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 2, 2026 31 mins
Today's Mystery: A released convict asked Grainger to prove he was innocent of the robbery that landed him in jail.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1956 or 1957

Originating from Australia

Starring: Harp McGuire as Steve Grainger

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Today's Mystery: A baby photographer impersonates an out-of-town private investigator and gets mixed up with a beautiful woman who wants him to find her missing uncle.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 13, 1947

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Bob Hope as Ronny Jackson; Dorothy Lamour; Frank Nelson

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Today's Adventure: A scientist joins the OSS in 1944 to find out about the progress of the German atomic program and to make contact with a Hungarian scientist being forced to work with them.

Original Radio Broadcast: May 3, 1948

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Ronald Reagan as Alvah Jesper; Jeff Chandler; Herb Butterfield; William Johnstone; Norman Field; Regina Wallace; Robert Griffin; Marjorie Haskelle; Ben Wright; June Whitle...
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Today's Mystery: Johnny is called to investigate the death of an insured man in a car accident that quickly turns out to be murder.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 28, 1958

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Virginia Gregg; Harry Bartell; Junius Matthews; Joseph
Kearns

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January 29, 2026 32 mins
Todays Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Romero investigate the disappeared of a widower, who recently lost his wife.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 1, 1951

Originating from Hollywood

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

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Today's Mystery:A man drowns in an uptown public swimming pool, but was it actually murder?

Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 5, 1951

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Jack Kruschen as Sergeant Muggavan; Mary Jane Croft; Hy Averback; Stan Waxman; Michael Ann Barrett

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January 27, 2026 33 mins
Today's Mystery:Reporter Rolf Mills of the Minneapolis Morning Tribune tries to solve the murder of a woman who was found in the dump.

Original Radio Broadcast: May 19, 1948

Originating from New York

Starring: Art Carney as Rolf Mills, Joe Boland, Joan Alexander, Joe DeSantis, Ray Johnson, Grace Keddy, and Grant Richards

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Today's Mystery: A woman reports receiving threatening letters and phone calls from her husband. The problem? Her husband died at sea.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1956 or 1957

Originating from Australia

Starring: Harp McGuire as Steve Grainger

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Patreon Supporter of the Day: Cassandra, Patreon supporter since September 2025.

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Today's Adventure: There's a German spy in the latest OSS training class. Rather than capturing him, OSS leadership decides to use him to mislead the Germans about the planned second front.

Original Radio Broadcast: November 25, 1948

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Humphrey Bogart; Leon Ames; John Beal; William Lundigan; Frances Robinson,

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Today's Mystery: Johnny goes to California to investigate a $100,000 payroll robbery.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 28, 1958

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Virginia Gregg; Lawrence Dobkin; Forrest Lewis; Shepard Menken; Frank Gerstle

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January 22, 2026 32 mins
Todays Mystery: A string of supermarket robberies rocks Los Angeles.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 25, 1951

Originating from Hollywood

Starred: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday, Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero, Herb Butterfield

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Today's Mystery: Danny investigates what looks like a suicide by an engaged man in an apartment building.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 22, 1951

Originated in Hollywood

Stars: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover, Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia, Jack Kruschen as Sergeant Muggavan, Herb Butterfield, Ed Max, Tony Barre

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January 20, 2026 34 mins
Today's Mystery: The mother of a man who was convicted of robbing and beating an elderly storekeeper appeals to a reporter to clear him.

Original Radio Broadcast: May 5, 1948

Originating from New York

Starring: Arnold Moss; Barbara Weeks; Andy Klein; Mickey O'Day; Bob Sloane; Ed Jerome; Jackie Grimes

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Today's Mystery: A woman hires Grainger because she suspects her estranged husband (a famous criminologist) will kill a male friend.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1956 or 1957

Originating from Australia

Starring: Harp McGuire as Steve Grainger

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January 17, 2026 68 mins
Today's Adventure: A team of OSS agents go undercover in occupied France during World War II to enact a campaign of sabotage.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 18, 1946

Starring: Alan Ladd; Veronica Lake; Gale Gordon; Joseph Kearns; Richard Benedict; Robert Coute; Rolfe Sedan; Truda Marson;  Charles Seel; Ed Emerson; George Neise; George Sorel; Henry Roland; Howard Jeffrey; Jay Novello; Noreen Gammill

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Today's Mystery: An insurance case was closed, but the agency forgot about a fraudulent claim for the jewelry.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 14, 1958

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Paula Winslowe; Ben Wright; Jack Kruschen; Jack Edwards; Marvin Miller; Joseph Kearn

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January 15, 2026 40 mins
Today's Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Romero hunt for safe burglars targeting local churches.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 18, 1951

Originating from Hollywood

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

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Today's Mystery:A man commits murder while trying to break into a woman's apartment.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 8, 1951

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Jack Kruschen as Sergeant Muggavan; Barbara Whiting; Irene Tedrow; Lou Krugman; Martha Wentworth; Norman Field; Jerry Hausner

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Today’s Mystery:A reporter searches for a robber who provoked a police officer into killing a bystander.

Original Radio Broadcast: January 7, 1948

Originating from New York

Starring: William Quinn; Whit Vernon; Francis De Sales; Everett Sloane; Jerry Lewis; Eileen Heckart; Stephen Chase; Evelyn Juster; Will Kuluva,

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Today's Mystery: An out-of-town visitor is accused of murder when his gun from California is used in the killing.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1956 or 1957

Originating from Australia

Starring: Harp McGuire as Steve Grainger

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