Video Theater – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio

A beloved local doctor’s death is initially thought to be a heart attack, but it quickly becomes apparent that someone murdered him. Season 1, Episode 22 Original Air Date: February 22, 1957

An old friend of Mike’s dies why telling him about a racket he’s about his reveal. Mike travels to Lisbon to find who killed his friend. Original Air Date: December 5, 1958 Season 1, Episode 8

Friday and Smith try to recover a stolen statue of the child Jesus for a church before the Christmas Mass. Original Air Date: December 24, 1953 Season 3, Episode 17

A serial killer threatens to get Holmes before he’s executed. Episode 23 of the 1954-55 Sherlock Holmes series. Original Air Date: April 4, 1955

Two bank robbers are plotting at a bank robbery at the county seat, but the sheriff begins to suspect of robbing another bank at the other end of the County. Season 1, Episode 23 Original Air Date: March 1, 1957

Mike Chronicles the test flight of a pilot whose girlfriend is scared of him dying while him in flight and thinks she’s a jinx. Season 1, Episode 7 Original Air Date: November 28, 1958

A young man (James Best) kills his boss in a fight. The Sherrif arrests him, but has to save him from a lynching mob. Season 1, Episode 19 Original Air Date: February 1, 1957

Philo Vance (William Powell) is called in when a wealthy man is found murdered in the process of undressing in his locked bedroom. Original Release Date: October 28, 1933

A wanted man comes to town, dyes his hair to lay low and then kills a local mechanic. Season 1, Episode 10 Original Air Date: November 23, 1956

Mike teams up with a writer with a bad reputation and obtains a picture of a woman who was supposed to have been murdered…or did he? Original Air Date: November 21, 1958 Season 1, Episode 6

Saboteurs plot against a bomber squadron. Season 2, Episode 37 Original Air Date: September 17, 1955

Sherlock Holmes is called into investigate a case where the only clue is a chicken bone. Season 1, Episode 8 Original Air Date: December 6, 1954

A con man tricks a lonely spinster into giving her life savings to buy worthless oil stock. Season 2, Episode 25 Original Air Date: June 25, 1955

Mike thinks the pictures he took of a crooked gambling syndicate operator will help a reform candidate win. He’s shocked to find his photos have been used in composites to blackmail the reform candidate. Season 1, Episode 5 Original Air Date: November 7, 1958

A street gang comes after Mike and steals his camera after he takes a picture at the scene of a fire. Season 1, Episode 4 Original Air Date: October 31, 1958

A street gang comes after Mike and steals his camera after he takes a picture at the scene of a fire. Season 1, Episode 4 Original Air Date: October 31, 1958

An American exporter willing to deal with countries behind the Iron Curtain sets up a guilt-ridden French survivor of a POW camp to take the fall for him. Season 5, Episode 16 (1955) Original Air Date: January 20, 1955 Veteran radio and TV character actor Ben Wright guest stars.

Mike’s in a bank when it’s robbed by a psychopath. Mike is kidnapped and survives by promising to get the killer prominent media coverage. Season 1, Episode 3 Original Air Date: October 24, 1958

A treasury man poses as an opium dealer in order to catch a ring of opium smugglers. Season 5, Episode 12 Original Air Date: December 23, 1954

Mike is called out on a job and is coerced by a criminal into taking a picture of a man as he’s murdered. Original Air Date: October 17, 1958 Season 1, Episode 2

A Treasury Agent (Charles Bronson) wants to get in good with a criminal and gets an opportunity…if he performs a hit job. Original Air Date: March 24, 1958 Season 5, Episode 25

Mike tries to get a picture of a prize fighter from his old neighborhood who has been blowing off the press. Mike gets punched out in a sparring match by the boxer and then asked to help him. Season 1, Episode 1 Original Air Date: October 10, 1958

In order to avoid taxes, a man buries $200,000 in his backyard only to dig it up and find the currency full of holes. Original Air Date: April 7, 1955 Season 5, Episode 27

Flash Casey (Eric Linden) graduates college and gets a drop at a newspaper, but wants to help the kindly editor of the pictoral magazine. Original Release; January 7, 1938

A woman accused of murder learns a female sheriff’s deputy is undercover as a prisoner. But who is the undercover woman? Original Air Date: December 24, 1957 Season 1, Episode 39