Bulldog Drummond| Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Mystery Dramas
by Adam Graham · 26 episodes
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Captain Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond was a British World War I veteran turned adventurer introduced in his eponymous novel in 1920. He quickly leaped to the stage and silent film, and then to a series of talking pictures released on both sides on the Atlantic. In the 1940s, Bulldog Drummond leaped radio in a series dedicated to telling the Drummond's American adventures. For eight years, listeners heard the distinctive sound of the foghorn announcing a new adventure with Bulldog Drummond as he battled the forces of evil with his friend and sidekick, Denny.Your host, Adam Graham is your guide through every c...
Latest episodes
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40 min
Bulldog Drummond: Porcelain Ming Cat
Today's Mystery: A woman says her brother's life depends on her delivering a porcelain Ming cat, and asks Captain Drummond for protection.Original Radio Broadcast Date: UnknownOrig…
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34 min
Bulldog Drummond: Death Under the Big Top
Today's Mystery: A beautiful woman at the circus asks Captain Drummond to embrace her, and gives him a gun that leads him to investigate a murder in a high-wire act.Original Radio…
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34 min
Bulldog Drummond: The Case of the Dead Beat
Today's Mystery: A ex-con trying to go straight claims that someone's trying to kill him and asks Captain Drummond for help.Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 30, 1948Originating…
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39 min
Bulldog Drummond: Death Has a New Look
Today's Mystery: Captain Drummond and Denny are summoned to a Carribean island to take on a devil-worshipping cult.Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 23, 1948Originating in New Yo…
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32 min
Bulldog Drummond: Death in the Deep
Today's Mystery:While deep-sea fishing, Captain Drummond and Denny find a man who was shot to death more than 60 miles from land.Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 16, 1948Origina…
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40 min
Bulldog Drummond: Death Uses Disappearing Ink
Today's Mystery: Captain Drummond tries to remember how he got into a dangerous situation with a life on the line. It all started with a mysterious woman showing up in his compartm…
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31 min
Bulldog Drummond: The Island of Death
Today's Mystery:Captain Drummond and Denny pursue an escapee from a mental asylum with homicidal intentions across an isolated island.Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 12, 1948Ori…
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33 min
Bulldog Drummond: Murder Has an Open Mind
Today's Mystery: A woman feigns a horseriding accident to get Bulldog Drummond's help and tells him to go to a Penny Arcade and speak to a mentalist.Original Radio Broadcast Date:…
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30 min
Bulldog Drummond: Devil Flats
Today's Mystery: Captain Drummond goes to a ghost town rumored to be haunted, in order to investigate the disappearance of an Eastern reporter.Original Radio Broadcast Date: April…
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30 min
Bulldog Drummond: Devil Flats
Today's Mystery: Captain Drummond goes to a ghost town rumored to be haunted, in order to investigate the disappearance of an Eastern reporter.Original Radio Broadcast Date: April…
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34 min
Bulldog Drummond: Death Loops the Loop
Today's Mystery:The owner of a small amusement park dies of heart failure on a roller coaster. His daughter suspects murder and turns to Captain Drummond for help.Original Radio Br…
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32 min
Bulldog Drummond: Death Rides a Racehorse
Today's Mystery: A horse-racing jockey calls Captain Drummond for help but is murdered before Drummond can speak to him.Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 3, 1948Originating in N…
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32 min
Bulldog Drummond: Murder Leaves a Lonely Trail
Today's Mystery:A beautiful woman accosts Captain Drummond and demands she kiss him to protect him from someone who's following her and then she pulls a gun on a him and ors him to…
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42 min
Bulldog Drummond: Claim Check on Death
Today's Mystery:In a case of mistaken identity, Captain Drummond is given a claim check and a $1,000 bill, but what for?Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 17, 1947Originating i…
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38 min
Bulldog Drummond: The Case of the Fatal Right
Today's Mystery:A prize fighter is killed by cyanide poisoning.Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 14, 1946Originating in New YorkStarring: Ned Wever as Bulldog Drummond; Luis V…
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39 min
Bulldog Drummond: Appointment with Murder
Today's Mystery: A man in a hotel room calls Captain Drummond for help and is murdered while on the phone.Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 29, 1945Original Release Date: Augu…
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38 min
Bulldog Drummond: Escape Into Death
Today's Mystery: A man in a speeding car is stopped by a phony barricade and then murdered.Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 24, 1945Originating in New YorkStarring: Ned Wev…
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44 min
Bulldog Drummond: Death on the Diamond
Today's Mystery: A pitcher is shot and killed during a critical game with thousands of fans looking on.Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 17, 1945 Originating in New YorkStar…
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36 min
Bulldog Drummond: Murder in the Death House
Today's Mystery: Bulldog Drummond goes to visit a man he sent to death row, who has information he wants to trade for clemency. Drummond finds him dead in his cell.Original Radio B…
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39 min
Bulldog Drummond: Help Wanted
Today's Mystery:Captain Drummond leaves town on a train. A man dies while asking him to be paged at the train station. Denny hires his own valet and sets out to solve the case hims…