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	Adventures of the Abbotts 17 Episodes 1 Volume The Adventures of the Abbotts stars Claudia Morgan and Les Damon as the husband and wife detective team, Jean and Pat Abbott. In each episode, Jean helps her husband, a well-renowned San Franciscan private eye, to solve yet another mystery.	17	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Adventures of Ellery Queen 19 Episodes 1 Volume A writer who solve mysteries as well as writing them, Ellery Queen brought forth the puzzles of crime fiction. Ellery Queen was an author who solved mysteries in his spare time and then wrote about his harrowing adventures; his sidekick was his own father, Richard Queen.	19	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Box 13 52 Episodes 1 Volume Alan Ladd in Box 13 found adventures that did not depend on a new corpse every week. Dan Holiday, retired newspaper man turned fiction writer and adventurer extraordinaire. To gain ideas for his books, he places an ad in the paper "Adventure wanted – will go anywhere, do anything – Box 13."	52	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Amazing Mr Malone 18 Episodes 1 Volume Whis old time radio gripping crime drama stars Frank Lovejoy as a Chicago Crime-Fighting Lawyer!	18	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Avengers - SA 110 Episodes 1 Volume Part James Bond, part Wonder Woman, The Avengers epitomized Sixties British Cool on the small screen. The infrastructure for TV broadcasting was slow to be adopted in South Africa, but they had this terrific version of The Avengers from Springbok Radio.	110	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Best of Dragnet 53 Episodes 1 Volume Original Compilation of OTRCAT's favorite Dragnet Episodes!	53	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Black Book (The Man in Black) 7 Episodes 1 Volume Hosted by Paul Frees, this talent filled old time radio show features the stories of almost perfect crimes asking audiences to listen for the criminal's mistake.	7	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Black Museum 51 Episodes 1 Volume Orson Welles stars in "The Black Museum. A Repository of Death. Here in the grim stone structure on the Thames which houses Scotland Yard is a warehouse of homicide, where every day objects ... all touched by murder."	51	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Blackstone Magic Detective 55 Episodes 1 Volume The Hero used his knowledge of Illusions to prove that Mysteries were not magic. Follow Blackstone, Rhoda, and John's tales of adventure and how magic saved the day.	55	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Bulldog Drummond 34 Episodes 1 Volume Follow the detective adventures of Bulldog Drummond who has "the appearance of an English gentleman: a man who fights hard, plays hard and lives clean."	34	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Danger Doctor Danfield 26 Episodes 1 Volume Let Dr. Dan Danfield, criminal psychologist, give you a little of a criminal psychologist's caseload.	26	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Danger with Granger 36 Episodes 1 Volume Steve Granger was a typical Hard Boiled detective. Danger With Granger is filled with twists, turns, and double crosses. Granger assures us that each episode is "one of my most interesting cases."	36	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Diamond Dramas 26 Episodes 1 Volume Enjoy these tales of a Girl's Best Friend in Delightful Diamond Dramas! Bling, BLING!	26	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Dick Tracy 70 Episodes 1 Volume Dick Tracy came from the comic strips to the radio in this great serial. He still fights bizarre villains and the 15 minute shows are filled with cliff-hangers. Tune In!	70	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Did Justice Triumph 13 Episodes 1 Volume Follow police investigators as they move through crime scenes, question witnesses and suspects, and solve real crimes in this rare crime drama.	13	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Doctor Tim Detective 9 Episodes 1 Volume Dr. Tim, Detective is a great lesson in medicine and health issues for kids, disguised as a detective show. Education is more fun if you get it while solving mysteries!	9	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Drug Store 24 Episodes 1 Volume From Peavey's Pharmacy on The Great Gildersleeve to the mysterious ingredients used by The Green Hornet, the local drug store was a place to meet, greet, grab a chocolate malt, and maybe solve a mystery or two.	24	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Epic Casebook 49 Episodes 1 Volume Clever South African Inspector Carr Investigates in this Popular Detective Drama!	49	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Fat Man 47 Episodes 1 Volume Although he is a product of pulp-writer Dashiel Hammett, it is hard to say whether The Fat Man is a hardboiled or softboiled detective. Either way, his stories make for some delicious mysteries.	47	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Frank Merriwell 39 Episodes 1 Volume Now with double the number of episodes: "An echo of the past, an exciting past, a romantic past, the era of horse and carriage, gas lit streets, and free-for-all football games. The era of one of the most beloved heroes of American fiction, Frank Meriwell."	39	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Frank Race 43 Episodes 1 Volume With a "James Bond meets Johnny Dollar" cachet, The Adventures of Frank Race follows a former OSS officer around the world from one scrape to another and in and out of the arms of another pretty girl.	43	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Front Page Farrell 9 Episodes 1 Volume Who says you need a cop or a hard-boiled detective to catch the bad guys? Sometimes all it takes is a dedicated newspaperman seeking the truth, like Front Page Farrell.	9	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Fu Manchu (Shadow of Fu Manchu) 92 Episodes 1 Volume The Shadow of Dr. Fu Manchu is a diabolically fun mystery serial from the late 1930's.	92	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Ghost Corp 26 Episodes 1 Volume Before the days of OPEC, terrorists and big oil, the Middle East was a land of mystery filled with mosques, bazaars, palaces and magic. It was also the stomping grounds of KC Smith and The Ghost Corp.	26	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Green Lama 5 Episodes 1 Volume After spending ten years in Tibet and becoming a mystic, Jethro Dumont returns to America to fight crime as The Green Lama.	5	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Harry Lime (The Third Man) 52 Episodes 1 Volume Orson Welles played the lovable scoundrel Harry Lime in the film noir The Third Man, and later brought the role to radio in The Adventures of Harry Lime. Whether he is more lovable more scoundrel is open to debate, but he is always entertaining.	52	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Hercule Poirot 13 Episodes 1 Volume Hercule Poirot is the greatest detective ever? Certainly a gripping favorite from Agatha Christie!	13	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Hidden Truth 10 Episodes 1 Volume Based on the case files of Leonard Keeler, the man who invented the polygraph lie detector, this South African drama seeks to reveal The Hidden Truth.	10	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	In the Name of the Law 12 Episodes 1 Volume Using original police reports as a story source, In the Name of the Law showcased police work before WWII.	12	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Incredible But True 80 Episodes 1 Volume Sometimes the harder a story is to believe, the better audiences like it! Incredible But True used a short format to titillate listeners along with droning organ music and a touch of the supernatural.	80	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Jeff Regan Investigator 36 Episodes 1 Volume The Ladies Love Jack Webb as a Private Eye! An OTRCAT Favorite!	36	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Johnny Modero 3 Episodes 1 Volume Jack Webb early detective Favorite!	3	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Leonidas Witherall 7 Episodes 1 Volume Who would make a better soft-boiled detective than a New England Boy's School instructor and part time mystery writer? That is exactly what you get in The Adventures of Leonidas Witherall.	7	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Life in Your Hands 14 Episodes 1 Volume Rather than the usual formula for a murder mystery, A Life In Your Hands takes the listener into the courtroom where the evidence is presented, and then they can decide for themselves whodunit.	14	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Maisie 85 Episodes 1 Volume Part big city adventure, part romance, part situation comedy, The Adventures of Maisie starring Ann Sothern was the story of a “liberated” single girl in post-War America.	85	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Mandrake the Magician 32 Episodes 1 Volume Juvenile Adventure series, many of Mandrake's foes were agents of Fascism and Nazism and he spent more time chasing saboteurs and submarines than we would expect for a stage magician.	32	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Mr Moto 13 Episodes 1 Volume Originally created as a Western Propaganda figure before the War, Mr. Moto lived on in OTR as an American agent in the fight against Communist expansion.	13	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Murder Clinic 7 Episodes 1 Volume Famous Fictional and Mysterious Murders and the Detectives that Solved Them	7	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Murder at Midnight 44 Episodes 1 Volume The Witching Hour is a great time to be awake, listening to the radio and being frightened out of your wits, because there is usually Murder at Midnight.	44	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Murder by Experts 15 Episodes 1 Volume Top writers in the history of mystery and the show exhibits some of the best mystery writing known on radio.	15	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Mystery is My Hobby 78 Episodes 1 Volume Author Barton Drake in Mystery is My Hobby goes around solving murders almost on a whim.	78	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Nero Wolfe 27 Episodes 1 Volume Nero Wolfe may have been one of the most eccentric detectives in fiction, but he was also one of the most effective. The Adventures of Nero Wolfe aired in different versions from 1943 to 1951.	27	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Nick Harris Detective 13 Episodes 1 Volume Super Sleuth Solves Los Angeles Crimes	13	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Night Editor 31 Episodes 1 Volume Pour yourself a delicious cup of coffee and enjoy these yarns from the files of The Night Editor.	31	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Nightwatch 49 Episodes 1 Volume Ride along with Culver City Police Officers in real recordings from the squad car.	49	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Perry Mason (Poor Sound Quality) 253 Episodes 1 Volume There was a lot more to Radio's Perry Mason than the thoughtful and proper courtroom genius Raymond Burr portrayed on TV. The radio Mason was as likely to answer a slight with gunshots as an "objection, your Honor."	253	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Phyl Coe Mysteries 12 Episodes 1 Volume Pretty but fictional Phyl Coe solved mysteries while pitching Philco Radio Tubes for her sponsor on The Phyl Coe Mysteries.	12	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Police Headquarter 39 Episodes 1 Volume Twists and turns in plot are as many as fast as possible in these 15-minute series about Police HQ.	39	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Pursuit 23 Episodes 1 Volume Follow the adventures of Inspector Peter Black of Scotland Yard in "relentless, dangerous pursuit... When man hunts man!"	23	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Random Rarities 01 79 Episodes 1 Volume Very enjoyable collection of rare shows!	79	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Random Rarities 04 50 Episodes 1 Volume A Compilation of Rare Old Time Radio Series!	50	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Random Rarities 05 48 Episodes 1 Volume More Never before Released Rare Shows with Shows -- An OTRCAT Exclusive!	48	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Rarities Adventure Detective 73 Episodes 1 Volume There were a lot of great programs that never got a green light for full scale production or where all but one of two episodes have been lost. This collection is of detective and adventure show rarities.	73	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Reefer Madness 68 Episodes 1 Volume It was obvious to anyone who looked that dope was going to be the scourge of youth. For proof, look no further than our Reefer Madness Collection.	68	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Renfrew Mounted 5 Episodes 1 Volume Exciting Adventure show about the Royal Mounted Police	5	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Results Inc 3 Episodes 1 Volume A Hard Boiled Detective can't take himself too seriously if he is going to make it on the mean streets, but Johnny Strange of Results Inc goes for the laughs as much as he goes for his gun!	3	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Rex Saunders 14 Episodes 1 Volume Starring Rex Harrison and directed by Himan Brown, Rex Saunders is a classic detective show with a British twist.	14	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Ripleys One Minute Shorts 416 Episodes 1 Volume Some of Ripley’s best Believe It Or Nots presented in just a minute in syndication with space for local advertisers to add their message.	416	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Rogues Gallery 32 Episodes 1 Volume Rogue's Gallery featured detective Richard Rogue (first played by Dick Powell) and his often annoying alter ego, Eugor.	32	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Salute to Law 13 Episodes 1 Volume A crime and police drama a la Dragnet and Calling all Cars, A Salute to Law features Nick Harris catching those who are guilty of "the folly of committing crime.Slightly different in tone to the aforementioned series, A Salute to Law stressed an overarching moralistic theme in regards to crime and punishment.	13	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Sam Spade 79 Episodes 1 Volume Created by Dashiell Hammett, Howard Duff appears in this action-packed old time radio show full of dames, wisecracks, adventure, and laughs.	79	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Secret Agent K7 Returns 69 Episodes 1 Volume As the clouds of War gathered over Europe, Americans began to worry about spies, aliens and Secret Operatives. See how we face our fears when Secret Agent K-7 Returns!	69	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Secrets Scotland Yard 58 Episodes 1 Volume Crimes seem so much creepier when they occur in jolly old England. That is the draw for the syndicated Secrets of Scotland Yard.	58	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Shorty Bell Cub Reporter 5 Episodes 1 Volume Mickey Rooney Stars As Boisterious and Runty Would-be Reporter	5	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Silent Men 27 Episodes 1 Volume High adventure behind enemy lines based on true stories as Douglas Fairbanks Jr stars in The Silent Men.	27	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Spy Catcher 24 Episodes 1 Volume Based on the memoirs of an actual agent of the Allied Counterintelligence Service, Spy Catcher combines cloak and dagger with psychological drama.	24	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Standby for Crime 27 Episodes 1 Volume Done with the barebones "just the facts" style that made Dragnet a runaway hit, Standby For Crime follows a radio newsman and his girl Friday as they dig into the city's seedy underbelly.	27	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Strange Wills 28 Episodes 1 Volume A will gives the power of an often evil genius to act "from beyond the grave!"	28	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Suspicion 31 Episodes 1 Volume Suspicion was not your regular whodunit radio show. On the air in the mid 1930s, the show featured murder and mayhem like normal but there was no solution at the end.	31	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Tales of Fatima 2 Episodes 1 Volume Basil Rathbone and His Sly Detective Eye!	2	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Tales Foreign Service 18 Episodes 1 Volume Broadcast as a summer replacement series just after the end of the War, Tales of the Foreign Service showed how to serve the country through diplomatic service instead of with a gun.	18	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Mermaids 9 Episodes 1 Volume Originally the product of seafarer's overactive and superstitious imaginations, mermaids are now an allegory for any time we associate a pretty girl with the water.	9	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	That Hammer Guy (Mike Hammer) 14 Episodes 1 Volume Of all of the hard-boiled detectives in fiction, the hardest-boiled was Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer. Naturally, That Hammer Guy was going to end up on the radio, as it turned out he was a West Coast sensation over the Don Lee/Mutual network.	14	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	That Strong Guy 7 Episodes 1 Volume By the mid 1950’s, audiences had a pretty good idea of what to expect from a private eye on the radio, and That Strong Guy, Steve Strong, didn’t disappoint, with a stiff uppercut for those who didn’t see things his way.	7	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Thin Man 12 Episodes 1 Volume This series follows an ex-detective, Nick Charles, and his sophisticated, glamorous, wealthy wife, Nora Charles, on their escapades to unravel mystery where ever it may lie by sleuthing and solving murders; billed the "happiest married couple in radio."	12	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Thrills Highway Patrol 5 Episodes 1 Volume Follow the Men in Uniform on California's Streets!	5	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Top Secret 16 Episodes 1 Volume Cloak and dagger intrigue and a thick Hungarian accent were the ingredients for Ilona Massey to foil Nazi spy rings and slip across Europe like it was an espionage playground in Top Secret.	16	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Topper 4 Episodes 1 Volume What do you do if you think you’re at the top of your game, but the ghosts who live in your house keep making life “interesting”? Find out in The Adventures of Topper.	4	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	True Detective Mysteries 14 Episodes 1 Volume True Detective Mysteries radio series was based on the "True Detective magazine. Later it was sponsored by Listerine and Oh Henry Candy, but kept the same name. Each week the show presented the "case history of an actual crime. Many were told from the criminal's point of view.	14	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Unexpected 39 Episodes 1 Volume The fifteen minute format lends itself to quickly drawn weird stories, with a twist ending, so that the listener gets a sudden shock, like all good scary tales should deliver.	39	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Unsolved Mysteries 12 Episodes 1 Volume Truth IS Stranger than Fiction--Your Skin will Creep!	12	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Up for Parole 10 Episodes 1 Volume Based on Authentic Parole Cases!	10	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Saint (Vincent Price) 65 Episodes 1 Volume Vincent Price as The Saint would rather toss off a witty remark than engage in fisticuffs, but his suave charm nets as many pretty girls as any hardboiled dick.	65	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Whitehall 1212 43 Episodes 1 Volume What is more exciting than crime drama? Crime drama which is based on actual case files. Just dial Whitehall 1212 to get in touch with Scotland Yard and enjoy some of the most baffling cases ever faced by London’s Finest.	43	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Candy Matson 14 Episodes 1 Volume A ringing telephone and a sexy voice answers… "Candy Matson, YU 2-8209," and then the organ swells into the theme song, "Candy." Why couldn't an intelligent, knockout of a blond get the scoop on crime as smartly as any man? Candy Matson was as good an answer as was ever on radio.	14	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Case Dismissed 12 Episodes 1 Volume A Show about the Law and Liberty that We Hold Dear--Order in the Court!	12	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Casebook of Gregory Hood 20 Episodes 1 Volume Beginning as a replacement of The New Adventures of Sherlock Holme, The Casebook of Gregory Hood developed into an original crime drama in its own right	20	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Charlie Chan 60 Episodes 1 Volume With requisite Chinese chords and stings from the organist we have several selections from the casebook of the Incomparable Charlie Chan, Detective, Philosopher, and Modern Chinese Sage.	60	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Cloak and Dagger 22 Episodes 1 Volume Most spy stories are pure fiction, but Cloak and Dagger is the real deal! Taken from the files of the OSS, precursor the CIA, the show highlights the exploits of men who go into danger for their country.	22	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Crime and Peter Chambers 22 Episodes 1 Volume Dane Clark plays the role of Peter Chambers, the playboy detective with an eye for solving crime and a taste for beautiful women.	22	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Crime Club 31 Episodes 1 Volume There was a new Crime Club book "every week, at bookstores everywhere." The old time radio show to tantalize potential purchasers with half hour radio adaptations of the books.	31	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Crime Doctor 4 Episodes 1 Volume The Crime Dr of Suspense and Intrigue is IN; Take Two Radio Shows and Call Me in the Morning!	4	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Rocky Fortune 25 Episodes 1 Volume Frank Sinatra took a short break from his singing career to star as a "taker of odd jobs" in the semi-hard-boiled Rocky Fortune.	25	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Kitty Keene 4 Episodes 1 Volume Kitty Keene, a former Ziegfeld Follies' showgirl, solved crime with an equal amount of toughness and purrfection.	4	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Its a Crime Mr Collins 23 Episodes 1 Volume The crime busting couple treks all over the world solving crime from the American Southwest fighting "plumb loco disease", to French Rivera solving gangster crime, or an Island in the Florida Keys solving murder in the humid air.	23	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Somebody Knows 10 Episodes 1 Volume Summer replacement series for Suspense with the premise was that there are no perfect crimes, that someone, somewhere, could have the one missing clue.	10	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Big Guy 3 Episodes 1 Volume Follows the adventures of single dad detective, Joshua Sharp who wears size 902 in a triple D shoe.	3	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Cases of Mr Ace 4 Episodes 1 Volume This smartly written detective show stars as George Raft as Mr. Ace of sole owner Ace Detective Agency.	4	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	Martin Kane Private Eye 3 Episodes 1 Volume is a smooth New York private eye with a nose for crime.	3	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
	I Deal In Crime 3 Episodes 1 Volume has all the right stuff for a perfect detective show including gangs, dames, and descriptive narrative. William Gargan is best known for his character roles as a detective or private investigator.	3	1	Add To Cart: $5.00
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