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(1957-1958)
ABC Mystery Time was hosted by Don Dowd and starred Sir Laurence Olivier.
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(1947-1951)
Mr. Malone is our amazing hero, a Chicago lawyer whose bar is more famous than Cheers. His hobby is collecting cliches, and each weeks show is based off of one: cleanliness is next to Godliness, a strong offense is the best defense, seek and ye shall find, and so on.
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(1951-1955)
Running from 1951 through 1955, Barry Craig, Confidential Investigator is about a New York private eye. William Gargan plays the title role with the required deadpan delivery. He rarely gets flustered, even in life-threatening situations. This entertaining old time radio series originally titled "Barry Crane" was later renamed "Barrie Craig or Barry Craig." Craig narrates the story.
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(1948-1949)
Box 13 was a syndicated radio series about the escapades of newspaperman-turned-mystery novelist Dan Holliday, played by film star Alan Ladd. Created by Ladd's company, Mayfair Productions, Box 13 premiered August 22, 1948, on Mutual's New York flagship, WOR, and aired in syndication on the East Coast from August 22, 1948, to August 14. 1949. On the West Coast, Box 13 was heard from March 15, 1948 to March 7, 1949.
To seek out new ideas for his fiction, Holliday ran a classified ad in the Star-Times newspaper where he formerly worked. "Adventure wanted, will go anywhere, do anything -- Box 13." The stories followed Holliday's adventures when he responded to the letters sent to him by such people as a psycho killer and various victims.
Sylvia Picker appeared as Holliday's scatterbrained secretary, Suzy, while Edmund MacDonald played police Lt. Kling. Supporting cast members included Betty Lou Gerson, Frank Lovejoy, Lurene Tuttle, Alan Reed, Luis Van Rooten and John Beal. Vern Carstensen, who directed Box 13 for producer Richard Sanville, was also the show's announcer.
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(1949-1951)
Candy Matson, YUkon 28209 was a detective story airing on NBC between 1949 and 1951. Candy Matson was the private eye who opened each of her shows by answering a ringing phone with "Candy Matson, YU 2-8209". It is considered one of the best female PI shows of all times.
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Adventures in excitement and suspense based on the best-selling novels by Carter Brown.
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(1946-1951)
Originally heard over Mutual from 06/03/46 to 12/25/49, then the series moved to ABC from 01/25/50 to 08/31/50. There were two stray shows on ABC 10/03/51 and 10/10/51.
Gale Gordon starred as the amateur detective Gregory Hood. George Petrie also was heard briefly in the beginning years. Elliott Lewis moved into the starring role on 03/01/48 and Jackson Beck about 1949.Paul McGrath and Martin Gabel also had a short turn at the lead role.
The Casebook of Gregory Hood was initially a summer replacement for Sherlock Holmes in 1946 and had much in common with the series for which it was a temporary replacement. It shared the same writers (Boucher and Green) and the curious feature of the announcer discussing the case with one or more of the lead actors. Only a very few episodes of "The Casebook of Gregory Hood" survive.
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(1943-1955)
This classic show from the golden age of radio was based on the mysteries of George Harmon Coxe, and, in many ways, was similar to Night Beat, Ellery Queen, The Thin Man, and Sam Spade. The title character, Casey, is a photographer for the Morning Express newspaper, who snaps crime scene photos. The stories behind these photos is what encourage him to play detective. The series is also known as Flashgun Casey, Casey, Press Photographer, and Crime Photographer over its many years of air time.
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(1932-1948)
On radio, Charlie Chan was heard in different series on four networks (Blue, NBC. ABC, MBS) between the years 1932 and 1948. Walter Connolly initially portrayed Chan as part of Esso Oil's Five Star Theater, which serialized adaptations of Biggers novels.
Ed Begley had the title role in NBC's The Adventures of Charlie Chan with Leon Janney as Number One Son. Radio Life magazine described Begley's Chan as a good radio match for Sidney Toler's beloved film enactment.
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(1974-1982)
(The CBS Radio Mystery Theater (or CBSRMT) was an ambitious and sustained attempt in the 1970s to revive the great drama of old-time radio. Created by Himan Brown (who had by then become a radio legend due to his work on Inner Sanctum Mysteries and other shows dating back to the 1930s), and aired on affiliate stations across the CBS Radio network, the series began its long run on January 6, 1974. The final episode ran on December 31, 1982.
The show was broadcast nightly and ran for one hour, including news and commercials. Typically, a week consisted of three to four new episodes, with the remainder of the week filled out with reruns. There were 1,399 original episodes broadcast. The total number of broadcasts, including reruns, was 2,969.
The format was similar to that of classic old time radio shows such as The Mysterious Traveler and The Whistler, in that there is a host, E.G. Marshall, who introduces each episode and provides pithy wisdom throughout; but, unlike the hosts of those shows, Marshall is fully mortal, merely someone whose heightened insight and erudition plunge the listener into the world of the macabre.
The show began with the ominous sound of a creaking door, slowly opening to invite listeners in for the evening's adventure, accompanied by Marshall's disturbing intonation of, "Come in! ... Welcome; we am E.G. Marshall." At the end of each show, the door would creak and slam shut, followed by Marshall's classic signoff, "Until next time, pleasant ... dreams?," segueing into the show's haunting woodwind theme music.
Marshall hosted the program every year but the final one, when actress Tammy Grimes took over, maintaining the format.
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(1939-1948)
On radio, The Adventures of Ellery Queen was heard on all three networks from 1939 to 1948. During the 1970s, syndicated radio fillers, Ellery Queen's Minute Mysteries, began with an announcer saying, "This is Ellery Queen..." and would go on to describe a case in one minute. The radio station would then encourage callers to try to solve the mystery and win a sponsor's prize. Once they got a winner, the solution part of the spot would be played as confirmation.
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(1947-1948)
Told in first person by Barton Drake (played by Glen Langan), Mystery is My Hobby is played before a live audience.
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(1950-1951)
The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe began October 20, 1950, with "Stamped for Murder." Sydney Greenstreet starred as Nero Wolfe.
"Rex thought Greenstreet a splendid choice for the role and Greenstreet did, in fact, fill every reasonable expectation," wrote Stout biographer John McAleer. A succession of Archies included Gerald Mohr, Herb Ellis, Larry Dobkin, Wally Maher and Harry Bartell. The series ended April 27, 1951, with "The Case of Room 304."
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(1943-1955)
"What's the matter, what is it...?" "It's another case for Nick Carter, Master Detective!" "Yes, it's another case for that most famous of all manhunters, the detective whose ability at solving crime is unequaled in the history of detective fiction..."
Nick Carter was a methodical investigator. In the epilogue of each episode, he explains what each clue meant and how they connected together.
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(1945-1950)
Philo Vance is a fictional American amateur detective who appeared in twelve novels written by S. S. Van Dine (the pen name of Willard Huntington Wright) published in the 1920s and 1930s. During that time, Vance was immensely popular in books, movies, and on the radio. He was portrayed as a stylish, even foppish dandy, a New York bon vivant possessing a highly intellectual bent. The novels were chronicled by his friend Van Dine (who appears as a kind of Dr. Watson figure in the books as well as the author).
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(1939-1949)
Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. He is the creation of Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A brilliant London-based detective, Holmes is famous for his intellectual prowess, and is renowned for his skillful use of "deductive reasoning" while using abductive reasoning (inference to the best explanation) and astute observation to solve difficult cases. He is arguably the most famous fictional detective ever created, and is one of the best known and most universally recognizable literary characters in any genre. Conan Doyle wrote four novels and fifty-five short stories that featured Holmes.
We've got all of the different radio actors who've played Holmes and Watson over the years sorted by actor. If you like the old Sherlock Holmes movies, Rathbone and Bruce are the radio actors you'll want. We also have the Rathbone and Bruce Sherlock Holmes audio rips from all of the old black and white movies. You'll find them listed in the "Rathbone-Bruce_39-46" folder under the name "Old Sherlock Holmes Movies - Audio Rips".
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Shows from True Detective Mystery Magazine.
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(1948-1962)
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar was a radio drama about the "fabulous freelance insurance investigator with the action-packed expense account". It aired from February, 1949 to September 30, 1962 on CBS, giving it an amazing 14-year run.
Charles Russell was the first to star as Johnny Dollar, followed by a succession of actors including Edmund O'Brien, John Lund, Bob Bailey, Bob Readick, and Mandel Kramer. Each new star gave Johnny a slightly different persona.
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If for any reason you are unable to make a donation at this time, please email me and I will send you a free club membership. It is not our intention to withhold access to our collection of shows from anyone who might get enjoyment from listening to them. My email address is listed at the bottom of this page.
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