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Are you ready for a mystery? Get ready to unleash your inner sleuth. Every day Monday-Saturday, we feature a different detective audio drama from the Golden Age of Radio. Our current mystery-solving line-up of radio detectives includes The Adventures of the Falcon, Bulldog Drummond, Dangerous Assignment, Mr. Chameleon, Yours Truly Johnny Dollar, and Dragnet.
Whether you want to listen to a mystery before going to sleep or enjoy some drama while driving, or just feel nostalgia for old-school radio fiction, we have you covered with six audio dramas every week.
Podcast Award finalist Host Adam Graham has been your guide through dozens of old-time radio detective series since 2009. He provides insightful commentary and humor after each episode and responds to listener questions and feedback. You can subscribe to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from your favorite podcast app or by visiting our website at http://www.greatdetectives.net.
We are currently in our fifteenth season of provided suspenseful mystery dramas. Our podcast feed captures the last 1,000 episodes we've released including all of seasons thirteen and fourteen, and part of season twelve. We have created two archive feeds: Volume 1, which features our first three seasons and Volume 2, which will feature seasons four through six.
Our feed includes old time radio recorded in Los Angeles, New York, and also Australia.
The current actors featured in our old time radio detective podcast include Les Damon, Bob Bailey, Brian Donlevy, Karl Swenson, Ned Wever, and Jack Webb. Other actors featured within the past 1,000 include Howard Duff, Glenn Langan, Herbert Marshall, Gerald Mohr, Joel McCrea, Les Tremayne, Jackson Beck, Santos Ortega, and more.
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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Meek Memorial Matter (EP4423)
Today's Mystery:Johnny investigates the theft of a first draft of the Gettysburg Address from a private museum in New Bedford, Massachusetts, which is owned by a wealthy, blind woman.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 3, 1957
Originating from HollywoodStarring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Lawrence Dobkin; Marvin Miller; Bert Holland; Virginia Gregg; Peggy Webber; Jack Moyles; Hans Conried
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Mr. Chameleon: The Case of the Murdered Movie Star (EP4422)
Today's Mystery:A snobbish "gentleman" movie star is murdered.
Original Radio Broadcast Date:August 17, 1949
Originating from New York City
Starring: Karl Swenson as Mister Chameleon
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Dangerous Assignment: Picking up a Bomb (EP4421)
Today's Mystery: Steve is called to Saigon when a reporter tried to blackmail him into carrying a suitcase containing a bomb.
Original Radio Broadcast Date:July 8, 1953
Originated in HollywoodStars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner, Jack Moyles, Jan Arvann, Hal Girard, Ted de Corsia
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Bulldog Drummond: Murder Vivits Venus (EP4420)
Today's Mystery: Denny spots a woman in a Crinoline dress hanging from the flagpole of an office building.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 19, 1945
Originating in New York:Starring: Ned Wever as Bulldog Drummond, Luis Van Rooten as Denny
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The Falcon: The Case of the Superfluous Murder (EP4419)
Today's Mystery: A man calls The Falcon to find out who betrayed him. The Falcon arrives to find him dead with a suicide note written. However, Sergeant Corbett suspects murder.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 18, 1951
Originating from New YorkStarring: Les Damon as the Falcon; Ken Lynch as Sergeant Corbett
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