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The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas

The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas

By: Adam Graham|Detective Audio Drama Host
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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.Copyright Adam Graham Art Drama & Plays Entertainment & Performing Arts
Episodes
  • Broadway's My Beat: The Frank Conway Murder Case (EP4721)

    Broadway's My Beat: The Frank Conway Murder Case (EP4721)
    Jun 4 2025
    Today's Mystery: Danny investigates the murder of a Texan in a borrowed hotel room.

    Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 3, 1950

    Originated from Hollywood

    Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Tony Quillan; Frances Robinson; Peggy Webber; Jay Novello; Tony Barrett; Herb Butterfield

    Support the show monthly at https://patreon.greatdetectives.net

    Patreon Supporter of the Day: Jim and Rachel, Patreon Supporters since March 2016

    Support the show on a one-time basis at http://support.greatdetectives.net.

    Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715

    Take the listener survey at http://survey.greatdetectives.net

    Give us a call at 208-991-4783

    Follow us on Instagram at http://instagram.com/greatdetectives

    Follow us on Twitter @radiodetectives

    Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.
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    36 mins
  • Charlie Chan: The Missing Heir and More Accusations (EP4720)

    Charlie Chan: The Missing Heir and More Accusations (EP4720)
    Jun 3 2025
    Today's Mystery: Inspector Chan returns from Reno with news on Landini's heirs and mounting suspicions.

    Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1935 or 1936

    Originating from Los Angeles

    Starring: Walter Connolly as Inspector Charlie Chan

    Support the show monthly at https://patreon.greatdetectives.net

    Patreon Supporter of the Day: John, Patreon supporter since September 2016

    Support the show on a one-time basis at http://support.greatdetectives.net.

    Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715

    Take the listener survey at http://survey.greatdetectives.net

    Give us a call at 208-991-4783

    Follow us on Instagram at http://instagram.com/greatdetectives

    Follow us on Twitter @radiodetectives

    Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.
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    32 mins
  • The Falcon: The Case of the Broken Key (EP4719)

    The Falcon: The Case of the Broken Key (EP4719)
    Jun 2 2025
    Today's Mystery:Mike Waring finds himself on the opposite side of a beautiful Communist spy on the hunt for a party member who fled to Casablanca.

    Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 27, 1952

    Originating from New York

    Starring: Les Damon as The Falcon; Ann Shepherd

    Thank you to our Platinum Patreon supporters who've been supporting the Podcast for 10 years: Helen, Jamison, Chris, Mick, Doug

    Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net

    Patreon Supporter of the Day: Lisa, Patreon supporter since October 2021.

    Support the show on a one-time basis at http://support.greatdetectives.net

    Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715

    Take the listener survey at http://survey.greatdetectives.net

    Give us a call at 208-991-4783

    Follow us on Instagram at http://instagram.com/greatdetectives

    Follow us on Twitter @radiodetectives

    Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.
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    37 mins
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Adam does a fantastic job curating these old shows. I enjoy the chance to experience a bygone era of entertainment.

Thoroughly Enjoyable!

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A good story typical of the Sherlock Holmes pastiche. Basil Rathbone was excellent as Holmes as he always was. Watson was not played by Nigel Bruce.
The one glaring issue with the story was that the Germans were in the mess they were in because they refused to pay 50k to the woman for the papers yet offered that same amount to Holmes. I have listened to hundreds of stories and Adam's great commentary on them and was surprised that he missed that or at least didn't mention it.

Good story with one very notable flaw.

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If you love old time radio, your host, Adam Graham, presents a wide array of different programs from the bronze age of radio. He's been at this for years and years and knows a great deal about the episodes, actors and programs.

I came for the Dragnet and stayed for everything else. Like anything on the radio, they aren't all gems, but so many of them are, it's worth your time to subscribe. enjoy.

(long time listener, finally back after Google music killed my podcasts)

What a show!

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If you like old time radio and detective stories then you will like this podcast. The introduction is always great tidbits of info to set up the story and I love the old commercials.

The Best

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Better mysteries are out there. This has to be 15 words, need four more words.

Misogyny

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