Adam Graham|Old Time Radio Detective Host
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Vintage radio cases, clipped and crooked.
Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2 presents serialized and standalone mystery dramas from old-time radio detective programs. Adam Graham introduces each case, adds context, and lets the interrogations, alibis, betrayals, and sponsor breaks carry the mood.
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Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2 collects vintage detective dramas with a steady editorial hand from Adam Graham. Each episode begins with a short frame from Boise, Idaho, often including listener comments, support acknowledgments, program notes, or context about the series being featured. Then the old cases take over. The rhythm is quick. A suspect lies, a detective presses, an alibi shifts, and the story moves on before the room has cooled. Gregory Hood supplies urbane suspicion, especially when the amateur sleuth becomes the man under police pressure. Johnny Dollar brings the insurance-investigator angle, where expense accounts, business grudges, romantic trouble, and missing serial chapters all become part of the case file. Nick Carter leans into private-detective peril, with arson, grief, gas, and improvised attacks folded into the mystery. Police Blotter stages its murder inside a theater, using dressing rooms, stagehands, dancers, and backstage grudges as the machinery of suspicion. Here Comes McBride adds a slicker social touch, letting flirtation and nightlife slide toward danger in the fog. The feed is not scrubbed into a modern audio drama shape. Old sponsor messages, donation appeals, travel plugs, app reviews, and social media reminders remain part of the listening texture. That can make the experience uneven, but it also preserves the broadcast flavor. The stories themselves are direct and physical. People are threatened, framed, blackmailed, accused, and caught in contradictions. The best stretches are interrogation volleys, where a small detail suddenly makes a confident witness look foolish. The collection favors plot pressure over atmosphere for its own sake. It also rewards patience with recurring characters and rotating series formats. Listeners get an archive, a guide, and a rotating lineup of radio detectives in one place. The result is a dry, busy, case-by-case tour through the habits and pleasures of old-time detective storytelling.
Made for: Best for listeners who enjoy classic detective fiction, radio-drama history, and compact mystery plots built around motive, alibi, and pressure. It also suits anyone comfortable with archival audio that keeps period commercials and host framing intact.
What sets it apart: The feed pairs a large rotating detective archive with Adam Graham's practical introductions and continuity notes. It preserves the original broadcast texture instead of smoothing every case into a modern true-crime or audio-fiction format.
Adam Graham continues his journey through Old Time Radio Detective programs from their first available adventure to their final bow in Seasons 4-6 which were released between 2012 and 2015, featuring nearly 1,000 Old Time Radio episodes. You can listen to the current podcast feed of The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio here.Picking up where we left off at the end of Volume 1, Volume 2 begins by continuing the Adventures of Frank Race, The Fat Man, Let George Do It, Sherlock Holmes (with John Stanley and later John Gielgud) and Yours Truly Johnny Dollar with John Lund.In this volume, we'll hear...
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Adam Graham gives vintage detective serials useful context while preserving their brisk interrogations, deceptive alibis, and sharply staged reveals.
Adam Graham frames old-time radio detective dramas with concise introductions, then lets their interrogations, reversals, and cliffhangers take over.
A false alibi starts sweating under questions, and you get the pleasure of hearing every crack.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A witness's lie is what cracks the case open.
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar works best when it leans on pressure rather than spectacle. As the witness is pressed harder, the story starts to show its seams, and the payoff lands because Johnny's bluff has somewhere to go.
A brisk detective case built around a warehouse fire, stolen money, and a sudden getaway.
The episode keeps its focus tight: a warehouse fire, stolen money, and a suspect who says the dead woman planned to leave once she learned how much old Oscar Warren had taken.
A brisk mystery built on grief, debt, and a patent that keeps turning up as motive.
Police Blotter: Homicide by Hurricane is a hard-boiled tangle of grief, debt, and a patent that matters more as leverage than as invention. Ben Costa is dead, his wife is about to file for divorce, and the case keeps circling the usual old-radio pressure points: a lawyer with…
A hard-edged Johnny Dollar finish, then Manhunt opens with a family feud and period radio tension.
Johnny Dollar starts in Panama and closes by letting the lead sit with sadness, anger, and confusion before he lands on the plain fact that Ed was his friend. The ending feels earned, and it keeps the pulp edge that makes the series work.
A brisk inheritance mystery that stays sharp even when the obvious answer arrives early.
Monkey Sees Murder moves quickly through a disputed estate, a brother with another name, and a fugitive angle that comes into focus almost at once. The pace does a lot of the work.
Smoking guns, dead worms and a sidekick with jokes.
Golden-age radio, back in the living room.
Serialized pulp radio drama: Red Panda battles android-army supervillain Captain Clockwork in 1930s Toronto.
Deborah Treisman and a guest writer read and dissect one archival short story monthly.
Mike Muncer and a different guest dissect two horror films per episode, by subgenre.
This episode discusses the history of the radio show 'Casebook of Gregory Hood,' including its origins as a summer replacement for Sherlock Holmes and details about its cast and lost episodes.
This episode features the classic radio detective series 'Yours Truly Johnny Dollar' with the story 'Meg's Palace Matter, Parts One and Two', introduced by host Adam Graham who promotes travel deals through a sponsor.
This episode of Police Blotter features a substitute detective investigating a murder at the Windsor, with Sergeant Sam Willoughby standing in for the vacationing Sergeant Pratt Peters.
Martha's alibi gives way under pressure.
Alfred Herman is found breathing gas, but Nick Carter drags him out of his misery and into Jenny's murder.
A podcast featuring classic detective audio dramas from old-time radio, with episodes from series like Frank Race and Sherlock Holmes.
Host Adam Graham introduces the final episode of the Casebook of Gregory Hood, an old-time radio detective drama.
This episode features a collection of classic detective radio dramas from the golden age of radio.
Ben Costa is dead.
This episode of Great Detectives of Old Time Radio presents two vintage American radio dramas with host commentary from Adam Graham in Boise, Idaho.
Nick Carter gets a suspect who looks almost too easy.
This episode continues the detective story 'The Confidential Matter' featuring Johnny Dollar investigating a case involving the late Mr.
This episode of 'The Casebook of Gregory Hood' presents a classic radio detective mystery titled 'The Forgetful Murderer', featuring host Adam Graham introducing the show and its sponsors.
This episode features the classic radio drama 'Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Confidential Matter, Parts One and Two' as part of a podcast dedicated to old-time detective radio shows.
This episode previews the old-time radio detective series 'Mr.
Host Adam Graham introduces an episode of an old-time radio detective drama, 'The Murdering Mercer's Malingering Case', from 1952.
Host Adam Graham introduces an episode of Great Detectives of Old Time Radio, discussing the career of actor Lon Clark and promoting his essay on the golden age of entertainment.
Host Adam Graham introduces an episode of Miss Pinkerton Incorporated from 1941, part of a series featuring classic detective radio dramas.
Host Adam Graham introduces and plays an episode of the old time radio detective series Mr.
Host Adam Graham introduces an adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 'The Lost Special' as an epilogue to a Sherlock Holmes series.
This episode features classic detective audio dramas from old-time radio, specifically parts of 'The Kalen Matter' starring Johnny Dollar.
This episode features an old-time radio detective drama, 'The Bezaloff Papers,' starring Mr.
Host Adam Graham introduces an episode of old-time radio detective dramas, with listener support and episode requests.
Host Adam Graham introduces and plays an episode of the old-time radio detective show 'The Lineup' titled 'The Pixie Picker Pickle Case.'
This episode features a sample of old-time radio detective audio dramas, with an ad for AutoCamp and Brightview Senior Living.
Host Adam Graham introduces and plays the final episode of the John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson Sherlock Holmes series, The Empty House.
Host Adam Graham introduces and plays an episode of the old-time radio detective series 'Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar'.
This episode features the old-time radio detective drama 'Mr.
This episode features a classic Johnny Dollar detective audio drama from old-time radio, introduced by host Adam Graham.
This episode features a classic old-time radio detective drama, 'The Lineup', introduced by host Adam Graham.
A classic old-time radio detective drama episode, preceded by a Ben & Jerry's ad.