Duffy's Tavern · May 11, 1949 · 29 min · 3,591 words
The transcript of “On the Trail of Whistling Sam”, an episode of Duffy's Tavern first broadcast May 11, 1949. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Duffy's Tavern plays Duffy's Tavern free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.
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By transcription. Bristol Myers, makers of Mom, The Safer Deodorant, and by Talis for well-groomed hair, bring you Duffy's Tavern with our guest tonight, Chester Morris, and starring Archie himself and Gardener. Hello Duffy's Tavern, where do you leak meat, Pete? Archie and I just speakin' Duffy ain't here.
Oh look Duffy, yep. Yeah, that's Ryan another crime wave on in the neighborhood. And a bad one. held up Grogan's bar across the street last night. Well, newspapers said they got a hundred bucks, but Grogan told me two hundred and he told the insurance company three hundred.
So I figured it must have been about ten bucks. Well, I understand the leader of this prime ring is a real murderer, a guy called Whistlin Sam. Yeah, a guy specializes in holding up saloons.
How come, I don't know, maybe he just hates television. Well, don't worry, Duffy, he comes in here, don't forget he's got me to deal with. Okay, I'll call you back. Whistling sand. I'd clever crook like that, and I'd like to pit me wits against him.
Only trouble is you ain't got a wit to pit. Eddie, you'll forget that you are addressing an honor graduate of the Eagle Eye School of Crime Detection. That correspondence call? Yeah, too bad I didn't go on with it.
You know, the world lost a great detective when I became a bartender. Yeah. But on the other hand, look at the brighter side. It gained a bomb bartender. You were great detective. OK, doubtful Thomas.
Would you like to see a demonstration of me remarkable powers of deduction. Let's see that should we? All right. Well, as me first, the doe'sment, I deduct that you just come out of the kitchen.
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