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The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas

Adam Graham|Old Time Radio Detective Host
The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas
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    Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Blue Madonna Matter (EP4940)

    27/03/2026 | 27 mins.
    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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    Dragnet: The Big Red, Part One (EP4939)

    26/03/2026 | 41 mins.
    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)

    25/03/2026 | 35 mins.
    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)

    24/03/2026 | 42 mins.
    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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    Patreon Supporter of the Day: Ronda, Patreon supporter since October 2020

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    The Saint: The Saint Goes Underground (EP4936)

    23/03/2026 | 37 mins.
    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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About 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.
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