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Fifteen Years Ago20 Oct 202403:10:56
This week, we look back at our first week of podcasts from 2009, with Adam's current extended thoughts on each episode and reaction to his own commentar. 

Original Podcast Release Date: October 26, 2009

Dan Holiday tries to jumpstart his writing career through an ad in a newspaper. His first letter is from a woman who tells Dan she’s being blackmailed.

Original Radio Air Date: October 17, 1947

Originating in Hollywood

Starring: Alan Ladd as Dan Holiday; Sylvia Picker as Suzie

Original Podcast Release Date: October 27, 2009

Pat Novak is hired to frighten a man named Dixie Gillian, but when an empty gun goes off, he finds himself facing a murder charge.
 
“You couldn’t hold a moth with a searchlight.” - Pat Novak to Hellman
 
Original Air Date: November 24, 1946
 
Originating in San Francisco
 
Starring: Jack Webb as Pat Novak; Tudor Owen as Jocko Madigan
 
Original Podcast Release Date: October 28, 2009

On his first day as a private detective, George Valentine gets his first client - a famous writer who tells him he’s about to be murdered and then collapses on the spot. The body then vanishes, leaving George to find out what happened.

Original Audition Date: May 14, 1946

Originating in Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as George Valentine; Shirley Mitchell as Claire; Eddie Firestone, Jr. as Sonny; Joseph Kearns; Georgia Backus; Howard McNear; Horace Murphy
 
Original Podcast Release Date: October 30, 2009

Johnny Dollar is retained to protect a man who has threatened suicide after making a notorious gambling kingpin the beneficiary on his life insurance policy.
 
Original Audition Date: December 7, 1948
 
Starring: Dick Powell as Johnny Dollar; William Conrad; Betty Lou Gerson; Joseph Kearns
 
Guest: Andrew Rhynes of the OTR Westerns podcast

The Great Detectives Old Time Radio Volume 1 (Seasons 1-3): https://volume1.greatdetectives.net
 
The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2 (Seasons 4-6) https://volume2.greatdetectives.net
 
The Great Detectives of Old TIme Radio Volume 3 (Seasons 7-9) https://volume3.greatdetectives.net
 
The Great Detectives of Old TIme Radio Detective Compilation YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDFIOdWlnzL-YP6EZpi6JI1nLn6Hm4tAI


Also referenced: Podcast Alley and The Radio Detective Story Hour
 
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Escape: The Target22 Sep 202400:35:47
Today's Mystery: An insurance investigator has tracked a man, who embezzled $100,000, to Chile.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 18, 1954

Originating in Hollywood

Starring: Whitfield Connor as Vic Kennedy; Jay Novello; Mary Jane Croft; Herb Butterfield; Hans Conreid

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Suspense: The Man Who Murders People04 Feb 202400:35:42
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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Suspense: Deadline at Dawn17 Nov 201201:05:40
Release Date: November 17, 2012

A couple has until dawn to find out who killed a rich socialite or one of them will have to answer to the police.

Original Air Date: May 15, 1948

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50th Anniversary of the End of the Golden Age of Radio30 Sep 201201:03:17
Release Date: September 30, 2012

The golden age of radio came to an end with episodes of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar and Suspense. In the “Tip-Off Matter,” an ex-con tells Johnny the location of his loot. In “Devilstone,” a rich young Irishman is having trouble renting a house that is rumored to be haunted.

On September 30th 1962


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Lux Radio Theater: Captain Carey USA30 Jun 201201:05:38
Release Date: June 30, 2012

A former O.S.S. Officer returns to Italy to locate the person who betrayed him and his compatriots to the Nazis.

Original Air Date: February 2, 1953

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Suspense: The Crowd27 Mar 202600:32:59
Original Release Date: June 16, 2012
  
A police lieutenant hunts a murderer whose crimes are always accompanied by a crowd. Original Air Date: September 27, 1950

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Mystery Award Theater: The Screwball Division06 Feb 202600:33:51
Release Date: April 21, 2012

The youngest and oldest detectives on the force turn to a drunk former detective to solve three murders that occurred at the same time.

Original Air Date: June 13, 1949

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Murder Clinic: The Tragedy at Marsden Manor23 Jan 202600:32:43
Release Date: March 13, 2012

Poirot is called upon by the insurance to investigate the apparent natural death of a wealthy man who just passed a physical for a life insurance policy for his young wife.

Original Air Date: October 6, 1942

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Campbell’s Playhouse: The Murder of Roger Akroyd09 Jan 202601:01:53
Release Date: March 6, 2012

While trying to retire, Poirot investigates the murder of a rich man in the country.

Original Air Date: November 12, 1939

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Studio One: The Thirty-Nine Steps28 Nov 202501:05:44
A Canadian finds himself drawn into a world of myste Read more ...
Murder Clinic: A Scrap of Lace21 Nov 202500:33:39
Release Date: December 3, 2011

A charming young woman is murdered and Madam Rosika Storey is called in to find out who did it and save a prominent family from scandal.

Original Air Date: September 22, 1942

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Columbia Workshop: Murder in Studio One24 Oct 202500:34:54
Release Date: October 29, 2011

A female detective tries to solve a murder in a radio studio in the series 26 by Corwin.

Original Air Date: October 12, 1941

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Police File: Mr. One by One03 Dec 202300:34:11
he Australian Commonwealth Investigation Branch (CIB) seeks a gang of counterfeiters that are passing forged 10 pound notes.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: Mid-1950s

Originating from Sydney, Australia

Australian Dragnet episode, "The Big Revenge" on Soundcloud

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Lux Radio Theater: To the Ends of the Earth10 Oct 202501:05:11
Release Date: September 24, 2011

Narcotics Commissioner Michael Barrows (Dick Powell) witnesses a Japanese sea captain throwing 100 slaves overboard to cover up a narcotics ring. Barrows is determined to get justice and sets out on a globe trotting adventure to break the ring and capture the murderous captain.

Original Air Date: May 23, 1949

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WW2 Special: Suspense: Menace in Wax and You Were Wonderful26 Sep 202501:05:09
Release Date: July 16, 2011

This Suspense doublebill features two episodes of CBS’ signature anthology series.

First in "Menace in Wax,"  a reporter is summoned to a wax museum and finds a code that could spell trouble for a war plant in Great Britain.

Original Air Date: November 17, 1942

Then in, "You Were Wonderful," the great Lena Horne plays a talented singer who finds herself embroiled in intrigue in Brazil and employed by rough characters with hidden motives.

Original Air Date: November 9, 1944

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Screen Director’s Playhouse: D.O.A.17 Aug 202501:04:09
Release Date: May 07, 2011

A man (Edmund O’Brien) is poisoned and spends his last days trying to find the man who murdered him.

Original Air Date: June 21, 1951

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Screen Guild Theatre: The Mask of Demetrios01 Aug 202500:33:09
Release Date: February 26, 2011

A mystery writer (Peter Lorre) tries to unravel the truth about Demetrios, an international criminal of legendary proportion. In the course of this search, he garners the interest of another mystery man (Sidney Greenstreet).

Original Air Date: April 16, 1945

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Mercury Theatre on the Air: The Man Who Was Thursday11 Jul 202501:02:37
Release Date: December 18, 2010

In G.K. Chesterton’s classic, Gabriel Syme (Orson Welles) is a police detective infiltrating the anarchist counsel of Europe.

Original Air Date: September 5, 1938

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Lux Radio Theater: After the Thin Man25 May 202501:04:33
Original Release Date: November 8, 2010

Returning from investigating the “Thin Man” case, Nick Charles again hopes to retire, but finds himself drawn into another mystery when his wife’s cousin is approved of murdering her no good husband.

Original Air Date: June 17, 1940

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Lux Radio Theater: The Thin Man04 May 202501:04:27
Original Release Date: November 1, 2010

Nick Charles, a retired private detective is drawn back to detection with the insistence of his wife, Nora, when a former client is suspected of several murders.

Original Air Date: June 8, 1936

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Screen Director’s Playhouse: Chicago Deadline27 Apr 202500:37:09
Original Release Date: October 25, 2010

A reporter (Alan Ladd) finds a woman dead of TB and is determined to find out why she died.

Original Air Date: March 24, 1950

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Suspense: The Khandi Tooth Caper06 Apr 202501:07:13
Release Date: July 31, 2010

In this made-for-radio sequel to the Maltese Falcon, Casper Guttman (Joseph Kearns) returns, but this time he’s seeking a piece of dental work.

Original Air Date: January 10, 1948


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Suspense: The One Way Ride to Nowhere30 Mar 202500:32:34
Original Release Date: May 22, 2010

A psychologist is found dead on a roller coaster after a ride, but he wasn’t on board when the roller coaster left.

Original Air Date: January 6, 1944



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Academy Award Theatre: The Maltese Falcon20 Nov 202300:38:14
Today's Mystery: Sam Spade's search for the murderer in his partner puts him in the midst of intrigue among four dangerous characters, all trying to gain possession of an enameled jeweled falcon.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 3, 1946

Originated from Hollywood

Starring: Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade; Mary Astor as Brigid O'Shaughnessy; Sidney Greenstreet as Kasper Gutman; Gerald Mohr

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Screen Guild Theater: The Maltese Falcon21 Feb 202500:37:24
Original Release Date: March 13, 2010

In this 1943 adaptation of the original hardboiled detective story: Miles Archer, the partner of Sam Spade (played by Humphrey Bogart) is killed while shadowing someone for a client ( Mary Astor.) When the man Archer was shadowing is killed, the police suspect Spade. Spade must find Archer’s killer and to do it he has to match wits against dangerous international criminals (Peter Lorre and Sidney Greenstreet.)

Original Air Date: September 20, 1943

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Sherlock Holmes Guy Fawkes Day Special05 Nov 202301:10:39
Today is Guy Fawkes Day and we celebrate with two different Guy-Fawkes-related Sherlock Holmes adventures.

First, in The Fifth of November, a man named James Stuart comes to Baker Street pleading for Holmes' help, as he fears his cousin, Guy Falkenberry, is going to blow him up.Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 5, 1945Originated from Hollywood

Starring: Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes; Nigel Bruce as Doctor Watson.

Second, in The Guy Fawkes Society, Holmes and Watson find a man with his throat slit from ear to ear and it sets Holmes on the trail of a sinister conspiracy.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 10, 1948

Starring: John Stanley as Sherlock Holmes; George Spelvin as Watson

Guest introduction by Donna Fletcher Crow. You can purchase her book, Where Love Restores, on Amazon. (affiliate link)

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Stars in the Air: House on 92nd Street08 Oct 202300:35:07
Today's Mystery:An FBI undercover man infilitrates a Nazi spy ring that could send the secret of Process 97 to the Nazis.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 3, 1952

Originated from Hollywood

Starred: Humphrey Bogart as Inspector George Briggs, Keefe Brasselle, Betty Lou Gerson, Lou Merrill, Herb Vigran, Shepard Menken, Paul Dubov, Bob Sweeney, Frank Nelson, Walter Wolf King

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Twice Told Tale - Man Called X: Murder, Music, and a Blonde Madonna; Christopher London: Pattern for Murder10 Sep 202301:10:40
Today's First Episode:Ken travels to Italy to follow a composer, to find why that composer's friend was murdered in New York City.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 10, 1944

Today's Second Episode:Christopher London travels to Monaco, to find out why a composer's friend was murdered in New York City.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 29, 1950B

oth Originated from Hollywood.

The Man Called X starred Herbert Marshall as Ken Thurston and Hans Conreid as Egon Zellschmidt

Christopher London starred Glenn Ford as Christopher London, Ben Wright, Eleanor Audley, Ramsey Hill, Jeanette Nolan, Ted de Corsia, Georgia Ellis, Rick Vallin

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Suspense: The High Wall03 Sep 202300:36:44
Today's Mystery:A man wakes up in an insane asylum with no idea how he got there.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 6, 1946

Originated from Hollywood

Starred: Robbert Young, George Zucco, Cathy Lewis, Wally Maher

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Guest Star Detective Double Feature27 Aug 202300:37:17
Today's First Story: Basil Rathbone sets up an office as a radio detective, with Kenny Delmar as his bumbling sidekick.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 24, 1947

Today's Second Story: A key witness in a Distict Attorney's (Robert Preston) racketeering case is murdered on his doorstep while leaving an important clue behind.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 18, 1951

Programs Originated from New York and Hollywood

Starred: Basil Rathbone, Kenny Delmar, Robert Preston, Barbara Fuller, Peter Leeds

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Suspense: Fragile, Contents: Death13 Aug 202300:35:27
Today's Mystery:A postmaster (Victor Perrin) gets a tip that there's a time bomb among the day's packages.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 22, 1956

Stars: Victor Perin, Herb Ellis, Frank Gershwin, Vivi Janis, Helen Kleeb, John Larkin, Leonard Weinrib, Richard Peel, and Ted Bliss,

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Lux Radio Theater: The Maltese Falcon11 Jun 202301:13:36
Today's Mystery:Sam Spade (Edward G. Robinson) tries to solve the murder of his partner and gets drawn into the intrigue over a mysterious black-enameled bird.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 8, 1943

Originated in Hollywood

Starred: Edward G. Robinson as Sam Spade, Gail Patrick as Bridget O'Shaughnessy, Laird Cregar as Casper Gutman, Charlie Lung as Joel Cairo, Bea Benderret as Effie, Eddie Mars as Wilmer, Fred MacKaye, Norman Field, Warren Ashe

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Escape: The Red Forest15 Sep 202400:42:59
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Today's Story: A motorist finds himself trapped in a Western wildfire.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 2, 1953

Originating in Hollywood

Starring: William Conrad as Wally; Georgia Ellis as Jan; Parley Baer; John Dehner; Jay Novello; Tom Tully

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Inheritance: The Texas Rangers (Texas Rangers Bicentenial Special)04 Jun 202300:58:51
A Texas Rangers Captain is assigned to form a group of special forces to stop rustlers stealing cattle and taking them across the Rio Grande.

Original Radio Broadcast Date:June 13, 1954

Guest Host: Andrew Rhynes of the OTR Westerns Podcast

Originated from Hollywood

Starred: Lloyd Talbot as Captain McNally

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Screen Guild Theater: A Night to Remember16 Apr 202300:37:24
Today's Mystery: A mystery writer (Brian Donlevy) and his wife (Lucille Ball) move into a basement apartment in the East Village one night. In the morning, they find a body in their garden.'

Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 1, 1944

Originated in HollywoodStars: Brian Donlevy as Jeff Troy, Lucille Ball as Nancy Troy

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Lux Radio Theater: Sorry, Wrong Number (AWR0215)22 Mar 202301:17:57
A wealthy woman (Barbara Stanwyck) overhears two men planning a murder on the phone. (Burt Lancaster co-stars.)

Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 9, 1950

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Twice Told Tale: The Abbotts and It's a Crime, Mr. Collins: The Fabulous Emerald Necklace12 Mar 202301:06:25
Today's Mystery:Pat uses Jean as a decoy to capture a jewel robber who murdered a wealthy man.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 3, 1955

Greg uses Gail as a decoy to capture a jewel robber who murdered a wealthy man

Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 2, 1957

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Jack Carson Show: Sam Spade05 Mar 202300:35:59
Today's Mystery: Jack Carson calls in Sam Spade for protection after receiving a threatening telegram.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 5, 1947

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Hollywood Sound Stage: Call Northside 77726 Feb 202300:41:21
Today's mystery:A reporter responds to the ad of a mother who wants someone to clear her son of the murder of a police officer twelve years before.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 27, 1951

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Lux Radio Theater: Laura19 Feb 202301:03:52
As he investigates the murder of a young advertising executive (Gene Tierney), a police detective (Dana Andrews) begins to fall in love with the murdered woman.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 5, 1945

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Burns and Allen: Gracie Sends Sam Spade to Jail18 Dec 202200:34:20
Today's Mystery:

George Burns and Sam Spade explain to a police lieutenant how Gracie got them thrown into jail for murder.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 10, 1949

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Suspense: Out of Control23 Oct 202200:34:01
Today's Mystery:

A blind former police captain finds himself in the middle of an investigation of murder and blackmail.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 28, 1946

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Twice Told Tale: Michael Shayne and Gunsmoke04 Sep 202201:07:29
In the Case of the Crooked Wheel, the owner of a casino has Michael Shayne come to investigate an apparent case of fraud at his casino.

Original Air Date: 1947

In Mark Dillon Goes to Gougeye, the wife of a casino owner has Marshall Dillon travel to the town of Gougeye, where she fears rumors of a crooked wheel will lead to her husband getting hung.

Audition Date: June 11, 1949

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Twice Told Tales: Richard Diamond: The Simpson Case and Johnny Dollar: The Jonathan Bellows Matter01 Sep 202401:10:58
Today's First Mystery: The wife of a wealthy oil man hires Richard Diamond to protect her husband after an attempt on his life.

Original Air Date: January 18, 1952

Originating in Hollywood

Starring: Dick Powell as Richard Diamond; Virginia Gregg as Helen; Alan Reed as Lieutenant Walt Levinson Virginia; Jeanne Bates; Herb Butterfield; Tony Michaels

Today's Second Mystery: Johnny is called in when an insured, wealthy man is shot at.

Original Air Date: June 23, 1953

Originating in Hollywood

Starring: John Lund as Johnny Dollar; Clayton Post; Virginia Gregg; Tony Barrett; Ralph Moody; Howard McNear; Martha Wentworth

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EP3854s: Mystery Audio: First Nighter Sam Spade Spoof28 Aug 202200:32:38
Sam Spade is called in to protect Mister First Nighter from being killed.

The real mystery is where this audio came from.

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EP3848s: Lux Radio Theatre: Deadline at Dawn20 Aug 202201:05:15
A street-smart dancer with regrets tries to clear the name of a naive sailor from her hometown.

Original Air Date: May 20, 1946
The Suspense version of this story https://www.spreaker.com/user/13210256/ep0800s-suspense-deadline-at-dawn

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EP3800s: Campbell's Playhouse: The Glass Key26 Jun 202201:09:00
The best friend of a political boss believes the boss is innocent of murdering a senator's son, but he's one of the few who do.

Original Air Date: March 10, 1939

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Suspense: The Hands of Mister Ottermole01 May 202200:36:35
A London police sergeant (Claude Rains) casts suspicions on a newspaper reporter (Vincent Price) as the perpetrator of a series of murders.

Original Air Date: December 2, 1948

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EP3704s: Silver Theatre: Murder Unlimited06 Mar 202200:39:01
A reporter tries to track down a gang that specializes in wholesale murder.

Original Air Date: March 9, 1941

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