Radio Detective Story Hour
Episodes
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 72 - Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar #5
13 Nov 2006
Contributed by Lukas
Nearing the end, a look at Johnny Dollar #5 and another one that was never heard over radio. Veteran radio and television actor Gerald Mohr - the voic...
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 71 - Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar #4
06 Nov 2006
Contributed by Lukas
We're now at the 4th Johnny Dollar actor in my continuing run on this well known radio detective. John Lund (right) was the fourth actor to portray th...
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 70 - Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar #3
30 Oct 2006
Contributed by Lukas
We're now at part 3 of our look at Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. This week I'll focus on the portrayal of the detective by actor Edmond O'Brien. This ru...
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 69 - Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar #2
23 Oct 2006
Contributed by Lukas
Continuing the look at the history of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. I'll be looking at the first serial Johnny Dollar - actor Charles Russell (right) an...
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 68 - Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar #1
16 Oct 2006
Contributed by Lukas
This week the start of a series looking at the history of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar and how it changed over its 13 year history. This week's is an au...
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 67 - 21st Precinct
09 Oct 2006
Contributed by Lukas
Another police procedural radio series besides Dragnet was 21st Precinct. It was in some ways even more straight-forward than Jack Webb's version. Thi...
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 66 - The Saint
02 Oct 2006
Contributed by Lukas
This week an extensive look at the history of The Saint, aka Simon Templer and its author Leslie Charteris (right). I'll look at the different media a...
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 65 - Inspector Thorne
25 Sep 2006
Contributed by Lukas
Another radio detective from the factory of Frank and Ann Hummert was Inspector Thorne. The series was short-lived and also had two stars portraying t...
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 64 - Murder, My Sweet
11 Sep 2006
Contributed by Lukas
This week - a return to hardboiled detective fiction writer, Raymond Chandler. In 1944, the film Murder, My Sweet was released based on Chandler's boo...
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 63 - Inspector Collins
04 Sep 2006
Contributed by Lukas
Arthur Conan Doyle (right) is best known for his creation of the detective Sherlock Holmes. This week I look at another detective creation of his - on...
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 62 - Mr. I.A. Moto
28 Aug 2006
Contributed by Lukas
While John P. Marquand (right) found literary success in his books such as The Late George Apley, he found commercial success in a series of detective...
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 61 - Perry Mason
21 Aug 2006
Contributed by Lukas
This week another radio detective cum lawyer born from the daytime serial dramas. Perry Mason on radio was wedged between two other "soap operas" and ...
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 60 - Mr. Chameleon
14 Aug 2006
Contributed by Lukas
A look at the detective serials as "soap drama." Mr. Chameleon came from the factory of Frank and Ann Hummert who are best known as the creators of ...
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 59 - I Deal In Crime
07 Aug 2006
Contributed by Lukas
Though he was much better in Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator, gravely-voiced William Gargan starred several more times on radio. This week a l...
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 58 - Pete Kelly's Blues
01 Aug 2006
Contributed by Lukas
Just as his successful radio series, Dragnet, was making a move to television, Jack Webb starred in another short lived radio vehicle - Pete Kelly's B...
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 57 - San Francisco Final
24 Jul 2006
Contributed by Lukas
This week you'll hear an audition episode of a series that apparently never aired. San Francisco Final was produced by many of the same personnel who ...
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 56 - Molle Mystery Theater: Raymond Chandler
17 Jul 2006
Contributed by Lukas
I'm back with an all new podcast about a Raymond Chandler short story called "Spanish Blood." The story is an integral one in Chandler's development o...
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 7 - Charlie Chan Redux
10 Jul 2006
Contributed by Lukas
Repeat podcast while I am on leave from July 2005.Charlie Chan was the creation of author Earl Derr Biggers (right) whose famous detective was best kn...
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 14 - The Shadow
03 Jul 2006
Contributed by Lukas
Repeat episode (Sep 2005) while I take some time off.A look at an unusual Radio Detective - one doesn't always think of this radio character in the de...
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 55 - Miss Pinkerton, Inc.
26 Jun 2006
Contributed by Lukas
A look at another female radio detective series. This one had two big stars in Joan Blondell and Dick Powell, then husband and wife. The series, Miss ...
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 54 - The Lone Wolf
19 Jun 2006
Contributed by Lukas
In 1914, pulp fiction writer, Louis Joseph Vance, published the first in a series of mystery detective books starring Michael Lanyard, aka The Lone Wo...
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 53 - The Cases of Mr. Ace
12 Jun 2006
Contributed by Lukas
One of the lesser known detective radio series, The Cases of Mr. Ace appears to have been in very limited run mostly on WNEW in New York in the late f...
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 52 - Amazing Mr. Malone
05 Jun 2006
Contributed by Lukas
One of the lesser known radio detective serials was The Amazing Mr. Malone also known as Murder and Mr. Malone. Yet this series had three separate run...
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 51 - Adventures of Frank Race
29 May 2006
Contributed by Lukas
Adventures of Frank Race was purely a radio series with no connection to other media. It's first star was Tom Collins whose suave (but fake) British s...
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 50 - Big Town
22 May 2006
Contributed by Lukas
While one might not think of Big Town as a detective series, it wasn't as much in its first run with Edward G. Robinson. But by 1942, the cast had cha...
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 49 - Private Files of Rex Saunders
15 May 2006
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 48 - Mike Hammer
08 May 2006
Contributed by Lukas
A look at Mickey Spillane and his explosive private investigator - Mike Hammer. Hammer was a true pulp hero who was seen and heard in various media in...
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 47 - Barry Craig, Confidential Investigator
01 May 2006
Contributed by Lukas
This week, I am experimenting with a different format as I present William Gargan as investigator Barry Craig. The series from the early fifties was a...
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 46 - Phillip Marlowe
24 Apr 2006
Contributed by Lukas
A return look at Raymond Chandler's private detective, Phillip Marlowe. Last time I focused on Gerald Mohr's protrayal, but this time, we look at the ...
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 45 - Crime & Peter Chambers
17 Apr 2006
Contributed by Lukas
Crime and Peter Chambers was a short term replacement for the featured podcast last week - Rocky Fortune. The series starred screen and television act...
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 44 - Rocky Fortune
10 Apr 2006
Contributed by Lukas
In the early fifties, Frank Sinatra's career seemed nearly over. His musical style was out of date and while he had appeared in some films, most were ...
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 43 - The FBI Shows
03 Apr 2006
Contributed by Lukas
Beginning with the Lucky Strike Program the first known dramatization of an FBI case was heard on the radio in 1933. The FBI continued its relationshi...
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 42 - I Cover the Waterfront
27 Mar 2006
Contributed by Lukas
"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." ...
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 41 - Casey, Crime Photographer
20 Mar 2006
Contributed by Lukas
Originally from the pen of pulp crime/mystery writer, George Harmon Coxe, Casey, Crime Photographer achieved fame through radio starring Staats Cotswo...
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 40 - Calling All Cars
13 Mar 2006
Contributed by Lukas
One of the earliest police procedual dramas and possibly the model for Gang Busters and later Dragnet, Calling All Cars happened because of the publi...
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 39 - Pursuit
06 Mar 2006
Contributed by Lukas
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 I...
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 38 - Hercule Poirot
27 Feb 2006
Contributed by Lukas
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 wi...
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 37 - Johnny Modero, Pier 23
20 Feb 2006
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 36 - Man From Homicide
13 Feb 2006
Contributed by Lukas
This week a look at the gravely voiced, square-jawed actor Charles McGraw as he appeared in an audition episode of the Man From Homicide. I'll also do...
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 35 - Sam Spade
06 Feb 2006
Contributed by Lukas
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 fr...
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 34 - Bulldog Drummond
30 Jan 2006
Contributed by Lukas
Out of fog and into American homes comes Bulldog Drummond. This originally hardboiled detective becomes something else when radio gets a hold of him. ...
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 33 - Broadway Is My Beat
23 Jan 2006
Contributed by Lukas
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 l...
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 32 - Nick Carter, Master Detective
16 Jan 2006
Contributed by Lukas
From out of the pulps comes Nick Carter, Master Detective! This week "another case for that most famous of all man hunters - the detective whose abili...
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 31 - Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons
09 Jan 2006
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 30 - Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
02 Jan 2006
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 29 - Jeff Regan, Investigator
26 Dec 2005
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 28 - Boston Blackie
19 Dec 2005
Contributed by Lukas
As Christmas approaches, I present a Christmas story/mystery that involves radio detective Boston Blackie. Richard Kollmar (right) stars. Please Take...
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 27 - Casebook of Gregory Hood
11 Dec 2005
Contributed by Lukas
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 h...
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 26 - The Falcon
04 Dec 2005
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Arlen was the English fictional voice of the Jazz Age. In 1940, he wrote one short story that was intended to be his foray into crime writing....
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 25 - Defense Attorney
28 Nov 2005
Contributed by Lukas
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 (righ...
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 24 - True Detective Mysteries
21 Nov 2005
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 23 - Philo Vance
13 Nov 2005
Contributed by Lukas
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 se...
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 22 - The Abbotts
06 Nov 2005
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 21 - Sherlock Holmes
30 Oct 2005
Contributed by Lukas
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 Detective Story Hour Episode 20 - Box 13
23 Oct 2005
Contributed by Lukas
A look at radio detective Dan Holiday - Alan Ladd - from Box 13. "Adventure Wanted. Will go anywhere. Do anything. Box 13." The series was produced by...
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 19 - Richard Diamond, Private Investigator
16 Oct 2005
Contributed by Lukas
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 h...
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 18 - Rogue's Gallery
09 Oct 2005
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 17 - Pat Novak For Hire
03 Oct 2005
Contributed by Lukas
Continuing our look at the radio career of Jack Webb, I look at an earlier series in which Webb starred - Pat Novak For Hire.
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 16 - The Thin Man
26 Sep 2005
Contributed by Lukas
UPDATE: The previous feed for this podcast was defective. I have corrected the problem! A return to detective author, Dashiell Hammett, and his last f...
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 15 - The Fat Man
18 Sep 2005
Contributed by Lukas
I return once more to Dashiell Hammett's only fictional detective created exclusively for radio! Brad Runyon, the Fat Man. "The hard boiled, hard hitt...
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 13 - Dragnet
05 Sep 2005
Contributed by Lukas
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 Web...
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 12 ... Michael Shayne
29 Aug 2005
Contributed by Lukas
Another great pulp magazine detective is featured on this week's podcast. This time - Brett Halliday's Michael Shayne, in the New Adventures of Michae...
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 11....Gang Busters
23 Aug 2005
Contributed by Lukas
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 'Gan...
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 10....Bob Bailey
14 Aug 2005
Contributed by Lukas
"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 w...
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode9....Jack French
07 Aug 2005
Contributed by Lukas
Radio Detective Story Hour has an exclusive interview with Jack French, author of the Agatha Award winning "Private Eyelashes: Radio's Lady Detectives...
Radio Detective Story Hour Episode8....The Saint
31 Jul 2005
Contributed by Lukas
The Adventures of the Saint. We look at Leslie Charteris, Simon Templar, and its appearances on radio, television and film. This week's episode: Th...