The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 1

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The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 1 episodes

December 20, 2024 Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Story of the Big Red Schoolhouse (EP0180)
Release Date: July 2, 2010

Johnny Dollar investigates a schoolhouse that burned down in a small Nebraska town, and finds himself against rampant corruption.

Originally Aired: April 4, 1950

Remember the name http://johnnydollarair.com when you plan your travel.

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35 min
December 20, 2024 You Might Also Like: Magical Rewind
Introducing Toothless from Magical Rewind.
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Some people go straight to heaven, others need more time to earn their wings. Will and Sabrina are watching “Toothless” starring Kirstie Alley, Dale Midkiff and Ross Mallinger. This film premiered in 1997 as part of The Wonderful World of Disney on ABC.
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1 hr 51 min
December 19, 2024 Sherlock Holmes: Murder in the Casbah (EP0179)
Original Release Date: July 1, 2010

Holmes and Watson travel to the most lawless place on Earth in search of a young man who fled Britain to avoid prosecution for murder, and now that he’s cleared, he stands to inherit a noble title.

Original Air Date: December 3, 1945

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35 min
December 19, 2024 You Might Also Like: Revisionist History
Introducing A Very Terminator Christmas from Revisionist History.
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What happens when the biggest movie star in the world directs the smallest Christmas film on basic cable? A holiday miracle.

Today on the show: The never-before-published, extremely bizarre story of the making of ‘Christmas in Connecticut’... the remake.

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55 min
December 18, 2024 Let George Do It: Stand in For Murder (EP0178)
Original Release Date: June 30, 2010

A man who was in the rackets is trying to go straight, but he’s been blackmailed to come cross country for an undisclosed purpose. He hires George to stand in for him, but when George arrives at the rendezvous, he finds a man murdered, and himself in the frame.

Original Air Date: November 29, 1948

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34 min
December 18, 2024 You Might Also Like: Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast
Introducing Case #25: Trent (Pt. 1) from Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast.
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Trent was a vibrant and successful insurance assessor when his life took an unexpected turn. While working under a car, he sensed something was off. It wasn’t until later that day -- when his legs stopped responding while driving -- that the severity of the situation hit him. What followed was a baffling health crisis that turned his world upside down. With two newborn twins at home, Trent's sudden immobility brought his worst fears to life.
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30 min
December 17, 2024 Jeff Regan: The Pilgrim’s Progress (EP0177)
Release Date: June 29, 2010

A man with a blunderbuss calling himself Miles Standish is shot at a house where a pre-Thanksgiving Day party has a variety of characters claiming the names of Pilgrims.

Original Air Date: November 20, 1948

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32 min
December 17, 2024 You Might Also Like: Magical Rewind
Introducing Toothless from Magical Rewind.
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Some people go straight to heaven, others need more time to earn their wings. Will and Sabrina are watching “Toothless” starring Kirstie Alley, Dale Midkiff and Ross Mallinger. This film premiered in 1997 as part of The Wonderful World of Disney on ABC.
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0 min
December 16, 2024 Box 13: Find Me, Find Death (EP0176)
Release Date: June 28, 2010

Dan receives a letter to Box 13 from a man who promises to kill him in 4 days.

Original Air Date: September 1, 1948

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32 min
December 16, 2024 You Might Also Like: Magical Rewind
Introducing Toothless from Magical Rewind.
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Some people go straight to heaven, others need more time to earn their wings. Will and Sabrina are watching “Toothless” starring Kirstie Alley, Dale Midkiff and Ross Mallinger. This film premiered in 1997 as part of The Wonderful World of Disney on ABC.
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1 hr 50 min

About The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 1

From the publisher's feed

Adam Graham continues his journey through Old Time Radio Detective programs from their first available adventure to their final bow in Seasons 1-3 which were released between 2009 and 2012, featuring…

nearly 800 Old Time Radio episodes. You can listen to the current podcast feed of The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio here.

In this volume, you'll hear:

Alan Ladd playing Dan Holiday, a reporter-mystery writer who will go anywhere and do anything to those who send him a letter to Box 13.
Jack Webb as Pat Novak for Hire, a Man Who Rents Boats and also ends up getting involved in murders in the most hard-boiled detective series of them all
Before he was Johnny Dollar, Bob Bailey starred in Let George Do It as George Valentine, a detective who advertised that danger was his stock and trade.
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes featuring early 1930s episodes with Richard Gordon and Luis Hector, followed by the definitive performance of Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce as SHerlock Holmes and Watson as well as later series starring Tom Conway and John Stanley as Holmes.
The early adventures of the Man with Action-Packed Expense Account with episodes starring Dick Powell, Charles Russell, Edmond O'Brien, and John Lund,.
Jack Webb and later Frank Graham star as Jeff Regan, Investigator, a detective who was known as the Lyon's Eye.
Jeff Chandler stars in a failed Pilot for San Francisco Final
The Radio Adventures of the Thin Man including radio adaptations of the first two Thin Man Movies starring William Powell
The Father Brown radio series starring Karl Swenson
Golden Age Radio episodes featuring Rex Stout's housebound sleuth Nero Wolfe, most notably played by Sidney Greenstreet.
The mid-1950s series features a Detective and His Glamourous Wife in The Adventures of the Abbotts.
William Gargan stars in two separate detective series as hard-boiled private eye Ross Dolan in I Deal in Crime and as Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator
Dick Powell's first hard-boiled detective series in Rogue's Gallery.
Glamourous Private Eye Candy Matson solves crimes in San Francisco
Glenn Ford stars as Christopher London
Before he became, a famous journalist known for 60 minutes, Mike Wallace starred in Crime on the Waterfront
The old-time radio adventures of Hercules Poirot starring Harold Huber.
This one's about Pete Kelly (played by Jack Webb) in Pete Kelly's Blues, a 1920s Blue Clarinet Player who gets into trouble and mystery in Kansas City
The Adventures of Frank Race, a former lawyer who became a freelance troubleshooter.
Broadway Legend Walter Hampden stars as Leonidas Witherall, a boy's school headmaster who looks like William Shakespeare and finds mystery and adventure.
J. Scott Smart stars as The Fat Man, the rotund private eye with the famous theme.

Listen for specials starring Alan Ladd, Humphrey Bogart, Howard Duff, Orson Welles, Peter Lorrre, Sidney Greenstreet, Edmond O'Brien, Vincent Price, Lena Horne, Dick Powell, Glenn Ford, Charlton Heston. and more.