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- Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar: The Embarcadero Matter (EP5070)Today's Mystery: Johnny Dollar is asked to help recover a priceless Cellini medallion stolen from the Louvre and believed to be smuggled into the United States aboard a ship carrying French wine. After traveling from Paris to San Francisco, Johnny turns to his underworld contacts for information and learns that the medallion may be hidden somewhere along the Embarcadero. His investigation takes a dangerous turn when he and Smoky Sullivan discover a murdered watchman and must locate the stolen treasure before it falls into the hands of a professional fence.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 23, 1959.
Originating from HollywoodCast:- Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar
- Virginia Gregg as Smoky Sullivan
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.29 min - Dragnet: The Big Jules (EP5069)Todays Mystery: Detective Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Frank Smith are assigned to narcotics detail when a drug addict is arrested carrying a supply of high-grade heroin. The man refuses to reveal where he got the narcotics until the effects of withdrawal force him to talk. His information leads Friday and Smith to a bartender, a beer garden owner, and a larger narcotics operation that may be bringing European heroin into Los Angeles.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 19, 1952.
Originating from Hollywood
Cast:- Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday
- Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.35 min - Broadway's My Beat: The Tony Blair Murder Case (EP5068)Today's Mystery: Detective Danny Clover investigates a dangerous situation surrounding dancer Sylvia Douglas after she claims that Peter Ciuro wants to kill her. Ciuro insists that he loves Sylvia and points Clover toward another man, longshoreman Johnny Moore, whom he believes could be a threat to her. As Clover investigates the three people connected to Sylvia, the situation takes a deadly turn when Tony Blair, Sylvia's dancing teacher, is found murdered.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 20, 1952.
Originated in Hollywood
Cast:- Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover
- Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia
- Jack Kruschen as McGovern
- Sammy Hill as Sylvia Douglas
- Sidney Miller as Peter Ciuro
- Sheldon Leonard as Johnny Moore
- Martha Wentworth as the landlady
- True de Marten as Mrs. Blair
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.34 min - The Big Story: Back from the Dead (EP5067)Today's Mystery: Pittsburgh newspaper reporter Joseph P. Brown receives a call about a woman who has been shot at an address in nearby Jeanette, Pennsylvania. Arriving at the scene, Brown finds a strangely uncooperative group of witnesses who refuse to give him the woman's name or explain what happened. As he begins investigating the shooting, Brown must uncover what happened to the woman and why the people at the scene are so reluctant to talk.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 30, 1953.
Originating from New York
Cast:- Nelson Olmstead as Joseph P. Brown
- Mary Patton
- Cameron Prudhomme
- Madeline Sherwood
- Michael O'Day
- Bill Griffiths
- Carl Emery
- Bernie Grant
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.42 min - The Saint: The Terrible TinType (EP5066)Today's Mystery: Simon Templar becomes involved in a murder mystery after discovering a dead man named Marsh. When a photograph that could provide an important clue goes missing, the Saint sets out to discover who killed Marsh and why someone is so determined to keep the picture from being found. Simon's investigation leads him through a dangerous trail of deception as he searches for the missing photograph and the truth behind the murder.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 26, 1950.
Originating from Hollywood
Cast:- Vincent Price as Simon Templar
- Joan Banks as Valerie Marsh
- Lamont Johnson as Pete Bryan
- Helen Parrish as Sally Blair
- Ken Christie as Lieutenant Riley
- Anna Hurley as Graves, the butler
- Larry Dobkin as Louie
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.36 min - Counterspy: The Sweepstakes Murder (A0124)Today's Adventure:After newspaper reporter Tom Fisher and a small-time grifter are murdered while investigating a fraudulent Mexican sweepstakes racket, David Harding sends Harry Peters to Gulfport, Texas, to follow the trail. A distinctive gold poker chip points Peters toward the offshore gambling ship El Toro, where he discovers that the gambling operation may conceal something far more dangerous below decks.Original Radio Broadcast: October 4, 1949Originating from New YorkCast:
- Don McLaughlin as David Harding
- Mandel Kramer as Harry Peters
- Maurice Tarplin as one of the criminals (probable identification)
- Leonard L. Bass, director
- Jesse Crawford, music
- Philip H. Lord, producer
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sFollow us on Twitter @radiodetectives33 min - Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Night in Paris Matter (EP5065)Today's Mystery: Johnny Dollar travels to Paris after his underworld contact Louis de Marsac claims to know the whereabouts of the Olney diamonds, a three-quarter-million-dollar necklace stolen during its owner's recent visit to the United States. But Johnny's arrival is greeted by a ransacked apartment and a sudden assault, suggesting that recovering the jewels will mean navigating some dangerous figures in the Paris underworld.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 16, 1959.
Originated from Hollywood
Cast:- Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar
- Virginia Gregg
- Forrest Lewis
- G. Stanley Jones
- Tony Barrett
- Bill James
- Gus Bay
- Jack Johnstone, writer, producer, and director
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.32 min - Dragnet: The Big Donation (EP5064)Todays Mystery: Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Bill Lockwood investigate a group of confidence men posing as authorized solicitors for legitimate charities and pocketing the donations they collect. An early arrest appears promising until the suspect proves he merely copied the scheme, leaving Friday and Lockwood searching for the experienced bunco artists whose fraud is depriving charitable causes of badly needed funds.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 12, 1952
Originating from Hollywood
Cast:- Jack Webb as Sgt. Joe Friday
- Ken Peters as Bill Lockwood
- Virginia Gregg
- Vic Rodman
- Jim Moser, writer
- Walter Schumann, music
- Technical advice from the office of Chief W.H. Parker
- Captain Jack Donahoe, Sgt. Marty Wynn, and Sgt. Vance Brasher, technical advisors
- Hal Gibney, announcer
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.33 min - Broadway's My Beat: The Georgie Beck Murder Case (EP5063)Today's Mystery: Pickpocket Georgie Beck has repeatedly insisted that someone is following him, but Danny Clover and his colleagues have found nothing to substantiate his fears. When Georgie suddenly calls headquarters saying he has been attacked and then disappears, Danny retraces his movements and discovers an unexpected connection between the small-time thief and a lavish Park Avenue party.
Original Radio Broadcast Date:August 2, 1952
Originated in Hollywood
Cast:- Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover
- Charles Calvert as Sgt. Gino Tartaglia
- Jack Kruschen as Sgt. Muggavan
- Irene Tedrow as Vera Lane
- Michael Ann Barrett as Barbara Lane
- Herb Butterfield
- Ben Wright
- Leo Cleary
- Morton Fine and David Friedkin, writers
- Elliott Lewis, producer and director
- Alexander Courage, composer and conductor
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.33 min - The Big Story: The Miracle Phone Call (EP5062)Today's Mystery: Newspaper reporter Dorothy Patterson is contacted by the desperate mother of five-year-old Johnny McDermott, who is gravely ill and needs an expensive experimental treatment his family cannot afford. Despite warnings that readers won’t contribute thousands of dollars to help a child they don’t know, Dorothy puts her faith in the generosity of her community and uses her newspaper column to make an appeal on Johnny’s behalf.
Original Radio Broadcast: April 1, 1953
Originating in New York
Cast:- Jan Miner as Dorothy Patterson
- Francis DeSales
- Ted Osborne
- Joey Fallon
- Bobby Rick (probable identification)
- Rae Terry
- Brenna Rayburn
- Bob Sloane, announcer
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.34 min
About The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas
From the publisher's feed
Are you ready for a mystery? Get ready to unleash your inner sleuth. Every day Monday-Saturday, we feature a different detective audio drama from the Golden Age of Radio. Our current mystery-solving…
line-up of radio detectives includes The Adventures of the Falcon, Charlie Chan, Broadway's My Beat, Yours Truly Johnny Dollar, and Dragnet.
Whether you want to listen to a mystery before going to sleep or enjoy some drama while driving, or just feel nostalgia for old-school radio fiction, we have you covered with six audio dramas every week.
Podcast Award finalist Host Adam Graham has been your guide through dozens of old-time radio detective series since 2009. He provides insightful commentary and humor after each episode and responds to listener questions and feedback. You can subscribe to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from your favorite podcast app or by visiting our website at http://www.greatdetectives.net.
We are currently in our fifteenth season of provided suspenseful mystery dramas. Our podcast feed captures the last 1,000 episodes we've released including all of seasons thirteen and fourteen, and part of season twelve. We have created two archive feeds: Volume 1, which features our first three seasons and Volume 2, which features seasons four-six, and Volume 3 which will feature Seasons Seven through Nine.
Our feed includes old time radio recorded in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and also Australia.
The current actors featured in our old time radio detective podcast include Les Damon, Bob Bailey, Larry Thor, Walter Connolly, and Jack Webb. Other actors featured within the past 1,000 include Alice Frost, Howard Duff, Glenn Langan, Herbert Marshall, Gerald Mohr, Joel McCrea, Les Tremayne, Jackson Beck, Santos Ortega, Ned Wever, Karl Swenson, and more.
Whether you want to listen to a mystery before going to sleep or enjoy some drama while driving, or just feel nostalgia for old-school radio fiction, we have you covered with six audio dramas every week.
Podcast Award finalist Host Adam Graham has been your guide through dozens of old-time radio detective series since 2009. He provides insightful commentary and humor after each episode and responds to listener questions and feedback. You can subscribe to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from your favorite podcast app or by visiting our website at http://www.greatdetectives.net.
We are currently in our fifteenth season of provided suspenseful mystery dramas. Our podcast feed captures the last 1,000 episodes we've released including all of seasons thirteen and fourteen, and part of season twelve. We have created two archive feeds: Volume 1, which features our first three seasons and Volume 2, which features seasons four-six, and Volume 3 which will feature Seasons Seven through Nine.
Our feed includes old time radio recorded in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and also Australia.
The current actors featured in our old time radio detective podcast include Les Damon, Bob Bailey, Larry Thor, Walter Connolly, and Jack Webb. Other actors featured within the past 1,000 include Alice Frost, Howard Duff, Glenn Langan, Herbert Marshall, Gerald Mohr, Joel McCrea, Les Tremayne, Jackson Beck, Santos Ortega, Ned Wever, Karl Swenson, and more.
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