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The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas

Adam Graham|Old Time Radio Detective Host

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.
  • 1,000 episodes
  • Updated Saturday

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  • Jan 1, 2024 · 33 min

    Sherlock Holmes: The Iron Box (Encore) (EP4275)

    An eighty-four-year-old Scottish lord who, because of being born on February 29, has been waiting 63 years for the inheritance he should have received when he was 21, finds out he’ll have to wait a little longer, and then Holmes reports that he was...

  • Dec 31, 2023 · 35 min

    Philip Marlowe: The Old Acquaintance (Encore) (EP4274e)

    Marlowe is hired on New Year’s Eve to locate a missing fiancée, who disappeared on the same day that a dangerous convict broke out of prison .Original Air Date: December 26, 1948 Originating in Hollywood Starring: Gerald Mohor as Philip Marlowe...

  • Dec 30, 2023 · 1 hr 2 min

    Studio One: Anthony Adverse (Encore) (EP4274)

    Today's Mystery: A young adventurer is sent to the New World to find out why his guardian’s debtors haven’t been paying. He discovers that they’ve been missing for a year. Original Air Date: October 14, 1947Originating from New York Starring: Bud...

  • Dec 28, 2023 · 1 hr 2 min

    Mercury Theatre: The Man Who Was Thursday (Encore) (EP4272)

    Today's Mystery: In G.K. Chesterton’s classic, Gabriel Syme (Orson Welles) is a police detective infiltrating the anarchist council of Europe. Original Air Date: September 5, 1938Originating in New YorkStarring: Orson Welles; Eustace Wyatt; Edgar...

  • Dec 27, 2023 · 1 hr 6 min

    Screen Director's Playhouse: Spellbound (Encore) (EP4271)

    Today's Mystery: A psychiatrist tries to unravel the mystery of a man who believes he murdered another psychiatrist. Will she find out the truth or become his next victim? Original Air Date: January 25, 1951 Originating in Hollywood Starring:...

  • Dec 26, 2023 · 1 hr 8 min

    The Ford Theatre: The Adventure of a Bad Boy (Encore) (EP4270)

    Today's Mystery: Ellery Queen investigates the attempted poisoning of a cantankerous woman. The most obvious suspect is her eight-year-old nephew. Original Air Date: January 4, 1948 Originating in New York Starring: Hugh Marlowe as Ellery Queen;...

  • Dec 25, 2023 · 33 min

    The Saint: Santa Claus is No Saint (Encore) (EP4269)

    Today's Mystery: While dressed as Santa, Simon is mistaken for a man who made off with an expensive necklace. Simon spends Christmas Eve trying to catch a thief and a murderer. Original Air Date: December 24, 1950 Originating in HollywoodStarring:...

  • Dec 24, 2023 · 1 hr 3 min

    Campbell’s Playhouse: There’s Always A Woman (Encore) (EP4268e)

    Today's Mystery: A private detective (Orson Welles) decides to give up on his one-man agency and go back to his job with the DA, but his wife is determined to make the agency work and finds herself investigating a murder case that makes life difficult...

  • Dec 23, 2023 · 44 min

    Dragnet: The Big Little Jesus (EP4268)

    Today's Mystery:Friday and Smith search for a statue of the child Jesus stolen from a church on Christmas Eve. Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 22, 1953 Originating from HollywoodStarring: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday; Ben Alexander as...

  • Dec 21, 2023 · 46 min

    Mr. Chameleon: The Woman's Weapon Murder Case (EP4266)

    Today's Mystery:Mr. Chameleon reopens the case of a woman convicted of murdering her mother-in-law with poisoned candy. He is determined to get her freed in time for Christmas. Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 22, 1948 Originating from New...

  • Dec 20, 2023 · 41 min

    Dangerous Assignment: Lecturing Professors (EP4265)

    Today's Mystery: The son of a lecturing professor is missing from a boarding school in Stockholm and Steve needs to find him in order to break up an international spy ring. Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 24, 1952 Originated in Hollywood...

  • Dec 18, 2023 · 40 min

    The Falcon: Murder is a Knock Out (EP4263)

    Today's Mystery:A Los Angeles mobster comes to New York searching for a woman who stole $75,000. Murder follows. Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 20, 1949 Originating from New York Starring: Les Tremayne as the Falcon; Beverly Roberts I'm...

  • Dec 17, 2023 · 32 min

    The Saint: Marvin Hickerson, Private Eye (Encore) (EP4262e)

    Simon helps a wet-behind-the-ears farmer-turned-private-detective after he appears to have committed murder. Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 3, 1950 Originating in Hollywood Starring: Vincent Price as the Saint Support the show monthly at...

  • Dec 16, 2023 · 42 min

    Dragnet: The Truck Hijackers (EP4262)

    Todays Mystery: Friday and Romero suspect an inside job in a series of truck hijackings. Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 1, 1949 Originating from Hollywood Starred: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday; Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero;...

  • Dec 14, 2023 · 34 min

    Mr. Chameleon: The Case of the Man Who Expected Murder (EP4260)

    Today's Mystery:Chameleon is called in to investigate when a playboy is found murdered, with a note indicating that if he dies unexpectedly, someone should question his fiancée. Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 23, 1949 Originating in New...