Episodes

  • Cloak and Dagger: Frank Baker's Story (A0002)

    Cloak and Dagger: Frank Baker's Story (A0002)
    Jul 19 2025
    Today's Adventure: An American OSS agent who parachuted into Germany tries to figure out how he made a mistake.

    Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 7, 1950

    Originating from New York

    Starring: Joseph Julian; Dolly Haas; Raymond Edward Johnson; Corey Ford; Bernard Phillips; Ross Martin

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    36 mins
  • Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Killer's List Matter (EP4759)

    Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Killer's List Matter (EP4759)
    Jul 18 2025
    Today's Mystery: An insured man falls from a building ... or did he jump ... or was he pushed?

    Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 30, 1958

    Originating from Hollywood

    Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Jack Edwards; Virginia Gregg; Jack Moyles; Tony Barrett; Parley Baer; Carleton G. Young; Lillian Buyeff

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    30 mins
  • Dragnet: The Big Casing (EP4758)

    Dragnet: The Big Casing (EP4758)
    Jul 17 2025
    Today's Mystery: A woman is found shot in her apartment. The husband insists it's suicide, but the evidence seems to point to murder.

    Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 3, 1951

    Originating from Hollywood

    Starring: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday; Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero; Herb Butterfield; Barney Phillips

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    43 mins
  • Broadway's My Beat: The Jack Jorno Murder Case (EP4757)

    Broadway's My Beat: The Jack Jorno Murder Case (EP4757)
    Jul 16 2025
    Today's Mystery:Johnny investigates the murder of a young prize fighter.

    Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 7, 1950

    Originating from Hollywood

    Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Jack Kruschen as Sergeant Muggavan; Tony Barrett; William Conrad; Lynn Ainley; Peter Leeds

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    37 mins
  • Charlie Chan: New Developments/Cecile's Story (EP4756)

    Charlie Chan: New Developments/Cecile's Story (EP4756)
    Jul 15 2025
    Today's Mystery: New evidence emerges against Ah Sing.

    Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1935 or 1936

    Originating from Los Angeles

    Starring: Walter Connolly as Inspector Charlie Chan

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    37 mins
  • The Falcon: The Case of the Careless Corpse (EP4755)

    The Falcon: The Case of the Careless Corpse (EP4755)
    Jul 14 2025
    Today's Mystery: Waring is sent to Berlin to recruit a scientist to the American cause but Communist Agents send an imposter to kidnap the scientist.

    Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 31, 1952

    Originating from New York

    Starred: Les Damon as the Falcon, Lesley Woods

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    31 mins
  • Flash Gordon: Chapter 1 and 2

    Flash Gordon: Chapter 1 and 2
    Jul 13 2025
    All-world athlete Flash Gordon is mistaken for a spy and taken at a gunpoint onto a rocket to the Planet Mongo, where he begins a war against Ming the Merciless.

    Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 27 and May 4, 1935

    Originating from Hollywood

    Starring: Gale Gordon as Flash Gordon; Maurice Franklin; Bruno Wick

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    38 mins
  • Man Called X: The Laughing Lady (Encore) (EP4754)

    Man Called X: The Laughing Lady (Encore) (EP4754)
    Jul 12 2025
    Ken and Pegon go to Sicily to take on the mafia. The only clue they have is the last words of a dying circus performer.

    Original Air Date: September 26, 1948

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    47 mins