Show

Num of CDs

Num of Shows

Price

Boston Blackie

Blackie was a tough, wisecracking private detective working in New York, billed as “enemy to those who make him an enemy, friend to those who have no friend.” His specialty was making fools of the police, a simple task with Inspector Farraday heading the official investigations.

2

169

$7.50

Box 13

1

52

$5.50

Calling All Cars

3

258

$10.00

Casey Crime Photographer

1

72

$5.50

CBS Radio Mystery Theatre

22

1,400

$65.00

Cloak & Dagger -- Top Secret

1

47

$5.50

Clock, The

The Clock was a dramatic thirty-minute suspense and mystery series. It was written by Lawrence Klee and was first broadcast in November 1946. The story always began the same; “Sunrise and sunset, promise and fulfillment, birth and death … the whole drama of life is written in the sands of time”.

1

52

$5.50

Crime Does Not Pay

1

62

$5.50

Dick Tracy

1

73

$5.50

Dragnet

Dragnet was a thirty-minute police drama featuring actual cases taken from the files of the Los Angeles Police Department. Jack Webb directed Dragnet and also played Detective Sergeant Joe Friday, the star of the show, who had remained a bachelor and still lived at home with his mother. It was one of the first radio shows to break the silence against dramatizing sex crimes and child murders.

3

295

$10.00

Ellery Queen

1

127

$5.50

Hard-Boiled Detectives

1

99

$5.50

Molle's Mystery Theatre

1

51

$5.50

Mr. President

1

75

$5.50

Mysterious Traveler

Maurice Tarplin starred as the Mysterious Traveller in this supernatural drama series. The stories began; “This is the Mysterious Traveller, inviting you to join me on another journey into the strange and terrifying. I hope you will enjoy the trip, that it will thrill you a little and chill you a little. So settle back, get a good grip on your nerves, and be comfortable – if you can!"

1

73

$5.50

Mystery House & More

1

85

$5.50

Perry Mason

1

246

$5.50

Phillip Marlowe

This detective drama was based on the books written by Raymond Chandler. In it’s heyday it featured Gerald Mohr as the hard-boiled detective Philip Marlow, his voice perfectly carrying off the blood, guts and thunder frequenting the storylines. His opening to the show was one of the most memorable; “Get this and get it straight. Crime is a sucker’s road, and those who travel it end up in the gutter, the prison, or an early grave.”

2

131

$7.50

Police Headquarters - 21st Precinct

1

100

$5.50

Saint, The

A fascinating detective adventure series based on the books by Leslie Charteris. Edgar Barrier first played Simon Templar, aka The Saint, a debonair private detective in January 1945. He was then played by Brian Aherne in June 1945 and later Vincent Price from July 1947 up until May 1951. The Saint was said to have been like a modern day Robin Hood. He didn’t care for justice and always helped victims hindered by the law’s restrictions.

1

46

$5.50

Sam Spade

Sam Spade was a tough private investigator. Each case was unfolded as a report dictated to his secretary, Effie, who was always flustered and secretly in love with him. He always quoted his license number and referred to each investigation as a “caper”. Each report was dated with the actual airdate.

1

61

$5.50

Sergeant Preston

3

362

$10.00

Shadow of Fu Manchu

Fu Manchu was an evil Chinese physician bent on revenge after his wife was accidentally killed by a British officer during the Boxer Rebellion. Fu Manchu might have revolutionized science but chose the path of evil instead. Some of the weapons he devised included a snake in a cane handle, killer fungus and a green mist, which was delivered in letters. Once the letter was opened, green mist filled the room and killed everyone instantly.

1

85

$5.50

Shadow, The

The Shadow was amateur criminologist Lamont Cranston. He had learned “the hypnotic power to cloud men’s minds so that they cannot see him”. The opening to the show, “Who knows … what evil … lurks … in the heart of men? … The Shadow knows! His “friend and companion, the lovely Margo Lane, is the only person who knows to whom the voice of the invisible Shadow belongs”. Together they confront the maddest assortment of lunatics, sadists, ghosts and werewolves ever heard on the air.

3

238

$10.00

Sherlock Holmes

The famous Sherlock Holmes detective stories appeared on radio for more than 25 years, with a long list of performers playing the parts of Holmes and Dr Watson most notably Basil Rathbone & Nigel Bruce.

5

431

$15.00

Spies Old Time Radio Collection

5

427

$15.00

Third Man, The (aka Harry Lime)

1

77

$5.50

This is Your FBI

3

279

$10.00

Vanishing Point

1

95

$5.50

Whistler, The

The show first broadcast its fantastic thirty-minute crime mystery series in May 1942 and did not finish until September 1948. There were more than 450 shows of murder and intrigue in all. Although it ran for 6 years it was broadcast for only one year on a national network. The show opened to the sound of footsteps and an eerie whistle, which went on throughout the introductory music. The Whistler always began the show with the opening lines; I am the Whistler, and I know many things, for I walk by night. I know many strange tales, many secrets hidden in the hearts of men and women who have stepped into the shadows. Yes, I know the nameless terrors of which they dare not speak…”

5

498

$15.00

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar

Yours Truly Johnny Dollar was the last dramatic show on the air, closing down the art of dramatic network radio on September 30 1962. He was a freelance insurance investigator. The crime adventure series of nearly 300 episodes was based upon the experiences of his investigations and always began and ended with a statement of costs being posted. He was “the man with the action-packed expense account”. He was always ready to fly to the far corners of the country for a cut of recovered goods, had an analytical mind, a nose for trouble, and the brawn to take care of himself when the going got dirty and, he always lived to fight again and again.

5

695

$15.00