Category: OTR Detective

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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Dragnet, NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, Procedural

EP2300: Dragnet: The Big Shot

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Jack Webb

The owner of a nightclub is killed in a robbery.

Original Air Date: September 21, 1952

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CBS, OTR Detective, Podcast, Yours Truly Johnny Dollar

EP2299: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The What Goes Matter

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Bob Bailey

One of Earl Poorman’s insurance clients is in trouble but he doesn’t know who.

Original Air Date: October 30, 1960

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Boston Blackie, OTR Detective, Podcast, Syndicated

EP2298: Boston Blackie: The Abbott Painting Frame

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Richard Kollmar

To stop a blackmailer from framing his friend Shorty for murder, Blackie agrees to steal a painting no one believes can be stolen.

Original Air Date: September 24, 1946

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ABC, OTR Detective, Podcast, Richard Diamond

EP2297: Richard Diamond: The Marilyn Connors Case

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Dick Powell

Diamond is hired by a woman to protect her from her husband who is being released from prison.

Original Air Date: January 12, 1951

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CBS, Crime Correspondent, OTR Detective, Podcast, Rare Detectives

EP2296: Crime Correspondent: The Chair for Dino

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Paul Frees

Radio reporter Larry Mitchell tries to find out the truth behind the death of a well-known thug.

Original Air Date: November 4, 1949

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NBC, Nightbeat, OTR Detective, Podcast

EP2295: Night Beat: Otto, the Music Man

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Frank Lovejoy

Randy rescues a man from being roughed up. The man runs into a bar and leaves behind his hat. Randy runs right into the bar and finds no one has seen him, and then comes back to discover the mystery man plays a great clarinet.

Original Air Date: June 15, 1951

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OTR Detective, Podcast

EP2294s: Sherlock Holmes: The Elusive Agent, Part Three

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Holmes and Watson are trapped by German agents and threatened with torture to turn over their half of the British tank plans.

Original Air Date: April 4, 1949

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Dragnet, NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, Procedural

EP2294: Dragnet: The Big Bull

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Jack Webb

An escaped criminal threatens Frank Smith’s family.

Original Air Date: September 14, 1952

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OTR Detective, Podcast, Yours Truly Johnny Dollar

EP2293: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Unworthy Kin Matter

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Bob Bailey

Johnny is called by the daughter of a wealthy man to protect her father.

Original Air Date: October 23, 1960

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Boston Blackie, OTR Detective, Podcast, Syndicated

EP2292: Boston Blackie: The Apartment Swindle Racket

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Richard Kollmar

A soldier asks for Blackie’s help when he realizes he’s been swindled by promoters of an apartment building who are taking more down payments than they have apartments to rent.

Original Air Date: September 17, 1946

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NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, Richard Diamond

EP2291: Richard Diamond: The Chapel Hill Case

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Dick Powell

Diamond and Lieutenant Levinson travel to a police conference in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and meet a police woman who is murdered on the train.

Original Air Date: December 13, 1950

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Bishop and the Gargoyle, NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, Rare Detectives

EP2290: Bishop and the Gargoyle: The Jennifer Botts Case

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Ken Lynch and Richard Gordon

The Gargoyle brings to the Bishop a young woman from a small town who has been ripped off by a con man. The Bishop sets out to get her money back, but finds the con man dead and himself and the Gargoyle involved in a mystery over a missing ruby.

Original Air Date: July 14, 1940

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