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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Cloak and Dagger, NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast
Cloak and Dagger: Delay on Route (A0040)
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Today’s Adventure:
In a territory the partisans seized from the fascists in Italy, an OSS agent has to sneak out two fascists ready to give vital information to the Allies and finds himself having to overcome his partisan comrades to do so.
Original Radio Broadcast: October 6, 1950
Originating from New York
Starring: Grant Richards; Arnold Moss; Luis Van Rooten
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Cloak and Dagger, NBC, Podcast
Cloak and Dagger: Delay on Route
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Today’s Adventure:
In a territory the partisans seized from the fascists in Italy, an OSS agent has to sneak out two fascists ready to give vital information to the Allies and finds himself having to overcome his partisan comrades to do so.
Original Radio Broadcast: October 6, 1950
Originating in New York
Starring: Grant Richards; Arnold Moss; Luis Van Rooten
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CBS, OTR Detective, Podcast, Yours Truly Johnny Dollar
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Two Faced Matter (EP4855)
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Today’s Mystery:
Johnny is called in to investigate the theft of $58,000 from a lucite furniture manufacturing company.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 10, 1958
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Will Wright; Herb Vigran; Forrest Lewis; Edgar Barrier; Richard Beals; Bill James; Gus Bayz
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Dragnet, NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, Procedural
Dragnet: The Big Sour (EP4854)
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Today’s Mystery:
Two men rob an elderly couple and torture the husband in order to steal their jewelry.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 20, 1951
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday; Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero; Jack Kruschen
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Amazing World of Radio, Podcast
The Aldrich Family: Thanksgiving Dance and Turkey Run (AWR0287)
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Today’s story:
Henry Aldrich gets his classmates to agree to a turkey run after a school dance in hopes of finding a use for an unwanted live turkey from a country uncle. However, complications ensue.
Original AIr Date: November 25, 1948
Starring: Ezra Stone as Henry Aldrich
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Broadway's My Beat, CBS, OTR Detective, Podcast
Broadway’s My Beat: The Earl Lawson Murder Case (EP4853)
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Today’s Mystery:
A wealthy man is knifed in Times Square.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 9, 1951
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Jack Kruschen as Sergeant Muggavan
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OTR Detective, Podcast, The Big Story
The Big Story: The Case of the Unfinished Love Song (EP4852)
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Today’s Mystery:
Howard Beaufait of The Cleveleand News reinvestigates the case of a violin-playing convicted killer who claims innocence and whose wife also believes him.
Original Radio Broadcast: November 26, 1947
Originating from New York
Starring: Craig McDonnell; John Sylvester; Francis De Sales; Eileen Heckart; Luise Barkley
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