Tag: Cold War

Danger with Grainger, OTR Detective, Podcast, Syndicated

Danger with Grainger: The FBI and the Scientist (EP4806)

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Harp McGuire

Today’s Mystery:

A woman hires Steve Grainger to protect her scientist husband who is working on a top secret experiment.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1956 or 1957

Originating from Australia

Starring: Harp McGuire as Steve Grainger

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NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, The Falcon

The Falcon: The Case of the Strawberry Blonde (EP4765)

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Les Damon

Today’s Mystery:

A woman working for the Communist Party in Paris tries to get her husband to steal notes on a sensitive meeting.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 14, 1952

Originating from New York

Starred: Les Damon as The Falcon; Ralph Bell

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NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, The Falcon

The Falcon: The Case of the Jack of Diamonds (EP4760)

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Les Damon

Today’s Mystery:

In London, Waring gets involved in a case of blackmail that turns into murder.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 7, 1952

Originating from New York

Starring: Les Damon as The Falcon; Francis Chaney

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NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, The Falcon

The Falcon: The Case of the Careless Corpse (EP4755)

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Les Damon

Today’s Mystery: Waring is sent to Berlin to recruit a scientist to the American cause but Communist Agents send an imposter to
kidnap the scientist.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 31, 1952

Originating from New York

Starred: Les Damon as the Falcon, Lesley Woods

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NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, The Falcon

The Falcon: The Case of the Silent Butler (EP4743)

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Les Damon

Today’s Mystery:

Mike goes to Lisbon on a tip that a woman working at the US embassy is a spy.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 24, 1952

Originating from New York

Starring: Les Damon as The Falcon; Mandel Kramer; Bryna Raeburn

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CBS, OTR Detective, Podcast, Yours Truly Johnny Dollar

Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Wayward Moth Matter (EP4735)

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Bob Bailey

Today’s Mystery: Johnny is called to investigate a small claim in a case involving damage at a sensitive chemistry experiment. Or was it sabotage?

Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 9, 1958

Originated from Hollywood

Stars: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar. Vic Perrin, Herb Ellis, Paul Richards, Lou Merrill, Leon Belasco

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NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, The Falcon

The Falcon: The Case of the Broken Key (EP4719)

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Les Damon

Today’s Mystery:

Mike Waring finds himself on the opposite side of a beautiful Communist spy on the hunt for a party member who fled to Casablanca.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 27, 1952

Originating from New York

Starring: Les Damon as The Falcon; Ann Shepherd

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CBS, Mr. and Mrs. North, OTR Detective, Podcast

Mr. and Mrs. North: The Wheel of Chance (EP4704)

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Joseph Curtain and Alice Frost

Today’s Mystery:

Pam and Jerry’s life is endangered after someone plants something in their hubcap while they are visiting Canada, and a man with a gun is looking for that something.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 30, 1953

Originating from New York City

Starring: Joseph Curtain as Jerry North; Alice Frost as Pamela North; Chuck Webster

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NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, The Falcon

The Falcon: The Case of the Menacing Mamselle (EP4689)

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Les Damon

Today’s Mystery:

A man is in Paris to find the woman who betrayed his brother to the Nazis.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 26, 1952

Originating from New York

Starring: Les Damon as The Falcon, Ralph Bell; Ken Lynch

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CBS, OTR Detective, Podcast, Yours Truly Johnny Dollar

Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Boron 112 Matter (EP4675)

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Bob Bailey

Today’s Mystery:

An inventor who is building an insured machine to make a new type of fuel is suspected of being involved in a subversive group.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 12, 1958

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Shirley Mitchell; G. Stanley Jones; Parley Baer; Russell Thorson; Frank Gerstle; Lou Merril

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Mathew Slade, OTR Detective, Podcast, Syndicated

Mathew Slade: The Secret Grey Man (EP4636)

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Today’s Mystery:

Slade finds himself at Morro Bay in a mystery involving an old army buddy who is a secret agent.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 25, 1964

Originating in Hollywood

Starring: William Wintersole as Mathew Slade

Aired as Starlight Mystery Theater. Also known as Matthew Slade, Private Investigator.

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OTR Detective, Podcast

San Francisco Final (Encore) (EP4591)

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Jeff Chandler

Today’s Mystery: Reporter Mike Rivera investigates mass extortion in Chinatown.

Recorded: July 26, 1954

Originating in Hollywood

Starring Jeff Chandler as Mike Rivera

 

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CBS, Operation Danger, OTR Detective, Podcast, Rare Detectives

Operation Danger (EP4570)

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Today’s Mystery:

A captain in the army counter-intelligence department teams up with a British intelligence agent to track down the source of diamonds to finance a new Nazi plan.

Audition Date: June 25, 1950

Originating in Hollywood

Starring: Howard Culver as Captain Ethan Allen Rogers; Joan Banks; Ben Wright; Paul Frees; Theodore Von Eltz; Fritz Feld; Rick Vallen

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CBS, OTR Detective, Podcast, Yours Truly Johnny Dollar

Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Clever Chemist Matter (EP4435)

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Bob Bailey

Today’s Mystery:

Johnny is sent to New Jersey to investigate an allegation by an insured’s daughter that her father, a famous chemist, was pressured into changing his beneficiary to his research partner.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 17, 1957

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Virginia Gregg; Harry Bartell; Howard McNear; Forrest Lewis; Jack Kruschen; Russell Thorson; Frank Gerstle; Bob Bruce

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Dangerous Assignment, NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast

Dangerous Assignment: Capture James C. Stoller (EP4409)

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Today’s Mystery:

Steve goes to Syria to intercept and capture an America traitor and Communist propagandist.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 24, 1953

Originating in Hollywood

Starring: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell; Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner; Jan Arvan; Vivi Janus; Paul Frees; Paul Dubov

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