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Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

Adam Graham continues his journey through Old Time Radio Detective programs from their first available adventure to their final bow in Seasons 4-6 which were released between 2012 and 2015, featuring nearly 1,000 Old Time Radio episodes. You can listen to the current podcast feed of The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio here.

Picking up where we left off at the end of Volume 1, Volume 2 begins by continuing the Adventures of Frank Race, The Fat Man, Let George Do It, Sherlock Holmes (with John Stanley and later John Gielgud) and Yours Truly Johnny Dollar with John Lund.

In this volume, we'll hear these Golden Age Radio Classics:
  • Bob Bailey taking over as Yours Truly Johnny Dollar in exciting serials and then in thrilling half hour episodes.
  • The legal mystery series from the mind of Erle Stanley Gardener A Life in Your Hands
  • Cases of Mr. Ace Starring George Raft
  • The International Mystery series Mr. I.A. Moto
  • The adventures of crime-solving lawyer John J. Malone in The Amazing Mr. Malone and Murder and Mr. Malone
  • The greatest of all manhunters Nick Carter, Master Detective
  • The police procedural classic The Line-Up
  • An antiques dealer and amateur detectives opens The Casebook of Gregory Hood
  • 1930s Crimefightint Action with Police Headquarters
  • The Adventures of Philip Marlowe starring both Van Heflin and Gerald Mohr
  • 1930s Crime-solving Action with Police Headquarters
  • Manhunt featuring a police criminologist who is smarter than the detectives and doesn't mind showing it every chance he gets!
  • Half-doctor, Half Detective, all lovable responsible adult. Dr, Tim, Detective is assisted in solving crimes by a couple of kids who he instructs in important lessons in science and medicine.
  • Tales of Scotland Yard Inspector Peter Black and his Pursuit of Justice
  • Pat Novak for Hire is back for a second run through his hard-boiled adventures to contrast with the other Jack Webb show that ran concurrently for a weeks.
  • We begin our journey through the landmark radio program Dragnet starring Webb as the rules for police dramas are rewritten.
  • Vincent Price stars as the Saint, the modern Robin Hood of Crime
  • Easy Money tells of a magician-turned-detective who exposes con games.
  • Dane Clark stars as a New York Private Eye in Crime and Peter Chambers
  • Ellery Queen challenges you to match wits with him in amazing puzzle mysteries.
  • The first radio incarnation of Michael Shayne starring Wally Maher as a Bay Area Private Detective
  • A Chicago-based Criminologist uses psychology to solve crimes in The Crime Files of Flammond
Also listen to even more obscure series such as Homicide O'Kane, Here Comes McBride, Miss Pinkerton Incorporated, A Johnny Fletcher Mystery, Police Blotter, Call the Police, The Big Guy, The Man from Homicide, and Hearthstone of the Death Squad.

Also listen for specials starring Orson Welles, Adolph Menjous, Gregory Peck, Dick Powell, Robert Montgomery, and William Bendix as we feature adaptations of Philip Marlowe Movies, Raymond Chandler short stories, and Edgar Allen Poe's Detective Auguste Dupin.

Arts Drama Fiction Performing Arts
Update frequency
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Average duration
33 minutes
Episodes
968
Years Active
2023 - 2025
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Escape: The Lost Special (EP0990)

Escape: The Lost Special (EP0990)

Release Date: July 04, 2013

A Scotland Yard Inspector investigates the disappearance of a train en route.

Original Air Date: February 12, 1949

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00:41:20  |   Thu 24 Jul 2025
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Caylin Matter, Parts Three and Four (EP0989)

Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Caylin Matter, Parts Three and Four (EP0989)

Release Date: July 03, 2013

Johnny suspects that Eddie Caylin may not be dead after all.

Original Air Date: January 4 and 5, 1956

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00:30:31  |   Wed 23 Jul 2025
Mr. Moto: The Baziloff Papers (EP0988)

Mr. Moto: The Baziloff Papers (EP0988)

Release Date: July 02, 2013

Mr. Moto seeks to recover top secret papers in the orient.

Original Air Date: June 24, 1951

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00:31:13  |   Tue 22 Jul 2025
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Caylin Matter, Parts One and Two (EP0987)

Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Caylin Matter, Parts One and Two (EP0987)

Release Date: July 01, 2013

Johnny investigates the death of a gambler and he and the police both think it may be murder.

Original Air Dates :January 2 and 3, 1956

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00:33:15  |   Mon 21 Jul 2025
The Line Up: The Pixie Picker Pickle Case (EP0986)

The Line Up: The Pixie Picker Pickle Case (EP0986)

Release Date: June 29, 2013

Guthrie searches for a man who has been stabbing young women late at night with an icepick.

Original Air Date: November 8, 1951

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00:34:32  |   Sat 19 Jul 2025
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Forbes Matter, Part Five and the Widow is Willing (EP0985)

Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Forbes Matter, Part Five and the Widow is Willing (EP0985)

Release Date: June 28, 2013

Johnny knows all except why Sheldon Forbes through his life away on a woman who didn’t want him.

Original Air Date: December 30, 1955

The first heir is dead as an insurance i…
00:30:41  |   Fri 18 Jul 2025
Sherlock Holmes: The Empty House (EP0984)

Sherlock Holmes: The Empty House (EP0984)

Release Date: June 27, 2013

Sherlock Holmes returns from the dead to solve a locked room murder.

Original Air Date: April 17, 1955

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00:32:41  |   Thu 17 Jul 2025
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Forbes Matter, Parts Three and Four (EP0983)

Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Forbes Matter, Parts Three and Four (EP0983)

Release Date: June 26, 2013

Johnny’s investigation into an embezzler struggles to find where the money went.

Original Air Date: December 28 and 29, 1955

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00:33:20  |   Wed 16 Jul 2025
Mr. Moto: Blackmail (EP0982)

Mr. Moto: Blackmail (EP0982)

Release Date: June 25, 2013

An old friend calls Mr. Moto in after her son steals a valuable necklace.

Original Air Date: June 10, 1951

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00:29:56  |   Tue 15 Jul 2025
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Forbes Matter, Parts One and Two (EP0981)

Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Forbes Matter, Parts One and Two (EP0981)

Release Date: June 24, 2013

Johnny catches an embezzler who refuses to reveal where he spent the money.

Original Air Date: December 26 and 27, 1955

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00:30:35  |   Mon 14 Jul 2025
The Line Up: The Nicely Nixed Nixon Case (EP0980)

The Line Up: The Nicely Nixed Nixon Case (EP0980)

Release Date: June 22, 2013

Guthrie investigates a series of loan company robberies that has left one clerk dead.

Original Air Date: October 18, 1951

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00:33:33  |   Sat 12 Jul 2025
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Lansing Fraud Matter, Part Five and the Widow is Willing (EP0979)

Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Lansing Fraud Matter, Part Five and the Widow is Willing (EP0979)

Release Date: June 21, 2013

Johnny confronts Hillary Franks in a deserted area o Tuscon.

Original Air Date: December 16, 1955

In a house full of murder suspects, the reading of the will provides plenty …
00:30:48  |   Fri 11 Jul 2025
Sherlock Holmes: The Final Problem (EP0978)

Sherlock Holmes: The Final Problem (EP0978)

Release Date: June 20, 2013

Sherlock Holmes battles his archenemy Professor Moriarty in one of his most perilous adventure.

Original Air Date: April 10, 1955

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00:31:48  |   Thu 10 Jul 2025
Mr. Moto: Smokescreen (EP0977)

Mr. Moto: Smokescreen (EP0977)

Release Date: June 19, 2013

Mr. Moto tries to break up a Communist plot to addict America’s young people to drugs.

Original Air Date: June 3, 1951

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00:32:31  |   Wed 09 Jul 2025
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Lansing Fraud Matter, Parts Three and Four (EP0976)

Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Lansing Fraud Matter, Parts Three and Four (EP0976)

Release Date: June 18, 2013

Johnny closes in on the insurance agent as the beneficiary stubbornly refuses to admit the fraud.

Original Air Date: December 14 and 15, 1955

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00:29:56  |   Tue 08 Jul 2025
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Lansing Fraud Matter, Parts One and Two (EP0975)

Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Lansing Fraud Matter, Parts One and Two (EP0975)

Release Date: June 17, 2013

A man with a $50,000 life insurance policy dies of malnutrition prompting suspicion.

Original Air Date: December 12 and 13, 1955

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00:30:16  |   Mon 07 Jul 2025
The Line Up: The Frivolous Forger Fracas (EP0974)

The Line Up: The Frivolous Forger Fracas (EP0974)

Release Date: June 15, 2013

Guthrie has an ID onh a forger, but how did he pass a bad check after he was jailed?

Original Air Date: October 11, 1951

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00:33:49  |   Sat 05 Jul 2025
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Cronin Matter, Part Five and the Widow is Willing (EP0973)

Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Cronin Matter, Part Five and the Widow is Willing (EP0973)

Release Date: June 14, 2013

Johnny suspects Dolly Cronin was murdered as he mourns her death.

Original Air Date: December 9, 1955

An insurance arrives to investigate the death of a wealthy man and the s…
00:32:23  |   Fri 04 Jul 2025
Sherlock Holmes; The Golden Pince-Nez (EP0972)

Sherlock Holmes; The Golden Pince-Nez (EP0972)

Release Date: June 13, 2013

Sherlock Holmes investigates the murder of a professor’s aide.

Original Air Date: April 3, 1955

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00:29:05  |   Thu 03 Jul 2025
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Cronin Matter, Parts Three and Four (EP0971)

Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Cronin Matter, Parts Three and Four (EP0971)

Release Date: June 12, 2013

Mrs. Cronin takes ill as one of her friends and guest is a thief. Johnny’s job is to flush him about.

Original Air Date: December 7 and 8, 1955

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00:32:27  |   Wed 02 Jul 2025
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