Old Time Radio

With Hugh Marlowe in the title role, Ellery Queen was introduced in The Adventures of Ellery Queen on CBS Radio on June 18, 1939, running until September 22, 1940. In 1942, the series moved to NBC Radio, airing until 1944. From 1945 to 1947, it was heard once again on CBS, returning to NBC in 1947 and then ABC Radio (1947-48). The premise was that a mystery would be dramatized but then interrupted when a panel of celebrities would attempt to solve the mystery.

During the 1970s, syndicated radio fillers, Ellery Queen's Minute Mysteries, began with an announcer saying, "This is Ellery Queen..." and then outlining a case in one minute. The radio station encouraged callers to solve the mystery and win a sponsor's prize. Once they had a winner, the solution part of the spot would be played as confirmation.

Episode List:

Armchair detective
Phony-promoter
Income tax robbery
The Singing Rat
The circus train
The Adventure of the World Series Crime
The vanishing magician
The mischief maker
Scarecrow and the snowman
Dead man's cavern
The foul tip
Nick the knife
The message in red
Nikki Porter Killer
Number thirty one
Bad Boy
The three frogs
One diamond Smithsonian
Adventure of the Scarecrow
Bad man's bad man
Bathtub murder
Big-mistake
Canned-heat
Canned-music
Counterfeit politician
Crossword puzzle murder
Curious gangland killing
Deep sea-murder
Deserted island
Genuine article
Illegal entry
Kidnap caper
Lady spectator
Mischief Maker
Mysterious ham
Mysterious murders
Psychological error
Rocking chair fraud
Simple slip
Stamp caper
Sunken moment
Tell tale desk
Time bomb
Wheel of fortune
Whiskey mystery
Wrong word

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On radio, Charlie Chan was heard in different series on four networks (Blue, NBC, ABC, MBS) between 1932 and 1948. Walter Connolly initially portrayed Chan as part of Esso Oil's Five Star Theater, which serialized adaptations of Biggers novels.[36] Ed Begley, Sr. had the title role in NBC's The Adventures of Charlie Chan (1944–45), followed by Santos Ortega (1947–48). Leon Janney and Rodney Jacobs were heard as Lee Chan, Number One Son, and Dorian St. George was the program's announcer.[37] Radio Life magazine described Begley's Chan as "a good radio match for Sidney Toler's beloved film enactment."

Episode List:

Charlie Chan 36-09-15 Murder of Colonel Willowby
Charlie Chan 36-10-08 Baffling Murder Mystery 1of4
Charlie Chan 36-10-15 Baffling Murder Mystery 2of4
Charlie Chan 36-10-22 Baffling Murder Mystery 3of4
Charlie Chan 36-10-29 Baffling Murder Mystery 4of4
Charlie Chan Chan Reports to Commissioner
Charlie Chan Charlies Daughter Is Kidnapped
Charlie Chan Eye Of Budda
Charlie Chan Eye of Buddha Ruby Part-1
Charlie Chan Eye of Buddha Ruby Part-2
Charlie Chan Fiery Santa Claus
Charlie Chan in Radio City
Charlie Chan Man Who Moved Mountains
Charlie Chan Marching Ants, Charlie Ambushed
Charlie Chan Murder in Cabin 15
Charlie Chan The Curious Ride Of The Sea Witch
Charlie Chan The Escaped Musician
Charlie Chan The Frightened Sharaf
Charlie Chan The Man Who Murdered Santa Claus
Charlie Chan The Murder of Deacon Jessup
Charlie Chan The Romantic Engineer
Charlie Chan TheTell tale Hands

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Abbott Mysteries was a comedy-mystery radio program adapted from the novels of Frances Crane (1896-1981). Initially a summer replacement for Quick As a Flash, the series was heard on Mutual and
NBC between the years 1945 and 1955.

The Mutual series, sponsored by Helbros Watches, debuted June 10, 1945, airing Sundays at 6pm. The scripts by Howard Merrill and Ed Adamson were in the lighthearted tradition of Mr. and Mrs. North. Julie Stevens and Charles Webster starred as Jean and Pat Abbott, a San Francisco married couple who solved murder mysteries. In the supporting cast were Jean Ellyn, Sydney Slon and Luis van Rooten.

Moving to 5:30pm in 1946, Les Tremayne and Alice Reinheart took over the roles until the end of the series on August 31, 1947.

Seven years later, the characters returned October 3, 1954, on NBC in The Adventures of the Abbotts, broadcast on NBC Sunday evenings at 8:30pm. In this series, the Abbotts were portrayed by Claudia Morgan and Les Damon. The NBC series ran until June 12, 1955.

"The series was resurrected by NBC in 1955 under the new title of The Adventures of the Abbotts and this nudged Mutual into producing a copycat show under the title It's A Crime, Mr. Collins."[1] "Many programs in the Golden Age of Radio were flattered by their competitors. ... The Abbotts on NBC were copied exactly in Mutual's It's A Crime, Mr. Collins, including paraphrasing (the original author's) words."[2] "Mutual even used ... the habit of putting a color in the title of every story."

Cotroyalpurscooter
ARickshaw red lipstick
The yellow chip
Burnt copper powder
Blood red diamond
Dead white flame
Canary yellow sack
Clue of the ivory thread
Fabulouse necklace
The pink elephant
Blue rocket expr
Dead white lifeboat
walters town
The Dead-White Flame
The Canary-Yellow Sack
The Blue-Rocket Express
The Dead-White Lifeboat
The Royal-Purple Scooter
The Rickshaw-Red Lipstick
The Yellow Chip
The Blood-Red Diamond
The Clue Of The Ivory Thread
The Burnt-Copper Powder
The Blood-Red City
The Fabulous Emerald Necklace
The Pink Elephant
The Green-Eyed Divorcee
The Canary-Blonde Heiress
The Clicking Silver Pen
The Gentleman In The Nile-Green Suit
The Murder Of A Fabulous Redhead

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Captain Bart Friday was a globe-trotting San Francisco-based private investigator, portrayed during the series by Elliott Lewis, David Ellis and Russell Thorson. Friday's sidekick from Texas, Skip Turner, was played mostly by Jack Edwards and occasionally by Barton Yarborough. The tales covered such areas as espionage, kidnapping and murder, along with secret Nazi bases, snake worshipers and voodoo.

• 01 The City of the Dead (1 of 10)
• 02 The City of the Dead (2 of 10) "I've Dug Up Something Ghastly"
• 03 The City of the Dead (3 of 10) "The Body that Walked Off"
• 04 The City of the Dead (4 of 10) "Old Clawfoot Again"
• 05 The City of the Dead (5 of 10) "The Skeleton Walks In"
• 06 The City of the Dead (6 of 10) "The Ghoul in the Grave"
• 07 The City of the Dead (7 of 10) "Captain Friday Vanishes"
• 08 The City of the Dead (8 of 10) "The Kidnapping of Clawfoot"
• 09 The City of the Dead (9 of 10) "The Trail of the Phantom Church Bell"
• 10 The City of the Dead (10 of 10) "Where the Pearls Were Hidden"

Adventures in a cemetery

• 11 A Coffin for the Lady (1 of 3)
• 12 A Coffin for the Lady (2 of 3) "The Conversation in the Casket"
• 13 A Coffin for the Lady (3 of 3) "The Deepest Grave in the World"

An Army Intelligence officer contacts Captain Friday's San Francisco office, looking to hire a pair of operatives for a mysterious mission. Transported to a small, isolated cove off the coast of Canada, Friday, Turner, and a Major Lawrence find a speedboat waiting for them, which they use to get to Marmaduke Island. Warned by Lawrence that the duo will need to be "ready for action" at any given moment, three hours pass, then, suddenly, an Army GI appears out of the underbrush carrying a heavily bound and gagged woman in his arms. Friday and Turner quickly observe that the man has been mortally wounded - a knife is sticking out of his back - and his last words before dying are to instruct the men to get the woman to shore immediately.

• 14 The Cobra King Strikes Back (1 of 10)
• 15 The Cobra King Strikes Back (2 of 10) "Something about the Hooded Snake"
• 16 The Cobra King Strikes Back (3 of 10) "The Mad King of Angkor"
• 17 The Cobra King Strikes Back (4 of 10) "Temple of Gorillas"
• 18 The Cobra King Strikes Back (5 of 10) "The Living Image of Cambodia"
• 19 The Cobra King Strikes Back (6 of 10) "Terrors of the Hollow Mountain"
• 20 The Cobra King Strikes Back (7 of 10) "The Face of a Beast"
• 21 The Cobra King Strikes Back (8 of 10) "It Was Not Cannibalism"
• 22 The Cobra King Strikes Back (9 of 10) "The Fangs and Teeth of the Enemy"
• 23 The Cobra King Strikes Back (10 of 10) "The Amazing End of an Expedition"

Adventures in Cambodia

• 24 The Girl on Shipwreck Island (1 of 3)
• 25 The Girl on Shipwreck Island (2 of 3) "The Pirate is a Fighting Man"
• 26 The Girl on Shipwreck Island (3 of 3) "There is More About Gracie Than Meets the Eye"

While traveling from French Indo-China to Australia, the engine on Bart and Skip's plane conks out, forcing them to land on a small island in the South China Sea. Initially, they believe themselves to be alone, but it isn't long before they witness the murder of a British sailor, one of a small number of castaways who recently survived a deadly hurricane at sea. The murder has been committed by a Spanish pirate, complete with bandana, who seems mighty proud of his skill with a gun. In addition to the mayhem on this supposedly deserted island they experience the strange allure of a cockney serving girl named Gracie, who seems to be the object of much jealousy and intrigue.

• 27 Dead Men Prowl (1 of 10)
• 28 Dead Men Prowl (2 of 10) "The Prowler at Work"
• 29 Dead Men Prowl (3 of 10) "The Dead Do Walk at Night"
• 30 Dead Men Prowl (4 of 10) "Conversation with the Walking Dead"
• 31 Dead Men Prowl (5 of 10) "The Walking Dead Captured"
• 32 Dead Men Prowl (6 of 10) "Life History of Prowlers"
• 33 Dead Men Prowl (7 of 10) "Four Go to Join the Prowling Dead"
• 34 Dead Men Prowl (8 of 10) "The Prowler with the Rope Around His Neck"
• 35 Dead Men Prowl (9 of 10) "The Prowler Dead Walk Again"
• 36 Dead Men Prowl (10 of 10) "The Prowling Dead Introduces Himself"

Adventures on a small island near San Francisco

• 37 You'll Be Dead in a Week (1 of 3)
• 38 You'll Be Dead in a Week (2 of 3) "$200,000 to Lose"
• 39 You'll Be Dead in a Week (3 of 3)

Skip and Captain Friday are called to Hollywood to meet with a woman named Eve Carson who, with her brother Wesley, inherited over a million dollars from her late father. Shortly after the death of their last living relative, Eve and Wesley moved to California where they lived happily for a time. Then, one morning, Wes loses consciousness and, after consultations with many doctors and specialists, is told that he has but one week left to live. Rather than be depressed at the news, Wesley chooses instead to live it up for the time he has left, but "living it up" has come to mean an association with gangster Blackie North and his gang of thugs. Eve begs Skip and Captain Friday to watch over her brother to see that he comes to no harm...but soon after, they find themselves engaged in a vicious barroom free-for-all with North and his henchmen.

• 40 The Land of the Living Dead (1 of 10)
• 41 The Land of the Living Dead (2 of 10)
• 42 The Land of the Living Dead (3 of 10) "The Green-Eyed Murderess Again"
• 43 The Land of the Living Dead (4 of 10) "The Tree that Eats Flesh"
• 44 The Land of the Living Dead (5 of 10)
• 45 The Land of the Living Dead (6 of 10)
• 46 The Land of the Living Dead (7 of 10) "The Terror of the Sacred City"
• 47 The Land of the Living Dead (8 of 10)
• 48 The Land of the Living Dead (9 of 10)
• 49 The Land of the Living Dead (10 of 10)

Adventures in the Chilian jungle

• 50 It's Dismal to Die (1 of 3)
• 51 It's Dismal to Die (2 of 3)
• 52 It's Dismal to Die (3 of 3) "Bad Medicine for the Doctor"

Skip Turner (Jack Edwards) has always been a sucker for a beautiful woman in distress, and no woman is more beautiful or more in distress than Julie Lane, a black-haired, blue-eyed beauty who calls for help from Turner and Captain Bart Friday (Russell Thorson) when her young husband is lost in Dismal Swamp near Lake Drummond, South Carolina. Finding themselves piloting a flat-bottomed boat through dark, dank, weed-infested waters, the trio searches for the missing husband and quickly discovers that he isn't dead but instead has been kidnapped.

21st Precinct (aka Twenty-First Precinct and 20To begin with Precinct) was a police drama broadcast on CBS radio from July 7, 1953 to July 26, 1956.

Stanley Niss was the writer-director. The position of precinct Captain Frank Kennelly was played by Everett Sloane (for the primary 109 episodes and briefly in episode 135), James Gregory (1955) and Les Damon (1956).

Other cast regulars have been Ken Lynch and Harold Stone.

21st Precinct 13 Year Old Boy Dies
21st Precinct 700 Dollar Bribe
21st Precinct Armed Robbery at Bar & Grill
21st Precinct Barge Sinking in East River
21st Precinct Better Pigeon Drop Scheme
21st Precinct Body Found In Sewer
21st Precinct Body Under A Loading Dock
21st Precinct Cop Steals $700
21st Precinct Copperhead Snake Loose in New York
21st Precinct Edward Burgess Found Shot to Death
21st Precinct Eva Tarpin's Crazy Bother In Law
21st Precinct Family Fight Ends on The Roof
21st Precinct Furrier won't Return Coats
21st Precinct Kid Brother Suspected of Robberies
21st Precinct Lenwig Family Fued
21st Precinct Longer Pigeon Drop Scheme
21st Precinct Man Assaults Sixteen Year Old Girl
21st Precinct Merchandise Give Away
21st Precinct Missing Dynamite
21st Precinct Missing Persons Alarm for Old Man
21st Precinct Mrs. Whitney's Boxer Dog
21st Precinct Mrs.Weald Confesses
21st Precinct Old Man wants Pistol Permit Renewed
21st Precinct Phil Bolney Death
21st Precinct Policeman Shoots Boy Thief
21st Precinct Rich Man Dies in Cheap Rooming House
21st Precinct Rookie Cop Guards Prisoner
21st Precinct Shooting in Subway Station
21st Precinct Tailor Shop Con
21st Precinct Three Men Attempt Safe Burglary
21st Precinct Two Men In Stolen Cadillac
21st Precinct 531117 Case of the Basket
21st Precinct 540120 The Visitors
21st Precinct 540630 The Red Tiger
21st Precinct 540714 The Shotgun

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