Category: OTR Detective

The Falcon: The Case of the Unwelcome Christmas Present (EP4581)

Les Damon

Today’s Mystery:

A man who bought a fur coat goes for his girlfriend for Christmas turns to The Falcon when dangerous people want it back.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 24, 1950

Originating from New York

Starring: Les Damon as The Falcon; Larry Haines; Ralph Bell

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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Nick Shurn Matter Omnibus (EP4580s)

Bob Bailey

Today’s Mystery:

At Christmastime, Johnny has to find a beautiful woman, who is the only one who knows the truth behind the murder of a New York club owner, before the killer does.

Original Radio Broadcast Dates: December 19-23, 1956

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Virginia Gregg; Peggy Webber; Don Diamond; Ben Wright; Jack Kruschen; Barney Phillips; Sam Edwards; Ken Christy

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Dragnet: Production 8 (aka the Big Missing/Juanita Lasky) (EP4580)

Todays Mystery:

At Christmastime, Joe Friday and Ben Romero try to find a missing daughter from Utah.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 28, 1949

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday; Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero; Raymond Burr as Sergeant Ed Backstrand, Chief of Detectives; Herb Butterfield

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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Missing Mouse Matter (EP4579)

Bob Bailey

Today’s Mystery:

Johnny is called in around Christmas to find a “singing mouse” that disappeared from a wealthy man’s house ahead of a performance at a children’s hospital.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 23, 1956

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Mary Jane Croft; Howard McNear; Parley Baer; G. Stanley Jones; Bill James; Lawrence Dobkin; Richard Beals

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Mr. and Mrs. North: Frisbie Proves His Point (EP4578)

Joseph Curtain and Alice Frost

Today’s Mystery: When a mystery tries to stage a mock murder in the middle of a crowd in Times Square, the Norths find themselves in a real murder.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 17, 1945

Originated from New York City

Starred: Joseph Curtain as Jerry North, Alice Frost as Pamela North

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Broadway’s My Beat: Nick Norman, Santa Claus (EP4577)

Larry Thor

Today’s Mystery:

On Christmas Eve, a recently released convict who’s set to play Santa Claus at a Police Athletic League club Christmas party is taken away in a big car by mobsters.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 24, 1949

Originating in Hollywood

Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Howard McNear; Gil Stratton; Shepard Menken; Peggy Webber; Hal March; Bert Holland; Estelle Dodge

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Martin Kane: October 29, 1953 (EP4576)

Mark Stevens

Today’s Mystery:

Martin Kane is hired by a man accused of robbery and murder to find the gun and the real killer.

Original Release Date: October 29, 1953

Originating in New York

Starring: Mark Stevens at Martin Kane; King Calder as Lieutenant Gray

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The Falcon: The Case of the Gold Ring (EP4575)

Les Damon

Today’s Mystery:

While on vacation in the Florida Keys, Waring gets mixed up in a murder when a woman comes to his room to plead for his help with a dangerous Cuban criminal.

Rehearsal of program that aired on February 21, 1952

Originating from New York

Starring: Les Damon as The Falcon

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Police Blotter: Homicide by Hurricane (Encore) (EP4574e)

Bill Zuckert

An inventor is killed by his own wind tunnel.

Original Air Date: 1957

Originating in New York

Starring: Bill Zuckert as Sergeant Brad Peters

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Dragnet: The Big Meet (EP4574)

Today’s Mystery:

Joe Friday goes undercover to complete a large drug buy.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 26, 1950

Originating from Hollywood

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

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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Doubtful Dairy Matter (EP4573)

Bob Bailey

Today’s Mystery:

Johnny is called in to investigate a fire that destroyed a silo at a dairy ranch.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 9, 1957

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Paul Dubov; Will Wright; John Dehner; Harry Bartell; Parley Baer; Forrest Lewis

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Mr. and Mrs. North: The Norths Discover Christopher Columbus (EP4572)

Joseph Curtain and Alice Frost

Today’s Mystery:

On the eve of Columbus Day, the Norths see a man dressed as Christopher Columbus jump out of a building.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 11, 1944

Originating from New York City

Starring: Joseph Curtain as Jerry North; Alice Frost as Pamela North; Frank Lovejoy

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Broadway’s My Beat: The Julie Dixon Murder Case (EP4571)

Larry Thor

Today’s Mystery: Danny investigates the disappearance of a “Cinderella girl” who is engaged to a high priced lawyer.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 10, 1950

Originating in Hollywood

Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Jay Novello; Junius Matthews; Lawrence Dobkin; Virginia Gregg; Vivi Janis; William Johnstone

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Operation Danger (EP4570)

Today’s Mystery:

A captain in the army counter-intelligence department teams up with a British intelligence agent to track down the source of diamonds to finance a new Nazi plan.

Audition Date: June 25, 1950

Originating in Hollywood

Starring: Howard Culver as Captain Ethan Allen Rogers; Joan Banks; Ben Wright; Paul Frees; Theodore Von Eltz; Fritz Feld; Rick Vallen

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The Falcon: The Case of the Missing Patient (EP4569)

Les Damon

Today’s Mystery:

The widow of a kindly doctor is accused of his murder, but she suspects a rough-looking character who showed up for medical care and then disappeared.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 17, 1952

Originating from New York

Starring: Les Damon as The Falcon; Chuck Webster as Sergeant Corbett; Larry Haines

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