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Golden Radio Hour
Detective radio was one of the medium’s most durable forms, ranging from wisecracking private eyes to police case files and cerebral mystery solvers. This guide brings the major detective programs in the Golden Radio Hour archive together without replacing their individual show pages.
Program guides that represent this listening collection especially well.
PROGRAM GUIDEA detective drama about freelance insurance investigator Johnny Dollar, whose expense-account narration carries him through fraud, theft, missing persons, and murder cases…
PROGRAM GUIDERaymond Chandler's hard-boiled private detective Philip Marlowe investigates murder and corruption in Los Angeles, with Gerald Mohr giving the character his best-known…
PROGRAM GUIDEDick Powell stars as the quick-witted private eye Richard Diamond, whose murder cases combine hard-boiled detective plotting with humor, romance, and Diamond's…
PROGRAM GUIDEDashiell Hammett's private detective Sam Spade, played most famously by Howard Duff, recounts hard-boiled cases filled with murder, deception, eccentric suspects, and…
PROGRAM GUIDECrime adventures featuring Boston Blackie, a former jewel thief who uses his underworld knowledge to solve cases while frequently crossing paths with…
PROGRAM GUIDESydney Greenstreet stars as brilliant, eccentric detective Nero Wolfe, who prefers solving cases from his New York brownstone while his assistant Archie…
PROGRAM GUIDEA New York private-eye drama centered on Barrie Craig, a capable independent detective played by William Gargan, who takes on murder, fraud,…
PROGRAM GUIDEDetective adventures centered on Michael Waring, known as the Falcon, who investigates murders and other crimes in a long-running series that changed…
Representative recordings from the existing Golden Radio Hour episode archive.
Johnny heads to New York to protect a reporter friend whose investigation of a major story has already brought repeated attempts on his life.
Identical twin pianists, stolen money and a fatal case of mistaken identity give Marlowe a mystery in which appearances are especially unreliable.
The self-styled 'Gumball King' hires Sam to discover who is sabotaging his vending machines. When the businessman is murdered, the investigation shifts from petty vandalism to homicide, with…
A client dies in Diamond's office, leaving behind a carved ivory object that points toward an international mystery.
Blackie tries to clear a young woman accused of murder while a ruthless nightclub owner and Inspector Faraday complicate the case.
Wolfe follows a supposed treasure hunt through forged papers, a father's murder, and unexpectedly valuable stamps.
Start with the program guides below, then move directly into playable recordings. Hard-boiled private-eye stories have their own focused collection because listeners often search for that style specifically.
Programs can appear in more than one collection when the overlap is genuinely useful. A private-eye series can belong here, in Hard-Boiled Detectives, and later in a Private Detectives collection while still keeping one canonical show page.
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Bob Bailey
Gerald Mohr
Howard Duff
Dick Powell
William Gargan
Sydney Greenstreet