.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
Right guys. You folks make jokes, and I thought you'd
be so proud of me.
Speaker 7 (07:17):
Yes, please, very pleased indeed. But after all, Oh, you're
only a night watchman.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
Only a night watchman, only a night watchman. Dad, You
are hear of the case of the two million dollar
warehouse for robbery. I don't recall that single handed night
watchman John Henderson captured eight crooks in their armored car.
Armored car, and he only had a flashlight and a measly.
Speaker 7 (07:38):
Little pen knife for him When did this happen.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
The last issue of Ghastly Detective Story.
Speaker 9 (07:46):
Oh yeah, you really feel that you have the qualification
to hold down a job like this?
Speaker 5 (07:51):
Certainly I do. Certainly no criminal is a match for
me with this trusty cannon at my side and this
brilliant head on my shoulders.
Speaker 7 (08:03):
What worries me?
Speaker 5 (08:05):
What do you mean, Dades?
Speaker 9 (08:06):
I can jessee the headline some morning night watch him
and Andrew Hardy fires are fleeing crooks with trusty cannon,
missus which hold through all brilliant head.
Speaker 10 (08:19):
Oh my, isn't that exciting?
Speaker 7 (08:24):
Jeeves?
Speaker 10 (08:24):
Just imagine Andy having his name in the papers.
Speaker 9 (08:27):
Well son, I wish all luck in the world, and
it's spine tingling new job.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
I'll thank you, Dad, Thank you, sir.
Speaker 7 (08:32):
Tell me when you stop at midnight this very night.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
I don't suppose you gett to come down somenight. What's
the changing of the gods?
Speaker 7 (08:42):
That might be very interesting.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
I just hope you don't arrive in the middle of
some blazing gun play.
Speaker 13 (08:47):
That's all.
Speaker 7 (08:47):
But in the world is stored in the place nothing.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
It's been empty for a week?
Speaker 13 (09:17):
Dy?
Speaker 7 (09:18):
What was that?
Speaker 5 (09:20):
Fuck?
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Just struck?
Speaker 5 (09:22):
Three? Reason?
Speaker 11 (09:22):
No, no, I mean the other sound.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
Ok, it's the soul warehouse. That's all just creaks a
little at night. That's all just creaks a little.
Speaker 11 (09:30):
This place should get a staying job with a couple
of vampires.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
And relax when you please, relax. The eye is here
to protect you. I'm glad you came down and sick
with me on my first night too.
Speaker 7 (09:40):
Kid.
Speaker 11 (09:40):
Yeah, it's been real keen fun. You like to sit
in graveyards.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
Keep talking helps me stay awake, boy, stay awake.
Speaker 11 (09:50):
Oh my gosh, I thought you said you were worried
about sleeping.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
I am, I am. I can't go to sleep on
this job.
Speaker 11 (09:57):
I thought you meant you wanted to go to sleep.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
I'm going to go to sleep. Want to beg What
do you mean?
Speaker 11 (10:07):
You know that coffee I wanted to get you a
few minutes ago. Yeah, three sleeping pills in it.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
That's very nice.
Speaker 13 (10:18):
You not him?
Speaker 5 (10:19):
Look pezy, do something? Slap you knock me around and
keep me awake.
Speaker 8 (10:22):
Easy, keeping peasy, keep me awake?
Speaker 11 (10:26):
Why three in line two?
Speaker 5 (10:31):
What was your mouth?
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Kid?
Speaker 7 (10:32):
You're yawn?
Speaker 11 (10:33):
I wish I was holding my nice up warm bed.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
Please cut it out, cut it out when you please.
After all besy when you're on a job like.
Speaker 11 (10:48):
Wait, copth morning already hy.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
Dropped off for a minutely catch leave it to you
to mess up a.
Speaker 7 (10:56):
Job like this.
Speaker 11 (10:57):
Yeah, I'm just not cut out for this work.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
Now.
Speaker 11 (11:00):
I got a hand it to you for taking a
job like this.
Speaker 10 (11:02):
Andy.
Speaker 11 (11:03):
It's cold and dark and spooky down here. Boy, can
I go Nutch after one night at the job?
Speaker 2 (11:10):
This tray?
Speaker 5 (11:26):
Where am I? Anderson? Where am I in a masole?
And I'm I don't talk like that. This place is
creeping up without making it worse.
Speaker 11 (11:34):
I'm just almost again.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
Let's don't let a little noise like that, Bobby, It'll
be daylight. Pretty sure you did.
Speaker 11 (11:41):
I want to be around to see it. It came
horried a minute creature and croms like it was hated.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Easy.
Speaker 11 (11:47):
Look, you can't go home and see them on, Andy,
I know you won't mind stand here alone, because, like
you say, there's no such things as ghosts and spooksy go.
Speaker 10 (11:54):
Around at night.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
Of course that's a criminals with guns and man man with.
Speaker 13 (12:01):
Set up.
Speaker 8 (12:03):
Yeah, h.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
What a coward right of a big, empty, dark place
like this is because I do fw moans gree shut
up part of your big jerk. H m hm, who's
who's there? Who's who's the.
Speaker 7 (12:41):
Speak up? Speak up?
Speaker 5 (12:46):
I'll throw a scaret of whoever it is. I got
scared by my own voice. I gotta relaxed, be confident.
I got a gun, haven't I certainly Okay? You're stand
by me, won't your baby? Hunh you'll get only a cat. Oh,
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my nerves are all in. There's gotta loosen up, take
it easy. It's no use. What a horrible situation. Too
drug to stay awake, too scared to go to sleep.
Speaker 9 (13:37):
Hey, but I'm taking a look at what I found
in the office this morning.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
My gosh, an open manhole. No, no, it's a mouth,
and I think there's a man behind it. Whoozie, I
don't know.
Speaker 9 (13:58):
It must be that new god they put on the
Heave God Ship kid named Hatty.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
You know it kind of gives you a feeling of security.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Don't know.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
We got a man like that on the job.
Speaker 9 (14:08):
Yeah, well, let's get him up.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
We gotta take consignment coming in today. Hey, honty eight
o'clock rise and shine.
Speaker 7 (14:19):
Didn't bludge. Wait, I got a better idea.
Speaker 9 (14:22):
I'll tell you back the trucks up we're cleaning out
this warehouse and heading for the border.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Oh good night.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
This guy looks like an ad for knockout drops. Yeah,
I tell you what, let's fire ris gun mat ont
do it has a good idea stand back. He couldn't
be dead.
Speaker 9 (14:50):
And make a noise like that, Buddy, I never saw
anybody sleep that hard.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
What are we gonna do with him? Well, we could
turn him into the Lost and File, Joe, I hate
to suggest. Wow, it's a low down, dirty treatment. Go ahead,
I like it already. Well, what do you say we
carry him down the street and dump him in that
vacant lot. That's a murder. Yeah, he'll wake up in.
Speaker 10 (15:16):
Wonder what places hit him.
Speaker 7 (15:18):
Look, you'll grab us, lady, and I'll take us all right,
all right, capful.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
I don't want to wake him up now. Oh boy,
I give a day's pay to see the expression on
his face.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
About an hour from now, he'll have to go something
to beat the one that's on his face.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
Now, Mom, Daddy you up?
Speaker 10 (15:53):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (15:55):
Why do you hear what happened on a new job?
Speaker 8 (15:59):
All right?
Speaker 5 (15:59):
My dad? Big crime waving years is broken out crime.
It's amazing. You won't believe it when I tell you,
believe me.
Speaker 8 (16:04):
No, we won't give it kid us anyway.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
Well, look mom, about four o'clock this morning, I dropped.
Speaker 9 (16:11):
Off to sleep in the warehouse, Andrew went asleep on
the job.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
O busy, dope me. But I couldn't have handled these
guys anyway.
Speaker 10 (16:18):
What guy?
Speaker 5 (16:19):
He is daring? The most daring, the most clever crooks
of all time.
Speaker 7 (16:22):
You mean someone broke into the warehouse while you were asleep?
Speaker 5 (16:25):
Worse than that? Then when I woke up, I was
lying on cold berry ground, right out in the open.
Oh goodness, the biggest robbery in history, that's what robbery.
Speaker 7 (16:35):
You mean they stole something from the warehouse, from.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
The warehouse that they stole a warehouse.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
And I'm Almo the arty found way will return the
worst the word from an ox. Now back to my
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Hardy family is dying Mickey Rooney, Lewis Stone and fay Holden.
Speaker 7 (17:29):
If ever a man was destined.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
To become a great criminologist, a famous g man, or
an outstanding chief, please, Andy Hardy is obviously not that man.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
Yeah, you haven't have any fingerpet dusting plot around the house?
Speaker 7 (17:45):
Fingerprint? Well now you know it sounds that's strange, there's why.
Speaker 9 (17:50):
Yes, I was just thinking this morning, I've got to
remember to get a fresh box of fingerprint dusting please. Look,
you know, it just seems this spear around here, just
like bombing Floyd, never can keep en nothing bombing Floyd
in the.
Speaker 5 (18:03):
House Alli after a simple bit of fingerprint dusting powder,
that's all.
Speaker 10 (18:09):
And this interesting thing if it's on the piano there he.
Speaker 7 (18:15):
Sweet.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
Look you you don't seem to understand I'm faced with
a terrific baffling mystery.
Speaker 7 (18:19):
And there was no mystery. You know now that the
warehouse wasn't stolen.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
Oh that's not the point I was.
Speaker 8 (18:29):
There's nothing to worry about. You found yourself, darling.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
You don't understand. Somebody must have carried me out of
that warehouse and put me in that bacon lot. It's
obvious somebody was trying to get me out of the way.
Speaker 9 (18:42):
Really, like say, pretty obviously said me, succeeded, dragged me out,
threw me the.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
Lot, and then went back to rob the warehouse.
Speaker 10 (18:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
I bet they were surprised and found it empty. They
probably miscalculated a big consignment just came into day. What
they were after, they didn't get it it's all clear now,
don't you see they'll they'll be back. I could only
get someone to come to the warehouse with me tonight.
I'd like to set a trap.
Speaker 8 (19:09):
Oh yes, I'm manin that old place must be full
of mice.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
Well, honey, I mean a trap for the crooks.
Speaker 13 (19:16):
They'll be back.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
Criminal always returns the scene of his crime.
Speaker 7 (19:19):
Believe that there was no crime.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
Dad is going to be Believe me, there is going
to be. I could just sit at the desk again
tonight and pretend to be asleep. If somebody else would
hide behind the.
Speaker 10 (19:27):
Office door, we get maybe b Anderson would do it.
Speaker 5 (19:30):
Edison, he wouldn't come within a mile of the place, all.
Speaker 7 (19:32):
Right, John, look at me. I can't tend to get
a good night's sleep.
Speaker 10 (19:37):
Well, oh my goodness, Oh, I could die if I go.
Speaker 8 (19:40):
Over a criminal.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
There's only one other person I could hope to get,
Holly benedict Son.
Speaker 7 (19:47):
I hope you know what you're doing.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
Don't worry about me, Dad, But just in case I'm
not home by ten o'clock tomorrow morning, bring a pillow
and blanket out of the bacon.
Speaker 13 (19:54):
Lott gets pretty cold out there, my dad.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
The case is all wrapped up.
Speaker 7 (20:13):
Yes, Andrew, you mean that you mastered the mystery already.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
I don't und it around with the thing when I
really go to.
Speaker 13 (20:18):
Work on a dad.
Speaker 8 (20:19):
Believe me, I think that's wonderful. How did you manage it?
Speaker 13 (20:21):
The sit out of it?
Speaker 5 (20:22):
While I just take my report on the case of
the vanishing warehouse? Yeah, certainly a private eye always makes
out a report.
Speaker 7 (20:28):
Oh can you take shorthand? Emily?
Speaker 10 (20:30):
Oh no, do you can?
Speaker 5 (20:32):
You? No?
Speaker 13 (20:33):
Not?
Speaker 5 (20:34):
What?
Speaker 10 (20:34):
Maybe then you could speak in shorthand? I could take
it down in long hand.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
Never might, Mom, I'll give you the report anyway.
Speaker 7 (20:42):
That's good.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
Now, let's have it it Rolet, investigate Andrew Honey lies
number four six one, five, three, four, eight, five two
six five three one five ninety seven.
Speaker 7 (20:51):
Dash okay nine ten Jack queen cake. That sounds like
the road call it Sam Quinton.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
Well, I was, as I was about to say, I
left the house here and started for a polly Bee.
Speaker 10 (21:04):
Oh jeans, isn't that a Nick Saggy report?
Speaker 5 (21:09):
Darling, sweetheart, I'm just starting out on the report.
Speaker 9 (21:12):
Oh, I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (21:14):
I was in a completely new world outside our house.
It was entirely different from being inside the house.
Speaker 10 (21:22):
Jeeves. Isn't it weird?
Speaker 7 (21:24):
That's positively smoking.
Speaker 5 (21:30):
That's fog that wrapped around me like a blanket. Fog.
Speaker 10 (21:33):
Oh James, this always a fog.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
Somewhere out of that pie souper mournful boat whistle sounded woo.
Speaker 13 (21:43):
Yeah, it was spine chaly.
Speaker 9 (21:46):
I imagine wise when you can say that there is
any water within two hundred miles from there.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
Hoping blindly, I found my way to Polly's house. Rang
the doorbell, set, door opened. I'll never forget the shock
I got at that moment. It was a short circuit
of the doorbell.
Speaker 9 (22:07):
Standing in the door, it was who do you suppose?
And then she Christopher Columbus. I don't know, Dulia.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
It was Polly.
Speaker 9 (22:19):
Unbelievable, Yes, Polly. Imagine Polly Benedict. Being at Polly Benedict's house.
Speaker 8 (22:26):
A man.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
Was beautiful, so happy, gay, and a lie with living.
I felt like I was defacing a beautiful painting. But
I had to tell her I was on a mission
of danger. Death might be looking just around every corner.
I don't forget how she smiled bravely and said it.
Speaker 13 (22:45):
Was so sweetly to me.
Speaker 10 (22:47):
Honestly, Andy, I think you're a screwball.
Speaker 5 (22:53):
Look look, sweetheart, I'm in the sting deep up to
my neck.
Speaker 11 (22:58):
Understand well, that certainly is very deep.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
Listen, shweet God, we gotta move, We gotta move fast.
You want to work on this case with me or not?
Speaker 10 (23:09):
Well, what do you want me to do?
Speaker 5 (23:10):
Just hide behind the door of the warehouse office for
a few hours, that's all.
Speaker 8 (23:12):
A few hours.
Speaker 5 (23:13):
If you're a Roscoe, ready for action, Rosco, your gat woman,
your gat. Oh, when the crooks come in the room,
you jump on them from behind, and it's all over.
Speaker 11 (23:22):
You mean, I'm all over.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
It's a cinch. I gotta figure right down to the second.
Speaker 11 (23:26):
And what will you be doing all this time?
Speaker 5 (23:29):
My little lady will be sleeping at the desk. Put
a coat over the solid gold eaving goune and we
hurried out to my car. I turned the key in
the ignition step on the start and felt the surge
of smooth power. There was the motor cut and we
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glided quietly into the fog. In a few minutes, we
pulled up in front of the old warehouse. Definitely quiet, sweethearts.
Nothing seemed to move, Sweethearts, but it was very still.
Anonymous sweethearts.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
This was it.
Speaker 13 (24:09):
It was now and ever.
Speaker 5 (24:10):
If the crooks came back to night and I caught him,
the case would be solved forever.
Speaker 8 (24:14):
The case would be cracked.
Speaker 11 (24:15):
Dear, Yeah, yeah, cracked.
Speaker 7 (24:17):
I completely agree with the cracked idea.
Speaker 5 (24:23):
There's the way I figured it. If I didn't catch
the crooks, I only had two things to worry about.
Either they'd never come back, or they'd try again next month.
If they didn't come back, I had nothing to worry
about it. If they did come back, I'd try to
catch them. If I caught them in the case to
be cracked. If I didn't catch them, I only had
two things to worry about. Either they'd never come back,
or they'd come back next month, or.
Speaker 7 (24:48):
Just let me know when you get to October, my
vacation comes up.
Speaker 5 (24:51):
Then we approached the door of said warehouse office, just midnight,
time for me to report on the job. If the
thieves were going to strike, it to be soon. Then
I saw him. Every muscle in my body froze, the
back of my neck crept up toward the top of
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my head.
Speaker 8 (25:13):
And didn't that push your head out over.
Speaker 10 (25:15):
Your arms.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
And will take a short cut. Who wants the man,
Oh oh, the man, the other night watchman. He was
just going home.
Speaker 7 (25:27):
He had a close car. I almost shot him myself.
Speaker 5 (25:30):
Then Holly and I headed for the warehouse office.
Speaker 10 (25:37):
Andy, Handy, don't cross the sidewalk.
Speaker 11 (25:40):
I have a feeling something horrible, something and natural is
waiting there in the dark.
Speaker 5 (25:43):
Sweett, we can't turn back now, it's.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
It or us.
Speaker 11 (25:47):
Hay, please please don't go that way.
Speaker 5 (25:52):
I laughed at the foolish child. I thought you were
simply hysterical. Then then then it happened. I must have
fallen two miles down that man hole. My whole life
passed before my eyes. You know what. It's like a
wonderful technical picture too. Finally I get.
Speaker 8 (26:15):
Bottom with a thought, and then I was being lifted on.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
A peppermint stick. Giant candid cameras flew past, popping their
fish bolbs and clicking the shutters up and up. I
went into a raspberry geleas and sky, and then I
saw it. I saw it, my little pink Cutton cloud
number six and seven eighths, and that horrible, grinning little
man was there laughing. I loathed him, that monster, that monster,
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my alter ego. Do you.
Speaker 12 (26:50):
Alter ego, I don't understand this part of it, and
here't come back me, little pink cloud, and kind of
out of that man, my.
Speaker 5 (26:59):
Head was a million stars were exploding all around me,
and that fenish little gnome kept laughing.
Speaker 8 (27:09):
Jesus, isn't that funny?
Speaker 5 (27:13):
Suddenly I crashed back to Earth.
Speaker 8 (27:23):
Fast.
Speaker 11 (27:24):
You'll get the bins.
Speaker 5 (27:28):
Mind that said man. The whole solution, the mystery came
to me in just a flash.
Speaker 7 (27:32):
Fine, that's fine. I mean we have it in a flash.
Speaker 5 (27:35):
Also, period and the report period dash and mcolon period
stopped and the report.
Speaker 7 (27:40):
And the report. I haven't solved anything.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
Yet, certainly I did. I washed the case up in
two minutes.
Speaker 8 (27:46):
But heard here but how easy.
Speaker 5 (27:50):
I just walked up to the boss this morning and quit.
I'm over the Hardy family rule dirt.
Speaker 7 (28:34):
Now here again is the Hardy family.
Speaker 9 (28:38):
Dad.
Speaker 5 (28:38):
What would you say if I told you I was
going into a sensational new business.
Speaker 7 (28:41):
I wouldn't say a word.
Speaker 8 (28:42):
I speak, Yes, Andy, you've got another job already.
Speaker 5 (28:46):
I ran into a guy who's planning to open a
new office in Carver. He gave me his phone number
and told me to call him this evening.
Speaker 9 (28:50):
Well, that little venture. Are you interested in this time
Swiss out climbing? No, No, that's us outliming that this
job is just tailor.
Speaker 13 (29:02):
Made for me.
Speaker 9 (29:03):
I was.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
I recall it.
Speaker 7 (29:04):
You were just perfect for that night watchman's job too.
Speaker 5 (29:06):
That wasn't right for me. I know, I know good
at garden things, I'm better at losing things.
Speaker 8 (29:12):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 10 (29:13):
He accuse you man that just last week he left
his watch his wallet.
Speaker 5 (29:16):
That's right. So I'm going into the losing business.
Speaker 7 (29:19):
Losing business.
Speaker 5 (29:20):
Yeah, I'm gonna sell photo policies for an insurance company.
You know, we pay off if you do.
Speaker 8 (29:24):
You have to lose something, Well, that sounds wonderful for you.
Speaker 7 (29:27):
Does sound like work?
Speaker 9 (29:28):
More?
Speaker 7 (29:29):
Shoot at your talents?
Speaker 5 (29:30):
I mean you were to call a man right away,
I would, except for one thing, watch that I lost
his phone number?
Speaker 14 (29:55):
Bad way.
Speaker 4 (29:56):
Sorry is calling Vicky Rooney and Mayhold and based on
characters created by Already, This program was written by Jameson Brewer.
Speaker 7 (30:02):
Direction is by Joe Diggelone. Original music Mister Bo's been
conducted by Jerry Fielding.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
Supporting cast included Eleanora Di Creta.
Speaker 5 (30:09):
We gonna need some Jerry hows.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Speaking welcome back. This was so funny.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
So many great detective shows were parodied. Sam Spade and
Rogues Gallery were prominent, but they just did some general
parodies of genre conventions in general. I thought the manhole
cover bit was hilarious. And there's a wonderful balance of
Mickey Rooney giving this over the top manic energy and
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Lewis Stone and fey Holden just coming up with these
great lines that are delivered so matter of factly and
in such a relaxed way.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
And I thought fey.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Holden had just the best lines here. I laughed a
lot at this, and I hope you enjoyed it as well,
because this was a lot of.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Fun for me.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Now, I will note that the Andy Hardy film series
did actually continue. There was a final installment in nineteen
fifty eight, by which time Lewis Stone had passed away,
so this wasn't quite the last guest for Andy Hardy,
just pretty close, all right. Well, now it's time to
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Speaker 2 (32:13):
Folk and Where.
Speaker 8 (32:14):
Thanks Pelaski Private Investigations.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Yeah, happy, he was in the scene yesterday.
Speaker 7 (32:20):
Huh, Well what did he want?
Speaker 14 (32:23):
Well, no, this ain't no place to talk. I am.
I got a brand new nash around the corner, and.
Speaker 5 (32:27):
You can say anything you've got to right here.
Speaker 14 (32:31):
Well, it's kind of embarrassing, Sheila. I don't like to
be seeing taking money from a woman.
Speaker 5 (32:35):
In a public thoroughfare. What are you talking about?
Speaker 14 (32:38):
Well, naturally, you can't expect me to divulge this kind
of information for free.
Speaker 8 (32:42):
You're absolutely right, mister Pulaski.
Speaker 5 (32:45):
So you keep your information and I'll keep my money.
Speaker 7 (32:47):
No, wait a minute, I'm not interested.
Speaker 8 (32:49):
Well, let's really concerns you.
Speaker 5 (32:50):
I doubt it that.
Speaker 14 (32:52):
It looks like I ain't going to make a book
from the back of family.
Speaker 5 (32:55):
No.
Speaker 9 (32:55):
How, but.
Speaker 5 (32:58):
I like you better than I do your husband. Thanks.
Speaker 14 (33:00):
I mean it if I were you, Sheila, I'd watch
my step.
Speaker 7 (33:03):
Larry's checking up on you.
Speaker 13 (33:05):
What do you mean?
Speaker 5 (33:06):
That's what I said.
Speaker 14 (33:07):
As a matter of fact, I did a little checking
on you myself.
Speaker 5 (33:10):
Why take it easy?
Speaker 14 (33:12):
As far as I can learn, you never want stepped
out of line? So what's the matter with that.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Husband of yours?
Speaker 14 (33:17):
Anyway?
Speaker 5 (33:17):
He must be out of his mine. You may be right.
Speaker 14 (33:20):
If I was you and me, I'd never put up
with it.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
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Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho.
This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, I'm
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But first I do want to encourage you, if you
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and I hope you enjoy this special. And now I've
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got to introduce this. I had expected that I would
be doing corrections episodes, but we did those in order
to buy some time to get the Great Adventurers podcast going.
So now I get to do something that I heard
probably a year or so ago, and knew I wanted
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to do this and work this in as a special
during one of our listener support campaigns. And it's a
comedy episode, but it's from a comedy that a lot
of people haven't heard about. Now, we've had a bit
of a nostalgia craze in recent years. There have been
revivals of old TV shows and film franchises, things that
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have been given more chapters and extensions decades after their
last installments. And there are so many reboots sequels, you know,
you just feel like nothing original is being created. Well,
this tendency is not new at all. MGM radio tractions
in the late nineteen forties and early nineteen fifties tapped
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into nostalgia for their earlier works as film stars and
concepts would come into the nineteen fifties in familiar roles.
They brought back Low Airs as Doctor Kildair with Lionel
Barrymore as Doctor Gillespie and Southern as Mazy, a series
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of radio programs based on the nineteen thirties Crime does
Not Pay shorts, And they introduced the MGM Theater of
the Air, which adapted many old MGM films of the
nineteen thirties and early nineteen forties to radios.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
And they brought back.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Mickey Rooney and as Andy Hardy. The Andy Hardy film
series had been big over a five year period from
nineteen thirty seven to nineteen forty two, where thirteen films
were released, with two more films following in nineteen forty
four and nineteen forty six. The Hardy Family radio series
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featured Rooney and reunited him with his on screen dad
and mom, Lewis Stone and Fae Holden. The rest of
the Hardy family from the films were absent from this
radio series.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
It's an interesting.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Series, though I guess episode by episode it's a bit
hit and miss in my opinion.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
However, when I heard.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Today's episode, I knew I wanted to play it eventually
as a special an appropriate detective themed episode of a
decidedly non detective theme program. Here from April tenth, nineteen
fifty one is the case of the Vanishing warehouse.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
From Honey One.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Here is Vickey, Rooney, Lewis Stone and they holding in
bah Ardi family.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
That broad present the Hardy Family based on the name
of sdros Rolls the Mamotion picture series which brought the
light the millions and like them common choice and regulations
of the average American family. And now here are the
same gay stars and the marks they created on the screen.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
Lewis Stone, Vickey, Rooney and May holding bah Ardy.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
That way every evening at six o'clock and the Hardy
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explodes through the front door of the Hardy hall like
a long range shell, whistles through the living room and
comes to the rest of the dining room table with.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
A burst of black.
Speaker 7 (05:18):
Judge and Ma Hardy call this operation feedback? Uh what
times y'all? Watch?
Speaker 8 (05:25):
Say any five fifty nine reporters?
Speaker 7 (05:29):
Yeah, mind the same.
Speaker 9 (05:31):
Well, Andrew will be hitting the front door in fifteen seconds.
Speaker 10 (05:35):
Shall we run to the cell as a.
Speaker 9 (05:36):
Nike Now, let's stay here and bring it up five
seconds four three, two one zero.
Speaker 11 (05:49):
Woo A direct him.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
You're looking at the protector of people, champion of justice,
fossil of the law, defender of life, and like a
safe thing.
Speaker 12 (06:00):
Oh James, he's mister district attorney.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
Listened there. One of Carvil's biggest outfits just hired me
as a as a private eye.
Speaker 8 (06:10):
Oh dear, why didn't they hire the grist of here?
Speaker 9 (06:16):
It's somewhat unbelievable, but I think Andrew means he has
become that's right.
Speaker 10 (06:22):
Oh now, Andy, couldn't you find a steady job here?
Speaker 7 (06:25):
Steady job, mom?
Speaker 5 (06:26):
This is a steady job now.
Speaker 12 (06:27):
And the eye listened to Sam Stained, Nick Catt and
Neil Wolf on the radio over time and they never
work over half on her e every week.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
Look there in the first place, I'm not going to
be that kind of private eye. I won't exactly solve
any cases, you see, I'll try to smell out the
crime before it happens.
Speaker 7 (06:46):
Oh, I see, you'll be more of a private nose.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
No, Dad, Look, I'm going to work for the Carvel
Union warehouse as a night guard. A night gard Yeah,
I walked to the warehouse with a flashlight and gun
and look around and see if everything is all right.
Speaker 7 (07:01):
Oh, you mean you're really a private looker.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
I only look around every hour. The rest of the time,
I just sort of sit in the office, that's all. Oh.
Speaker 12 (07:08):
Now, I understand you're a private city.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
Right guys. You folks make jokes, and I thought you'd
be so proud of me.
Speaker 7 (07:17):
Yes, please, very pleased indeed. But after all, Oh, you're
only a night watchman.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
Only a night watchman, only a night watchman. Dad, You
are hear of the case of the two million dollar
warehouse for robbery. I don't recall that single handed night
watchman John Henderson captured eight crooks in their armored car.
Armored car, and he only had a flashlight and a measly.
Speaker 7 (07:38):
Little pen knife for him When did this happen.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
The last issue of Ghastly Detective Story.
Speaker 9 (07:46):
Oh yeah, you really feel that you have the qualification
to hold down a job like this?
Speaker 5 (07:51):
Certainly I do. Certainly no criminal is a match for
me with this trusty cannon at my side and this
brilliant head on my shoulders.
Speaker 7 (08:03):
What worries me?
Speaker 5 (08:05):
What do you mean, Dades?
Speaker 9 (08:06):
I can jessee the headline some morning night watch him
and Andrew Hardy fires are fleeing crooks with trusty cannon,
missus which hold through all brilliant head.
Speaker 10 (08:19):
Oh my, isn't that exciting?
Speaker 7 (08:24):
Jeeves?
Speaker 10 (08:24):
Just imagine Andy having his name in the papers.
Speaker 9 (08:27):
Well son, I wish all luck in the world, and
it's spine tingling new job.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
I'll thank you, Dad, Thank you, sir.
Speaker 7 (08:32):
Tell me when you stop at midnight this very night.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
I don't suppose you gett to come down somenight. What's
the changing of the gods?
Speaker 7 (08:42):
That might be very interesting.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
I just hope you don't arrive in the middle of
some blazing gun play.
Speaker 13 (08:47):
That's all.
Speaker 7 (08:47):
But in the world is stored in the place nothing.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
It's been empty for a week?
Speaker 13 (09:17):
Dy?
Speaker 7 (09:18):
What was that?
Speaker 5 (09:20):
Fuck?
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Just struck?
Speaker 5 (09:22):
Three? Reason?
Speaker 11 (09:22):
No, no, I mean the other sound.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
Ok, it's the soul warehouse. That's all just creaks a
little at night. That's all just creaks a little.
Speaker 11 (09:30):
This place should get a staying job with a couple
of vampires.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
And relax when you please, relax. The eye is here
to protect you. I'm glad you came down and sick
with me on my first night too.
Speaker 7 (09:40):
Kid.
Speaker 11 (09:40):
Yeah, it's been real keen fun. You like to sit
in graveyards.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
Keep talking helps me stay awake, boy, stay awake.
Speaker 11 (09:50):
Oh my gosh, I thought you said you were worried
about sleeping.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
I am, I am. I can't go to sleep on
this job.
Speaker 11 (09:57):
I thought you meant you wanted to go to sleep.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
I'm going to go to sleep. Want to beg What
do you mean?
Speaker 11 (10:07):
You know that coffee I wanted to get you a
few minutes ago. Yeah, three sleeping pills in it.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
That's very nice.
Speaker 13 (10:18):
You not him?
Speaker 5 (10:19):
Look pezy, do something? Slap you knock me around and
keep me awake.
Speaker 8 (10:22):
Easy, keeping peasy, keep me awake?
Speaker 11 (10:26):
Why three in line two?
Speaker 5 (10:31):
What was your mouth?
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Kid?
Speaker 7 (10:32):
You're yawn?
Speaker 11 (10:33):
I wish I was holding my nice up warm bed.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
Please cut it out, cut it out when you please.
After all besy when you're on a job like.
Speaker 11 (10:48):
Wait, copth morning already hy.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
Dropped off for a minutely catch leave it to you
to mess up a.
Speaker 7 (10:56):
Job like this.
Speaker 11 (10:57):
Yeah, I'm just not cut out for this work.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
Now.
Speaker 11 (11:00):
I got a hand it to you for taking a
job like this.
Speaker 10 (11:02):
Andy.
Speaker 11 (11:03):
It's cold and dark and spooky down here. Boy, can
I go Nutch after one night at the job?
Speaker 2 (11:10):
This tray?
Speaker 5 (11:26):
Where am I? Anderson? Where am I in a masole?
And I'm I don't talk like that. This place is
creeping up without making it worse.
Speaker 11 (11:34):
I'm just almost again.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
Let's don't let a little noise like that, Bobby, It'll
be daylight. Pretty sure you did.
Speaker 11 (11:41):
I want to be around to see it. It came
horried a minute creature and croms like it was hated.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Easy.
Speaker 11 (11:47):
Look, you can't go home and see them on, Andy,
I know you won't mind stand here alone, because, like
you say, there's no such things as ghosts and spooksy go.
Speaker 10 (11:54):
Around at night.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
Of course that's a criminals with guns and man man with.
Speaker 13 (12:01):
Set up.
Speaker 8 (12:03):
Yeah, h.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
What a coward right of a big, empty, dark place
like this is because I do fw moans gree shut
up part of your big jerk. H m hm, who's
who's there? Who's who's the.
Speaker 7 (12:41):
Speak up? Speak up?
Speaker 5 (12:46):
I'll throw a scaret of whoever it is. I got
scared by my own voice. I gotta relaxed, be confident.
I got a gun, haven't I certainly Okay? You're stand
by me, won't your baby? Hunh you'll get only a cat. Oh,
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my nerves are all in. There's gotta loosen up, take
it easy. It's no use. What a horrible situation. Too
drug to stay awake, too scared to go to sleep.
Speaker 9 (13:37):
Hey, but I'm taking a look at what I found
in the office this morning.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
My gosh, an open manhole. No, no, it's a mouth,
and I think there's a man behind it. Whoozie, I
don't know.
Speaker 9 (13:58):
It must be that new god they put on the
Heave God Ship kid named Hatty.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
You know it kind of gives you a feeling of security.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Don't know.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
We got a man like that on the job.
Speaker 9 (14:08):
Yeah, well, let's get him up.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
We gotta take consignment coming in today. Hey, honty eight
o'clock rise and shine.
Speaker 7 (14:19):
Didn't bludge. Wait, I got a better idea.
Speaker 9 (14:22):
I'll tell you back the trucks up we're cleaning out
this warehouse and heading for the border.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Oh good night.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
This guy looks like an ad for knockout drops. Yeah,
I tell you what, let's fire ris gun mat ont
do it has a good idea stand back. He couldn't
be dead.
Speaker 9 (14:50):
And make a noise like that, Buddy, I never saw
anybody sleep that hard.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
What are we gonna do with him? Well, we could
turn him into the Lost and File, Joe, I hate
to suggest. Wow, it's a low down, dirty treatment. Go ahead,
I like it already. Well, what do you say we
carry him down the street and dump him in that
vacant lot. That's a murder. Yeah, he'll wake up in.
Speaker 10 (15:16):
Wonder what places hit him.
Speaker 7 (15:18):
Look, you'll grab us, lady, and I'll take us all right,
all right, capful.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
I don't want to wake him up now. Oh boy,
I give a day's pay to see the expression on
his face.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
About an hour from now, he'll have to go something
to beat the one that's on his face.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
Now, Mom, Daddy you up?
Speaker 10 (15:53):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (15:55):
Why do you hear what happened on a new job?
Speaker 8 (15:59):
All right?
Speaker 5 (15:59):
My dad? Big crime waving years is broken out crime.
It's amazing. You won't believe it when I tell you,
believe me.
Speaker 8 (16:04):
No, we won't give it kid us anyway.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
Well, look mom, about four o'clock this morning, I dropped.
Speaker 9 (16:11):
Off to sleep in the warehouse, Andrew went asleep on
the job.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
O busy, dope me. But I couldn't have handled these
guys anyway.
Speaker 10 (16:18):
What guy?
Speaker 5 (16:19):
He is daring? The most daring, the most clever crooks
of all time.
Speaker 7 (16:22):
You mean someone broke into the warehouse while you were asleep?
Speaker 5 (16:25):
Worse than that? Then when I woke up, I was
lying on cold berry ground, right out in the open.
Oh goodness, the biggest robbery in history, that's what robbery.
Speaker 7 (16:35):
You mean they stole something from the warehouse, from.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
The warehouse that they stole a warehouse.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
And I'm Almo the arty found way will return the
worst the word from an ox. Now back to my
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Hardy family is dying Mickey Rooney, Lewis Stone and fay Holden.
Speaker 7 (17:29):
If ever a man was destined.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
To become a great criminologist, a famous g man, or
an outstanding chief, please, Andy Hardy is obviously not that man.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
Yeah, you haven't have any fingerpet dusting plot around the house?
Speaker 7 (17:45):
Fingerprint? Well now you know it sounds that's strange, there's why.
Speaker 9 (17:50):
Yes, I was just thinking this morning, I've got to
remember to get a fresh box of fingerprint dusting please. Look,
you know, it just seems this spear around here, just
like bombing Floyd, never can keep en nothing bombing Floyd
in the.
Speaker 5 (18:03):
House Alli after a simple bit of fingerprint dusting powder,
that's all.
Speaker 10 (18:09):
And this interesting thing if it's on the piano there he.
Speaker 7 (18:15):
Sweet.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
Look you you don't seem to understand I'm faced with
a terrific baffling mystery.
Speaker 7 (18:19):
And there was no mystery. You know now that the
warehouse wasn't stolen.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
Oh that's not the point I was.
Speaker 8 (18:29):
There's nothing to worry about. You found yourself, darling.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
You don't understand. Somebody must have carried me out of
that warehouse and put me in that bacon lot. It's
obvious somebody was trying to get me out of the way.
Speaker 9 (18:42):
Really, like say, pretty obviously said me, succeeded, dragged me out,
threw me the.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
Lot, and then went back to rob the warehouse.
Speaker 10 (18:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
I bet they were surprised and found it empty. They
probably miscalculated a big consignment just came into day. What
they were after, they didn't get it it's all clear now,
don't you see they'll they'll be back. I could only
get someone to come to the warehouse with me tonight.
I'd like to set a trap.
Speaker 8 (19:09):
Oh yes, I'm manin that old place must be full
of mice.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
Well, honey, I mean a trap for the crooks.
Speaker 13 (19:16):
They'll be back.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
Criminal always returns the scene of his crime.
Speaker 7 (19:19):
Believe that there was no crime.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
Dad is going to be Believe me, there is going
to be. I could just sit at the desk again
tonight and pretend to be asleep. If somebody else would
hide behind the.
Speaker 10 (19:27):
Office door, we get maybe b Anderson would do it.
Speaker 5 (19:30):
Edison, he wouldn't come within a mile of the place, all.
Speaker 7 (19:32):
Right, John, look at me. I can't tend to get
a good night's sleep.
Speaker 10 (19:37):
Well, oh my goodness, Oh, I could die if I go.
Speaker 8 (19:40):
Over a criminal.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
There's only one other person I could hope to get,
Holly benedict Son.
Speaker 7 (19:47):
I hope you know what you're doing.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
Don't worry about me, Dad, But just in case I'm
not home by ten o'clock tomorrow morning, bring a pillow
and blanket out of the bacon.
Speaker 13 (19:54):
Lott gets pretty cold out there, my dad.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
The case is all wrapped up.
Speaker 7 (20:13):
Yes, Andrew, you mean that you mastered the mystery already.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
I don't und it around with the thing when I
really go to.
Speaker 13 (20:18):
Work on a dad.
Speaker 8 (20:19):
Believe me, I think that's wonderful. How did you manage it?
Speaker 13 (20:21):
The sit out of it?
Speaker 5 (20:22):
While I just take my report on the case of
the vanishing warehouse? Yeah, certainly a private eye always makes
out a report.
Speaker 7 (20:28):
Oh can you take shorthand? Emily?
Speaker 10 (20:30):
Oh no, do you can?
Speaker 5 (20:32):
You? No?
Speaker 13 (20:33):
Not?
Speaker 5 (20:34):
What?
Speaker 10 (20:34):
Maybe then you could speak in shorthand? I could take
it down in long hand.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
Never might, Mom, I'll give you the report anyway.
Speaker 7 (20:42):
That's good.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
Now, let's have it it Rolet, investigate Andrew Honey lies
number four six one, five, three, four, eight, five two
six five three one five ninety seven.
Speaker 7 (20:51):
Dash okay nine ten Jack queen cake. That sounds like
the road call it Sam Quinton.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
Well, I was, as I was about to say, I
left the house here and started for a polly Bee.
Speaker 10 (21:04):
Oh jeans, isn't that a Nick Saggy report?
Speaker 5 (21:09):
Darling, sweetheart, I'm just starting out on the report.
Speaker 9 (21:12):
Oh, I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (21:14):
I was in a completely new world outside our house.
It was entirely different from being inside the house.
Speaker 10 (21:22):
Jeeves. Isn't it weird?
Speaker 7 (21:24):
That's positively smoking.
Speaker 5 (21:30):
That's fog that wrapped around me like a blanket. Fog.
Speaker 10 (21:33):
Oh James, this always a fog.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
Somewhere out of that pie souper mournful boat whistle sounded woo.
Speaker 13 (21:43):
Yeah, it was spine chaly.
Speaker 9 (21:46):
I imagine wise when you can say that there is
any water within two hundred miles from there.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
Hoping blindly, I found my way to Polly's house. Rang
the doorbell, set, door opened. I'll never forget the shock
I got at that moment. It was a short circuit
of the doorbell.
Speaker 9 (22:07):
Standing in the door, it was who do you suppose?
And then she Christopher Columbus. I don't know, Dulia.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
It was Polly.
Speaker 9 (22:19):
Unbelievable, Yes, Polly. Imagine Polly Benedict. Being at Polly Benedict's house.
Speaker 8 (22:26):
A man.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
Was beautiful, so happy, gay, and a lie with living.
I felt like I was defacing a beautiful painting. But
I had to tell her I was on a mission
of danger. Death might be looking just around every corner.
I don't forget how she smiled bravely and said it.
Speaker 13 (22:45):
Was so sweetly to me.
Speaker 10 (22:47):
Honestly, Andy, I think you're a screwball.
Speaker 5 (22:53):
Look look, sweetheart, I'm in the sting deep up to
my neck.
Speaker 11 (22:58):
Understand well, that certainly is very deep.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
Listen, shweet God, we gotta move, We gotta move fast.
You want to work on this case with me or not?
Speaker 10 (23:09):
Well, what do you want me to do?
Speaker 5 (23:10):
Just hide behind the door of the warehouse office for
a few hours, that's all.
Speaker 8 (23:12):
A few hours.
Speaker 5 (23:13):
If you're a Roscoe, ready for action, Rosco, your gat woman,
your gat. Oh, when the crooks come in the room,
you jump on them from behind, and it's all over.
Speaker 11 (23:22):
You mean, I'm all over.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
It's a cinch. I gotta figure right down to the second.
Speaker 11 (23:26):
And what will you be doing all this time?
Speaker 5 (23:29):
My little lady will be sleeping at the desk. Put
a coat over the solid gold eaving goune and we
hurried out to my car. I turned the key in
the ignition step on the start and felt the surge
of smooth power. There was the motor cut and we
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glided quietly into the fog. In a few minutes, we
pulled up in front of the old warehouse. Definitely quiet, sweethearts.
Nothing seemed to move, Sweethearts, but it was very still.
Anonymous sweethearts.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
This was it.
Speaker 13 (24:09):
It was now and ever.
Speaker 5 (24:10):
If the crooks came back to night and I caught him,
the case would be solved forever.
Speaker 8 (24:14):
The case would be cracked.
Speaker 11 (24:15):
Dear, Yeah, yeah, cracked.
Speaker 7 (24:17):
I completely agree with the cracked idea.
Speaker 5 (24:23):
There's the way I figured it. If I didn't catch
the crooks, I only had two things to worry about.
Either they'd never come back, or they'd try again next month.
If they didn't come back, I had nothing to worry
about it. If they did come back, I'd try to
catch them. If I caught them in the case to
be cracked. If I didn't catch them, I only had
two things to worry about. Either they'd never come back,
or they'd come back next month, or.
Speaker 7 (24:48):
Just let me know when you get to October, my
vacation comes up.
Speaker 5 (24:51):
Then we approached the door of said warehouse office, just midnight,
time for me to report on the job. If the
thieves were going to strike, it to be soon. Then
I saw him. Every muscle in my body froze, the
back of my neck crept up toward the top of
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my head.
Speaker 8 (25:13):
And didn't that push your head out over.
Speaker 10 (25:15):
Your arms.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
And will take a short cut. Who wants the man,
Oh oh, the man, the other night watchman. He was
just going home.
Speaker 7 (25:27):
He had a close car. I almost shot him myself.
Speaker 5 (25:30):
Then Holly and I headed for the warehouse office.
Speaker 10 (25:37):
Andy, Handy, don't cross the sidewalk.
Speaker 11 (25:40):
I have a feeling something horrible, something and natural is
waiting there in the dark.
Speaker 5 (25:43):
Sweett, we can't turn back now, it's.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
It or us.
Speaker 11 (25:47):
Hay, please please don't go that way.
Speaker 5 (25:52):
I laughed at the foolish child. I thought you were
simply hysterical. Then then then it happened. I must have
fallen two miles down that man hole. My whole life
passed before my eyes. You know what. It's like a
wonderful technical picture too. Finally I get.
Speaker 8 (26:15):
Bottom with a thought, and then I was being lifted on.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
A peppermint stick. Giant candid cameras flew past, popping their
fish bolbs and clicking the shutters up and up. I
went into a raspberry geleas and sky, and then I
saw it. I saw it, my little pink Cutton cloud
number six and seven eighths, and that horrible, grinning little
man was there laughing. I loathed him, that monster, that monster,
(26:45):
my alter ego. Do you.
Speaker 12 (26:50):
Alter ego, I don't understand this part of it, and
here't come back me, little pink cloud, and kind of
out of that man, my.
Speaker 5 (26:59):
Head was a million stars were exploding all around me,
and that fenish little gnome kept laughing.
Speaker 8 (27:09):
Jesus, isn't that funny?
Speaker 5 (27:13):
Suddenly I crashed back to Earth.
Speaker 8 (27:23):
Fast.
Speaker 11 (27:24):
You'll get the bins.
Speaker 5 (27:28):
Mind that said man. The whole solution, the mystery came
to me in just a flash.
Speaker 7 (27:32):
Fine, that's fine. I mean we have it in a flash.
Speaker 5 (27:35):
Also, period and the report period dash and mcolon period
stopped and the report.
Speaker 7 (27:40):
And the report. I haven't solved anything.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
Yet, certainly I did. I washed the case up in
two minutes.
Speaker 8 (27:46):
But heard here but how easy.
Speaker 5 (27:50):
I just walked up to the boss this morning and quit.
I'm over the Hardy family rule dirt.
Speaker 7 (28:34):
Now here again is the Hardy family.
Speaker 9 (28:38):
Dad.
Speaker 5 (28:38):
What would you say if I told you I was
going into a sensational new business.
Speaker 7 (28:41):
I wouldn't say a word.
Speaker 8 (28:42):
I speak, Yes, Andy, you've got another job already.
Speaker 5 (28:46):
I ran into a guy who's planning to open a
new office in Carver. He gave me his phone number
and told me to call him this evening.
Speaker 9 (28:50):
Well, that little venture. Are you interested in this time
Swiss out climbing? No, No, that's us outliming that this
job is just tailor.
Speaker 13 (29:02):
Made for me.
Speaker 9 (29:03):
I was.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
I recall it.
Speaker 7 (29:04):
You were just perfect for that night watchman's job too.
Speaker 5 (29:06):
That wasn't right for me. I know, I know good
at garden things, I'm better at losing things.
Speaker 8 (29:12):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 10 (29:13):
He accuse you man that just last week he left
his watch his wallet.
Speaker 5 (29:16):
That's right. So I'm going into the losing business.
Speaker 7 (29:19):
Losing business.
Speaker 5 (29:20):
Yeah, I'm gonna sell photo policies for an insurance company.
You know, we pay off if you do.
Speaker 8 (29:24):
You have to lose something, Well, that sounds wonderful for you.
Speaker 7 (29:27):
Does sound like work?
Speaker 9 (29:28):
More?
Speaker 7 (29:29):
Shoot at your talents?
Speaker 5 (29:30):
I mean you were to call a man right away,
I would, except for one thing, watch that I lost
his phone number?
Speaker 14 (29:55):
Bad way.
Speaker 4 (29:56):
Sorry is calling Vicky Rooney and Mayhold and based on
characters created by Already, This program was written by Jameson Brewer.
Speaker 7 (30:02):
Direction is by Joe Diggelone. Original music Mister Bo's been
conducted by Jerry Fielding.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
Supporting cast included Eleanora Di Creta.
Speaker 5 (30:09):
We gonna need some Jerry hows.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Speaking welcome back. This was so funny.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
So many great detective shows were parodied. Sam Spade and
Rogues Gallery were prominent, but they just did some general
parodies of genre conventions in general. I thought the manhole
cover bit was hilarious. And there's a wonderful balance of
Mickey Rooney giving this over the top manic energy and
(30:59):
Lewis Stone and fey Holden just coming up with these
great lines that are delivered so matter of factly and
in such a relaxed way.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
And I thought fey.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Holden had just the best lines here. I laughed a
lot at this, and I hope you enjoyed it as well,
because this was a lot of.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Fun for me.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Now, I will note that the Andy Hardy film series
did actually continue. There was a final installment in nineteen
fifty eight, by which time Lewis Stone had passed away,
so this wasn't quite the last guest for Andy Hardy,
just pretty close, all right. Well, now it's time to
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thank our Patreon supporters of the day, and I want
to thank Kathy, Patreon supporter since February twenty twenty four,
currently supporting the podcast at the shawmus level of four
dollars or more per month. Thanks so much for your support, Kathy,
and that will do it for today. If you're enjoying
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we will be back next week with another listener support
and appreciation special, but join us back here tomorrow for
the Adventures of the.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Folk and Where.
Speaker 8 (32:14):
Thanks Pelaski Private Investigations.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Yeah, happy, he was in the scene yesterday.
Speaker 7 (32:20):
Huh, Well what did he want?
Speaker 14 (32:23):
Well, no, this ain't no place to talk. I am.
I got a brand new nash around the corner, and.
Speaker 5 (32:27):
You can say anything you've got to right here.
Speaker 14 (32:31):
Well, it's kind of embarrassing, Sheila. I don't like to
be seeing taking money from a woman.
Speaker 5 (32:35):
In a public thoroughfare. What are you talking about?
Speaker 14 (32:38):
Well, naturally, you can't expect me to divulge this kind
of information for free.
Speaker 8 (32:42):
You're absolutely right, mister Pulaski.
Speaker 5 (32:45):
So you keep your information and I'll keep my money.
Speaker 7 (32:47):
No, wait a minute, I'm not interested.
Speaker 8 (32:49):
Well, let's really concerns you.
Speaker 5 (32:50):
I doubt it that.
Speaker 14 (32:52):
It looks like I ain't going to make a book
from the back of family.
Speaker 5 (32:55):
No.
Speaker 9 (32:55):
How, but.
Speaker 5 (32:58):
I like you better than I do your husband. Thanks.
Speaker 14 (33:00):
I mean it if I were you, Sheila, I'd watch
my step.
Speaker 7 (33:03):
Larry's checking up on you.
Speaker 13 (33:05):
What do you mean?
Speaker 5 (33:06):
That's what I said.
Speaker 14 (33:07):
As a matter of fact, I did a little checking
on you myself.
Speaker 5 (33:10):
Why take it easy?
Speaker 14 (33:12):
As far as I can learn, you never want stepped
out of line? So what's the matter with that.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Husband of yours?
Speaker 14 (33:17):
Anyway?
Speaker 5 (33:17):
He must be out of his mine. You may be right.
Speaker 14 (33:20):
If I was you and me, I'd never put up
with it.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
I hope you'll be with us then in the meantime,
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