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
Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 5, 1951
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday; Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero
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Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 2, 1958
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Edwin Jerome; Paul Dubov; Frank Gerstle; Junius Matthews; Marvin Miller
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Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 9, 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 Shriver; Sidney Breese; Les Spears
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Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 10, 1950
Originated from Hollywood
Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Jack Kruschen; Lou Merrill; Tony Barrett; Herb Butterfield; Jay Novello
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Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1935 or 1936
Originating from Los Angeles
Starring: Walter Connolly as Inspector Charlie Chan
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Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 31, 1952
Originating from New York
Starring: Les Damon as The Falcon; Ralph Bell; Elspeth Eric
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Soundtrack from a TV Episode that AIred January 4, 1954 based on a radio script from March 22, 1951
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday; Ben Alexander as Officer Frank Smith; Dayton Lummis; Richard Garland; James Anderson; Lillian Powell; Emlen Davies
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Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 23, 1958
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Virginia Gregg; G. Stanley Jones; Junius Matthews; Alan Reed; Frank Nelson; John McIntire; Bill Verdier; Tom Hanley
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Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 2, 1948
Originating from Chicago
Starring: Sherman Marks as Gabriel Betterridge; Charles Mountain as Franklin Blake; Geraldine Kaye as Rachel Verinder; Alma Fox; Jane Elliot; Ruth Shane; Sidney B...
Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 3, 1950
Originated from Hollywood
Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Tony Quillan; Frances Robinson; Peggy Webber; Jay Novello; Tony Barrett; Herb Butterfield
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Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1935 or 1936
Originating from Los Angeles
Starring: Walter Connolly as Inspector Charlie Chan
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Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 27, 1952
Originating from New York
Starring: Les Damon as The Falcon; Ann Shepherd
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Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 15, 1951
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday; Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero; Stacy Harris
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Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 16, 1958
Originated from Hollywood
Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Virginia Gregg; Tony Barrett; Lawrence Dobkin; Herb Ellis; Frank Nelson; Ben Wright
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Original Air Date: July 24, 1952
Originating from New York
Starring: Carlton Kadell as Jonathan Kegg
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Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 23, 1950
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Junius Matthews; Francis X. Bushman; Joan Banks; Mary Lansing; Elliott Reid; Florence Lake
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Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1935 or 1936
Originating in Los Angeles
Starring: Walter Connolly as Inspector Charlie Chan
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Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 17, 1952
Originating from New York
Starring: Les Damon as The Falcon; Lily Valente; Larry Haines; Ralph Bell
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Original Air Date: April 29, 1947
Originating in New York
Starring: Richard Kollmar as Boston Blackie
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Original Air Date: September 1958
Originating from New York
Starring: Nat Polen as Assistant District Attorney McCormick
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