Three For Adventure: Roundhouse Rosie and the Siamese Cats (Encore) (A0080)
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The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas
37 min
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5 chapters
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What is the premise of 'Three For Adventure'?
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Welcome to The Amazing World of Radio from Boise, Idaho. This is your host, Adam Graham. If you have a comment, email it to me, box13 at greatdetectives.net. Today, we're going to take a look down a road that Jack Webb's career could have gone down as we bring you an unaired pilot for a series called 3-4 Adventure. This was recorded sometime in 1949, and the title of this episode is The Story of Roundhouse Rosie and the Siamese Cats.
That cattle car's open. Let's go. That's McCullough, Jonathan Cornell. One. Give me your hand, Mac. That's Duke Collider. Two.
Clear from me, son. I'm coming.
That's Jax Waco. Three. For adventure.
Rockin' and a-ramblin' and a-rollin'. Lopin' through the night on a cattle car on a fast break. Buckin' and bumpin' in a boxcar. And it's dark in here and it's hot in here and I don't care. Cryin' and flyin'. I wish I wasn't all the time homesick. Texas hot dog. Oil fields and cotton fields and northers and cyclones. Prairie dogs and whiskey bushes. Cattle and cows and copperheads. Beautiful women. Blue bonnets and mockingbirds and sunsets and beautiful women. And blue skies.
Why don't you shut up? There are beautiful women in New Orleans, Jack.
Ah, of course. I figure if a fella from Texas is lonesome enough, he ought to do right good with them New Orleans tomatoes. I was just working up to it.
Jax, you kill me. Always carrying books home from school for some babe with high-heeled shoes and a low-cut frock.
Yeah, look, he ain't. Looks to me, though, that folks who lives in glass houses oughtn't to go around throwing rocks. Get you. You're a sweet and subtle Texas man, ain't you, Jax?
Now, what do you mean by that? All right, boys, all right. Well... Go on, get some rest. We may need it. Mac? Yeah? Not that I mind, you understand. But all my life I've been riding trains in the dark. Subways, boxcars, always in the dark. Why don't we take a Pullman? We got the dough. Because I want us to get into New Orleans without anyone knowing we're there.
What valuable item are the adventurers searching for in New Orleans?
Yeah, Mac, why don't you brief us, son? We don't do nothing except that this is the wrong time of the year to go looking for a mite of grass.
Yeah. What are we after this time, Mac? Opal. Black opal. Heart-shaped. Framed in rubies. Worth about $40,000. Mm-hmm. Stolen? Yeah. Pigeon. Carrier pigeon. Took it away.
Carrier... Hey, Mac.
Hmm?
You feel good?
Yeah, I feel fine.
Well, how are we going to catch a pigeon that's done lit somewhere?
That's a problem, isn't it? This black opal once belonged to a Mayan princess. It was a gift of the Republic of Honduras to Nehru of India. The supposedly secret messenger stopped off in New Orleans on his way to New Delhi. Nehru was threatened with death unless he followed instructions. A carrier pigeon was delivered to him by express. He was told to put the opal in a little harness the pigeon wore, then to turn the bird loose.
Well, I'll be darned. What did he do it?
He was too frightened not to. Just tossed the little pigeon into the air and watched it fly away with his opal, huh? That's right, Duke. That was a week ago. Hunts didn't want any publicity, so the legation wired me to see what we'd do. They remembered the job we did for them there.
So here we are. Mm-hmm. Black opal and black-eyed women, hot dog. Fly, train, fly.
Jax, wake up.
We're here. I was just dreaming about a black-eyed gal named Opal.
Slide the door open, Duke. I don't want to take any chances. Let's get off while the train's still moving. Okay.
All right, come on. I'm jumping in my sleep. Yeah, you're always asleep.
Yeah, nobody saw us. Let's cut right through here.
Right. Oh, that was pretty slick, Mac, us coming into town on a freight train. Ain't nobody gonna know we're here.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the premise of 'Three For Adventure'?
0:05–4:05
2
What valuable item are the adventurers searching for in New Orleans?
4:05–12:32
3
How does the backstory of the black opal unfold?
12:32–15:18
4
What challenges do the adventurers face in their quest?
15:18–17:45
5
Who is Roundhouse Rosie and what role does she play?
17:45–37:27