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
December 19, 2025 • 34 mins
Original Release Date: August 3, 2021
An ex-con pays Brad $200 to make sure he’s not killed as was predicted by a fortune teller.
Original Air Date: August 11, 1955
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An ex-con pays Brad $200 to make sure he’s not killed as was predicted by a fortune teller.
Original Air Date: August 11, 1955
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December 12, 2025 • 31 mins
Original Release Date: July 27, 2021
A nightclub photographer takes a picture to be used as proof of grounds for divorce. Brad intercepts the picture but finds a picture of a dead man in the background.
Original Air Date: August 4, 1955
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A nightclub photographer takes a picture to be used as proof of grounds for divorce. Brad intercepts the picture but finds a picture of a dead man in the background.
Original Air Date: August 4, 1955
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November 28, 2025 • 31 mins
Original Release Date: July 20, 2021
Brad is offered half of a thousand dollar bill to go up into an apartment and finds a corpse with a matador’s sword through his chest.
Original Air Date: July 28, 1955
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Brad is offered half of a thousand dollar bill to go up into an apartment and finds a corpse with a matador’s sword through his chest.
Original Air Date: July 28, 1955
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November 21, 2025 • 32 mins
Original Release Date: July 6, 2021
A wealthy man calls in Brad when a disgruntled business associate threatens to kill him.
Original Air Date: July 21, 1955
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A wealthy man calls in Brad when a disgruntled business associate threatens to kill him.
Original Air Date: July 21, 1955
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November 14, 2025 • 29 mins
Original Release Date: June 29, 2021
The Fat Man’s hired by a wealthy man who’s been receiving threatening phone calls.
Original Air Date: July 14, 1955
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The Fat Man’s hired by a wealthy man who’s been receiving threatening phone calls.
Original Air Date: July 14, 1955
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November 7, 2025 • 30 mins
Original Release Date: June 22, 2021
The owner of a jewelry store hires Brady because he suspects his cashier is stealing from the till. The only reason he doesn’t go to the police? The cashier is his daughter.
Original Air Date: July 11, 1955
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The owner of a jewelry store hires Brady because he suspects his cashier is stealing from the till. The only reason he doesn’t go to the police? The cashier is his daughter.
Original Air Date: July 11, 1955
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October 24, 2025 • 31 mins
Original Release Date: June 15, 2021
A wealthy woman calls to offer Brad a $500 job. When he arrives, she’s changed her mind. Brad spots a body in her bedroom.
Original Air Date: June 30, 1955
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A wealthy woman calls to offer Brad a $500 job. When he arrives, she’s changed her mind. Brad spots a body in her bedroom.
Original Air Date: June 30, 1955
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October 17, 2025 • 29 mins
Original Release Date: June 8, 2021
The Fat Man is hired to work security at a party. Some guests try to steal a gun and Brad finds himself in the middle of several potential murders.
Original Air Date: June 23, 1955
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The Fat Man is hired to work security at a party. Some guests try to steal a gun and Brad finds himself in the middle of several potential murders.
Original Air Date: June 23, 1955
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October 10, 2025 • 32 mins
Original Release Date: June 1, 2021
A banker hires Brad to help him pay off someone who sent a letter threatening his wife.
Original Air Date: May 19, 1955
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A banker hires Brad to help him pay off someone who sent a letter threatening his wife.
Original Air Date: May 19, 1955
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October 3, 2025 • 34 mins
Original Release Date: May 25, 2021
An elderly woman is scared for her life because she believes her late husband’s heart attack was induced by the appearance of a member of his old gang.
Original Air Date: May 12, 1955
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An elderly woman is scared for her life because she believes her late husband’s heart attack was induced by the appearance of a member of his old gang.
Original Air Date: May 12, 1955
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September 26, 2025 • 29 mins
Original Release Date: May 18, 2021
While out on the town, a woman asks Brad’s help to help prevent her husband being murdered…and then changes her mind.
Original Air Date: May 5, 1955
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While out on the town, a woman asks Brad’s help to help prevent her husband being murdered…and then changes her mind.
Original Air Date: May 5, 1955
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September 19, 2025 • 30 mins
Original Release Date: May 11, 2021
Brad is hired by the mother of a man convicted of murder nine years ago to find the real killer.
Original Air Date: April 28, 1955
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Brad is hired by the mother of a man convicted of murder nine years ago to find the real killer.
Original Air Date: April 28, 1955
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September 12, 2025 • 31 mins
Original Release Date: May 4, 2021
A man asks Brad to confront his wife with her music teacher lover. They arrive to find the music teacher murdered.’
Original Air Date: April 21, 1955
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A man asks Brad to confront his wife with her music teacher lover. They arrive to find the music teacher murdered.’
Original Air Date: April 21, 1955
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September 5, 2025 • 31 mins
Original Release Date: April 27, 2021
A young man comes into the Fat Man’s office with a gun and demands that Brad not take the case of a man looking for his missing daughter, so Brad takes the case.
Original Air Date: April 14, 1955
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A young man comes into the Fat Man’s office with a gun and demands that Brad not take the case of a man looking for his missing daughter, so Brad takes the case.
Original Air Date: April 14, 1955
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August 29, 2025 • 31 mins
Original Release Date: April 20, 2021
The eldest daughter of a deceased wealthy man calls Brad in because she believes a member of the household murdered her father.
Original Air Date: April 7, 1955
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The eldest daughter of a deceased wealthy man calls Brad in because she believes a member of the household murdered her father.
Original Air Date: April 7, 1955
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August 22, 2025 • 32 mins
Original Release Date: April 13, 2021
A woman calls Brad in to prove her fiancé innocent of the murder of his old flame.
Original Air Date: March 31, 1955
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A woman calls Brad in to prove her fiancé innocent of the murder of his old flame.
Original Air Date: March 31, 1955
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August 15, 2025 • 31 mins
Original Release Date: April 6, 2021
A woman call Brad and hires him to find out whose been watching her house. Brad arrives to find the house burned down and his client in the hospital.
Original Air Date: March 10, 1955
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A woman call Brad and hires him to find out whose been watching her house. Brad arrives to find the house burned down and his client in the hospital.
Original Air Date: March 10, 1955
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August 8, 2025 • 36 mins
Original Release Date: March 30, 2021
Brad picks up a young woman hitchhiking and agrees to search for her missing father.
Original Air Date: March 3, 1955
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Brad picks up a young woman hitchhiking and agrees to search for her missing father.
Original Air Date: March 3, 1955
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August 1, 2025 • 29 mins
Original Release Date: March 23, 2021
A woman for the country hires Brad to find her missing brother who disappeared and took all the money out of their joint checking account.
Original Air Date: February 10, 1955
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A woman for the country hires Brad to find her missing brother who disappeared and took all the money out of their joint checking account.
Original Air Date: February 10, 1955
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July 25, 2025 • 32 mins
Original Release Date: March 16, 2021
A man running a shady real estate business wants Brad to protect him from being murdered.
Original Air Date: February 3, 1955
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A man running a shady real estate business wants Brad to protect him from being murdered.
Original Air Date: February 3, 1955
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