The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas
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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.
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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.
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Language:
English
Episodes
Cloak and the Dagger: The Norweigan Incident (A0026)
10/11/2025
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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Duration:00:35:35
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Ugly Pattern Matter (EP4820)
10/10/2025
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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Duration:00:32:26
Dragnet: The Big Late Script (EP4819)
10/9/2025
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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Duration:00:32:27
Broadway's My Beat: The Thomas Hart Murder Case (EP4818)
10/8/2025
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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Duration:00:37:31
Charlie Chan: Escaped Musician (EP4817)
10/7/2025
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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Duration:00:29:59
Danger with Grainger: The Rainy Night Murder (EP4816)
10/6/2025
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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Duration:00:29:04
Casebook of Gregory Hood: The Black Museum (Encore) (EP4815e)
10/5/2025
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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Duration:00:33:17
Cloak and Dagger: Roof of the World (A0024)
10/4/2025
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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Duration:00:33:47
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Delectable Damsel Matter (EP4815)
10/3/2025
Today's Mystery:Johnny is called in to investigate the theft of a valuable diamond from a debutante on board a yacht at sea.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 15, 1958
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Virginia Gregg; Chester Stratton; Barney Phillips; Jack Moyles; Frank Gerstle
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Duration:00:31:15
Dragnet: The Big Sophomore (EP4814)
10/2/2025
Today's Mystery: Joe Friday investigates a series of petty robberies in neighborhood stores where the shopkeepers suspect a high school boy.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 19, 1951
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday; Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero; Herb Butterfield; Stacy Harris
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Duration:00:32:30
Broadway's My Beat: The Ben Justin Murder Case (EP4813)
10/1/2025
Today's Mystery: Danny investigates the murder of a former insurance investigator who was found dead in an alley.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 8, 1950
Originated in Hollywood
Stars: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover, Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia, Tony Barrett, Jack Kruschen, Michael Ann Barrett, Virgina Gregg, Sidney Miller
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Duration:00:35:46
Charlie Chan: The Case of the Romantic Engineer (EP4812)
9/30/2025
Today's Mystery: A woman believes her husband has been kidnapped, but instead of a ransom note, she's being sent money.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1950 or 1951
Originating from Sydney
Starring: William Rees as Charlie Chan; Rodney Jacobs
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Duration:00:34:31
Danger with Grainger: Hired Help (EP4811)
9/29/2025
Today's Mystery: Grainger is hired by a wealthy woman to break up her son's disfavoured romance, but complications ensue when the chauffeur is found poisoned.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1956 or 1957
Originating from Australia
Starring: Harp McGuire as Steve Grainger
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Duration:00:31:47
Casebook of Gregory Hood: Three Silver Pesos (Encore) (EP4810e)
9/28/2025
Gregory Hood and Sandy find a man about to jump off a bridge, but he apparently dies of a heart attack while talking about a gun, and traces of cyanide are found, and then a doctor says the man was stabbed.
Original Air Date: June 3, 1946
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Duration:00:34:24
Cloak and Dagger: A Recommendation from Rommel (A0022)
9/27/2025
Today's Adventure: An OSS agent in Italy finds himself in a compartment on the train has been double-booked, and his travel companion is General Rommel.
Original Radio Broadcast: August 6, 1950
Originating from New York
Starring: Ralph Bell; Barry Kroeger; Jan Miner; Boris Aplon; Arnold Moss; Jerry Jarrett; Raymond Edward Johnson; Karl Weber
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Duration:00:35:36
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Wayward River Matter (EP4810)
9/26/2025
Today's Mystery: Johnny is sent to a highly uninsured and underprepared town along the Ohio River to prevent a disaster in the midst of a flood.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 8, 1958
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Chester Stratton; Frank Gerstle; Bob Bruce; Parley Baer
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Duration:00:34:32
Dragnet: The Big Set-Up (EP4809)
9/25/2025
Today's Mystery:Joe Friday and Ben Romero investigate a series of burglaries targeting wealthy homes.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 12, 1951
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday; Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero
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Duration:00:33:15
Broadway's My Beat: The Kenneth Mitchell Murder Case (EP4808)
9/24/2025
Today's Mystery: A terminally ill man is stabbed to death.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 1, 1950
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Jack Kruschen as Sergeant Muggavan; Lou Merrill; Mary Lansing; Lillian Buyeff; Paul McVeigh; Byron Kane
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Duration:00:39:41
Charlie Chan: The Curious Ride of the Sea Witch (EP4807)
9/23/2025
Today's Mystery: Charlie Chan and his number one son track two dangerous escapees to a luxury yacht where a wealthy woman, her daughter, and her erswhile fiancé are in a very nasty argument.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1950 or 1951
Originating in Sydney
Starring: William Rees as Charlie Chan, Rodney Jacobs
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Duration:00:29:54
Danger with Grainger: The FBI and the Scientist (EP4806)
9/22/2025
Today's Mystery: A woman hires Steve Grainger to protect her scientist husband who is working on a top secret experiment.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1956 or 1957
Originating from Australia
Starring: Harp McGuire as Steve Grainger
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Duration:00:35:21