Category: Podcast

Tales of the Texas Rangers: Cover Up (EP4112)

Today’s Mystery:A man shows up at his best friend’s house to find blood on the floor and a stranger claimed to have been hired to take care of the house.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 17, 1952

Originiated from Hollywood

Starred: Joel McCrea as Jace Pearson, Paul Frees, Dolly Major, Lamont Johnson, Leo Curley, Lou Krugman

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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Cui Bono Matter. Episodes Three, Four, and Five (EP4111)

Bob Bailey

Today’s Mystery: Johnny continues his investigation into the killing of a county attorney by his daughter. Was it really an accident or something else? A lot of townspeople don’t like him asking.

Original Radio Broadcast Dates: February 15, 16, and 17, 1956

Originated from Hollywood

Stars: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar.D. J. Thompson, Mary Jane Croft, Forrest Lewis, Byron Kane, Russell Thorson, Sam Edwards, Dal McKennon, Howard McNear

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Philo Vance: The Manicure Murder Case (EP4110)

Today’s Mystery: A dying chemistry Professor requests a manicure even though he’d been fatally wounded.

Original Radio Broadcast Date:May 16, 1950

Originated in: New York City

Starred: Jackson Beck as Philo Vance, George Petrie as District Attorney Markham

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Mr. and Mrs. Blandings: Jim and Television: Friend or Foes (AWR0222)

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Jim is furious when Muriel buys a television set but changes his mind when he’s invited to be a panelist on a TV show.

Original Radio Broadcast Date:February 25, 1951

Originated from Hollywood

Starred: Cary Grant as Jim Blandings, Betsy Drake as Muriel Blandings, Gale Gordon as Bill Cole

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Dangerous Assignment: Atomic Fission Formula (EP4109)


Today’s Mystery: Steve goes to Java to make himself a target for someone who’s stolen half of a top-secret formula…and killed the person who had it.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 31, 1951

Originated in Hollywood

Stars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner

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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Cui Bono Matter, Episodes One and Two (EP4108)

Bob Bailey

Today’s Mystery: Johnny goes to a small Virginia town to investigate the death of his district attorney in what’s been called an accidental shooting by his daughter who is the beneficiary of his insurance policy.

Original Radio Broadcast Dates:February 13 and 14, 1956

Continued on  Friday in EP4111

Originated from Hollywood

Stars: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar,D. J. Thompson, Mary Jane Croft, Forrest Lewis, Byron Kane, Russell Thorson, Sam Edwards, Dal McKennon, Howard McNear

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Sam Spade: The Dry Gulch Caper (EP4107)

Steve Dunne

Today’s Mystery:

Sam is summoned to a ghost town by an elderly man, who believes Sam is a California Marshal, to help him fight an outlaw.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 8, 1950

Originated from Hollywood

Starred Steven Dunne as Sam Spade, Lurene Tuttle as Effie, Wally Maher as Buck, Alan Reed

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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Froward Fisherman Matter (EP4106a)

Bob Bailey

Today’s Mystery:

Johnny is called in to find a missing insured retired businessman who spends all his time fishing.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 1, 1958

Originated from Hollywood

Stars: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar.Byron Kane, Virginia Gregg, Harry Bartell, Will Wright, Forrest Lewis, Howard McNear

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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Fire in Paradise Matter (EP4106)

Bob Bailey

Today’s Mystery:

Johnny is sent to a town in New Jersey where an insured man has filed a claim for an accident that occurred when his house burned down.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 26, 1958

Originated from Hollywood

Stars: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar, Vic Perrin, Forrest Lewis, Virginia Gregg, Will Wright, Parley Baer

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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The McClain Matter, Episodes Four and Five (EP4105)

Bob Bailey

Today’s Mystery:

Johnny closes in on a doctor who is accused of faking his wife’s death to collect her insurance.

Original Radio Broadcast Dates: February 9 and 10, 1956

Originated from Hollywood

Stars: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar, Lucille Meredith, Betty Lou Gerson, John Stephenson, Bob Bruce, Vic Perrin, Tony Barrett, Herb Ellis

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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The McClain Matter, Episodes One and Two (EP4104)

Bob Bailey

Today’s Mystery:

A woman shows up in Hartford claiming to be an insured woman who died in Los Angeles two years previously.

Original Radio Broadcast Dates: February 6 and 7, 1956

Originated from Hollywood

Stars: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar, Lucille Meredith, Betty Lou Gerson, John Stephenson, Bob Bruce, Vic Perrin, Tony Barrett, Herb Ellis

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Let George Do It: That Ain’t No Way to Run a Railroad (EP4103)

Bob Bailey

Today’s Mystery:

George is hired by a wealthy man who is suspicious because his bid to buy a broken-down railroad for a million dollars was refused.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 2, 1952

Originated from Hollywood

Starred: Bob Bailey as George Valentine, Virginia Gregg as Brooksie, Earle Ross

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Mr. and Mrs. Blandings: Measles (AWR0221)

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Jim gets a rare day off from work that gets spoiled when the girls come down with measles (or maybe athlete’s foot).

Original Radio Broadcast Date:January 28, 1951

Originated from Hollywood

Starred: Cary Grant as Jim Blandings, Betsy Drake as Muriel Blandings, Gale Gordon as Bill Cole

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Let George Do It: How Gullible Can You Be? (EP4102)

Bob Bailey

Today’s Mystery:

A chauffeur of a rich man whose partner died in a suspicious “accident” asks George to take care of an envelope, plunging George into the middle of the case.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 28, 1951

Originated from Hollywood

Starred: Bob Bailey as George Valentine, Virginia Gregg as Brooksie, Ken Christy as Lieutenant Johnson, Tony Barrett

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Let George Do It: Triple Indemnity (EP4101)

Bob Bailey
Today’s Mystery:

George goes to a small town where gossip says that a man has murdered his missing wife.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 6, 1950

Originated from Hollywood

Starred: Bob Bailey as George Valentine, Virginia Gregg as Brooksie, Wally Maher as Lieutenant Riley

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