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Dangerous Assignment, NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast

Dangerous Assignment: Atomic Fission Formula (EP4109)

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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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CBS, OTR Detective, Podcast, Yours Truly Johnny Dollar

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

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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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NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, Sam Spade

Sam Spade: The Dry Gulch Caper (EP4107)

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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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CBS, OTR Detective, Podcast, Yours Truly Johnny Dollar

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

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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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CBS, OTR Detective, Podcast, Sam Spade

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

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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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CBS, OTR Detective, Podcast, Yours Truly Johnny Dollar

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

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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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CBS, OTR Detective, Podcast, Yours Truly Johnny Dollar

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

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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, Mutual, OTR Detective, Podcast

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

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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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Let George Do It, Mutual, OTR Detective, Podcast

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

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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)

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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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CBS, Lux Radio Theatre, Mystery Special, OTR Detective, Podcast, Sam Spade

Lux Radio Theater: The Maltese Falcon (EP4100s)

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Edward G. Robinson

Today’s Mystery:

Sam Spade (Edward G. Robinson) tries to solve the murder of his partner and gets drawn into the intrigue over a mysterious black-enameled bird.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 8, 1943

Originated in Hollywood.

Starred: Edward G. Robinson as Sam Spade, Gail Patrick as Bridget O’Shaughnessy, Laird Cregar as Casper Gutman, Charlie Lung as Joel Cairo, Bea Benderret as Effie, Eddie Mars as Wilmer, Fred MacKaye, Norman Field, Warren Ashe

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NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, Procedural, Tales of the Texas Rangers

Tales of the Texas Rangers: Last Stop (EP4100)

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Today’s Mystery:

Jace Pearson suspects foul play in a fatal train crash.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 10, 1952

Originiated from Hollywood

Starred: Joel McCrea as Jace Pearson, Tony Barrett, Leo Curley, Ken Christie, Burt Holland, Whitfield Connor, Jeffrey Silver

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CBS, OTR Detective, Podcast, Yours Truly Johnny Dollar

Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Flight Six Matter, Episodes Three, Four, and Five (EP4099)

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Bob Bailey

Today’s Mystery:

Accusations fly and suspects point fingers at each other as Johnny’s investigation into who sabotaged a plane and caused the death of ten passengers continues.

Original Radio Broadcast Dates: February 1, 2, and 3, 1956

Originated from Hollywood

Stars: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar, Virginia Gregg, Ben Wright, Edgar Barrier, Don Diamond, Russ Thorson, and Jack Moyles

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OTR Detective, Philo Vance, Podcast, Syndicated

Philo Vance: The Whistling Murder Case (EP4098)

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Today’s Mystery:

Vance investigates a series of murders committed by a whistling killer who tries to extort money from his wealthy victims.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 9, 1950

Originated in: New York City

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

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Dangerous Assignment, NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast

Dangerous Assignment: Recover Stolen Dynamite (EP4097)

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Today’s Mystery:

Steven goes to Panama to take up the case of an old friend who was murdered while looking for stolen dynamite. Steve’s only clue? A piece of string found in his pocket.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 24, 1951

Originated in Hollywood

Stars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner; Stacy Harris, Al Brown, Kay Stewart, Byron Kane, Don Diamond, Raymond Burr

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