NBC – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
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S17 Ep 32Dragnet: The Big Sour (EP4854)
Today’s Mystery: Two men rob an elderly couple and torture the husband in order to steal their jewelry. Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 20, 1951 Originating from Hollywood
S17 Ep 27Cloak and Dagger: The Last Mission (A0038)
Today’s Adventure: A woman in Canton, whose family was murdered by the Japanese military, makes an unusual connection with the OSS. Original Radio Broadcast: September Read more ...
S17 Ep 25Dragnet: The Big Waiter (EP4849)
Today’s Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Romero investigating the murder of the philandering owner of a habadashery store. Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 13,1951 Originating from Hol Read more ...
S17 Ep 23The Big Story: The Bobby-Sox Kid from Bayonne (EP4847)
Today’s Mystery: Dorothy Kilgaren is called in to investigate the killing-by-hatchet of a woman; police suspect her seventeen-year-old daughter. Original Radio Broadcast: October 15, 1947 Originating from New York Starring: Janet Fox as Dorothy Kilgaren; Burt Brazier; Francis De Sales; Jerry Lewis; Mitzi Gould; Read more ...
S17 Ep 20Cloak and Dagger: Operation Sellout (A0036)
Today’s Adventure: An OSS agent leads a mission with a British officer and a former German officer. Original Radio Broadcast: September 22, 1950 Originating fro Read more ...
S17 Ep 18Dragnet: The Big Seventeen (EP4844)
Today’s Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Romero investigate teens going wild in a neighborhood, culminating in a small riot in a theater. Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 6, 1951 Origi Read more ...
S17 Ep 16The Big Story: The Case of the Counterfeit Coins (EP4842)
Today’s Mystery: Reporter Jack Adams goes undercover in a gang of counterfeiters to catch the man at the top. Original Radio Broadcast: October 19, 1947 Originating from New York Starring: Dwight Weist as Jack Adams; Mason Adams; Larry Haines; Richard Keith; Eileen Heckart; James Boles; Jackson Beck Suppo Read more ...
S17 Ep 14Adventure Ahead: Inside the FBI
Today’s Adventure: An FBI agent tells a young visitor about a case that began with cattle rustling but led to a nationwide conspiracy. Originating Radio Broadcast Date: August 26, 1944 Originating from New York To subscribe to this podcast and follow more adventures of Flash Gordon go to
S17 Ep 13Cloak and Dagger: Seeds of Doubt (A0034)
Today’s Adventure: In the waning days of the war, an OSS agent impersonates a dead Frenchman and pretends to marry his fiancée in order to weed out German agents trying to u Read more ...
S17 Ep 11Dragnet: The Big Crazy (EP4839)
Today’s Mystery: A woman is missing and her sister suspects her milquetoast husband of murder. Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 30, 1951 Originating from Hollywood Starring: J Read more ...
S17 Ep 9The Big Story: The Thirteenth Key (EP4837)
Today’s Mystery: A Columbus reporter investigates the brutal stabbing death of a woman found at a shooting range. Original Radio Broadcast: June 4, 1947 Originating from New York Starring: John Gibson as James Fusco of the Columbus Citizen; James McCallion; Gilbert Mack; Ward Wilson; Horace Braham; Conn Read more ...
S17 Ep 6Cloak and Dagger: Over Ground Railroad (A0032)
Today’s Adventure: An OSS agent goes into France to team up with a formidable wealthy French woman to set up an escape route for downed Allied flyers. Original Radio B Read more ...
S17 Ep 4Dragnet: The Big In-Laws (EP4834)
Today’s Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Romero investigate a series of truck hijackings. Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 23, 1951 Originating from Hollywood Starring: Jack Webb a Read more ...
S16 Ep 348Cloak and Dagger: War of Words (A0030)
Today’s Adventure: Two OSS agents have to carry forged orders for a Japanese camp commander through a Burman jungle. Original Radio Broadcast: September 1, 1950
S16 Ep 346Dragnet: The Big Winchester (EP4929)
Today’s Mystery: An elderly man is found shot to death in his home. While it initially looks like a suicide, there’s reason to think it might be a homicide. Original Radio Broadcast Date: Read more ...
S16 Ep 341Cloak and Dagger: The Black Radio (A0028)
Today’s Adventure: An OSS agent parachutes into Germany to team up with a local operative to run an underground broadcast to undermine the Nazi propoganda. Original Radio Bro Read more ...
S18 Ep 339Dragnet: The Big Screen (EP4824)
Today’s Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Romero investigate a an epidemic of crooked TV repairmen. Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 9, 1951 Originating from Hollywood Starring: Jac Read more ...
S16 Ep 334Cloak and the Dagger: The Norweigan Incident (A0026)
Today’s Adventure: Two OSS Agents go into occupied Norway to blow up a key Nazi-controlled bridge. Original Radio Broadcast: August 20, 1950 Originating from Ne Read more ...
S16 Ep 332Dragnet: The Big Late Script (EP4819)
Today’s Mystery: Friday and Romero are called in to investigate the kidnapping of a local businessman. Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 26, 1951 Originating from Hollywood Starr Read more ...
S16 Ep 327Cloak and Dagger: Roof of the World (A0024)
Today’s Adventure: A husband and wife team of geologists are recruited by the IRS to journey into Tibet to seek the favor of the Dalai Lama. They find themselves in competiti Read more ...
S16 Ep 325Dragnet: The Big Sophomore (EP4814)
Today’s Mystery: Joe Friday investigates a series of petty robberies in neighborhood stores where the shopkeepers suspect a high school boy. Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 19, 1951 O Read more ...
S16 Ep 320Cloak and Dagger: A Recommendation from Rommel (A0022)
Today’s Adventure: An OSS agent in Italy finds himself in a compartment on the train has been double-booked, and his travel companion is General Rommel. Original Radio Read more ...
S19 Ep 318Dragnet: The Big Set-Up (EP4809)
Today’s Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Romero investigate a series of burglaries targeting wealthy homes. Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 12, 1951 Originating from Hollywood Starr Read more ...
S16 Ep 313Cloak and Dagger: Swastika on the Windmill (A0020)
Today’s Adventure: An OSS agent goes behind enemy lines into occupied Holland to stay at his uncle’s house. Original Radio Broadcast: July 30, 1950 Originating f Read more ...
S16 Ep 311Dragnet: The Big Love (EP4804)
Today’s Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Romero search for missing woman and her two-year-old daughter. Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 5, 1951 Originating from Hollywood Starring: Read more ...
S17 Ep 306Cloak and Dagger: The Secret Box (A0018)
Today’s Adventure: Two OSS agents are on a mission to bring in a captured Japanese colonel, but the mission goes awry, leaving the two men in a battle for survival. Or Read more ...
S16 Ep 299Cloak and Dagger: The Trap
Today’s Adventure: A cartoonist in the OSS goes undercover in a German-occupied French village ahead of an American advance. Original Radio Broadcast: July 9, 1950 Originating from New York Starring: Virginia Payne; Raymond Edward Johnson; Karl Weber; Stefan Schnabel; Jerry Jarrett; Ralph Bell; Lotte Stavisky; E Read more ...
S16 Ep 297Dragnet: The Big Run (EP4794)
Today’s Mystery: Joe Friday looks for the driver of a hit-and-run driver who struck two elderly women. Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 21, 1951 Originating from Hollywood Starr Read more ...
S16 Ep 290Dragnet: The Big Building (EP4788)
Today’s Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Romero investigate the disappearance of a rich society woman. Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 14, 1951 Originating from Hollywood Starring: Read more ...
S16 Ep 286Cloak and Dagger: Direct Line to Bombers (A0012)
Today’s Adventure: An OSS agent and an escaped political prisoner go behind enemy lines in Berlin to help support an Allied bombing raid. Original Radio Broadcast: Jun Read more ...
S16 Ep 284Dragnet: The Big Imposter (EP4783)
Today’s Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Romero investigate the disappearance of a ten-year-old boy. Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 7, 1951 Originating from Hollywood Starring: Jac Read more ...
S16 Ep 280Cloak and Dagger: The Kachin Story (A0010)
Today’s Adventure: An American OSS agent parachutes into Japanese-occupied Burma to organizea local native tribe to aide the allied invasion effort. Original Radio Broadcast: Read more ...
S16 Ep 278Dragnet: The Big Bindle (EP4778)
Today’s Mystery: Friday goes undercover to locate a high-grade heroin out of a luxury hotel. Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 31, 1951 Originating from Hollywood Starring: Jack W Read more ...
S16 Ep 272Dragnet: The Big Mailman (EP4773)
Today’s Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Romero join forces with a USPS inspector to correct a forger who is stealing and then cashing checks. Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 24, 1951 Origi Read more ...
S16 Ep 268Cloak and Dagger: The Brenner Pass Story (A0006)
Today’s Adventure: An OSS agent undertakes a secret mission to blow up a highway in Italy to block the escape of the Germans. Original Radio Broadcast: June 4, 1950
S16 Ep 266Dragnet: The Big Blast (EP4768)
Today’s Mystery: A woman is shot in bed while sleeping with her seven-year-old son. Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 17, 1951 Originating from Hollywood Starring: Jack Webb as Se Read more ...
S16 Ep 263The Falcon: The Case of the Strawberry Blonde (EP4765)
Today’s Mystery: A woman working for the Communist Party in Paris tries to get her husband to steal notes on a sensitive meeting. Original Radio Broadcast Date: S Read more ...
S16 Ep 262Cloak and Dagger: The Trojan Horse (A0004)
Today’s Adventure: A French agent of the OSS takes a singer to Casablanca to feed inaccurate information to the Nazis. Original Radio Broadcast: May 28, 1950 Or Read more ...
S16 Ep 260Dragnet: The Big Drills
Today’s Mystery: Friday investigates a series of safe burglaries at a string of markets. Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 10, 1951 Originating from Hollywood Starring: Jack Webb Read more ...
S17 Ep 257The Falcon: The Case of the Jack of Diamonds (EP4760)
Today’s Mystery: In London, Waring gets involved in a case of blackmail that turns into murder. Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 7, 1952 Originatin Read more ...
S16 Ep 256Cloak and Dagger: Frank Baker’s Story (A0002)
Today’s Adventure: An American OSS agent who parachuted into Germany tries to figure out how he made a mistake. Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 7, 1950 Origi Read more ...
S16 Ep 254Dragnet: The Big Casing (EP4758)
Today’s Mystery: A woman is found shot in her apartment. The husband insists it’s suicide, but the evidence seems to point to murder. Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 3, 1951 Orig Read more ...
S16 Ep 252The Falcon: The Case of the Careless Corpse (EP4755)
Today’s Mystery: Waring is sent to Berlin to recruit a scientist to the American cause but Communist Agents send an imposter to kidnap the scientist. Original Radi Read more ...
S16 Ep 243Dragnet: The Big Saint (EP4748)
Today’s Mystery: A spate of thefts of GM cars leads Friday and Romero to investigate a particular salvage yard. Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 26, 1951 Originating from Hollywood
S16 Ep 238The Falcon: The Case of the Silent Butler (EP4743)
Today’s Mystery: Mike goes to Lisbon on a tip that a woman working at the US embassy is a spy. Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 24, 1952 Originating f Read more ...
S16 Ep 237Dragnet: The Big Speech (EP4742)
Today’s Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Romero search for an armed man who beat and robbed a Doctor and stole a supply of narcotics. Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 19, 1951 Originating Read more ...
S16 Ep 235World’s Great Novels: The Moonstone, Part Four (EP4740)
Today’s Mystery: An experiment reveals how the diamond got out of Rachel Verinder’s cabinet. But where is it now? Original Air Date: April 23, 1948 Originating from Chicago Starring: Sherman Marks as Gabriel Betterridge; Arthur Sedgewick as Sergeant Cuff; Charles Mount Read more ...
S16 Ep 232The Falcon: The Case of the Gorgeous Greek (EP4737)
Today’s Mystery: Waring is in Greece looking for the leader of the Greek Communist Party. Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 17, 1952 Originating from N Read more ...
S16 Ep 231Dragnet: The Big Threat (1951) (EP4736)
Today’s Mystery: A man was slugged and robbed but doesn’t want to talk due to threats by the robbers. Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 12, 1951 Originating from Hollywood
S16 Ep 229World’s Great Novels: The Moonstone, Part Three (EP4734)
Today’s Mystery: After a tragic suicide, Sergeant Cuff’s dismissed with the theft of the Moonstone still unsolved. A year later, someone else picks up the investigation. Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 16, 1948 Originating from Chica Read more ...