Category: Mystery Special

CBS, Mystery Special, OTR Detective, Podcast, Screen Guild Theatre

Stars in the Air: House on 92nd Street (EP4202s)

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Today’s Mystery:

An FBI undercover man infiltrates a Nazi spy ring that could send the secret of Process 97 to the Nazis.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 3, 1952

Originated from Hollywood

Starred: Humphrey Bogart as Agent George Briggs, Keefe Brasselle, Betty Lou Gerson, Lou Merrill, Herb Vigran, Shepard Menken, Paul Dubov, Bob Sweeney, Frank Nelson, Walter Wolf King

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Mystery Special, OTR Detective, Podcast

Twice Told Tale – Man Called X: Murder, Music, and a Blonde Madonna; Christopher London: Pattern for Murder (EP4178s)

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Today’s First Episode:

Ken travels to Italy to follow a composer, to find why that composer’s friend was murdered in New York City.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 10, 1944

Today’s Second Episode:

Christopher London travels to Monaco, to find out why a composer’s friend was murdered in New York City.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 29, 1950

Both Originated from Hollywood.

The Man Called X starred Herbert Marshall as Ken Thurston and Hans Conreid as Egon Zellschmidt

Christopher London starred Glenn Ford as Christopher London, Ben Wright, Eleanor Audley, Ramsey Hill, Jeanette Nolan, Ted de Corsia, Georgia Ellis, Rick Vallin

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CBS, Mystery Special, OTR Detective, Podcast, Suspense

Suspense: The High Wall (EP4172s)

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Today’s Mystery:

A man wakes up in an insane asylum with no idea how he got there.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 6, 1946

Originated from Hollywood

Starred: Robbert Young, George Zucco, Cathy Lewis, Wally Maher

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Mystery Special, OTR Detective, Podcast, Syndicated

Guest Star Detective Double Feature (EP4166s)

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Today’s First Story: Basil Rathbone sets up an office as a radio detective, with Kenny Delmar as his bumbling sidekick.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 24, 1947

Today’s Second Story: A key witness in a Distict Attorney’s (Robert Preston) racketeering case is murdered on his doorstep while leaving an important clue behind.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 18, 1951

Programs Originated from New York and Hollywood

Starred: Basil Rathbone, Kenny Delmar, Robert Preston, Barbara Fuller, Peter Leeds

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CBS, Mystery Special, OTR Detective, Podcast, Suspense

Suspense: Fragile, Contents: Death (EP4154s)

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Victor Perrin

Today’s Mystery:

A postmaster (Victor Perrin) gets a tip that there’s a time bomb among the day’s packages.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 22, 1956

Stars: Victor Perin, Herb Ellis, Frank Gershwin, Vivi Janis, Helen Kleeb, John Larkin, Leonard Weinrib, Richard Peel, and Ted Bliss,

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

Lux Radio Theater: The Maltese Falcon (EP4100s)

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Edward G. Robinson

Today’s Mystery:

Sam Spade (Edward G. Robinson) tries to solve the murder of his partner and gets drawn into the intrigue over a mysterious black-enameled bird.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 8, 1943

Originated in Hollywood.

Starred: Edward G. Robinson as Sam Spade, Gail Patrick as Bridget O’Shaughnessy, Laird Cregar as Casper Gutman, Charlie Lung as Joel Cairo, Bea Benderret as Effie, Eddie Mars as Wilmer, Fred MacKaye, Norman Field, Warren Ashe

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Mystery Special, NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, Tales of the Texas Rangers

Inheritance: The Texas Rangers (Texas Rangers Bicentenial Special) (EP4094s)

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A Texas Rangers Captain is assigned to form a group of special forces to stop rustlers stealing cattle and taking them across the Rio Grande.

Original Radio Broadcast Date:June 13, 1954

Starred: Lloyd Talbot as Captain McNally

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CBS, Mystery Special, OTR Detective, Podcast, Screen Guild Theatre

Screen Guild Theater: A Night to Remember (EP4052s)

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Today’s Mystery:

A mystery writer (Brian Donlevy) and his wife (Lucille Ball) move into a basement apartment in the East Village one night. In the morning, they find a body in their garden.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 1, 1944

Originated in Hollywood

Stars: Brian Donlevy as Jeff Troy, Lucille Ball as Nancy Troy

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Mystery Special, OTR Detective, Podcast

Twice Told Tale: The Abbotts and It’s a Crime, Mr. Collins: The Fabulous Emerald Necklace (EP4022s)

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Today’s Mystery:

Pat uses Jean as a decoy to capture a jewel robber who murdered a wealthy man.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 3, 1955

Greg uses Gail as a decoy to capture a jewel robber who murdered a wealthy man.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 2, 1957

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CBS, Mystery Special, OTR Detective, Podcast, Sam Spade

Jack Carson Show: Sam Spade (EP4016s)

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Today’s Mystery:

Jack Carson calls in Sam Spade for protection after receiving a threatening telegram.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 5, 1947

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CBS, Hollywood Sound Stage, Mystery Special, OTR Detective, Podcast, Screen Guild Theatre

Hollywood Sound Stage: Call Northside 777 (EP4010s)

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Dana Andrews

Today’s mystery:

A reporter responds to the ad of a mother who wants someone to clear her son of the murder of a police officer twelve years before.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 27, 1951

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

Lux Radio Theater: Laura (EP4004s)

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As he investigates the murder of a young advertising executive (Gene Tierney), a police detective (Dana Andrews) begins to fall in love with the murdered woman.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 5, 1945

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CBS, Mystery Special, OTR Detective, Podcast, Sam Spade

Burns and Allen: Gracie Sends Sam Spade to Jail (EP3950s)

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Today’s Mystery:

George Burns and Sam Spade explain to a police lieutenant how Gracie got them thrown into jail for murder.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 10, 1949

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CBS, Mystery Special, OTR Detective, Podcast, Suspense

Suspense: Out of Control (EP3902s)

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Today’s Mystery:

A blind former police captain finds himself in the middle of an investigation of murder and blackmail.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 28, 1946

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Mystery Special, OTR Detective, Podcast

EP3860s: Twice Told Tale: Michael Shayne and Gunsmoke

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In The Case of the Crooked Wheel, the owner of a casino has Michael Shayne come to investigate an apparent case of fraud at his casino.

Original Air Date: 1947

In Mark Dillon Goes to Gougeye, the wife of a casino owner has Marshall Dillon travel to the town of Gougeye, where she fears rumors of a crooked wheel will lead to her husband getting hung.

Audition Date: June 11, 1949

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