The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 3

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The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 3 episodes

May 11, 2025 Boston Blackie: Murder at the Movies (EP2058)
Original Release Date: December 01, 2016

Blackie agrees to be a technical adviser on a crime film and then has to solve a murder.

Original Air Date: December 13, 1945

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30 min
May 10, 2025 Richard Diamond: The House of Fear Case (EP2057)
Original Release Date: November 30, 2016

A widow hires Diamond to protect her in a creepy house that she has to stay in order to claim her inheritance.

Original Air Date: December 10, 1949

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33 min
May 09, 2025 The Private Files of Rex Saunders: The Most Malignant of Diseases . . . Namely, Murder (EP2056)
Original Release Date: November 29, 2016

A wealthy and ill man presses Rex to find a nephew he despises.

Original Air Date: June 27, 1951

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33 min
May 09, 2025 Night Beat: Girl in the Park (EP2055)
Original Release Date: November 28, 2016

Randy meets a woman in the park who expects to die when her boyfriend is executed.

Original Air Date: February 27, 1950

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34 min
May 08, 2025 Martin and Lewis: Guest Jack Webb (EP2054s)
Original Release Date: November 27, 2016

Jack Webb guest stars on Martin and Lewis as they do a fairy tale version of Dragnet.

Original Air Date: January 13, 1953

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27 min
May 08, 2025 Dragnet: The Big Affair (EP2054)
Original Release Date: November 26, 2016

Friday and Romero look into a series of jewelry store robberies.

Original Air Date; November 29, 1951

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31 min
May 07, 2025 Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Burning Desire Matter (EP2053)
Original Release Date: November 25, 2016

Johnny investigates a series of seemingly unrelated arsons in Los Angeles.

Original Air Date: December 27, 1959

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33 min
May 07, 2025 Boston Blackie: Robert Atkins, Jewel Thief (EP2052)
Original Release Date: November 24, 2016

A fired servant boasts of stealing $50,000 in jewels from a doctor’s family but no one can find the necklace on him or anyone else leaving in the house.

Original Air Date: December 6, 1945

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40 min
May 06, 2025 You Might Also Like: Something You Should Know
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This may be hard to imagine but trees can fight crime. Not all types of crime but they the fight some crime – and no one really knows how they do it. Listen to hear the explanation. https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2019/04/trees-crime-cincinnati-philadelphia-ida-b-wells-chicago/

People believe things like goldfish have a 3-second memory. Or that lightning never strikes twice in the same place. And I bet you believe that water is a good conductor of electricity. None of these things are true. They are examples of the many science myths that a lot of people believe. In this episode, we are going to debunk these and others with my guest, science writer Brian Clegg. Brian is the author of over 40 books, one of which is titled Lightning Often Strikes Twice: The 50 Biggest Misconceptions in Science (https://amzn.to/41sY3jK)

I’m sure you’ve seen a polygraph machine in movies or on TV. This device can supposedly tell if someone is lying. But does it actually work? If it is so reliable, why do most courts refuse to allow the results of polygraph tests as evidence? Yet, if it is unreliable, why is it still being used? The story of the polygraph or lie detector is fascinating. Here to tell it is Amit Katwala an award winning journalist, a senior writer at Wired and author of the book Tremors in the Blood: Murder, Obsession, and the Birth of the Lie Detector (https://amzn.to/3Zngu7C)

Are men better drivers than women? It really depends on your definition of “better.” However, in terms of accidents, moving violations and parking ability, there is a difference between men and women. Listen and I’ll reveal which gender scores better. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/27/well/live/car-accidents-deaths-men-women.html

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May 06, 2025 Richard Diamond: The Ruby Idol Case (EP2051)
Original Release Date: November 23, 2016

A man follows Diamond into Helen Asher’s apartment and says someone’s trying to kill him. He’s then killed outside the apartment and Diamond sets out to solve the murder.

Original Air Date: December 3, 1949

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33 min

About The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 3

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 7-9 which were released between 2015 and 2018, featuring…

nearly 1,000 Old Time Radio episodes. You can listen to the current podcast feed of The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio here.

Picking up where we left off at the end of Volume 2, Volume 3 begins by continuing Michael Shayne, Private Detective with Wally Maher, Crime Files of Flammond, The Adventures of Philip Marlowe, Nick Carter, Master Detective, Yours Truly Johnny Dollar with Bob Bailey, and Dragnet.

In this volume, we'll hear these Golden Age Classics:

The hard-boiled New Orleans-based New Adventures of Michael Shayne with Jeff Chandler
The detective series in which Basil Rathbone plays himself called Tales of Fatima
The Shadow knock-off detective series The Avenger
The Rex Harrison-helmed Adventure-Detective Series, The Private Files of Rex Saunders
The Mercedes McCambridge legal thriller series Defense Attorney
Dick Powell as Richard Diamond, Private Detective
The Boston Blackie radio series. We feature episodes both with the Screen Boston Blackie Chester Morris as well as RIchard Kollmar, who'd star in the long-running Syndicated Boston Blackie radio series
Frank Lovejoy stars in Night Beat which tell the adventures of newspaper Columnist Randy Stone as he uncovers mystery and human drama in his after-dark vigil.
The Mike Hammer radio series That Hammer Guy
New York-based Yours Truly Johnny Dollar radio episodes that bring the character into the 1960s with stars Bob Readkick and Mandel Kramer
The Frank Sinatra Detective series where he plays Rocky Fortune a young man in search of steady employment who finds himself involved in mysteries instead.
The longest-running Golden Age radio detective series Mister Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons
The Adventures of Rocky Jordan in Cairo, Egypt as mystery, intrigue and adventure find him at the Cafe Tambourine

Also listen to even more obscure series such as ABC Mystery Theater, The Judge, Bishop and the Garogyle, That Strong Guy, Hollywood Mystery Time, The Airmail Mystery. We also feature episodes of series we previously played but found more episodes for including The Line-Up, Pursuit, Manhunt, Man from Homicide, Let George Do It, and more.

Also listen for specials starring Jeff Chandler, Mercedes McCambridge, Pat O'Brien, Orson Welles, Alan Ladd, Red Skelton, Myrna Loy, Frank Lovejoy, Lionel Barrymore, Roy Rogers. We feature Jack Webb in detective comedy parodies with Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, and Bob Hope. We feature adaptations of the classic mystery novels The Moonstone and Trent's Last Case as well as a Lord Peter Whimsey story.