Category: Mystery Special

Mystery Special, OTR Detective, Podcast, Suspense

Suspense: Crank Letter (EP4652s)

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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)

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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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CBS, Lux Radio Theatre, Mystery Special, OTR Detective, Podcast

Lux Radio Theater: Street With No Name (EP4604s)

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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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ABC, Mystery Special, OTR Detective, Podcast

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

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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, Mystery Special, napodpomo, NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast

Molle Mystery Theater: Red Wine (EP4558)

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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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Mystery Special, OTR Detective, Podcast

Fifteen Years Ago (EP4526s)

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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
The Great Detectives Old Time Radio Volume 1 (Seasons 1-3): https://volume1.greatdetectives.net
The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2 (Seasons 4-6) https://volume2.greatdetectives.net
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CBS, Escape, Mystery Special, OTR Detective, Podcast

Escape: The Target (EP4502s)

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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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Mystery Special, OTR Detective, Podcast

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

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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)

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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 Theater, Mystery Special, NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast

Molle Mystery Theatre: Corpus Delecti (EP4454s)

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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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Lux Radio Theater: Thunder on the Hill (EP4400s)

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Claudette Colbert
Today’s Mystery:

A nun becomes convinced that a condemned woman stranded at her Norfolk convent in the midst of torrential rains is innocent. Can the nun save her before her looming execution?

Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 9, 1953

Originating in Hollywood

Starring: Claudette Colbert as Sister Mary; Barbara Rush as Valerie Carns; Norma Varden; Paul Frees; Mary Flynn; Herb Butterfield; Ottola Nesmith; Dan O’Herlihy; Joseph Kearns; Leo Britt; Jeanne Wood; Lois Corbett; Yvonne Peattie

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Old Time Radio Con Games Special (EP4388s)

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Today, I’m joined by Jim Grinstead of the Scams and Cons Podcast as we delve into two scam-related old time radio podcasts.

Today’s 1st Mystery:

First up, there’s no such thing as easy money.

That’s a lesson a rich young man learns as he’s forced to lure his friends into the clutches of a big-time gambler to square his own debts. Can magician-turned-detective Mike Trent help? We find out in this episode of Easy Money, “The Gallopping Ivories”

Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 14, 1954

Originating in New York

Starring: Larry Haines as Mike Trent; Ralph Bell; Peter Fernandez; Maurice Tarplin

Today’s 2nd Mystery:

Joe Friday and Ben Romero go after a gang of con-men who are victimizing the families of recently deceased people in the Big Betty.

Original Air Date: November 23, 1950

Originating in Los Angeles

Starring: Jack Webb as Joe Friday; Barton Yarborough as Ben Romero

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Hollywood Star Time: Hot Spot (EP4352s)

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Today’s Mystery:

Based on the movie I Wake Up Screaming, a Broadway promoter is suspected of murdering an up-and-coming actress, by a dogged police officer who always gets his man.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 27, 1946

Originating in Hollywood

Starring: Brian Donlevy as Frankie Christopher; Vincent Price as Ed Cornell; Lurene Tuttle; Gloria Blondell; Theodore Von Elt; Harry Bartell; David Ellis; Elliott Reid

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Mystery Special, OTR Detective, Podcast, Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes: The Elusive Agent (Complete Adventure) (EP4334s)

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Today’s Mystery:

The year is 1913 and international tensions run thick. Sherlock Holmes’s brother, Mycroft, calls him out of retirement to secure the return of stolen plans for an experimental tank.

Original Radio Broadcast Dates: March 21, 28, and April 4, 1949

Originating in New York

Starring: John Stanley as Holmes; George Spelvin as Watson

We’re joined by special Guest Tom Fox of the Compliance Podcast Network and the Adventures in Compliance Podcast

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Twice Told Tale – The McCoy: Three Wayward Girls and Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Starlet Matter

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Once again, we take a look at an old time radio script that was recycled. In this case, the script was a pilot for a new radio series, The McCoy, and then was reused as an episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar.

The McCoy is called in by an agent who fears that one of his clients, a promising actress, will be murdered. While they’re talking, a phone call comes in and they learn she was strangled to death.

Originating in Hollywood

Audition date: April 24, 1951

Starring: Howard Duff as The McCoy; Sidney Miller; Sheldon Leonard; Cathy Lewis; Ed Max; Barton Yarborough

Johnny is sent to Hollywood because an agent fears his starlet client is going to be murdered. Johnny finds she’s already been strangled to death.

Originating in Hollywood

Original Air Date: January 16, 1953

Starring: John Lund as Yours Truly Johnny Dollar; Sidney Miller; Raymond Burr; Dick Ryan; John McIntire; Vic Perrin; Virginia Gregg; Jeanette Nolan

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