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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, Ellery Queen, 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, Sidney Smith, and Jack Webb. Other actors featured within the past 1,000 include Howard Duff, Glenn Langan, Herbert Marshall, Santos Ortega, Gerald Mohr, Joel McCrea, Jackson Beck, and more.
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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Burning Carr Matter (EP4369)
Today's Mystery:Johnny goes to Sarasota to investigate a series of fires at lumber yards, and finds himself investigating a murder.
Original Radio Broadcast Dates: December 9, 1956
Originating from HollywoodStarring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Virginia Gregg; Parley Baer; Vic Perrin; Bob Bruce; Harry Bartell; Vivi Janiss; Tony Barrett; Junius Matthews
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Mr. Chameleon: The Rooftop Murder Case (EP4368)
Today's Mystery:A woman is pushed off the roof of an eighteen-story building.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 15, 1949
Originated from New York City
Starring: Karl Swenson as Mister Chameleon
Information from Kootenai County on Clark House
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Dangerous Assignment: Find Lenny Fenway (EP4367)
Today's Mystery: Steve travels to Tibet to rescue an American pilot who provides the key to a critical mission to re-supply Chinese nationalists.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 15, 1953
Originatimg in Hollywood
Starring: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell; Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner; Frank Gerstle; Paul Dubov; Sidney Miller; Stacy Harris
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Patreon Supporter of the Day: Damien, Patreon Supporter since March 2023
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Ellery Queen: The Green Gorillas (EP4366)
Today's Mystery: Ellery Queen teams up with a teenage boy to infiltrate a street gang.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 12, 1947
Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.netOriginating in New York
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Starring: Lawrence Dobkin, Charlotte Keane, Bill Smith, and Ed Latimer, Mandel Kramer
Armchair Detective: Jose Ferrer
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The Falcon: The Case of the Harried Husband (EP4365)
Today's Mystery:A gigolo who is trying to scam and doublecross various people is murdered.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 3, 1950
Originating from New York
Starring: Les Damon as The Falcon; Ken Paxtor as Sergeant Corbett; Jackson Beck
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Customer Reviews
Excellent docent
Adam refers to himself a host, but I think of him more as a highly qualified volunteer docent leading a tour in a museum. He applies his knowledge to provide insightful context, and his passion for old time radio is as palpable as it is infectious. Like a good docent, Adam curates the best and points out things I never would have noticed. It is so great that he’s keeping these shows alive and sharing his hobby.
My all time favorite is Pat Novak. I really wish more episodes had survived. The evolution (or change perhaps?) of Jack Webb is puzzling to me. Cynical to uncritical. The police as flawed and bumbling to the police as infallible. I’ll write to Adam one day and ask him about this.
In the meantime, keep up the good work and Illegitimi non Carborundum (don’t let the trolls get you down).
New advertisements
After years of building a solid brand for himself Adam introduced an advertising feed that was, and still is, incongruent with his brand but the introduction of unsolicited “Something You Might Like” downloads in the podcast subscription is too much! From 5 stars to 1.
Great Podcast unwanted podcasts not appreciated
I LOVE this podcast. Great mysteries and I don’t want to understate the effort to produce a daily podcast. I don’t mind the ads before and after the episodes.
BUT the random addition of totally unrelated podcasts into my subscription feed is not appreciated.
I’m going to unsubscribe and just pick the episodes I want to listen to on a one by one basis.
Sorry Adam, I know you want to support yourself from podcasts but this is too much.