Those Old Radio Shows

The Sealed Book - Murderer Unknown

From-1945

Host-Philip Clarke

A successful businessman gets black-bordered letters that threaten his life.

The Sealed Book was a horror and mystery series aired on Mutual from June to September 1945. Produced by Jock MacGregor, aired for 30 minutes Sunday evenings. Philip Clarke was the show’s host, while David Kogan and Robert Arthur Jr. were the scriptwriters. Kogan and Arthur were also the writers behind the radio anthology, The Mysterious Traveller.

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Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar - The Kings Necklace

From-1953

Stars-John Lund, Milton Charles, Howard McNear, Tom Tully

A $250,000 jewelry heist and murder off the coast of Cuba.

King Rawlings lived on his own exotic island near Cuba. He had taken a policy out on a necklace worth quarter of a million dollars, which was due for renewal. However he reported that someone had unsuccessfully tried to break in to his safe and steal it. The insurance company were concerned following rumors of King Rawlings dwindling financial position and called Johnny Dollar to investigate.

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The Molle Mystery Theatre - Angel Face

From-1946

Adaptation-Don Agger

Announcer-Dan Seymour

Stars-Bernard Lenrow & June Havoc

Angel Face! A sweet baby doll gets a surprise when the latest victim she just buried alive returns from the grave. The story was originally titled, "Murder On Her Mind."

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Stand By For Crime - The Luke Larson Murder

From-1953

Stars-Adele Jergens & Glenn Langan

Lefty Luc Larson and K.O McCrady were light heavyweight boxers who were scheduled for a ten rounder in the Starlight stadium. It was supposed to be a grudge fight but Chuck Morgan, newscaster for radio station KLP had pretty good information that the fight was fixed with Lefty set up to lose. Chuck Morgan tried for a week to get his hands on something concrete and got nowhere. Then suddenly he gets a call three minutes before airtime from Lieutenant Bill Miggs telling him that Left Luc Larson had been found earlier in the evening in his apartment, murdered.

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Crime Classics - A Shrapnel Body of Charles Drew Senior

From-1953

Announcer-Bob Lemond

Stars-Elliot Lewis, Paul Frees, Betty Harford,

Terry Kilburn, Lou Merrill & Irene Tedrow

In England 1739, Charles Drew Jr. kills Charles Drew Sr. before he has the opportunity to change his will. At the introduction of this show you hear a man having his right hand hook filed. It’s Saturday night and in London town he wants it to be gleaming and presentable. A well-sharpened hook in London was considered prudent and Captain Ratt besides being a drunkard scoundrel and a smuggler was a prudent man. The young man handling the file is named Charles Drew Junior. In need of a favor in which Captain Ratt can help out. He can help Junior with an alibi as he just shot his father dead…

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Dangerous Assignment - Recover Stolen Dynamite/The Canal Zone, & a Piece of String

From-1951

Stars-Brian Donlevy, Al Brown,

Raymond Burr, Byron Kane & Kaye Stewart

Dynamite has been stolen in Panama, 

so Steve Mitchell flies to the Canal Zone. 

What is the significance of an eleven-inch piece of string?

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The New Adventures Of Nero Wolfe - The Party For Death

From-1951

Announcer-Don Stanley

Stars-Sydney Greenstreet, Harry Bartell, Ge Ge Pearson, 

Herb Butterfield, Peter Leeds, Evelyn Eaton & Bill Johnstone. 

Ladies & Gentlemen, the ringing of that telephone brings you mystery, adventure...

Archie attends a cocktail party at which Nero Wolfe expects the guest of honor to be murder! The final public service announcement and system cue have been deleted.

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The New Adventures Of Michael Shayne - The Case Of The Constant Companion

From-1948

Stars-Jeff Chandler

His gun in his hand didn’t waver and his pale blue eyes stared at Shayne unblinking,

cold and deadly. Then he saw his finger start to tighten on the trigger and

Shayne knew that in one more second his last case was due to be closed…

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Spy Catcher - The Gentle Gestapo Man

From-The BBC-1960

Stars-Bernard Archard as Col Oresto Pinto

The series of true stories of the ongoing search of enemy spies in war.

Throughout the war batches of refugees and escapers of Europe were ariving in headquarters in London. Most of them were young men anxious to join the free arm.

Some were the regestant men fleeing from the Gestapo, but some were spies.

Each intel legation was a challenge was he friend or foe. What kind of story

would he come here to tell.

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The Adventures Of Rocky Jordan - Strangers In Three

From-1948

Stars-Jack Moyles, Jay Novello & Milton Charles 

A shadow with a felt hat and tweeds introduces Rocky to lots of new people...living and dead!

Rocky Jordan is always suspicious of a man, even in Cairo, who wants to play hide and seek especially when he’s a total stranger. But this fellow in a felt hat and tweeds had been shadowing him for too long. Finally the stranger leaves The Café Tambourine figuring that before the night was over his shadow and him would be properly introduced.

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