Category: OTR Detective

Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Jack Kruschen as Sergeant Muggavan; Paul Frees; Clayton Post; Edwin Max; Elliott Lewis; Jack Kruschen; Jay Novello; Joyce McCluskey

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NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, The Big Story

The Big Story: Respected Chemist Dead (EP4922)

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Today’s Mystery:

A prominent chemist’s mysterious death may have been faked … but why?

Original Radio Broadcast: March 9, 1949

Originating from New York

Starring: Sydney Smith as Ike McAnally; Ann Burr; Agnes Young; Lyle Sudrow; Ted Osborne

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Danger with Grainger, OTR Detective, Podcast, Syndicated

Danger with Grainger: The Larry Simmons Case (EP4921)

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Harp McGuire

Today’s Mystery:

A slimy character tries to hire Grainger as a go-between for him in a blackmail deal. Grainger kicks him out but it’s not that simple.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1956 or 1957

Originating from Australia

Starring: Harp McGuire as Steve Grainger

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CBS, Mystery Special, OTR Detective, Podcast

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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ABC, Counterspy, OTR Detective, Podcast

Counterspy: The Case of the Gasoline Barge (A0066)

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Today’s Adventure:

David Harding suspects the Axis is behind a ring making counterfeit gas coupons.

Original Radio Broadcast: November 2, 1945

Originating from New York

Starring: Don McLaughlin as David Harding

Popular Science article on the government censoring weather reports.

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CBS, OTR Detective, Podcast, Yours Truly Johnny Dollar

Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Deadly Doubt Matter (EP4920)

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Bob Bailey

Today’s Mystery:

A woman calls to report that a man was murdered and she’s not sure if she did it.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 11, 1959

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Virginia Gregg; Junius Matthews; Paul Dubov; James McCallion; Alan Reed; Frank Gerstle

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Dragnet, NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, Procedural

Dragnet: The Big Affair (EP4919)

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Today’s Mystery:

Joe Friday and Ben Romero investigate a series of jewelry store robberies.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 29, 1951

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday; Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero; Virginia Gregg; Vic Perrin

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Broadway's My Beat, CBS, OTR Detective, Podcast

Broadway’s My Beat: The Lars Nielson Murder Case (EP4918)

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Larry Thor

Today’s Mystery:

A famous torch singer wants a gun permit because she claims a man is threatening her life.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 29, 1951

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Jack Kruschen as Sergeant Muggavan; Cathy Lewis

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NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, The Big Story

The Big Story: The Jigsaw Crime (EP4917)

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Today’s Mystery:

A legendary Arkansas reporter investigates the murder of an unidentified man.

Original Radio Broadcast: January 26, 1949

Originating from New York

Starring: Martin Wolfson as Joe Wirges; Art Carney; Larry Haines; Art Carney; Martin O’Day; Joyce Gordon; Joe DeSantis

Encyclopedia of Arkansas entry on Joseph Wirges.

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Danger with Grainger, OTR Detective, Podcast, Syndicated

Danger with Grainger: Shelia Randolph is Sane (EP4916)

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– Harp McGuire

Today’s Mystery:

Grainger is hired to provide security for a wealthy’s man’s suicidal wife but begins to suspect there’s more to the situation.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1956 or 1957

Originating from Australia

Starring: Harp McGuire as Steve Grainger

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ABC, Counterspy, OTR Detective, Podcast

Counterspy: The Case of the Loganberry Point Spy (A0064)

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Today’s Adventure: A widow in a small town calls David Harding claiming to have caught a German spy.

Original Radio Broadcast: September 14, 1942

Originating in New York

Starring Don McLaughlin as David Harding, Craig McDonnell

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