Listen to “The Great Detectives Present Manhunt” on Spreaker.
Manhunt was a 1943-44 syndicated radio series.  Each episode ran fifteen minutes with commercials and was a pretty simple puzzle mystery. The series was early series produced by syndication king Frederick Ziv. More information on the series is available at the Digital Deli which is also the source of our log information.

About the Star

Larry Haines (1918-2008): Haines first appeared in radio in 1942 with Gangbusters.  He spent much of the 1940s doing character work in a variety programs. With the decline of radio in the mid-1950s, Haines took on starring roles as Mike Hammer in That Hammer Guy and in Easy Money. In 1951, Larry Haines was cast as Stu Bergman in the soap opera Search for Tomorrow and played the role for 35 years winning two daytime Emmys. He also was nominated for two Tony Awards in 1966 and 1969.

 

Episode Log:

• The Accusing Violin* (Original Air Date: November 27, 1943)
• The Crystal Clue  *(Original Air Date: December 4, 1943)
• The Clue of the Red Thread * (Original Air Date: January 8, 1944)
• The Clue of the Masked Murder * (Original Air Date: February 5, 1944)
• The Clue of the Contradictory Confessions * (Original Air Date: February 12, 1944)
• The Clue of the Magazine Murder * (Original Air Date: February 19, 1944)
• The Clue of the Movie Murder * (Original Air Date: February 26, 1944)
• The Surgery Slaying * (Original Air Date: April 1, 1944)
• The Clue of the Crimson Corpse *(Original Air Date: April 8, 1944)
• The Clue of the Murdered Maestro* (Original Air Date: April 15, 1944)
• The Case of the Clue in the Column and the Clueless Crime (Original Air Date: Sometime in 1944)
• The Clue of the Stairway Slaying/The Clue of the Legal Loophole (Original Air Dates: April 22 and 29, 1944)
• The Clue of the Gloom Room/The Melody of the Murder (Original Air Date: May 6, 1944/Unknown)
• The Clue of the Widowed Bride (Original Air Date: Unknown) **
• The Case of the Clue in the Column and the Clueless Crime (Original Air Date: 1944)

End of  Log   *episodes aired in the second half of Johnny Dollar. **Aired with an episode of Police Headquarters