The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas

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By: Adam Graham|Old Time Radio Detective Host

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...

Cloud Nine: Visiting Famous Radio Detectives (Encore) (EP4955e)
#167
Yesterday at 7:00 AM

A man travels via Cloud Nine to an office building where all the world’s famous radio detectives work and is mistaken for Sam Spade and hired to find a woman’s murderer if she’s killed.

Original Air Date: July 21, 1950

Originating in Chicago

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Three For Adventure: Roundhouse Rosie and the Siamese Cats (Encore) (A0080)
#166
Last Saturday at 7:00 AM

Three Adventurers (played by Jack Webb, Elliot Lewis, and Barton Yarborough) arrive in New Orleans to locate a valuable black opal

 Audition Date: 1949

Originating in Hollywood

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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The S.S. Malay Trader Ship (Encore) (EP4955)
#165
Last Friday at 7:00 AM

Johnny goes undercover as a seaman on a Corpus Christi-bound ship to prevent the destruction of the ship and its cargo.

Original Air Date: February 10, 1950

Originating in Hollywood

Starring: Edmond O'Brien as Johnny Dollar and Barton Yarborough

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The Line Up: The Senile Slugging Case (Encore) (EP4954)
#164
Last Thursday at 7:00 AM

Today's Mystery: Guthrie investigates a series of brutal muggings that have targeted elderly victims.

Original Air Date: September 12, 1951

Originating in Hollywood

Starring: William Johnstone as Lt. Ben Guthrie and Barton Yarborough

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Richard Diamond: The Hatpin Murder Case (Encore) (EP4953)
#163
Last Wednesday at 7:00 AM

An Oklahoma rancher brings Diamond to solve the death of his brother.

Rebroadcast Date: August 16, 1953

Originating in Hollywood

Starring: Dick Powell as Richard Diamond and Barton Yarborough

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Jeff Regan: The Lady with the Golden Hair (Encore) (EP4952)
#162
Last Tuesday at 7:00 AM

Today's Mystery: A rich make-up artist hires International to protect him from someone who’s trying to kill him.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 31, 1948

Originating in Hollywood

Starring: Jack Webb as Jeff Regan and Barton Yarborough

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Christopher London: The Terrible Price of Sugar (Encore) (EP4951)
#161
04/13/2026

Christopher London is hired by a sugar magnate to find out how one of his competitors is massively underselling him. However, London finds the case far more dangerous than he thought.

Original Radio Broadcast: February 26, 1950

Originating in Hollywood

Starring: Glenn Ford as Christopher London and Barton Yarborough

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Proudly We Hail: Follow that Man (EP4950s)
#160
04/12/2026

Today's Mystery: A private detective is hired to located a woman's brother who is tied into underworld activity.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 29, 1950

Originating in New York

Starring: Lee Tracy as Clint Flint, Miriam Wolfe, Bill Lipton, Joe DeSantis

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Counterspy: The Housing Racket (A0078)
#159
04/11/2026

Today's Adventure: Counterspy is called in to investigate a shady home developer who has

Original Radio Broadcast: May 23, 1948

Originating in New York

Starring Don McLaughlin as David Harding, Mandel Kramer as Peters

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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Baldero Matter (EP4950)
#158
04/10/2026

Today's Mystery: Johnny goes to California to investigate a case of modern day pilots robbing a yacht at sea.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 15, 1959

Originated from Hollywood

Stars: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar.Virginia Gregg, Eleanor Audley, Vic Perrin, Howard McNear, Lawrence Dobkin, Will Wright, Carleton G. Young, Jack Edwards

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Dragnet: The Big Juvenile Division (EP4949)
#157
04/09/2026

Todays Mystery: Joe Friday tries to stop a juvenile gang war.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 17, 1952

Originating from Hollywood

Starred: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday, Barney Phillips as Sergeant Ed Jacobs, Charles Smith, Eddie Firestone, H

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Broadway's My Beat: The Macklin and John Howard Murder Case (EP4948)
#156
04/08/2026

Today's Mystery: Danny investigates when a wealthy man is found murdered through menthol alcohol while living in the Bowery.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 10, 1951

Originated in Hollywood

Stars: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover, Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia, Jack Kruschen as Sergeant Muggavan, Irene Tedrow, Lou Merrill, Leo Cleary, Steve Roberts

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The Big Story: Three Gold Coins Spell Death (EP4947)
#155
04/07/2026

Today's Mystery: A Tulsa, Oklahoma reporter investigates when a man is found murdered outside a small town.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 14, 1949

Originating in New York

Starring Bob Readick as Nolan Bulloch, Abby Lewis, Grant Richards, Mandel Kramer, Bill Smith

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The Saint: Murder on the High Seas (EP4946)
#154
04/06/2026

Today's Mystery: The Saint meets a fightened actress on a cruise ship who fears her for her life with good reason.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 18, 1949

Originating from Hollywood

Starred: Vincent Price as Simon Templar, William Conrad, Betty Lou Gerson, Barney Philips, Frank Gerstle, Jeanne Bates

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Counterspy: The Stolen Car Racket (Rehearsal) (A0076)
#153
04/04/2026

Today's Adventure: A woman who runs a New York auto theft racket and her sister get caught up in a web of intrigue and murder after doing business with a Chicago gang leader.

Rehearsal of Program that Aired July 27, 1946

Originating from New York

Starring: Don McLaughlin as David Harding; Mandel Kramer as Peters; Ralph Bell

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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Net of Circumstances Matter (EP4945)
#152
04/03/2026

Today's Mystery: Johnny investigates a theft from a men's clothing store that has apparently left the night watchman dead.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 8, 1959

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Lillian Buyeff; Vic Perrin; Harry Bartell; Barney Phillips; Bartlett Robinson; Bill James

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Dragnet: The Big Red, Part Two (EP4944)
#151
04/02/2026

Today's Mystery: Having busted the small-time carriers in a drug ring, Friday has to capture the man behind the operation by carrying on pretending to be an undercover drug dealer.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 10, 1952

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday; Barney Phillips as Sergeant Ed Jacobs; Stacy Harris; Herb Butterfield

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Broadway's My Beat: The Joe Blair Murder Case (EP4943)
#150
04/01/2026

Today's Mystery: Danny investigates when a hitchhiker is found murdered in a high-end hotel.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 3, 1951

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Jack Kruschen as Sergeant Muggavan; Cathy Lewis; Hy Averback; Edwin Max; Paula Victor; Billy Halop

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The Big Story: The Corn Cob Killer (EP4942)
#149
03/31/2026

Today's Mystery:A reporter wants his paper to run a story identifying the murderer of a river boy, when no body has been found and there's no evidence he was murdered.

Original Radio Broadcast: October 26, 1949

Originating from New York

Starring: Beryl Firestone as Harold Faller; Hazel Logan; Jim Boles; Jim Stevens; Scott Tennyson; Bob Dryden; Sandy Bickhart

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The Saint: Greed Causes Murder (EP4941)
#148
03/30/2026

Today's Mystery: The Saint becomes inovlved when everyone wants to buy an old junker of a car from an elderly man.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 14, 1949

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Vincent Price as Simon Templar,Lurene Tuttle, Dan O'Herlihy, Tony Barrett, Barney Phillips, Fred Howard.

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Counterspy: Explosive Dog (A0074)
#147
03/28/2026

Today's Adventure: A spy plans to use a dog to destroy a critical research facility.

Original Radio Broadcast: July 25, 1945

Originating from New York

Starring: Don McLaughlin as David Harding; Maurice Tarplin

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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Blue Madonna Matter (EP4940)
#146
03/27/2026

Today's Mystery: Johnny Dollar receives a telephone call from a denizen of the Parisian underworld about an insured oil painting.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 22, 1959

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; G. Stanley Jones; Forrest Lewis; Harry Bartell; Joseph Kearns; Bert Holland; Byron Kane

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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Caylin Matter, Episodes One and Two (EP4072)
#181
03/27/2026

Today's Mystery: Johnny goes to Los Angeles to investigate the apparent death of an insured man in a burning car.

Original Radio Broadcast Dates: January 2 and 3, 1956

Originiated from Hollywood

Stars: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar. Virginia Gregg, Lucille Meredith, Alma Lawton, Gloria Blondell, Howard McNear, Harry Bartell, Peter Leeds, and Byron Kane

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Dragnet: The Big Red, Part One (EP4939)
#145
03/26/2026

Today's Mystery: Friday goes undercover as a narcotics buyer after getting a tip from an informant about a new narcotics ring operating in LA.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 3, 1952

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday; Barney Phillips as Sergeant Ed Jacobs; Stacy Harris

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Broadway's My Beat: The Ricardo Miguel Murder Case (EP4938)
#144
03/25/2026

Today's Mystery: A young man is found murdered in a club in Spanish Harlem.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 27, 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 Loneliest Man on Earth (EP4937)
#143
03/24/2026

Today's Mystery:

Reporter Ray Sprigle undertakes an effort to free a man who claims to have been wrongfully convicted of murder at the plea of his ex-wife.

Original Radio Broadcast: October 12, 1949

Originating from New YorkStarring: Bill Smith as Ray Sprigle; Barbara Weeks; George Petrie; Joshua Shelley; Eric Dressler; Humphrey Davis; Jim Boles

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The Saint: The Saint Goes Underground (EP4936)
#142
03/23/2026

Today's Mystery: The Saint makes an emergency landing in a small town and finds people immediately threatening him to get him to leave town.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 31, 1949

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Vincent Price as Simon Templar; Harry Bartell; Tony Barrett; Barney Phillips; Colleen Collins; Fred Howard

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Counterspy: Cherchez La Femme (A0072)
#141
03/21/2026

Today's Adventure: David Harding looks into the suicide of a prominent wealthy man tied to the war effort.

Original Radio Broadcast: June 13, 1945

Originating from New York

Starring: Don McLaughlin as David Harding; Mandel Kramer as Peters

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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Shankar Diamond Matter (EP4935)
#140
03/20/2026

Today's Mystery: An eccentric elderly woman has Johnny guard her while she's wearing a valuable necklace to a party.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 15, 1959

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Lillian Buyeff; Jack Edwards; Barney Phillips; Forrest
Lewis; Eric Snowden

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Dragnet: The Big Sorrow (EP4934)
#139
03/19/2026

Today's Mystery:Joe mourns the death of his partner Ben Romero as he joins the search for two escaped robbers.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 27, 1951

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday, Barney Phillips as Sergeant Ed Jacobs, Vic Perrin, Herb Butterfield

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Broadway's My Beat: The Kurt Bower Murder Case (EP4933)
#138
03/18/2026

Today's Mystery: Danny gets a tip that a wealthy woman's life is endangered. Her ski instructor is murdered instead.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 21, 1951

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Jack Kruschen as Sergeant Muggavan; Betty Lou Gerson; Ted Osborne; Irene Tedrow

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The Big Story: The Poison Pen Murders (EP4932)
#137
03/17/2026

Today's Mystery:A reporter with a reputation for making errors tries to solve the murder of a laundry owner.

Original Radio Broadcast: July 20, 1949

Originating from New York

Starring: Jackson Beck as Tom Mercer; Barbara Townsend; Alice Rinehart; Ted Osborn; Santos Ortega; Gil Mack; Milton Herman

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The Saint: Mr. Important (EP4931)
#136
03/16/2026

Today's Mystery: When a treasury agent, a childhood friend of Simon Templar, is shot to death and the Saint

Original Radio Broadcast Date:

Originating from Hollywood

Starred: Vincent Price as Simon Templar, Jeff Chandler

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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Henderson Matter Omnibus (EP4930s)
#135
03/15/2026

Today's Mystery: Johnny goes to a small Nevada mining town to investigate the death of an insured elderly man married to a twenty-seven year-old woman.

Original Radio Broadcast Date:

Originated from Hollywood

Stars: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar. Lillian Buyeff, Irene Tedrow, D. J. Thompson, Herb Ellis, Marvin Miller, Forrest Lewis, Bob Bruce, Russ Thorson

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Counterspy: The Case of the Illegal Radio Station (A0070)
#134
03/14/2026

Today's Adventure: A military officer is murdered on a train and David Harding suspects enemy involvement and enlists the help of a refugees to track down a suspected foreign agent. 

 Original Radio Broadcast: March 1, 1943

 Originating in New York Starring Don McLaughlin as David Harding

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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Date with Death Matter (EP4930)
#133
03/13/2026

Today's Mystery: A desperate criminal is gunning for Johnny after failing to kill him last week.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 8, 1959

Originated from Hollywood

Stars: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar. Lucille Meredith, James McCallion, Russ Thorson, Sam Edwards, Herb Vigran

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Dragnet: The Big Overtime (EP4929)
#132
03/12/2026

Todays Mystery:The daughter of a banker is kidnapped from her business school.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 13, 1951

Originating from Hollywood

Starred: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday, Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero, Vic Perrin, Herb Butterfield

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Broadway's My Beat: The Ed Koster Murder Case (EP4928)
#131
03/11/2026

Today's Mystery: A cop is found in a fire at a chemical plant.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 13, 1951

Originated in Hollywood

Stars: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover, Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia, Tony Barrett, Jack Kruschen as Sergeant Muggavan, Tony Barrett, Michael Ann Barrett, Paula Winslowe, Herb Butterfield, Edwin Max

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The Big Story: The Bitterest Man on Earth (EP4927)
#130
03/10/2026

Today's Mystery: A reporter tries to get justice for a man who claims to have been mistaken for someone else.

Original Radio Broadcast: June 8, 1949

Originating in New York

Starring John Sylvester as Julian Housman, Canada Lee, Jim Boles, Eric Dressler, Bill Smith, Georgia Burke, and Scott Tennyson

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The Saint: The Miracle Tea Party (EP4926)
#129
03/09/2026

When the Saint discovers that there were several thousand dollar bill in a box of tea purchased by Inspector Fernack.

Audition Date: December 1944

Originating in Hollywood

Starring Denis Greene as the Saint, Gale Gordon, Gerald Mohor,

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