Bob Bailey & Virginia Gregg

The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio is a podcast featuring the best vintage detective radio programs. Each week from Monday through Saturday, we feature six of Old Time Radio's great detective series from the beginning of the show to its very last episode. And as a bonus, twice a month we also post a public domain movie or TV mystery or detective show video.

Along the way, I'll provide you my commentary and offer you opportunities to interact.

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NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, The Big Story

The Big Story: The Case of the Counterfeit Coins

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Today’s Mystery:

Reporter Jack Adams goes undercover in a gang of counterfeiters to catch the man at the top.

Original Radio Broadcast: October 19, 1947

Originating from New York

Starring: Dwight Weist as Jack Adams; Mason Adams; Larry Haines; Richard Keith; Eileen Heckart; James Boles; Jackson Beck

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Video Theater

Sherlock Holmes: THe Case of the Red Headed League (Video Theater 302)

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Tom Fox of the Compliace Podcast Network joins us once again as we delve into the Ronald Howard Sherlock Holmes series with the only episode that directly adapted one of Doyle’s story, “The Case of the Red Headed League”

A red-headed shopkeeper comes to Holmes for help and has a tale to tell of a strange organization set up to further the interests of red-headed men.

Season 1, Episode 11

Original Air Date: December 27, 1954

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Danger with Grainger, OTR Detective, Podcast, Syndicated

Danger with Grainger: A Marriage Minded Girl (EP4841)

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Today’s Mystery:

A woman contacts Grainger for help and is then beaten up and disappears.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1956 or 1957

Originating from Australia

Starring: Harp McGuire as Steve Grainger

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NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast

Adventure Ahead: Inside the FBI

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Today’s Adventure:

An FBI agent tells a young visitor about a case that began with cattle rustling but led to a nationwide conspiracy.

Originating Radio Broadcast Date: August 26, 1944

Originating from New York

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Cloak and Dagger, NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast

Cloak and Dagger: Seeds of Doubt (A0034)

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Today’s Adventure:

In the waning days of the war, an OSS agent impersonates a dead Frenchman and pretends to marry his fiancée in order to weed out German agents trying to undermine Allied morale.

Original Radio Broadcast: September 15, 1950

Originating from New York

Starring: Charles Webster; Alice Frost; Joseph Julian; Karl Weber; Evie Juster; Jerry Jarrett; Louis Sorin; Horace Braham; Anna Karen

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