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Today’s Mystery:

A woman believes her husband has been kidnapped, but instead of a ransom note, she’s being sent money.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1950 or 1951

Originating from Sydney

Starring: William Rees as Charlie Chan; Rodney Jacobs

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Cloak and Dagger, NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast

Cloak and Dagger: Swastika on the Windmill (A0020)

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Today’s Adventure: An OSS agent goes behind enemy lines into occupied Holland to stay at his uncle’s house.

Original Radio Broadcast: July 30, 1950

Originating from New York

Starring: Les Tremayne; Lester Fletcher; Harvey Hayes; Jared Burke; Gordon Stern; Francois Grimar; Basil Langton; Patricia Courtleigh; Beulah Garrick; Victor Chapin

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Mystery Special, OTR Detective, Podcast, Syndicated

The Hardy Family: The Case of the Missing Warehouse (EP4790)

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Today’s Mystery:

Andy Hardy takes a job as a night watchman only to seemingly have the whole warehouse he’s guarding disappear.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 10, 1951

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Mickey Rooney as Andy Hardy; Fay Holden; Lewis Stone; Eleanore Tanin; Richard Krenna; Eleanore Tanin

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Cloak and Dagger, OTR Detective, Podcast

Cloak and Dagger: The Eyes of Buddha (A0014)

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Today’s Adventure:

An OSS agent goes to Siam.

Original Radio Broadcast: July 2, 1950

Originating from New York

Starring: Everett Sloane; Ralph Bell; Berry Kroeger; Raymond Edward Johnson; Eileen Heckart; Martin Balsam; Grant Richards; Jerry Jarrett; Karl Webber

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Cloak and Dagger, NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast

Cloak and Dagger: The Brenner Pass Story (A0006)

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Today’s Adventure:

An OSS agent undertakes a secret mission to blow up a highway in Italy to block the escape of the Germans.

Original Radio Broadcast: June 4, 1950

Originating from New York

Starring: Boris Aplon; Hester Sondergaard; Berry Kroeger; Virginia Payne; Raymond Edward Johnson; Karl Weber; Joseph Julian; Everett Sloan

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Cloak and Dagger, NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast

Cloak and Dagger: The Trojan Horse (A0004)

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Today’s Adventure:

A French agent of the OSS takes a singer to Casablanca to feed inaccurate information to the Nazis.

Original Radio Broadcast: May 28, 1950

Originating from New York

Starring: Jane White; Raymond Edward Johnson; Berry Kroeger; Leon Janney; Joseph Julian; Karl Weber; Guy Sorel; Bernie Gould

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Cloak and Dagger, NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast

Cloak and Dagger: Frank Baker’s Story (A0002)

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Today’s Adventure:

An American OSS agent who parachuted into Germany tries to figure out how he made a mistake.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 7, 1950

Originating from New York

Starring: Joseph Julian; Dolly Haas; Raymond Edward Johnson; Corey Ford; Bernard Phillips; Ross Martin

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Amazing World of Radio, Podcast

NBC University Theater: The Treasure of Franchard (AWR0274)

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A rural doctor adopts the serious-minded young servant of a deceased clown and then stumbles on a fabulous treasure.

Original Air Date: July 16, 1950

Starring: Paul Frees as Doc; Charles Seal; Florence Ravenal; Lynn Whitney; Michael Chapin; Parley Baer

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Amazing World of Radio, Podcast

The Greatest Story Ever Told: The Resurrection (AWR0272)

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Today’s Story: The story of the events after the Crucifixion of Jesus leading up to Easter.

Original Air Date: April 6, 1947

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CBS, Mr. and Mrs. North, OTR Detective, Podcast

Mr. and Mrs. North: Dime a Dance (EP4620)

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Joseph Curtain and Alice Frost

Today’s Mystery:

A dancer at a dance hall gets Pam to come to her apartment by claiming that Jerry was in love with her.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 7, 1950

Originating from New York City

Starring: Joseph Curtain as Jerry North; Alice Frost as Pamela North

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Mystery Special, OTR Detective, Podcast

Fifteen Years Ago (EP4526s)

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This week, we look back at our first week of podcasts from 2009, with Adam’s current extended thoughts on each episode and reaction to his own commentar.

Original Podcast Release Date: October 26, 2009

Dan Holiday tries to jumpstart his writing career through an ad in a newspaper. His first letter is from a woman who tells Dan she’s being blackmailed.

Original Radio Air Date: October 17, 1947

Originating in Hollywood

Starring: Alan Ladd as Dan Holiday; Sylvia Picker as Suzie

Original Podcast Release Date: October 27, 2009

Pat Novak is hired to frighten a man named Dixie Gillian, but when an empty gun goes off, he finds himself facing a murder charge.

“You couldn’t hold a moth with a searchlight.” – Pat Novak to Hellman

Original Air Date: November 24, 1946

Originating in San Francisco

Starring: Jack Webb as Pat Novak; Tudor Owen as Jocko Madigan

Original Podcast Release Date: October 28, 2009

On his first day as a private detective, George Valentine gets his first client – a famous writer who tells him he’s about to be murdered and then collapses on the spot. The body then vanishes, leaving George to find out what happened.

Original Audition Date: May 14, 1946

Originating in Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as George Valentine; Shirley Mitchell as Claire; Eddie Firestone, Jr. as Sonny; Joseph Kearns; Georgia Backus; Howard McNear; Horace Murphy

Original Podcast Release Date: October 30, 2009

Johnny Dollar is retained to protect a man who has threatened suicide after making a notorious gambling kingpin the beneficiary on his life insurance policy.

Original Audition Date: December 7, 1948

Starring: Dick Powell as Johnny Dollar; William Conrad; Betty Lou Gerson; Joseph Kearns

Guest: Andrew Rhynes of the OTR Westerns podcast

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CBS, OTR Detective, Podcast, Yours Truly Johnny Dollar

Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Heatherstone Players Matter (EP4513)

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Bob Bailey

Today’s Mystery:

Johnny is called in to protect a Shakespearean actor and producer who is hated by everyone in a Shakespearean radio festival he’s putting on.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 14, 1957

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Virginia Gregg; Lawrence Dobkin; Richard Crenna; Sam Edwards; Frank Gerstle; Herb Vigran; Hans Conried

Article on Yours Truly Johnny Dollar returning to the air in Iran.

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

Broadway’s My Beat: The Eugene Bullock Murder Case (EP4511)

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Larry Thor

Today’s Mystery:

A visitor to New York is found dead in a rundown sanitarium, and he is missing $5,000.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 19, 1949

Originating in Hollywood

Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Jerry Hausner; Bea Benaderet; Alan Reed; Tony Barrett; Joseph Kearns; Georgia Ellis

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