The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas

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-dollar necklace stolen during its owner's recent visit to the United States. But Johnny's arrival is greeted by a ransacked apartment and a sudden assault, suggesting that recovering the jewels will mean navigating some dangerous figures in the Paris underworld.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 16, 1959.

Originated from Hollywood

Cast:Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar
Virginia Gregg
Forrest Lewis
G. Stanley Jones
Tony Barrett
Bill James
Gus Bay
Jack Johnstone, writer, producer, and director
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Todays Mystery: Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Bill Lockwood investigate a group of confidence men posing as authorized solicitors for legitimate charities and pocketing the donations they collect. An early arrest appears promising until the suspect proves he merely copied the scheme, leaving Friday and Lockwood searching for the experienced bunco artists whose fraud is depriving charitable causes of badly needed funds.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 12, 1952

Originating from Hollywood

Cast:
Jack Webb as Sgt. Joe Friday
Ken Peters as Bill Lockwood
Virginia Gregg
Vic Rodman
Jim Moser, writer
Walter Schumann, music
Technical advice from the office of Chief W.H. Parker
Captain Jack Donahoe, Sgt. Marty Wynn, and Sgt. Vance Brasher, technical advisors
Hal Gibney, announcer
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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 fears. When Georgie suddenly calls headquarters saying he has been attacked and then disappears, Danny retraces his movements and discovers an unexpected connection between the small-time thief and a lavish Park Avenue party.

Original Radio Broadcast Date:August 2, 1952

Originated in Hollywood

Cast:
Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover
Charles Calvert as Sgt. Gino Tartaglia
Jack Kruschen as Sgt. Muggavan
Irene Tedrow as Vera Lane
Michael Ann Barrett as Barbara Lane
Herb Butterfield
Ben Wright
Leo Cleary
Morton Fine and David Friedkin, writers
Elliott Lewis, producer and director
Alexander Courage, composer and conductor
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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 experimental treatment his family cannot afford. Despite warnings that readers won’t contribute thousands of dollars to help a child they don’t know, Dorothy puts her faith in the generosity of her community and uses her newspaper column to make an appeal on Johnny’s behalf.

Original Radio Broadcast: April 1, 1953

Originating in New York

Cast:
Jan Miner as Dorothy Patterson
Francis DeSales
Ted Osborne
Joey Fallon
Bobby Rick (probable identification)
Rae Terry
Brenna Rayburn
Bob Sloane, announcer
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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 him. Searching for the reason Tommy has been marked for death leads Simon to Tommy’s sister Nancy, a powerful nightclub owner, and questions about the robbery that sent Tommy to prison three years earlier.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 19, 1950.

Originating from Hollywood

Cast:
Vincent Price as Simon Templar
Peggy Webber as the landlady
Sheldon Leonard as Frank
Victor Rodman as Farrelly
Peter Leeds as Sam
Dick Crenna as Tommy Patrick
Fred Shields as the Warden
Larry Dobkin as Louie
Dick Powell, writer
Leslie Charteris, creator of The Saint
James L. Saphier, producer
Helen Mack, director
Don Stanley, announcer
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