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The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas

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.
- 3839 - Counterspy: Industrial Spy Ring (A0068)
Today's Adventure: A nazi agent murders his wife and sets David Harding on the trail of an espionage ring.
Original Radio Broadcast: December 14, 1942
Originating in New York
Starring Don McLaughlin as David Harding
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Today's Mystery: Johnny is called in to find an inexpensive statue that's held in high emotional value by an eccentric elderly woman who would pay a $75,000 ransom.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 18, 1959
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Virginia Gregg; Eleanor Audley; G. Stanley Jones; Eric Snowden; Sam Edwards
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Fri, 06 Mar 2026 - 3837 - Dragnet: The Big Canaries (EP4924)
Today's Mystery:A mother is found murdered in her home.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 6, 1951
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday; Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero; Joyce McCluskey
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Thu, 05 Mar 2026 - 3836 - Broadway's My Beat: The Lily Nelson Murder Case (EP4923)
Today's Mystery:A Broadway actress is found dead with her wrists slit.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 6, 1951
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Jack Kruschen as Sergeant Muggavan; Paul Frees; Clayton Post; Edwin Max; Elliott Lewis; Jack Kruschen; Jay Novello; Joyce McCluskey
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Wed, 04 Mar 2026 - 3835 - The Big Story: Respected Chemist Dead (EP4922)
Today's Mystery: A prominent chemist's mysterious death may have been faked ... but why?'
Original Radio Broadcast: March 9, 1949
Originating from New York
Starring: Sydney Smith as Ike McAnally; Ann Burr; Agnes Young; Lyle Sudrow; Ted Osborne
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Tue, 03 Mar 2026 - 3834 - Danger with Grainger: The Larry Simmons Case (EP4921)
Today's Mystery: A slimy character tries to hire Grainger as a go-between for him in a blackmail deal. Grainger kicks him out but it's not that simple
Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1956 or 1957
Originating from Australia
Starred: Harp McGuire as Steve Grainger
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Mon, 02 Mar 2026 - 3833 - Counterspy: The Case of the Gasoline Barge (A0066)
Today's Adventure: David Harding suspects the Axis is behind a ring making counterfeit gas coupons.
Original Radio Broadcast: November 2, 1945
Originating from New York
Starring: Don McLaughlin as David Harding
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Today's Story: The best friend and top lieutenant of a political boss finds himself in the midst of a murder that threatens his boss's career.
Original Air Date: July 22, 1946
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Alan Ladd; Marjorie Reynolds; Ward Bond
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Sun, 01 Mar 2026 - 3831 - Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Deadly Doubt Matter (EP4920)
Today's Mystery: A woman calls to report that a man was murdered and she's not sure if she did it.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 11, 1959
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Virginia Gregg; Junius Matthews; Paul Dubov; James McCallion; Alan Reed; Frank Gerstle
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Fri, 27 Feb 2026 - 3830 - Dragnet: The Big Affair (EP4919)
Today's Mystery:Joe Friday and Ben Romero investigate a series of jewelry store robberies.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 29, 1951
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday; Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero; Virginia Gregg; Vic Perrin
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Thu, 26 Feb 2026 - 3829 - Broadway's My Beat: The Lars Nielson Murder Case (EP4918)
Today's Mystery: A famous torch singer wants a gun permit because she claims a man is threatening her life.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 29, 1951
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Jack Kruschen as Sergeant Muggavan; Cathy Lewis
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Wed, 25 Feb 2026 - 3828 - The Big Story: The Jigsaw Crime (EP4917)
Today's Mystery:A legendary Arkansas reporter investigates the murder of an unidentified man.
Original Radio Broadcast: January 26, 1949
Originating from New York
Starring: Martin Wolfson as Joe Wirges; Art Carney; Larry Haines; Art Carney; Martin O'Day; Joyce Gordon; Joe DeSantis
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of RadioTue, 24 Feb 2026 - 3827 - Counterspy: The Case of the Loganberry Point Spy (A0064)
Today's Adventure: A widow in a small town calls David Harding, claiming to have caught a German spy.
Original Radio Broadcast: September 14, 1942
Originating from New York
Starring: Don McLaughlin as David Harding; Craig McDonnell
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Today's Mystery: Johnny searches for a missing embezzler who called Johnny and let him know he was in Hollywood.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 4, 1959
Originated from Hollywood
Stars: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar.Virginia Gregg, Jeanne Tatum, Parley Baer, Forrest Lewis,
Junius Matthews, Frank Gerstle
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Fri, 20 Feb 2026 - 3825 - Dragnet: The Big Hands (EP4914)
Todays Mystery: A woman is found strangled to death in a hotel room, and Friday and Romero have to figure out who she was and who killed her.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 22, 1951
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday, Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero, Herb Butterfield
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Thu, 19 Feb 2026 - 3824 - Broadway's My Beat: The Tom Keeler Murder Case (EP4913)
Today's Mystery: A derelict is found shot with two bullets in his body from two different guns.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 22, 1951
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Jack Kruschen as Sergeant Muggavan; Tony Barrett; Lillian Buyeff; Bob Bruce; Paul Frees; Edgar Barrier
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Wed, 18 Feb 2026 - 3823 - The Big Story: Sixteen Year Old Misfit Kills Out of Fear (EP4912)
Today's Mystery: Across the Indiana border, a sixteen-year-old Louisville kills four men in a failed bank robbery and its aftermath.
Original Radio Broadcast: January 5, 1949
Originating in New York
Starring James McCallion as Al Aronson, Bob SLoane, Santos Ortega, Martin Wolfson, Jackie Grimes, Grant Richards
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Tue, 17 Feb 2026 - 3822 - Danger with Grainger: Paula Crane is Threatened (EP4911)
Today's Mystery: A friend of Grainger's invites him to a weekend with her family on the lake as she claims there have been threats to her life.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1956 or 1957
Originating from Australia
Starring: Harp McGuire as Steve Grainger
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Mon, 16 Feb 2026 - 3821 - Counterspy: Nazis from Mexico (A0062)
Today's Adventure: The Gestapo is bringing spies across the southern border, trying to start an international incident by dropping the body of a Mexican official onto the US side of the border.
Original Radio Broadcast: June 22, 1942
Originating from New York
Starring: Don McLaughlin as David Harding
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Today's Mystery: Johnny is called in by an insured man who suddenly dies. Is it murder?
Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 30, 1958
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Virginia Gregg; Shirley Mitchell; Jack Edwards; Ralph Moody; Junius Matthews; Parley Baer
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Fri, 13 Feb 2026 - 3819 - Dragnet: The Big Bungalow (EP4909)
Today's Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Romero receive a tip from an informant on the identity of a burglar.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 15, 1951
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday; Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Thu, 12 Feb 2026 - 3818 - Broadway's My Beat: The Anna Compton Murder Case (EP4908)
Today's Mystery: A woman is found murdered in a salesman's car.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 15, 1951
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Jack Kruschen as Sergeant Muggavan; Howard McNear; Billy Halop; Lou Krugman; Joe Forte; Frances Chaney
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Wed, 11 Feb 2026 - 3817 - The Big Story: Blind Date with Murder (EP4907)
Today's Mystery: A Pittsburgh reporter is forced to cancel a date and finds himself covering a multiple murder.
Original Radio Broadcast: September 22, 1948
Originating from New York
Starring: James McCallion; Bob Sloane; Larry Haines; Ruth Shafer; Rita Ascot; Joan Alexander; Bill Smith; Mandel Kramer
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Tue, 10 Feb 2026 - 3816 - Danger with Grainger: Counterfeit Plates (EP4906)
Today's Mystery: A printer is murdered for his counterfeit plate.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1956 or 1957
Originating from Australia
Starring: Harp McGuire as Steve Grainger
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Mon, 09 Feb 2026 - 3815 - Counterspy: Cherchez La Femme (A0060)
Today's Adventure: David Harding suspects there's a dangerous woman behind the suicide of an American connected to the war effort.
Original Radio Broadcast: June 8, 1942
Originating from New York
Starring: Don McLaughlin as David Harding
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Today's Mystery: Johnny has to determine which of two men are the long-lost beneficiary to a large life insurance policy.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 16, 1958
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Virginia Gregg; Vic Perrin; Sam Edwards; James McCallion; Parley Baer
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Thu, 05 Feb 2026 - 3813 - Dragnet: The Big Hit and Run Killer (EP4904)
Today's Mystery: Joe Friday seeks a hit-and-run driver.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 8, 1951
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday; Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero; Herb Butterfield
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Thu, 05 Feb 2026 - 3812 - Broadway's My Beat: The Elizabeth Price Murder Case (EP4903)
Today's Mystery: A woman dies in Danny's office of an apparent heart attack that turns out to have been murder.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 26, 1951
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Jack Kruschen as Sergeant Muggavan
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Wed, 04 Feb 2026 - 3811 - The Big Story: The Lottery (EP4902)
Today’s Mystery:A reporter goes undercover to get the dope on an Atlanta numbers racket.
Original Radio Broadcast: July 21, 1948
Originating from New York
Starring: George Petrie; James Van Dyk; James Monks; Mercedes McCambridge; Ted De Corsia; John Sylvester
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Tue, 03 Feb 2026 - 3810 - Danger with Grainger: The Triangle Affair (EP4901)
Today's Mystery: A released convict asked Grainger to prove he was innocent of the robbery that landed him in jail.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1956 or 1957
Originating from Australia
Starring: Harp McGuire as Steve Grainger
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Mon, 02 Feb 2026 - 3809 - Screen Guild Theater: My Favorite Brunette (EP4900s)
Today's Mystery: A baby photographer impersonates an out-of-town private investigator and gets mixed up with a beautiful woman who wants him to find her missing uncle.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 13, 1947
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Bob Hope as Ronny Jackson; Dorothy Lamour; Frank Nelson
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Sun, 01 Feb 2026 - 3808 - Lux Radio Theater: Cloak and Dagger (A0058)
Today's Adventure: A scientist joins the OSS in 1944 to find out about the progress of the German atomic program and to make contact with a Hungarian scientist being forced to work with them.
Original Radio Broadcast: May 3, 1948
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Ronald Reagan as Alvah Jesper; Jeff Chandler; Herb Butterfield; William Johnstone; Norman Field; Regina Wallace; Robert Griffin; Marjorie Haskelle; Ben Wright; June Whitley; Jay Novello; Jack Petruzzi; Edward Marr; Charles La Torre
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Today's Mystery: Johnny is called to investigate the death of an insured man in a car accident that quickly turns out to be murder.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 28, 1958
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Virginia Gregg; Harry Bartell; Junius Matthews; Joseph
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Fri, 30 Jan 2026 - 3806 - Dragnet: The Big Lease (EP4899)
Todays Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Romero investigate the disappeared of a widower, who recently lost his wife.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 1, 1951
Originating from Hollywood
Starred: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday, Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Thu, 29 Jan 2026 - 3805 - Broadway's My Beat: The Howard Crawford Murder Case (EP4898)
Today's Mystery:A man drowns in an uptown public swimming pool, but was it actually murder?
Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 5, 1951
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Jack Kruschen as Sergeant Muggavan; Mary Jane Croft; Hy Averback; Stan Waxman; Michael Ann Barrett
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Wed, 28 Jan 2026 - 3804 - The Big Story: Deadline Murder (EP4897)
Today's Mystery:Reporter Rolf Mills of the Minneapolis Morning Tribune tries to solve the murder of a woman who was found in the dump.
Original Radio Broadcast: May 19, 1948
Originating from New York
Starring: Art Carney as Rolf Mills, Joe Boland, Joan Alexander, Joe DeSantis, Ray Johnson, Grace Keddy, and Grant Richards
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Tue, 27 Jan 2026 - 3803 - Danger with Grainger: The Seafarer Mystery (EP4896)
Today's Mystery: A woman reports receiving threatening letters and phone calls from her husband. The problem? Her husband died at sea.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1956 or 1957
Originating from Australia
Starring: Harp McGuire as Steve Grainger
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Mon, 26 Jan 2026 - 3802 - Screen Guild Theater: 13 Rue Madeline (A0056)
Today's Adventure: There's a German spy in the latest OSS training class. Rather than capturing him, OSS leadership decides to use him to mislead the Germans about the planned second front.
Original Radio Broadcast: November 25, 1948
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Humphrey Bogart; Leon Ames; John Beal; William Lundigan; Frances Robinson,
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Today's Mystery: Johnny goes to California to investigate a $100,000 payroll robbery.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 28, 1958
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Virginia Gregg; Lawrence Dobkin; Forrest Lewis; Shepard Menken; Frank Gerstle
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Fri, 23 Jan 2026 - 3800 - Dragnet: The Big Market (EP4894)
Todays Mystery: A string of supermarket robberies rocks Los Angeles.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 25, 1951
Originating from Hollywood
Starred: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday, Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero, Herb Butterfield
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Thu, 22 Jan 2026 - 3799 - Broadway's My Beat: The David Blaine Murder Case (EP4893)
Today's Mystery: Danny investigates what looks like a suicide by an engaged man in an apartment building.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 22, 1951
Originated in Hollywood
Stars: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover, Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia, Jack Kruschen as Sergeant Muggavan, Herb Butterfield, Ed Max, Tony Barre
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Wed, 21 Jan 2026 - 3798 - The Big Story: Pillars of Society (EP4992)
Today's Mystery: The mother of a man who was convicted of robbing and beating an elderly storekeeper appeals to a reporter to clear him.
Original Radio Broadcast: May 5, 1948
Originating from New York
Starring: Arnold Moss; Barbara Weeks; Andy Klein; Mickey O'Day; Bob Sloane; Ed Jerome; Jackie Grimes
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Tue, 20 Jan 2026 - 3797 - Danger with Grainger: Clever Criminologist (EP4891)
Today's Mystery: A woman hires Grainger because she suspects her estranged husband (a famous criminologist) will kill a male friend.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1956 or 1957
Originating from Australia
Starring: Harp McGuire as Steve Grainger
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Mon, 19 Jan 2026 - 3796 - Lux Radio Theater: O.S.S. (A0054)
Today's Adventure: A team of OSS agents go undercover in occupied France during World War II to enact a campaign of sabotage.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 18, 1946
Starring: Alan Ladd; Veronica Lake; Gale Gordon; Joseph Kearns; Richard Benedict; Robert Coute; Rolfe Sedan; Truda Marson; Charles Seel; Ed Emerson; George Neise; George Sorel; Henry Roland; Howard Jeffrey; Jay Novello; Noreen Gammill
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Today's Mystery: An insurance case was closed, but the agency forgot about a fraudulent claim for the jewelry.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 14, 1958
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Paula Winslowe; Ben Wright; Jack Kruschen; Jack Edwards; Marvin Miller; Joseph Kearn
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Fri, 16 Jan 2026 - 3794 - Dragnet: The Big Story Man (EP4889)
Today's Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Romero hunt for safe burglars targeting local churches.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 18, 1951
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday; Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero; Herb Butterfield; Stacy Harris
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Thu, 15 Jan 2026 - 3793 - Broadway's My Beat: The Joe Gruber Murder Case (EP4888)
Today's Mystery:A man commits murder while trying to break into a woman's apartment.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 8, 1951
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Jack Kruschen as Sergeant Muggavan; Barbara Whiting; Irene Tedrow; Lou Krugman; Martha Wentworth; Norman Field; Jerry Hausner
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Wed, 14 Jan 2026 - 3792 - The Big Story: Manhunt in Manhattan (EP4887)
Today’s Mystery:A reporter searches for a robber who provoked a police officer into killing a bystander.
Original Radio Broadcast: January 7, 1948
Originating from New York
Starring: William Quinn; Whit Vernon; Francis De Sales; Everett Sloane; Jerry Lewis; Eileen Heckart; Stephen Chase; Evelyn Juster; Will Kuluva,
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Tue, 13 Jan 2026 - 3791 - Danger with Grainger: The Wandering Weapon Case (EP4886)
Today's Mystery: An out-of-town visitor is accused of murder when his gun from California is used in the killing.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1956 or 1957
Originating from Australia
Starring: Harp McGuire as Steve Grainger
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Mon, 12 Jan 2026 - 3790 - Tarzan and the Diamonds of Asher: Mistaken Identity, the Map, A Wolf Among the Sheep (A0053)
Today's Adventure:Tarzan is mistaken for a missing American archeologist by dangerous criminals who demand he tell them the location of the land of Asher and "the Father of Diamonds".
Originating Radio Broadcast Date: May 14, 16, and 18, 1934
Originating from New York
Starring: Carlton Kadell as Tarzan
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Two OSS Agents (Jack Webb and Elliot Lewis) parachute into occupied France to organize resistance to the Nazis to support the Allied invasion. However, their efforts are threatened by a leak.
Original Air Date: July 14, 1947
Originating from Hollywood
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Johnny goes to a private island to investigate the attempted theft of a $250,000 necklace belonging to the owner of the island.
Original Air Date: March 17, 1953
Starring: John Lund as Johnny Dollar; Howard McNear
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Fri, 09 Jan 2026 - 3787 - The Line Up: The Topaz Earring Murder (Encore) (EP4884)
An investment advisor is murdered and suspicion falls upon his jilted fiancée.
Original Air Date: November 23, 1950
Originating in Hollywood
Starring: Bill Johnstone as Lieutenant Ben Guthrie; Wally Maher as Sergeant Matt Groebs; Howard McNear
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Thu, 08 Jan 2026 - 3786 - Let George Do It: Man Under the Elm Tree (Encore) (EP4883)
George goes to a quiet college town, sent by a man who fears a lodger at his sister’s inn is up to no good. He finds an eccentric professor who seems to know something about the death of the lady’s husband.
Original Air Date: September 26, 1949
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Bob Bailey as George Valentine; Frances Robinson as Brooksie; Howard McNear
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Wed, 07 Jan 2026 - 3785 - Stand by for Crime: The Light (Encore) (EP4882)
Chuck suspects that a series of plane crashes aren’t accidents.
Original Air Date: 1952
Starring: Glen Langan as Chuck Morgan; Adele Jurgens
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Tue, 06 Jan 2026 - 3784 - Michael Shayne: Return to Huxley (Encore) (EP4881)
Michael Shayne investigates a peeping tom at Phyllis’s alma mater.
Original Air Date: November 5, 1946
Starring: Wally Maher as Michael Shayne; Cathy Lewis as Phyllis; Howard McNear
Originating from Hollywood
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Mon, 05 Jan 2026 - 3783 - Bill Lance: Death Wears a New Dress (Encore) (EP4880e)
A fashion model friend of Bill’s calls for help and then drops dead in the middle of a show before she can tell him what’s the matter.
Original Air Date: October 12, 1947
Starring: Gerald Mohr as Bill Lance; Howard McNear
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Sun, 04 Jan 2026 - 3782 - Lux Radio Theater: Suspicion (Encore) (A0050)
A woman (Olivia De Haviland) comes to suspect that her husband (William Powell) is a murderer.
Original Air Date: September 18, 1944
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Johnny travels to a small town when a doctor raises doubts about the cause of a death of a young man who supposedly died of a heart attack.
Original Air Date: July 18, 1951
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Edmond O'Brien as Johnny Dollar
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Fri, 02 Jan 2026 - 3780 - Sherlock Holmes: New Year’s Eve Off The Scilly Isles (Encore) (EP4879)
Sherlock Holmes and Watson race to save a luxury liner from being blown up.
Original Air Date: December 28, 1947
Originating from New York
Starring: John Stanley as Sherlock Holmes; Alfred Shirley as Doctor Watson
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Thu, 01 Jan 2026 - 3779 - Candy Matson: Valley of the Moon (Encore) (EP4878)
Candy goes on vacation at a dude ranch at the Valley of the Moon and quickly runs into murder.
Original Air Date: December 17, 1949
Originating from San Francisco
Starring: Natalie Masters as Candy Matson
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Wed, 31 Dec 2025 - 3778 - Nick Carter: The Case of the Haunted Burial Cave (Encore) (EP4877)
Nick is called in by an anthropologist to investigate when he’s attacked at the site of a Native American burial ground.
Original Air Date: May 16, 1954
Originating from New York
Starring: Lon Clark as Nick Carter
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Tue, 30 Dec 2025 - 3777 - Nick Carter: The Echo of Death (EP4876)
Nick Carter flies to beautiful Echo Canyon to investigate the disappearance of a famous financial correspondent.
Original Air Date: July 6, 1943
Originating in New York
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Mon, 29 Dec 2025 - 3776 - The Casebook of Gregory Hood: The Double Diamond (Encore) (EP4875e)
Gregory Hood investigates the theft of a diamond in mid-flight.
Original Air Date: August 5, 1946
Starring: Gale Gordon as Gregory Hood
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Sun, 28 Dec 2025 - 3775 - Lux Radio Theater: Bullets or Ballots (Encore) (A0048)
A tough cop (Edward G. Robinson) is kicked off the force and goes to work for a criminal gang, but one of the bosses’ top lieutenants (Humphrey Bogart) is suspicious.
Original Air Date: April 17, 1939
Originating from Hollywood
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Today's Mystery:Johnny goes to Malibu to investigate the sinking of a $150,000 yacht.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 7, 1958
Originated from Hollywood
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Fri, 26 Dec 2025 - 3773 - Dragnet: The Big Shoplift (EP4874)
Todays Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Romero investigate a series of high-priced shoplifting cases.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 11, 1951
Originating from Hollywood
Starred: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday, Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero, Herb Butterfield
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Thu, 25 Dec 2025 - 3772 - Broadway's My Beat: Buddy Malpaugh and the Jeweled Scimitar (EP4873)
Today's Mystery: It's Christmas Eve, and Sergeant Tartaglia is called to investigate the theft of a jeweled scimitar belonging to a ne'er-do-well millionaire.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 22, 1951
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Jack Kruschen as Sergeant Muggavan; Lamont Johnson; Howard McNear George Neise;. Georgia Ellis; Howard McNear
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Wed, 24 Dec 2025 - 3771 - The Big Story: The Case of the Ambitious Hobo (EP4872)
Today's Mystery: A reporter hunts for a baby-faced killer.
Original Radio Broadcast:December 17, 1947
Originating from New York
Starring: George Petrie as Russ Wilson; Larry Robinson; Hester Sondergaard; Humphrey Davis; William Keene; Ralph Bell; Bob Sloane
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Tue, 23 Dec 2025 - 3770 - Danger With Grainger: Out of Jail for Christmas (EP4871)
Today's Mystery:The son of a cab driver asks Grainger to help his father out of jail by proving him innocent of a burglary.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1956 or 1957
Originating from Australia
Starring: Harp McGuire as Steve Grainger
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Mon, 22 Dec 2025 - 3769 - Holmes for the Holiday: Two Christmas Mysteries (EP4870s)
As we get ready for Christmas, we bring you two original old time radio Christmas plays featuring Sherlock Holmes. First up is The Night Before Christmas.
On Christmas, one of Moriarity’s henchmen switches Christmas sacks with Dr. Watson when both are dressed as Santa Claus. Sherlock Holmes has to catch the thief and save Watson and the kids at a Christmas party.
Original Air Date: December 24, 1945
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes; Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson
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Sherlock Holmes is invited to spend the holidays with a family that needs him to ensure that a family curse doesn't prevent a wedding from occurring.
Original Air Date: December 21, 1947
Originating from New York
Starring: John Stanley as Sherlock Holmes; Alfred Shirley as Dr. Watson
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Sun, 21 Dec 2025 - 3768 - The Whistler: Christmas Bonus (Encore) (A0046)
An ex-con is fired from his job at a department store where a string of burglaries totaling $10,000 have occurred, and decides to return to a life of crime.
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Today's Mystery:Johnny is called to a small desert town where an old prospector is determined to change his life insurance beneficiary...to his burrow.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 22, 1956
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Herb Vigran; Howard McNear; Jeanne Tatum; Junius Matthews; Lawrence Dobkin; Forrest Lewis; Jack Kruschen; Richard Crenna; Bill James
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Fri, 19 Dec 2025 - 3766 - Dragnet: The Big Little Jesus (EP4869)
Today's Mystery:Joe Friday and Frank Smith investigate the theft of a statue of the child Jesus from a church nativity scene.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 22, 1953
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday; Ben Alexander as Officer Frank Smith; Harry Bartell; Ralph Moody; Herb Vigran
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Thu, 18 Dec 2025 - 3765 - Broadway's My Beat: The Pablo Morari Murder (EP4868)
Today's Mystery: A young man is found murdered outside a club.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 30, 1951
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Jack Kruschen as Sergeant Muggavan; Richard Crenna; William Tracy; Peggy Webber; Michael Ann Barrett
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Wed, 17 Dec 2025 - 3764 - The Big Story: The Case of the Cornered Cat (EP4867)
Today's Mystery: America's public enemey #1 is interested in turning himself in to Walter Winchell to be handed over to the FBI. But will he actually do it?
Original Radio Broadcast: September 17, 1947
Originating from New York
Starring: Ward Wilson as Walter Winchell; Ed Begley as J. Edgar Hoover; Don Appell; Alan Hewitt; Mildred Clinton
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Tue, 16 Dec 2025 - 3763 - Danger with Grainger: Phony Photographer Case (EP4866)
Today's Mystery: A female nightclub photographer turns to Steve Grainger for help.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1956 or 1957
Originating from Australia
Starring: Harp McGuire as Steve Grainger
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Mon, 15 Dec 2025 - 3762 - The Casebook of Gregory Hood: The Forgetful Murderer (Encore) (EP4865e)
Someone is murdering night watchmen and leaving odd clues behind.
Original Air Date: July 29, 1946
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Gale Gordon as Gregory Hood
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Sun, 14 Dec 2025 - 3761 - Cloak and Dagger: Windfall (A0044)
Today's Adventure: An ex-pat gambler in Switzerland gets a top secret film both sides want and tries to sell to the highest bidder.
Original Radio Broadcast: October 22, 1950
Originating from New York
Starring: Les Tremayne; Bill Quinn; Jan Miner; Grant Richards; Raymond Edward Johnson; Karl Weber; Charles Irving; Stefan Snobble; Boris Aplon; Paul Arnold; Jerry Jarrett
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Today's Mystery:Johnny is called in to verify the fate of a businessman who disappeared in the Palisades glacier.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 12, 1957
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; John Dehner; Herb Ellis; Virginia Gregg; Forrest Lewis; James McCallion; Tom Hanley; John James
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Fri, 12 Dec 2025 - 3759 - Dragnet: The Big Want Ad (EP4864)
Today's Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Romero investigate a case where conmen are victimizing peoople who place newspaper ads to sell their cars.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 4, 1951
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday; Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Thu, 11 Dec 2025 - 3758 - Broadway's My Beat: The Ruth Larson Murder Case (EP4863)
Today's Mystery: A fourteen-year-old is the first of a series of women brutally murdered by the same person.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 23, 1951
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Jack Kruschen as Sergeant Muggavan; Joseph Kearns; Martha Wentworth; Harry Bartell; Charles Davis
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Wed, 10 Dec 2025 - 3757 - Feature Assignment: The Majczek Case (EP4862)
Today's Mystery:A mother who has worked as a scrub woman for 13 years offers a large reward to absolve her son of a Chicago cop's murder.
Audition Date: February 6, 1946
Originating from New York
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Tue, 09 Dec 2025 - 3756 - Danger with Grainger: Innocent, Innocent (EP4861)
Today's Mystery: A young man is found standing on an estate where a murder was committed. He's holding a gun used to commit a murder, but he swears he didn't do it
.Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1956 or 1957
Originating from Australia
Starring: Harp McGuire as Steve Grainger
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Mon, 08 Dec 2025 - 3755 - Casebook of Gregory Hood: Death from the Red Capsule (EP4860e)
A young woman is poisoned when visiting Gregory Hood’s campfire and Gregory is charged with the crime.
Original Air Date: July 22, 1946
Originating in Hollywood
Starring Gale Gordon as Gregory Hood
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Sun, 07 Dec 2025 - 3754 - Cloak and Dagger: The Wine of Freedom (A0042)|WW2 Spy Adventure
Today's Adventure:An American OSS agent poses as a wine merchant in Germany to organize the country's anti-Hitler elements into an effective resistance.
Original Radio Broadcast: October 15, 1950
Originating from New York
Starring: Mel Ferrer; Herbert Berghoff; Frances Robinson; Ralph Bell; Raymond Edward Johnson; Will McCure; Ian Martin; Karl Weber
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Today's Mystery: Johnny's called in to determine whether a theatrical producer died of natural causes or was murdered.
Original Radio Broadcast Date:August 24, 1958
Originated from Hollywood
Stars: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar.Virginia Gregg, Bartlett Robinson, Marvin Miller, Junius Matthews
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Fri, 05 Dec 2025 - 3752 - Dragnet: The Big September Man (EP4859)
Todays Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Riomero investigate the brutul killing of a woman who worked in an office building.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 27, 1951
Originating from Hollywood
Starred: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday, Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Thu, 04 Dec 2025 - 3751 - Broadway's My Beat: The Frank Dunn Murder Case (EP4858)
Today's Mystery: Danny investigates the shooting death of a bartender.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 16, 1951
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Jack Kruschen as Sergeant Muggavan; Mary Jane Croft; Joseph Granby; Gladys Holland; Mary Jane Croft; Joseph Granby; Gladys Holland
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Wed, 03 Dec 2025 - 3750 - The Big Story: The Case of the Final Curtain (EP4857)
Today's Mystery: A woman suspects that her father was poisoned in a nursing home.
Original Radio Broadcast: December 7, 1947
Originating from New York
Starring: Les Tremayne as Aubrey Maddock; Alice Reinhart; Ted Osborn; Agnes Young; John Gibson; Will GeerWindsor
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Tue, 02 Dec 2025 - 3749 - Danger with Grainger: Lady Alibi (EP4856)
Today's Mystery: A beautiful model comes to Grainger for help, claiming that she's being pressured to provide an alibi for a man who shot a security guard during a robbery gone bad.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1956 or 1957
Originating from Australia
Starring: Harp McGuire as Steve Grainger
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Mon, 01 Dec 2025 - 3748 - Casebook of Gregory Hood: South of the Border (Encore) (EP4855e)
Gregory Hood arrives in Mexico City to purchase jade and is mistaken for a wayward king.
Original Air Date: July 15, 1946
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Gale Gordon as Gregory Hood
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Sun, 30 Nov 2025 - 3747 - Cloak and Dagger: Delay on Route (A0040)
Today's Adventure:In a territory the partisans seized from the fascists in Italy, an OSS agent has to sneak out two fascists ready to give vital information to the Allies and finds himself having to overcome his partisan comrades to do so.
Original Radio Broadcast: October 6, 1950
Originating from New York
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Today's Mystery: Johnny is called in to investigate the theft of $58,000 from a ludite furniture manufacturing company.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 10, 1958
Originated from Hollywood
Stars: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar, Will Wright, Herb Vigran, Forrest Lewis, Edgar Barrier, Richard Beals, Bill James, Gus Bayz
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Fri, 28 Nov 2025 - 3745 - Dragnet: The Big Sour (EP4854)
Todays Mystery: Two men rob an elderly couple and torture the husband in order to steal their jewelry.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 20, 1951
Originating from Hollywood
Starred: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday, Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero, Jack Kruschen
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Thu, 27 Nov 2025 - 3744 - Broadway's My Beat: The Earl Lawson Murder Case (EP4853)
Today's Mystery: A wealthy man is knifed in Times Square.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 9, 1951
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Jack Kruschen as Sergeant Muggavan
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Wed, 26 Nov 2025 - 3743 - The Big Story: The Case of the Unfinished Love Song (EP4852)
Today's Mystery: Howard Beaufait of The Cleveleand News reinvestigates the case of a violin-playing convicted killer who claims innocence and whose wife also believes him.
Original Radio Broadcast: November 26, 1947
Originating from New York
Starring: Craig McDonnell; John Sylvester; Francis De Sales; Eileen Heckart; Luise Barkley
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Tue, 25 Nov 2025 - 3742 - Danger with Grainger: The Invented Husband (EP4851)
Today's Mystery: A woman invents a husband to get a job and then has to "kill him off" to get married. She turns to Grainger when she finds herself implicated in a real murder.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1956 or 1957
Originating from Australia
Starring: Harp McGuire as Steve Grainger
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Mon, 24 Nov 2025 - 3741 - Casey, Crime Photographer: Holiday (Encore) (EP4850e)
Casey and Ann’s plan for a Thanksgiving holiday is disrupted by a reformed safe cracker who is being asked to crack a safe for $10,000 or else.
Original Air Date: November 25, 1948
Originating from New York
Starring: Staats Cotsworth as Flash Casey
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.Sun, 23 Nov 2025 - 3740 - Cloak and Dagger: The Last Mission (A0038)
Today's Adventure: A woman in Canton, whose family was murdered by the Japanese military, makes an unusual connection with the OSS.
Original Radio Broadcast: September 29, 1950
Originating from New York
Starring: Bryna Raeburn; Ian Martin; Arnold Moss; Ralph Bell; Raymond Edward Johnson; Karl Weber
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