Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Doting Dowager Matter (EP4925)
06/03/2026 | 35 mins.
Today's Mystery: Johnny is called in to find an inexpensive statue that's held in high emotional value by an eccentric elderly woman who would pay a $75,000 ransom.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 18, 1959
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Virginia Gregg; Eleanor Audley; G. Stanley Jones; Eric Snowden; Sam Edwards
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Dragnet: The Big Canaries (EP4924)
05/03/2026 | 32 mins.
Today's Mystery:A mother is found murdered in her home.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 6, 1951
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday; Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero; Joyce McCluskey
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Broadway's My Beat: The Lily Nelson Murder Case (EP4923)
04/03/2026 | 36 mins.
Today's Mystery:A Broadway actress is found dead with her wrists slit.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 6, 1951
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Jack Kruschen as Sergeant Muggavan; Paul Frees; Clayton Post; Edwin Max; Elliott Lewis; Jack Kruschen; Jay Novello; Joyce McCluskey
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The Big Story: Respected Chemist Dead (EP4922)
03/03/2026 | 42 mins.
Today's Mystery: A prominent chemist's mysterious death may have been faked ... but why?'
Original Radio Broadcast: March 9, 1949
Originating from New York
Starring: Sydney Smith as Ike McAnally; Ann Burr; Agnes Young; Lyle Sudrow; Ted Osborne
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Danger with Grainger: The Larry Simmons Case (EP4921)
02/03/2026 | 40 mins.
Today's Mystery: A slimy character tries to hire Grainger as a go-between for him in a blackmail deal. Grainger kicks him out but it's not that simple
Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1956 or 1957
Originating from Australia
Starred: Harp McGuire as Steve Grainger
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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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