Adam Graham|Old Time Radio Detective HostArts, Fiction, Drama
Adam Graham|Old Time Radio Detective HostArts, Fiction, Drama

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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.

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  • Cloak and Dagger: Windfall (A0044)
    Today's Adventure: An ex-pat gambler in Switzerland gets a top secret film both sides want and tries to sell to the highest bidder. Original Radio Broadcast: October 22, 1950 Originating from New York Starring: Les Tremayne; Bill Quinn; Jan Miner;...
  • Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Glacier Ghost Matter (EP4865)
    Today's Mystery:Johnny is called in to verify the fate of a businessman who disappeared in the Palisades glacier. Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 12, 1957 Originating from Hollywood Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; John Dehner; Herb Ellis;...
  • Dragnet: The Big Want Ad (EP4864)
    Today's Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Romero investigate a case where conmen are victimizing peoople who place newspaper ads to sell their cars. Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 4, 1951 Originating from Hollywood Starring: Jack Webb as Sergeant...
  • Broadway's My Beat: The Ruth Larson Murder Case (EP4863)
    Today's Mystery: A fourteen-year-old is the first of a series of women brutally murdered by the same person. Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 23, 1951 Originating from Hollywood Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as...
  • Feature Assignment: The Majczek Case (EP4862)
    Today's Mystery:A mother who has worked as a scrub woman for 13 years offers a large reward to absolve her son of a Chicago cop's murder. Audition Date: February 6, 1946 Originating from New York Support the show monthly at...
  • Danger with Grainger: Innocent, Innocent (EP4861)
    Today's Mystery: A young man is found standing on an estate where a murder was committed. He's holding a gun used to commit a murder, but he swears he didn't do it .Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1956 or 1957 Originating from Australia Starring:...
  • Casebook of Gregory Hood: Death from the Red Capsule (EP4860e)
    A young woman is poisoned when visiting Gregory Hood’s campfire and Gregory is charged with the crime. Original Air Date: July 22, 1946 Originating in Hollywood Starring Gale Gordon as Gregory Hood Support the show monthly...
  • Cloak and Dagger: The Wine of Freedom (A0042)|WW2 Spy Adventure
    Today's Adventure:An American OSS agent poses as a wine merchant in Germany to organize the country's anti-Hitler elements into an effective resistance. Original Radio Broadcast: October 15, 1950 Originating from New York Starring: Mel Ferrer;...
  • Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Noxious Needle Matter (EP4860)
    Today's Mystery: Johnny's called in to determine whether a theatrical producer died of natural causes or was murdered. Original Radio Broadcast Date:August 24, 1958 Originated from Hollywood Stars: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar.Virginia Gregg,...
  • Dragnet: The Big September Man (EP4859)
    Todays Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Riomero investigate the brutul killing of a woman who worked in an office building. Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 27, 1951 Originating from Hollywood Starred: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday, Barton...
  • Broadway's My Beat: The Frank Dunn Murder Case (EP4858)
    Today's Mystery: Danny investigates the shooting death of a bartender. Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 16, 1951 Originating from Hollywood Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Jack...
  • The Big Story: The Case of the Final Curtain (EP4857)
    Today's Mystery: A woman suspects that her father was poisoned in a nursing home. Original Radio Broadcast: December 7, 1947 Originating from New York Starring: Les Tremayne as Aubrey Maddock; Alice Reinhart; Ted Osborn; Agnes Young; John Gibson;...
  • Danger with Grainger: Lady Alibi (EP4856)
    Today's Mystery: A beautiful model comes to Grainger for help, claiming that she's being pressured to provide an alibi for a man who shot a security guard during a robbery gone bad. Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1956 or 1957 Originating from...
  • Casebook of Gregory Hood: South of the Border (Encore) (EP4855e)
    Gregory Hood arrives in Mexico City to purchase jade and is mistaken for a wayward king. Original Air Date: July 15, 1946 Originating from Hollywood Starring: Gale Gordon as Gregory Hood Support the show monthly...
  • Cloak and Dagger: Delay on Route (A0040)
    Today's Adventure:In a territory the partisans seized from the fascists in Italy, an OSS agent has to sneak out two fascists ready to give vital information to the Allies and finds himself having to overcome his partisan comrades to do so. Original...
  • Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Two Faced Matter (EP4855)
    Today's Mystery: Johnny is called in to investigate the theft of $58,000 from a ludite furniture manufacturing company. Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 10, 1958 Originated from Hollywood Stars: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar, Will Wright, Herb...
  • Dragnet: The Big Sour (EP4854)
    Todays Mystery: Two men rob an elderly couple and torture the husband in order to steal their jewelry. Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 20, 1951 Originating from Hollywood Starred: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday, Barton Yarborough as...
  • Broadway's My Beat: The Earl Lawson Murder Case (EP4853)
    Today's Mystery: A wealthy man is knifed in Times Square. Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 9, 1951 Originating from Hollywood Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Jack Kruschen as Sergeant...
  • The Big Story: The Case of the Unfinished Love Song (EP4852)
    Today's Mystery: Howard Beaufait of The Cleveleand News reinvestigates the case of a violin-playing convicted killer who claims innocence and whose wife also believes him. Original Radio Broadcast: November 26, 1947 Originating from New York...
  • Danger with Grainger: The Invented Husband (EP4851)
    Today's Mystery: A woman invents a husband to get a job and then has to "kill him off" to get married. She turns to Grainger when she finds herself implicated in a real murder. Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1956 or 1957 Originating from Australia...