The Great Detectives Present the Fat Man (Old Time Radio)

The Great Detectives Present the Fat Man (Old Time Radio)

Enjoy all 10 circulating U.S. Episodes of the Fat Man featuring J Scott Smart as Detective Brad Runyon as well as the Australian Episodes starring Lloyd Berrell.. Hosted by Adam Graham.

Episodes

July 18, 2025 29 mins
Original Release Date: March 10, 2021

While leaving his office late at night, Brad comes across a woman leaving the office of a lawyer who had been murdered.

Original Air Date: January 27, 1955

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Original Release Date: March 2, 2021

An ailing elderly man hires Brad to get his wild daughter out of trouble with the operator of a gambling den.

Original Air Date: January 20, 1955

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Original Release Date: February 23, 2021

A woman comes to Brad because she’s afraid her hot-headed nephew will kill his stepfather.

Original Air Date: January 13, 1955

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Original Release Date: February 16, 2021

Brad is hired by antiques dealer to purchase a Chinese box with an ivory combination lock.

Original Air Date: January 6, 1955

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Original Release Date: February 9, 2021

A young woman comes to Brad for urgent help, faints, and then wake ups with amnesia.

Original Air Date: December 16, 1954

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Original Release Date: February 2, 2021

Brad and his mother are held up at a drug store who demands that they hand over all their pennies.

Original Air Date: December 9, 1954

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Original Release Date: January 26, 2021

A wealthy man is murdered while trying to hire Brad to protect him and when Brad arrives, the body is missing.

Original Air Date: December 2, 1954

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Original Release Date: January 20, 2021

When the member of an old gang is released, Brad is hired to find a necklace that was stolen fifteen years ago. His only clue? That whoever has it raises peacocks.

Original Air Date: November 25, 1954

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Original Release Date: January 12, 2021

Brad is hired by an up and coming politician who’s being blackmailed with a compromising picture, and the woman he says is blackmailing him.

Original Air Date: November 4, 1954

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Original Release Date: January 5, 2021 

Brad is hired to reclaim a stolen piece of jewelry but while he’s scouting ahead, Brad’s client is murdered in his car.

Original Air Date: October 28, 1954

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Original Release Date: December 22, 2020

Brad tries to help a woman find her missing husband around Christmas.

Original Air Date: September 2, 1954

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Original Release Date: December 15, 2020

Brad is hired by an old army buddy who’s fiancee has become disappearing without explanation. His efforts to follow her lead him to a graveyard where he saw a moving gravestone.

Original Air Date: September 23, 1954

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April 11, 2025 35 mins
Original Release Date: December 8, 2020

A woman reports her fiance has disappeared and sent her a threatening letter.

Original Air Date: September 16, 1954

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Original Release Date: December 1, 2020

A man insists he didn’t murder his wife…even though he’d been planning to.

Original Air Date: September 9, 1954

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Original Release Date: November 24, 2020

Brad is hired by an elderly playboy whose daughter is being threatened if he doesn’t withdraw his horse from an upcoming race.

Original Air Date: August 26, 1954

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Original Release Date: November 17, 2020

A woman who claims a private detective is trying to blackmail her by threatening to tell her husband she has a non-existent lover.

Original Air Date: August 19, 1954

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March 14, 2025 27 mins
Original Release Date: November 6, 2012

Brad becomes concerned that a war veteran may murder a retired Major with many enemies.

Original Air Date: May 23, 1951

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March 7, 2025 31 mins
Original Release Date: October 30, 2012 

A troubled hired hires Brad to prove he killed a young woman obsessed with death.

Original Air Date: January 17, 1951

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February 28, 2025 31 mins
Original Release Date: October 23, 2012

The Fat Man is hired a medium that appears to know too much to be an ordinary faker.

Original Air Date: July 22, 1949

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February 21, 2025 27 mins
Original Release Date: October 16, 2012

On a flight from Central America to New Orleans, a beautiful woman gets Brad on a flight to Guatemala City.

Original Air Date: April 1, 1949

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