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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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Currently Featuring

Amazing World of Radio

The War

OTR Superman Show

Detective Video Theater

Recent Posts

EP0713: Let George Do It: A Crime Too Simple

Bob Bailey

Two Coast Guardsmen shoot a professional hitman who had been hired to kill a cook. The crime is very simple. George is convinced its too simple to solve and the only way to solve it is to make it more complicated.

Original Air Date: October 22, 1951

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EP0712: Leonidas Witherall: Dead Man In the Closet

Walter Hampden

At a party for a local organization at his home, Leonidas finds a corpse in the closet.

Original Air Date: June 4, 1944

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EP0711: Barrie Craig: Two Dead Men

William Gargan

Barrie is protecting a woman’s jewels at a tennis match and then witnesses a tennis player dying by poison.

Original Air Date: June 23, 1955

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EP0710: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Philip Morey Matter

John Lund
When the start of a television  show that’s insured has a breakdown, Johnny is called in to investigate.

Original Air Date: October 13, 1953

 

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EP0709: Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of Black Peter

An old sea captain who stole a fortune is found stabbed with a harpoon. The son of the man who the old captain robbed and murdered is quickly suspect by a Holmes protege on the police force, but Holmes believes someone else is behind the plot.

Original Air Date: October 17, 1948

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EP0708: Let George Do It: No Way Out

 Bob Bailey

A young man has stumbled into working for a racket and needs George’s help to get out of it.

Original Air Date: October 1, 1951

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