November 13, 2025 • 30 mins
Richard Diamond, Private Detective was an American detective drama, created by Blake Edwards, which aired on radio from 1949 to 1953. Dick Powell starred as Richard Diamond in the radio series as a wisecracking former police officer turned private detective. Episodes often had Diamond taking on a case at the behest of his friend and former partner, Lt. Walter Levinson. The plot remained relatively unchanged throughout the series, with the hard-boiled Diamond enduring physical confrontations while tackling a challenging murder investigation, aided by the police department. Notably, despite the numerous gun battles, Diamond was never injured by gunfire. Most episodes end with Diamond at the piano, singing a popular song to his girlfriend, Helen Asher. This radio program was later adapted successfully to television.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
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Speaker 2 (01:21):
Dick Powe.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Raining cats and dogs visit day for the Humane Society.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Oh what a beautiful morning. Oh what you say? I'm
a detective agency. We solve all crimes.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
We frown on sand, but the weather is awful and
we'd rather stay in.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Oh hi, helen, Hi. Did you like that slogan? Yeah,
it gives me an idea.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
I want to report a crime, we'll hide.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
The bodies of the mara. There is raining.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
You can lose your license with an attitude like that.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Oh, baby, you certainly know where I'm ticklish. Where's the crime?
Speaker 2 (02:20):
You're still single? So am I?
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Well?
Speaker 1 (02:23):
In your case, that is a crime and mine is
just a misdemeanor. Anyway, I can't discuss in the sign,
but I'm still.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Working on I'll help you solve it.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
I want to give myself up.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Sorry, no case, why not?
Speaker 1 (02:33):
I've seen you in an evening dress. Nobody could pin
anything on you. Would it interest you to know?
Speaker 3 (02:39):
The piano tuner is here and very good looking. Pulling
wires will get you? Nowhere is my picture still on
the piano, the one where I look like a tough detective. No,
I threw it in the fireplace.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
I'd love to sit by the fire and dream of you. Besides,
oh is it thunder down there?
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Yeah? Small world, isn't it. I've got to hang up there.
I got work to do.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Well, come over tonight you can try the piano and
my patience. What work have you got to do?
Speaker 3 (03:08):
I have to fill my lighter and dry my shoes.
What are you talking about? Let's smash my car up
in a collision. Had to walk to work, work, he said,
smiling for his tears.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Where's your car now?
Speaker 3 (03:18):
In Larcen's Garage.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
You need a rich wife who can give you a chauffeur.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Hang up, doll, you're getting too near my prize.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Die.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
I looked at the door, hoping a wealthy client with
an easy case to walk in.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
When that Connecticut car with a lemonheaded driver folded my
fenders an hour before I knew I was in for
a repair jobs that would spring my bill clip. So
I called the garage to see whether I should start
saving up for it or just jump out of the window.
Larsen's Garage, Larsen Diamond speaking, how's it look? That looks
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like you're gotta be a pedestrian for about three weeks,
mister Diamond.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
But it ain't all bad.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
The frame's outline only a couple of inches save the
silver lining to the brake drums. Junior, you never called me,
mister Diamond unless there's going to be more than one
hundred dollars how much?
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Roughly?
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Oh, I say two hundred and fifty, I.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Said, roughly, Not brutally anyway, Why are you calling me up, Diamond?
Didn't you guy tell you?
Speaker 2 (04:22):
My guy?
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Yeah, the big boy you sent over to get your
stuff out of the car, Wait a minute, did he
say I sent him up?
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Diamond? Stop and hang up.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
I have a chair, friend, be within a moment.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Larcen was this guy of mine, a six set, moronic
looking oaf with a greasy hat and a broken nose.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Next one is who he is? Diamond? Hang up?
Speaker 1 (04:45):
I'll talk to you later, Lartning, I mean Larcen. I
just heard a report that requires my attention.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Do you realize, friend, that.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
You made a big hole in my wastebasket? I suppose
I wanted to fill up with water and wash my hair.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
How could I enough?
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Where is it? I said?
Speaker 5 (05:03):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (05:04):
You told me to shut up.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
You can't have it both ways, friend, I've had a
bad morning. My car is smashed up, and my feet
are wet, and things look bad in Egypt. As the
old song says, I love Acharaide, but not this much.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Don't play cozy stuff in your car?
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Oh well no, let me think there was a box
of cleansing tissues in the glove compartments, some golf clubs
in the trunk, probably some hairpins down behind the seat.
I've told that girl one hundred times.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
After direct everybody was thrown stuff back in the cars
we went to.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Brown en World, Brown envelope. Friend, I never saw it.
No scout's onner.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
See I'll cross my high your hands.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
I'm a side ten eleven speaking Rick Wald.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Get over here right away.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
I'm busy.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
You better get over here. I've done it again. There's
a dead man in my office.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
What just get over here and bring me a new wastebasket.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Yeah, I know. I'm Paul Scanal, hoodlum, third class car
strip and nightclub bounces, central park, mugger and manic depressive
about last the rest two years ago? He didn't want
him for anything right now.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
You could have had him for assaulid waste baskets. Who
was he with?
Speaker 2 (06:45):
I don't know. He was out of circulation. What makes
you think he was with anybody?
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Poor personal pronouns? He said, we want the envelope.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
You and your education. You hadn't been a little faster
than he was. You'd beginning your doctor's degree right now?
Incident to the were you expecting something on.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
The usual things? Death and taxes? Two men with whiskers wine.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Wearing a clamical gun in the office had a character
comfort loading.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Type a shrewd observation Walter.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
And it was normally i'd have shucked the gun. And
then I got in the office. When my car got hit,
the pistol was knocked out of the clip under the desk,
so I stuck at my shoulder holster. There were six
police officers and thirteen hundred helpful citizens on the scene,
and I didn't want to linger for extra questions. I
told all about Scannell going through my kite licensed garage.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
He looked thoughtful. And when Walt looks thoughtful, he's thinking
the police force could use a lot of Lemonson's.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Oh, then we'll off with murdering. There's more les a
traffic brawl.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
What did you bring here from the scene, Just my
wet feet, my briefcase one. I always cared to make
me look business like.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
You couldn't look business like if you carried a carriage register. Well,
let's let's reconstruct a little take it from the crash.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Okay, okay, Slipperty Streets. A gray coop with.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Connecticut plate came barely through the stop life. I tried
to get over, but there was a curbstone and a
thirty story office building.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
In a way. Remind me to write my congressman about
the real estate lobby.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
I mentioned my name, you'll get a nasty answer. Go
on with you.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Well we smacked You mean you didn't hear it only
twenty four blocks away?
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Oh sure, but I thought it was just another random bomb.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Well, four doors flew open, two on my car, two
on the gray coop. Stuff all over the street, papers.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Spare parts, broken glass, my bridge work, the usual debris.
While the other.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Driver and I were exchanging information and unsults, a few
warm hearted bystanders, seeing there's nothing worth stealing, through the
stuff back into the cars.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Mine was all the way to the garage.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
How about the other fellas?
Speaker 3 (08:47):
The other fellow was.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
A girl who you may say so officer flatter, goodies,
friendly too in a nervous.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Sort of way to get a name an address.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Certainly think I'm an idiot.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
I can't answer that without breaking up a beautiful friendship.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Where's the data? This stuff is in my briefcase? Where's
the briefcase in my desk?
Speaker 3 (09:08):
You don't ask me where the desk is you're sitting
on it. Yeah, give me sake.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
W A mess reminds me of my wife's handbag.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
I wouldn't know. I've never been in your wife's handbag.
Mister Diamond, this is business.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Shall we examine the contents of the briefcase?
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Pray?
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Do think you item paperback book? A weekend painter planning
on painting a.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Weekend man's entitled to a hobby if he ever gets
time for it, which he doesn't.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Item no book back, keep out of that culturely item
book your matches, no pretty item clip the Cottridges item
card notifying a dental point this morning.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
And couldn't make it across that bridge work when I
find it?
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Yeah, well that's all. There is no brown envelope.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
No, I wouldn't have a brown envelope.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
I've used that color. It makes me look sallow. You're
not much Yep, we'll do something fatty something.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Why don't you just send all my envelopes to the
lab and get the glue analyzed. I had a horse
last week to drop dead in the fire turn and
I Diamond Detective Agency detecting done by day or night
and holidays if the sea is right, Diamond. There's a
Sergeant Fraser Tennant Levinson there.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Yeah, he's here in the briefcase for you all.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Thanks Levenson.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
That Express company robbed. That's happened this morning. We picked
up to get away car.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
But you want to know right away?
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Thanks, charge car abandoned.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Yeah, seemed to be pretty smashed up to running north,
banged in great coop with Connecticut plates.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Okay, hold it for a root. Wait a minute, great coop, Rick,
I car you banged in this morning.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Great coop Connecticut plates.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
That's right, tell you in a minute, charger. Yeah, get
with the traffic, Dura. I want everything on a collision
at Madison and forty third, everything including a weather.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Report rain, followed by Saturday.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
And Sunday and Fraser. Yes, sir, the driver of the car,
get out a warrant for Rick. What are the driver
of your?
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Name is mock him, Dora mock'm housewife.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Dora Mackham, sage and probably phony. But make it out anyway.
I'll be back to the office soon. Rick, this accident
the yours is something big.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
You should see my repair bill.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Shut up and we said, well this is serious. Early
this morning, the Huxley Express Company was robbed a six
hundred thousand dollars. Wow, yeah, I get this car you
smashed into? Is the getaway car? Whoever this name is?
It was drive and she's tied in somehow with the
gang will pull the job.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
It is all very enlightening. But go a little farther.
Why did scanella guy come here looking for a barn envelope?
Speaker 2 (11:36):
I don't know. I'm going back to the pre sign
is the first break we've had in this case. And
you better keep your eyes open.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
And that gun and your shoulders can't crushes my camels
every time I stoop over.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Oh, rick for the last time, this is no joking manner.
For some reason that gang thinks you have a brown envelope.
That envelope means enough to them to kill for it. Ricky,
my boy. Up to now you've been shot with luck,
don't crowded.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Before we continue with Richard Diamond, here are a few
words about smoking enjoyment. Here's the one sensible tests of
cigarette mildness. Smoke only camels for thirty days. Pack after pack,
you'll enjoy the full rich flavor that's found only in camels,
and through steady smoking the only sensible way to judge
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a cigarette. You'll see for yourself how mild camels are,
how well camels agree with your folk.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
In a test.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Supervised by noted throat specialists, hundreds of men and women
from coast to coast smoke only Camels for thirty days.
The throat specialists made more than two thousand careful weekly
examinations of the throats of these smokers, and they reported
not one single case of throat irritation due to smoking camels.
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That conclusive proof of camel's mildness. Start tonight to make
your own Camel thirty day mildness test. Make camels your
steady smoke, and you'll discover just why camel is America's
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Speaker 2 (13:20):
O mile mile.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Camel And now back to Richard Diamond Private Detective storrying
Dick Powell up until now, as the man said, I
had been shot and shot at with luck. I was
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in the middle of something, but didn't know what. After
Levinson left, I sat and stared out the window and
didn't work any harder than that until the phone rang.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Diamond Detective Agency.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
If you try to please.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Hello, Hello, Hello, Oh, well, maybe it was a wrong number,
or maybe it was somebody wanting to be sure I
was here. I felt like a new clay pipe and
the shooting gallery waiting for the sailors on Saturday night.
It was a nice little office, but I suddenly didn't
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like it. I thought i'd go ask Helen about the
piano sooner.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
I like that idea.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
So I got up, packed my briefcase, shoved my stuff
back in it, and as I zipped it shut, my
hand fell a piece of paper stuck underneath it.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
It was the brown and blow.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
I got to work on it, and inside was a
baggage check and written on the.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Back of it were two words blue duck. I was
just getting well. Hello, Dora Markham, housewife.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
I'm not as stupid as close canaris.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
The danis also green, better shot.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Oh he wasn't too bad. He got my waist basket right.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
You talk too much? Get out, turn around and take
off your coat.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Oh do I have to? It's so pretty? My shirt
wrinkled on the kind of the rain.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
It off or the corner cut it off?
Speaker 1 (15:18):
I should have sent you in the first place, Dora,
you're much more convincing.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Okay, it's off. Look you're a you're a housewife. There's
a button loose on the left sleeve, and i'd trouser off.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Oh now, Dora, the door is closed in there.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
The silence dre in this gam I love the silence
and noise of detective who tried to move in on
us off Diamond.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Yes, ma'am, mm, Gypsy Rose Diamond, I'm pretty girl.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
There's like a mellow.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
Have you ever lived this long?
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Fresh air, hard working, green vegetables. Let me show you
my diet list.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
I have it away from that desk.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Now, hand me your coat and truck.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Turn around, walk to the wall with your handcut a pie.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
After the next stone said, no, Diamond, your sony is
being disconnected. H Dorry, You're wonderful. I could go for
a strong girl like you, and I would too. If
you didn't have that, well, you could have said goodbye.
W Richard Diamond detectives with no pants, A private eye
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welcoming his privately.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
I looked for the brown envelope, gone with my wardrobe.
I looked at the telephone.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Alexander Graham Bell couldn't have fixed it with Donamitia Hanning
and the pliers.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
I peered out into the corridor.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
No one in sight, not even an insurance agent or
a typewriter salesman.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
This alone was making history.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
I wondered if I could trot through the streets to
the fifth Precinct pretending to be a cross country runner.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
No, not in blue silk shorts. I sat down and
waited and waited and waited. I tried telepathy Helen. I thought,
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come and get me and bring me a pair of trousers. Helen,
I concentrated its rigged.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
The rain must have done something to Helen's antenna, so
I concentrated on Walt. Walt, I thought, and Walt walked in.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Well, you are a more sensitive type than I thought. Walt,
did you bring me some trousers from trout?
Speaker 2 (17:49):
What's coming off here?
Speaker 3 (17:56):
The straight line was too easy, so I passed it up.
I told Walt about door, the housewife, and the brown
envelope and the baggage check inside it anything else. There
are two.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Words written on the back of the check, said blue Duck.
About that time Dora interrupted me with her old clothes campaign.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
I heard it before.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Well, there used to be a Blue.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Duck nightclub in the West twenties. The real Hogwaller closed
up the year ago for selling the miners. Keep talking
all right, all right, but I'll be ed living.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
In a minute.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
The other thing I know about it is that it
was run by Sis Madison and her husband.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
There's quite a joint. Bit.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Hey, yeah, Sis Madson, that's Dora Mockham, housewife with the
lemon rents and the new name.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
This begins up. That guy you killed in your office
used to work assist Madson. There were three people spotted
on that Huxley Express robbery, Dave and two guys.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Oh could have been Sis Madson, her husband and Scannel.
This is very incurist.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
I'll tell you something else, very interesting. What I'm freezing?
Or is that only interesting?
Speaker 2 (18:54):
To be white?
Speaker 3 (18:55):
A minute?
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Fraser is the cleaning and seeing shop halfway up the block.
Don't see if mister Diamond's coat and pants are there?
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Gray to eat? Name of the inside pocket? Get with it? Son?
How did you know, Patty?
Speaker 5 (19:11):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Sheer genius science, It's logical. I don't think you'd want
to haul them all over town. I'll be seeing stuffing
them into a garbage can.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Why not be where I got him, Blue Dick.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
I hope you're sure that's what you're read on the
back of that check.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
I'm sure. But it's been closed for years.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
And we're going down there and open it up.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
No, no, what, no, pants, don't be so modest. I'm
not modest. I'm cold.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
I stand whatever that's I mean? Hey, watch it likten
It's just me, okay, got mister diamonds.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Closed, Yes, sir, I'll press nice too.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Another ten minutes the guy would.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Have brought him up to himself.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Really yeah, the lady said her father was waiting for him.
Her father, well, give me a gun. This gang will
stoop to anything.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Ten minutes later we were on our way to a
next nightclub. The blue Duck. I sat in front of
Levinson's car, trying not to rank on my well pressed pauses.
We pull up half a block from the one time nightclub.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Where all the cars hill know this to be a
bigger party. The place isn't, a blue duck, said dead duck.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Maybe it's a bigger party than it looks.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Where are you looking for?
Speaker 1 (20:23):
A bright cop, Patty, you're a little dull, But everything
points to this little disco, So.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
We'll just high take a cancer the duck.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
I heard it the first time. Tell me, Walt, this
six hundred thousand is their reward.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
A reward? Why you keep your voice down, officers while
you tell me who puts you on? The blue duck
and sists Matson who got.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Shot at stripped, humiliated, wrecked who split fifty to fifty
with a police pension?
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Fun should have brought your briefcase. You are a business man.
Come on, I don't think this joint was ever alive.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Maybe they went to a movie after all. The housewives
entitled to a little.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Recutation and away.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
This place has been close for years. Nobody care.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
We want to look around a little.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
There ain't nobody here.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
I told you I will come in anyway.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Well the old guy to turn on some lights. It
ain't no lights. I must be some lights. Pop, How
you get your reading done?
Speaker 1 (21:27):
I spend my time minding my own business, Sonny, got
a bad idea for you.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Eat it. You don't mean you think I'm snooky? Nothing
to see here?
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Now get out. We're police officers. Pop. Now find the
lights and stop talking so much?
Speaker 3 (21:41):
What do you want anyway? Lights? And geev?
Speaker 2 (21:44):
The man said, there's this winch, but it looks like
it was never open.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
But you expect dancing girls.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
You're pretty fresh. You know what. I got half a
mind to run you in.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Now hold it? Well?
Speaker 2 (21:57):
You don't want him, he said it?
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Who pays you? Pop?
Speaker 2 (22:01):
I don't know they mail.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
It to me?
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Yes, sure, what's under those stairs, tables and chairs?
Speaker 1 (22:08):
What's on the second floor not used to be the office?
Speaker 3 (22:12):
I'd like to take a look at it.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Come on, walk, okay, come on, I'll stay here. You'll
come with us. He'sped from my heart climbing up and downstairs.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
You don't think maybe there's somebody in the office that you, Pop,
The place is empty, I tell you.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
Come on, keep up with this. Pop. You're scared of
your heart? No, scared of anything else? No, Well, I
am holding what I heard something?
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Rat?
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Maybe walk get down? Rats?
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Huh yeah, I guess that fits who's upstairs?
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Pop, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
I told you they're going to get them, whoever it is.
You might as well start talking.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
I don't want no trouble.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Well, look, you well well start firing up toward that landing.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Keep them busy. I'll try to get beside this staircase.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Yeah, Pete's sake, shoo, high figure, it's Sis madson and husband.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Yeah. I start firing hi towards the landing.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
I started crawling under wall's fire towards the stairs.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
I was getting solid.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
First assist mats and steals my pants And now she
makes me mother them up.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Fifteen snail crawls.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Later, I was beside the staircase and had a good
view of the landing. I could see the man who
must be sister's husband, and crouched down and firing toward walls.
I raised up, Madson, drop it, okay, pal.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Good shot?
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Rick, Yeah, but not good enough?
Speaker 2 (23:46):
All right, Matt, to stop shooting. Drop the gun you've
had it.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Come on down here, that's a good boy. Where's your wife? Madsen,
who says, says Mats.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
I don't know who you're talking about, your.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Wife, Matson? Come on, don't stop.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
You hit me?
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Get me to a hospital. Hum ord bad?
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Do you? Hearn't say anything?
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Was yeah, but I can't make it out. Look, you guys,
the saint legal.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
You got to get me to a doc.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Might be able to understand him if you talked about
CIS though, Yeah, what about it?
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Meds enough?
Speaker 2 (24:15):
I don't know. Get me to a doc.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
I'll talk later, you'll talk now.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
You'll lay it right there until you do, like copple
ab outside, see the lights in the window.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Yeah, quiet, fit hold it, honey, cover walk. Diamond's a name, sis,
so maybe you don't recognize me with my pants?
Speaker 5 (24:36):
Are what have you.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
There were only a flesh wound, but he thinks he's
bleeding to death.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Nice suitcase you got there, cis and it was.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
When I opened it, I half expected to find the
collection of men's trousers, but instead I found sex of
my favorite color green. You know most ducks have only
one bill, but lying on the floor of the blue
duck in the suitcase for six hundred thousand of.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Them, it has been a colorful day.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Gray weather, ron envelopes, blue ducks, and green money.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Yeah, fella, it wasn't any pianos here.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
That's too bad, too bad.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Listen to the Middle Sea off a full thirty seconds.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
I'll call it anymore.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
I'll call one.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
I know a dandy seventy three years old tune pianos
for crusoe, caruso.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
How easy you'll hurt Landa's feelings.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
When you are in love, it's the loveliest night of
the years.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Stars twinkle above, and you almost.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Concustom from me a longer.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Everything words fall into rhyme.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
Any time you are holding me me, when you are love,
it's the loveliest night of the year. Walting along in
a boom like a breeze, drifting over the sand, thrilled
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by the wonder of you and the wonderful touch of
your hands, and my heart starts to be.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Like a child when a birthday is me so us
my sweet Oh, it's a long night.
Speaker 5 (27:10):
Off the.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Like it? Yeah, what are you staring at?
Speaker 1 (27:17):
You flattering to me?
Speaker 4 (27:19):
When you sew up at your clothes to welfare?
Speaker 3 (27:22):
I think I'll what good is.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
You need a woman like me?
Speaker 3 (27:30):
There is no woman like you, Helen, I know it,
but you better grab me while I'm available.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Dick Powell will return in just a minute. Here's a
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Be sure to give plenty of Camels this Christmas. It's
America's most popular cigarette by billion. Oh my, here's Zick
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Powell with a special message. Thank you ladies and gentlemen.
Every week, the makers of Campbells cigarettes and thousands of
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Speaker 3 (28:26):
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Speaker 1 (28:28):
That's to help show hospitalize men and women of the
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Speaker 3 (28:32):
Haven't forgotten them.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
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Now in the next week enjoy Camels.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
I always do.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Dick Powell can now be seen starring in the Universal
International film You Never Can Tell The Night's transcribed Adventure
of Richard Samon was written by Dick Quinton with music
by Frank Wirk, our director with nap Wolf. Virginia Gregg
played the part of Elamasher and Alan Reid with Lieutenant Levins.
Other than the cast were Kay Stewart, herb Butterfield, Purballas
and Bob O'Connor.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
The pike is hot and the pleasures In.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
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Listen next week for another exciting adventure of Richard Diamond
starring Dick Powell.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
This is your SDI.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
The official broadcast from the files of the FBI follows immediately.
Stay tuned. This program came to you from Hollywood. This
is the American Broadcasting Company.
The makers of camel cigarettes present Dick Powell as Richard
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Hundreds of men and women from coast to coast, most
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Start your own thirty day camel mildless. Set Let your
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throat tell you how mild camels are day after day.
Then you know why camel is by far America's most
popular cigarette. Here transcribed is Richard Diamond Private detective starrying.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Dick Powe.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Raining cats and dogs visit day for the Humane Society.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Oh what a beautiful morning. Oh what you say? I'm
a detective agency. We solve all crimes.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
We frown on sand, but the weather is awful and
we'd rather stay in.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Oh hi, helen, Hi. Did you like that slogan? Yeah,
it gives me an idea.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
I want to report a crime, we'll hide.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
The bodies of the mara. There is raining.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
You can lose your license with an attitude like that.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Oh, baby, you certainly know where I'm ticklish. Where's the crime?
Speaker 2 (02:20):
You're still single? So am I?
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Well?
Speaker 1 (02:23):
In your case, that is a crime and mine is
just a misdemeanor. Anyway, I can't discuss in the sign,
but I'm still.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Working on I'll help you solve it.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
I want to give myself up.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Sorry, no case, why not?
Speaker 1 (02:33):
I've seen you in an evening dress. Nobody could pin
anything on you. Would it interest you to know?
Speaker 3 (02:39):
The piano tuner is here and very good looking. Pulling
wires will get you? Nowhere is my picture still on
the piano, the one where I look like a tough detective. No,
I threw it in the fireplace.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
I'd love to sit by the fire and dream of you. Besides,
oh is it thunder down there?
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Yeah? Small world, isn't it. I've got to hang up there.
I got work to do.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Well, come over tonight you can try the piano and
my patience. What work have you got to do?
Speaker 3 (03:08):
I have to fill my lighter and dry my shoes.
What are you talking about? Let's smash my car up
in a collision. Had to walk to work, work, he said,
smiling for his tears.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Where's your car now?
Speaker 3 (03:18):
In Larcen's Garage.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
You need a rich wife who can give you a chauffeur.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Hang up, doll, you're getting too near my prize.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Die.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
I looked at the door, hoping a wealthy client with
an easy case to walk in.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
When that Connecticut car with a lemonheaded driver folded my
fenders an hour before I knew I was in for
a repair jobs that would spring my bill clip. So
I called the garage to see whether I should start
saving up for it or just jump out of the window.
Larsen's Garage, Larsen Diamond speaking, how's it look? That looks
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like you're gotta be a pedestrian for about three weeks,
mister Diamond.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
But it ain't all bad.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
The frame's outline only a couple of inches save the
silver lining to the brake drums. Junior, you never called me,
mister Diamond unless there's going to be more than one
hundred dollars how much?
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Roughly?
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Oh, I say two hundred and fifty, I.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Said, roughly, Not brutally anyway, Why are you calling me up, Diamond?
Didn't you guy tell you?
Speaker 2 (04:22):
My guy?
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Yeah, the big boy you sent over to get your
stuff out of the car, Wait a minute, did he
say I sent him up?
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Diamond? Stop and hang up.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
I have a chair, friend, be within a moment.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Larcen was this guy of mine, a six set, moronic
looking oaf with a greasy hat and a broken nose.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Next one is who he is? Diamond? Hang up?
Speaker 1 (04:45):
I'll talk to you later, Lartning, I mean Larcen. I
just heard a report that requires my attention.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Do you realize, friend, that.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
You made a big hole in my wastebasket? I suppose
I wanted to fill up with water and wash my hair.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
How could I enough?
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Where is it? I said?
Speaker 5 (05:03):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (05:04):
You told me to shut up.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
You can't have it both ways, friend, I've had a
bad morning. My car is smashed up, and my feet
are wet, and things look bad in Egypt. As the
old song says, I love Acharaide, but not this much.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Don't play cozy stuff in your car?
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Oh well no, let me think there was a box
of cleansing tissues in the glove compartments, some golf clubs
in the trunk, probably some hairpins down behind the seat.
I've told that girl one hundred times.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
After direct everybody was thrown stuff back in the cars
we went to.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Brown en World, Brown envelope. Friend, I never saw it.
No scout's onner.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
See I'll cross my high your hands.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
I'm a side ten eleven speaking Rick Wald.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Get over here right away.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
I'm busy.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
You better get over here. I've done it again. There's
a dead man in my office.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
What just get over here and bring me a new wastebasket.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Yeah, I know. I'm Paul Scanal, hoodlum, third class car
strip and nightclub bounces, central park, mugger and manic depressive
about last the rest two years ago? He didn't want
him for anything right now.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
You could have had him for assaulid waste baskets. Who
was he with?
Speaker 2 (06:45):
I don't know. He was out of circulation. What makes
you think he was with anybody?
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Poor personal pronouns? He said, we want the envelope.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
You and your education. You hadn't been a little faster
than he was. You'd beginning your doctor's degree right now?
Incident to the were you expecting something on.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
The usual things? Death and taxes? Two men with whiskers wine.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Wearing a clamical gun in the office had a character
comfort loading.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Type a shrewd observation Walter.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
And it was normally i'd have shucked the gun. And
then I got in the office. When my car got hit,
the pistol was knocked out of the clip under the desk,
so I stuck at my shoulder holster. There were six
police officers and thirteen hundred helpful citizens on the scene,
and I didn't want to linger for extra questions. I
told all about Scannell going through my kite licensed garage.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
He looked thoughtful. And when Walt looks thoughtful, he's thinking
the police force could use a lot of Lemonson's.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Oh, then we'll off with murdering. There's more les a
traffic brawl.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
What did you bring here from the scene, Just my
wet feet, my briefcase one. I always cared to make
me look business like.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
You couldn't look business like if you carried a carriage register. Well,
let's let's reconstruct a little take it from the crash.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Okay, okay, Slipperty Streets. A gray coop with.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Connecticut plate came barely through the stop life. I tried
to get over, but there was a curbstone and a
thirty story office building.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
In a way. Remind me to write my congressman about
the real estate lobby.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
I mentioned my name, you'll get a nasty answer. Go
on with you.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Well we smacked You mean you didn't hear it only
twenty four blocks away?
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Oh sure, but I thought it was just another random bomb.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Well, four doors flew open, two on my car, two
on the gray coop. Stuff all over the street, papers.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Spare parts, broken glass, my bridge work, the usual debris.
While the other.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Driver and I were exchanging information and unsults, a few
warm hearted bystanders, seeing there's nothing worth stealing, through the
stuff back into the cars.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Mine was all the way to the garage.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
How about the other fellas?
Speaker 3 (08:47):
The other fellow was.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
A girl who you may say so officer flatter, goodies,
friendly too in a nervous.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Sort of way to get a name an address.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Certainly think I'm an idiot.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
I can't answer that without breaking up a beautiful friendship.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Where's the data? This stuff is in my briefcase? Where's
the briefcase in my desk?
Speaker 3 (09:08):
You don't ask me where the desk is you're sitting
on it. Yeah, give me sake.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
W A mess reminds me of my wife's handbag.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
I wouldn't know. I've never been in your wife's handbag.
Mister Diamond, this is business.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Shall we examine the contents of the briefcase?
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Pray?
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Do think you item paperback book? A weekend painter planning
on painting a.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Weekend man's entitled to a hobby if he ever gets
time for it, which he doesn't.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Item no book back, keep out of that culturely item
book your matches, no pretty item clip the Cottridges item
card notifying a dental point this morning.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
And couldn't make it across that bridge work when I
find it?
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Yeah, well that's all. There is no brown envelope.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
No, I wouldn't have a brown envelope.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
I've used that color. It makes me look sallow. You're
not much Yep, we'll do something fatty something.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Why don't you just send all my envelopes to the
lab and get the glue analyzed. I had a horse
last week to drop dead in the fire turn and
I Diamond Detective Agency detecting done by day or night
and holidays if the sea is right, Diamond. There's a
Sergeant Fraser Tennant Levinson there.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Yeah, he's here in the briefcase for you all.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Thanks Levenson.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
That Express company robbed. That's happened this morning. We picked
up to get away car.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
But you want to know right away?
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Thanks, charge car abandoned.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Yeah, seemed to be pretty smashed up to running north,
banged in great coop with Connecticut plates.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Okay, hold it for a root. Wait a minute, great coop, Rick,
I car you banged in this morning.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Great coop Connecticut plates.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
That's right, tell you in a minute, charger. Yeah, get
with the traffic, Dura. I want everything on a collision
at Madison and forty third, everything including a weather.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Report rain, followed by Saturday.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
And Sunday and Fraser. Yes, sir, the driver of the car,
get out a warrant for Rick. What are the driver
of your?
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Name is mock him, Dora mock'm housewife.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Dora Mackham, sage and probably phony. But make it out anyway.
I'll be back to the office soon. Rick, this accident
the yours is something big.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
You should see my repair bill.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Shut up and we said, well this is serious. Early
this morning, the Huxley Express Company was robbed a six
hundred thousand dollars. Wow, yeah, I get this car you
smashed into? Is the getaway car? Whoever this name is?
It was drive and she's tied in somehow with the
gang will pull the job.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
It is all very enlightening. But go a little farther.
Why did scanella guy come here looking for a barn envelope?
Speaker 2 (11:36):
I don't know. I'm going back to the pre sign
is the first break we've had in this case. And
you better keep your eyes open.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
And that gun and your shoulders can't crushes my camels
every time I stoop over.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Oh, rick for the last time, this is no joking manner.
For some reason that gang thinks you have a brown envelope.
That envelope means enough to them to kill for it. Ricky,
my boy. Up to now you've been shot with luck,
don't crowded.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
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how well camels agree with your folk.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
In a test.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Supervised by noted throat specialists, hundreds of men and women
from coast to coast smoke only Camels for thirty days.
The throat specialists made more than two thousand careful weekly
examinations of the throats of these smokers, and they reported
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Speaker 2 (13:20):
O mile mile.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Camel And now back to Richard Diamond Private Detective storrying
Dick Powell up until now, as the man said, I
had been shot and shot at with luck. I was
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in the middle of something, but didn't know what. After
Levinson left, I sat and stared out the window and
didn't work any harder than that until the phone rang.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Diamond Detective Agency.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
If you try to please.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Hello, Hello, Hello, Oh, well, maybe it was a wrong number,
or maybe it was somebody wanting to be sure I
was here. I felt like a new clay pipe and
the shooting gallery waiting for the sailors on Saturday night.
It was a nice little office, but I suddenly didn't
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like it. I thought i'd go ask Helen about the
piano sooner.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
I like that idea.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
So I got up, packed my briefcase, shoved my stuff
back in it, and as I zipped it shut, my
hand fell a piece of paper stuck underneath it.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
It was the brown and blow.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
I got to work on it, and inside was a
baggage check and written on the.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Back of it were two words blue duck. I was
just getting well. Hello, Dora Markham, housewife.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
I'm not as stupid as close canaris.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
The danis also green, better shot.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Oh he wasn't too bad. He got my waist basket right.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
You talk too much? Get out, turn around and take
off your coat.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Oh do I have to? It's so pretty? My shirt
wrinkled on the kind of the rain.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
It off or the corner cut it off?
Speaker 1 (15:18):
I should have sent you in the first place, Dora,
you're much more convincing.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Okay, it's off. Look you're a you're a housewife. There's
a button loose on the left sleeve, and i'd trouser off.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Oh now, Dora, the door is closed in there.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
The silence dre in this gam I love the silence
and noise of detective who tried to move in on
us off Diamond.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Yes, ma'am, mm, Gypsy Rose Diamond, I'm pretty girl.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
There's like a mellow.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
Have you ever lived this long?
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Fresh air, hard working, green vegetables. Let me show you
my diet list.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
I have it away from that desk.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Now, hand me your coat and truck.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Turn around, walk to the wall with your handcut a pie.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
After the next stone said, no, Diamond, your sony is
being disconnected. H Dorry, You're wonderful. I could go for
a strong girl like you, and I would too. If
you didn't have that, well, you could have said goodbye.
W Richard Diamond detectives with no pants, A private eye
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welcoming his privately.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
I looked for the brown envelope, gone with my wardrobe.
I looked at the telephone.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Alexander Graham Bell couldn't have fixed it with Donamitia Hanning
and the pliers.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
I peered out into the corridor.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
No one in sight, not even an insurance agent or
a typewriter salesman.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
This alone was making history.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
I wondered if I could trot through the streets to
the fifth Precinct pretending to be a cross country runner.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
No, not in blue silk shorts. I sat down and
waited and waited and waited. I tried telepathy Helen. I thought,
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come and get me and bring me a pair of trousers. Helen,
I concentrated its rigged.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
The rain must have done something to Helen's antenna, so
I concentrated on Walt. Walt, I thought, and Walt walked in.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Well, you are a more sensitive type than I thought. Walt,
did you bring me some trousers from trout?
Speaker 2 (17:49):
What's coming off here?
Speaker 3 (17:56):
The straight line was too easy, so I passed it up.
I told Walt about door, the housewife, and the brown
envelope and the baggage check inside it anything else. There
are two.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Words written on the back of the check, said blue Duck.
About that time Dora interrupted me with her old clothes campaign.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
I heard it before.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Well, there used to be a Blue.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Duck nightclub in the West twenties. The real Hogwaller closed
up the year ago for selling the miners. Keep talking
all right, all right, but I'll be ed living.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
In a minute.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
The other thing I know about it is that it
was run by Sis Madison and her husband.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
There's quite a joint. Bit.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Hey, yeah, Sis Madson, that's Dora Mockham, housewife with the
lemon rents and the new name.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
This begins up. That guy you killed in your office
used to work assist Madson. There were three people spotted
on that Huxley Express robbery, Dave and two guys.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Oh could have been Sis Madson, her husband and Scannel.
This is very incurist.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
I'll tell you something else, very interesting. What I'm freezing?
Or is that only interesting?
Speaker 2 (18:54):
To be white?
Speaker 3 (18:55):
A minute?
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Fraser is the cleaning and seeing shop halfway up the block.
Don't see if mister Diamond's coat and pants are there?
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Gray to eat? Name of the inside pocket? Get with it? Son?
How did you know, Patty?
Speaker 5 (19:11):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Sheer genius science, It's logical. I don't think you'd want
to haul them all over town. I'll be seeing stuffing
them into a garbage can.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Why not be where I got him, Blue Dick.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
I hope you're sure that's what you're read on the
back of that check.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
I'm sure. But it's been closed for years.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
And we're going down there and open it up.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
No, no, what, no, pants, don't be so modest. I'm
not modest. I'm cold.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
I stand whatever that's I mean? Hey, watch it likten
It's just me, okay, got mister diamonds.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Closed, Yes, sir, I'll press nice too.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Another ten minutes the guy would.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Have brought him up to himself.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Really yeah, the lady said her father was waiting for him.
Her father, well, give me a gun. This gang will
stoop to anything.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Ten minutes later we were on our way to a
next nightclub. The blue Duck. I sat in front of
Levinson's car, trying not to rank on my well pressed pauses.
We pull up half a block from the one time nightclub.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Where all the cars hill know this to be a
bigger party. The place isn't, a blue duck, said dead duck.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Maybe it's a bigger party than it looks.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Where are you looking for?
Speaker 1 (20:23):
A bright cop, Patty, you're a little dull, But everything
points to this little disco, So.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
We'll just high take a cancer the duck.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
I heard it the first time. Tell me, Walt, this
six hundred thousand is their reward.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
A reward? Why you keep your voice down, officers while
you tell me who puts you on? The blue duck
and sists Matson who got.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Shot at stripped, humiliated, wrecked who split fifty to fifty
with a police pension?
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Fun should have brought your briefcase. You are a business man.
Come on, I don't think this joint was ever alive.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Maybe they went to a movie after all. The housewives
entitled to a little.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Recutation and away.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
This place has been close for years. Nobody care.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
We want to look around a little.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
There ain't nobody here.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
I told you I will come in anyway.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Well the old guy to turn on some lights. It
ain't no lights. I must be some lights. Pop, How
you get your reading done?
Speaker 1 (21:27):
I spend my time minding my own business, Sonny, got
a bad idea for you.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Eat it. You don't mean you think I'm snooky? Nothing
to see here?
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Now get out. We're police officers. Pop. Now find the
lights and stop talking so much?
Speaker 3 (21:41):
What do you want anyway? Lights? And geev?
Speaker 2 (21:44):
The man said, there's this winch, but it looks like
it was never open.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
But you expect dancing girls.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
You're pretty fresh. You know what. I got half a
mind to run you in.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Now hold it? Well?
Speaker 2 (21:57):
You don't want him, he said it?
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Who pays you? Pop?
Speaker 2 (22:01):
I don't know they mail.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
It to me?
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Yes, sure, what's under those stairs, tables and chairs?
Speaker 1 (22:08):
What's on the second floor not used to be the office?
Speaker 3 (22:12):
I'd like to take a look at it.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Come on, walk, okay, come on, I'll stay here. You'll
come with us. He'sped from my heart climbing up and downstairs.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
You don't think maybe there's somebody in the office that you, Pop,
The place is empty, I tell you.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
Come on, keep up with this. Pop. You're scared of
your heart? No, scared of anything else? No, Well, I
am holding what I heard something?
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Rat?
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Maybe walk get down? Rats?
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Huh yeah, I guess that fits who's upstairs?
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Pop, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
I told you they're going to get them, whoever it is.
You might as well start talking.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
I don't want no trouble.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Well, look, you well well start firing up toward that landing.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Keep them busy. I'll try to get beside this staircase.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Yeah, Pete's sake, shoo, high figure, it's Sis madson and husband.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Yeah. I start firing hi towards the landing.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
I started crawling under wall's fire towards the stairs.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
I was getting solid.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
First assist mats and steals my pants And now she
makes me mother them up.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Fifteen snail crawls.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Later, I was beside the staircase and had a good
view of the landing. I could see the man who
must be sister's husband, and crouched down and firing toward walls.
I raised up, Madson, drop it, okay, pal.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Good shot?
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Rick, Yeah, but not good enough?
Speaker 2 (23:46):
All right, Matt, to stop shooting. Drop the gun you've
had it.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Come on down here, that's a good boy. Where's your wife? Madsen,
who says, says Mats.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
I don't know who you're talking about, your.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Wife, Matson? Come on, don't stop.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
You hit me?
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Get me to a hospital. Hum ord bad?
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Do you? Hearn't say anything?
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Was yeah, but I can't make it out. Look, you guys,
the saint legal.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
You got to get me to a doc.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Might be able to understand him if you talked about
CIS though, Yeah, what about it?
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Meds enough?
Speaker 2 (24:15):
I don't know. Get me to a doc.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
I'll talk later, you'll talk now.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
You'll lay it right there until you do, like copple
ab outside, see the lights in the window.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Yeah, quiet, fit hold it, honey, cover walk. Diamond's a name, sis,
so maybe you don't recognize me with my pants?
Speaker 5 (24:36):
Are what have you.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
There were only a flesh wound, but he thinks he's
bleeding to death.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Nice suitcase you got there, cis and it was.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
When I opened it, I half expected to find the
collection of men's trousers, but instead I found sex of
my favorite color green. You know most ducks have only
one bill, but lying on the floor of the blue
duck in the suitcase for six hundred thousand of.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Them, it has been a colorful day.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Gray weather, ron envelopes, blue ducks, and green money.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Yeah, fella, it wasn't any pianos here.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
That's too bad, too bad.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Listen to the Middle Sea off a full thirty seconds.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
I'll call it anymore.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
I'll call one.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
I know a dandy seventy three years old tune pianos
for crusoe, caruso.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
How easy you'll hurt Landa's feelings.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
When you are in love, it's the loveliest night of
the years.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Stars twinkle above, and you almost.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Concustom from me a longer.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Everything words fall into rhyme.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
Any time you are holding me me, when you are love,
it's the loveliest night of the year. Walting along in
a boom like a breeze, drifting over the sand, thrilled
(26:38):
by the wonder of you and the wonderful touch of
your hands, and my heart starts to be.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Like a child when a birthday is me so us
my sweet Oh, it's a long night.
Speaker 5 (27:10):
Off the.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Like it? Yeah, what are you staring at?
Speaker 1 (27:17):
You flattering to me?
Speaker 4 (27:19):
When you sew up at your clothes to welfare?
Speaker 3 (27:22):
I think I'll what good is.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
You need a woman like me?
Speaker 3 (27:30):
There is no woman like you, Helen, I know it,
but you better grab me while I'm available.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Dick Powell will return in just a minute. Here's a
wonderful Christmas shopping tip. Give cartons of camels as Christmas gifts.
Camel makes it easy for you with a special Christmas
gift carton. It's beautifully designed in holiday colors and as
a bill greeting guard right on top of the carte.
Be sure to give plenty of Camels this Christmas. It's
America's most popular cigarette by billion. Oh my, here's Zick
(28:19):
Powell with a special message. Thank you ladies and gentlemen.
Every week, the makers of Campbells cigarettes and thousands of
packs of Camels to.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Military hospitals and veterans.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
That's to help show hospitalize men and women of the
Armed Forces, if folks at home.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
Haven't forgotten them.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
This week the free packs of camels go to veterans
Hospitals Marion, Indiana and shared in Wyoming, US Army Station Hospital,
Camp Gordon, Georgia, and the US Naval Hospital Ship Repose
Now in the next week enjoy Camels.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
I always do.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Dick Powell can now be seen starring in the Universal
International film You Never Can Tell The Night's transcribed Adventure
of Richard Samon was written by Dick Quinton with music
by Frank Wirk, our director with nap Wolf. Virginia Gregg
played the part of Elamasher and Alan Reid with Lieutenant Levins.
Other than the cast were Kay Stewart, herb Butterfield, Purballas
and Bob O'Connor.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
The pike is hot and the pleasures In.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Prince Albert, It's specially treated bier. The pike is hot
and pleasures. That's why pipe smokers will be delighted with
Prince Albert for Christmas. The big one pound ten of
Prince Albert comes in a gaily designed holiday package that
needs no rapping. Just right you're greeting on the built
in card and present Prince Albert to delighted pipe smokers.
(29:56):
Listen next week for another exciting adventure of Richard Diamond
starring Dick Powell.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
This is your SDI.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
The official broadcast from the files of the FBI follows immediately.
Stay tuned. This program came to you from Hollywood. This
is the American Broadcasting Company.
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