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Murder By Experts

Networks
Mutual (as its archives name them)
Heard
1949–1950
Episodes
17

MURDER BY EXPERTS

More about it

Murder By Experts ran on Mutual from June 1949 through December of 1951. Its total run consisted of 130 episodes of crime and mystery that quickly birthed a loyal following of listeners and swiftly gained the respect and approval from the radio world at large. This show boasted the genius of Robert Arthur and David Kogan of The Mysterious Traveler fame along with famous mystery writers like John Dickson Carr and Brett Halliday who hosted the program and also included many familiar names from the deep pool of New York acting talent like Lawson Zerbe, Ann Shepherd, Santos Ortega, Ralph Bell, and William Zuckert. The program featured stories by well known writers of the time and chosen by "guest experts" like Craig Rice, Bruno Fisher, Lawrence Blochman and other household detective fiction names. The host would begin by saying something like "This weeks show has been chosen for your approval by one of the worlds leading detective writers", would then name the story, its author and the name of the guest expert. When the play came to a close the narrator would return to the air saying "and so the curtain falls on", gives the title of the play again and gives a preview of next week's drama. This radio show was such an immediate favorite that it won the prestigious "Edgar Award" for the best radio drama in 1950 after being on the air for only six months. This was no surprise given the fact that the Arthur/Kogan Collaboration had already achieved much success…

Episodes, in broadcast order

  1. Summer Heat

    · No. 1 · 29 min

  2. Two Coffins To Fill

    · 27 min

  3. Two Coffins To Fill

    · No. 4 · 30 min

  4. Prescription for Murder

    · No. 5 · 30 min

  5. The Creeper

    · No. 6 · 30 min

  6. The Big Money

    · No. 7 · 29 min

  7. The Dark Island

    · No. 9 · 30 min

  8. Dig Your Own Grave

    · No. 10 · 29 min

  9. It's Luck That Counts

    · No. 12 · 29 min

  10. Return Trip

    · No. 13 · 30 min

  11. I Dreampt I Died

    · 31 min

  12. I Dreamt I Died

    · No. 14 · 30 min

  13. The Unseeing Witness

    · No. 16 · 30 min

  14. The Case of the Missing Mind

    · No. 29 · 30 min

  15. Two Can Die as Cheaply as One

    · No. 45 · 30 min

  16. Conspiracy

    · No. 46 · 30 min

  17. Three's a Crowd

    · No. 50 · 30 min

Where it comes from 3

The archive items its episodes are played from, best first, with each one’s rights as its archive states them. An episode two sets both hold is played from the first.

  1. Murder By Experts - Single Episodes

    Old Time Radio Researchers · Old Time Radio Researchers Group · 15 episodes here · archive.org

    CC BY-NC-ND 4.0: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as its uploader states it at the Internet Archive.

  2. Murder By Experts (Page 2)

    Old Time Radio · 1 episode here · archive.org

    Uploader’s mark: Public domain (Creative Commons dedication): Marked Public domain (Creative Commons dedication) by its uploader at the Internet Archive; the record gives no basis for it.

  3. Murder By Experts

    Listeners' uploads · 1 episode here · archive.org

    the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.

1 more set holds only episodes played here from a set above.

A set by the Old Time Radio Researchers Group (otrr.org), at the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio collection.

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