Category: Mystery Special

Jack Carson Show: Sam Spade (EP4016s)

Today’s Mystery:

Jack Carson calls in Sam Spade for protection after receiving a threatening telegram.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 5, 1947

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Hollywood Sound Stage: Call Northside 777 (EP4010s)

Dana Andrews

Today’s mystery:

A reporter responds to the ad of a mother who wants someone to clear her son of the murder of a police officer twelve years before.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 27, 1951

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Lux Radio Theater: Laura (EP4004s)

Laura Film Poster

As he investigates the murder of a young advertising executive (Gene Tierney), a police detective (Dana Andrews) begins to fall in love with the murdered woman.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 5, 1945

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Burns and Allen: Gracie Sends Sam Spade to Jail (EP3950s)

Today’s Mystery:

George Burns and Sam Spade explain to a police lieutenant how Gracie got them thrown into jail for murder.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 10, 1949

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Suspense: Out of Control (EP3902s)


Today’s Mystery:

A blind former police captain finds himself in the middle of an investigation of murder and blackmail.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 28, 1946

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EP3860s: Twice Told Tale: Michael Shayne and Gunsmoke

In The Case of the Crooked Wheel, the owner of a casino has Michael Shayne come to investigate an apparent case of fraud at his casino.

Original Air Date: 1947

In Mark Dillon Goes to Gougeye, the wife of a casino owner has Marshall Dillon travel to the town of Gougeye, where she fears rumors of a crooked wheel will lead to her husband getting hung.

Audition Date: June 11, 1949

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EP3854s: Mystery Audio: First Nighter Sam Spade Spoof

Sam Spade is called in to protect Mister First Nighter from being killed.

The real mystery is where this audio came from.

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EP3800s: Campbell’s Playhouse: The Glass Key

The best friend of a political boss believes the boss is innocent of murdering a senator’s son, but he’s one of the few who do.

Original Air Date: March 10, 1939

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EP3752s: Suspense: The Hands of Mister Ottermole

A London police sergeant (Claude Rains) casts suspicions on a newspaper reporter (Vincent Price) as the perpetrator of a series of murders.

Original Air Date: December 2, 1948

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EP3704s: Silver Theatre: Murder Unlimited

Carole Lombard

A reporter tries to track down a gang that specializes in wholesale murder.

Original Air Date: March 9, 1941

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EP3602s: Lux Radio Theater: Blueprint for Murder

A man’s young niece dies and he begins to suspect that the beautiful stepmother poisoned her and he’s afraid his young nephew might be next.

Original Air Date: March 29, 1954

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EP3554s: The Saint: The Case of the Previewed Crime and the Saint and Barrie Craig: Visitor at Midnight (Twice Told Tale)

A man claiming to be an author wakes Simon to ask if a crime is insolvable. The next day he finds out the murder appears to have happened.

Original Air Date: July 30, 1950

A man visits Barrie at midnight under the cloak of darkness to ask if a murder is unsolvable.

Original Air Date: May 12, 1955

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EP3548s: Superman: The Puzzle of the Poison Pomegranate

Clark Kent investigates when a research scientist is found dead behind a locked room from poisoning.

Original Air Date: November 26, 1949

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EP3542s: Mercury Theater of the Air: The Immortal Sherlock Holmes


Sherlock Holmes tries to recover blackmail letters leading to a confrontation with the Napoleon of Crime-Professor Moriarty.

Original Air Date: September 25, 1938

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EP3500s: Proudly We Hail: This Could Be Murder

A San Francisco police inspector arrives at a scene of an apparent suicide that he suspects could be murder.

Original Air Date: December 3, 1950

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