NBC – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
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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 ...
S16 Ep 104The Falcon: The Case of the Murdering Missus (EP4617)
Today’s Mystery: A jewelry store owner is killed in a robbery gone wrong, and Waring thinks he knows who the killer is. Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 23, 1 Read more ...
S16 Ep 103Dragnet: The Big Betty (EP4616)
Today’s Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Romero investigate a gang of conmen victimizing the loved ones of the recently deceased. Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 23, 1950 Originating f Read more ...
S16 Ep 98The Falcon: The Case of the Grand Gamble (EP4611)
Today’s Mystery: A woman hires The Falcon to protect a gambling racketeer. Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 16, 1952 Originating from New York S Read more ...
S16 Ep 97Dragnet: The Big Parrot (EP4610)
Today’s Mystery: A married couple is found murdered in their room with a dead parrot. Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 16, 1950 Originating from Hollywood Starring: Jack Web Read more ...
S16 Ep 92The Falcon: The Case of the Killer’s Key (EP4605)
Today’s Mystery: A man who is suspected of murdering a former employee who had turned him in for tax invasion hires Waring to find the girlfriend who may have witnessed Read more ...
S16 Ep 90Dragnet: The Big Mother (EP4604)
Today’s Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Romero search for a three-day-old baby who was kidnapped from a local hospital. Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 9, 1950 Originating from Hollyw Read more ...
S16 Ep 85The Falcon: The Case of the Natural Seven (EP4599)
Today’s Mystery: A desperate man who lost $5,000 at an illegal gambling den robs and shoots his boss to pay his debt.. Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 2, 195 Read more ...
S16 Ep 69Dragnet: The Big Church (EP4586)
Today’s Mystery: A woman reports receiving threats for attending a new church. Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 2, 1950 Originating from Hollywood Starring: Jack Webb as Ser Read more ...
S16 Ep 64The Falcon: The Case of the Unwelcome Christmas Present (EP4581)
Today’s Mystery: A man who bought a fur coat goes for his girlfriend for Christmas turns to The Falcon when dangerous people want it back. Original Radio Broadcas Read more ...
S16 Ep 62Dragnet: Production 8 (aka the Big Missing/Juanita Lasky) (EP4580)
Todays Mystery: At Christmastime, Joe Friday and Ben Romero try to find a missing daughter from Utah. Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 28, 1949 Originating from Hollywood Starring: Ja Read more ...
S16 Ep 60Mr. and Mrs. North: Frisbie Proves His Point (EP4578)
Today’s Mystery: When a mystery tries to stage a mock murder in the middle of a crowd in Times Square, the Norths Read more ...
S16 Ep 58Martin Kane: October 29, 1953 (EP4576)
Today’s Mystery: Martin Kane is hired by a man accused of robbery and murder to find the gun and the real killer. Original Release Date: October 29, 1 Read more ...