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By Adam Graham|Old Time Radio Detective Host
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The podcast currently has 3,188 episodes available.
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Today's Mystery:Original Radio Broadcast Date:Originated from HollywoodStars: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar.When making your travel plans, remember http://johnnydollarair.comBecome one of our Patreon Supporters at https://patreon.greatdetectives.netThank you to our Patreon Supporter of the Day:Take the listener survey…http://survey.greatdetectives.netGive us a call 208-991-4783Become one of our friends on Facebook.Follow us on Twitter @radiodetectivesJoin us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.

Today's Mystery: Johnny Dollar is summoned by his eccentric old acquaintance Alvin Peabody Cartwright, who has received a chain letter promising good fortune if he continues it—and disaster if he breaks it. Johnny is skeptical until he learns that two of Cartwright’s friends died exactly when the letter predicted, suggesting that someone may be using superstition to disguise a very real threat.Original Radio Broadcast Date:August 2, 1959Originated from HollywoodCast:Bob Bailey as Johnny DollarVirginia GreggHoward McNearPaul DubovFrank GerstleHerb VigranWritten, produced, and directed by Jack JohnstoneJim Matthews, announcerWhen making your travel plans, remember http://johnnydollarair.comBecome one of our Patreon Supporters at https://patreon.greatdetectives.netThank you to our Patreon Supporter of the Day: Ryan, Patreon supporter since July 2017Take the listener survey…http://survey.greatdetectives.netGive us a call 208-991-4783Become one of our friends on Facebook.Follow us on Twitter @radiodetectivesJoin us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.

Todays Mystery: Sergeant Joe Friday and Frank Smith investigate a disturbing series of infant abductions in which babies disappear from the same general neighborhood, only to be found unharmed within a day. With no clear motive and few useful clues, the detectives devise a decoy operation while searching for the person responsible before another child disappears.Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 29, 1952.Originating from HollywoodStarred: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday, Martin Milner as Detective Bill LockwoodSupport the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.netPatreon Supporter of the Day:Support the show on a one-time basis at http://support.greatdetectives.net.Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715Take the listener survey…http://survey.greatdetectives.netGive us a call 208-991-4783Become one of our friends on Facebook.Follow us on Instagram at http://instagram.com/greatdetectivesFollow us on Twitter@radiodetectivesJoin us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.

Today's Mystery: Johnny Dollar is hired to protect the Circle of Fire, a half-million-dollar diamond-and-emerald necklace belonging to former Broadway sensation Dolly Cronin, who plans to wear it while recreating the lavish parties of her youth. But with Dolly inviting friends from a past she remembers through rose-colored glasses, Johnny quickly discovers that the celebrated necklace may attract people with motives far less sentimental than hers.Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 5-9, 1955Originated from HollywoodCast:Bob Bailey as Johnny DollarVirginia GreggShirley MitchellVivi JanisBarbara FullerBenny RubinJohn DehnerParley BaerLes Crutchfield, writerJack Johnstone, producer and directorAmerigo Marino, musical supervisionRoy Rowan, announcerWhen making your travel plans, remember http://johnnydollarair.comBecome one of our Patreon Supporters at https://patreon.greatdetectives.netThank you to our Patreon Supporter of the Day:Take the listener survey…http://survey.greatdetectives.netGive us a call 208-991-4783Become one of our friends on Facebook.Follow us on Twitter @radiodetectivesJoin us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.

Today's Mystery: Simon Templar tries to help Tommy Patrick, a prisoner who claims someone has repeatedly tried to kill him and then escapes before Simon can speak with him. Searching for the reason Tommy has been marked for death leads Simon to Tommy’s sister Nancy, a powerful nightclub owner, and questions about the robbery that sent Tommy to prison three years earlier.Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 19, 1950.Originating from HollywoodCast:Vincent Price as Simon TemplarPeggy Webber as the landladySheldon Leonard as FrankVictor Rodman as FarrellyPeter Leeds as SamDick Crenna as Tommy PatrickFred Shields as the WardenLarry Dobkin as LouieDick Powell, writerLeslie Charteris, creator of The SaintJames L. Saphier, producerHelen Mack, directorDon Stanley, announcerSupport the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.netReal Uta Noodle, Patreon supporter since December 2024.Support the show on a one-time basis at http://support.greatdetectives.netMail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715Take the listener survey…http://survey.greatdetectives.netGive us a call 208-991-4783Become one of our friends on Facebook.Follow us on Instagram at http://instagram.com/greatdetectivesFollow us on Twitter@radiodetectivesJoin us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.
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