Podcast
The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 1
Adam Graham continues his journey through Old Time Radio Detective programs from their first available adventure to their final bow in Seasons 1-3 which were released between 2009 and 2012, featuring nearly 800 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.
In this volume, you'll hear:
• Alan Ladd playing Dan Holiday, a reporter-mystery writer who will go anywhere and do anything to those who send him a letter to Box 13.
• Jack Webb as Pat Novak for Hire, a Man Who Rents Boats and also ends up getting involved in murders in the most hard-boiled detective series of them all
• Before he was Johnny Dollar, Bob Bailey starred in Let George Do It as George Valentine, a detective who advertised that danger was his stock and trade.
• The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes featuring early 1930s episodes with Richard Gordon and Luis Hector, followed by the definitive performance of Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce as SHerlock Holmes and Watson as well as later series starring Tom Conway and John Stanley as Holmes.
• The early adventures of the Man with Action-Packed Expense Account with episodes starring Dick Powell, Charles Russell, Edmond O'Brien, and John Lund,.
• Jack Webb and later Frank Graham star as Jeff Regan, Investigator, a detective who was known as the Lyon's Eye.
• Jeff Chandler stars in a failed Pilot for San Francisco Final
• The Radio Adventures of the Thin Man including radio adaptations of the first two Thin Man Movies starring William Powell
• The Father Brown radio series starring Karl Swenson
• Golden Age Radio episodes featuring Rex Stout's housebound sleuth Nero Wolfe, most notably played by Sidney Greenstreet.
• The mid-1950s series features a Detective and His Glamourous Wife in The Adventures of the Abbotts.
• William Gargan stars in two separate detective series as hard-boiled private eye Ross Dolan in I Deal in Crime and as Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator
• Dick Powell's first hard-boiled detective series in Rogue's Gallery.
• Glamourous Private Eye Candy Matson solves crimes in San Francisco
• Glenn Ford stars as Christopher London
• Before he became, a famous journalist known for 60 minutes, Mike Wallace starred in Crime on the Waterfront
• The old-time radio adventures of Hercules Poirot starring Harold Huber.
• This one's about Pete Kelly (played by Jack Webb) in Pete Kelly's Blues, a 1920s Blue Clarinet Player who gets into trouble and mystery in Kansas City
• The Adventures of Frank Race, a former lawyer who became a freelance troubleshooter.
• Broadway Legend Walter Hampden stars as Leonidas Witherall, a boy's school headmaster who looks like William Shakespeare and finds mystery and adventure.
• J. Scott Smart stars as The Fat Man, the rotund private eye with the famous theme.
Listen for specials starring Alan Ladd, Humphrey Bogart, Howard Duff, Orson Welles, Peter Lorrre, Sidney Greenstreet, Edmond O'Brien, Vincent Price, Lena Horne, Dick Powell, Glenn Ford, Charlton Heston. and more.
- Drama chart
- #190
- Episodes
- 802
- Releases
- Daily
- Typical length
- 33 min
- On air since
- 2022
- Latest episode
- 2 weeks ago
Episodes
802 episodes, newest first
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28 min
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Lester James Matter (EP0590)
Season 3, Episode 73
Show notes
Release Date: January 27, 2012
$4,000 has been embezzled. The company has the embezzler, but Johnny’s job is to find the money.
Original Air Date: March 31, 1953
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34 min
Sherlock Holmes: The Case Of The Sanguinary Spectre (EP0589)
Season 3, Episode 72
Show notes
Release Date: January 26, 2012
Sherlock Holmes is called to spend the night at an old British manor and stop it from being sold to a pickle king.
Original Air Date: February 8, 1948
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32 min
Let George Do It: Tag, You’re It (EP0588)
Season 3, Episode 71
Show notes
Release Date: January 25, 2012
A letter from a woman afraid that someone is going to kill her leads George to a serial killer using a phony contest racket.
Original Air Date: September 25, 1950
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35 min
Candy Matson: San Juan Bautista (EP0587)
Season 3, Episode 70
Show notes
Release Date: January 24, 2012
Candy, Rembrandt, and Mallard visit a historic California mission and find themselves embroiled in a murder case.
Original Air Date: November 26, 1950
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35 min
Barrie Craig: Zero Hour (EP0586)
Season 3, Episode 69
Show notes
Release Date: January 23, 2012
Barrie Craig goes to Vermont ski country to investigate a two year old attempted murder with four suspects and no proof as to who did it.
Original Air Date: February 2, 1954
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30 min
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Syndicate Matter (EP0585)
Season 3, Episode 68
Show notes
Release Date: January 20, 2012
Johnny investigates a series of murders that have cause the insurance company thousands of dollars on group accidental death insurance.
Original Air Date: March 24, 1953
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33 min
Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Avenging Blade (EP0584)
Season 3, Episode 67
Show notes
Release Date: January 19, 2012
Sherlock Holmes helps the lord of a manor who has received a threatening letter.
Original Air Date: February 1, 1948
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34 min
Let George Do It: Cover for an Hour (EP0583)
Season 3, Episode 66
Show notes
Release Date: January 18, 2012
George is talking to a man who claims to need his help when he’s knocked senseless for an hour and wakes up determined to find out what happened.
Original Air Date: September 18, 1950
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34 min
Candy Matson: The Egyptian Amulet (EP0582)
Season 3, Episode 65
Show notes
Release Date: January 17, 2012
Mallard gives Candy an amulet with Egyptian writing on it to get translation help. She goes to Rembrandt and finds out he’s moving and offers to find him a new place. The first place they go she finds more than she bargained for.
Original Air Date: September 12, 1950
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34 min
Barrie Craig: Strange Vision (EP0581)
Season 3, Episode 64
Show notes
Release Date: January 16, 2012
Barrie Craig is hired to go out of town and undercover to investigate a series of fires at a chemical plants.
Original Air Date: January 19, 1954
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33 min
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The King’s Necklace Matter (EP0580)
Season 3, Episode 63
Show notes
Release Date: January 13, 2012
An old friend of Johnny’s sends him to Cuba to the house of a reclusive millionaire due to an attempt theft of a $250,000 necklace.
Original Air Date: March 17, 1953
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32 min
Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Engineer’s Thumb(EP0579)
Season 3, Episode 62
Show notes
Release Date: January 12, 2012
A man who was attacked and nearly murdered comes to Watson for treatment and Holmes for help.
Original Air Date: January 25, 1948
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32 min
Let George Do It: White Elephant (EP0578)
Season 3, Episode 61
Show notes
Release Date: January 11, 2012
George is contacted by a woman in a large and expensive house who informs him that she’s left him $1,000 in her will-if he solves her murder.
Original Air Date: September 11, 1950
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33 min
Candy Matson: The Movie Company (EP0577)
Season 3, Episode 60
Show notes
Release Date: January 10, 2012
Candy goes to visit an old friend at a movie company filming in San Francisco and runs into a string of murders.
Original Air Date: August 29, 1950
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33 min
Barrie Craig: The Lonely Corner (EP0576)
Season 3, Episode 59
Show notes
ORelease Date: January 9, 2012
Barrie finds a jewel thief dead in his office.
Original Air Date: November 3, 1953
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36 min
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Jeanne Maxwell Matter (EP0575)
Season 3, Episode 58
Show notes
Release Date: January 6, 2012
Johnny has to find out whether the death of an insured young woman was murder or suicide.
Original Air Date: March 6, 1953
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35 min
Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Lucky Shilling (EP0574)
Season 3, Episode 57
Show notes
Release Date: January 5, 2012
Sherlock Holmes is asked by the Lady Monooth to help find her son. While she’s talking to Holmes, her son comes in and hangs himself
Original Air Date: January 18, 1948
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33 min
Let George Do It: Second Degree Affection (EP0573)
Season 3, Episode 56
Show notes
Release Date: Januray 4, 2012
The sister of a man on trial for murder asks George to get her brother to reveal information that could spare his life.
Original Air Date: September 4, 1950
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35 min
Candy Matson: Symphony of Death (EP0572)
Season 3, Episode 55
Show notes
Release Date: January 3, 2012
Candy is hired by the sister of a brilliant composer who is losing his mind.
Original Air Date: June 20, 1950
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33 min
Barrie Craig: Fog Over Murder (EP0571)
Season 3, Episode 54
Show notes
Release Date: January 2, 2012
Barrie is hired by a doctor to discover who is amnesiatic patient is.
Original Air Date: October 13, 1953
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