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- The Big Story: Reporter Risks Life to Avenge a Friend's Murder (EP5047)Today's Mystery: When a Butte service-station attendant disappears under mysterious circumstances, his lifelong friend, Helena Independent Record reporter Alan Copperthwaite, refuses to let the story fade away. Following a slender trail of clues across Montana, Copperthwaite risks his own safety in a deeply personal search for the truth.
Original Radio Broadcast:March 19, 1952.
Originating in New YorkCast:- Bill Lipton as Alan Copperthwaite
- Jane Robbin
- Joe DeSantis
- Phil Sterling
- Owen Jordan
- Joe Helgesen
- Jim Stevens
- Bob Sloane as Narrator
- Adapted by Abraham S. Ginnes
- Original music composed and conducted by Vladimir Selinsky
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.45 min - The Saint: It's Snow Use (EP5046)Today’s Mystery: Simon Templar travels to a winter resort after being summoned by Peggy, a lively woman whose unusual request for protection involves asking the Saint to pose as her husband. Her tangled romantic history soon draws Simon into an increasingly peculiar mystery, where people—and even a snowman—have a habit of disappearing.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 29, 1950
Originating from Hollywood
Cast:- Vincent Price as Simon Templar, The Saint
- Script by Louis Vittes
- Based on characters created by Leslie Charteris
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Share this:35 min - Counterspy: The Postal Pirates, Part One (A0116)Today's Adventure: David Harding and Harry Peters investigate a massive parcel-post theft ring operating in several major cities. Peters goes undercover as a New York postal clerk, hoping to work his way inside the organization, but the investigation becomes increasingly dangerous as the gang grows suspicious of its newest recruit.
Original Radio Broadcast: July 20, 1949.
Originating in New York
Starring Don McLaughlin as David Harding, Mandel Kramer as Peters
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Follow us on Twitter @radiodetectives38 min - Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Will and the Way Matter (EP5045)Today's Mystery: Johnny Dollar receives an urgent call from his old friend Red Barrett, who insists that the will of a recently deceased friend has been altered. Although others dismiss Red’s suspicions, Johnny heads for Arizona and Nevada to investigate—and soon discovers that someone is willing to go to dangerous lengths to keep him from asking questions.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 19, 1959
Originated from Hollywood
Cast:- Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar
- Virginia Gregg
- Barney Phillips
- Forrest Lewis
- Parley Baer
- Jack Moyles
- Billy Halop
- Byron Kane
- Written, produced, and directed by Jack Johnstone
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.29 min - Dragnet: The Big Mail (EP5044)Today's Mystery: Sergeant Joe Friday and his new partner, Frank Smith, investigate the armed robbery of a U.S. mail truck carrying registered mail. The three-man gang escapes with 28 sacks, leaving police with little to work with beyond a stolen getaway car, a first name, and one robber’s distinctive voice.
.Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 24, 1952
Originating from Hollywood
Cast:- Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday
- Herb Ellis as Frank Smith
- Also featuring Vic Perrin and Inga Hollis
- Script by Jim Moser
- Music by Walter Schumann
- Technical advisors: Captain Jack Donahoe, Sergeant Marty Wynn, and Sergeant Vance Brasher
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.36 min - Broadway's My Beat: The Alice Mayo Murder Case (EP5043)Today's Mystery: Detective Danny Clover investigates the murder of Alice Mayo, a recent arrival in New York who is shot through the door of her apartment. Her dying words point toward a man she met at a friendship club, but an anonymous telephone call made around the time of the shooting leaves Clover with questions about what really happened.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 24, 1952
Originated in Hollywood
Cast:- Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover
- Charles Calvert as Sgt. Gino Tartaglia
- Jack Kruschen as Detective Muggavan and Dr. Sinski
- Whitfield Connor as Fred Mayo
- Betty Lou Gerson
- Lamont Johnson
- Joe Forte
- Written by Morton Fine and David Friedkin
- Produced and directed by Elliott Lewis
- Musical score composed and conducted by Alexander Courage
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.34 min - The Big Story: Cord Around Her Neck (EP5042)Today's Mystery:West Seattle Herald reporter Stuart Whitehouse gets an unexpected opportunity to scoop the city's larger newspapers when a woman is found murdered in her home. With his weekly paper's deadline rapidly approaching, Whitehouse follows a series of clues in hopes of identifying the killer—and getting the story into print first.
Original Radio Broadcast: January 9, 1952
Originating from New York
Cast:- Nat Polen as Stuart Whitehouse
- Margaret Burlen
- Helen Barron
- Larry Haines
- Bill Griffiths
- Bert Callen
- John Becker
- Steve Edders
- Michael O'Day
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.33 min - The Saint: Dossier on a Doggone Dog (EP5041)Today's Mystery: When Simon Templar finds a lost Pekingese and follows her home, he walks straight into a wealthy family's uproar over a missing fortune in jewels. A suspicious butler, an argumentative family, and a precocious young would-be detective soon leave The Saint wondering how a simple good deed became such a complicated affair.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 24, 1950
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Barry Sullivan as The Saint; Myra Marsh; Tom Tully; Ted Osborne; Lamont Johnson; Jeffrey Silver; Lawrence Dobkin
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.34 min - Counterspy: Hot Car Killer (A0114)Today's Adventure: David Harding investigates an interstate stolen-car racket after a detective working undercover is murdered. The trail leads to a former race-car driver with a dangerous reputation and a criminal organization determined to keep its operation - and the identity of its leader - hidden.
Original Radio Broadcast: September 15, 1949
Originating from New YorkCast:- Don MacLaughlin as David Harding
- Mandel Kramer as Harry Peters
- Directed by William M. Sweets
- Music by Jesse Crawford
- A Phillips H. Lord production for Pepsi-Cola
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Radio Broadcast Date: July 12, 1959
Originated from Hollywood
Cast:- Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar
- Barney Phillips
- Sam Edwards
- Bartlett Robinson
- Forrest Lewis
- Ralph Moody
- Written, produced, and directed by Jack Johnstone
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.27 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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