Bob Bailey & Virginia Gregg
The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio is 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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- Your host, Adam Graham
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NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, The Big Story
The Big Story: The Lottery (EP4902)
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Today’s Mystery:
A reporter goes undercover to get the dope on an Atlanta numbers racket.
Original Radio Broadcast: July 21, 1948
Originating from New York
Starring: George Petrie; James Van Dyk; James Monks; Mercedes McCambridge; Ted De Corsia; John Sylvester
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Danger with Grainger, OTR Detective, Podcast, Syndicated
Danger with Grainger: The Triangle Affair (EP4901)
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Today’s Mystery:
A released convict asked Grainger to prove he was innocent of the robbery that landed him in jail.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1956 or 1957
Originating from Australia
Starring: Harp McGuire as Steve Grainger
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CBS, Mystery Special, OTR Detective, Podcast, Screen Guild Theatre
Screen Guild Theater: My Favorite Brunette (EP4900s)
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Today’s Mystery:
A baby photographer impersonates an out-of-town private investigator and gets mixed up with a beautiful woman who wants him to find her missing uncle.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 13, 1947
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Bob Hope as Ronny Jackson; Dorothy Lamour; Frank Nelson
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OTR Detective, Podcast
Lux Radio Theater: Cloak and Dagger (A0058)
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Today’s Adventure:
A scientist joins the OSS in 1944 to find out about the progress of the German atomic program and to make contact with a Hungarian scientist being forced to work with them.
Original Radio Broadcast: May 3, 1948
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Ronald Reagan as Alvah Jesper; Jeff Chandler; Herb Butterfield; William Johnstone; Norman Field; Regina Wallace; Robert Griffin; Marjorie Haskelle; Ben Wright; June Whitley; Jay Novello; Jack Petruzzi; Edward Marr; Charles La Torre
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CBS, OTR Detective, Podcast, Yours Truly Johnny Dollar
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Gruesome Spectacles Matter (EP4900)
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Today’s Mystery:
Johnny is called to investigate the death of an insured man in a car accident that quickly turns out to be murder.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 28, 1958
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Virginia Gregg; Harry Bartell; Junius Matthews; Joseph
Kearns
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Dragnet, NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, Procedural
Dragnet: The Big Lease (EP4899)
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Todays Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Romero investigate the disappeared of a widower, who recently lost his wife.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 1, 1951
Originating from Hollywood
Starred: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday, Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero
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Broadway's My Beat, CBS, OTR Detective, Podcast
Broadway’s My Beat: The Howard Crawford Murder Case (EP4898)
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Today’s Mystery:
A man drowns in an uptown public swimming pool, but was it actually murder?
Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 5, 1951
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Jack Kruschen as Sergeant Muggavan; Mary Jane Croft; Hy Averback; Stan Waxman; Michael Ann Barrett
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