Old Time Radio Detective Stories
Due to popular demand, we feature another episode of The Adventures Of Sam Spade this week! The Rushlight Diamond Caper first aired July 4, 1948.
After our usual Believe It Or Not episode, we travel all the way back to July 5, 1936 for an episode from In The Name Of The Law titled Phantom Gang.
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Are you ready for some Dragnet? The show starts out today with an episode titled The Big Poison which first aired September 7, 1950. And then it’s Ripleys of course.
Next on the roster is an episode from a series which may have been spawned by the success of Dragnet. 21st Precinct brings us an episode titled The Mainliner from August 18, 1953.
For more Dragnet, check out episode 5!
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On this episode of Case Closed! we revisit the Jack The Ripper case with The Black Museum. You’ll hear an episode titled The Straight Razor introduced by the great Orson Welles.
After the usual Ripleys break, it’s The Lady Killer from The Adventures of Philip Marlowe. This episode first aired August 20, 1949 and no, I didn’t put these two episodes together on purpose!
For more Jack check out episode 4 for a double helping. And for more Marlowe, travel back all the way to episode 1.
On the next episode we’ll feature stories from Nightbeat and 21st Precinct, both new to the podcast.
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On this episode we’ll hear again from The Adventures Of Sam Spade in an episode called The Dry Martini Caper. This episode originally aired August 1, 1948.
Then after Ripleys, we’ll hear Return Of The Mob from This Is Your FBI. This episode was first heard August 30, 1946.
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Did she do it? If not, who did? On this episode we’ll hear two examinations of the Lizzy Borden case.
We’ll begin with an episode from Crime Classics that first aired Sepetember 30, 1953, called “The Bloody Bloody Banks Of Fall River.”
Then, after a quick Ripleys, it’s an episode from Unsolved Mysteries(no, not that TV show) simply titled “Lizzy Borden.”
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