Tag: Old Time Radio

NBC, Podcast, The Big Story

The Big Story: The Case of the Final Curtain (EP4857)

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Today’s Mystery:

A woman suspects that her father was poisoned in a nursing home.

Original Radio Broadcast: December 7, 1947

Originating from New York

Starring: Les Tremayne as Aubrey Maddock; Alice Reinhart; Ted Osborn; Agnes Young; John Gibson; Will Geer

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Danger with Grainger, OTR Detective, Podcast, Syndicated

Danger with Grainger: Lady Alibi (EP4856)

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Harp McGuire

Today’s Mystery:

A beautiful model comes to Grainger for help, claiming that she’s being pressured to provide an alibi for a man who shot a security guard during a robbery gone bad.

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: South of the Border (Encore) (EP4855e)

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Gale Gordon

Gregory Hood arrives in Mexico City to purchase jade and is mistaken for a wayward king.

Original Air Date: July 15, 1946

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Gale Gordon as Gregory Hood

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Cloak and Dagger, NBC, Podcast

Cloak and Dagger: Delay on Route

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Today’s Adventure:

In a territory the partisans seized from the fascists in Italy, an OSS agent has to sneak out two fascists ready to give vital information to the Allies and finds himself having to overcome his partisan comrades to do so.

Original Radio Broadcast: October 6, 1950

Originating in New York

Starring: Grant Richards; Arnold Moss; Luis Van Rooten

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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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Amazing World of Radio, Podcast

The Aldrich Family: Thanksgiving Dance and Turkey Run (AWR0287)

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Amazing World of Radio

Today’s story:

Henry Aldrich gets his classmates to agree to a turkey run after a school dance in hopes of finding a use for an unwanted live turkey from a country uncle. However, complications ensue.

Original AIr Date: November 25, 1948

Starring: Ezra Stone as Henry Aldrich

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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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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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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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