The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas
Are you ready for a mystery? Get ready to unleash your inner sleuth. Every day Monday-Saturday, we feature a different detective audio drama from the Golden Age of Radio. Our current mystery-solving line-up of radio detectives includes The Adventures of the Falcon, Charlie Chan, Broadway's My Beat, Yours Truly Johnny Dollar, and Dragnet. Whether you want to listen to a mystery before going to sleep or enjoy some drama while driving, or just feel nostalgia for old-school radio fiction, we have you covered with six audio dramas every week. Podcast Award finalist Host Adam Graham has been your guide through dozens of old-time radio detective series since 2009. He provides insightful commentary and humor after each episode and responds to listener questions and feedback. You can subscribe to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from your favorite podcast app or by visiting our website at http://www.greatdetectives.net. We are currently in our fifteenth season of provided suspenseful mystery dramas. Our podcast feed captures the last 1,000 episodes we've released including all of seasons thirteen and fourteen, and part of season twelve. We have created two archive feeds: Volume 1, which features our first three seasons and Volume 2, which features seasons four-six, and Volume 3 which will feature Seasons Seven through Nine. Our feed includes old time radio recorded in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and also Australia. The current actors featured in our old time radio detective podcast include Les Damon, Bob Bailey, Larry Thor, Walter Connolly, and Jack Webb. Other actors featured within the past 1,000 include Alice Frost, Howard Duff, Glenn Langan, Herbert Marshall, Gerald Mohr, Joel McCrea, Les Tremayne, Jackson Beck, Santos Ortega, Ned Wever, Karl Swenson, and more.
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Originating Radio Broadcast Date: May 14, 16, and 18, 1934
Originating from New York
Starring: Carlton Kadell as Tarzan
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Original Air Date: July 14, 1947
Originating from Hollywood
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Original Air Date: March 17, 1953
Starring: John Lund as Johnny Dollar; Howard McNear
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Original Air Date: November 23, 1950
Originating in Hollywood
Starring: Bill Johnstone as Lieutenant Ben Guthrie; Wally Maher as Sergeant Matt Groebs; Howard McNear
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Original Air Date: September 26, 1949
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Bob Bailey as George Valentine; Frances Robinson as Brooksie; Howard McNear
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Original Air Date: 1952
Starring: Glen Langan as Chuck Morgan; Adele Jurgens
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Original Air Date: November 5, 1946
Starring: Wally Maher as Michael Shayne; Cathy Lewis as Phyllis; Howard McNear
Originating from Hollywood
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Original Air Date: October 12, 1947
Starring: Gerald Mohr as Bill Lance; Howard McNear
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Original Air Date: September 18, 1944
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Original Air Date: July 18, 1951
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Edmond O'Brien as Johnny Dollar
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Original Air Date: December 28, 1947
Originating from New York
Starring: John Stanley as Sherlock Holmes; Alfred Shirley as Doctor Watson
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Original Air Date: December 17, 1949
Originating from San Francisco
Starring: Natalie Masters as Candy Matson
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Original Air Date: May 16, 1954
Originating from New York
Starring: Lon Clark as Nick Carter
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Original Air Date: July 6, 1943
Originating in New York
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Original Air Date: August 5, 1946
Starring: Gale Gordon as Gregory Hood
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Original Air Date: April 17, 1939
Originating from Hollywood
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Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 7, 1958
Originated from Hollywood
Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Paula Winslowe; Ben Wright; Jack Kruschen; Jack Edwards; Marvin Miller; Joseph Kearn
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Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 11, 1951
Originating from Hollywood
Starred: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday, Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero, Herb Butterfield
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Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 22, 1951
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Jack Kruschen as Sergeant Muggavan; Lamont Johnson; Howard McNear George Neise;. Georgia Ellis; Howard McNear
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Original Radio Broadcast:December 17, 1947
Originating from New York
Starring: George Petrie as Russ Wilson; Larry Robinson; Hester Sondergaard; Humphrey Davis; William Keene; Ralph Bell; Bob Sloane
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