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4.4 from
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This podcast has
1000 episodes
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Date created
2009/10/12
Latest episode
2026/02/17
Average duration
36 min.
Release period
2 days
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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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The Big Story: Sixteen Year Old Misfit Kills Out of Fear (EP4912)
2026/02/17
Today's Mystery: Across the Indiana border, a sixteen-year-old Louisville kills four men in a failed bank robbery and its aftermath.
Original Radio Broadcast: January 5, 1949
Originating in New York
Starring James McCallion as Al Aronson, Bob SLoane, Santos Ortega, Martin Wolfson, Jackie Grimes, Grant Richards
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Danger with Grainger: Paula Crane is Threatened (EP4911)
2026/02/16
Today's Mystery: A friend of Grainger's invites him to a weekend with her family on the lake as she claims there have been threats to her life.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1956 or 1957
Originating from Australia
Starring: Harp McGuire as Steve Grainger
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Patreon Supporter of the Day: Kelli, patreon supporter since February 2020.
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Counterspy: Nazis from Mexico (A0062)
2026/02/14
Today's Adventure: The Gestapo is bringing spies across the southern border, trying to start an international incident by dropping the body of a Mexican official onto the US side of the border.
Original Radio Broadcast: June 22, 1942
Originating from New York
Starring: Don McLaughlin as David Harding
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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Hair Raising Matter (EP4910)
2026/02/13
Today's Mystery: Johnny is called in by an insured man who suddenly dies. Is it murder?
Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 30, 1958
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Virginia Gregg; Shirley Mitchell; Jack Edwards; Ralph Moody; Junius Matthews; Parley Baer
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Dragnet: The Big Bungalow (EP4909)
2026/02/12
Today's Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Romero receive a tip from an informant on the identity of a burglar.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 15, 1951
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday; Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero
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Broadway's My Beat: The Anna Compton Murder Case (EP4908)
2026/02/11
Today's Mystery: A woman is found murdered in a salesman's car.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 15, 1951
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Jack Kruschen as Sergeant Muggavan; Howard McNear; Billy Halop; Lou Krugman; Joe Forte; Frances Chaney
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The Big Story: Blind Date with Murder (EP4907)
2026/02/10
Today's Mystery: A Pittsburgh reporter is forced to cancel a date and finds himself covering a multiple murder.
Original Radio Broadcast: September 22, 1948
Originating from New York
Starring: James McCallion; Bob Sloane; Larry Haines; Ruth Shafer; Rita Ascot; Joan Alexander; Bill Smith; Mandel Kramer
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Danger with Grainger: Counterfeit Plates (EP4906)
2026/02/09
Today's Mystery: A printer is murdered for his counterfeit plate.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1956 or 1957
Originating from Australia
Starring: Harp McGuire as Steve Grainger
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Counterspy: Cherchez La Femme (A0060)
2026/02/07
Today's Adventure: David Harding suspects there's a dangerous woman behind the suicide of an American connected to the war effort.
Original Radio Broadcast: June 8, 1942
Originating from New York
Starring: Don McLaughlin as David Harding
To subscribe to this podcast and, go to https://greatadventures.info/
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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Double Trouble Matter (EP4905)
2026/02/05
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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Dragnet: The Big Hit and Run Killer (EP4904)
2026/02/05
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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Broadway's My Beat: The Elizabeth Price Murder Case (EP4903)
2026/02/04
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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The Big Story: The Lottery (EP4902)
2026/02/03
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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Danger with Grainger: The Triangle Affair (EP4901)
2026/02/02
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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Screen Guild Theater: My Favorite Brunette (EP4900s)
2026/02/01
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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SonofSaban
2025/12/28
Longtime Listener
Been listening for a long time and Adam is the best in the business. Love the current rotation of shows and all the other offerings from the WW2 speci...
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stopit now
2026/01/12
vocal fry
It boggles my mind how a man so dedicated to radio, spending years of his life listening to radio, absolutely does not care enough about his own liste...
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Khazeray
2025/11/22
Thank you
For cleaning these shows up. Love Johnny Dollar.
miamimimaude
2025/11/30
Quit
After all the talking and all the ads, I found I spent as much time pressing fast forward as I did listening.
Liz in Texas
2025/08/31
No i won’t might like
The slip ins are never relevant but always irritating
SouperDave99
2025/07/07
Exceptionally good podcast
This podcast is great! They curate and clean up old recordings from the golden age of radio (1920’s to 1950’s). The radio plays are usually entert...
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Failed communication
2025/06/24
Great show
Love this show. Lots of variety and clear recordings. Those who don’t like the host’s dialect should get over yourselves… we all have one. Maybe spend...
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Scholaracerecords
2025/06/15
Best in the genre
Wide variety that changes semi-regularly. With a different show six days a week, there is a show for anyone. There have been a few over the years that...
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Jelyca
2025/05/26
Shows are great; Host’s voice—not so much
I love old time radio and typically appreciate some history and even commentary, but I have a hard time listening to this host’s folksy-like voice whi...
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BenW26
2025/03/26
Adam stop
Adam, my 90 year old father made me turn your show off as soon as you started speaking. You are the problem with the show.
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