Tag: Detective Radio Drama

CBS, OTR Detective, Podcast, Yours Truly Johnny Dollar

Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Two Faced Matter (EP4855)

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Bob Bailey

Today’s Mystery:

Johnny is called in to investigate the theft of $58,000 from a lucite furniture manufacturing company.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 10, 1958

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Will Wright; Herb Vigran; Forrest Lewis; Edgar Barrier; Richard Beals; Bill James; Gus Bayz

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Dragnet, NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, Procedural

Dragnet: The Big Sour (EP4854)

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Today’s Mystery:

Two men rob an elderly couple and torture the husband in order to steal their jewelry.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 20, 1951

Originating from Hollywood

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

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

Broadway’s My Beat: The Earl Lawson Murder Case (EP4853)

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Larry Thor

Today’s Mystery:

A wealthy man is knifed in Times Square.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 9, 1951

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Jack Kruschen as Sergeant Muggavan

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OTR Detective, Podcast, The Big Story

The Big Story: The Case of the Unfinished Love Song (EP4852)

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Today’s Mystery:

Howard Beaufait of The Cleveleand News reinvestigates the case of a violin-playing convicted killer who claims innocence and whose wife also believes him.

Original Radio Broadcast: November 26, 1947

Originating from New York

Starring: Craig McDonnell; John Sylvester; Francis De Sales; Eileen Heckart; Luise Barkley

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Danger with Grainger, OTR Detective, Podcast

Danger with Grainger: The Invented Husband (EP4851)

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Harp McGuire

Today’s Mystery:

A woman invents a husband to get a job and then has to “kill him off” to get married. She turns to Grainger when she finds herself implicated in a real murder.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1956 or 1957

Originating from Australia

Starring: Harp McGuire as Steve Grainger

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OTR Detective, Podcast

Casey, Crime Photographer: Holiday (Encore) (EP4850e)

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Stats Cotsworth

Casey and Ann’s plan for a Thanksgiving holiday is disrupted by a reformed safe cracker who is being asked to crack a safe for $10,000 or else.

Original Air Date: November 25, 1948

Originating from New York

Starring: Staats Cotsworth as Flash Casey

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Dragnet, NBC, Podcast

Dragnet: The Big Waiter (EP4849)

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Today’s Mystery:

Joe Friday and Ben Romero investigating the murder of the philandering owner of a habadashery store.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 13,1951

Originating from Hollywood

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

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NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, The Big Story

The Big Story: The Bobby-Sox Kid from Bayonne (EP4847)

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Today’s Mystery:

Dorothy Kilgaren is called in to investigate the killing-by-hatchet of a woman; police suspect her seventeen-year-old daughter.

Original Radio Broadcast: October 15, 1947

Originating from New York

Starring: Janet Fox as Dorothy Kilgaren; Burt Brazier; Francis De Sales; Jerry Lewis; Mitzi Gould; Eleanor Audley

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Danger with Grainger, OTR Detective, Podcast, Syndicated

Danger with Grainger: The Annie Lesich Story (EP4846)

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Harp McGuire

Today’s Mystery:

A woman asks Grainger for help when a man whom she sent to prison is released.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1956 or 1957

Originating from Australia

Starring: Harp McGuire as Steve Grainger

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OTR Detective, Podcast

Casebook of Gregory Hood: The Derringer Society (Encore) (EP4845e)

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Gale Gordon

A woman visits the Derringer Society and the members start dying as she predicted.

Original Air Date: July 8, 1946

Originating in Hollywood

Starring Gale Gordon as Gregory Hood

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CBS, OTR Detective, Podcast, Yours Truly Johnny Dollar

Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Wayward Killer Matter (EP4845)

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Bob Bailey

Today’s Mystery:

Johnny is called to protect an insured man who witnessed a murder.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 27, 1958

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Edgar Barrier; Herb Vigran; James McCallion; Paul Dubov; Lawrence Dobkin; John Dehner; Bill James; Vic Perrin

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Dragnet, NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, Procedural

Dragnet: The Big Seventeen (EP4844)

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Today’s Mystery:

Joe Friday and Ben Romero investigate teens going wild in a neighborhood, culminating in a small riot in a theater.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 6, 1951

Originating from Hollywood

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

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

Broadway’s My Beat: The Eleanor Corbett Murder Case (EP4843)

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Larry Thor

Today’s Mystery:

A woman is found murdered with a broken neck.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 26, 1951

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Jack Kruschen as Sergeant Muggavan; Howard McNear

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NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, The Big Story

The Big Story: The Case of the Counterfeit Coins (EP4842)

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Today’s Mystery:

Reporter Jack Adams goes undercover in a gang of counterfeiters to catch the man at the top.

Original Radio Broadcast: October 19, 1947

Originating from New York

Starring: Dwight Weist as Jack Adams; Mason Adams; Larry Haines; Richard Keith; Eileen Heckart; James Boles; Jackson Beck

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Danger with Grainger, OTR Detective, Podcast, Syndicated

Danger with Grainger: A Marriage Minded Girl (EP4841)

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Harp McGuire

Today’s Mystery:

A woman contacts Grainger for help and is then beaten up and disappears.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1956 or 1957

Originating from Australia

Starring: Harp McGuire as Steve Grainger

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