The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas

4.4 (1.9K)
Performing Arts
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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, Charlie Chan, Broadway's My Beat, 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 features seasons four-six, and Volume 3 which will feature Seasons Seven through Nine. Our feed includes old time radio recorded in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and also Australia. The current actors featured in our old time radio detective podcast include Les Damon, Bob Bailey, Larry Thor, Walter Connolly, and Jack Webb. Other actors featured within the past 1,000 include Alice Frost, Howard Duff, Glenn Langan, Herbert Marshall, Gerald Mohr, Joel McCrea, Les Tremayne, Jackson Beck, Santos Ortega, Ned Wever, Karl Swenson, and more.

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Adam Graham

Host

4.4

out of 5

1,919 Ratings

Wouldn’t Miss It

Aug 22

sheralooma

Took me awhile to adapt my listening to the host’s unique voice, but now I always appreciate the extensive background he presents for each episode. I like most of the old time shows I get to listen to here with just a couple of exceptions, but that’s my personal taste and has with nothing to do with the host!
Longtime Listener

12/28/2025

SonofSaban

Been listening for a long time and Adam is the best in the business. Love the current rotation of shows and all the other offerings from the WW2 special to the Amazing World of Radio and Snack Wagon. The new Adventure series has been entertaining as well. I have recently started revisiting the show from the beginning through the individual season podcasts. I appreciate your commitment to preserving these great shows!
Great content not a great host

Jul 22

JC in KY🐎

While I enjoy the content of this podcast I spend more time using the fast forward button to avoid the “host” (tormentor would be a better word.) seems to consider himself an expert on old time radio shows and while some of the information he shares is interesting. His voice is so annoying I literally start cringing every time he starts speaking and I quickly fast forward to avoid the long winded commentary at the beginning and end of each podcast so all in all I would give a five star rating for the content but a two star rating for the host so I averaged it out to three stars
I’m a Fan, mostly

Jul 11

Blableblublablabla

I really enjoy Dragnet, Johnny Dollar, Broadway is My Beat, and, sometimes,The Big Story. Unfortunately, the sound quality of The Saint and Counterspy is so poor they are unlistenable in my car for my morning commute. They are muffled with almost no presence, like the sound is being filtered through a pillow. My humble suggestion: use an equalizer to cut the 400 Hz band by 6 db and boost a frequency of around 2 kHz by 3 to 6 db so the dialog can be understood. My high frequency hearing is excellent, so I know it’s not me. If the sound quality for all episodes were listenable, I’d gladly become a Patreon.

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, Charlie Chan, Broadway's My Beat, 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 features seasons four-six, and Volume 3 which will feature Seasons Seven through Nine. Our feed includes old time radio recorded in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and also Australia. The current actors featured in our old time radio detective podcast include Les Damon, Bob Bailey, Larry Thor, Walter Connolly, and Jack Webb. Other actors featured within the past 1,000 include Alice Frost, Howard Duff, Glenn Langan, Herbert Marshall, Gerald Mohr, Joel McCrea, Les Tremayne, Jackson Beck, Santos Ortega, Ned Wever, Karl Swenson, and more.