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Golden Radio Hour
A dramatized crime series produced with FBI cooperation, presenting cases involving espionage, kidnapping, fraud, organized crime, and other federal investigations.
Profiles shown here are linked only where the Golden Radio Hour catalog supports the association.
Available dates and episode numbers come from the verified catalog; undated recordings remain in their validated sort order.
An FBI operative infiltrates a Nazi espionage cell to stop its attempt to obtain secrets connected with the atomic bomb.
Agents investigate a lethal lonely-hearts scheme after a newly married farmer's suspicious death points to a marriage racket.
A supposedly patriotic veterans organization comes under FBI scrutiny, exposing fraud, internal betrayal and murder.
A wounded bank robber seizes an archaeological party in the desert, triggering an FBI pursuit through hostile country.
The Bureau probes a fraudulent bankruptcy at a fur company after a key credit employee disappears under suspicious circumstances.
A returning serviceman discovers that a fraudulent allotment wife and her partner are plotting to profit from his GI insurance.
Two teenage girls turn a fantasy of easy money and Hollywood excitement into a reckless interstate crime spree.
A boastful escape expert puts his elaborate prison-break plan to the test, convinced he can stay ahead of federal investigators.
The program follows the FBI's preparations before Pearl Harbor and its rapid wartime response to threats of sabotage and espionage.
A string of highway robberies leads agents to two criminals operating around a desert tourist camp, where the proprietor's wife carries a secret of her own.
A Christmas confidence trick aimed at an elderly woman becomes a trap for a seasoned swindler when the FBI closes in.
A killing aboard a freighter draws the FBI into an international scheme involving Nazi agents, stolen art and concealed identities.
A ruthless young hood rises through the post-World War I underworld, drawing increasingly serious attention from federal law enforcement.
The murder of an Alaskan assayer opens into a wider conspiracy involving another killing and an attempt to frame an innocent person.
Federal agents race to rescue an abducted high-school girl and capture the kidnapper before he can escape with her.
An escaped convict pressures a former associate and his family while an FBI bank-robbery investigation tightens around him.
A veteran's wartime Luger becomes evidence in a murder after a relative steals the souvenir weapon for a deadly purpose.
An FBI agent goes undercover in a coal mine to obtain proof against a man suspected of murdering his wife and hiding the crime with a fire.
After an honest detective is framed and shot while exposing a protected theft ring, the FBI takes on the corrupt network behind it.
Agents penetrate a Nazi intelligence operation in South America while also trying to solve a murder tied to the spy ring.
A deported criminal stages his own death at sea and hides with a fishing captain and his wife, setting off a federal manhunt.
Two confidence men lure returning veterans into investing in a fake airport and flying-school venture until the Bureau moves against them.
A newly paroled criminal engineers a bank robbery, eliminates accomplices and constructs a cover story that the FBI must dismantle.
Two escaped convicts kidnap a pair of teenagers and hide in an isolated wilderness cabin as federal agents search the area.
A pair of swindlers exploit servicemen desperate to reunite with overseas brides, bringing the fraudulent war-bride operation under FBI investigation.
Neglected teenagers drift into increasingly serious crime, forcing investigators to confront both the offenses and the failures at home behind them.
A woman seeking revenge on an unfaithful relative devises a scheme to frame him for hijacking and murder, but federal investigators begin pulling it apart.
A ransom kidnapping takes agents deep into the Florida Everglades as they race to locate the captive before time runs out.
An undercover agent penetrates a Nazi espionage organization whose activities have already become entangled with murder.
An older con artist and her musical partner sell a Texas oilman worthless leases in a ten-thousand-dollar confidence game.
A murder at a traveling carnival reveals a volatile love triangle and sends a fugitive fleeing from the FBI.
A bank embezzler and a confidence-man associate head for the racetrack, where greed and a double-cross help federal agents close the net.
A wounded bank robber seeks refuge at a remote farmhouse, where lies and violence turn the hideout into another murder case.
Two thieves pose as agricultural inspectors to steal livestock from farmers until their interstate racket attracts FBI attention.
A veteran and his wife encounter a kidnapping during a second honeymoon near a lighthouse and become unexpected pieces in the Bureau's case.
Held by violent jewel fences, an FBI agent uses his knowledge of flowers to leave colleagues a subtle clue to his location.
A respectable-looking married couple marks an anniversary with a major bond theft, only for betrayal and murder to fracture their criminal partnership.
Federal agents pursue a versatile pair of con artists whose surplus-property swindles rely on uniforms and false official identities.
A blackmail threat against a prominent family escalates into murder and leads the FBI into a carefully organized shakedown scheme.
A criminal tries to fake his own death and dispose of his partners, but a chain of double-crosses in the tropics brings the Bureau into the case.
