The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas

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.

Episodes

February 28, 2026 36 mins
Today's Story: The best friend and top lieutenant of a political boss finds himself in the midst of a murder that threatens his boss's career.

Original Air Date: July 22, 1946

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Alan Ladd; Marjorie Reynolds; Ward Bond

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Today's Mystery: A woman calls to report that a man was murdered and she's not sure if she did it.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 11, 1959

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Virginia Gregg; Junius Matthews; Paul Dubov; James McCallion; Alan Reed; Frank Gerstle

When making your travel plans, remember http://johnnydollarair.com

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February 26, 2026 33 mins
Today's Mystery:Joe Friday and Ben Romero investigate a series of jewelry store robberies.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 29, 1951

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday; Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero; Virginia Gregg; Vic Perrin

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Today's Mystery: A famous torch singer wants a gun permit because she claims a man is threatening her life.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 29, 1951

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Jack Kruschen as Sergeant Muggavan; Cathy Lewis

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February 24, 2026 39 mins
Today's Mystery:A legendary Arkansas reporter investigates the murder of an unidentified man.

Original Radio Broadcast: January 26, 1949

Originating from New York

Starring: Martin Wolfson as Joe Wirges; Art Carney; Larry Haines; Art Carney; Martin O'Day; Joyce Gordon; Joe DeSantis

Encyclopedia of Arkansas entry on Joseph Wirges.

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Today's Adventure: A widow in a small town calls David Harding, claiming to have caught a German spy.

Original Radio Broadcast: September 14, 1942

Originating from New York

Starring: Don McLaughlin as David Harding; Craig McDonnell

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Today's Mystery: Johnny searches for a missing embezzler who called Johnny and let him know he was in Hollywood.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 4, 1959

Originated from Hollywood

Stars: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar.Virginia Gregg, Jeanne Tatum, Parley Baer, Forrest Lewis,
Junius Matthews, Frank Gerstle

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February 19, 2026 38 mins
Todays Mystery: A woman is found strangled to death in a hotel room, and Friday and Romero have to figure out who she was and who killed her.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 22, 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: A derelict is found shot with two bullets in his body from two different guns.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 22, 1951

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Jack Kruschen as Sergeant Muggavan; Tony Barrett; Lillian Buyeff; Bob Bruce; Paul Frees; Edgar Barrier

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Today's Mystery: Across the Indiana border, a sixteen-year-old Louisville kills four men in a failed bank robbery and its aftermath.

Original Radio Broadcast: January 5, 1949

Originating in New York

Starring James McCallion as Al Aronson, Bob SLoane, Santos Ortega, Martin Wolfson, Jackie Grimes, Grant Richards

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Today's Mystery: A friend of Grainger's invites him to a weekend with her family on the lake as she claims there have been threats to her life.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1956 or 1957

Originating from Australia

Starring: Harp McGuire as Steve Grainger

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February 14, 2026 40 mins
Today's Adventure: The Gestapo is bringing spies across the southern border, trying to start an international incident by dropping the body of a Mexican official onto the US side of the border.

Original Radio Broadcast: June 22, 1942 

Originating from New York

Starring: Don McLaughlin as David Harding

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Today's Mystery: Johnny is called in by an insured man who suddenly dies. Is it murder?

Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 30, 1958

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Virginia Gregg; Shirley Mitchell; Jack Edwards; Ralph Moody; Junius Matthews; Parley Baer

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February 12, 2026 34 mins
Today's Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Romero receive a tip from an informant on the identity of a burglar.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 15, 1951

Originating from Hollywood

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

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Today's Mystery: A woman is found murdered in a salesman's car.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 15, 1951

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Jack Kruschen as Sergeant Muggavan; Howard McNear; Billy Halop; Lou Krugman; Joe Forte; Frances Chaney

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Today's Mystery: A Pittsburgh reporter is forced to cancel a date and finds himself covering a multiple murder.

Original Radio Broadcast: September 22, 1948

Originating from New York

Starring: James McCallion; Bob Sloane; Larry Haines; Ruth Shafer; Rita Ascot; Joan Alexander; Bill Smith; Mandel Kramer

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Today's Mystery: A printer is murdered for his counterfeit plate.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1956 or 1957

Originating from Australia

Starring: Harp McGuire as Steve Grainger

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February 7, 2026 40 mins
Today's Adventure: David Harding suspects there's a dangerous woman behind the suicide of an American connected to the war effort.

Original Radio Broadcast: June 8, 1942

Originating from New York

Starring: Don McLaughlin as David Harding

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Today's Mystery: Johnny has to determine which of two men are the long-lost beneficiary to a large life insurance policy.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 16, 1958

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Virginia Gregg; Vic Perrin; Sam Edwards; James McCallion; Parley Baer

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Today's Mystery: Joe Friday seeks a hit-and-run driver.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 8, 1951

Originating from Hollywood

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

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