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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CBS, Mystery Special, Podcast, Sam Spade
EP0100s: Screen Guild Theater: The Maltese Falcon
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In this 1943 adaptation of the original hardboiled detective story: Miles Archer, the partner of Sam Spade (played by Humphrey Bogart) is killed while shadowing someone for a client ( Mary Astor.) When the man Archer was shadowing is killed, the police suspect Spade. Spade must find Archer’s killer and to do it he has to match wits against dangerous international criminals (Peter Lorre and Sidney Greenstreet.)
Original Air Date: September 20, 1943
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1949-54 Johnny Dollar, CBS, Early Johnny Dollar, Podcast, Yours Truly Johnny Dollar
EP0100: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Little Man Who Wasn’t All There
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Johnny Dollar is dispatched to San Francisco to investigate a man who is hinting that he’s behind a series of “accidental deaths.” At the time of each death, the man has a perfect alibi.
Original Air Date: October 29, 1949
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Mutual, Podcast, Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Old Time Radio
EP0099: Sherlock Holmes: The Purloined Ruby
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Sherlock Holmes again returns from retirement. This time he and Watson are trying to solve a mystery that surrounds a play based on Sherlock Holmes’ adventures and a stolen ruby from a distant land.
Original Air Date: May 7, 1945
Let George Do It, Mutual, Podcast
EP0098: Let George Do It: Cry Murder
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Another private investigator sent George a letter hiring him “just in case” he’s murdered. When the other investigator is murdered, George goes to work.
Original Air Date: July 19, 1948
Johnny Madero, Mutual, Pat Novak for Hire, Podcast
EP0097: Johnny Madero: The Fatal Auction
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Johnny Madero is offered $50 to buy an item at an auction. His client disappears and before he knows it, Warchek from homicide is breathing down his neck.
Original Air Date: June 26, 1947
Some days you don’t make out any better than an ice cube at a cocktail party.
Box 13, Podcast, Syndicated
EP0096: Box 13: The Better Man
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Dan Holiday can get $200,000 to charity if he’s willing to play a twisted rich man’s game and go head to head with a killer.
Original Air Date: May 19, 1948
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Podcast, Video Theater
Video Theater 002: The Bat
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A mystery writer (Agnes Moorhead) finds herself in the middle of a real life murder mystery in a small town and up against a dangerous serial killer who victimizes women and calls himself “The Bat.” Vincent Price also co-stars.
Rated PG for Violence.
Released: August 9, 1959