Category: Podcast

Bulldog Drummond, Mutual, OTR Detective, Podcast

Bulldog Drummond: Murder in the Death House (EP4450)

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Today’s Mystery:

Bulldog Drummond goes to visit a man he sent to death row, who has information he wants to trade for clemency. Drummond finds him dead in his cell.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 10, 1945

Originating in New York

Starring: Ned Wever as Bulldog Drummond; Luis Van Rooten as Denny

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NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, The Falcon

The Falcon: The Case of the Witty Widow (EP4449)

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Les Damon

Today’s Mystery:

A blackmailer is murdered and suspicion falls on the woman he was blackmailing.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 18, 1951

Originating from New York

Starring: Les Damon as the Falcon; Ken Lynch as Sergeant Corbett

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Dragnet, NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, Procedural

Dragnet: The Big Fake (EP4448)

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Today’s Mystery:

A man accuses a police officer of robbing and beating him.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 1, 1950

Originating from Hollywood

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

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CBS, OTR Detective, Podcast, Yours Truly Johnny Dollar

Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Ming Toy Murphy Matter (EP4447)

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Bob Bailey

Today’s Mystery:

Johnny is called in by an eccentric insured man to find his missing “talking” Pekinese dog.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 14, 1957

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Virginia Gregg; G. Stanley Jones; Herb Ellis; Joseph Kearns; Jay Novello; Bill James; Howard McNear

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CBS, Keen and Company, Mr. Chameleon, OTR Detective, Podcast

Mr. Chameleon: The Case of the Snarling Corpse (EP4446)

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Karl Swenson

Today’s Mystery:

Mr. Chameleon is called in when a doctor suspects that a man who died of lockjaw was actually murdered.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 7, 1949

Originating from New York City

Starring: Karl Swenson as Mister Chameleon; Frank Butler as Sergeant Dave Arnold

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

Broadway’s My Beat: The Rita Rondell Murder Case (EP4445)

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Anthony Ross

Today’s Mystery:

A young businessman from Arkansas reports that a woman tried to blackmail him. Then she’s found dead.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 1, 1949

Originating in New York City

Starring: Anthony Ross as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Jeanne Carson; John Forsyth

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Amazing World of Radio, Podcast

Let Yourself Go: Guest: Al Jolson (AWR0253)

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Batman Villains of Old Time Radio

We continue our look at actors who played villains in the 1966 Batman TV series. This week our focus is on Milton Berle, who played Louie the Lilac in two separate episodes during Batman‘s third season. We focus on Louie the Lilac’s first eponymous appearance.

We talk about Milton Berle’s extensive career, which included his position as the first TV superstar, earning the nickname “Mr. Television”. Berle’s career extended into the 21st Century but had its beginnings in vaudeville and radio, with a variety of programs throughout the 1930s and 1940s.

We play the only surviving episode of Berle’s 1944-45 comedy variety program, Let Yourself Go. 

Milton is planning for a summer vacation, but wants to hire a young crooner who won’t be a threat to his getting picked up in the fall. However, complications ensue when the legendary Al Jolson shows up to apply for the job.

Original Air Date: June 6, 1945

We then take a look at season 3 episode 7, “Louie the Lilac”, where Louie has a plan to control the future via the flower-power generation by taking over the mind of their leader, Princess Primrose. With Commissioner Gordon indifferent, it’s up to the terrific trio to foil his evil scheme.

Milton Berle segment from “The Comedy Hall of Fame Awards”

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Bulldog Drummond, Mutual, OTR Detective, Podcast

Bulldog Drummond: Help Wanted (EP4444)

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Luis Van Rooten

Today’s Mystery:

Captain Drummond leaves town on a train. A man dies while asking him to be paged at the train station. Denny hires his own valet and sets out to solve the case himself.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 13, 1945

Originating in New York

Starring: Luis Van Rooten as Denny

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Mutual, OTR Detective, Podcast, The Falcon

The Falcon: The Case of the Unsilent Butler (EP4443)

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Les Damon

Today’s Mystery:

Mike has to protect a model for a new oil detector from an unscrupulous private investigator.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 11, 1951

Originating from New York

Starring: Les Damon as the Falcon; Ralph Bell; Maurice Tarplin; Elspeth Eric

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OTR Detective, Podcast

Ellery Queen: The Vanishing Magician (Encore) (EP4442e)

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An old vaudeville magician makes a wager for $25,000 that he can disappear from a house under the nose of New York’s finest.

Original Air Date: November 6, 1943

Originating in New York

Starring: Sidney Smith as Ellery Queen

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OTR Detective, Podcast

Ellery Queen: Adventure of the Circus Train (Encore) (EP4442)

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Carleton Young

A long-time circus owner is murdered on a train.

Original Air Date: March 27, 1943

Originating in New York

Starring: Carleton Young as Ellery Queen

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OTR Detective, Podcast, Yours Truly Johnny Dollar

Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Alvin Summers Matter Omnibus (Encore) (EP4441)

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Bob Bailey

Today’s Mystery:Johnny goes to Mexico in search of a man who embezzled $75,000

Original Radio Broadcast Dates:October 24-28, 1955

Originated from Hollywood

Stars: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar, Virginia Gregg, Marvin Miller, Don Diamond, Tony Barrett, Parley Baer

Includes portion of interview with John Abbott. Listen to the full interview here.

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OTR Detective, Podcast, Yours Truly Johnny Dollar

Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Valentine Matter Omnibus (Encore) (EP4440)

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Bob Bailey

Today’s Mystery: Johnny initially comes to New Orleans to investigate a hotel theft but becomes involved in finding out who’s making attempts on life of a retired Prohibition-era Racketeer

Original Radio Broadcast Dates: October 31-November 4, 1955

Originated from Hollywood

Stars: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar, Lillian Buyeff, Betty Lou Gerson, Barney Phillips, Will Wright, Forrest Lewis, Marvin Miller, Jay Novello, Jack Moyles

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OTR Detective, Podcast

Forecast: Deductions Deluxe: The Problem of the Painted Poodle (Encore) (EP4439)

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Private Detective Roger Boon is called in to find out why a wealthy woman’s poodle was painted green.

Originated in Hollywood

Starring: Adolphe Menjou, Verree Teasdale,

Original Air Date: July 28, 1941

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Amazing World of Radio, Podcast

Suspense: On A Country Road (AWR0252)

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Batman Villains of Old Time Radio

We continue our look at actors who played villains in the 1966 Batman TV series. This time we turn to Ida Lupino, who played Cassandra Spellcraft, alongside her then-husband Howard Duff, who played her bumbling sidekick Cabala in the 1968 episode, “The Enchanting Doctor Cassandra”.

We begin by featuring an episode of Suspense in which they appeared together.

A wife and her husband (Lupino and Duff) take a shortcut down a country road where a deranged woman has escaped from a mental institution and already killed. They then run out of gas and find a woman screamning at them demanding to be let in their car.

Original Radio Brodcast Date: May 10, 1959

We then take a look at the Season 3 Batman Episode, “The Entrancing Dr. Cassandra”, where Lupino plays the titular alchemist who has figured out the secret of invisibility and has a daring plan to take care of the Terrific Trio and rule Gotham City.

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