Tag: Old Time Radio

Gerald Mohr

Marlowe goes searching in the seedy part of town for an heir to $5,000.

Original Air Date: August 25, 1951

Starring Gerald Mohr as Philip Marlowe

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Philip Marlowe: Young Man’s Fancy (Encore) (EP5020)

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Gerald Mohr

Today’s Mystery:

Marlowe becomes concerned with the strange behavior of the man who runs the neighborhood fruit stand.

Original Air Date: July 28, 1951

Starring Gerald Mohr as Philip Marlowe

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Philip Marlowe: The Long Way Home (Encore) (EP5019)

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Gerald Mohr

Today’s Mystery:

An older man hires to Marlowe to find his pretty young wife.

Original Air Date: August 4, 1951

Starring Gerald Mohr as Philip Marlowe

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Amazing World of Radio, Podcast

Suspense: The Pit and the Pendulum (AWR0303)

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Amazing World of Radio

This week in our summer series featuring old-time radio appearances by actors who later played killers on Columbo, we spotlight José Ferrer. Ferrer stars as a French artillery captain condemned by the Spanish Inquisition, who must endure a terrifying psychological ordeal while struggling to preserve his sanity and his hope of survival.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 28, 1947

Program: Suspense

Starring José Ferrer.

Also featuring Jeanette Nolan, Elliott Lewis, Joseph Kearns, Paul McVeigh, Eric Snowden, and John McIntire

Adapted for radio by John Dickson Carr from the story by Edgar Allan Poe

Produced, edited, and directed by William Spear

Original music composed by Lucien Moraweck and conducted by Lud Gluskin

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Philip Marlowe: The Good Neighbor Policy (Encore) (EP5018)

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Gerald Mohr

Today’s Mystery:

A mix-up with his phone lines leads Marlowe to a snippy neighbor and a gun at his back.

Original Air Date: July 28, 1951

Starring Gerald Mohr as Philip Marlowe

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Philip Marlowe: Life Can Be Murder (Encore) (EP5017)

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Gerald Mohr
Marlowe meets a beautiful woman at an English pub, drops her off at a ritzy house, and is called when a dead body is found at that house.

Original Air Date: July 21, 1951

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NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, The Saint

The Saint: The Ghost that Giggled

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Barry Sullivan

Today’s Mystery:When an eccentric woman asks Simon Templar to investigate the ghost that has been haunting her wealthy brother, the Saint expects to expose a harmless superstition. Instead, he finds himself unraveling a murder, a missing safe deposit box key, and a web of deception in which nearly everyone seems to be searching for the same elusive prize.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 17, 1950

Originating from Hollywood

Starred: Vincent Price as Simon Templar

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Philip Marlowe: The Dear Dead Days (Encore) (EP5016)

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Marlowe is hired by an elderly widow to find her ex-chauffeur and ends up in a case involving a missing art collection.

Original Air Date: July 14, 1951

Starring Gerald Mohr as Philip Marlowe

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Philip Marlowe: The Seaside Sabbatical (Encore) (EP5015e)

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Gerald Mohr

Today’s Mystery:

Marlowe travels thirty miles to find that a client changed his mind. But then things get complicated.

Original Air Date: July 7, 1951

Originating from Hollywood

Starring Gerald Mohr as Philip Marlowe

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CBS, OTR Detective, Podcast, Yours Truly Johnny Dollar

Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Wayward Sculptor Matter (EP5015)

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Bob Bailey

Today’s Mystery:

When an insurance company begins receiving anonymous monthly payments for a $50,000 fraudulent claim, Johnny Dollar is assigned to identify the mysterious sender. His investigation into a suspicious insurance payout leads him to the widow of a famous sculptor—only to discover that she died months earlier.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 14, 1959

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar

Also starring Herb Vigran, Edgar Barrier, Carlton G. Young, Will Wright, and Lawrence Dobkin

Written, produced, and directed by Jack Johnstone

Announcer: Dan Cubberly

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Dragnet, NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, Procedural

Dragnet: The Big Show (EP5014)

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Today’s Mystery:

When a seven-week-old baby is abandoned in a downtown bus depot, Joe Friday and Ed Jacobs begin searching for the missing mother. But as they retrace her journey to Los Angeles, small inconsistencies in a witness’s story lead the detectives to suspect the truth is far more complicated than anyone first believed.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 10, 1952

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday and Barney Phillips as Sergeant Ed Jacobs

Also featuring Virginia Gregg, Harry Bartell, and Helen Kleeb

Script by Jim Moser

Music by Walter Schumann

Announcer: Hal Gibney

Technical advice from the Los Angeles Police Department

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Amazing World of Radio, Podcast

Cavalcade of America: Winner Takes Life (AWR0302)

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This week in our summer series featuring old-time radio appearances by actors who later played killers on Columbo, we spotlight Jackie Cooper. Cooper stars as a young soldier whose life hangs in the balance after a dangerous heart infection resists every available treatment, while researchers at Rutgers University race to perfect a promising new antibiotic that could change the course of modern medicine.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 19, 1948

Program: Cavalcade of America

Starring Paul Lukas, Anne Rutherford, and Jackie Cooper.

Written by Bernard Victor Dryer. Narrated by Ted Pearson. Music composed by Arden Cornwell and conducted by Donald Bryan.

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NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, The Big Story

The Big Story: The Case of the Cautious Killer (EP5012)

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Today’s Mystery:

Freshly hired cub reporter Ed Neumeier expects to spend his first day covering routine local stories while the veteran reporters chase a sensational double murder. Instead, a chance encounter with a nervous stranger thrusts the inexperienced reporter into the biggest story of his young career.

Original Radio Broadcast: March 14, 1951

Originating from New York

Starring Russell Thorson as Ed Neumeier

Also featuring Melba Rae, Amzie Strickland, Chet Stratton, William Keene, and Joe Helgeson

Based on the reporting of Ed Neumeier of the Humboldt Times

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NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, The Saint

The Saint: Reflection on Murder (EP5011)

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The Saint

Today’s Mystery:

After actress Betty Ames witnesses a publisher’s murder, Simon Templar appoints himself her unofficial bodyguard. When a second attempt is made on Betty’s life during a stage rehearsal, The Saint realizes the killer is determined to silence the one witness who may hold the key to the case.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 13, 1950

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Vincent Price as Simon Templar

Also featuring Francis Cheney, Barbara Eiler, Eleanor Audley, Frank Gerstle, Stanley Farrar, and Arthur Q. Bryan

Script by Louis Vittes

Music composed and conducted by Vaughn Dexter

Produced by James L. Saphier

Directed by Helen Mack

Announcer: Don Stanley

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ABC, Counterspy, OTR Detective, Podcast

Counterspy: The Cold-Blooded Professor, Part One (A0102)

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Today’s Adventure:

Professor Emery Horn has spent years cultivating the reputation of a brilliant but reclusive scientist. When a counterspy agent arrives to question him about a daring bank robbery, Horn launches an elaborate escape that sets David Harding and Harry Peters on the trail of one of the most dangerous and ingenious criminals they’ve ever faced.

Original Radio Broadcast: August 30, 1949

Originating in New York

Starring Don McLaughlin as David Harding and Mandel Kramer as Harry Peters

Also featuring Ralph Bell as Professor Emery Horn and Maurice Tarplin

Music by Jesse Crawford

Produced by the Phillips H. Lord Productions

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