Old Time Radio Mystery Specials Adam's Old Time Radio
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Enjoy a series of unusual episodes of the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio including old time radio myster movie adaptations from the Lux Radio Theater. As well as episodes Escape, Suspense, and Murder Clinic, along with some truly different programs including Roy Rogers, Mayor of the Town, Superman, and Cavalcade of America. Also comparisons of how two detective programs handle the same story.
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Lux Radio Theater: Thunder on the Hill
Today's Mystery:A nun becomes convinced that a condemned woman stranded at her Norfolk convent in the midst of torrential rains is innocent. Can the nun save her before her looming execution?
Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 9, 1953
Originating in Hollywood
Starring: Claudette Colbert as Sister Mary; Barbara Rush as Valerie Carns; Norma Varden; Paul Frees; Mary Flynn; Herb Butterfield; Ottola Nesmith; Dan O'Herlihy; Joseph Kearns; Leo Britt; Jeanne Wood; Lois Corbett; Yvonne Peattie
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Old Time Radio Con Games Special
Today, I'm joined by Jim Grinstead of the Scams and Cons Podcast as we delve into two scam-related old time radio podcasts.
Today's 1st Mystery:First up, there's no such thing as easy money. That's a lesson a rich young man learns as he's forced to lure his friends into the clutches of a big-time gambler to square his own debts. Can magician-turned-detective Mike Trent help? We find out in this episode of Easy Money, "The Gallopping Ivories"
Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 14, 1954
Originating in New York
Starring: Larry Haines as Mike Trent; Ralph Bell; Peter Fernandez; Maurice Tarplin
Today's 2nd Mystery:Joe Friday and Ben Romero go after a gang of con-men who are victimizing the families of recently deceased people in the Big Betty.
Original Air Date: November 23, 1950
Originating in Los AngelesStarring: Jack Webb as Joe Friday; Barton Yarborough as Ben Romero
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Hollywood Star Time: Hot Spot
Today's Mystery:Based on the movie I Wake Up Screaming, a Broadway promoter is suspected of murdering an up-and-coming actress, by a dogged police officer who always gets his man
.Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 27, 1946
Originating in Hollywood
Starring: Brian Donlevy as Frankie Christopher; Vincent Price as Ed Cornell; Lurene Tuttle; Gloria Blondell; Theodore Von Elt; Harry Bartell; David Ellis; Elliott Reid
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Sherlock Holmes: The Elusive Agent (Complete Adventure)
Today's Mystery:The year is 1913 and international tensions run thick. Sherlock Holmes's brother, Mycroft, calls him out of retirement to secure the return of stolen plans for an experimental tank.
Original Radio Broadcast Dates: March 21, 28, and April 4, 1949
Originating in New York
Starring: John Stanley as Holmes; George Spelvin as Watson
We're joined by special Guest Tom Fox of the Compliance Podcast Network and the Adventures in Compliance Podcast
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Twice Told Tale - The McCoy: Three Wayward Girls and Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Starlet Matter
Once again, we take a look at an old time radio script that was recycled. In this case, the script was a pilot for a new radio series, The McCoy, and then was reused as an episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar.
The McCoy is called in by an agent who fears that one of his clients, a promising actress, will be murdered. While they're talking, a phone call comes in and they learn she was strangled to death.
Originating in Hollywood
Audition date: April 24, 1951
Starring: Howard Duff as The McCoy; Sidney Miller; Sheldon Leonard; Cathy Lewis; Ed Max; Barton Yarborough
Johnny is sent to Hollywood because an agent fears his starlet client is going to be murdered. Johnny finds she’s already been strangled to death.
Originating in Hollywood
Original Air Date: January 16, 1953
Starring: John Lund as Yours Truly Johnny Dollar; Sidney Miller; Raymond Burr; Dick Ryan; John McIntire; Vic Perrin; Virginia Gregg; Jeanette Nolan
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Suspense: The Man Who Murders People
Today's Mystery:The commuter train to Roseville becomes the setting for a deadly game of cat and mouse, passengers grapple with the terror of a serial killer at large. With every twist and turn of the conversation, the line between hunter and prey blurs, leading to an electrifying climax that will leave listeners in suspense!
Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 13, 1960
Originating in New York
Starring: Vivian Smolen; George Petrie; Alan Manson; Maurice Tarplin
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