Category: Podcast

EP3247: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Port O-Call Matter

Edmond O'Brien
Johnny goes to San Francisco to investigate the simultaneous robberies of several branches of a loan company.
Original Air Date: January 13, 1951

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EP3246: Mystery is My Hobby: Hit Plan Gone Astray


An elderly man hires a hitman to murder his terminally ill wife as a “mercy killing.” Then finds out a surgery could save her life, then a Doctor caring for her dies.

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AWR0140: Cavalcade of America: Prologue to Glory (Raymond Massey’s Lincoln)

Amazing World of Radio

A year in the life of young Abe Lincoln as he moves to town, gets a job in a store, runs for the legislature, and falls in love.

Original Air Date: February 7, 1944

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EP3245: Man Called X: Checkmate in Tahiti

George Raft
Ken Thurston travels to Tahiti to investigate a series of “accidents” occurring at a large phosphate mine in Tahiti that’s taken the life of a prominent man who reached out to him for help.

Original Air Date: November 30, 1947

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EP3244: Dick Tracy: Junior Kidnapped/Junior Escapes

Junior is kidnapped by the Mogul who wants the Black Pearl in exchange for Junior’s safe return.
Original Air Date: February 24 and 25, 1938

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EP3243: Box 13: Killer at Large

A man pays someone to find a hitman to kill him. He changes his mind but the go-between he paid is dead, and he doesn’t know who’s gunning for him. He turns to Dan Holiday for help.

Original Air Date: 1948

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AWR0139: Lux Radio Theater: The Heiress (Olivia De Havilland Tribute)

Amazing World of Radio

A wealthy but plain young woman (Olivia De Havilland) falls in love, but her overbearing father suspects the young man is a fortune hunter.
Original Air Date: September 11, 1950
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EP3242: Treasury Agent: The Case of the Faithful Wife

The Treasury Department’s caught and convicted a counterfeiter but can’t locate the plates.  Joe Lincoln suspects the wife of the counterfeiter of hiding the plates.

Original Air Date: April 11, 1947

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AWR0138: Lux Radio Theater: Vigil in the Night (Olivia De Havilland Tribute)

Amazing World of Radio
A nurse (Olivia De Havilland) takes the blame for her sister’s mistake that led to a patient’s death and finds herself working in a poorly funded hospital and meets a dedicated and brilliant doctor (Herbert Marshall)

Original Air Date: May 27, 1940

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EP3241: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Blackburn Matter

Edmond O'Brien
Johnny heads South to investigate whether the death of another insurance investigator was tied into the death of an insured he’d been investigating.
Original Air Date: December 16, 1950

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EP3240: Mystery is My Hobby: Stella Dix is Murdered


Barton Drake investigates the murder of a wealthy woman who was favored to be elected to the U.S. Senate.

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AWR0137: Screen Guild Theater: Strawberry Blonde (Olivia De Havilland Tribute)

Amazing World of Radio

A mild-mannered dentist prepares to gain revenge by killing an ex-friend politician who ruined his life and stole the girl he wanted.

Original Air Date: October 5, 1941

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EP3239: Man Called X: Report from the Arctic

George Raft

A report from a recently arctic expedition that could open the Arctic to colonization is missing.

Original Air Date: November 23, 1947

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EP3238: Dick Tracy: Dick Captured/Escape


Under hypnosis, Pat Patton attempts to obtains the ring containing the pearl and deliver to the Mogul.
Original Air Dates: February 22 and 23, 1938

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AWR0136: Lux Radio Theater: The Scarlet Pimpernel (Olivia De Havilland Tribute)

Amazing World of Radio
The wife (Olivia De Havilland) of a foppish English nobleman (Leslie Howard) is blackmailed to help the revolutionary government of France apprehend their arch-foe, the Scarlet Pimpernel, little knowing that her husband is the Pimpernel.
Original Air Date: December 12, 1938

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