The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
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S17 Ep 59Broadway’s My Beat: Buddy Malpaugh and the Jeweled Scimitar (EP4873)
Today’s Mystery: It’s Christmas Eve, and Sergeant Tartaglia is called to investigate the theft of a jeweled scimitar belonging to a ne’er-do-well milliona Read more ...
S17 Ep 58The Big Story: The Case of the Ambitious Hobo (EP4872)
Today’s Mystery: A reporter hunts for a baby-faced killer. Original Radio Broadcast:December 17, 1947 Originating from New York Starring: George Petrie as Russ Wilson; Larry Robinson; Hester Sondergaard; Humphrey Davis; William Keene; Ralph Bell; Bob Sloane Support the show monthly at
Campbell’s Playhouse: A Christmas Carol (AWR0291)
Charles Dickens’ classic tale of Ebenezer’s life-changing encounter with three spirits on Christmas Eve. Original Air Date: December 24, 193 Read more ...
S17 Ep 57Danger With Grainger: Out of Jail for Christmas (EP4871)
Today’s Mystery: The son of a cab driver asks Grainger to help his father out of jail by proving him innocent of a burglary. Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1956 Read more ...
The Comic Weekly Man: Wishing a Merry Christmas (AWR0290)
The Comic Weekly Man comes for a weekly visit right before Christmas and reads strips from Puck: The Comic Weekly, including Flash Gordon, Dick’ Read more ...
S17 Ep 56Holmes for the Holiday: Two Christmas Mysteries (EP4870s)
As we get ready for Christmas, we bring you two original old time radio Christmas plays featuring Sherlock Holmes. First up is The Night Before Christmas. On Christmas, one of Moriarity’s henchmen switches Christmas sacks with Dr. Watson when both are dressed as Santa Claus. Sherlock Holmes has to catch the thief and Read more ...
S17 Ep 55The Whistler: Christmas Bonus (Encore) (A0046)
An ex-con is fired from his job at a department store where a string of burglaries totaling $10,000 have occurred, and decides to return to a life of crime. To subscribe to this podcast and, go to https://greatadventures.info/ Become one of our ongoing Patreon supporters at
S17 Ep 54Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Carman Kringle Matter (EP4870)
Today’s Mystery: Johnny is called to a small desert town where an old prospector is determined to change his life insurance beneficiary…to his burrow. Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 22, 1956 Originating from Hollywood Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Herb Vigran; Howard McNear; Jeanne Tatum; Junius Matthews; Lawrence Dobkin; Forrest Lewis; Jack Kruschen; Richard…
Screen Guild Theater: Christmas in Connecticut (AWR0289)
Today’s Story: A writer who has cast herself as America’s favorite homemaker in her columns faces ruin when her publisher and a war-hero sai Read more ...
Dragnet: The Big Little Jesus (EP4869)
Today’s Mystery: Joe Friday and Frank Smith investigate the theft of a statue of the child Jesus from a church nativity scene. Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 22, 1953 Originating Read more ...
S17 Ep 52Broadway’s My Beat: The Pablo Morari Murder (EP4868)
Today’s Mystery: A young man is found murdered outside a club. Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 30, 1951 Originating from Hollywood Starring: Read more ...
The Big Story: The Case of the Cornered Cat (EP4867)
Today’s Mystery: America’s public enemey #1 is interested in turning himself in to Walter Winchell to be handed over to the FBI. But will he actually do it? Original Radio Broadcast: September 17, 1947 Originating from New York Starring: Ward Wilson as Walter Winchell; Ed Begley as J. Edgar Hoover; Don App Read more ...
S17 Ep 50Danger with Grainger: Phony Photographer Case (EP4866)
Today’s Mystery: A female nightclub photographer turns to Steve Grainger for help. Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1956 or 1957 Originating from Australia Read more ...
S17 Ep 49The Casebook of Gregory Hood: The Forgetful Murderer (Encore) (EP4865e)
Someone is murdering night watchmen and leaving odd clues behind. Original Air Date: July 29, 1946 Originating from Hollywood Starring: Gale Gordon as Read more ...
S48 Ep 17Cloak and Dagger: Windfall (A0044)
Today’s Adventure: An ex-pat gambler in Switzerland gets a top secret film both sides want and tries to sell to the highest bidder. Original Radio Broadcast: October 2 Read more ...
S17 Ep 47Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Glacier Ghost Matter (EP4865)
Today’s Mystery: Johnny is called in to verify the fate of a businessman who disappeared in the Palisades glacier. Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 12, 1957 Originating from Hollywood Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; John Dehner; Herb Ellis; Virginia Gregg; Forrest Lewis; James McCallion; Tom Hanley; John James When making your travel plans, remember…
S17 Ep 46Dragnet: The Big Want Ad (EP4864
Today’s Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Romero investigate a case where conmen are victimizing peoople who place newspaper ads to sell their cars. Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 4, 1951 Read more ...
S17 Ep 45Broadway’s My Beat: The Ruth Larson Murder Case (EP4863)
Today’s Mystery: A fourteen-year-old is the first of a series of women brutally murdered by the same person. Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 23, 1951 < Read more ...
S17 Ep 44Feature Assignment: The Majczek Case (EP4862)
Today’s Mystery: A mother who has worked as a scrub woman for 13 years offers a large reward to absolve her son of a Chicago cop’s murder. Audition Date: February 6, 1946 Originating from New York Support the show monthly at https://patreon.greatdetectives.net< Read more ...
S17 Ep 43Danger with Grainger: Innocent, Innocent (EP4861)
Today’s Mystery: A young man is found standing on an estate where a murder was committed. He’s holding a gun used to commit a murder, but he swears he didn’ Read more ...
S17 Ep 42Casebook of Gregory Hood: Death from the Red Capsule (EP4860e)
A young woman is poisoned when visiting Gregory Hood’s campfire and Gregory is charged with the crime. Original Air Date: July 22, 1946 Originating from Ho Read more ...
S17 Ep 41Cloak and Dagger: The Wine of Freedom (A0042)
Today’s Adventure: An American OSS agent poses as a wine merchant in Germany to organize the country’s anti-Hitler elements into an effective resitance. Original Read more ...
S17 Ep 40Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Noxious Needle Matter (EP4860)
Today’s Mystery: Johnny is called in to determine whether a theatrical producer died of natural causes or was murdered. Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 24, 1958 Originating from Hollywood Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Virginia Gregg; Bartlett Robinson; Marvin Miller; Junius Matthews When making your travel plans, remember http://johnnydollarair.com Read more ...
S17 Ep 39Dragnet: The Big September Man (EP4859)
Today’s Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Romero investigate the brutal killing of a woman who worked in an office building. Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 27, 1951 Originating from H Read more ...
S17 Ep 38Broadway’s My Beat: The Frank Dunn Murder Case (EP4858)
Today’s Mystery: Danny investigates the shooting death of a bartender. Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 16, 1951 Originating from Hollywood St Read more ...
Theatre Guild on the Air: State Fair (AWR0288)
Theatre Guild on the Air’s 1950 production of State Fair offers a gentle, nostalgic journey into the heart of Midwestern life, carried by the warmth of its p Read more ...
S17 Ep 37The Big Story: The Case of the Final Curtain (EP4857)
Today’s Mystery: A woman suspects that her father was poisoned in a nursing home. Original Radio Broadcast: December 7, 1947 Originating from New York Starring: Les Tremayne as Aubrey Maddock; Alice Reinhart; Ted Osborn; Agnes Young; John Gibson; Will Geer Windsor Historical Society
S17 Ep 36Danger with Grainger: Lady Alibi (EP4856)
Today’s Mystery: A beautiful model comes to Grainger for help, claiming that she’s being pressured to provide an alibi for a man who shot a security guard during Read more ...
S17 Ep 35Casebook of Gregory Hood: South of the Border (Encore) (EP4855e)
Gregory Hood arrives in Mexico City to purchase jade and is mistaken for a wayward king. Original Air Date: July 15, 1946 Originating from Hollywood Read more ...
S17 Ep 34Cloak and Dagger: Delay on Route (A0040)
Today’s Adventure: In a territory the partisans seized from the fascists in Italy, an OSS agent has to sneak out two fascists ready to give vital information to the Allies an Read more ...
S1 Ep 34Cloak and Dagger: Delay on Route
Today’s Adventure: In a territory the partisans seized from the fascists in Italy, an OSS agent has to sneak out two fascists ready to give vital information to the Allies and finds himself having to overcome his partisan comrades to do so. Original Radio Broadcast: October 6, 1950 Originating in New York Starri Read more…
S17 Ep 33Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Two Faced Matter (EP4855)
Today’s Mystery: Johnny is called in to investigate the theft of $58,000 from a lucite furniture manufacturing company. Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 10, 1958 Originating from Hollywood Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Will Wright; Herb Vigran; Forrest Lewis; Edgar Barrier; Richard Beals; Bill James; Gus Bayz When making your travel plans, remember http://johnnydollarair.com…
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
The Aldrich Family: Thanksgiving Dance and Turkey Run (AWR0287)
Today’s story: Henry Aldrich gets his classmates to agree to a turkey run after a school dance in hopes of finding a use for an unwanted live turk Read more ...
S17 Ep 31Broadway’s My Beat: The Earl Lawson Murder Case (EP4853)
Today’s Mystery: A wealthy man is knifed in Times Square. Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 9, 1951 Originating from Hollywood Starring: Larry Read more ...
S17 Ep 30The Big Story: The Case of the Unfinished Love Song (EP4852)
Today’s Mystery: Howard Beaufait of The Cleveleand News reinvestigates the case of a violin-playing convicted killer who claims innocence and whose wife also believes him. Original Radio Broadcast: November 26, 1947 Originating from New York Starring: Craig McDonnell; John Sylvester; Francis De Sales; E Read more ...
S17 Ep 29Danger with Grainger: The Invented Husband (EP4851)
Today’s Mystery: A woman invents a husband to get a job and then has to “kill him off” to get married. She turns to Grainger when she finds herself implica Read more ...
S17 Ep 28Casey, Crime Photographer: Holiday (Encore) (EP4850e)
Casey and Ann’s plan for a Thanksgiving holiday is disrupted by a reformed safe cracker who is being asked to crack a safe for $10,000 or else. Original Air Da Read more ...
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 ...
S18 Ep 26Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Lucky Four Matter (EP4850)
Today’s Mystery: Johnny goes to Colorado to investigate the death of a cantankerous old rancher. Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 3, 1958 Originating from Hollywood Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Ken Christy; Vic Perrin; Lawrence Dobkin; Virginia Gregg; Will Wright; Shirley Mitchell When making your travel plans, remember http://johnnydollarair.com 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 24Broadway’s My Beat: The Francesca Brown Murder Case (EP4848)
Today’s Mystery: A waitresss is strangled and knifed to death. Original Radio Broadcast Date:June 2, 1951 Originating from Hollywood Starring: La 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 22Danger with Grainger: The Annie Lesich Story (EP4846)
Today’s Mystery: A woman asks Grainger for help when a man whom she sent to prison is released. Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1956 or 1957 Originating f Read more ...
S17 Ep 21Casebook of Gregory Hood: The Derringer Society (Encore) (EP4845e)
A woman visits the Derringer Society and the members start dying as she predicted. Original Air Date: July 8, 1946 Originating in Hollywood Starring 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 19Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Wayward Killer Matter (EP4845)
Today’s Mystery: Johnny is called to protect an insured man who witnessed a murder. Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 27, 1958 Originating from Hollywood Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Edgar Barrier; Herb Vigran; James McCallion; Paul Dubov; Lawrence Dobkin; John Dehner; Bill James; Vic Perrin When making your travel plans, remember http://johnnydollarair.com 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 17Broadway’s My Beat: The Eleanor Corbett Murder Case (EP4843)
Today’s Mystery: A woman is found murdered with a broken neck. Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 26, 1951 Originating from Hollywood Starring: L 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 ...