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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.

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Radio Detective Story Hour Episode8....The Saint: The Adventures of the Saint. We look at Leslie Charteris, Simon Templar, and its appearances on radio, television and film. This week's episode: The Color Blind Murder on Shipboard. Total running time: about 31 minutes. by Radio Detective Story Hour
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Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 17 - Pat Novak For Hire: Continuing our look at the radio career of Jack Webb, I look at an earlier series in which Webb starred - Pat Novak For Hire. by Radio Detective Story Hour
36 min listen
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 29 - Jeff Regan, Investigator: Jeff Regan was known as the "Lyon's Eye," a private investigator who worked for Anthony J. Lyon. Regan was fleshed out on radio by the young Jack Webb who portrayed a number of detectives on radio including his most famous - Sgt. Joe Friday. I'll look... by Radio Detective Story Hour
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Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 13 - Dragnet: A look this week at probably one of the most famous detective/cop radio shows ever and the man behind it all. The facts: Dragnet is the show; Jack Webb is the creative force. An early episode from the run starring Webb as Joe Friday and Barton... by Radio Detective Story Hour
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Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 10....Bob Bailey: "The Radio Detective Story Hour visits once more with Bob Bailey, this time in his long running series as George Valentine in Let George Do It. This week's episode is 'Death in Blue Jeans.' Running Time: 35 minutes." by Radio Detective Story Hour
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Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 15 - The Fat Man: I return once more to Dashiell Hammett's only fictional detective created exclusively for radio! Brad Runyon, the Fat Man. "The hard boiled, hard hitting adventures of a criminologist who tips the scale at 247 pounds..." J. Scott Smart stars in the... by Radio Detective Story Hour
36 min listen
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 16 - The Thin Man: UPDATE: The previous feed for this podcast was defective. I have corrected the problem! A return to detective author, Dashiell Hammett, and his last fictional creations - Nick and Nora Charles in The Adventures of the Thin Man. The series starred Les... by Radio Detective Story Hour
39 min listen
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 23 - Philo Vance: Philo Vance was the creation of author S.S. Van Dine. He proved to be a popular detective as nine films were based on the character and three radio series. This week a look at all three radio series with a complete episode from the final one starring... by Radio Detective Story Hour
35 min listen
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 35 - Sam Spade: E. Jack Neumann and John Michael Hayes (right) were two of radio's finest writers of detective and suspense. This week a brief return to an episode from The Adventures of Sam Spade written by these two writers. Listen for the well defined characters... by Radio Detective Story Hour
32 min listen
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 30 - Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar: This week I am returning to Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. It was a different series during the Edmond O'Brien (right) years - a radio noir! I'll look at O'Brien's role in the series. Please Take our Listener Survey by Radio Detective Story Hour
37 min listen
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 39 - Pursuit: Every so often one discovers a little known radio series that turns out to be a fun listen. This week you'll hear one. It's called Pursuit and stars Inspector Peter Black, a Scotland Yard detective portrayed by Ted de Corsia (right). by Radio Detective Story Hour
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Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 34 - Bulldog Drummond: Out of fog and into American homes comes Bulldog Drummond. This originally hardboiled detective becomes something else when radio gets a hold of him. This run starred Ned Wever (right). Please Take our Listener Survey by Radio Detective Story Hour
35 min listen
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 18 - Rogue's Gallery: The first of a two podcast look at how Dick Powell began to reinvent his image from boy crooner into movie and radio tough guy. Tonight I look at the first of his radio series in his new image - Richard Rogue in Rogue's Gallery. by Radio Detective Story Hour
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Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 19 - Richard Diamond, Private Investigator: Finishing up our look at the radio detective career of Dick Powell I turn to his role as Richard Diamond, "the singing gumshoe." By this time Powell had reinvented himself from "boy crooner" to tough detective both in film and radio. by Radio Detective Story Hour
38 min listen
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 33 - Broadway Is My Beat: Morton Fine and David Friedkin were scriptwriters who were all over the radio spectrum in the forties and fifties before they moved to television. A look at how writers worked and seemed to carry common themes and style no matter the genre ending in... by Radio Detective Story Hour
42 min listen
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 24 - True Detective Mysteries: This week a look at the police investigator instead of a private one. The series is from a late thirties syndicated series that was sponsored by True Detective Magazine. by Radio Detective Story Hour
28 min listen
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 12 ... Michael Shayne: Another great pulp magazine detective is featured on this week's podcast. This time - Brett Halliday's Michael Shayne, in the New Adventures of Michael Shayne. Running time: 30 minutes by Radio Detective Story Hour
30 min listen
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 21 - Sherlock Holmes: This week - a look at probably the most well-known "media" detective - film, radio, fiction - Sherlock Holmes. You'll hear some of the history of the radio programs over the years it was broadcast and a rarer episode from the earliest known copy -... by Radio Detective Story Hour
51 min listen
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 27 - Casebook of Gregory Hood: This weekâs podcast of the Casebook of Gregory Hood began as a summer replacement for Sherlock Holmes. Gregory Hood was a dealer in antiquities who happened to also be a crime solver. Written by Denis Green and Anthony Boucher, it even sounded like... by Radio Detective Story Hour
34 min listen
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode9....Jack French: Radio Detective Story Hour has an exclusive interview with Jack French, author of the Agatha Award winning "Private Eyelashes: Radio's Lady Detectives" and ends with probably the best of the female detectives: Candy Matson in "The Cable Car Case." ... by Radio Detective Story Hour
60 min listen
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 11....Gang Busters: The Radio Detective Story Hour looks at radio's cops and robbers. We interview Martin Grams Jr., author of many books on old time radio including 'Gang Busters: The Crime Fighters of American Broadcasting' and listen to an episode from the series:... by Radio Detective Story Hour
56 min listen
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 25 - Defense Attorney: This week a woman attorney who spends more time solving the crimes she is asked to defend than she spends in the courtroom. Mercedes McCambridge (right) stars as Martha Ellis Bryant! Please Take our Listener Survey by Radio Detective Story Hour
35 min listen
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 28 - Boston Blackie: As Christmas approaches, I present a Christmas story/mystery that involves radio detective Boston Blackie. Richard Kollmar (right) stars. Please Take our Listener Survey All Donations given this month will be divided among our hard working ... by Radio Detective Story Hour
34 min listen
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 38 - Hercule Poirot: One of the best known fictional detectives in the world - Hercule Poirot was heard in books, movies and radio. This week, a look at this little man with the "little gray cells." I'll look at a number of his radio appearances with the full show being... by Radio Detective Story Hour
40 min listen
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 42 - I Cover the Waterfront: "I've been here so long, even the seagulls must recognize me. They must pass the word along about me from generation to generation, from egg to egg." This week a program that never became a series. Based loosely on the best selling book by Max... by Radio Detective Story Hour
37 min listen
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 40 - Calling All Cars: One of the earliest police procedual dramas and possibly the model for Gang Busters and later Dragnet, Calling All Cars happened because of the public's interest in new technology - police car radios! Plus, something completely different - an... by Radio Detective Story Hour
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Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 31 - Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons: This week a look at one of the longest running detective series on radio. Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons was in some ways not much more than a light drama produced by the soap drama factory of Frank and Anne Hummert. Yet, it had its share of crime... by Radio Detective Story Hour
36 min listen
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 22 - The Abbotts: A lesser known detective husband and wife team. The Abbotts first appeared 1945 on radio, but none of those episodes are known to exist. In 1955 a new version appeared called "The Adventures of the Abbotts" but until recently only one episode was... by Radio Detective Story Hour
32 min listen
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 49 - Private Files of Rex Saunders: A delightful but intentionally short-lived series starring Rex Harrison. This series was written by Ed Adamson, who I will talk about a bit and whose talent makes this the wonderful little series it was. by Radio Detective Story Hour
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Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 37 - Johnny Modero, Pier 23: This week a visit to Pier 23 to meet Johnny Modero, the last of the Jack Webb pre-Dragnet private detectives on radio. Probably the least of the three Webb detectives and a clone of his previous Pat Novak. Please Take our Listener Survey by Radio Detective Story Hour
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