The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 3

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The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 3 episodes

May 06, 2025 Private Files of Rex Suanders: A Murder Deep in the Killer’s Mind (EP2050)
Original Release Date: November 22, 2016

Rex helps a woman who’s afraid of a killer in a Devil’s costume at Mardi Gras.

Original Air Date: June 20, 1951

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32 min
May 05, 2025 Night Beat: A World All His Own (EP2049)
Original Release Date: November 21, 2016

A punch-drunk ex-boxing champion dreams of making peace with his ex-wife while living in a fantasy world.

Original Air Date: February 20, 1950

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35 min
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40 min
May 04, 2025 Dragnet: The Big Hands (EP2048)
Original Release Date: November 19, 2016

Friday and Romero investigate the strangling murder of an unidentified woman.

Original Air Date: November 22, 1951

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31 min
May 03, 2025 Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Sudden Wealth Matter (EP2047)
Original Release Date: November 18, 2016

Johnny tries to break up a pyramid scheme.

Original Air Date: December 13, 1959

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29 min
May 03, 2025 Boston Blackie: The Simmons Construction Company Murder (EP2046)
Original Release Date: November 17, 2016

Blackie tries to solve the unexplained murder of a construction worker while laid up suffering from laryngitis.

Original Air Date: November 29, 1945

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34 min
May 02, 2025 Richard Diamond: The Lan Jacoby Case (EP2045)
Original Release Date: November 16, 2016

A killer that Diamond gots deported is back in the country and looking to settle scores…especially with Diamond.

Original Air Date: November 19, 1949

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34 min
May 02, 2025 The Private Files of Rex Saunders: A Trip to the Death House (EP2044)
Original Release Date: November 15, 2016

A mob boss tries to throw Saunders off the track of a political corruption investigation.

Original Air Date: June 13, 1951

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32 min
May 01, 2025 Nightbeat: The Night is a Weapon (EP2043)
Original Release Date: November 14, 2016

Randy encounters a troubled man trying to steal a gun.

Original Air Date: February 13, 1950

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35 min
May 01, 2025 Dragnet: The Big Bungalow (EP2042)
Original Release Date: November 12, 2016

An informer sets Friday and Romero on the trail of a suspect in a string of burglaries.

Original Air Date: November 15, 1951

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31 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.