The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 3

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The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 3 episodes

December 09, 2024 Michael Shayne: Signed REM (EP1821)
Original Release Date: February 29, 2016

Mike gets a letter that appears to be a crank cry for help but then finds a shrunken head in his PO Box.

Original Air Date: September 3, 1945

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38 min
December 09, 2024 Straight Arrow: The Long of Summer (EP1820s)
Original Release Date: February 28, 2016

A gang of outlaws plots to thwart peace talks between Indians and Settlers and it’s up to Straight Arrow to stop them.

Original Air Date: June 21, 1951

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35 min
December 08, 2024 Dragnet: The Big Crime (EP1820)
Original Release Date: February 27, 2016

Friday and Romero search for two missing four-year-old girls and fear the worst.

Original Air Date: February 15, 1951

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35 min
December 08, 2024 Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Net of Circumstance Matter (EP1819)
Original Release Date: February 26, 2016

Johnny arrives on the scene of the robbery where the truth is apparent, but is the official story really the truth?

Original Air Date: March 8, 1959

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29 min
December 08, 2024 The Suspense: The Moonstone, Part Two (EP1818)
Original Release Date: February 25, 2016

The search for the Moonstone is on. Mister Blake is helping lead the search and receiving an angry reaction from Rachel, who leaves the house refusing to speak to him.

Original Air Date: November 23, 1953

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43 min
December 08, 2024 Philip Marlowe: The Dear Dead Days (EP1817)
Original Release Date: February 24, 2016

Marlowe is hired by an elderly widow to find her ex-chauffeur and ends up in a case involving a missing art collection.

Original Air Date: July 14, 1951

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34 min
December 07, 2024 The Avenger: The Crypt of Thoth (EP1816)
Original Release Date: February 23, 2016

A professor dies under mysterious circumstances in an Egyptian crypt.

Original Air Date: December 6, 1945

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31 min
December 07, 2024 Michael Shayne: Behind the Footlights (EP1815)
Original Release Date: February 22, 2016

A friend of Mike’s calls him to investigate because she fears a murder will happen at a night club and then one happens.

Original Air Date: August 27, 1945

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37 min
December 07, 2024 Broadway Is My Beat: The Steve Courtney Murder Case (EP1814s)
Original Release Date: February 21, 2016

Danny Clover receives a letter and a phone call saying a wealthy tycoon’s apparent natural death was a murder.

Original Air Date: June 23, 1950

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38 min
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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.