Adam Graham
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Nick and Nora, preserved with context.
Adam Graham introduces surviving Thin Man radio mysteries, then lets Nick and Nora trade danger, flirtation, and fast comic timing. The show suits listeners who want old-time detective fiction with light framing around the broadcast rather than heavy analysis.
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Adam Graham presents The Thin Man radio material as part of the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio feed. The format is simple and archival. Graham opens from Boise, Idaho, offers brief context or listener correspondence, and then gives the surviving Thin Man stories room to play. The central pleasure is Nick and Nora in motion. They step through bedrooms, nightclubs, hotels, barns, music shops, and strange apartments with the same combination of curiosity and comic poise. The cases are busy. Recent episodes point toward moonlit intrusions, haunted hams, a missing dog tied to a fighter’s nerves, a boogie-woogie murder, an all-American menace, Nora’s night out, a glamorous clue, and a wandering corpse. Those titles are matched by excerpts full of stolen necklaces, threatening letters, guns, poisoned bodies, pickpockets, blackmail, and people who keep saying too much at exactly the wrong time. The tone stays nimble. Nick and Nora flirt while danger crowds the doorway, and the writing often lets a gag land in the middle of a clue. That gives the series a different flavor from harder-boiled detective radio. It is crime fiction, but it keeps one foot in screwball comedy. Graham’s role is not to remake the material in his own image. He supplies the connective tissue: comments from listeners, notes about actors, mentions of related old-time-radio programs, and occasional sponsor or broadcast context. The host’s delivery is plainspoken and steady. He treats the shows as entertainment worth preserving, not as museum objects under glass. The excerpts also show the messiness of rebroadcast podcasting, with period ads, modern ads, listener plugs, and archive housekeeping living beside the dramas themselves. That texture is part of the experience. The show is best approached as a guided shelf of Thin Man radio, where the detective story, the comedy marriage, and the old broadcast frame all matter. It gives a listener Nick and Nora’s sparkle without sanding away the age of the source material.
Made for: Suits a listener who wants old-time detective radio, especially Thin Man material, with enough hosting to orient the broadcast. It also fits anyone drawn to mystery plots that leave space for flirtation and comic timing.
What sets it apart: The focus is narrow: Thin Man radio stories gathered inside a broader old-time-radio detective archive. Graham’s framing adds preservation context and listener texture while keeping the original broadcasts at the center.
Host Adam Graham presents the two Thin Man Movie adaptations done by the Lux Radio Theater starring William Powell as well as every complete circulating episode of the radio series.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Adam Graham pairs Thin Man mysteries with broadcast context, preserving the comic rhythm between Nick and Nora Charles.
Adam Graham gives The Thin Man's radio mysteries room to play, framing each case before Nick and Nora Charles enter a world of stolen bodies, threatening letters, nightclub criminals and suspicious inheritances.
A rented corpse gives you a mystery with room for Nick and Nora to flirt.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
Moonlit banter and a dark-room intrusion keep Nick and Nora's case playful.
The episode leans on moonlight, an open window, and Nick Charles and Nora moving into a dark room where a sleeping man barely reacts. Big Ears Benny stays the main name in play, and the jail remark gives the moment a small comic edge without pushing the mystery much farther.
A final Thin Man outing that keeps its barnyard nonsense, sponsor patter, and Nick-and-Nora chemistry in the same room.
This final Thin Man outing folds a barnyard pitch session into a comic knot, with Nick and Nora Charles moving past cattle, exaggerated praise for Nora's looks, and the stagey radio patter that gives the series its easy rhythm.
A stolen dog sends Nick and Nora into a nightclub mix of banter, underworld talk, and a fight-night deadline.
The episode keeps things nimble, using a nightclub backdrop and brisk banter to follow Nick and Nora Charles as they look for a stolen dog tied to Atom Bomb Brickenhead and a fight tomorrow night.
A compact murder mystery driven by a threat letter and a typewriter match.
This episode leans into the sort of setup The Thin Man handles well: a dead wife, a threat letter, and a web of suspects around Nick Charles. Pat's evasions, tears, and odd lines add some bite, while the typewriter match between the letter in Mrs.
A poisoned Gilbert Rogers and a missing Caprini necklace keep this Thin Man mystery moving fast.
This Thin Man mystery centers on a poisoned Gilbert Rogers, a missing Caprini necklace, and a bedroom where the body is only the start of the trouble. Hugo Starnes remains at the center of the pressure, with Mrs. Starnes, a gun, and Mr.
A missing corpse brings Nick and Nora to a hotel where renting a body sounds like routine business.
A missing corpse sends Nick, Nora, and Ed Williams into the Luxury Deluxe Hotel, where Dippy Danny turns a grim premise into a comic bargain: a woman wanted to rent a dead body, and he found one for two dollars.
Mrs. Charles's bid to introduce two alleged relatives to Professor Wanger opens a compact identity puzzle.
Mrs. Charles pushes a supposed nephew and niece toward Professor Wanger with papers, family claims, and the immediate problem of shelter. Irwin stands in the way, and the professor's rule against seeing visitors only sharpens the odd little standoff.
Serialized pulp radio drama: Red Panda battles android-army supervillain Captain Clockwork in 1930s Toronto.
Adam Graham introduces a November 25, 1945 broadcast of The Thin Man and says only eight of the series' 359 network episodes survived.
The Thin Man episode 'The Adventure of the Haunted Hams' turns a barn fire, a summer-stock troupe, and a movie offer from Floyd Presney into one backstage comedy.
Adam Graham frames this July 6, 1948 Thin Man broadcast as an oddity, noting that only six pre-1948 episodes existed and that detective shows were pushed later at night because of violence concerns.
["Nick and Nora Charles enter Benjamin Bailey's Cadenza Record Shop, and a shot through the booth leaves one woman dead and a phonograph ruined.", "Adam Graham presents The Thin Man episode 'The Boogie Woogie Murder' on Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho and identifies Les Tremaine as Nick Charles.", "Graham says Tremaine also worked on One Man's Family, The Jackie Gleason Les Tremaine Show, and The Tremaines, and he dates the broadcast to 1945.", "The clues run through Patricia Gardner, Martin Curtis, Oliver Sawyer, typed threats for $10,000, Sing Sing papers, and Columbia psychology."]
Joanie Winslow tells Nick Charles she wants to kill decorator Alistair Florton because he wants to marry her.
Host Adam Graham introduces the episode 'Nora's Night Out' from the Thin Man radio series, with a brief appeal for donations to the Salvation Army.
The Thin Man: The Case of the Glamorous Clue follows Nick Charles and Nora Charles, voiced by David Gothard and Claudia Morgan, after Gilbert Rogers turns up dead in their apartment.
In The Great Detectives Present the Thin Man episode "The Case of the Wandering Corpse," Nick and Nora Charles investigate a missing husband after Gwen Gregg Gilroy discovers an empty coffin and a different body on her sofa.
Adam Graham introduces a 1942 Frontline Theater presentation of The Thin Man radio series, one of only eight surviving episodes from an estimated 351.