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: June 13, 1945
Originating from New York
Starring: Don McLaughlin as David Harding; Mandel Kramer as Peters
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Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 15, 1959
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Lillian Buyeff; Jack Edwards; Barney Phillips; Forrest
Lewis; Eric Snowden
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Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 27, 1951
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday, Barney Phillips as Sergeant Ed Jacobs, Vic Perrin, Herb Butterfield
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Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 21, 1951
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Jack Kruschen as Sergeant Muggavan; Betty Lou Gerson; Ted Osborne; Irene Tedrow
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Original Radio Broadcast: July 20, 1949
Originating from New York
Starring: Jackson Beck as Tom Mercer; Barbara Townsend; Alice Rinehart; Ted Osborn; Santos Ortega; Gil Mack; Milton Herman
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Original Radio Broadcast Date:
Originating from Hollywood
Starred: Vincent Price as Simon Templar, Jeff Chandler
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Original Radio Broadcast Date:
Originated from Hollywood
Stars: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar. Lillian Buyeff, Irene Tedrow, D. J. Thompson, Herb Ellis, Marvin Miller, Forrest Lewis, Bob Bruce, Russ Thorson
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Original Radio Broadcast: March 1, 1943
Originating in New York Starring Don McLaughlin as David Harding
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Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 8, 1959
Originated from Hollywood
Stars: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar. Lucille Meredith, James McCallion, Russ Thorson, Sam Edwards, Herb Vigran
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Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 13, 1951
Originating from Hollywood
Starred: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday, Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero, Vic Perrin, Herb Butterfield
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Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 13, 1951
Originated in Hollywood
Stars: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover, Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia, Tony Barrett, Jack Kruschen as Sergeant Muggavan, Tony Barrett, Michael Ann Barrett, Paula Winslowe, Herb Butterfield, Edwin Max
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Original Radio Broadcast: June 8, 1949
Originating in New York
Starring John Sylvester as Julian Housman, Canada Lee, Jim Boles, Eric Dressler, Bill Smith, Georgia Burke, and Scott Tennyson
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Audition Date: December 1944
Originating in Hollywood
Starring Denis Greene as the Saint, Gale Gordon, Gerald Mohor,
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Original Radio Broadcast: February 3, 1952
Originating in Hollywood
Starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
Today's 2nd Mystery: Randy receives a tip that there’s a bomb on a plane to Denver.
Original Air Date: September 4, 1952
Originating in Hollywood
Starring Frank Lovejoy as Randy Stone
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Original Radio Broadcast: December 14, 1942
Originating in New York
Starring Don McLaughlin as David Harding
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Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 18, 1959
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Virginia Gregg; Eleanor Audley; G. Stanley Jones; Eric Snowden; Sam Edwards
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Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 6, 1951
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday; Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero; Joyce McCluskey
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Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 6, 1951
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Jack Kruschen as Sergeant Muggavan; Paul Frees; Clayton Post; Edwin Max; Elliott Lewis; Jack Kruschen; Jay Novello; Joyce McCluskey
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Original Radio Broadcast: March 9, 1949
Originating from New York
Starring: Sydney Smith as Ike McAnally; Ann Burr; Agnes Young; Lyle Sudrow; Ted Osborne
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Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1956 or 1957
Originating from Australia
Starred: Harp McGuire as Steve Grainger
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