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

October 23, 2025 34 mins
Today's Mystery: An elderly man is found shot to death in his home. While it initially looks like a suicide, there's reason to think it might be a homicide.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 16 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 dance hall dancer is murdered.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 28, 1951Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Jack Kruschen as Sergeant Muggavan; Tony Barrett; Frances Chaney; Martha Wentworth; Lawrence Dobkin; Joy Terry; Leo Cleary; Junius Matthews

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Today's Mystery: The mother of a dead criminal is victimized by a conman claiming her son owed him money.

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: Grainger is hired by the mother of a man accused of killing a young couple in a park.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1956 or 1957

Originating from Australia

Starring: Harp McGuire as Steve Grainger

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Today's Mystery: Sandy Taylor’s wife Mary disappears on a foggy night without a trace.

Original Air Date: June 24, 1946

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Gale Gordon as Gregory Hood

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October 18, 2025 36 mins
Today's Adventure: An OSS agent parachutes into Germany to team up with a local operative to run an underground broadcast to undermine the Nazi propoganda.

Original Radio Broadcast: August 27, 1950

Originating in New York

Starring: Larry Haines, Lily Darvas, Berry Kroeger, Arnold Moss, Stefan Schnabel, Bob Wile, Jerry Jarrett,

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Today's Mystery: Johnny goes to South Carolina to investigate the disappearance of an ex-mobster who had gone straight.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 22, 1958

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Jeanne Tatum; Jack Kruschen; Les Tremayne; Billy Halop; Frank Gerstle; Gil Stratton Jr.

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October 16, 2025 33 mins
Today's Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Romero investigate a an epidemic of crooked TV repairmen.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 9, 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 wealthy retiree is found murdered in his apartment after an impromptu party.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 21, 1951

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Jack Kruschen as Sergeant Muggavan; Cathy Lewis; Peggy Webber; Lee Millar Jr.; Russell Simpson; Michael Ann Barrett

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Today's Mystery: A criminal hunted by Charlie Chan seeks revenge by planting a bomb at his house.

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: Grainger finds an unconscious and beaten man in the street. He was found missing $10,000.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1956 or 1957

Originating from Australia

Starred: Harp McGuire as Steve Grainger

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Gregory Hood receives multiple death threats and after one close call, he decides to play dead while he solves his own murder.

Original Air Date: June 17, 1946

Originating in Hollywood

Starring Gale Gordon as Gregory Hood

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Today's Adventure: Two OSS Agents go into occupied Norway to blow up a key Nazi-controlled bridge.

Original Radio Broadcast: August 20, 1950

Originating in New York

Starring: Berry Kroeger, Raymond Edward Johnson, Jerry Jarrett, Frank Barrens, Karl Weber, Joseph Julian, Ralph Bell.

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Today's Mystery: Johnny is called in when three members of the board of a small company covered by a group life policy are murdered in a short period of time.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 29, 1958

Originated from Hollywood

Stars: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar. Virginia Gregg, Les Tremayne, Forrest Lewis, Herb Vigran, Junius Matthews, Frank Gerstle

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October 9, 2025 32 mins
Todays Mystery: Friday and Romero are called in to investigate the kidnapping of a local businessman

Original Radio Broadcast Date:July 26, 1951

Originating from Hollywood

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

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Today's Mystery: An errand boy at a dress shop is murdered with a pair of scissors.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 15, 1951

Originated in Hollywood

Stars: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover, Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia, Jack Kruschen as Sergeant Muggavan, Irene Tedrow, Herb Butterfield, Sidney Miller, Sylvia Syms, Mary Shipp.

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October 7, 2025 29 mins
Today's Mystery: A musician is implicated in a burglary that led to murder.

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: Grainger encounters a terrified woman on a rainy night who is running from a man whom she says she saw murder another man.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1956 or 1957

Originating from Australia

Starring: Harp McGuire as Steve Grainger

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Gregory Hood Importers acquires a ceremonial sacrificial dagger and then receives a death threat from a woman claiming to be an Aztec priestess.

Original Air Date: June 10, 1946

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Today's Adventure: A husband and wife team of geologists are recruited by the IRS to journey into Tibet to seek the favor of the Dalai Lama. They find themselves in competition with two Nazi officers.

Original Radio Broadcast: August 13, 1950

Originating from New York

Starring: Louise Barclay; Grant Richards; Raymond Edward Johnson; Stefan Schnabel; Berry Kroeger; Janice Gilbert; Karl Weber; Ralph Bell; Jerry Jarrett

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