The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio

The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio

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, Hot Copy, Broadway's My Beat, Mr. and Mrs. North, 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, and also Australia. The current actors featured in our old time radio detective podcast include Les Damon, Bob Bailey, Larry Thor, Alice Frost and Joseph Curtin, Betty Lou Gerson, and Jack Webb. Other actors featured within the past 1,000 include Howard Duff, Glenn Langan, Herbert Marshall, Gerald Mohr, Joel McCrea, Les Tremayne, Jackson Beck, Santos Ortega, Ned Wever, Karl Swenson, and more.

Episodes

May 8, 2025 37 mins
Today's Mystery: A clerk who works for Jerry takes a bribe and agrees to vote to acquit a gangster while on a jury, but many suspect what he did.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 14, 1952

Originating from New York City

Starring: Joseph Curtain as Jerry North; Alice Frost as Pamela North

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Today's Mystery: A young woman and her boyfriend are shot on the George Washington Bridge.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 9, 1950

Originated in Hollywood

Stars: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover, Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia, Elliott Lewis, Jerry Hausner, Jack Kruschen, Lou Merrill, Bea Benaderet, Lillian Buyeff, Tony Barrett

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Today's Mystery: The number of suspects drop when another body is found.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1935 or 1936

Originating in Los Angeles

Starring: Walter Connolly as Inspector Charlie Chan

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Today's Mystery:The Falcon is sent to London to investigate a leak of top secret information.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 6, 1952

Originating from New York

Starring: Les Damon as The Falcon; Ralph Bell; Mandel Kramer

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May 3, 2025 39 mins
Today's Mystery:Joe Friday and Ben Romero search for husband-and-wife con artists who are swindling local churches.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 22, 1951

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday, Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero

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Today's Mystery: Johnny goes to a small New Jersey town to investigate a fire that destroyed the home of a much-despised citizen.

Original Radio Broadcast Date:January 26, 1958

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Vic Perrin; Forrest Lewis; Virginia Gregg; Will Wright; Parley Baer

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Today's Mystery:The Norths become involved in a messy child custody dispute when a baby is left in their car.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 1, 1952

Originating from New York City

Starring: Joseph Curtain as Jerry North; Alice Frost as Pamela North; Ken Lynch

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Today's Mystery: A young, one-armed ex-policeman is found shot to death.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 2, 1950

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Georgia Ellis; Byron Kane; Jay Novello; Jane Webb; Georgia Backus; Clayton Post

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Today's Mystery: Inspector Chan has to deal with an ill-advised outburst about the dead woman, a lie about an inconsequential lie, and an observation from the blind former sheriff.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1935 or 1936

Originating in Los Angeles

Starring: Walter Connolly as Inspector Charlie Chan

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Today's Mystery: A man is in Paris to find the woman who betrayed his brother to the Nazis.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 26, 1952

Originating from New York

Starring: Les Damon as The Falcon, Ralph Bell; Ken Lynch

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April 26, 2025 45 mins
Todays Mystery:Joe Friday and Ben Romero search for two missing four-year-old twin girls.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 15, 1951

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday; Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero; Herb Butterfield

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Today's Mystery: Johnny is sent to the vacation home of an insured man who has been receiving threats.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 19, 1958

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Eleanor Audley; Paula Winslowe; Lawrence Dobkin; Will Wright; Ben Wright; Harry Bartell

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Today's Mystery: A bank guard is killed and the only clue is the murder weapon...a unique burglar tool.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 25, 1952

Originated from New York City

Starred: Joseph Curtain as Jerry North, Alice Frost as Pamela North

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Today's Mystery: A young woman from Iowa studying music is murdered.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 26, 1950

Originated in Hollywood

Stars: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover, Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia, Jack Kruschen as Sergeant Muggavan, Joseph Kearns, Sam Edwards, Norma Varden, Florence Ravenal, Bert Holland

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Today's Mystery: The lovely Ms. Beaton is caught in a lie, and then even more suspects emerge.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1935 or 1936

Originating in Los Angeles

Starring: Walter Connolly as Inspector Charlie Chan

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Today's Mystery: Mike Waring is called back into service by military intelligence and is sent to Vienna to smuggle a woman across the border.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 19, 1952

Originating from New York

Starring: Les Damon as The Falcon; Larry Haines; Ralph Bell

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Rogue goes to help an elderly woman with a son in trouble with the law. The son’s not there and Rogue wakes up to find he was given a Mickey Finn tea and has been framed for murder.

Original Air Date: November 29, 1945

Originating in Hollywood

Starring: Dick Powell, Richard Rogue

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Johnny travels to Milwaukee to protect a woman who is afraid of an ex-boyfriend who has been released from prison.

Original Air Date: December 3, 1949

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When an armchair detective is murdered on Ellery’s radio show, he has to find out who did it.

Original Air Date: March 18, 1948

Originating in Hollywood

Starring: Lawrence Dobkin as Ellery Queen

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While recuperating, Holmes is asked to investigate a strange death in Cornish country where the locals suspect the Devil’s involvement.

Original Air Date: January 13, 1946

Originating in Hollywood

Starring Tom Conway as Sherlock Holmes

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