Category: Mystery Special

Mystery Special, OTR Detective, Podcast

Twice Told Tale: Dangerous Assignment: Guided Missile Plans and Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Picture Postcard Matter (EP5055s)

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Dangerous Assignment — “Guided Missile Plans”
Steve Mitchell is sent to Dublin to recover stolen microfilm containing plans for a new American guided missile. His pursuit of the suspected courier leads him through England, where two deaths and a series of seemingly innocent picture postcards provide his best hope for locating the missing plans before someone else gets to them.

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — “The Picture Postcard Matter”
Johnny Dollar travels to Switzerland after $100,000 in uncut diamonds are stolen from a courier at the Zurich airport. His only lead is a mysterious informant offering to arrange their return, but Johnny soon finds himself caught between competing players while a picture postcard offers a cryptic clue to where the diamonds may be hidden.

Original Radio Broadcast Dates:

  • Dangerous Assignment: August 30, 1950.
  • Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar: October 1–5, 1956.

Both programs are originating from Hollywood

Cast — Dangerous Assignment:

  • Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell
  • Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner
  • Written by Robert Reif (Bob Reif)
  • Music by Basil Adlam
  • Music conducted by Ralph Hollenbeck
  • Produced and directed by Bill Karn

Cast — Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar:

  • Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar
  • Lucille Meredith
  • Victor Perrin
  • Forrest Lewis
  • Stan Jones
  • Ben Wright
  • Written by Robert Reif
  • Produced and directed by Jack Johnstone
  • Musical supervision by Amerigo Marino
  • Roy Rowan, announcer

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Dragnet, Mystery Special, NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast

Dragnet: The Big Badge (Peggy Webber Special) (EP5050s)

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Today’s Mystery:

Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero hunt for the “Badge Bandit,” a violent criminal who poses as a police officer to rob and assault his victims. After weeks of investigation, the search becomes dangerously personal when Friday and Romero encounter the suspect during a massive overnight manhunt.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 4, 1950

Originating from Hollywood

Cast:

  • Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday
  • Barton Yarborough as Ben Romero
  • Peggy Webber as Joe Friday’s mother

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Lux Radio Theater: The Fallen Sparrow (EP5000s)

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Today’s Mystery:

After returning to New York following years of imprisonment during the Spanish Civil War, John McKittrick learns that a close friend has died under suspicious circumstances. As he investigates, he finds himself caught in a dangerous web of espionage, murder, and betrayal connected to secrets from his wartime past.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 14, 1944

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Robert Young as John McKittrick; Maureen O’Hara as Elma Don; Walter Slezak as Dr. Scoss

Also featuring Charles Seal, Charlotte Treadway, Ed Emerson, George Sorel, Griff Barnett, Howard McNear, Jay Novello, John McIntire, Norman Field, and Rene Gussaire

Produced by Cecil B. DeMille

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Mystery Special, OTR Detective, Podcast, Syndicated

Proudly We Hail: Follow that Man (EP4950s)

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Today’s Mystery:

A private detective is hired to located a woman’s brother, who is tied into underworld activity.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 29, 1950

Originating from New York

Starring: Lee Tracy as Clint Flint; Miriam Wolfe; Bill Lipton; Joe DeSantis

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The Silent Men: The Big Kill and Night Beat: Ellen (Twice-Told Tale) (EP4925s)

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Today’s 1st Mystery:

An investigator for the Civil Aviation Administration gets a call warning of a bomb on a plane.

Original Radio Broadcast: February 3, 1952

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

Today’s 2nd Mystery: Randy receives a tip that there’s a bomb on a plane to Denver.

Original Air Date: September 4, 1952

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Frank Lovejoy as Randy Stone

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Screen Guild Theater: The Glass Key (EP4920s)

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Today’s Story:

The best friend and top lieutenant of a political boss finds himself in the midst of a murder that threatens his boss’s career.

Original Air Date: July 22, 1946

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Alan Ladd; Marjorie Reynolds; Ward Bond

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Screen Guild Theater: My Favorite Brunette (EP4900s)

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Bob Hope

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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The Road to the Valentine Matter (EP4795s)

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Today we take a look at the evolution of E. Jack Neumann’s story that became the five-part Johnny Dollar serial.

Jeff Regan: The Man in the Church

Regan is hired for a simple job of delivering $5,000 to a man, but finds himself wanted for murder.

Original Air Date: October 12, 1949

Starring: Frank Graham as Jeff Regan; Frank Nelson; William Conrad; Sidney Miller

Night Beat: Big John McMasters

Randy Stone befriends an old-time racketeer and becomes concerned when he is shot.

Original Air Date: March 4, 1951

Starring: Frank Lovejoy as Randy Stone; William Conrad; Tudor Owen

Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The San Antonio Matter

Johnny goes to Saint Petersburg to investigate the killing of a mobster.

Original Air Date: April 28, 1953

Starring: John Lund as Johnny Dollar; John McIntire; Joseph Kearns; Jeanette Nolan; Virginia Gregg; Jay Novello

Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Valentine Matter

After investigating a hotel theft in New Orleans, Johnny befriends an old-time bootlegger in a bar.

Original Air Dates: October 31-November 4, 1955

Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Lillian Buyeff; Betty Lou Gerson; Barney Phillips; Will Wright; Forrest Lewis; Marvin Miller; Jay Novello; Jack Moyles

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The Hardy Family: The Case of the Missing Warehouse (EP4790)

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Today’s Mystery:

Andy Hardy takes a job as a night watchman only to seemingly have the whole warehouse he’s guarding disappear.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 10, 1951

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Mickey Rooney as Andy Hardy; Fay Holden; Lewis Stone; Eleanore Tanin; Richard Krenna; Eleanore Tanin

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

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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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