Listen to radio's famous gumshoes and well-remembered cops. From the fog-bound shores of San Francisco to the insurance investigations of radio's famous expense account investigator; from the riotous actions of famous gang busters to the reality based exploits of Los Angles detectives.

Daily episodes of Sam Spade, the iconic, hard-boiled sleuth from the golden age of radio. Look for an ad-free offering soon for this podcast. The Adventures of Sam Spade (1946-1951) radio series was loosely based on the private detective character Sam Spade, created by writer Dashiell Hammett for The Maltese Falcon. Film star Howard Duff played Sam Spade (also played by Steve Dunne at the end). Lurene Tuttle played Effie, Spade's secretary. Spade's character was the prototypical "hard-boiled ...

Old Radio Detective Shows

Old radio detective shows like Sam Spade, Philip Marlowe, Richard Diamond (The Singing Detective), The Shadow and others. No advertisements, no commentaries, just the shows as they were six decades earlier.

Detective Candy Complete Radio Collection plays all 14 Candy Matson, YUkon 2-8209 episodes. Listen, Download, Follow, Share, Rate 5 Stars, Send in a Voice Message, and Support This Podcast to encourage us to keep adding more episodes to our Appbly.com podcasts. Please access our growing catalog of hundreds of thousands of episodes from tens of thousands of popular media programs using the Media icon at Appbly.com. If you have any feedback please send us an email using the Contact icon at App ...

Presenting the best detectives from the Golden Age of Radio. Each week, we'll bring you an episode starring one of Old Time Radio's greatest detectives and the story behind the show. Join us for adventures of Philip Marlowe, Sam Spade, Johnny Dollar, and many more.

Old time radio fans! Choice Classic Radio brings to you old time radio’s greatest detectives! Each day we feature a program chosen from the most popular shows of the period. So sit back and enjoy the best detectives The Golden Age of Radio has to offer!

Sharing family friendly entertainment through old time radio, and more.

Are you ready for a mystery? Get ready to unleash your inner sleuth. Every day Monday-Saturday, we feature a different detective audio drama from the Golden Age of Radio. Our current mystery-solving line-up of radio detectives includes The Adventures of the Falcon, Bulldog Drummond, Broadway's My Beat, Mr. and Mrs. North, Yours Truly Johnny Dollar, and Dragnet. Whether you want to listen to a mystery before going to sleep or enjoy some drama while driving, or just feel nostalgia for old-scho ...

Lon Clark plays Nick Carter, the greatest of all manhunters. Nick appeared in countless books, three movies, and for 12 years in this radio series featuring his unusual adventures. Host Adam Graham guides you through Carter's prolific radio adventures.

Host Adam Graham presents the two Thin Man Movie adaptations done by the Lux Radio Theater starring William Powell as well as every complete circulating episode of the radio adventures of Nick and Nora Charles.

Host Adam Graham makes his second journey through every episode of Dragnet as well as quite a few bonus episodes and programs.

Listen to the adventures of that man with the action-packed account, Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. From 1949-62, the freelance insurance investigator relayed his adventures to the golden age of radio listeners via his action-packed account. In one of the longest-running old-time radio mystery detective programs. Six actors played Johnny Dollar. Currently, we're posting episodes starring Bob Bailey, the best-loved of the Johnny Dollar actors every Tuesday and Friday. However, you'll find the adv ...

Does Philo Vance need a kick in the pance? Or is he the smartest guy around. Join host Adam Graham as he takes you through all the circulating old time radio adventures of S.S. Van Dine's gentleman detective, Philo Vance starring Jackson Beck as he solves a multitude of murders in New York City

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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).

William Johnstone stars in the Line Up as Lieutenant Guthrie, who solves crime in a major city in this 1950s old time radio police procedural.

Discover every episode of Richard Diamond, Private Detective currently available! Check out OTRGOLD.COM for more classic radio. Audio Credit: "Richard Diamond, Private Detective" by The Old Time Radio Researchers Group

Adam Graham host this podcast which will feature all of the available episodes of Rogue's Gallery, the first hard boiled radio private eye. Stars include Dick Powell, Barry Sullivan, and Paul Stewart. Adam Graham provides his Idiosyncratic commentary each episode.

Barrie Craig was a different kind of detective show and Craig as played by William Gargan was a different type of detective: a big gentle easy going guy who always believed his clients until evidence proved otherwise. In some ways, it poked fun at the private detective genre by giving Craig police-type powers and duties such as making arrests and filling out paperwork. This played off the wide variety of functions and investigations that other PIs took on that were really police functions. A ...

Economics Detective Radio is a podcast about markets, ideas, institutions, and all things related to the field of economics. Episodes consist of long-form interviews and are generally released on Fridays. Topics include economic theory, economic history, the history of thought, money, banking, finance, macroeconomics, public choice, business cycles, health care, education, international trade, and anything else of interest to economists, students, and serious amateurs interested in the scien ...

Adam Graham serves as your host, providing his idiosyncratic as he goes, as we go through the much underrated 1946-54 detective series starring a pre-Johnny Dollar Bob Bailey as Detective George Valentine a World War II vet, who along with his secretary and assistant Brooksie take on every case that's mailed to them.

Some called it, "Dragnet on Horseback." But this 1950-52 Old Time crime Series focused on the exploits of the Texas Rangers and provided keen insights into the work of one most storied police forces in the world and vital nature of their work investigating major crimes across the state of Texas, often operating hundreds of miles away from the metropolitan resources that other fictional lawmen enjoyed. Ranger Jayce Pearson (Joel McCrea) portrays the resourcefulness, and ingenuity of the Texas ...

Host Adam Graham is your guide through every circulating old time radio Sherlock Holmes episode including programs starring Basil Rathbone, Orson Welles, Tom Conway, John Stanley, and Sir John Gielgud.

Pat Novak for Hire aired from 1946-48 on KGO Radio, and1949 on ABC Radio.Jack Webb (1946 and 1949) and Ben Morris (1947-48) played Pat Novak, a wisecracking freelancer who rents boats “and anything else that sounds like money.” The plot of most Pat Novak episodes could be summarized as follows:The show begins with Novak talking about the sign he put out, “Pat Novak for Hire,” and then the soliloquy turns into a discussion of what a forsaken hole the San Francisco Waterfront is, and how lowdo ...

The great ones are back in action.

Two pilot episodes starring future famous newsman Mike Wallace in a radio detective series from 1949.

This podcast features all circulating episodes of Candy Matson, a post-War female hard boied private eye who became a San Francisco radio phenomenon. Adam Graham is your guide through this fun and intriguing series as part of the Great Detectives of Old TIme Radio podcast.

Glenn Ford stars as Christopher London in this 1950 NBC Detective series. Adam Graham is your guide through all three surviving episodes.

William Gargan stars as Ross Dolan in this 1946-47 ABC hard-boiled Detective Series. This was presented by the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio by host Adam Graham

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.

Enjoy all 10 circulating U.S. Episodes of the Fat Man featuring J Scott Smart as Detective Brad Runyon as well as the Australian Episodes starring Lloyd Berrell.. Hosted by Adam Graham.

Head back to the 1920s, Prohibition and the Age of Jazz with star/creator Jack Webb in the 1951 Summer replacement radio series featuring clarinet player Pete Kelly and all the trouble he gets into and out of in Kansas during the roaring twenties.

This podcast features all available episodes of the 1955 radio series features Les Damon and later Mandell Kramer as Pat Abbott and Claudia Morgan as Jean Abbott. The podcast is hosted by Adam Graham who provides commentary on each episode.