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Cliff Garner becomes an instant hero after rescuing wealthy film producer Sid Lorenz from a water tank on a movie set. Sid is deeply grateful, and days later he honors Cliff and his girlfriend, Helen Ames, at a lavish party at his hillside home. But Cliff quietly feels that Sid’s gratitude has amounted to little more than words.

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A coin dealer is murdered, and a valuable, well-known coin disappears from his office. Walter Leighton, a struggling theatrical agent working next door, witnesses a man fleeing the scene and realizes he may be the only person who can identify the killer. Now, with Walter standing between the murderer and freedom, the killer is determined to silence him before he can talk.

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Bertram Lohan arrives at the wealthy Tremont estate hoping to become captain of Rodney Tremont’s yacht. Confident, blunt, and more than a little calculating, Lohan quickly wins Rodney’s respect—and the job—after proving himself at the chessboard. But beneath the polished surface of the Tremont household, personal tensions, secret motives, and questionable loyalties begin to emerge.

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The Bad Boys of Radio brings together 14 carefully selected Old Time Radio stories featuring some truly rotten men — schemers, con artists, killers, blackmailers, crooked professionals, and men convinced they’ve planned the perfect crime.

For this collection, I searched beyond the usual classics and included several lesser-known episodes and more obscure radio series along with a few favorites that were simply too good to leave out. Expect murder, greed, betrayal, elaborate schemes, terrible decisions, and plenty of twists as these bad boys discover that getting away with murder isn’t always as easy as they thought.

00:00 - The Bad Boys

1:21 - Dark Venture "The Man In 206" 1947

29:55 - Crime Does Not Pay "Death On The Doorstep" 02-20-1956

55:40 - Suspense "Elwood" 03-06-1947

1:25:41 - The Mysterious Traveler "Killer at Large" 06-06-1950

1:55:33 - Murder By Experts "The Creeper" 07-19-1949

2:24:51 - The Shadow "Death Pulls The Strings 01-04-1942

2:54:21 - Crime Classics "The Hangman and William Palmer: Who Won?" 01-07-1953

3:23:59 - Inner Sanctum Mysteries "No Coffin For The Dead" 02-20-1945

3:53:38 - Molle Mystery Theater "Talk Them To Death" 06-27-1947

4:22:45 - Mystery In The Air "Beyond Good and Evil" 08-28-1947

4:51:41 - Inner Sanctum Mysteries "The Strands of Death" 03-12-1946 5:20:22 - Murder Clinic "Death In The Dressing Room" 09-29-1942

5:48:44 - Murder at Midnight "The Dead Hand" 04-19-1946

6:14:43 - The Weird Circle "A Terribly Strange Bed" 04-19-1946

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Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar's "The Curse of Kamashek Matter" originally aired between September 3rd through September 7th, 1956.

Johnny is contacted by Inter-Allied Life and sent to meet an important client named Eric Turnbull — a man who specifically requested him. But what begins as a seemingly routine insurance matter soon leads Johnny into the strange story of the Curse of Kamashek… an ancient Egyptian mystery surrounded by fear, death, and questions no one seems eager to answer.

Is there really a curse at work — or is someone using an old superstition to hide a very modern crime?

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8 Episodes of Women Behaving Very Badly | Old Time Radio Crime & Suspense Marathon

Tonight on Mel’s Vintage Radio, we’re meeting some unforgettable women from the golden age of radio — and these ladies are definitely not behaving themselves.

Enjoy 8 classic old time radio episodes filled with femme fatales, jealousy, greed, betrayal, blackmail, deception, poison, murder, and plenty of very bad decisions. These vintage crime and suspense dramas come from across the world of classic radio, bringing together dangerous women, clever schemes, and twists worthy of the finest film noir.

And just for the record… not all of us women are scheming murderers, poisoners, blackmailers, or fortune hunters. Most of us are perfectly respectable. Mostly. 😄

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Casey, Crime Photographer follows Jack “Flashgun” Casey, a newspaper photographer for the Morning Express who often finds himself helping solve the very crimes he is sent to photograph. Alongside reporter Ann Williams, Casey uses his sharp eye, instincts, and camera to uncover clues in a world of murder, mystery, and hard-boiled newspaper drama.

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Hello Friends! Our Miss Brooks is a classic old-time radio comedy starring Eve Arden as Connie Brooks, a witty and endlessly patient English teacher at Madison High School. Between the blustering Principal Osgood Conklin, eccentric student Walter Denton, and her ongoing crush on the oblivious Mr. Boynton, Connie somehow survives the daily chaos of school life with plenty of sarcasm and charm.

The series became one of radio’s most beloved comedies and remains a wonderful example of sharp, character-driven humor from the golden age of broadcasting.

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Hello Friends! Let's ride into old California with The Adventures of Zorro, featuring the legendary masked hero created by Johnston McCulley in 1919.

By day he is Don Diego de la Vega; by night, Zorro fights corruption and injustice with his sword, his wit, and his famous mark of the Z.

Enjoy this classic radio adventure from Mel’s Vintage Radio.

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Hello friends, it's Mel from Mel's Vintage Radio. Tonight I have a special treat for you. Over 4 hours (actually over FIVE) of the world's most fascinating detectives of all time. Share with me who do you love the most?

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Episode List:

00:00 - Tonight's Intro

00:49:26 - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of The Missing Submarine Plans" 11-06-1939

30:06 - Box 13 "Suicide or Murder?" 10-31-1948

56:37 - Perry Mason "The Case of The Angry Mourner" 1945

1:47:16 - Casey, Crime Photographer "Box of Death" 04-17-1947

2:27:52 - Candy Matson "Symphony of Death" 06-20-1950

2:48:04 - Jeff Regan, Investigator "Cain and Abel and The Santa Maria" 09-11-1948

3:17:57 - Mr. and Mrs. North "The Contagious Confession" 09-22-1943

3:47:16 - Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot in "The Deadest Man in The World" 07-19-1945

4:16:04 - The Adventures of Nero Wolfe "The Bashful Body" 12-29-1950

4:45:10 - Richard Diamond, Private Detective "The Eddie Garrett Case" 08-27-1949

5:13:15 - Bulldog Drummond "Terror In The Circus" 01-10-1944

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