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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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Amazing World of Radio

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EP1820: Dragnet: The Big Crime

Jack Webb
Friday and Romero search for two missing four-year-old girls and fear the worst.

Original Air Date: February 15, 1951

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EP1819: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Net of Circumstance Matter

Bob Baily
Johnny arrives on the scene of the robbery where the truth is apparent, but is the official story really the truth?

Original Air Date: March 8, 1959

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EP1818: The Suspense: The Moonstone, Part Two

Peter Lawford
The search for the Moonstone is on. Mister Blake is helping lead the search and receiving an angry reaction from Rachel, who leaves the house refusing to speak to him.

Original Air Date: November 23, 1953

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EP1817: Philip Marlowe: The Dear Dead Days

Gerald Mohr
Marlowe is hired by an elderly widow to find her ex-chauffeur and ends up in a case involving a missing art collection.

Original Air Date: July 14, 1951

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EP1816: The Avenger: The Crypt of Thoth

A professor dies under mysterious circumstances in an Egyptian crypt.

Original Air Date: December 6, 1945

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EP1815: Michael Shayne: Behind the Footlights

Wally Maher
A friend of Mike’s calls him to investigate because she fears a murder will happen at a night club and then one happens.

Original Air Date: August 27, 1945

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EP1814s: Broadway Is My Beat: The Steve Courtney Murder Case

Larry Thor

Danny Clover receives a letter and a phone call saying a wealthy tycoon’s apparent natural death was a murder.

Original Air Date: June 23, 1950

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