Category: Screen Guild Theatre

CBS, Mystery Special, OTR Detective, Podcast, Screen Guild Theatre

Screen Guild Theater: My Favorite Brunette (EP4900s)

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Bob Hope

Today’s Mystery:

A baby photographer impersonates an out-of-town private investigator and gets mixed up with a beautiful woman who wants him to find her missing uncle.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 13, 1947

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Bob Hope as Ronny Jackson; Dorothy Lamour; Frank Nelson

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Screen Guild Theater: 13 Rue Madeline (A0056)

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Today’s Adventure:

There’s a German spy in the latest OSS training class. Rather than capturing him, OSS leadership decides to use him to mislead the Germans about the planned second front.

Original Radio Broadcast: November 25, 1948

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Humphrey Bogart; Leon Ames; John Beal; William Lundigan; Frances Robinson,

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Stars in the Air: House on 92nd Street (EP4202s)

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Today’s Mystery:

An FBI undercover man infiltrates a Nazi spy ring that could send the secret of Process 97 to the Nazis.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 3, 1952

Originated from Hollywood

Starred: Humphrey Bogart as Agent George Briggs, Keefe Brasselle, Betty Lou Gerson, Lou Merrill, Herb Vigran, Shepard Menken, Paul Dubov, Bob Sweeney, Frank Nelson, Walter Wolf King

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Screen Guild Theater: A Night to Remember (EP4052s)

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Today’s Mystery:

A mystery writer (Brian Donlevy) and his wife (Lucille Ball) move into a basement apartment in the East Village one night. In the morning, they find a body in their garden.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 1, 1944

Originated in Hollywood

Stars: Brian Donlevy as Jeff Troy, Lucille Ball as Nancy Troy

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Hollywood Sound Stage: Call Northside 777 (EP4010s)

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Dana Andrews

Today’s mystery:

A reporter responds to the ad of a mother who wants someone to clear her son of the murder of a police officer twelve years before.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 27, 1951

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EP3777: Screen Guild Theatre: The Maltese Falcon

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Private Investigator Sam Spade gets caught up in intrigue over a mysterious object while trying to solve his partner’s murder.

Original Air Date: September 20, 1943

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EP1904s: Screen Guild Theatre: Whistling in Dixie

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Red Skelton
Wally “The Fox” Benton goes down South to solve the murder of a woman’s boyfriend.

Original Air Date: May 17, 1943

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EP1000s: Screen Guild Theatre: Call Northside 777

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Jimmy Stewart plays a cynical reporter turned crusader who seeks to clear a man wrongly convicted of murdering a police officer. This episode was based on the 1949 Edgar Award Winning Movie of the same name.

Original Air Date: October 7, 1948

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EP0350s: Screen Guild Theatre: The Mask of Demetrios

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Peter Lorre

A mystery writer (Peter Lorre) tries to unravel the truth about Demetrios, an international criminal of legendary proportion. In the course of this search, he garners the interest of another mystery man (Sidney Greenstreet).

Original Air Date: April 16, 1945

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EP0000:Screen Guild Theater: Call Northside 777

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Jimmy Stewart plays a cynical reporter turned crusader who seeks to clear a man wrongly convicted of murdering a police officer. This episode was based on the 1949 Edgar Award Winning Movie of the same name.

Original Air Date: October 7, 1948

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The movie can be purchased here.