Bob Bailey & Virginia Gregg

Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio! A podcast featuring the best vintage detective radio programs. Each week from Monday through Saturday, we feature six of Old Time Radio's great detective series from the beginning of the show to its very last episode. And as a bonus, twice a month we also post a public domain movie or TV mystery or detective show video.

Along the way, I'll provide you my commentary and offer you opportunities to interact.

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Dragnet, NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, Procedural

EP1928: Dragnet: The Big Cliff

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Jack Webb

A sixty-three-year-old woman dies under mysterious circumstances, the coroner can’t determine a cause of death and suspicion falls on her elderly husband.

Original Air Date: June 28, 1951

CBS, OTR Detective, Podcast, Yours Truly Johnny Dollar, YTJD Add

EP1927: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Will and a Way Matter

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Johnny is called back to Lake Mojave where the Fishing Guide Red is disputing the beneficiary on a friend’s policy.

Original Air Date: July 19, 1959

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Boston Blackie, OTR Detective, Podcast, Syndicated

EP1926: Boston Blackie: Sam Bellows is Dead

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Boston Blackie needs to see a man who won’t answer the door. Blackie tells Farraday he killed the man in order to locate the man, but when the man actually turns up dead, Blackie has to clear himself.

Original Air Date: June 18, 1945

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NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, Richard Diamond

EP1925: Richard Diamond: The Betty Moran Case

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A wealthy woman kills a man who blackmails her and then is shot herself. The police believe it was a murder-suicide, but her husband thinks otherwise and hires Diamond to find her Blackmailer’s partner.

Original Air Date: May 29, 1949

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