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

September 25, 2025 33 mins
Today's Mystery:Joe Friday and Ben Romero investigate a series of burglaries targeting wealthy homes.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 12, 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 terminally ill man is stabbed to death.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 1, 1950

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Jack Kruschen as Sergeant Muggavan; Lou Merrill; Mary Lansing; Lillian Buyeff; Paul McVeigh; Byron Kane

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Today's Mystery: Charlie Chan and his number one son track two dangerous escapees to a luxury yacht where a wealthy woman, her daughter, and her erswhile fiancé are in a very nasty argument.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1950 or 1951

Originating in Sydney

Starring: William Rees as Charlie Chan, Rodney Jacobs

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Today's Mystery: A woman hires Steve Grainger to protect her scientist husband who is working on a top secret experiment.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1956 or 1957

Originating from Australia

Starring: Harp McGuire as Steve Grainger

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In this episode, we give you a look at the type of programs we share on the Old Time Radio Snack Wagon:

Wings Over Jordan

Journey back to the 1940s and listen to an episode of Wings Over Jordan, a top-rated network radio program originating from Cleveland.

The series featured a performance by all-Black Choir based in Cleveland, Ohio. We talk about the group's history and then listen to one of their network radio programs.

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Today's Adventure: An OSS agent goes behind enemy lines into occupied Holland to stay at his uncle's house.

Original Radio Broadcast: July 30, 1950

Originating from New York

Starring: Les Tremayne; Lester Fletcher; Harvey Hayes; Jared Burke; Gordon Stern; Francois Grimar; Basil Langton; Patricia Courtleigh; Beulah Garrick; Victor Chapin

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Today's Mystery: The wife of an eccentric wealthy angler has fled on him. Johnny has to find out where he went.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 1, 1958

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar

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September 18, 2025 42 mins
Today's Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Romero search for missing woman and her two-year-old daughter.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 5, 1951

Originating from Hollywood

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

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Today's Mystery: A housewife is missing and a ransom note was sent by a down-and-out man who was found murdered in a flop house.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 24, 1950

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Jack Kruschen as Sergeant Muggavan; Lou Merrill; Lillian Buyeff; Byron Kane; Barton Yarborough; Herb Butterfield

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Today's Mystery: Charlie Chan and his number one son are on the trail of a burglar who used his blind pianist daughter to commit burglaries and then murdered his partner.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1950 or 1951

Originating from Sydney

Starring: William Rees as Charlie Chan; Rodney Jacobs

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Today's Mystery: A woman comes to The Falcon when a man breaks into her home, and robs and assaults her and then is shot, and she's being blackmailed.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 31, 1954

Originating from New York

Starring: George Petrie as The Falcon; Chuck Webster; Larry Haines; Mandel Kramer

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Today's Mystery: Johnny is called in to investigate threats on the life of a famous stage actress.

Original Radio Broadcast Dates: November 21-25, 1955

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Virginia Gregg; Florence Wolcott; Don Diamond; Larry Thor; Vic Perrin; Carleton Young

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September 13, 2025 39 mins
Today's Adventure: Two OSS agents are on a mission to bring in a captured Japanese colonel, but the mission goes awry, leaving the two men in a battle for survival.

Original Radio Broadcast: July 23, 1950

Originating from New York

Starring: Jerry Lester; Larry Haines; Dan Ocko; Irene Hubbard; Raymond Edward Johnson; Karl Weber; Arnold Robertson

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Today's Mystery: Johnny is sent to investigate a gold mine and finds himself in serious danger on a plane full of TNT.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 25, 1958

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Jeanne Tatum; Frank Nelson; Russell Thorson; Barney Phillips; Harry Bartell; Forrest Lewis

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September 11, 2025 34 mins
Today's Mystery: A woman in her sixties is found dead next to her husband and he claims not to know why it happened.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 28, 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 in expensive clothes is found murdered in the Central Park lake.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 17, 1950

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Jack Kruschen as Sergeant Muggavan; Irene Tedrow; Richard Crenna; Bob Bruce; Peggy Webber; Stan Waxman

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Today's Mystery:Charlie Chan's daughter is kidnapped by bank robbers after a bungled robbery.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: Summer 1944

Originating from Los Angeles

Starring: Walter Connolly as Inspector Charlie Chan

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Today's Mystery: A self-styled fixer convinces dangerous underworld figures that he can protect them from raids. He can't; murder follows.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 12, 1954

Originating from New York

Starring: George Petrie as the Falcon, Les Damon

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September 7, 2025 164 mins
Today we take a look at the evolution of E. Jack Neumann's story that became the five-part Johnny Dollar serial.

Jeff Regan: The Man in the Church

Regan is hired for a simple job of delivering $5,000 to a man, but finds himself wanted for murder.

Original Air Date: October 12, 1949

Starring: Frank Graham as Jeff Regan; Frank Nelson; William Conrad; Sidney Miller

Night Beat: Big John McMasters

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September 6, 2025 35 mins
Today's Adventure: A cartoonist in the OSS goes undercover in a German-occupied French village ahead of an American advance.

Original Radio Broadcast: July 9, 1950

Originating from New York

Starring: Virginia Payne; Raymond Edward Johnson; Karl Weber; Stefan Schnabel; Jerry Jarrett; Ralph Bell; Lotte Stavisky; Everett Sloan

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