Danger with Grainger, OTR Detective, Podcast

Danger With Grainger: Out of Jail for Christmas (EP4871)

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Harp McGuire

Today’s Mystery:

The son of a cab driver asks Grainger to help his father out of jail by proving him innocent of a burglary.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1956 or 1957

Originating from Australia

Starring: Harp McGuire as Steve Grainger

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Amazing World of Radio, Podcast

The Comic Weekly Man: Wishing a Merry Christmas (AWR0290)

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Amazing World of Radio

The Comic Weekly Man comes for a weekly visit right before Christmas and reads strips from Puck: The Comic Weekly, including Flash Gordon, Dick’s Adventures, Rusty Riley, Donald Duck, Uncle Remus, Roy Rogers, Blondie, and Prince Valiant.

Original Air Date: December 24, 1950

Originating from New York

Starring: Lon Clark as the Comic Weekly Man

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OTR Detective, Podcast, Sherlock Holmes

Holmes for the Holiday: Two Christmas Mysteries (EP4870s)

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As we get ready for Christmas, we bring you two original old time radio Christmas plays featuring Sherlock Holmes.

First up is The Night Before Christmas.

On Christmas, one of Moriarity’s henchmen switches Christmas sacks with Dr. Watson when both are dressed as Santa Claus. Sherlock Holmes has to catch the thief and save Watson and the kids at a Christmas party.
Original Air Date: December 24, 1945
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes; Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson
Next up is The Adventure of the Christmas Bride.
Sherlock Holmes is invited to spend the holidays with a family that needs him to ensure that a family curse doesn’t prevent a wedding from occurring.

Original Air Date: December 21, 1947

Originating from New York

Starring: John Stanley as Sherlock Holmes; Alfred Shirley as Dr. Watson

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The Whistler: Christmas Bonus (Encore) (A0046)

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An ex-con is fired from his job at a department store where a string of burglaries totaling $10,000 have occurred, and decides to return to a life of crime.

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CBS, OTR Detective, Podcast, Yours Truly Johnny Dollar

Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Carman Kringle Matter (EP4870)

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Bob Bailey

Today’s Mystery:

Johnny is called to a small desert town where an old prospector is determined to change his life insurance beneficiary…to his burrow.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 22, 1956

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Herb Vigran; Howard McNear; Jeanne Tatum; Junius Matthews; Lawrence Dobkin; Forrest Lewis; Jack Kruschen; Richard Crenna; Bill James

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Amazing World of Radio, Podcast

Screen Guild Theater: Christmas in Connecticut (AWR0289)

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Today’s Story:

A writer who has cast herself as America’s favorite homemaker in her columns faces ruin when her publisher and a war-hero sailor are set to visit her non-existent farm. She agrees to marry a long-time suitor and use his farm for a Christmas celebration. Complications ensue when she falls for the sailor.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 5, 1946

Starring: Jane Wyman; Ronald Reagan; Leon Belasco

Related: Revisionist History: A Very Terminator Christmas

Newspaper Heroes of the Air: Radio Christmas in Connecticut

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Dragnet, NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, Procedural

Dragnet: The Big Little Jesus (EP4869)

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Today’s Mystery:

Joe Friday and Frank Smith investigate the theft of a statue of the child Jesus from a church nativity scene.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 22, 1953

Originating from Hollywood

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

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

Broadway’s My Beat: The Pablo Morari Murder (EP4868)

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Larry Thor

Today’s Mystery:

A young man is found murdered outside a club.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 30, 1951

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Jack Kruschen as Sergeant Muggavan; Richard Crenna; William Tracy; Peggy Webber; Michael Ann Barrett

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NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, The Big Story

The Big Story: The Case of the Cornered Cat (EP4867)

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Today’s Mystery:

America’s public enemey #1 is interested in turning himself in to Walter Winchell to be handed over to the FBI. But will he actually do it?

Original Radio Broadcast: September 17, 1947

Originating from New York

Starring: Ward Wilson as Walter Winchell; Ed Begley as J. Edgar Hoover; Don Appell; Alan Hewitt; Mildred Clinton

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Danger with Grainger, OTR Detective, Podcast

Danger with Grainger: Phony Photographer Case (EP4866)

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Harp McGuire

Today’s Mystery:

A female nightclub photographer turns to Steve Grainger for help.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1956 or 1957

Originating from Australia

Starring: Harp McGuire as Steve Grainger

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OTR Detective, Podcast

The Casebook of Gregory Hood: The Forgetful Murderer (Encore) (EP4865e)

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Gale Gordon
Someone is murdering night watchmen and leaving odd clues behind.

Original Air Date: July 29, 1946

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Gale Gordon as Gregory Hood

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Cloak and Dagger, NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast

Cloak and Dagger: Windfall (A0044)

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Today’s Adventure:

An ex-pat gambler in Switzerland gets a top secret film both sides want and tries to sell to the highest bidder.

Original Radio Broadcast: October 22, 1950

Originating from New York

Starring: Les Tremayne; Bill Quinn; Jan Miner; Grant Richards; Raymond Edward Johnson; Karl Weber; Charles Irving; Stefan Snobble; Boris Aplon; Paul Arnold; Jerry Jarrett

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CBS, OTR Detective, Podcast, Yours Truly Johnny Dollar

Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Glacier Ghost Matter (EP4865)

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Bob Bailey

Today’s Mystery:

Johnny is called in to verify the fate of a businessman who disappeared in the Palisades glacier.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 12, 1957

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; John Dehner; Herb Ellis; Virginia Gregg; Forrest Lewis; James McCallion; Tom Hanley; John James

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Dragnet, NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, Procedural

Dragnet: The Big Want Ad (EP4864

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Today’s Mystery:

Joe Friday and Ben Romero investigate a case where conmen are victimizing peoople who place newspaper ads to sell their cars.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 4, 1951

Originating from Hollywood

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

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

Broadway’s My Beat: The Ruth Larson Murder Case (EP4863)

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Larry Thor

Today’s Mystery:

A fourteen-year-old is the first of a series of women brutally murdered by the same person.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 23, 1951

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Jack Kruschen as Sergeant Muggavan; Joseph Kearns; Martha Wentworth; Harry Bartell; Charles Davis

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