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Host Adam Graham is your guide through this 1932 series of fifteen minute police stories. (Each podcast typically features two episodes.)

This feed celebrates old time radio mysteries that feature female detective heroines.The majority of episodes in this feed are dedicated to hard boiled private eye Candy Matson, Defense Attorney Martha Ellis Bryant, and Justice Department Investigator Irene Delroy in the Airmail Mystery. However, there are a variety of specials from programs like Murder Clinic and Suspense, as well as a few lesser-known series. Host Adam Graham is your guide to these remarkable women sleuths.

Dane Clark stars as New York-based private detective Peter Chambers in this 1954 detective series.

Adam Graham is your guide as we follow the adventures of Rocky Fortune (Frank Siantra), a foot loose and fancy-free young man who finds himself flitting from job to job and mystery to mystery.

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. stared in this anthology series where he plays a different special agent of the Federal Government in a series that explores the vital work done by little known agents and officials. Host Adam Graham is y

Adam,Graham is your guide is this 1949-52 CBS series telling the adventures of Inspector Peter Black of Scotland Yard including episodes starring Ted De Corsia, John Dehner, and Ben Wright.

Enjoy surviving episodes of the longest-running radio series in History, Mister Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons. Enjoy surviving episodes of the longest-running radio series in History, Mister Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons along with other programs produced by the "radio factor" of Frank and Anne Hummert including Mister Chameleon, Hearthstone of the Death Squad, and Inspector Thorne.

Philo Vance was created by S.S. Van Dine (the pen name of Willard Huntington Wright). Vance first appeared in the novel The Benson Murder Case, which was published in 1925. Twelve novels were published over fourteen years. He was introduced as a wealthy young dabbler in many fields who added solving crime to his many other interests. His friend, District Attorney Markham came to rely on him to solve difficult murders, while Sergeant Heath of the Homicide Squad had little choice but to tolerate him.The character gained new life and popularity in film. William Powell played Vance in four films...

Join host Adam Graham as he presents the legendary Dick Tracy old time radio appearances including complete radio serials, standalone episodes, and the classic Command Performance Dick Tracy story.

Mystery is My Hobby came to air as Murder is My Hobby, a title with an amusing double meaning. However, after 34 weeks, the series gained a sponsor–the Benefit Life Insurance Company of Omaha, Nebraska. They didn’t like the name. So thus it was changed.The series starred Glenn Langan as Mystery Writer Barton Drake, who teams up each week with Inspector Noah Danton to solve the weekly puzzle. At the end of each episode, Drake is sure to work in his catchphrase, “Murder/Mystery is My Hobby.”Beyond these basic facts, the series is an unsolved mystery. The episodes that circulate among ...

In 1939, Miami-based Private Detective Michael Shayne was first published in paperbacks by Davis Dresser (writing under the pseudonym Brett Halliday) and quickly became a sensational hard-boiled private eye who would appear in 77 novels and 300 short stories enduring from the 1930s through the 1970s.Shayne quickly made the leap to films with Lloyd Nolan playing Shayne in seven well-made B-movies between 1940 and 1942. There was another film series made in 1946-47 from the poverty row PRC films starring Hugh Beaumont.Shayne was also big over radio. The first series of Michael Shayne ...

Host Adam Graham is your guide on this journey through the Man of Steel adventures in Old TIme Radio. This looks like a job for Superman. Join him as he faces all-comers from ordinary racketeers, bigots, spies to alien dictators, and even a Kryptonite-powered Nazi. Enjoy the first appearances of Jimmy Olsen and hear Superman and Batman team up long before ever they did in comics.

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From 2007-2013, Adam Graham hosted the Old Time Dragnet Program, playing through every episode of Dragnet along with supplementary materials including episodes of Pat Novak and Jeff Regan.

Boston Blackie was created by writer Jack Boyle as a jewel thief and safecracker with a heart of gold. The character was featured in nine silent films. In 1941, Blackie returned to film in the era of talkies.Much like the Saint, the character reformed from a thief into a detective. Blackie was always Inspector Farraday’s prime suspect in any major crime. The films were very popular with fourteen films made starring Chester Morris.Morris brought Blackie to the radio in a summer replacement radio series for NBC in 1944. Then in 1945, first-run syndication king Frederick Ziv created a new ...

Chicago Star Reporter Randy Stone walks the Night Beat, searching for stories for his column and finding heartache and mystery along the way in this classic and well-written 1950-52 mystery drama series. Adam Graham is your host and guide to every circulating episode of Night Beat.

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Join host Adam Graham as he presents every circulating episode of Jeff Regan,Investigator, both the original series starring Jack Webb in 1948 and the 1949-50 revival starring Frank Graham (with Paul Dobov substituting for several weeks).

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