Episodes

  • This is Your FBI: The Return of Saint Nick

    This is Your FBI: The Return of Saint Nick
    Dec 24 2024
    Today's Mystery: FBI Special Agent Jim Taylor delays his vacation home. to find a Settlement House Santa Clause who disappeared.

    Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 22, 1950

    Starring Stacy Harris as Special Agent Jim Taylor, Jeffrey Silver, Peggy Webber, Roland Winters, Victor Rodman

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    39 mins
  • The Falcon: The Case of the Unwelcome Christmas Present

    The Falcon: The Case of the Unwelcome Christmas Present
    Dec 23 2024
    Today's Mystery: A man who bought a fur coat goes for his girlfriend for Christmas turns to The Falcon when dangerous people want it back.

    Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 24, 1950

    Originating from New York

    Starring: Les Damon as The Falcon; Larry Haines; Ralph Bell

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    32 mins
  • Dragnet: Production 8 (aka the Big Missing/Juanita Lasky) (EP4580)

    Dragnet: Production 8 (aka the Big Missing/Juanita Lasky) (EP4580)
    Dec 21 2024
    Todays Mystery: At Christmastime, Joe Friday and Ben Romero try to find a missing daughter from Utah.

    Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 28, 1949

    Originating from Hollywood

    Starring: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday; Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero; Raymond Burr as Sergeant Ed Backstrand, Chief of Detectives; Herb Butterfield

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    40 mins
  • Broadway’s My Beat: Nick Norman, Santa Claus

    Broadway’s My Beat: Nick Norman, Santa Claus
    Dec 18 2024
    Today's Mystery: On Christmas Eve, a recently released convict who's set to play Santa Claus at a Police Athletic League club Christmas party is taken away in a big car by mobsters.

    Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 24, 1949

    Originating in Hollywood

    Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Howard McNear; Gil Stratton; Shepard Menken; Peggy Webber; Hal March; Bert Holland; Estelle Dodge

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    36 mins
  • Campbell's Playhouse: There's Always A Woman

    Campbell's Playhouse: There's Always A Woman
    Dec 9 2024
    Original Release Date: December 23, 2018

    A private detective (Orson Welles) decides to give up on his one-man agency and go back to his job with the DA, but his wife is determined to make the agency work and finds herself investigating a murder case that makes life difficult for her husband.

    Original Air Date: December 17, 1939

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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • Rocky Fortune: The Plot to Murder Santa Claus

    Rocky Fortune: The Plot to Murder Santa Claus
    Dec 2 2024
    Original Release Date: December 19, 2017

    Rocky is hired as an assistant store detective and occasional fill in for Santa Claus. He gets into a fight with the store Santa and comes under suspicion when the store’s Santa is murdered.

    Original Air Date: December 22, 1953

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    30 mins
  • OTR Westerns/Great Detectives 2015 Christmas Special

    OTR Westerns/Great Detectives 2015 Christmas Special
    Nov 15 2024
    Original Release Date: December 20, 2015

    Andrew Rhynes and Adam Graham come together in a crossover Christmas special featuring two hours of Old Time Radio Western and Detectives Christmas programs:
    —Britt Ponset tells a runaway boy the story of the Christmas Carol with a western twist in this episode of the Six Shooter from December 20, 1953 in “Britt Ponsett’s Christmas Carol”
    —Jeff Regan helps a painfully shy young woman receiving threatening letters around Christmas in this episode from December 21, 1949 in “Some Echanted Carhop.”
    —Roy Rogers and friends help a man with a young daughter who’s framed for burglarizing a s store in , “The Night before the Night Before Christmas,” Original Air Date:: December 25, 1952
    —Sherlock Holmes learns of a plot by one of Moriarity’s assistants to rob a rich party of Christmas presents. Due to a mix up, Doctor Watson and a house full of children are in danger.

    Original Air Date: December 24, 1945

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    2 hrs and 19 mins
  • Dragnet: The Big Little Jesus

    Dragnet: The Big Little Jesus
    Dec 23 2023
    Today's Mystery:Friday and Smith search for a statue of the child Jesus stolen from a church on Christmas Eve.

    Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 22, 1953

    Originating from HollywoodStarring: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday; Ben Alexander as Officer Frank Smith; Herb Vigran; Ralph Moody

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    45 mins