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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, Yours Truly Johnny Dollar, Dangerous Assignment, Mr. Chameleon, 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 the our old time radio detective podcast include Stephen Dunne, Bob Bailey, Brian Donlevy, Karl Swenson, and Jack Web. 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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The Falcon: The Case of the Rich Racketeer (EP4341)
Today's Mystery:A racketeer hires The Falcon to protect him in a forest cabin, but is killed before Waring arrives from New York.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 5, 1950
Originating from New YorkStarring: Les Damon as the Falcon
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Dragnet: The Big Man, Part Two (EP4340)
Today's Mystery:Having gotten key information, Joe Friday and Ben Romero join an interdepartment task force to bring down the top narcotics dealer.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 19, 1950
Originating from HollywoodStarring: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday; Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero; Herb Butterfield
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Patreon Supporter of the Day: John, Patreon Supporter Since March 2020
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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Phantom Chase Matter, Episodes Eight and Nine (EP4339)
Today's Mystery:Johnny and the wife of the man he's pursuing find themselves stranded on an isolated island by fugitive embezzler.
Original Radio Broadcast Dates: October 25 and 26, 1956
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Michael Ann Barrett; Jack Edwards; Ben Wright; Virginia Gregg; Don Diamond; Forrest Lewis; Richard Crenna
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Mr. Chameleon: The Picture on the Wall Murder Case (EP4338)
Today's Mystery:A philandering portrait painter is murdered.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 11, 1949
Originating from New York CityStarring: Karl Swenson as Mister Chameleon
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Dangerous Assignment: Ghost Ship (EP4337)
Today's Mystery:Steve is sent to locate a phantom ship that's smuggling supplies to guerillas in the Philippines and attacking local fishing boats.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 11, 1953
Originating in Hollywood
Starring: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell; Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner
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Patreon Supporter of the Day: Alana, Patreon Supporter since September 2015
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Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715
Take the listener survey at http://survey.greatdetectives.net
Give us a call at 208-991-
us on Instagram at http://instagram.com/greatdetectives
Follow us on Twitter @radiodetectives
Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.
Customer Reviews
Great programs, but…
…the host Adam’s voice sounds like a voice invented by Mel Blanc for a character that didn’t quite make it into the Warner Brothers cartoons.
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.
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).