Category: OTR Detective

CBS, OTR Detective, Podcast, Yours Truly Johnny Dollar

Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Lucky Four Matter (EP4850)

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Bob Bailey

Today’s Mystery:

Johnny goes to Colorado to investigate the death of a cantankerous old rancher.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 3, 1958

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Ken Christy; Vic Perrin; Lawrence Dobkin; Virginia Gregg; Will Wright; Shirley Mitchell

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

Broadway’s My Beat: The Francesca Brown Murder Case (EP4848)

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Larry Thor

Today’s Mystery:

A waitresss is strangled and knifed to death.

Original Radio Broadcast Date:June 2, 1951

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Jack Kruschen as Sergeant Muggavan; Lamont Johnson; Lou Merrill; Cathy Lewis; Herb Butterfield; Bea Benaderet

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NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, The Big Story

The Big Story: The Bobby-Sox Kid from Bayonne (EP4847)

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Today’s Mystery:

Dorothy Kilgaren is called in to investigate the killing-by-hatchet of a woman; police suspect her seventeen-year-old daughter.

Original Radio Broadcast: October 15, 1947

Originating from New York

Starring: Janet Fox as Dorothy Kilgaren; Burt Brazier; Francis De Sales; Jerry Lewis; Mitzi Gould; Eleanor Audley

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Danger with Grainger, OTR Detective, Podcast, Syndicated

Danger with Grainger: The Annie Lesich Story (EP4846)

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Harp McGuire

Today’s Mystery:

A woman asks Grainger for help when a man whom she sent to prison is released.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1956 or 1957

Originating from Australia

Starring: Harp McGuire as Steve Grainger

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OTR Detective, Podcast

Casebook of Gregory Hood: The Derringer Society (Encore) (EP4845e)

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Gale Gordon

A woman visits the Derringer Society and the members start dying as she predicted.

Original Air Date: July 8, 1946

Originating in Hollywood

Starring Gale Gordon as Gregory Hood

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Cloak and Dagger, NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast

Cloak and Dagger: Operation Sellout (A0036)

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Today’s Adventure:

An OSS agent leads a mission with a British officer and a former German officer.

Original Radio Broadcast: September 22, 1950

Originating from New York

Starring: Carl Eastman; Louise Erickson; Ian Martin; Luis Van Rooten; Arnold Moss; Karl Weber; Raymond Edward Johnson

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CBS, OTR Detective, Podcast, Yours Truly Johnny Dollar

Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Wayward Killer Matter (EP4845)

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Bob Bailey

Today’s Mystery:

Johnny is called to protect an insured man who witnessed a murder.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 27, 1958

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Edgar Barrier; Herb Vigran; James McCallion; Paul Dubov; Lawrence Dobkin; John Dehner; Bill James; Vic Perrin

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Dragnet, NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, Procedural

Dragnet: The Big Seventeen (EP4844)

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Today’s Mystery:

Joe Friday and Ben Romero investigate teens going wild in a neighborhood, culminating in a small riot in a theater.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 6, 1951

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday; Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero; Herb Butterfield

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

Broadway’s My Beat: The Eleanor Corbett Murder Case (EP4843)

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Larry Thor

Today’s Mystery:

A woman is found murdered with a broken neck.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 26, 1951

Originating from Hollywood

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

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NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, The Big Story

The Big Story: The Case of the Counterfeit Coins (EP4842)

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Today’s Mystery:

Reporter Jack Adams goes undercover in a gang of counterfeiters to catch the man at the top.

Original Radio Broadcast: October 19, 1947

Originating from New York

Starring: Dwight Weist as Jack Adams; Mason Adams; Larry Haines; Richard Keith; Eileen Heckart; James Boles; Jackson Beck

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Danger with Grainger, OTR Detective, Podcast, Syndicated

Danger with Grainger: A Marriage Minded Girl (EP4841)

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Harp McGuire

Today’s Mystery:

A woman contacts Grainger for help and is then beaten up and disappears.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1956 or 1957

Originating from Australia

Starring: Harp McGuire as Steve Grainger

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NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast

Adventure Ahead: Inside the FBI

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Today’s Adventure:

An FBI agent tells a young visitor about a case that began with cattle rustling but led to a nationwide conspiracy.

Originating Radio Broadcast Date: August 26, 1944

Originating from New York

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Cloak and Dagger, NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast

Cloak and Dagger: Seeds of Doubt (A0034)

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Today’s Adventure:

In the waning days of the war, an OSS agent impersonates a dead Frenchman and pretends to marry his fiancée in order to weed out German agents trying to undermine Allied morale.

Original Radio Broadcast: September 15, 1950

Originating from New York

Starring: Charles Webster; Alice Frost; Joseph Julian; Karl Weber; Evie Juster; Jerry Jarrett; Louis Sorin; Horace Braham; Anna Karen

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CBS, OTR Detective, Podcast, Yours Truly Johnny Dollar

Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Mojave Red Sequel Matter (EP4840)

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Bob Bailey

Today’s Mystery:

An apparent accidental death of a businessman on a fishing trip is confirmed to be murder. Who did it?

Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 20, 1958

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Virginia Gregg; Parley Baer; Forrest Lewis; Barney Phillips; Alan Reed; Russell Thorson

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Dragnet, NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, Procedural

Dragnet: The Big Crazy (EP4839)

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Today’s Mystery:

A woman is missing and her sister suspects her milquetoast husband of murder.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 30, 1951

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday; Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero

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