The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas

Today's Mystery: A San Francisco detective is convinced that one of three Americans at a Brazillian plantation is a fugitive killer in disguise. But which one?

Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 8, 1946

Originating from New York City

Starring: Ken Lynch

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Today's Mystery:A shooting of an underworld character by a racketeer's thug sets off a string of double-crosses that leads to murder.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 15, 1951

Originating from New York

Starring: Les Damon as The Falcon; Chuck Webster as Sergeant Corbett; Mandel Kramer; Bill Zuckert

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Casey and Ann look into a Thanksgiving Day hold-up.

Original Air Date: November 27, 1947

Originating in New York

Starring: Staats Cotsworth as Flash Casey

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Today's Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Romero search for an armed robber who shot and killed a clerk.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 5, 1950

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday; Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero; Herb Butterfield; Jack Kruschen

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Today's Mystery: Johnny goes to Buffalo to investigate the sinking of a $100,000 yacht and the loss of its owner.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 8, 1957

Originated from Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Les Tremayne; Mary Jane Croft; Harry Bartell; Vic Perrin; Bob Bruce

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Today's Mystery: For a lark, the Norths record a record, and then someone tries to kill them in the cab on the way home.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 19, 1944

Originating from New York City

Starring: Joseph Curtain as Jerry North; Alice Frost as Pamela North

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Today's Mystery: A woman is found murdered in a flower shop.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 21, 1950

Originating in Hollywood

Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Jack Kruschen as Sergeant Mugovin; Irene Tedrow; Edgar Barrier; Herb Vigran; Jerry Hausner

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Today's Mystery: A woman says her brother's life depends on her delivering a porcelain Ming cat, and asks Captain Drummond for protection.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: Unknown

Originating in New YorkStarring: Ned Wever as Bulldog Drummond; Luis Van Rooten as Denny

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Today's Mystery: A woman hires The Falcon to find her missing hypochondriac husband.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 1, 1951

Originating from New York

Starring: Les Damon as The Falcon; Chuck Webster as Sergeant Corbett; Jackson Beck; Mandel Kramer

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In 1859, legendary private detective Allan Pinkerton tries to solve the year-old case of a bank robbery and the murder of a guard.

Original Air Date: November 18, 1946

Originating in Hollywood

Starring: Lee Bowman as Allan Pinkerton; William Johnstone; Wally Maher; Pinky Parker; Griff Barnett; Lois Corbett; Sarah Selby

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Today's Mystery: A man reports that his ex-boss tried to hire him to murder his wife.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 28, 1950

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday; Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero

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Today's Mystery: Johnny goes to Los Angeles to investigate a wealthy woman's suspicious application for $200,000 in life insurance on her husband that she wants to keep secret from him.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 1, 1957

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Virginia Gregg; Herb Ellis; Frank Nelson; Marvin Miller; Peter Leeds

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Today's Mystery: A man invites the Norths to his house to solve a murder that hasn't happened yet - his own.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 24, 1944

Originating from New York City

Starring: Joseph Curtain as Jerry North; Alice Frost as Pamela North

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Today's Mystery:The wife of an old-time bootlegger dies in Danny's office.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 7, 1950

Originating in Hollywood

Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Jack Moyles

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Today's Mystery: A beautiful woman at the circus asks Captain Drummond to embrace her, and gives him a gun that leads him to investigate a murder in a high-wire act.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 7, 1948

Originating in New York

Starring: Ned Wever as Bulldog Drummond; Luis Van Rooten as Denny

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Today's Mystery:An engraver, who has created high-quality counterfeit plates, is murdered.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 25, 1951

Originating from New York

 Starring: Les Damon as The Falcon; Chuck Webster as Sergeant Corbett; Bill Zuckert; Ralph Bell

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An old man is killed and with his dying last word, he asks Novak to deliver a letter to John St. John.

Original Air Date: October 13, 1946

Originating in San Francisco

Starring: Jack Webb as Pat Novak; Tudor Owen as Jocko Madigan

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Today's Mystery: A twelve-year-old and a grandfather return from a trip to Indiana to find all their belongings from their home stolen.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 21, 1950

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday; Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero

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Today's Mystery: Johnny is sent to Vineland, New Jersey to find out if a fire that destroyed $80,000 in mattresses was arson.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 25, 1957

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Russell Thorson; Jack Edwards; Will Wright; Paul Dubov; Lawrence Dobkin

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Today's Mystery: A little man dies on the Norths' door as a warning that someone wants to kill Pamela North.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 12, 1944

Originating from New York City

Starring: Joseph Curtain as Jerry North; Alice Frost as Pamela North

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Today's Mystery: Around New Year's Eve, a drunk in a skid row hotel claims to be a man who was supposed to have died in a hit-and-run.

Original Radio Broadcast Date:December 31, 1949

Originating in Hollywood

Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Jeanette Nolan; Jay Novello; Leo Penn; Fred Howard; Bob Bruce; Barton Yarborough

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Today's Mystery: A ex-con trying to go straight claims that someone's trying to kill him and asks Captain Drummond for help.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 30, 1948

Originating in New York

Starring: Ned Wever as Bulldog Drummond; Luis Van Rooten as Denny

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Today's Mystery: A man is poisoned in the presence of the Falcon and the finger of suspicion is pointed at his cousin.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 18, 1951

Originating from New York

Starred: Les Damon as the Falcon, Chuck Webster as Sergeant Corbett

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Pat Novak does a favor for a friend who has just gotten out of prison - he picks up a package. He returns to his office to find a cop standing over a dead body.

Original Air Date: April 23, 1949

Originating in Hollywood

Starring: Jack Webb as Pat Novak; Raymond Burr as Inspector Hellman; and Tudor Owen as Jocko Madigan

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Today's Mystery: Friday and Romero investigate a robbery and shooting at a bakery.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 14, 1950

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday; Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero; Herb Butterfield

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Today's Mystery: Johnny goes to a small town celebrating frontier days, where an insured promoter has had an attempt on his life.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 11, 1957

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Mary Jane Croft; Harry Bartell; Joseph Kearns; Lawrence Dobkin; Frank Gerstle; Barney Phillips

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Today's Mystery: The Norths go to the dog show, where Pam is mistaken for a countess, and she and Jerry are both kidnapped.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 2, 1944

Originating from New York City

Starring: Joseph Curtain as Jerry North; Alice Frost as Pamela North

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Today's Mystery: A little man, who is trying to give away his fortune, is murdered.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 17, 1949

Originating in Hollywood

Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Jerry Hausner; Rolfe Sedan; Byron Kane; Lou Merrill; Joan Banks

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Today's Mystery: Captain Drummond and Denny are summoned to a Carribean island to take on a devil-worshipping cult.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 23, 1948

Originating in New YorkStarring: Ned Wever as Bulldog Drummond; Luis Van Rooten as Denny

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Today's Mystery: A criminal with a grudge against The Falcon escapes prison.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 11, 1951

Originating from New York

Starring: Les Damon as The Falcon; Chuck Webster as Sergeant Corbett; Ralph Bell John Gibson

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Today's story: Martians invade the Earth in the mid-1950s.

Original Air Date: February 8, 1955Originating in Hollywood

Starring: Dana Andrews as Dr. Clayton Forrester; Pat Crowley as Sylvia Van Buren; Les Tremayne as Major General Mann; Herb Butterfield; Bill Bouchey; Parley Baer; Paul Frees; Ken Peters; Howard McNear; William Conrad; George Neise; Bob Bailey; Herb Ellis; Irene Tedrow; Don Diamond; Jack Kruschen; Frank Gerstle; George Baxter; Truda Marson; Edward Marr

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Today's Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Romero are called in when an elderly couple disappears.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 7, 1950

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday; Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero

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Today's Mystery: Johnny is called in to protect an insured wealthy widow and a statue she's taking to her summerhouse.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 4, 1957

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Virginia Gregg; Harry Bartell; Eric Snowden; Frank Gerstle

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Today's Mystery: Pam loses the phone number of an author who called Jerry, and a criminal becomes convinced that Jerry and the author are in a conspiracy to commit murder.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 26, 1944

Originating from New York City

Starring: Joseph Curtain as Jerry North; Alice Frost as Pamela North; Frank Lovejoy as Lieutenant Bill Weigand

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Today's Mystery: A model calls Danny fearing for his life. Danny finds her dead.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 10, 1949

Originating in Hollywood

Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Gino Tartaglia; Jack Kruschen as Detective Muggavan; Virginia Gregg; Ed Begley; Elliott Reid, ichael Ann Barrett. and Jay Novello

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Today's Mystery:While deep-sea fishing, Captain Drummond and Denny find a man who was shot to death more than 60 miles from land.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 16, 1948

Originating in New York

Starring: Ned Wever as Bulldog Drummond; Luis Van Rooten as Denny

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Today's Mystery: Mike is hired to investigate a charity grifter, and then his client is murdered.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 4, 1951

Originating from New York

Starring: Les Damon as The Falcon; Chuck Webster as Sergeant Corbett; Mandel Kramer

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This week, we look back at our first week of podcasts from 2009, with Adam's current extended thoughts on each episode and reaction to his own commentar. 

Original Podcast Release Date: October 26, 2009

Dan Holiday tries to jumpstart his writing career through an ad in a newspaper. His first letter is from a woman who tells Dan she’s being blackmailed.

Original Radio Air Date: October 17, 1947

Originating in Hollywood

Starring: Alan Ladd as Dan Holiday; Sylvia Picker as Suzie

Original Podcast Release Date: October 27, 2009

Pat Novak is hired to frighten a man named Dixie Gillian, but when an empty gun goes off, he finds himself facing a murder charge.
 
“You couldn’t hold a moth with a searchlight.” - Pat Novak to Hellman
 
Original Air Date: November 24, 1946
 
Originating in San Francisco
 
Starring: Jack Webb as Pat Novak; Tudor Owen as Jocko Madigan
 
Original Podcast Release Date: October 28, 2009

On his first day as a private detective, George Valentine gets his first client - a famous writer who tells him he’s about to be murdered and then collapses on the spot. The body then vanishes, leaving George to find out what happened.

Original Audition Date: May 14, 1946

Originating in Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as George Valentine; Shirley Mitchell as Claire; Eddie Firestone, Jr. as Sonny; Joseph Kearns; Georgia Backus; Howard McNear; Horace Murphy
 
Original Podcast Release Date: October 30, 2009

Johnny Dollar is retained to protect a man who has threatened suicide after making a notorious gambling kingpin the beneficiary on his life insurance policy.
 
Original Audition Date: December 7, 1948
 
Starring: Dick Powell as Johnny Dollar; William Conrad; Betty Lou Gerson; Joseph Kearns
 
Guest: Andrew Rhynes of the OTR Westerns podcast

The Great Detectives Old Time Radio Volume 1 (Seasons 1-3): https://volume1.greatdetectives.net
 
The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2 (Seasons 4-6) https://volume2.greatdetectives.net
 
The Great Detectives of Old TIme Radio Volume 3 (Seasons 7-9) https://volume3.greatdetectives.net
 
The Great Detectives of Old TIme Radio Detective Compilation YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDFIOdWlnzL-YP6EZpi6JI1nLn6Hm4tAI


Also referenced: Podcast Alley and The Radio Detective Story Hour
 
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Today's Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Romero search for a check forger who's been passing checks at small businesses.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 31, 1950

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday; Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero; Peggy Webber; Herb Butterfield

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Today's Mystery: Johnny goes to Birmingham, Alabama to investigate the theft of a rare Confederate coin.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 28, 1957

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Virginia Gregg; Eleanor Audley; Herb Ellis; Herb Vigran; Forrest Lewis; Vic Perrin

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Today's Mystery: While on a train, a beautiful bracelet appears in the Norths' compartment, and then disappears.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: Sometime in 1943

Originating from New York City

Starring: Joseph Curtain as Jerry North; Alice Frost as Pamela North

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Today's Mystery: Danny investigates when a man is found dead in a movie theater seat.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 3, 1949

Originating in Hollywood

Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Gino Tartaglia; Junius Matthews; Mary Jane Croft; Paul Dubov; Herbert Rawlinson; Joyce McCluskey; Joe Forte

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Today's Mystery: Captain Drummond tries to remember how he got into a dangerous situation with a life on the line. It all started with a mysterious woman showing up in his compartment on an East-bound train.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 9, 1948

Originating in New York

Starring: Ned Wever as Bulldog Drummond, Luis Van Rooten as Denny

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Today's Mystery: A blackmailer is killed after the fiancé of a victim confronts him.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 27, 1951

Originating from New York

Starred: Les Damon as the Falcon, Chuck Webster as Sergeant Corbett, Mandel Kramer, Maurice Tarplin

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Poirot is called upon by the insurance to investigate the apparent natural death of a wealthy man who just passed a physical for a life insurance policy for his young wife.

Original Air Date: October 6, 1942

Originated in New York

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Todays Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Romero join an inter-agency search for a missing Highway Patrol Officer.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 24, 1950

Originating from Hollywood

Starred: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday, Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero, Raymond Burr, Herb Butterfield, Stacy Harris

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Today's Mystery: Johnny and Buster Favor are carjacked on a desert road on a hot night.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 21, 1957

Originated from Hollywood

Stars: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar. Virginia Gregg, Lawrence Dobkin, Barney Phillips, Chester Stratton, Junius Matthews

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Today's Mystery:  A perjurer whose testimony got a friend of the Norths' convicted of murder is offering them a chance to buy a letter that clears their friend's name.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 6, 1943

Originated from New York City

Starred: Joseph Curtain as Jerry North, Alice Frost as Pamela North

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Today's Mystery: At the request of the mother of a condemned man, Danny re-investigates the murder of a jeweler's daughter.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 26, 1945

Originated in Hollywood

Stars: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Cloverk, Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia, Lillian Buyeff, Parley Baer, Tony Barrett, David Ellis, Vivian Baylor

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Today's Mystery:Captain Drummond and Denny pursue an escapee from a mental asylum with homicidal intentions across an isolated island.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 12, 1948

Originating in New York

Starring: Ned Wever as Bulldog Drummond; Luis Van Rooten as Denny

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