The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 3

By Adam GrahamArts Performing Arts

The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 3 episodes

December 20, 2024 Philip Marlowe: The Medium Was Rare (EP1859)
Original Release Date: April 13, 2016

Marlowe is hired by a wealthy woman to recover stolen jewels.

Original Air Date: September 8, 1951

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35 min
December 19, 2024 The Avenger: Department of Death (EP1858)
Original Release Date: April 12, 2016

A man fell down an elevator shaft. The inspector thinks it’s an accident but Jim is convinced its murder.

Original Air Date: January 24, 1946

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31 min
December 19, 2024 Michael Shayne: Judge Thorman Shot (EP1857)
Original Release Date: April 11, 2016

A killer starts a string of murders by killing a judge and Shayne has to stop him before he finishes his string of murders.

Original Air Date: January 14, 1947

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36 min
December 19, 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 47 min
December 19, 2024 Dragnet: The Big Friend (EP1856)
Original Release Date: April 09, 2016

A man calls the police to report his wife murdered and that his friend said he committed the crime.

Original Air Date: April 5, 1951

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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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56 min
December 19, 2024 Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Cautious Celibate Matter (EP1855)
Original Release Date: April 08, 2016

Johnny finds himself on a quest to avoid a shotgun wedding.

Original Air Date: April 19, 1959

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24 min
December 18, 2024 Boston Blackie: 50 Hunter Street (EP1854)
Original Release Date: April 07, 2016

A friend’s business faces foreclosure unless Blackie visits a mysterious house on Hunter Street.

Original Air Date: June 30, 1944

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41 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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31 min
December 18, 2024 Philip Marlowe: Nether Nether Land (EP1853)
Original Release Date: April 06, 2016

A woman wakes Marlowe up in his apartment, asks for help and then disappears.

Original Air Date: September 1, 1951

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33 min

About The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 3

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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.