1001 Radio Crime Solvers

About 1001 Radio Crime Solvers

Welcome to 1001 Radio Crime Solvers - where you can enjoy the best radio detective stories from the golden age of radio. This was a time when TV was still in its infancy and radio was in its creative heyday- using top writers and top talent to capture huge audiences, and shows featuring hard boiled detectives like Sam Spade, Richard Diamond, Philip Marlowe, and Johnny Dollar competed for prime time with mental sleuths like Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot, G.K. Chesterton's Father Brown, and Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. And here you'll find standouts -like Dragnet's Joe Friday, Vincent Price's 'The Saint', and Michael Waring's free-lance troubleshooting investigator 'The Falcon'- to name a few. We release new episodes every Sunday at 5pm ET. We're a proud part of 1001 Stories Network. www.1001storiespodcast.com.

Publisher

Host Jon Hagadorn. All stories in public domain.

Category

arts · arts

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

30 Nov 2022

Latest episode

2 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

33 of 297 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   2 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   THE BIG CARNEY and THE BIG JOKE DRAGNET

   Host Jack Webb investigates a sinister disappearance at a carnival and a prank gone wrong in this Dragnet double feature.

2. 

   30 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   THE BIG RIP and THE BIG SCRAPBOOK DRAGNET

   Host [Host Name] explores Dragnet's "The Big Rip" and "The Big Scrapbook," revealing how detectives Friday and Smith uncover escalating violence and troubled youth.

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   27 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   THE BIG CHAT and THE BIG COMPULSION DRAGNET

   Host Jack Webb and Officer Ben Alexander investigate a suspect's evasive conversation and a compulsive caller in two classic Dragnet cases.

Inside a recent episode

THE BIG CARNEY and THE BIG JOKE DRAGNET

Published 2 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Uh-huh. Yes, you see, we had a few arguments when he took over the business about this time and motion study thing. I see. You want to tell us about these arguments? They weren't anything serious. I didn't think that it was a good idea to change. I couldn't see any reason for it. Everything was going good. The business was making money. Everybody seemed to be happy. I didn't want to take a chance disturbing a good thing. You know, the golden goose. You want to go ahead, please? Well, Robert said that we were behind at times, that if we didn't do something about it, we wouldn't be able to compete with other people. […]

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.6 / 5

55 ratings

Spotify

4.8 / 5

55 ratings

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Guest appearances

Does not typically book guests

Based on episode analysis; this does not confirm that the show is currently accepting guests.

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