Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio! A podcast featuring the best vintage detective radio programs. Each week from Monday through Saturday, we feature six of Old Time Radio's great detective series from the beginning of the show to its very last episode. And as a bonus, twice a month we also post a public domain movie or TV mystery or detective show video.
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YOURS TRULY, JOHNNY DOLLAR THE FALCON BROADWAY’S MY BEAT DRAGNET MR. CHAMELEON BULLDOG DRUMMOND… and more!
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Amazing World of Radio, Lux Radio Theatre, Podcast
AWR0049: Lux Radio Theater: Casablanca
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A cafe owner (Alan Ladd) meets the woman (Hedy Lamar) who left him on the day the Nazis entered Paris in wartime Casablanca.
Original Air Date: January 24, 1944
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Air Mail Mystery, OTR Detective, Podcast, Syndicated
EP2548: Air Mail Mystery Episodes 11-13
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Irene Delroy gets a shocking revelation regarding what happened to Andy Andrews, meanwhile her boyfriend Jimmy Gifford has flown into danger in pursuit of the gang.
Original Air Date: 1932
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CBS, Keen and Company, Mister Keen, Mr. Keen Tracer of Lost Persons, OTR Detective, Podcast
EP2547: Mister Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons: The Case of the Glamorous Widow
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A woman asks Mister Keen to try to find who murdered her employer, a thirty-year-old, beautiful, rich woman.
Original Air Date: May 23, 1946
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Boston Blackie, Podcast, Video Theater
Video Theater 0134: Boston Blackie: Death Does a Rumba
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Blackie investigates the murder of a waiter.
Original Air Date: January 2, 1953
Season 2, Episode 12
Dragnet, NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, Procedural
EP2546: Dragnet: The Big Bop
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Friday and Smith investigate a series of check cashing store robberies.
Original Air Date: September 1, 1953
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Audio Drama Review, Golden Age Article
Audio Drama Review: Jago and Litefoot Forever
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Jago and Litefoot was one of the finest speculative fiction audio drama series ever made. It featured veteran actors Christopher Benjamin and Trevor Baxter in the leading roles of theater impresario Henry Gordon Jago and pathologist Professor George Litefoot. The two first played the roles in the 1977 Doctor Who Story, “The Talons of Weng-Chiang” and were first reunited in the one-off pilot story, “The Mahogany Murderers.” We’ve discussed the series in depth before.
Baxter’s death in 2017 meant the end of the series, which had finished its 13th series on a cliffhanger.
Jago and Litefoot Forever offers fans one last chance to say goodbye. The aftermath of Series Thirteen was resolved through exposition by Jago. Professor Litefoot has disappeared. Jago looks for him with the help of old friends but finds his memory starting to fade. The plot has some nice twists and a few red herrings thrown in to keep the listener guessing. For Jago and Litefoot, the plot is about average, though with some high points in it.
Much of the running time is taken up by flashback scenes as Jago and other characters recall past adventures. Professor Litefoot is given a part in the proceedings by copying dialogue from previous stories into this one. Writer Paul Morris went through the more than sixty scripts that’d been performed over the years to find lines he could give the Professor. The unavoidable flaw with this approach is that often Litefoot’s delivery feels unnatural to the context of the play.
With the use of clips and previously recorded dialogue, the cynic might compare this to Trail of the Pink Panther, the critically panned sixth Pink Panther film made after star Peter Sellers died. Trail used clips of previous Pink Panther movies and outtakes from previous films. It’s a point that producer David Richardson addresses in the extras. Despite the superficial similarity, Jago and Litefoot is something entirely different.
The writing is still solid, if not remarkable. Other than the somewhat awkward use of Baxter’s old lines, the production values remain high. The release succeeds as a tribute to Baxter and to the series with the return of several beloved guest stars, including Doctor Who Actor Colin Baker and Louise Jameson (who played the Fourth Doctor’s companion Leela). The ending also serves as a nice capstone for the series.
The release comes with some nice extras. The CD release includes the first CD release of the Jago and Litefoot short story, “The Jago and Litefoot Revival” which is read by Baxter and Benjamin. It tells of the two Victorian Adventurers meeting with the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors from the revived series. The behind-the-scenes extras include interviews with all the principles. The extras give insight into the making of the release as well as what would have been in the Fourteenth Series. There’s also a lovely variation on the theme by composer Jamie Robertson.
Jago and Litefoot Forever was made with obvious love and respect for the series. It’s not intended for new listeners. However, for long-time fans, it provides a chance to properly say goodbye to a great series and is definitely worth a listen.
Rating: 4.0 out of 5.0
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CBS, OTR Detective, Podcast, Yours Truly Johnny Dollar
EP2545: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Medium Rare Matter
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Johnny heads to Corpus Christi to expose a medium who became the beneficiary of several of his followers’ before they died unexpectedly.
Original Air Date: October 8, 1961
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