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Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)

Episode 12 - Scale-Tipping Sleuth (The Fat Man)

Broadcast on:
07 Jul 2013

J. Scott Smart stars as Brad Runyon, aka The Fat Man - "a fast-moving criminologist who tips the scales at 237 pounds!"  This original radio creation of Dashiell Hammett was one of radio's most popular shows, and Runyon is a detective who combines Nero Wolfe's brains and size with Sam Spade's fists.  We'll hear "The Black Angel," first broadcast on ABC on July 8, 1946.