Month: March 2026

NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, The Big Story

The Big Story: The Corn Cob Killer (EP4942)

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Today’s Mystery:

A reporter wants his paper to run a story identifying the murderer of a river boy, when no body has been found and there’s no evidence he was murdered.

Original Radio Broadcast: October 26, 1949

Originating from New York

Starring: Beryl Firestone as Harold Faller; Hazel Logan; Jim Boles; Jim Stevens; Scott Tennyson; Bob Dryden; Sandy Bickhart

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Mutual, OTR Detective, Podcast, The Saint

The Saint: Greed Causes Murder (EP4941)

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Vincent Price

Today’s Mystery:

The Saint becomes inovlved when everyone wants to buy an old junker of a car from an elderly man.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 14, 1949

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Vincent Price as Simon Templar,Lurene Tuttle, Dan O’Herlihy, Tony Barrett, Barney Phillips, Fred Howard,]

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ABC, Counterspy, OTR Detective, Podcast

Counterspy: Explosive Dog (A0074)

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Today’s Adventure:

A spy plans to use a dog to destroy a critical research facility.

Original Radio Broadcast: July 25, 1945

Originating from New York

Starring: Don McLaughlin as David Harding; Maurice Tarplin

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Mutual, OTR Detective, Podcast, Yours Truly Johnny Dollar

Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Blue Madonna Matter (EP4940)

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Bob Bailey

Today’s Mystery:

Johnny Dollar receives a telephone call from a denizen of the Parisian underworld about an insured oil painting.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 22, 1959

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; G. Stanley Jones; Forrest Lewis; Harry Bartell; Joseph Kearns; Bert Holland; Byron Kane

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Dragnet, NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast

Dragnet: The Big Red, Part One (EP4939)

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Today’s Mystery:

Friday goes undercover as a narcotics buyer after getting a tip from an informant about a new narcotics ring operating in LA.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 3, 1952

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday; Barney Phillips as Sergeant Ed Jacobs; Stacy Harris

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Broadway's My Beat, CBS, OTR Detective, Podcast

Broadway’s My Beat: The Ricardo Miguel Murder Case (EP4938)

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Larry Thor

Today’s Mystery:

A young man is found murdered in a club in Spanish Harlem.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 27, 1951

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Jack Kruschen as Sergeant Muggavan

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Amazing World of Radio, Podcast

Theater Guild on the Air: Little Women (AWR0293)

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Amazing World of Radio

Today’s Episode: The classic story of the March sisters coming of age.

Original Air Date: December 23, 1945

Starring Katherine Hepburn as Jo Marsh, Elliott Reid, Frances Reid, George Hicks,Oskar Homolka, Susan Douglas

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NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, The Big Story

The Big Story: The Loneliest Man on Earth (EP4937)

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Today’s Mystery:

Reporter Ray Sprigle undertakes an effort to free a man who claims to have been wrongfully convicted of murder at the plea of his ex-wife.

Original Radio Broadcast: October 12, 1949

Originating from New York

Starring: Bill Smith as Ray Sprigle; Barbara Weeks; George Petrie; Joshua Shelley; Eric Dressler; Humphrey Davis; Jim Boles

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Mutual, OTR Detective, Podcast, The Saint

The Saint: The Saint Goes Underground (EP4936)

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Vincent Price

Today’s Mystery: The Saint makes an emergency landing in a small town and finds people immediately threatening him to get him to leave town.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 31, 1949

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Vincent Price as Simon Templar; Harry Bartell; Tony Barrett; Barney Phillips; Colleen Collins; Fred Howard

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ABC, Counterspy, OTR Detective, Podcast

Counterspy: Cherchez La Femme (A0072)

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Today’s Adventure:

David Harding looks into the suicide of a prominent wealthy man tied to the war effort.

Original Radio Broadcast: June 13, 1945

Originating from New York

Starring: Don McLaughlin as David Harding; Mandel Kramer as Peters

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CBS, OTR Detective, Podcast, Yours Truly Johnny Dollar

Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Shankar Diamond Matter (EP4935)

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Bob Bailey

Today’s Mystery:

An eccentric elderly woman has Johnny guard her while she’s wearing a valuable necklace to a party.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 15, 1959

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Lillian Buyeff; Jack Edwards; Barney Phillips; Forrest
Lewis; Eric Snowden

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Broadway's My Beat, CBS, OTR Detective, Podcast

Broadway’s My Beat: The Ricardo Miguel Murder Case

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Larry Thor

Today’s Mystery: Danny investigates a killing near a night club in Spanish Harlem

Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 27, 1951

Originated in Hollywood

Stars: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover, Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia, Jack Kruschen as Sergeant Muggavan, Richard Crenna, Sam Edwards, Harry Bartell, Lillian Buyeff,  Marvin Miller, Herb Butterfield, Edgar Barrier.

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Dragnet, NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, Procedural

Dragnet: The Big Sorrow (EP4934)

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Today’s Mystery:

Joe mourns the death of his partner Ben Romero as he joins the search for two escaped robbers.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 27, 1951

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday, Barney Phillips as Sergeant Ed Jacobs, Vic Perrin, Herb Butterfield

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Broadway's My Beat, CBS, OTR Detective, Podcast

Broadway’s My Beat: The Kurt Bower Murder Case (EP4933)

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Larry Thor

Today’s Mystery:

Danny gets a tip that a wealthy woman’s life is endangered. Her ski instructor is murdered instead.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 21, 1951

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Jack Kruschen as Sergeant Muggavan; Betty Lou Gerson; Ted Osborne; Irene Tedrow

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NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, The Big Story

The Big Story: The Poison Pen Murders (EP4932)

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Today’s Mystery:

A reporter with a reputation for making errors tries to solve the murder of a laundry owner.

Original Radio Broadcast: July 20, 1949

Originating from New York

Starring: Jackson Beck as Tom Mercer; Barbara Townsend; Alice Rinehart; Ted Osborn; Santos Ortega; Gil Mack; Milton Herman

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