Episodes

  • Cloak and Dagger: The Kachin Story (A0010)

    Cloak and Dagger: The Kachin Story (A0010)
    Aug 16 2025
    Today's Adventure: An American OSS agent parachutes into Japanese-occupied Burma to organizea local native tribe to aide the allied invasion effort.

    Original Radio Broadcast: June 18, 1950

    Originating in New York

    Starring Raymond Edward Johnson, Carl Weber, Bill Quinn, Joe Julian, Everett Sloan, Inga Adams, Jackson Beck, and Jerry Jarrett

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    35 mins
  • Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Village of Virtue Matter (EP4779)

    Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Village of Virtue Matter (EP4779)
    Aug 15 2025
    Today's Mystery: Johnny is sent to investigate a series of thefts near a small South Carolina village that have endangered the peace between a colony of ex-mobsters and the locals.

    Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 27, 1958

    Originating from Hollywood

    Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Frank Nelson; Billy Halop; Jack Kruschen; Peter Leeds; Gil Stratton; Will Wright

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    32 mins
  • Dragnet: The Big Bindle (EP4778)

    Dragnet: The Big Bindle (EP4778)
    Aug 14 2025
    Today's Mystery: Friday goes undercover to locate a high-grade heroin out of a luxury hotel.

    Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 31, 1951

    Originating from Hollywood

    Starring: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday; Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero; Stacy Harris; Ralph Moody

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    39 mins
  • Broadway's My Beat: The John Webster Murder Case (EP4777)

    Broadway's My Beat: The John Webster Murder Case (EP4777)
    Aug 13 2025
    Today's Mystery: A man is found murdered at the funeral for a wealthy woman.

    Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 20, 1950

    Originating from Hollywood

    Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Jack Kruschen as Sergeant Muggavan; Jeanette Nolan; Francis X. Bushman; Ted Osborne; Peggy Webber

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    37 mins
  • Charlie Chan: Colonel's Son is a Murder Suspect/Simmon's Confrontation About Identity (EP4776)

    Charlie Chan: Colonel's Son is a Murder Suspect/Simmon's Confrontation About Identity (EP4776)
    Aug 12 2025
    Today's Mystery: Inspector Chan reveals that the young man caught searching through the dead man's belongings was actually his son, and then Chan questions the butler Simmons about his past with the murdered Colonel Willoughy.

    Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1936

    Originating from Los Angeles

    Starring: Walter Connolly as Inspector Charlie Chan

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    32 mins
  • The Falcon: The Case of the Ace of Spades (EP4775)

    The Falcon: The Case of the Ace of Spades (EP4775)
    Aug 11 2025
    Today's Mystery: A gambling den kingpin is murdered, and a wealthy Waring client is suspected of the crime.

    Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 22, 1953

    Originating from New York

    Starring: George Petrie as The Falcon; Larry Haines; Mandel Kramer

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    29 mins
  • Cloak and Dagger: People of the Forest (A0008)

    Cloak and Dagger: People of the Forest (A0008)
    Aug 9 2025
    Today's Adventure: An OSS agent parachutes into occupied France to steal plans from the enemy and is aided by a local French resistance group.

    Original Radio Broadcast: June 11, 1950

    Originating from New York

    Starring: Larry Haines; Boris Aplon; Berry Kroeger; Jerry Jarrett; Lily Darvas; Raymond Edward Johnson; Joseph Buloff; Nancy Franklin

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    32 mins
  • Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Wayward Trout Matter (EP4774)|Mystery Audiodrama

    Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Wayward Trout Matter (EP4774)|Mystery Audiodrama
    Aug 8 2025
    Today's Mystery:Johnny is sent to Lake Mojave to prevent the theft of hundreds of thousands of dollars in jewelry and money.

    Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 20, 1958

    Originating from Hollywood

    Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Lawrence Dobkin; Alan Reed; Russell Thorson; Edgar Barrier; Junius Matthews; Barney Phillips; Eleanor Audley

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    35 mins