Rocky Jordan Presented by the Great Detectives of Old TIme Radio
Join host Adam Graham on a journey to the Cafe Tambourine in Cairo, Egypt as we travel through all the circulating adventures of cafe owner and reluctant detective Rocky Jordan as played by Jack Moyles and later George Raft.
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July 4, 2025 • 36 mins
Original Release Date: January 2, 2019
Rocky meets a beautiful woman from Istanbul who is being hunted by a dangerous man.
Original Air Date: August 28, 1949
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Rocky meets a beautiful woman from Istanbul who is being hunted by a dangerous man.
Original Air Date: August 28, 1949
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June 27, 2025 • 39 mins
Original Release Date: December 25, 2018
Rocky goes out to the desert to talk to someone about renting the Tambourine for a private party and finds himself in the midst of nomadic bandits robbing a caravan with twenty-four camels carrying Arabic gum.
Original Air Date: August 21, 1949
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Rocky goes out to the desert to talk to someone about renting the Tambourine for a private party and finds himself in the midst of nomadic bandits robbing a caravan with twenty-four camels carrying Arabic gum.
Original Air Date: August 21, 1949
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June 20, 2025 • 35 mins
Original Release Date: December 19, 2018
Rocky finds Captain Sam Sabaya beaten in alley and Sabaya refuses to tell him what’s going on.
Original Air Date: August 14, 1949
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Rocky finds Captain Sam Sabaya beaten in alley and Sabaya refuses to tell him what’s going on.
Original Air Date: August 14, 1949
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June 13, 2025 • 36 mins
Original Release Date: December 12, 2018
An old friend of Rocky’s gives him the deed to a South African gold mine.
Original Air Date: August 7, 1949
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An old friend of Rocky’s gives him the deed to a South African gold mine.
Original Air Date: August 7, 1949
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May 30, 2025 • 34 mins
Original Release Date: December 5, 2018
A Spanish Gypsy wants to leave the gypsy life and marry an outsider, but she’s being followed by a jealous ex-boyfriend.
Original Air Date: December 31, 1947
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A Spanish Gypsy wants to leave the gypsy life and marry an outsider, but she’s being followed by a jealous ex-boyfriend.
Original Air Date: December 31, 1947
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May 23, 2025 • 34 mins
Original Release Date: November 28, 2018
Rocky is summoned by a respected old man who has a knife in him and wants Rocky’s help fulfilling his last request.
Original Air Date: July 24, 1949
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Rocky is summoned by a respected old man who has a knife in him and wants Rocky’s help fulfilling his last request.
Original Air Date: July 24, 1949
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May 16, 2025 • 35 mins
Original Release Date: November 21, 2018
A woman warns Rocky a bomb is going to explode in a pawn shop. The bomb goes off and she tells them another one will go off in half a day and she doesn’t know where it is.
Original Air Date: July 17, 1949
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A woman warns Rocky a bomb is going to explode in a pawn shop. The bomb goes off and she tells them another one will go off in half a day and she doesn’t know where it is.
Original Air Date: July 17, 1949
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May 9, 2025 • 37 mins
Original Release Date: November 14, 2018
A man asks Rocky to take care of his unmarried daughter.
Original Air Date: July 10, 1949
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A man asks Rocky to take care of his unmarried daughter.
Original Air Date: July 10, 1949
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May 2, 2025 • 33 mins
Original Release Date: November 7, 2018
Rocky hires a singer for the Cafe Tambourine. She’s harassed at work and then Rocky finds her dead.
Original Air Date: July 3, 1949
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Rocky hires a singer for the Cafe Tambourine. She’s harassed at work and then Rocky finds her dead.
Original Air Date: July 3, 1949
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April 25, 2025 • 33 mins
Original Release Date: October 31, 2018
Rocky takes a sample of his favorite brand of bottled water while visiting a bottling importer. He collapses and wakes up fifty miles away in the desert.
Original Air Date: June 26, 1949
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Rocky takes a sample of his favorite brand of bottled water while visiting a bottling importer. He collapses and wakes up fifty miles away in the desert.
Original Air Date: June 26, 1949
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April 18, 2025 • 35 mins
Original Release Date: October 24, 2018
An old friend of Rocky’s has a plan to get rich quick–buy the Suez Canal and wants Rocky to loan him money to do it.
Original Air Date: June 19, 1949
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An old friend of Rocky’s has a plan to get rich quick–buy the Suez Canal and wants Rocky to loan him money to do it.
Original Air Date: June 19, 1949
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April 11, 2025 • 32 mins
Original Release Date: October 17, 2018
A disfigured man shows up in Cairo blaming Rocky for his disfigurement but willing to forgive him if he tracks down a wanted criminal for him.
Original Air Date: June 12, 1948
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A disfigured man shows up in Cairo blaming Rocky for his disfigurement but willing to forgive him if he tracks down a wanted criminal for him.
Original Air Date: June 12, 1948
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April 4, 2025 • 34 mins
Original Release Date: October 10, 2018
A well-known and beloved missionary is found dead at the Tambourine.
Original Air Date: June 5, 1949
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A well-known and beloved missionary is found dead at the Tambourine.
Original Air Date: June 5, 1949
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March 28, 2025 • 34 mins
Original Release Date: October 3, 2018
A muzzein is murdered in the street and Rocky is found unconscious with the knife in his hand.
Original Air Date: May 29, 1949
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A muzzein is murdered in the street and Rocky is found unconscious with the knife in his hand.
Original Air Date: May 29, 1949
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March 21, 2025 • 35 mins
Original Release Date: September 26, 2018
A movie makeup man hires Rocky to protect him.
Original Air Date: May 22, 1949
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A movie makeup man hires Rocky to protect him.
Original Air Date: May 22, 1949
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March 14, 2025 • 33 mins
Original Release Date: September 19, 2018
A lady friend of Rocky’s gives her passport to a woman who shares a mutual enemy with Rocky. When the enemy is murdered, Rocky becomes the prime suspect.
Original Air Date: May 8, 1949
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A lady friend of Rocky’s gives her passport to a woman who shares a mutual enemy with Rocky. When the enemy is murdered, Rocky becomes the prime suspect.
Original Air Date: May 8, 1949
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March 7, 2025 • 35 mins
Original Release Date: September 12, 2018
A friend asks Rocky’s to hide him from the police and clear him of the theft from a member of Cairo’s diplomatic corps.
Original Air Date: May 1, 1949
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A friend asks Rocky’s to hide him from the police and clear him of the theft from a member of Cairo’s diplomatic corps.
Original Air Date: May 1, 1949
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February 28, 2025 • 36 mins
Original Release Date: September 5, 2018
A plane carrying Rocky’s consignment of five crates to Naples crashes. Rocky gets far more from the insurance than he paid and a lot of people are furious with him.
Original Air Date: April 24, 1949
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A plane carrying Rocky’s consignment of five crates to Naples crashes. Rocky gets far more from the insurance than he paid and a lot of people are furious with him.
Original Air Date: April 24, 1949
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February 21, 2025 • 34 mins
Original Release Date: August 29, 2018
New York mobsters are intimidating all the cafe owners in Cairo to sell their places at cut-rate prices and Rocky is next on their list.
Original Air Date: April 10, 1949
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New York mobsters are intimidating all the cafe owners in Cairo to sell their places at cut-rate prices and Rocky is next on their list.
Original Air Date: April 10, 1949
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February 14, 2025 • 39 mins
Original Release Date: August 22, 2018
A painter gives Rocky a pencil sketch of him, then an Australian sailor beats Rocky up and steals it.
Original Air Date: April 3, 1949
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A painter gives Rocky a pencil sketch of him, then an Australian sailor beats Rocky up and steals it.
Original Air Date: April 3, 1949
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