The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio

Adam Graham Radio Detective Podcasts

Six Old Time Radio Detective Dramas Per Week, One Podcast

  • 32 minutes 24 seconds
    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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    5 February 2026, 6:00 am
  • 32 minutes 32 seconds
    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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    5 February 2026, 6:00 am
  • 39 minutes 24 seconds
    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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    4 February 2026, 6:00 am
  • 39 minutes 2 seconds
    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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    3 February 2026, 7:47 am
  • 31 minutes 37 seconds
    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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    2 February 2026, 6:00 am
  • 33 minutes 32 seconds
    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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    1 February 2026, 6:00 am
  • 1 hour 5 minutes
    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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    31 January 2026, 6:00 am
  • 34 minutes 25 seconds
    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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    30 January 2026, 6:00 am
  • 32 minutes 3 seconds
    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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    29 January 2026, 6:00 am
  • 38 minutes 56 seconds
    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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    28 January 2026, 6:00 am
  • 33 minutes 18 seconds
    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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    27 January 2026, 7:00 am
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