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  • The Road to the Valentine Matter
    Sep 7 2025
    Today we take a look at the evolution of E. Jack Neumann's story that became the five-part Johnny Dollar serial.

    Jeff Regan: The Man in the Church

    Regan is hired for a simple job of delivering $5,000 to a man, but finds himself wanted for murder.

    Original Air Date: October 12, 1949

    Starring: Frank Graham as Jeff Regan; Frank Nelson; William Conrad; Sidney Miller

    Night Beat: Big John McMasters

    Randy Stone befriends an old-time racketeer and becomes concerned when he is shot.

    Original Air Date: March 4, 1951

    Starring: Frank Lovejoy as Randy Stone; William Conrad; Tudor Owen

    Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The San Antonio MatterJohnny goes to Saint Petersburg to investigate the killing of a mobster.

    Original Air Date: April 28, 1953

    Starring: John Lund as Johnny Dollar; John McIntire; Joseph Kearns; Jeanette Nolan; Virginia Gregg; Jay Novello

    Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Valentine Matter

    After investigating a hotel theft in New Orleans, Johnny befriends an old-time bootlegger in a bar.

    Original Air Dates: October 31-November 4, 1955

    Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Lillian Buyeff; Betty Lou Gerson; Barney Phillips; Will Wright; Forrest Lewis; Marvin Miller; Jay Novello; Jack Moyles

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    2 h et 45 min
  • The Hardy Family: The Case of the Missing Warehouse
    Aug 31 2025
    Today's Mystery: Andy Hardy takes a job as a night watchman only to seemingly have the whole warehouse he's guarding disappear.

    Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 10, 1951

    Originating from Hollywood

    Starring: Mickey Rooney as Andy Hardy; Fay Holden; Lewis Stone; Eleanore Tanin; Richard Krenna; Eleanore Tanin

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    34 min
  • Screen Director’s Playhouse: D.O.A.
    Aug 17 2025
    Release Date: May 07, 2011

    A man (Edmund O’Brien) is poisoned and spends his last days trying to find the man who murdered him.

    Original Air Date: June 21, 1951

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    1 h et 4 min
  • Screen Guild Theatre: The Mask of Demetrios
    Aug 1 2025
    Release Date: February 26, 2011

    A mystery writer (Peter Lorre) tries to unravel the truth about Demetrios, an international criminal of legendary proportion. In the course of this search, he garners the interest of another mystery man (Sidney Greenstreet).

    Original Air Date: April 16, 1945

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    33 min
  • Mercury Theatre on the Air: The Man Who Was Thursday
    Jul 11 2025
    Release Date: December 18, 2010

    In G.K. Chesterton’s classic, Gabriel Syme (Orson Welles) is a police detective infiltrating the anarchist counsel of Europe.

    Original Air Date: September 5, 1938

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    1 h et 3 min
  • World's Great Novels: The Moonstone, Part Four
    Jun 26 2025
    Today's Mystery: An experiment reveals how the diamond got out of Rachel Verinder's cabinet. But where is it now?

    Original Air Date: April 23, 1948

    Originating from Chicago

    Starring: Sherman Marks as Gabriel Betterridge; Arthur Sedgewick as Sergeant Cuff; Charles Mountain as Franklin Blake, Jonathan Hull, Dick York, Donald Gallagher, Boris Aplon, Marvin Peisner

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    35 min
  • World's Great Novels: The Moonstone, Part Three
    Jun 19 2025
    Today's Mystery: After a tragic suicide, Sergeant Cuff's dismissed with the theft of the Moonstone still unsolved. A year later, someone else picks up the investigation.

    Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 16, 1948

    Originating from Chicago

    Starring: Sherman Marks as Gabriel Betterridge; Arthur Sedgewick as Sergeant Cuff; Charles Mountain as Franklin Blake; Geraldine Kaye as Rachel Verinder; Alma Fox; Jane Elliot; Ruth Shane; Minion Shriver; Sidney Breese; Arthur Peterson, Maurice Copeland

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    34 min
  • World's Great Novels: The Moonstone, Part Two
    Jun 12 2025
    Today's Mystery: England's greatest detective is called in to recover the Moonstone.

    Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 9, 1948

    Originating from Chicago

    Starring: Sherman Marks as Gabriel Betterridge; Arthur Sedgewick as Sergeant Cuff; Charles Mountain as Franklin Blake; Geraldine Kaye as Rachel Verinder; Alma Fox; Jane Elliot; Ruth Shane; Minion Shriver; Sidney Breese; Les Spears

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    36 min