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The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas

by Adam Graham|Old Time Radio Detective Host

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, Charlie Chan, Broadway's My Beat, 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-school radio fiction, we have you covered with six audio dramas every week. Podcast Award finalist Host Adam Graham has been your guide through dozens of old-time radio detective series since 2009. He provides insightful commentary and humor after each episode and responds to listener questions and feedback. You can subscribe to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from your favorite podcast app or by visiting our website at http://www.greatdetectives.net. We are currently in our fifteenth season of provided suspenseful mystery dramas. Our podcast feed captures the last 1,000 episodes we've released including all of seasons thirteen and fourteen, and part of season twelve. We have created two archive feeds: Volume 1, which features our first three seasons and Volume 2, which features seasons four-six, and Volume 3 which will feature Seasons Seven through Nine. Our feed includes old time radio recorded in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and also Australia. The current actors featured in our old time radio detective podcast include Les Damon, Bob Bailey, Larry Thor, Walter Connolly, and Jack Webb. Other actors featured within the past 1,000 include Alice Frost, Howard Duff, Glenn Langan, Herbert Marshall, Gerald Mohr, Joel McCrea, Les Tremayne, Jackson Beck, Santos Ortega, Ned Wever, Karl Swenson, and more.

Latest episodes

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CounterSpy: The Society Swindler (A0128)

Today's Adventure: CounterSpy chief David Harding investigates a charity racket operating among wealthy members of East Coast society. When a charity organizer connected

Oct 3
36 min

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar: The Really Gone Matter (EP5075)

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Today's Mystery: Johnny Dollar is hired by a life insurance company to locate a missing beneficiary named Jonathan Doe, who is set to receive $50,000 from a policy belong

Oct 2
28 min

Dragnet: The Big Roll (EP5074)

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Todays Mystery: Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Frank Smith investigate the abduction of an unidentified man from a downtown Los Angeles street. Bloodstains at the sc

Oct 1
34 min

Broadway's My Beat: The Ruth Nelson Murder Case (EP5073)

Today's Mystery: Detective Danny Clover investigates the murder of Ruth Nelson, a woman found stabbed to death on the very day she was released from prison after serving

Sep 30
38 min

The Big Story: Too Terrible to be Believed (EP5072)

Today's Mystery: Prince George’s County reporter Arthur Milky becomes suspicious when a young child dies at a nursery home and the medical examiner determines that the bo

Sep 29
32 min

The Saint: Marvin Hickerson, Private Eye (EP5071)

Today's Mystery: Simon Templar is drawn into a dangerous mystery when Alice Parks asks for his help after her fiancé, Marvin Hickerson, disappears under suspicious circum

Sep 28
37 min

Old Time Radio Snack Wagon Smorgasboard #3 (EP5070e)

In this episode, we serve up four classic old-time radio snacks, featuring a special Family Theater presentation for Citizenship Day, an episode of Family Doctor, a New Y

Sep 27
1 h 06 min

Counterspy: The Genuine Counterfeit (A0126)

Today's Adventure: Counterspy David Harding and his agents are assigned to protect a foreign envoy visiting the United States to arrange the engraving of government bonds

Sep 26
35 min

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar: The Embarcadero Matter (EP5070)

Today's Mystery: Johnny Dollar is asked to help recover a priceless Cellini medallion stolen from the Louvre and believed to be smuggled into the United States aboard a s

Sep 25
28 min

Dragnet: The Big Jules (EP5069)

Todays Mystery: Detective Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Frank Smith are assigned to narcotics detail when a drug addict is arrested carrying a supply of high-grade

Sep 24
34 min

Broadway's My Beat: The Tony Blair Murder Case (EP5068)

Today's Mystery: Detective Danny Clover investigates a dangerous situation surrounding dancer Sylvia Douglas after she claims that Peter Ciuro wants to kill her. Ciuro in

Sep 23
33 min

The Big Story: Back from the Dead (EP5067)

Today's Mystery: Pittsburgh newspaper reporter Joseph P. Brown receives a call about a woman who has been shot at an address in nearby Jeanette, Pennsylvania. Arriving at

Sep 22
41 min

The Saint: The Terrible TinType (EP5066)

Today's Mystery: Simon Templar becomes involved in a murder mystery after discovering a dead man named Marsh. When a photograph that could provide an important clue goes

Sep 21
35 min

Counterspy: The Sweepstakes Murder (A0124)

Today's Adventure:After newspaper reporter Tom Fisher and a small-time grifter are murdered while investigating a fraudulent Mexican sweepstakes racket, David Harding sen

Sep 19
32 min

Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Night in Paris Matter (EP5065)

Today's Mystery: Johnny Dollar travels to Paris after his underworld contact Louis de Marsac claims to know the whereabouts of the Olney diamonds, a three-quarter-million

Sep 18
31 min

Dragnet: The Big Donation (EP5064)

Todays Mystery: Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Bill Lockwood investigate a group of confidence men posing as authorized solicitors for legitimate charities and pocke

Sep 17
32 min

Broadway's My Beat: The Georgie Beck Murder Case (EP5063)

Today's Mystery: Pickpocket Georgie Beck has repeatedly insisted that someone is following him, but Danny Clover and his colleagues have found nothing to substantiate his

Sep 16
32 min

The Big Story: The Miracle Phone Call (EP5062)

Today's Mystery: Newspaper reporter Dorothy Patterson is contacted by the desperate mother of five-year-old Johnny McDermott, who is gravely ill and needs an expensive ex

Sep 15
33 min

The Saint: No Hiding Place (EP5061)

Today's Mystery: Simon Templar tries to help Tommy Patrick, a prisoner who claims someone has repeatedly tried to kill him and then escapes before Simon can speak with hi

Sep 14
34 min

Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Cronin Matter Omnibus (EP5060s)

Today's Mystery: Johnny Dollar is hired to protect the Circle of Fire, a half-million-dollar diamond-and-emerald necklace belonging to former Broadway sensation Dolly Cro

Sep 13
1 h 19 min

Chart trend

Position in the Performing Arts chart (US), last 90 days.

#5
all-time peak
670
days in the top 10 since Nov 2024

Chart positions

Where The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas ranks today in each Apple Podcasts chart (US, Oct 3, 2026).

#36 ▼ 1 Arts US
#7 — Performing Arts US

What listeners say

A curated, balanced selection of Apple Podcasts reviews.

Took me awhile to adapt my listening to the host’s unique voice, but now I always appreciate the extensive background he presents for each episode. I like most of the old time shows I get to listen to here with just a couple of exceptions, but that’s my personal taste and has with nothing to do with the host!

sheralooma · Aug 2026

I really enjoy Dragnet, Johnny Dollar, Broadway is My Beat, and, sometimes,The Big Story. Unfortunately, the sound quality of The Saint and Counterspy is so poor they are unlistenable in my car for my morning commute. They are muffled with almost no presence, like the sound is being filtered through a pillow. My humble suggestion: use an equalizer to cut the 400 Hz band by 6 db and boost a frequency of around 2 kHz by 3 to 6 db so the dialog can be understood. My high frequency hearing is excellent, so I know it’s not me. If the sound quality for all episodes were listenable, I’d gladly become a Patreon.

Blableblublablabla · Jul 2026

Been listening for a long time and Adam is the best in the business. Love the current rotation of shows and all the other offerings from the WW2 special to the Amazing World of Radio and Snack Wagon. The new Adventure series has been entertaining as well. I have recently started revisiting the show from the beginning through the individual season podcasts. I appreciate your commitment to preserving these great shows!

SonofSaban · Dec 2025

This podcast is great! They curate and clean up old recordings from the golden age of radio (1920’s to 1950’s). The radio plays are usually entertaining and provide an interesting, educational window to the past. Because these are old recordings some are too raspy to listen comfortably, but they have many hundreds of shows. The host of the podcast is very knowledgeable and enthusiastic and provides interesting commentary, perspective and analysis about these whodunit stories. Unfortunately, the host has a nasal, pitchy speaking voice. And many episodes have disconcerting Hammond organ music, so this podcast isn’t good for bedtime or sensitive ears. Overall it’s well worth the occasional audio discomfort to enjoy these old-timey radio plays.

SouperDave99 · Jul 2025

The episodes are good, however Adam’s (the host) over the top, cartoon voice is so annoying, he makes it difficult to tune in. Every time I listen, I have to skip his intros... and when he interrupts an episode, I have to stop to skip his babble. It’s a shame. He ruins a potentially great podcast.

6.5 · Feb 2025

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