Category: Mystery Special

CBS, Mystery Special, OTR Detective, Podcast, Suspense

EP2552s: Suspense: Two Sharp Knives

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A man is detained in a small town jail on a murder warrant and is then murdered.

Original Air Date: December 22, 1942

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Dragnet, Mystery Special, NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast

EP2504s: The Bob Hope Show with Guest Star Jack Webb

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Jack Webb

Sergeant Friday has to solve a murder while breaking in a new partner…Detective Bob Hope.

Original Air Date: February 4, 1953

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CBS, Mystery Special, OTR Detective, Podcast, Suspense

EP2438s: Suspense: Frightened City

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Frank Lovejoy

A soldier returns from Korea to find his brother-in-law’s been murdered and no one in town will talk about it.

Original Air Date: November 10, 1952

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CBS, Mystery Special, OTR Detective, Podcast, Studio One

EP2402s: Studio One: Anthony Adverse

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Bud Collyer

A young adventurer is sent to the New World to find out why his Guardian’s debtors haven’t been paying. He discovers they’ve been missing for a year.

Original Air Date: October 14, 1947

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Mutual, Mystery Special, OTR Detective, Podcast

EP2354s: Murder Clinic: Gulfstream Green

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An opera singer asks a model to impersonate her so she can have a few moments of peace. The model is murdered and it’s up to Deputy Parr to solve the case.

Original Air Date: October 13, 1942

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CBS, Cloud Nine, Mystery Special, OTR Detective, Podcast

EP2300s: Cloud Nine: Visiting Famous Radio Detectives

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A man travels via Cloud Nine to an office building where all the world’s famous radio detectives work and is mistaken for Sam Spade and hired to find a woman’s murderer if she’s killed.

Original Air Date: July 21, 1950

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CBS, Lady Sleuths, Mystery Special, OTR Detective, Podcast, Suspense

EP2252s: Suspense: Library Book

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Myrna Loy
A librarian learns of a book missing a page and her investigation leads her to a kidnapping.

Original Air Date: September 20, 1945

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Lady Sleuths, Lux Radio Theatre, Mystery Special, OTR Detective, Podcast

EP2204s: Lux Radio Theatre: The High Wall

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Van Heflin

A man confesses to murdering his wife, but can’t remember the details and is mentally incompetent due a medical condition. A doctor (Janet Leight) tries to treat him to get to the truth.

Original Air Date: November 7, 1949

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Mystery Special, OTR Detective, Podcast, Suspense

EP2150s: Suspense: The Cave of Ali Baba

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There’s a traitor in a society of masked criminals.

Original Air Date: August 19, 1942

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CBS, Mystery Special, OTR Detective, Podcast, Radio Reader's Digest

EP2102s: Radio Reader’s Digest: The Case of the Dormitory Thefts

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George Murphy
A police scientist uses his experimental lie detector to try and solve a series of thefts at a woman’s college dormitory.

Original Air Date: February 5, 1948

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Dragnet, Martin and Lewis, Mystery Special, NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast

EP2054s: Martin and Lewis: Guest Jack Webb

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Martin and Lewis

Jack Webb guest stars on Martin and Lewis as they do a fairy tale version of Dragnet.

Original Air Date: January 13, 1953

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Mystery Special, NBC, NBC University Theater, OTR Detective, Podcast

EP2000s: NBC University Theater: Trent’s Last Case

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Dan O'Herlihy

Amateur detective Philip Trent tells the story of the case that ended his detective career.

Original Air Date: July 30, 1950

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Mystery Special, OTR Detective, Podcast, Screen Guild Theatre

Screen Guild Theatre: Whistling in Dixie (EP1904s)

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Red Skelton
Wally “The Fox” Benton goes down South to solve the murder of a woman’s boyfriend.

Original Air Date: May 17, 1943

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Lady Sleuths, Mystery Special, NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast

Screen Director’s Playhouse: Spellbound (EP1877)

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Mercedes McCambridge
A psychiatrist tries to unravel the mystery of a man who believes he murdered another psychiatrist. Will she find out the truth or become his next victim.

Original Air Date: January 25, 1951

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CBS, Mystery Special, OTR Detective, Podcast, Suspense

Suspense: A Killing in Abilene (EP1850s)

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Alan Ladd

A man travels from Abilene to find his brother’s killer and arrives in a small town where the man he’s looking for is about to be lynched.

Original Air Date: December 14, 1950

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