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Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

Arts, Drama, Fiction, Performing Arts

Adam Graham continues his journey through Old Time Radio Detective programs from their first available adventure to their final bow in Seasons 4-6 which were released between 2012 and 2015, featuring nearly 1,000 Old Time Radio episodes. You can listen to the current podcast feed of The Great Detectives of Old Time Radiohttps://www.spreaker.com/show/otr-detective-the-great-detectives-of-olhere.

Picking up where we left off at the end ofVolume 1, Volume 2 begins by continuing the Adventures of Frank Race, The Fat Man, Let George Do It, Sherlock Holmes (with John Stanley and later John Gielgud) and Yours Truly Johnny Dollar with John Lund.

In this volume, we'll hear these Golden Age Radio Classics:

• Bob Bailey taking over as Yours Truly Johnny Dollar in exciting serials and then in thrilling half hour episodes.
• The legal mystery series from the mind of Erle Stanley Gardener A Life in Your Hands
• Cases of Mr. Ace Starring George Raft
• The International Mystery series Mr. I.A. Moto
• The adventures of crime-solving lawyer John J. Malone in The Amazing Mr. Malone and Murder and Mr. Malone
• The greatest of all manhunters Nick Carter, Master Detective
• The police procedural classic The Line-Up
• An antiques dealer and amateur detectives opens The Casebook of Gregory Hood
• 1930s Crimefightint Action with Police Headquarters
• The Adventures of Philip Marlowe starring both Van Heflin and Gerald Mohr
• 1930s Crime-solving Action with Police Headquarters
• Manhunt featuring a police criminologist who is smarter than the detectives and doesn't mind showing it every chance he gets!
• Half-doctor, Half Detective, all lovable responsible adult. Dr, Tim, Detective is assisted in solving crimes by a couple of kids who he instructs in important lessons in science and medicine.
• Tales of Scotland Yard Inspector Peter Black and his Pursuit of Justice
• Pat Novak for Hire is back for a second run through his hard-boiled adventures to contrast with the other Jack Webb show that ran concurrently for a weeks.
• We begin our journey through the landmark radio program Dragnet starring Webb as the rules for police dramas are rewritten.
• Vincent Price stars as the Saint, the modern Robin Hood of Crime
• Easy Money tells of a magician-turned-detective who exposes con games.
• Dane Clark stars as a New York Private Eye in Crime and Peter Chambers
• Ellery Queen challenges you to match wits with him in amazing puzzle mysteries.
• The first radio incarnation of Michael Shayne starring Wally Maher as a Bay Area Private Detective
• A Chicago-based Criminologist uses psychology to solve crimes in The Crime Files of Flammond

Also listen to even more obscure series such as Homicide O'Kane, Here Comes McBride, Miss Pinkerton Incorporated, A Johnny Fletcher Mystery, Police Blotter, Call the Police, The Big Guy, The Man from Homicide, and Hearthstone of the Death Squad.

Also listen for specials starring Orson Welles, Adolph Menjous, Gregory Peck, Dick Powell, Robert Montgomery, and William Bendix as we feature adaptations of Philip Marlowe Movies, Raymond Chandler short stories, and Edgar Allen Poe's Detective Auguste Dupin.

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#43
Episodes
968
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Daily
Typical length
33 min
On air since
2023
Latest episode
2 weeks ago

Episodes

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  1. Police Headquarters: Frame Up and Death of a Mystery Writer (EP1328)

    Season 5, Episode 253

    Show notes

    Release Date: August 02, 2014

    A police Captain’s son is charged with murder in, “Frame Up.”

    A mystery writer is killed before finishing his long-running serial in, “Death of a Mystery Writer.”

    Original Air Date: Episodes (38 and 39)

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    32 min
  2. Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Suntan Oil Matter (EP1327)

    Season 5, Episode 252

    Show notes

    Release Date: August 01, 2014

    Johnny investigates the disappearance of a necklace owned by the wife of an oil man trying to hang on to his young wife.

    Original Air Date: March 10, 1957

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    35 min
  3. Nick Carter: The Vanishing Postman (EP1326)

    Season 5, Episode 251

    Show notes

    Release Date: July 31, 2014

    After a car accident, Nick happens on a leather bag belonging to a postman who disappeared seven years ago.

    Original Air Date: August 26, 1945

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    35 min
  4. Phillip Marlowe: The Black Halo (EP1325)

    Season 5, Episode 250

    Show notes

    Release Date: July 30, 2014

    Marlowe looks for a woman who works for a major perfume company.

    Original Air Date: January 15, 1949

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    36 min
  5. Pat Novak for Hire: Give Envelope to John St. John (EP1324)

    Season 5, Episode 249

    Show notes

    Release Date: July 29, 2014

    A dying man gives Novak an envelope with the mission to deliver it to John St. John.

    Original Air Date: May 22, 1949

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    35 min
  6. Pursuit: Pursuit and the Man Who Died Late (EP1323)

    Season 5, Episode 248

    Show notes

    Release Date: July 28, 2014

    Inspector Black is presented with a case of a man who appeared to died from assault but was actually shot-months before he died.

    Original Air Date: October 2, 1951

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    34 min
  7. Police Headquarters: Old Cop and Stolen Brain (EP1322)

    Season 5, Episode 247

    Show notes

    Release Date: July 26, 2014

    An elderly soon to be retired police officer investigates the theft of $190,000 in cash in “Old Cop.”

    And the brain of a dead brilliant scientist is stolen and $100,000 in insurance money is at stake in, “Stolen Brain.”

    Episodes 36 and 37 (1932)

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    27 min
  8. Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Meek Memorial Matter (EP1321)

    Season 5, Episode 246

    Show notes

    Release Date: July 25, 2014

    Johnny searches for a stolen missing copy of the Gettysburg Address.

    Original Air Date: March 3, 1957

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    36 min
  9. Nick Carter: The Case of the Sick Statue (EP1320)

    Season 5, Episode 245

    Show notes

    Release Date: July 24, 2014

    Nick’s called in by a maid who is concerned about a plague spreading from statues. Nick arrives to find her dead.

    Original Air Date: August 12, 1945

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    28 min
  10. Philip Marlowe: The Restless Day (EP1319)

    Season 5, Episode 244

    Show notes

    Release Date: July 23, 2014

    Marlowe’s hopes of a day off are spoiled when a man who was assumed dead by accident shows up asking Marlowe to find out who tried to kill him.

    Original Air Date: January 8, 1949

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    33 min
  11. Pat Novak: The Geranium Plant (EP1318)

    Season 5, Episode 243

    Show notes

    Release Date: July 22, 2014

    Pat Novak’s hired to deliver a geranium. He’s hit by a car after the pick-up and that’s just the start of his trouble.

    Original Air Date: May 14, 1949

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    34 min
  12. Pursuit: Pursuit and the Ladies of Farthing Street (EP1317)

    Season 5, Episode 242

    Show notes

    Release Date: July 21, 2014

    Black is advised he’d find evidence of a murder and he finds a dead body and is led to two very proper ladies living on Farthing Street.

    Original Air Date: September 18, 1951

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    32 min
  13. Police Headquarters: William Spencer Killed and Race Track (EP1316)

    Season 5, Episode 241

    Show notes

    Release Date: July 19, 2014

    A well-liked roguish gambler is found dead of an apparent suicide in William Spencer Killed.

    A friend of a couple of police officers needs their protection from gangsters trying to fix a race in Race Track.

    Episodes 34 and 35

    Original Air Date: 1932

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    28 min
  14. Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Templeton Matter (EP1315)

    Season 5, Episode 240

    Show notes

    Release Date: July 18, 2014

    Johnny investigates the theft of thousands of dollars in merchandise that includes the murder of one of the guards.

    Original Air Date: February 10, 1957

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    32 min
  15. Nick Carter: The Hanging Paperhanger (EP1314)

    Season 5, Episode 239

    Show notes

    Release Date: July 17, 2014

    Nick is hired by a cleaning woman who becomes suspicious when her landlord repapers her wall without her permission. The landlord is then found dead.

    Original Air Date: August 5, 1945

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    29 min
  16. Philip Marlowe: The Old Acquaintance (EP1313)

    Season 5, Episode 238

    Show notes

    Release Date: July 16, 2014

    Marlowe is hired on New Year’s Eve to a locate a missing fiancée who disappeared at the same day a dangerous convict broke out of prison.

    Original Air Date: December 26, 1948

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    35 min
  17. Pat Novak for Hire: Wendy Morris (EP1312)

    Season 6, Episode 238

    Show notes

    Release Date: July 15, 2014

    Pat Novak is hired by an attorney to keep an eye on a woman whose husband has returned from the Navy. The Attorney alleges the husband is an imposter.

    Original Air Date: May 8, 1949

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    34 min
  18. Pursuit: Pursuit at the Vicarage (EP1311)

    Season 5, Episode 237

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    Release Date: July 14, 2014

    Inspector Black is called in to investigate threats against a beloved local vicar.

    Original Air Date: August 21, 1951

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    32 min
  19. Police Headquarters: Deadly Poker Game, Judge Carlton Missing (EP1310)

    Season 5, Episode 236

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    Release Date: July 12, 2014

    The police go to investigate a suicide but find evidence that suggests it was a fame in “Deadly Poker Game.”

    A Judge is missing and a reporter and his faithful photographer are on the trail but are sidetracked at a fire where they find another photographer murdered.

    Episodes 32 and 33 (1932)

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    28 min
  20. Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Kirbey Will Matter (EP1309)

    Season 5, Episode 235

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    Release Date: July 11, 2014

    Johnny goes to Lake Mojave to investigate the death of a fishing guide/retiree with a greedy family.

    Original Air Date: February 3, 1957

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    35 min