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Today's Mystery: A police detective has 48 hours to find proof of the innocence of his brother, who is on death row.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 17, 1947
Originating in New York
Starring: Ken Lynch
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Today's Mystery:A nun becomes convinced that a condemned woman stranded at her Norfolk convent in the midst of torrential rains is innocent. Can the nun save her before her looming execution?
Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 9, 1953
Originating in Hollywood
Starring: Claudette Colbert as Sister Mary; Barbara Rush as Valerie Carns; Norma Varden; Paul Frees; Mary Flynn; Herb Butterfield; Ottola Nesmith; Dan O'Herlihy; Joseph Kearns; Leo Britt; Jeanne Wood; Lois Corbett; Yvonne Peattie
My review of Thunder on the Hill
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Today, I'm joined by Jim Grinstead of the Scams and Cons Podcast as we delve into two scam-related old time radio podcasts.
Today's 1st Mystery:First up, there's no such thing as easy money. That's a lesson a rich young man learns as he's forced to lure his friends into the clutches of a big-time gambler to square his own debts. Can magician-turned-detective Mike Trent help? We find out in this episode of Easy Money, "The Gallopping Ivories"
Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 14, 1954
Originating in New York
Starring: Larry Haines as Mike Trent; Ralph Bell; Peter Fernandez; Maurice Tarplin
Today's 2nd Mystery:Joe Friday and Ben Romero go after a gang of con-men who are victimizing the families of recently deceased people in the Big Betty.
Original Air Date: November 23, 1950
Originating in Los AngelesStarring: Jack Webb as Joe Friday; Barton Yarborough as Ben Romero
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Today's Mystery:Based on the movie I Wake Up Screaming, a Broadway promoter is suspected of murdering an up-and-coming actress, by a dogged police officer who always gets his man
.Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 27, 1946
Originating in Hollywood
Starring: Brian Donlevy as Frankie Christopher; Vincent Price as Ed Cornell; Lurene Tuttle; Gloria Blondell; Theodore Von Elt; Harry Bartell; David Ellis; Elliott Reid
My review of I Wake Up Screaming
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Today's Mystery:The year is 1913 and international tensions run thick. Sherlock Holmes's brother, Mycroft, calls him out of retirement to secure the return of stolen plans for an experimental tank.
Original Radio Broadcast Dates: March 21, 28, and April 4, 1949
Originating in New York
Starring: John Stanley as Holmes; George Spelvin as Watson
We're joined by special Guest Tom Fox of the Compliance Podcast Network and the Adventures in Compliance Podcast
Listen to my guest appearance on the Adventures in Compliance Podcast
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Once again, we take a look at an old time radio script that was recycled. In this case, the script was a pilot for a new radio series, The McCoy, and then was reused as an episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar.
The McCoy is called in by an agent who fears that one of his clients, a promising actress, will be murdered. While they're talking, a phone call comes in and they learn she was strangled to death.
Originating in Hollywood
Audition date: April 24, 1951
Starring: Howard Duff as The McCoy; Sidney Miller; Sheldon Leonard; Cathy Lewis; Ed Max; Barton Yarborough
Johnny is sent to Hollywood because an agent fears his starlet client is going to be murdered. Johnny finds she’s already been strangled to death.
Originating in Hollywood
Original Air Date: January 16, 1953
Starring: John Lund as Yours Truly Johnny Dollar; Sidney Miller; Raymond Burr; Dick Ryan; John McIntire; Vic Perrin; Virginia Gregg; Jeanette Nolan
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Today's Mystery:The commuter train to Roseville becomes the setting for a deadly game of cat and mouse, passengers grapple with the terror of a serial killer at large. With every twist and turn of the conversation, the line between hunter and prey blurs, leading to an electrifying climax that will leave listeners in suspense!
Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 13, 1960
Originating in New York
Starring: Vivian Smolen; George Petrie; Alan Manson; Maurice Tarplin
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he Australian Commonwealth Investigation Branch (CIB) seeks a gang of counterfeiters that are passing forged 10 pound notes.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: Mid-1950s
Originating from Sydney, Australia
Australian Dragnet episode, "The Big Revenge" on Soundcloud
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Today's Mystery: Sam Spade's search for the murderer in his partner puts him in the midst of intrigue among four dangerous characters, all trying to gain possession of an enameled jeweled falcon.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 3, 1946
Originated from Hollywood
Starring: Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade; Mary Astor as Brigid O'Shaughnessy; Sidney Greenstreet as Kasper Gutman; Gerald Mohr
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Today is Guy Fawkes Day and we celebrate with two different Guy-Fawkes-related Sherlock Holmes adventures.
First, in The Fifth of November, a man named James Stuart comes to Baker Street pleading for Holmes' help, as he fears his cousin, Guy Falkenberry, is going to blow him up.Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 5, 1945Originated from Hollywood
Starring: Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes; Nigel Bruce as Doctor Watson.
Second, in The Guy Fawkes Society, Holmes and Watson find a man with his throat slit from ear to ear and it sets Holmes on the trail of a sinister conspiracy.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 10, 1948
Starring: John Stanley as Sherlock Holmes; George Spelvin as Watson
Guest introduction by Donna Fletcher Crow. You can purchase her book, Where Love Restores, on Amazon. (affiliate link)
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Today's Mystery:An FBI undercover man infilitrates a Nazi spy ring that could send the secret of Process 97 to the Nazis.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 3, 1952
Originated from Hollywood
Starred: Humphrey Bogart as Inspector George Briggs, Keefe Brasselle, Betty Lou Gerson, Lou Merrill, Herb Vigran, Shepard Menken, Paul Dubov, Bob Sweeney, Frank Nelson, Walter Wolf King
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Today's First Episode:Ken travels to Italy to follow a composer, to find why that composer's friend was murdered in New York City.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 10, 1944
Today's Second Episode:Christopher London travels to Monaco, to find out why a composer's friend was murdered in New York City.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 29, 1950B
oth Originated from Hollywood.
The Man Called X starred Herbert Marshall as Ken Thurston and Hans Conreid as Egon Zellschmidt
Christopher London starred Glenn Ford as Christopher London, Ben Wright, Eleanor Audley, Ramsey Hill, Jeanette Nolan, Ted de Corsia, Georgia Ellis, Rick Vallin
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Today's Mystery:A man wakes up in an insane asylum with no idea how he got there.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 6, 1946
Originated from Hollywood
Starred: Robbert Young, George Zucco, Cathy Lewis, Wally Maher
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Today's First Story: Basil Rathbone sets up an office as a radio detective, with Kenny Delmar as his bumbling sidekick.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 24, 1947
Today's Second Story: A key witness in a Distict Attorney's (Robert Preston) racketeering case is murdered on his doorstep while leaving an important clue behind.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 18, 1951
Programs Originated from New York and Hollywood
Starred: Basil Rathbone, Kenny Delmar, Robert Preston, Barbara Fuller, Peter Leeds
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Today's Mystery:A postmaster (Victor Perrin) gets a tip that there's a time bomb among the day's packages.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 22, 1956
Stars: Victor Perin, Herb Ellis, Frank Gershwin, Vivi Janis, Helen Kleeb, John Larkin, Leonard Weinrib, Richard Peel, and Ted Bliss,
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Today's Mystery:Sam Spade (Edward G. Robinson) tries to solve the murder of his partner and gets drawn into the intrigue over a mysterious black-enameled bird.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 8, 1943
Originated in Hollywood
Starred: Edward G. Robinson as Sam Spade, Gail Patrick as Bridget O'Shaughnessy, Laird Cregar as Casper Gutman, Charlie Lung as Joel Cairo, Bea Benderret as Effie, Eddie Mars as Wilmer, Fred MacKaye, Norman Field, Warren Ashe
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A Texas Rangers Captain is assigned to form a group of special forces to stop rustlers stealing cattle and taking them across the Rio Grande.
Original Radio Broadcast Date:June 13, 1954
Guest Host: Andrew Rhynes of the OTR Westerns Podcast
Originated from Hollywood
Starred: Lloyd Talbot as Captain McNally
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Today's Mystery: A mystery writer (Brian Donlevy) and his wife (Lucille Ball) move into a basement apartment in the East Village one night. In the morning, they find a body in their garden.'
Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 1, 1944
Originated in HollywoodStars: Brian Donlevy as Jeff Troy, Lucille Ball as Nancy Troy
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A wealthy woman (Barbara Stanwyck) overhears two men planning a murder on the phone. (Burt Lancaster co-stars.)
Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 9, 1950
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Today's Mystery:Pat uses Jean as a decoy to capture a jewel robber who murdered a wealthy man.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 3, 1955
Greg uses Gail as a decoy to capture a jewel robber who murdered a wealthy man
Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 2, 1957
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