
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
YOURS TRULY, JOHNNY DOLLAR THE SILENT MEN CASEY, CRIME PHOTOGRAPHER THE FAT MAN MYSTERY IS MY HOBBY SUSPENSE INDICTMENT UNDER ARREST MAN CALLED X … and more! View all shows
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Video Theater
Video Theater 201: Man with A Camera: The Warning
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Mike is called out on a job and is coerced by a criminal into taking a picture of a man as he’s murdered.
Original Air Date: October 17, 1958
Season 1, Episode 2
NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, Procedural
EP3422: The Silent Men: Death and Taxes
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A Treasury Agent goes undercover to try and find proof that a racketeer is evading taxes and then ends up a real spot when he finds out how he’s doing it.
Original Air Date: December 2, 1951
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Audio Drama Review, Golden Age Article
Audio Drama Review: The Collected Bowdrie Dramatizations, Volume 3
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The final collection of dramatizations of stories featuring Louie L’Amour’s tough and smart Texas Ranger, Chick Bowdrie (Reathel Bean) offers six more adventures as he hunts down and solves mysteries as he roams the state of Texas serving justice as he goes.
The first four stories in the set have a strong mystery element and he makes a good detective. The mysteries aren’t top tier, but they’re engaging enough.
The last two stories, “Down Sonora Way” and “Strange Pursuit” are different as each is about Bowdrie chasing outlaws. “Down Sonora Way” finds the ranger in a stalemate with an outlaw when they both observe a settler family butting heads with indigenous peoples and they decide to call a truce to rescue the family from harm’s way. In “Strange Pursuit,” Bowdrie is on the trail of a quick-witted outlaw whose exploits included hanging a sheriff who was trying to hang him and riding off with the sheriff’s horse. Bowdrie spent weeks on the man’s trail and spends much of the story making little progress and picking up new tales of his exploits.
Overall, these are at the same level as the previous two collections. While most of L’Amour’s characters aren’t complex, they do have some interesting wrinkles. His level of research and knowledge of the old west is profound. In fact, one of these stories includes a bonus addition of L’Amour talking about sign tracking. The stories are thoroughly entertaining. Bean is superb at Bowdrie and all the other actors are on-point.
The Bowdrie collections would be enjoyed by anyone who loves tales of the Old West, or even if you’re not big into Westerns, if you like well-made audio dramas, this is definitely worth a listen.
Rating: 4.0 out of 5.0
CBS, OTR Detective, Podcast, Yours Truly Johnny Dollar
EP3421: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Tolhurst Theft Matter
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Johnny takes a tip on a robbery case on the condition he not tell the police.
Original Air Date: October 27, 1951
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Mystery is My Hobby, OTR Detective, Podcast, Syndicated
EP3420: Mystery is My Hobby: Estelle Wainwright Murdered
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The wife of an infamous playboy dies of an apparent suicide. Barton Drake suspects murder.
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Man Called X, NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast
EP3419: The Man Called X: Custom Cigarettes
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A woman dies on a train after handing Mr. X a box of custom cigarettes, sending Mister X to Ankara on the trail of a killer and atomic secrets.
Original Air Date: October 13, 1950
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OTR Detective, Podcast, Syndicated, The Fat Man
EP3418: The Fat Man: Murder Makes a King Coffin (AU)
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A woman call Brad and hires him to find out whose been watching her house. Brad arrives to find the house burned down and his client in the hospital.
Original Air Date: March 10, 1955
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