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.
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YOURS TRULY, JOHNNY DOLLAR THE FALCON DANGEROUS ASSIGNMENT DRAGNET MR. CHAMELEON ELLERY QUEEN… and more!
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1949-54 Johnny Dollar, CBS, Podcast, Yours Truly Johnny Dollar
EP0260: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Blood River Matter
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Johnny heads to a small town to investigate the murder of an insured
Original Air Date: August 7, 1950
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Mutual, Podcast, Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Old Time Radio
EP0259: Sherlock Holmes: The April Fools Adventure
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Watson joins in an April Fools prank on Sherlock Holmes.
Original Air Date: April 1, 1946
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Let George Do It, Mutual, Podcast
EP0258: Let George Do It: The Elusive One Hundred Grand
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George goes to Nevada to help an actor with gambling debts make enough ona deal to pay off the syndicate. But getting the one hundred grand is not as hard as holding onto it.
Original Air Date:April 18, 1949
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CBS, Jeff Regan, Podcast
EP0257: Jeff Regan: There’s Nothing Like a Pork Chop When Supper Rolls Around
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International is hired to protect a bad, but commercially successful poet, who is then killed after a radio broadcast.
Original Air Date: August 6, 1950
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Box 13, Podcast, Syndicated
EP0256: Box 13: Round Robin
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A letter to Box 13 puts Dan Holiday in the middle of a complicated blackmail scheme.
Original Air Date: December 22, 1948
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Box 13, Golden Age Article
The Best of Box 13
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After 52 episodes, the last Podcast of Box 13 will be released. It’s been a good run with some of the best writing and acting in radio. While there were a few clunkers such as, “Actor’s Alibi” this was the exception rather than rule.
Holiday’s plan to find mystery plots by receiving letters sent to Box 13 at the Star Times has paid off. It’s attracted all kinds: damsels in distress, criminals looking for unwitting accomplices, and people who were just plain crazy. Below are five of my favorites:
A great mystery where Dan tries to find out what a disabled young man who can’t talk meant by sending him a book of poems by Sir Walter Raleigh. Features Ladd’s fantastic reading voice.
This is a very tense and suspenseful story as Holiday finds himself framed for murder, with the local police hunting for him, along with the real killer. His job is to stay alive. It’s one of Holiday’s cleverest adventures.
Dan Holiday answers a letter from a homeless man, and goes undercover as an indigent as he tries to find out who’s behind the disappearance of several homeless men. The answer is shocking.
Dan Holiday got plenty of crazy letters, but this one took the cake. The letter writer informed Holiday that he would kill him in 4 days and that if he went to the police, he’d kill Holiday sooner. Holiday’s challenge is to find the madman–without finding death.
Dan Holidays follows the instructions in a letter to purchase “the Hang Li” piece. The shop owner gives it to Holiday and insists he not pay for it. It’s a very surprising story, and perhaps the most profound of the series.
And there are many other great episodes, all of which are available on our Box 13 page.
1949-54 Johnny Dollar, CBS, Podcast, Yours Truly Johnny Dollar
EP0255: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Henry J. Unger Matter
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An ex-con who Johnny sent up, frames him for murder.
Original Air Date: July 20, 1950
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