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

December 22, 2025 27 mins
Today's Mystery:The son of a cab driver asks Grainger to help his father out of jail by proving him innocent of a burglary.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1956 or 1957

Originating from Australia

Starring: Harp McGuire as Steve Grainger

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As we get ready for Christmas, we bring you two original old time radio Christmas plays featuring Sherlock Holmes. First up is The Night Before Christmas.

On Christmas, one of Moriarity’s henchmen switches Christmas sacks with Dr. Watson when both are dressed as Santa Claus. Sherlock Holmes has to catch the thief and save Watson and the kids at a Christmas party.
 
Original Air Date: December 24, 1945
 
Originating from Hollywood
 
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An ex-con is fired from his job at a department store where a string of burglaries totaling $10,000 have occurred, and decides to return to a life of crime.

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Today's Mystery:Johnny is called to a small desert town where an old prospector is determined to change his life insurance beneficiary...to his burrow.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 22, 1956

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Herb Vigran; Howard McNear; Jeanne Tatum; Junius Matthews; Lawrence Dobkin; Forrest Lewis; Jack Kruschen; Richard Crenna; Bill James

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December 18, 2025 44 mins
Today's Mystery:Joe Friday and Frank Smith investigate the theft of a statue of the child Jesus from a church nativity scene.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 22, 1953

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday; Ben Alexander as Officer Frank Smith; Harry Bartell; Ralph Moody; Herb Vigran

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Today's Mystery: A young man is found murdered outside a club.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 30, 1951

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Jack Kruschen as Sergeant Muggavan; Richard Crenna; William Tracy; Peggy Webber; Michael Ann Barrett

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Today's Mystery: America's public enemey #1 is interested in turning himself in to Walter Winchell to be handed over to the FBI. But will he actually do it?

Original Radio Broadcast: September 17, 1947

Originating from New York

Starring: Ward Wilson as Walter Winchell; Ed Begley as J. Edgar Hoover; Don Appell; Alan Hewitt; Mildred Clinton

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Today's Mystery: A female nightclub photographer turns to Steve Grainger for help.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1956 or 1957

Originating from Australia

Starring: Harp McGuire as Steve Grainger

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Someone is murdering night watchmen and leaving odd clues behind.

Original Air Date: July 29, 1946

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Gale Gordon as Gregory Hood

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December 13, 2025 33 mins
Today's Adventure: An ex-pat gambler in Switzerland gets a top secret film both sides want and tries to sell to the highest bidder.

Original Radio Broadcast: October 22, 1950

Originating from New York

Starring: Les Tremayne; Bill Quinn; Jan Miner; Grant Richards; Raymond Edward Johnson; Karl Weber; Charles Irving; Stefan Snobble; Boris Aplon; Paul Arnold; Jerry Jarrett

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Today's Mystery:Johnny is called in to verify the fate of a businessman who disappeared in the Palisades glacier.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 12, 1957

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; John Dehner; Herb Ellis; Virginia Gregg; Forrest Lewis; James McCallion; Tom Hanley; John James

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December 11, 2025 40 mins
Today's Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Romero investigate a case where conmen are victimizing peoople who place newspaper ads to sell their cars.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 4, 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 fourteen-year-old is the first of a series of women brutally murdered by the same person.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 23, 1951

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Jack Kruschen as Sergeant Muggavan; Joseph Kearns; Martha Wentworth; Harry Bartell; Charles Davis

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Today's Mystery:A mother who has worked as a scrub woman for 13 years offers a large reward to absolve her son of a Chicago cop's murder.

Audition Date: February 6, 1946

Originating from New York

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Today's Mystery: A young man is found standing on an estate where a murder was committed. He's holding a gun used to commit a murder, but he swears he didn't do it

.Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1956 or 1957

Originating from Australia

Starring: Harp McGuire as Steve Grainger

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A young woman is poisoned when visiting Gregory Hood’s campfire and  Gregory is charged with the crime.

Original Air Date: July 22, 1946

Originating in Hollywood

Starring Gale Gordon as Gregory Hood

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Today's Adventure:An American OSS agent poses as a wine merchant in Germany to organize the country's anti-Hitler elements into an effective resistance.

Original Radio Broadcast: October 15, 1950

Originating from New York

Starring: Mel Ferrer; Herbert Berghoff; Frances Robinson; Ralph Bell; Raymond Edward Johnson; Will McCure; Ian Martin; Karl Weber

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Today's Mystery: Johnny's called in to determine whether a theatrical producer died of natural causes or was murdered.

Original Radio Broadcast Date:August 24, 1958

Originated from Hollywood

Stars: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar.Virginia Gregg, Bartlett Robinson, Marvin Miller, Junius Matthews

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December 4, 2025 35 mins
Todays Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Riomero investigate the brutul killing of a woman who worked in an office building.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 27, 1951


Originating from Hollywood

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

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Today's Mystery: Danny investigates the shooting death of a bartender.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 16, 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; Joseph Granby; Gladys Holland; Mary Jane Croft; Joseph Granby; Gladys Holland

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