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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...
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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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Episodes
The Big Story: Cornered Rats Always Squeal (EP4982)
5/26/2026
Today's Mystery:A reporter believes that a police informer is hiding something and sets out to fo find the truth.
Original Radio Broadcast:August 16, 1950
Originating in New York
Starring: Bill Smith as Chester Potter, Joan Shea, Larry Haines, Bill Lipton, George Petrie, Joe DeSantis
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Duration:00:32:55
The Saint: A Real Gone Guy (EP4981)
5/25/2026
Today's Mystery: Simon investigates the murder of a band leader.
Original Radio Broadcast Date:
Originating from Hollywood
Starred: Vincent Price as Simon Templar, Vivie Janis, William Johnstone
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Duration:00:37:48
Counterspy: Blackmailed Hijacker (A0090)
5/23/2026
Today's Adventure: A truck driver is blackmailed into covering the identity of a hijacker and murderer.
Original Radio Broadcast: August 9, 1949
Originating in New York
Starring Don McLaughlin as David Harding, Mandel Kramer as Peters, Ken Lynch
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Duration:00:35:22
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Cautious Celibate Matter (EP4980)
5/22/2026
Today's Mystery: Johnny takes a nationwide dash to escape Durango Laramie Dalheart and avoid a foced marriage.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 19, 1959
Originated from Hollywood
Stars: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar, Virginia Gregg, Jeanne Tatum, John McIntire, G. Stanley Jones
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Duration:00:31:16
Dragnet: The Big Producer (EP4979)
5/21/2026
Today's Mystery: Joe Friday searches for the source of pornography being passed around by high school students.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 21, 1952
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday; Barney Phillips as Sergeant Ed Jacobs; Virginia Gregg; Ralph Moody
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Duration:00:31:48
Broadway's My Beat: The Ted Ebberly Murder Case (EP4978)
5/20/2026
Today's Mystery:A former prizefighter is suspected of killing a drunk salesman.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 29, 1951
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Jack Kruschen as Sergeant Muggavan; Clayton Post; Roy Glenn; Herb Butterfield; Charlotte Lawrence; Jester Hairston,
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Duration:00:32:39
The Big Story: Death in the Family (EP4977)
5/19/2026
Today’s Mystery:Two children are murdered, apparently killed by their father in a murder-suicide, but a reporter senses that something is wrong.
Original Radio Broadcast: June 21, 1950
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Originating from New YorkStarring: Larry Haines as William Noble; Barbara Weeks; Bill Smith; Bob Dryden
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Duration:00:32:49
The Saint: Sonata for a Slayer (EP4976)
5/18/2026
Today's Mystery: A man asks Simon to investigate a case where a talented pianist's life is endangered by Beethoven, but then is murdered himself.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 18, 1950
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Vincent Price as Simon Templar; Alice Frost; Fritz Feld; Tony Barrett; George Neise
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Duration:00:33:13
Counterspy: The Case of the Poison Peddler (A0088)
5/16/2026
Today's Adventure: David Harding takes on a hate group that has inspired the beating of a local shopkeeper.
Original Radio Broadcast:February 24, 1949
Originating from New York
Starring: Don McLaughlin as David Harding; Mandel Kramer as Peters; Ken Lynch
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Duration:00:36:33
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Fair Weather Friend Matter (EP4975)
5/15/2026
Today's Mystery: Johnny is summoned to Bum Spung, Oklahhoma by a friend of Durango Laramie's.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 12, 1959
Originated from Hollywood
Stars: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar. Virginia Gregg, Junius Matthews, G. Stanley Jones, James McCallion, Bill James
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Duration:00:32:10
Dragnet: The Big Phone Call (EP4974)
5/14/2026
Todays Mystery: Friday and Jacobs confront a jewelry store owner with evidence that he was behind a jewelry robbery.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 14, 1952
Originating from Hollywood
Starred: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday, Barney Phillips as Sergeant Ed Jacobs, Vic Perrin
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Duration:00:32:10
Broadway's My Beat: The Lucille Baker Murder Case (EP4973)
5/13/2026
Today's Mystery: An ex-boxer is accused of murder.
Original Radio Broadcast Date:December 29, 1951
Originated in Hollywood
Stars: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover, Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia, Jack Kruschen as Sergeant Muggavan
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Duration:00:37:22
The Big Story: Shotgun and Fatal Accident (EP4972)
5/12/2026
Today's Mystery: A wealthy man claims that his wife was accidentally killed by a shotgun. A reporter searches for evidence that the wife was murdered.
Original Radio Broadcast: July 12, 1950
Originating from New York
Starring: Bill Quinn as Bill Griffin; Amzie Strickland; Anita Anton; Paul McGrath; Roger De Coven; Lyle Sudrow; Mason Adams; Bob Dryden
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Duration:00:30:57
The Saint: The Sinister Sneeze (EP4971)
5/11/2026
Today's Mystery: At the request of a sneezing woman on a bus, Simon tries to protect a very bad boxer who finds himself an unexpected favorite in his fight against a much better boxer.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 11, 1950
Originating from Hollywood
Starred: Vincent Price as Simon Templar, Lawrence Dobkin as Louie, Peter Leeds, Sandra Gould ; Barney Phillips;
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Duration:00:35:15
Counterspy: The Case of the Mexican Rancho (A0086)
5/9/2026
Today's Adventure: Harding and Peters go to Mexico to intercept spies trying to gain control of a new Uranium supply.
Original Radio Broadcast: February 22, 1949
Originating in New York
Starring Don McLaughlin as David Harding, Mandel Kramer as Peters Joan Alexander
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Duration:00:35:36
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Frisco Fire Matter (EP4970)
5/8/2026
Today's Mystery: On a tip from his informant, Smokey, Johnny travels to San Francisco to investigate a fire everyone insists was an accident.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 12,. 1959
Originated from Hollywood
Stars: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar, Virginia Gregg, Gil Stratton, Jr., Tony Barrett, Vic Perin, Lawrence Dobkin, Alan Reed, Paul Dubov, Bartlett Robinson, Donald Mosley
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Duration:00:30:34
Dragnet: The Big Honeymoon (EP4969)
5/7/2026
Todays Mystery: Joe Friday and Ed Jacobs hunt down a con man who marries women for their money and leaves them.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 7, 1952
Originating from Hollywood
Starred: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday, Barney Phillips as Sergeant Ed Jacobs, Virginia Gregg
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Duration:00:31:26
Broadway's My Beat: The Mary Smith Murder Case (EP4968)
5/6/2026
Today's Mystery: A woman is found murdered in a cheap hotel.
Original Radio Broadcast Date:Decemnber 8, 1951
Originated in Hollywood
Stars: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover, Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia, Jack Kruschen as Sergeant Muggavan, Betty Lou Gerson, Stan Waxman, Steve Roberts, David Wolfe
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Duration:00:34:41
The Big Story: New Facts About a 26-Year Frame-Up (EP4967)
5/5/2026
Today's Mystery: Reporter Ralph Goll becomes suspicious of the results of a murder case when he learns that the detective involved had later been convicted of graft and the sheriff at the time had committed suicide before the trial.
Original Radio Broadcast: March 1, 1950
Originating from New York
Starring: Nat Polen as Ralph Goll; Athena Lorde; John Shea; Bill Smith; Scott Tennyson; Walter Greska; Tom Heaphy; Humphrey Davis
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Duration:00:32:22
The Saint: The Cake that Killed (EP4966)
5/4/2026
Today's Mystery: Simon gets a cake at a bakery from a woman in distress and finds himself caught up in a case of larceny and murder.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 8, 1950
Originating from Hollywood
Starred: Vincent Price as Simon Templar, Betty Lou Gerson, Peter Leeds, Dan O'Herleheigh, Larry Dobkin, Ted Von Else
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Duration:00:30:18