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- NBC – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
The Big Story: The Bobby-Sox Kid from Bayonne (EP4847)
Today’s Mystery: Dorothy Kilgaren is called in to investigate the killing-by-hatchet of a woman; police suspect her seventeen-year-old daughter. Original…
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Cloak and Dagger: Operation Sellout (A0036)
Today’s Adventure: An OSS agent leads a mission with a British officer and a former German officer. Original Radio Broadcast: September 22, 1950…
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Dragnet: The Big Seventeen (EP4844)
Today’s Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Romero investigate teens going wild in a neighborhood, culminating in a small riot in a theater. Original Radio…
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The Big Story: The Case of the Counterfeit Coins (EP4842)
Today’s Mystery: Reporter Jack Adams goes undercover in a gang of counterfeiters to catch the man at the top. Original Radio Broadcast: October 19, 1947…
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Adventure Ahead: Inside the FBI
Today’s Adventure: An FBI agent tells a young visitor about a case that began with cattle rustling but led to a nationwide conspiracy. Originating Radio…
- NBC – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
Cloak and Dagger: Seeds of Doubt (A0034)
Today’s Adventure: In the waning days of the war, an OSS agent impersonates a dead Frenchman and pretends to marry his fiancée in order to weed out…
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Dragnet: The Big Crazy (EP4839)
Today’s Mystery: A woman is missing and her sister suspects her milquetoast husband of murder. Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 30, 1951 Originating…
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The Big Story: The Thirteenth Key (EP4837)
Today’s Mystery: A Columbus reporter investigates the brutal stabbing death of a woman found at a shooting range. Original Radio Broadcast: June 4, 1947…
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Cloak and Dagger: Over Ground Railroad (A0032)
Today’s Adventure: An OSS agent goes into France to team up with a formidable wealthy French woman to set up an escape route for downed Allied flyers…
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Dragnet: The Big In-Laws (EP4834)
Today’s Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Romero investigate a series of truck hijackings. Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 23, 1951 Originating from…
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Cloak and Dagger: War of Words (A0030)
Today’s Adventure: Two OSS agents have to carry forged orders for a Japanese camp commander through a Burman jungle. Original Radio Broadcast: September…
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Dragnet: The Big Winchester (EP4929)
Today’s Mystery: An elderly man is found shot to death in his home. While it initially looks like a suicide, there’s reason to think it might be a…
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Cloak and Dagger: The Black Radio (A0028)
Today’s Adventure: An OSS agent parachutes into Germany to team up with a local operative to run an underground broadcast to undermine the Nazi…
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Dragnet: The Big Screen (EP4824)
Today’s Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Romero investigate a an epidemic of crooked TV repairmen. Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 9, 1951 Originating…
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Cloak and the Dagger: The Norweigan Incident (A0026)
Today’s Adventure: Two OSS Agents go into occupied Norway to blow up a key Nazi-controlled bridge. Original Radio Broadcast: August 20, 1950 Originating…
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Dragnet: The Big Late Script (EP4819)
Today’s Mystery: Friday and Romero are called in to investigate the kidnapping of a local businessman. Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 26, 1951…
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Cloak and Dagger: Roof of the World (A0024)
Today’s Adventure: A husband and wife team of geologists are recruited by the IRS to journey into Tibet to seek the favor of the Dalai Lama. They find…
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Dragnet: The Big Sophomore (EP4814)
Today’s Mystery: Joe Friday investigates a series of petty robberies in neighborhood stores where the shopkeepers suspect a high school boy. Original…
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Cloak and Dagger: A Recommendation from Rommel (A0022)
Today’s Adventure: An OSS agent in Italy finds himself in a compartment on the train has been double-booked, and his travel companion is General Rommel…
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Dragnet: The Big Set-Up (EP4809)
Today’s Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Romero investigate a series of burglaries targeting wealthy homes. Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 12, 1951…
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Cloak and Dagger: Swastika on the Windmill (A0020)
Today’s Adventure: An OSS agent goes behind enemy lines into occupied Holland to stay at his uncle’s house. Original Radio Broadcast: July 30, 1950…
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Dragnet: The Big Love (EP4804)
Today’s Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Romero search for missing woman and her two-year-old daughter. Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 5, 1951…
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Cloak and Dagger: The Secret Box (A0018)
Today’s Adventure: Two OSS agents are on a mission to bring in a captured Japanese colonel, but the mission goes awry, leaving the two men in a battle…
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Cloak and Dagger: The Trap
Today’s Adventure: A cartoonist in the OSS goes undercover in a German-occupied French village ahead of an American advance. Original Radio Broadcast…
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Dragnet: The Big Run (EP4794)
Today’s Mystery: Joe Friday looks for the driver of a hit-and-run driver who struck two elderly women. Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 21, 1951…
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Dragnet: The Big Building (EP4788)
Today’s Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Romero investigate the disappearance of a rich society woman. Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 14, 1951…
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Cloak and Dagger: Direct Line to Bombers (A0012)
Today’s Adventure: An OSS agent and an escaped political prisoner go behind enemy lines in Berlin to help support an Allied bombing raid. Original Radio…
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Dragnet: The Big Imposter (EP4783)
Today’s Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Romero investigate the disappearance of a ten-year-old boy. Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 7, 1951 Originating…
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Cloak and Dagger: The Kachin Story (A0010)
Today’s Adventure: An American OSS agent parachutes into Japanese-occupied Burma to organizea local native tribe to aide the allied invasion effort…
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Dragnet: The Big Bindle (EP4778)
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…
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Dragnet: The Big Mailman (EP4773)
Today’s Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Romero join forces with a USPS inspector to correct a forger who is stealing and then cashing checks. Original Radio…
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Cloak and Dagger: The Brenner Pass Story (A0006)
Today’s Adventure: An OSS agent undertakes a secret mission to blow up a highway in Italy to block the escape of the Germans. Original Radio Broadcast…
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Dragnet: The Big Blast (EP4768)
Today’s Mystery: A woman is shot in bed while sleeping with her seven-year-old son. Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 17, 1951 Originating from…
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The Falcon: The Case of the Strawberry Blonde (EP4765)
Today’s Mystery: A woman working for the Communist Party in Paris tries to get her husband to steal notes on a sensitive meeting. Original Radio…
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Cloak and Dagger: The Trojan Horse (A0004)
Today’s Adventure: A French agent of the OSS takes a singer to Casablanca to feed inaccurate information to the Nazis. Original Radio Broadcast: May 28…
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Dragnet: The Big Drills
Today’s Mystery: Friday investigates a series of safe burglaries at a string of markets. Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 10, 1951 Originating from…
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The Falcon: The Case of the Jack of Diamonds (EP4760)
Today’s Mystery: In London, Waring gets involved in a case of blackmail that turns into murder. Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 7, 1952…
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Cloak and Dagger: Frank Baker’s Story (A0002)
Today’s Adventure: An American OSS agent who parachuted into Germany tries to figure out how he made a mistake. Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 7…
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Dragnet: The Big Casing (EP4758)
Today’s Mystery: A woman is found shot in her apartment. The husband insists it’s suicide, but the evidence seems to point to murder. Original…
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The Falcon: The Case of the Careless Corpse (EP4755)
Today’s Mystery: Waring is sent to Berlin to recruit a scientist to the American cause but Communist Agents send an imposter to kidnap the scientist…
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Dragnet: The Big Saint (EP4748)
Today’s Mystery: A spate of thefts of GM cars leads Friday and Romero to investigate a particular salvage yard. Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 26…
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The Falcon: The Case of the Silent Butler (EP4743)
Today’s Mystery: Mike goes to Lisbon on a tip that a woman working at the US embassy is a spy. Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 24, 1952 Originating…
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Dragnet: The Big Speech (EP4742)
Today’s Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Romero search for an armed man who beat and robbed a Doctor and stole a supply of narcotics. Original Radio Broadcast…
- NBC – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
World’s Great Novels: The Moonstone, Part Four (EP4740)
Today’s Mystery: An experiment reveals how the diamond got out of Rachel Verinder’s cabinet. But where is it now? Original Air Date: April 23, 1948…
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The Falcon: The Case of the Gorgeous Greek (EP4737)
Today’s Mystery: Waring is in Greece looking for the leader of the Greek Communist Party. Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 17, 1952 Originating from…
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Dragnet: The Big Threat (1951) (EP4736)
Today’s Mystery: A man was slugged and robbed but doesn’t want to talk due to threats by the robbers. Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 12, 1951…
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World’s Great Novels: The Moonstone, Part Three (EP4734)
Today’s Mystery: After a tragic suicide, Sergeant Cuff’s dismissed with the theft of the Moonstone still unsolved. A year later, someone else picks…
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The Falcon: The Case of the Rolling Stones (EP4731)
Today’s Mystery: The Falcon goes to Sicily to apprehend a Communist leader who was guilty of war crimes during World War II. Original Radio Broadcast…
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Dragnet: The Big Friend (EP4730)
Today’s Mystery: An intoxicated man reports that his wife was murdered. Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 5, 1951 Originating from Hollywood Starring…
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World’s Great Novels: The Moonstone, Part Two (EP4728)
Today’s Mystery: England’s greatest detective is called in to recover the Moonstone. Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 9, 1948 Originating from…
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The Falcon: The Case of the Lonely Hunter (EP4725)
Today’s Mystery: The Falcon goes to Egypt to investigate a deported expatriate who may be tied into the narcotics trade. Original Radio Broadcast Date…
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The World’s Great Novels: The Moonstone, Part One (EP4722)
Today’s Mystery: In the mid-19th Century, a young English woman has inherited a large Indian diamond from her evil uncle. She decides to wear it as a…
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The Falcon: The Case of the Broken Key (EP4719)
Today’s Mystery: Mike Waring finds himself on the opposite side of a beautiful Communist spy on the hunt for a party member who fled to Casablanca…
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Dragnet: The Big Ben (EP4718)
Today’s Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Romero investigate a carjacking. Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 15, 1951 Originating from Hollywood Starring…
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A Life in Your Hands: The Randall Marsden Murder (EP4716)
An assistant prosecutor is murdered on the same night a man he sent to death row has escaped. Suspicion falls on the escaped murderer, but is he the real…
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The Falcon: The Case of the King Clubs (EP4713)
Today’s Mystery: The Falcon goes to Berlin to investigate when the books of the US occupation forces show a shortage. Original Radio Broadcast Date: July…
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Dragnet: The Big New Years (EP4706)
Today’s Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Romero investigates the murder of a cop on New Year’s Eve. Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 8, 1951…
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The Falcon: The Case of the Running Waters (EP4701)
Today’s Mystery: Mike Waring is sent to Rome to deliver a message to another agent, but enemy agents are determined to intercept him. Original Radio…
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The Chase: The Amusement Park (EP4700s)
  Today’s Mystery: A woman operating a shooting gallery game at an amusement park suspects that the death of an elderly watchman for the carnival is…
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Dragnet: The Big Partner (EP4700)
Today’s Mystery: Joe Friday hunts for an escaped robber. Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 1, 1951 Originating from Hollywood Starring: Jack Webb as…