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Todays Mystery:

An elderly woman with an acrimonious relationship with her daughter-in-law is found murdered.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 24, 1949

Originating from Hollywood

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

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Todays Mystery:

A criminal is acquitted, leaves LA, and returns. Friday and Ed Jacobs think he’s up to his old tricks.

Original Television Broadcast: June 19, 1952 (radio script originally aired October 20, 1949)

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday; Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero; Barney Phillips as Sergeant Ed Jacobs; Herb Butterfield as Lieutenant Lee Jones; Tol Avery; Eddie Firestone, Jr.; Ralph Moody; Parley Baer; Peggy Webber

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Today’s Mystery:

Friday and Smith search for a statue of the child Jesus stolen from a church on Christmas Eve.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 22, 1953

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday; Ben Alexander as Officer Frank Smith; Herb Vigran; Ralph Moody

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Todays Mystery: Friday and Romero suspect an inside job in a series of truck hijackings.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 1, 1949

Originating from Hollywood

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

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Todays Mystery:

Friday and Romero search for a serial killer who breaks into the homes of women and murders them with a red brick.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 24, 1949

Originating from Hollywood

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

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Discussion: Talking about how the podcast has changed, since I started.

Volume One Podcast Feed

Season 1 Commentary

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Today’s Mystery:

Friday and Romero have to find out why a man shot down a traffic cop.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 17, 1949

Originating from Hollywood

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

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Todays Mystery:

The daughter of the vice-president of a bank is kidnapped.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 10, 1949

Originating from Hollywood

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

Post-episode Question: Should AI be used to reconstruct lost episodes of old time radio from existing scripts?

Gotham Radio Players Recreation of The Big Cop (Recreation begins at 35:43)

Hot Copy Radio Theater

American Radio Theater

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Todays Mystery:

A man reports his wife missing, but investigators suspect murder.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 3, 1949

Originated from Hollywood

Starring: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday; Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero; Harry Morgan as Captain Kearney; Herb Butterfield

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Todays Mystery:

Friday and Romero have caught two teenagers breaking into their car. Can they use them to find the mastermind behind hundreds of car burglaries?

Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 1, 1949

Originated from Hollywood

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

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