NBC – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
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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 ...
S16 Ep 226The Falcon: The Case of the Rolling Stones (EP4731)
Today’s Mystery: The Falcon goes to Sicily to apprehend a Communist leader who was guilty of war crimes during World War II. Original Radio Broadcast Date: August Read more ...
S16 Ep 225Dragnet: The Big Friend (EP4730)
Today’s Mystery: An intoxicated man reports that his wife was murdered. Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 5, 1951 Originating from Hollywood Starring: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Read more ...
S16 Ep 223World’s Great Novels: The Moonstone, Part Two (EP4728)
Today’s Mystery: England’s greatest detective is called in to recover the Moonstone. Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 9, 1948 Originating from Chicago Starring: Sherman Marks as Gabriel Betterridge; Arthur Sedgewick as Sergeant Cuff; Charles Mountain as Franklin Blake; Geraldine Kaye as Rachel Verinder Read more ...
S17 Ep 220The Falcon: The Case of the Lonely Hunter (EP4725)
Today’s Mystery: The Falcon goes to Egypt to investigate a deported expatriate who may be tied into the narcotics trade. Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 31, 1 Read more ...
S16 Ep 217The World’s Great Novels: The Moonstone, Part One (EP4722)
Today’s Mystery: In the mid-19th Century, a young English woman has inherited a large Indian diamond from her evil uncle. She decides to wear it as a brooch on her eighteenth birthday. What could go wrong? Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 2, 1948 Originating from Chicago Starring: Sherman Marks as Gabriel Be Read more ...
S16 Ep 214The Falcon: The Case of the Broken Key (EP4719)
Today’s Mystery: Mike Waring finds himself on the opposite side of a beautiful Communist spy on the hunt for a party member who fled to Casablanca. Original Radio Read more ...
S16 Ep 213Dragnet: The Big Ben (EP4718)
Today’s Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Romero investigate a carjacking. Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 15, 1951 Originating from Hollywood Starring: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Fr Read more ...
S16 Ep 211A Life in Your Hands: The Randall Marsden Murder (EP4716)
An assistant prosecutor is murdered on the same night a man he sent to death row has escaped. Suspicion falls on the escaped murderer, but is he the real culprit?
S16 Ep 208The Falcon: The Case of the King Clubs (EP4713)
Today’s Mystery: The Falcon goes to Berlin to investigate when the books of the US occupation forces show a shortage. Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 17, 1952 Read more ...
S16 Ep 199Dragnet: The Big New Years (EP4706)
Today’s Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Romero investigates the murder of a cop on New Year’s Eve. Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 8, 1951 Originating from Hollywood Starrin Read more ...
S16 Ep 194The Falcon: The Case of the Running Waters (EP4701)
Today’s Mystery: Mike Waring is sent to Rome to deliver a message to another agent, but enemy agents are determined to intercept him. Original Radio Broadcast Dat Read more ...
S16 Ep 193The Chase: The Amusement Park (EP4700s)
  Today’s Mystery: A woman operating a shooting gallery game at an amusement park suspects that the death of an elderly watchman for the carnival is tied to a firebug who has been operating in town. Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 14, 1952 Originating from New York Starring: Adelaide Klein as C Read more ...
S16 Ep 192Dragnet: The Big Partner (EP4700)
Today’s Mystery: Joe Friday hunts for an escaped robber. Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 1, 1951 Originating from Hollywood Starring: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday; Barton Read more ...
S16 Ep 187The Falcon: The Case of the Babbling Brooks (EP4695)
Today’s Mystery: The Falcon is sent to London to investigate a leak of top secret information. Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 6, 1952 Originating from Read more ...
S16 Ep 186Dragnet: The Big Couple (EP4694)
Today’s Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Romero search for husband-and-wife con artists who are swindling local churches. Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 22, 1951 Originating from Holl Read more ...
S16 Ep 181The Falcon: The Case of the Menacing Mamselle (EP4689)
Today’s Mystery: A man is in Paris to find the woman who betrayed his brother to the Nazis. Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 26, 1952 Originating from N Read more ...
S17 Ep 180Dragnet: The Big Crime (EP4688)
Todays Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Romero search for two missing four-year-old twin girls. Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 15, 1951 Originating from Hollywood Starring: Jack Webb Read more ...
S16 Ep 175The Falcon: The Case of the Vanishing Visa (EP4683)
Today’s Mystery: Mike Waring is called back into service by military intelligence and is sent to Vienna to smuggle a woman across the border. Original Radio Broad Read more ...
S16 Ep 167Dragnet: The Big Cast (EP4676)
Today’s Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Romero think they found the man responsible for the disappearance of twelve men over more than a year. Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 8, 1951 Read more ...
S16 Ep 162The Falcon: The Case of the Dirty Dollar (EP4671)
Today’s Mystery: The Falcon is retired, but a friend who is intrigued by a crooked employee’s wife is able to coax him out. Original Radio Broadcast Date: J Read more ...
S16 Ep 161Dragnet: The Big Children (EP4670)
Today’s Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Romero are called in to investigate when children in a wealthy neighborhood are begging door-to-door. Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 1, 1951 O Read more ...
S16 Ep 156The Falcon: The Case of the Burning Bridges (EP4665)
Today’s Mystery: A receptionist overhears her boss, the owner of an import-export company, making a suspicious sale, and turns to The Falcon for help. Original Ra Read more ...
S16 Ep 155Dragnet: The Big Tomato (EP4664)
Today’s Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Romero investigate who sold drugs to a high school senior who ended up dying under the influence in a car accident. Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 25, Read more ...
S16 Ep 150The Falcon: The Case of the Happy Hoodlum (EP4659)
Today’s Mystery: With gunmen from Detroit in town to kill a gangster, The Falcon is afraid that an old army buddy of the same description might be killed by mistake. Read more ...
S16 Ep 149Dragnet: The Big Dance (EP4658)
Today’s Mystery: Joe Friday investigates a series of hold-ups. Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 18, 1951 Originating from Hollywood Starring: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday Read more ...
S16 Ep 144The Falcon: The Case of the Shooting Star (EP4653)
Today’s Mystery: A star with a reputation for paying tough guys wants to hire The Falcon to investigate phony threats on his life in order to gain publicity to bolster h Read more ...
S16 Ep 142Dragnet: The Big Jump (EP4652)
Today’s Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Romero go to a building where a mentally disturbed man is threatening to jump off a 13-story building. Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 11, 1951 Read more ...
S16 Ep 137The Falcon: The Case of the King of Hearts (EP4647)
Today’s Mystery: A gambler’s wife wrote $18,000 in checks and won’t tell him what they were for. Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 11, 1952 Or Read more ...
S16 Ep 135Dragnet: The Big Hold-Up (EP4646)
Today’s Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Romero are on the trail of The Rattlesnake Bandit, a sadistic robber who holds up couples in cars and inflicts violence for the pleasure of it. Original Radio Read more ...
S16 Ep 130The Falcon: The Case of the Fatal Fix (EP4641)
Today’s Mystery: The father of a young gangster who committed suicide hires Waring to find the head of the rackets. Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 4, 1952 Read more ...
S16 Ep 128Dragnet: The Big Family (EP4640)
Today’s Mystery: A prominent businessman disappears without a trace. Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 28, 1950 Originating from Hollywood Starring: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Read more ...
S16 Ep 123The Falcon: The Case of the Weeping Willow (EP4635)
Today’s Mystery: A friend of Mike’s is murdered after deciding to expose his boss, who was running a drug racket. Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 27, 1 Read more ...
S16 Ep 122Nero Wolfe: A Slight Case of Perjury (EP4634s)
A man is acquitted of murder on perjured testimony and hires Wolfe to locate the real killer. Original Air Date: April 6, 1951 Starring: Sidney Gree Read more ...
S16 Ep 121Dragnet: The Big Break (EP4634)
Todays Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Romero deal with a dangerous armed robber who keeps escaping. Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 14, 1950 Originating from Hollywood Starring: Jac Read more ...
S15 Ep 116The Falcon: The Case of the Jumping Jack (EP4629)
Today’s Mystery: A woman hires The Falcon because she suspects that her husband has hired a private eye to follow her. Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 20, 19 Read more ...
S16 Ep 115Dragnet: The Big Picture (EP4628)
Today’s Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Romero investigate a racket that’s taking advantage of teenage girls and getting them to pose for pornographic pictures. Original Radio Broadcast Date: Read more ...
S16 Ep 110The Falcon: The Case of the Happy Helpmate (EP4623)
Today’s Mystery: Mike decides to give a bank guard with a record a break and not tell his employer about the felony conviction. Murder follows. Original Radio Bro Read more ...
S16 Ep 109Dragnet: The Big Car (EP4622)
Today’s Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Romero investigate a series of fifteen market robberies. Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 30, 1950 Originating from Hollywood Starring: J Read more ...