Tag: Old Time Radio Mystery

EP3511: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Thelma Ibsen Matter

John Lund

Johnny looks for the beneficiary on a life insurance policy who the insured only met once.

Original Air Date: January 9, 1953

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EP3510: Mystery is My Hobby: Death is One and Three

A hated publisher is murdered and Inspector Danton contains quick confessions…too many of them in fact.

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AWR0166: Somebody Knows: Unsolved Murder of Elizabeth Short (the Black Dahlia)

Amazing World of Radio

A true-crime radio program lays out the facts in the murder of Elizabeth Short in Los Angeles and offers a $5,000 reward for her murderer’s capture.

Original Air Date: August 24, 1950

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EP3509: Man Called X: The Orient Express

Herbert Marshall

Ken travels aboard the Orient Express in search of an international criminal.

Original Air Date: January 27, 1951

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EP3508: The Fat Man: Murder Made Stylish (AU)

Brad is offered half of a thousand dollar bill to go up into an apartment and finds a corpse with a matador’s sword through his chest.

Original Air Date: July 28, 1955

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EP3507: Casey, Crime Photographer: The Wedding Breakfast

Stats Cotsworth

A gambler is found murdered in his apartment after marrying a wealthy woman.

Original Air Date: October 9, 1947

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EP3506: Dragnet: The Big Man, Part Two (Encore)

Jack Webb
Having arrested the number two Drug kingpin in the West, Friday and Smith join with a coalition of state, local, and federal law enforcement to bring down the Big Man.

Original Air Date: January 19, 1950

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EP3505: Dragnet: The Big Man, Part One (Encore)

Jack Webb

Joe Friday goes undercover in a quest for a West Coast drug kingpin.

Original Air Date: January 12, 1950

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EP3504: Nick Carter: Kidnapped for Sale, Parts Eight and Nine (Encore)

Lon Clark
Nick and Scubby follow a clue to find the head of the baby kidnapping ring, but find themselves in a trap.

Original Air Dates: April 26 and 27, 1944

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EP3503: Nick Carter: Kidnapped for Sale, Parts Six and Seven (Encore)

Lon ClarkNick, Patsy, and Scubby are tied up with guns pointed at them as the gang of kidnappers prepares to execute them.

Original Air Dates: April 24 and 25, 1944

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EP3502: Nick Carter: Kidnapped for Sale, Parts Three and Five (Encore)

Lon Clark

Shots are fired but the shooter gets away as Nick closes in on the baby stealing ring.

Original Air Dates: April 19 and 21, 1944

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EP3501: Nick Carter: Kidnapped for Sale: Parts One and Two (Encore)

Lon Clark

A woman comes to Nick reporting that a man she left her baby with has stolen the baby. Nick recognized it as part of a baby-selling racket.

Original Air Dates: April 17 and 18, 1944

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EP3500s: Proudly We Hail: This Could Be Murder

A San Francisco police inspector arrives at a scene of an apparent suicide that he suspects could be murder.

Original Air Date: December 3, 1950

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EP3500: The Silent Men: The College Fix

A federal agent goes undercover as a lecturer at a campus in hopes of breaking up a dope-pedalling ring.

Original Air Date: April 9, 1952

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EP3499: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Baltimore Matter

John Lund

 

A convicted felon in need of a stake to start a new life offers Johnny half of a $10,000 reward to help solve a years old robbery.

Original Air Date: January 2, 1953

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