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

July 7, 2025 34 mins
The wife of an acrobat clown comes to Randy to sell a story about her husband being a spy.

Original Air Date: May 8, 1952

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A trapeze performer hires Marlowe to protect a circus from dangerous gamblers who are owed money by his partners.

Original Air Date: July 1, 1947

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July 5, 2025 32 mins
Today's Mystery: A spate of thefts of GM cars leads Friday and Romero to investigate a particular salvage yard.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 26, 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 is called to Denver to investigate a mysterious series of accidental deaths that have resulted in big payoffs by the insurance company.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 23, 1958

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Virginia Gregg; Forrest Lewis; Barney Phillips; Edgar Barrier; Frank Gerstle; Peter Leeds

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Today's Mystery: A shady man who married a wealthy woman is found murdered the morning after his wedding.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 9, 1947

Originating from New York

Starring: Staats Cotsworth as Casey; Jan Miner; Bernard Lenrow; John Gibson

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Today's Mystery: A pianist is murdered in a bar on a revolving table.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 31, 1950

Originating from Hollywood

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

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Today's Mystery:Charlie Chan wants to have a conversation with Ah Sing while other guests and staff continue to evade him.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1935 or 1936

Originating from Los Angeles

Starring: Walter Connolly as Inspector Charlie Chan

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Today's Mystery:Mike goes to Lisbon on a tip that a woman working at the US embassy is a spy.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 24, 1952

Originating from New York

Starring: Les Damon as The Falcon; Mandel Kramer; Bryna Raeburn

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June 28, 2025 32 mins
Today's Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Romero search for an armed man who beat and robbed a Doctor and stole a supply of narcotics.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 19, 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 was about to leave Florida, but plans change when Johnny learns that the assistant at a laboratory doing top secret research has disappeared, with foul play suspected.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 16, 1958

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Herb Ellis; Lou Merrill; Stacy Harris; Jack Kruschen; Vic Perrin; Harry Bartell

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Today's Mystery: An experiment reveals how the diamond got out of Rachel Verinder's cabinet. But where is it now?

Original Air Date: April 23, 1948

Originating from Chicago

Starring: Sherman Marks as Gabriel Betterridge; Arthur Sedgewick as Sergeant Cuff; Charles Mountain as Franklin Blake, Jonathan Hull, Dick York, Donald Gallagher, Boris Aplon, Marvin Peisner

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Today's Mystery: A middle-aged man reports that a beautiful young woman was murdered, though there is no body.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 24, 1950

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Jack Kruschen as Sergeant Muggavan; Irene Tedrow; Joyce McCluskey; Earle Ross; Jack Edwards; Tom Holland

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Today's Mystery: What is John Ryder hiding? Inspector Chan plans a trap for the murderer.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1935 or 1936

Originating from Los Angeles

Starring: Walter Connolly as Inspector Charlie Chan

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Today's Mystery: Waring is in Greece looking for the leader of the Greek Communist Party.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 17, 1952

Originating from New York

Starred: Les Damon as the Falcon, Ken Lynch, Anne Burr

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Today's Mystery: A man was slugged and robbed but doesn't want to talk due to threats by the robbers.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 12, 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: Johnny is called to investigate a small claim in a case involving damage at a sensitive chemistry experiment. Or was it sabotage?

Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 9, 1958

Originated from Hollywood

Stars: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar. Vic Perrin, Herb Ellis, Paul Richards, Lou Merrill, Leon Belasco

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Today's Mystery: After a tragic suicide, Sergeant Cuff's dismissed with the theft of the Moonstone still unsolved. A year later, someone else picks up the investigation.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 16, 1948

Originating from Chicago

Starring: Sherman Marks as Gabriel Betterridge; Arthur Sedgewick as Sergeant Cuff; Charles Mountain as Franklin Blake; Geraldine Kaye as Rachel Verinder; Alma Fox; Jane Elliot; Ruth Shane; Minion S...
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Today's Mystery: A young man stumbles into a storefront church in Spanish Harlem and dies after being stabbed.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 17, 1950

Originated in Hollywood

Stars: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover, Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia, Lou Merrill, Herb Butterfield, Tony Barrett, Sarah Selby, Frances Cheney, Jack Kruschen

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Today's Mystery:Charlie Chan and Sheriff Holt want an explanation of the gun Cecille was carrying and decide to stage a reenactment.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1935 or 1936

Originating from Los Angeles

Starring: Walter Connolly as Inspector Charlie Chan

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Today's Mystery: The Falcon goes to Sicily to apprehend a Communist leader who was guilty of war crimes during World War II.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 10, 1952

Originating from New York

Starring: Les Damon as The Falcon; June Allison

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