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...
Screen Guild Theater: The Glass Key (EP4920e)
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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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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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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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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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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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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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Hollywood Mystery Matter (EP4915)
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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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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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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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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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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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, 1942Â
Originating from New York
Starring: Don McLaughlin as David Harding
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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Hair Raising Matter (EP4910)
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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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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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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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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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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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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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Double Trouble Matter (EP4905)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Gruesome Spectacles Matter (EP4900)
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
Kearns
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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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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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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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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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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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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Johnson Payroll Matter (EP4895)
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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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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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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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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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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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; Â Charles Seel; Ed Emerson; George Neise; George Sorel; Henry Roland; Howard Jeffrey; Jay Novello; Noreen Gammill
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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Wayward Diamond Matter (EP4890)
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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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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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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