Tag: Old Time Radio Detective

CBS, OTR Detective, Podcast, Yours Truly Johnny Dollar

Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Melancholy Memory Matter (EP4453)

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Bob Bailey

Today’s Mystery:

Johnny is called in to investigate the disappearance of a major league pitcher.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 28, 1957

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Virginia Gregg; Lillian Buyeff; Richard Beals; Barney Phillips; Frank Nelson; Harry Bartell; Richard Crenna; Lawrence Dobkin; Tom Hanley

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CBS, Keen and Company, Mr. Chameleon, OTR Detective, Podcast

Mr. Chameleon: The Murder Clue of the Embalmed Body (EP4452)

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Karl Swenson

Today’s Mystery:

An embalmed body is found in the back of a speeding station wagon.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 14, 1949

Originating from New York City

Starring: Karl Swenson as Mister Chameleon; Frank Butler as Sergeant Dave Arnold

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

Broadway’s My Beat: Ruth Jennings (EP4451)

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Anthony Ross

Today’s Mystery:

Danny has to mediate between a young woman who wants to find her father, and her ex-convict father, who wants the state to tell her that he’s dead.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 22, 1949

Originating in New York City

Starring: Anthony Ross as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Art Carney; Jean Carson; Nancy Franklin; Charles Penman; Julian Noa; Paul Luther

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Bulldog Drummond, Mutual, OTR Detective, Podcast

Bulldog Drummond: Murder in the Death House (EP4450)

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Today’s Mystery:

Bulldog Drummond goes to visit a man he sent to death row, who has information he wants to trade for clemency. Drummond finds him dead in his cell.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 10, 1945

Originating in New York

Starring: Ned Wever as Bulldog Drummond; Luis Van Rooten as Denny

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NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, The Falcon

The Falcon: The Case of the Witty Widow (EP4449)

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Les Damon

Today’s Mystery:

A blackmailer is murdered and suspicion falls on the woman he was blackmailing.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 18, 1951

Originating from New York

Starring: Les Damon as the Falcon; Ken Lynch as Sergeant Corbett

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Dragnet, NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, Procedural

Dragnet: The Big Fake (EP4448)

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Today’s Mystery:

A man accuses a police officer of robbing and beating him.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 1, 1950

Originating from Hollywood

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

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CBS, OTR Detective, Podcast, Yours Truly Johnny Dollar

Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Ming Toy Murphy Matter (EP4447)

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Bob Bailey

Today’s Mystery:

Johnny is called in by an eccentric insured man to find his missing “talking” Pekinese dog.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 14, 1957

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Virginia Gregg; G. Stanley Jones; Herb Ellis; Joseph Kearns; Jay Novello; Bill James; Howard McNear

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CBS, Keen and Company, Mr. Chameleon, OTR Detective, Podcast

Mr. Chameleon: The Case of the Snarling Corpse (EP4446)

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Karl Swenson

Today’s Mystery:

Mr. Chameleon is called in when a doctor suspects that a man who died of lockjaw was actually murdered.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 7, 1949

Originating from New York City

Starring: Karl Swenson as Mister Chameleon; Frank Butler as Sergeant Dave Arnold

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

Broadway’s My Beat: The Rita Rondell Murder Case (EP4445)

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Anthony Ross

Today’s Mystery:

A young businessman from Arkansas reports that a woman tried to blackmail him. Then she’s found dead.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 1, 1949

Originating in New York City

Starring: Anthony Ross as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Jeanne Carson; John Forsyth

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Bulldog Drummond, Mutual, OTR Detective, Podcast

Bulldog Drummond: Help Wanted (EP4444)

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Luis Van Rooten

Today’s Mystery:

Captain Drummond leaves town on a train. A man dies while asking him to be paged at the train station. Denny hires his own valet and sets out to solve the case himself.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 13, 1945

Originating in New York

Starring: Luis Van Rooten as Denny

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Mutual, OTR Detective, Podcast, The Falcon

The Falcon: The Case of the Unsilent Butler (EP4443)

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Les Damon

Today’s Mystery:

Mike has to protect a model for a new oil detector from an unscrupulous private investigator.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 11, 1951

Originating from New York

Starring: Les Damon as the Falcon; Ralph Bell; Maurice Tarplin; Elspeth Eric

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OTR Detective, Podcast

Ellery Queen: The Vanishing Magician (Encore) (EP4442e)

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An old vaudeville magician makes a wager for $25,000 that he can disappear from a house under the nose of New York’s finest.

Original Air Date: November 6, 1943

Originating in New York

Starring: Sidney Smith as Ellery Queen

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OTR Detective, Podcast

Ellery Queen: Adventure of the Circus Train (Encore) (EP4442)

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Carleton Young

A long-time circus owner is murdered on a train.

Original Air Date: March 27, 1943

Originating in New York

Starring: Carleton Young as Ellery Queen

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OTR Detective, Podcast, Yours Truly Johnny Dollar

Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Alvin Summers Matter Omnibus (Encore) (EP4441)

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Bob Bailey

Today’s Mystery:Johnny goes to Mexico in search of a man who embezzled $75,000

Original Radio Broadcast Dates:October 24-28, 1955

Originated from Hollywood

Stars: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar, Virginia Gregg, Marvin Miller, Don Diamond, Tony Barrett, Parley Baer

Includes portion of interview with John Abbott. Listen to the full interview here.

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OTR Detective, Podcast, Yours Truly Johnny Dollar

Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Valentine Matter Omnibus (Encore) (EP4440)

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Bob Bailey

Today’s Mystery: Johnny initially comes to New Orleans to investigate a hotel theft but becomes involved in finding out who’s making attempts on life of a retired Prohibition-era Racketeer

Original Radio Broadcast Dates: October 31-November 4, 1955

Originated from Hollywood

Stars: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar, Lillian Buyeff, Betty Lou Gerson, Barney Phillips, Will Wright, Forrest Lewis, Marvin Miller, Jay Novello, Jack Moyles

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