Category: Mystery Special

World’s Great Novels: The Moonstone, Part Four (EP4740)

Today’s Mystery: An experiment reveals how the diamond got out of Rachel Verinder’s cabinet. But where is it now?

Original Air Date: April 23, 1948

Originating from Chicago

Starring: Sherman Marks as Gabriel Betterridge; Arthur Sedgewick as Sergeant Cuff; Charles Mountain as Franklin Blake, Jonathan Hull, Dick York, Donald Gallagher, Boris Aplon, Marvin Peisner

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World’s Great Novels: The Moonstone, Part Three (EP4734)

Today’s Mystery: After a tragic suicide, Sergeant Cuff’s dismissed with the theft of the Moonstone still unsolved. A year later, someone else picks up the investigation.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 16, 1948

Originating from Chicago

Starring: Sherman Marks as Gabriel Betterridge; Arthur Sedgewick as Sergeant Cuff; Charles Mountain as Franklin Blake; Geraldine Kaye as Rachel Verinder; Alma Fox; Jane Elliot; Ruth Shane; Minion Shriver; Sidney Breese; Arthur Peterson, Maurice Copeland

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World’s Great Novels: The Moonstone, Part Two (EP4728)

Today’s Mystery:

England’s greatest detective is called in to recover the Moonstone.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 9, 1948

Originating from Chicago

Starring: Sherman Marks as Gabriel Betterridge; Arthur Sedgewick as Sergeant Cuff; Charles Mountain as Franklin Blake; Geraldine Kaye as Rachel Verinder; Alma Fox; Jane Elliot; Ruth Shane; Minion Shriver; Sidney Breese; Les Spears

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The World’s Great Novels: The Moonstone, Part One (EP4722)

Today’s Mystery:

In the mid-19th Century, a young English woman has inherited a large Indian diamond from her evil uncle. She decides to wear it as a brooch on her eighteenth birthday. What could go wrong?

Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 2, 1948

Originating from Chicago

Starring: Sherman Marks as Gabriel Betterridge; Charles Mountain as Franklin Blake; Geraldine Kaye as Rachel Verinder; Alma Fox; Jane Elliot; Ruth Shane; Sidney Breese; Arthur Peterson; Boris Aplon; Margaret Brayton

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The Chase: The Amusement Park (EP4700s)

 

Today’s Mystery:

A woman operating a shooting gallery game at an amusement park suspects that the death of an elderly watchman for the carnival is tied to a firebug who has been operating in town.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 14, 1952

Originating from New York

Starring: Adelaide Klein as Cathy; Bill Lipton; Patrick Campbell; Sydney Smith; Walter Black

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Suspense: Crank Letter (EP4652s)

Les Damon

Today’s Mystery:

A police lieutenant is notified that a doctor has received threatening letters.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 21, 1960

Originating from New York

Starring: Les Damon as Lieutenant Paul Nieman; Lyle Sudrow as Dr. Don Frasier;  Phil Meader; Larry Haines

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Sam Spade: The Dry Martini Caper/ Mr. Moto: The Case of the Dry Martini (Twice Told Tale) (EP4640s)

Today’s First Mystery: Sam Spade is hired by a man who is then shot down in front of him with a carbine.

Original Release Date: August 1, 1948

Starring: Howard Duff as Sam Spade; Lurene Tuttle as Effie; Jack Webb; WIlliam Conrad

Today’s 2nd Mystery: While investigating an international narcotics ring, Mr. Moto finds himself in the center of the murder of the owner of an import-export company who was shot with a carbine.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 20, 1951

Originating from New York

Starred: James Monks as Mr. I.A. Moto

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Lux Radio Theater: Street With No Name (EP4604s)

Mark Stevens

Today’s Mystery:

An FBI agent (Mark Stevens) goes undercover in the gang of an up-and-coming racketeer (Richard Widmark).

Origianl Air Date: January 31, 1949

Originating in Hollywood

Starring: Mark Stevens as Agent Gene Cordell; Richard Widmark; Lloyd Nolan; John McIntire; Ed Begley; William Johnstone; Jeff Chandler; Cliff Clark; Sam Edwards; Edward Marr; Charlotte Lawrence; Ross Taylor; Paul Dubov; Ed Emerson; Robert Griffin; Harry Lewis; Eleanor Audley; Jay Novello; Edwin Max; Tyler McVey

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This is Your FBI: The Return of Saint Nick (EP4582)

Today’s Mystery: FBI Special Agent Jim Taylor delays his vacation home. to find a Settlement House Santa Clause who disappeared.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 22, 1950

Starring Stacy Harris as Special Agent Jim Taylor,  Jeffrey Silver, Peggy Webber, Roland Winters, Victor Rodman,

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Molle Mystery Theater: Red Wine (EP4558)

Ken Lynch

Today’s Mystery:

A San Francisco detective is convinced that one of three Americans at a Brazillian plantation is a fugitive killer in disguise. But which one?

Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 8, 1946

Originating from New York City

Starring: Ken Lynch

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Fifteen Years Ago (EP4526s)

This week, we look back at our first week of podcasts from 2009, with Adam’s current extended thoughts on each episode and reaction to his own commentar.

Original Podcast Release Date: October 26, 2009

Dan Holiday tries to jumpstart his writing career through an ad in a newspaper. His first letter is from a woman who tells Dan she’s being blackmailed.

Original Radio Air Date: October 17, 1947

Originating in Hollywood

Starring: Alan Ladd as Dan Holiday; Sylvia Picker as Suzie

Original Podcast Release Date: October 27, 2009

 

Pat Novak is hired to frighten a man named Dixie Gillian, but when an empty gun goes off, he finds himself facing a murder charge.
“You couldn’t hold a moth with a searchlight.” – Pat Novak to Hellman
Original Air Date: November 24, 1946
Originating in San Francisco
Starring: Jack Webb as Pat Novak; Tudor Owen as Jocko Madigan
Original Podcast Release Date: October 28, 2009

On his first day as a private detective, George Valentine gets his first client – a famous writer who tells him he’s about to be murdered and then collapses on the spot. The body then vanishes, leaving George to find out what happened.

Original Audition Date: May 14, 1946

Originating in Hollywood
Starring: Bob Bailey as George Valentine; Shirley Mitchell as Claire; Eddie Firestone, Jr. as Sonny; Joseph Kearns; Georgia Backus; Howard McNear; Horace Murphy
Original Podcast Release Date: October 30, 2009

Johnny Dollar is retained to protect a man who has threatened suicide after making a notorious gambling kingpin the beneficiary on his life insurance policy.
Original Audition Date: December 7, 1948
Starring: Dick Powell as Johnny Dollar; William Conrad; Betty Lou Gerson; Joseph Kearns
Guest: Andrew Rhynes of the OTR Westerns podcast
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Escape: The Target (EP4502s)

Today’s Mystery:

An insurance investigator has tracked a man, who embezzled $100,000, to Chile.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 18, 1954

Originating in Hollywood

Starring: Whitfield Connor as Vic Kennedy; Jay Novello; Mary Jane Croft; Herb Butterfield; Hans Conreid

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Twice Told Tales: Richard Diamond: The Simpson Case and Johnny Dollar: The Jonathan Bellows Matter (EP4484s)

Today’s First Mystery:

The wife of a wealthy oil man hires Richard Diamond to protect her husband after an attempt on his life.

Original Air Date: January 18, 1952

Originating in Hollywood

Starring: Dick Powell as Richard Diamond; Virginia Gregg as Helen; Alan Reed as Lieutenant Walt Levinson Virginia; Jeanne Bates; Herb Butterfield; Tony Michaels

Today’s Second Mystery: Johnny is called in when an insured, wealthy man is shot at.

Original Air Date: June 23, 1953

Originating in Hollywood:

Starring: John Lund as Johnny Dollar; Clayton Post; Virginia Gregg; Tony Barrett; Ralph Moody; Howard McNear; Martha Wentworth

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Phillip Marlowe: The Cloak of Kamehameha and Hawaiian Fantasies (EP4478s)

Gerald Mohr
Today’s Mystery:

Marlowe is sent to Hawaii to facilitate the sale of a feather cloak belonging to the famous Hawaiian king, Kamehameha.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 23, 1949

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Gerald Mohr as Philip Marlowe; Berry Kroeger; Byron Kane; John Dehner; Laurette Fillbrandt; Clark Gordon

Then we feature an episode of Hawaiian Fantasies, which brings to life the mesmerizing legend of the Feather Cloak of Kanikaniya, a tale of beauty, magic, and romance. Join us as we journey through words and music to the island of Maui, where the spirit of a beautiful maiden and a fleet-footed runner intertwine in a story that transcends time. Discover how the first feather cloak came to be and its magical powers that still captivate imaginations today.

Original Air Date: 1935

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Molle Mystery Theatre: Corpus Delecti (EP4454s)

Ken Lynch

Today’s Mystery:

A police detective has 48 hours to find proof of the innocence of his brother, who is on death row.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 17, 1947

Originating in New York

Starring: Ken Lynch

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