The Great Detectives Present Night Beat: Recent Episodes
Adam Graham
Chicago Star Reporter Randy Stone walks the Night Beat, searching for stories for his column and finding heartache and mystery along the way in this classic and well-written 1950-52 mystery drama series. Adam Graham is your host and guide to every circulating episode of Night Beat.
Today's Mystery:
Randy encounters a troubled man trying to steal a gun.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 9, 1950
Story originally aired on February 13, 1950
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Randy investigates when a convicted murder insists the crime he was convicted of was committed by a wealthy and influential oil man. Original Air Date: March 7, 1952 Read more ...
Randy is investigating a series of murders where the killer calls the police in advance of each killing. Original Air Date: September 25, 1952 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at http://support.greatdetectives.net. Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715 Take the listener survey…http://survey.greatdetectives.net…
A blind man tells Randy the leader of a local rescue mission has been severely beaten. Randy wants to find out why but the man won’t tell him. Original Air Date: September 18, 1952 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at http://support.greatdetectives.net. Mail a donation to: Adam Graham,…
A young dancer’s understudy puts on an impressive dancing performance that has the show’s owner ready to make him a star. However, he quits and disap Read more ...
Randy receives a tip that there’s a bomb on a plane to Denver. Original Air Date: September 4, 1952 Support the show monthly at
On his night off, Randy meets a woman at a bar. She turns to ice when she sees a man with red hair. Original Air Date: August 21, 1952 Support the Read more ...
A former burlesque dancer, a shoeshine man, and a delicatessen owner are among those acting out of character and raising money for a mysterious “him.” Read more ...
A female columnist enlists Randy’s help because she fears her estranged husband will kill her and her children. Original Air Date: August 7, 1952
An elderly layout man pulls part of a columnist’s article on a young talented swimmer. The swimmer refused to try out for the Olympics and ends up thr Read more ...
Randy meets a recently paroled old-time gangster who suffered a nervous breakdown who swears he’s being followed by two men who want to kill him for $100,000. Original Air Date: July 17, 1952 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at http://support.greatdetectives.net. Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO…
Randy gets scooped by an intrepid, globe-trotting, female reporter. Original Air Date: July 3, 1952 Support the show monthly at
A farmer from rural Illinois comes to Chicago determined to take down a corrupt political boss “with love.” Original Air Date: June 26, 1952
Randy meets a woman who treats everyone on skid row to champagne, steaks, and fresh sheets, and is being haunted across the country by a childhood friend who pro Read more ...
Randy gets time off for Christmas, which reminds him he has no one to spend Christmas with. When a boy tries to give him an envelope and is run over by a car, Ra Read more ...
Randy becomes convinced that a 19-year old woman was railroaded into a conviction for manslaughter of a politician’s wife. Original Air Date: June 1 Read more ...
A once-promising scientist visits the scene of a murder Randy is covering. Original Air Date: June 5, 1952 Support the show monthly at
A star jockey’s younger brother returns to Chicago. Little Brother is determined to prove himself a better jockey and will do anything to prove it. Read more ...
Randy is accused of a murder by an anonymous columnist for a rival newspaper. Original Air Date: May 22, 1952 Support the show monthly at
The wife of an acrobat clown comes to Randy to sell a story about her husband being a spy. Original Air Date: May 8, 1952 Support the show monthly Read more ...
Randy keeps company with a colleague whose wife is having a baby. Original Air Date: December 28, 1951 Support the show monthly at
A cute elderly couple from rural Illinois asks Randy’s help to plan a big splurge in Chicago, but Randy senses something troubling. Original Air Dat Read more ...
A mental patient has gotten loose on the grounds with a gun. Original Air Date: August 17, 1951 Support the show monthly at
Randy meets a feverish woman who believes he’s her husband, Anton. Randy sets out to find her husband when he learns she’s about to die. Origi Read more ...
A discharged soldier with amnesia asks Randy’s help to find his wife and recover his memory. Original Air Date: July 6, 1952 Support the show Read more ...
A dying has-been reporter asks Randy to get the truth behind the man who framed him for liable and ruined his career. Original Air Date: June 29, 1951 Read more ...
A mad man is holding a missing five year old boy in a church’s bell tower. Original Air Date: June 22, 1951 Support the show monthly at
Randy rescues a man from being roughed up. The man runs into a bar and leaves behind his hat. Randy runs right into the bar and finds no one has seen him, and th Read more ...
A woman’s dog has died of rabies, and she turns to Randy to help find a man the dog had bitten five days before. Original Air Date: June 8, 1951 Read more ...
Randy sees a cleaning woman die before his eyes and searches for her son to let him know. Original Air Date: June 1, 1951 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at http://support.greatdetectives.net. Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715 Read more ...
Randy receives a letter from a man threatening to kill him sometime during the night. Original Air Date: May 25, 1951 Support the show monthly at < Read more ...
A person with dwarfism tried to kill a bully who tries to embarrass him by setting up a meeting with a juke box operator he’s in love with. Original Read more ...
Randy befriends an old time gangster just released from prison. He then finds the man shot and refusing to tell what happened. Original Air Date: March 4, Read more ...
Randy suspects an artist looking for his unfaithful girlfriend is actually a serial slasher. Original Air Date: November 10, 1950 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at http://support.greatdetectives.net. Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715 Read more ...
A disturbed abandoned cat sets Randy into the midst of a murder mystery in a tenement where all the suspects are oddballs. Original Air Date: November 3, Read more ...
Randy is outraged when a doctor chooses to take a vacation in France rather than operate on a man whose life hangs by a thread after a gunshot wound. Orig Read more ...
A judge’s daughter who went to live in a poor part of town to understand crime is in over her head and it’s up to Randy to help. Original Air Read more ...
Randy becomes prisoner to the family of an escaped murderer in Minnesota. Original Air Date: October 13, 1950 Support the show monthly at
Randy has to help an ex-cop with amnesia fill in what’s happened in the three years since he left the force and why he claims to have killed his wife. Read more ...
A hit and run case involve a refrigerator truck puts Randy on the trail of twenty tons of stolen contaminated butter. Original Air Date: September 25, 195 Read more ...
A young woman offers to sell Randy a story about the murder of an infamous mobster and the identity of the killer. Original Air Date: September 18, 1950
A man escapes from death row and captures Randy and the DA who prosecuted him and promises to kill them. Original Air Date: September 11, 1950 Supp Read more ...
Randy takes a short vacation and finds himself mixed up with the wife, ex-wife, and two ex-girlfriends with plenty of malice. Original Air Date: September Read more ...
A doctor, the father of a man executed in the electric chair, keeps calling the warden asking to see the chair. Original Air Date: August 21, 1950 Read more ...
A down-on-his-luck boxer refuses to take a bribe to take a fall and his wife is leaving him over it. Original Air Date: August 14, 1951 Support the Read more ...
Randy finds out a blind street musician traded his violin into a pawn shop in exchange for a loaded gun. Original Air Date: August 7, 1950 Support Read more ...
Randy randomly dials a phone number and reaches a woman in danger of being killed by her husband. Original Air Date: July 31, 1950 Support the show Read more ...
Randy discovers that a man who tried to take a $50,000 medieval satanic book from a bookstore was blamed for the murder of the last owner and his body positively Read more ...
After her husband dies in prison for a robbery where the money was never recovered, a scrub woman rents a luxury hotel suite. Original Air Date: July 17, Read more ...
A down-on-his-luck actor who is mentally ill assaults a big theater producer. The producer is determined to get even and teach a lesson to his stuck-up wife Read more ...
While looking for a story, Randy meets a six-year-old boy looking for his mother with a $100 bill in his hands. Original Air Date: July 3, 1950 Sup Read more ...
The thirteen-year-old robs a store. Randy discovers he’s the son of an escaped convict. Original Air Date: June 26, 1950 Support the show mon Read more ...
A disgruntled former security guard says his boss at an art gallery killed Vincent. Support the show monthly at
A private eye who is a former football star and down on his luck needs Randy’s help to find a missing man or risk getting killed by the a crime syndic Read more ...
Randy comes across a small town girl who has been arrested. Once she gets out, someone tries to kill her. Original Air Date: June 5, 1950 Support t Read more ...
Randy stumbles upon a mentally disturbed man trying to kill his psychiatrist. Original Air Date: May 29, 1950 Support the show monthly at
A famous actress is murdered soon after getting married. Original Air Date: August 3, 1951 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at http://support.greatdetectives.net. Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715 Read more ...
Randy meets an old man who states he can kill anyone by wishing him dead. Original Air Date: May 22, 1950 Support the show monthly at
Randy encounters an out-of-work watchman who believes his son is behind a series of arsons. Original Air Date: May 15, 1950 Support the show monthly Read more ...
Randy believes a gangster killed an old friend and sets out to prove it. Original Air Date: May 8, 1950 Support the show monthly at
\ A brilliant carnival performer can answer any question…except for one. The question of what he was doing on the fifteenth drives him to the point of suici Read more ...
Randy tries to prevent a Tong War in Chinatown.. Original Air Date: April 17, 1950 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at http://support.greatdetectives.net. Read more ...
Randy encounters a woman about to commit suicide after receiving a sinister note and harassing phone calls with the same message, “I know your secret.̶ Read more ...
Randy searches for the lost husband of a dying woman. Original Air Date: March 27, 1950 Support the show monthly at
Randy investigates a couple who panic when they hear an escaped convict isn’t caught in a police raid. Original Air Date: March 13, 1950 Read more ...
Randy gets time off for Christmas, which reminds him he has no one to spend Christmas with. When a boy tries to give him an envelope and is run over by a car, Ran Read more ...
Randy meets a man in a park who claims to be dead and then they visit a doctor who confirms it. Original Air Date: March, 20, 1950 Support the show Read more ...
A seventy year-old man robs Randy at gun point and shoots him. Randy survives and sets out to find the robber at the request of the robber’s wife. Original Air Date: March 6, 1950 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at http://support.greatdetectives.net. Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913,…
Randy meets a woman in the park who expects to die when her boyfriend is executed. Original Air Date: February 27, 1950 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at http://support.greatdetectives.net. Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715 Read more ...
A punch-drunk ex-boxing champion dreams of making peace with his ex-wife while living in a fantasy world. Original Air Date: February 20, 1950 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at http://support.greatdetectives.net. Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715 Read more ...
Lucky Stone has to find a fastidious man who plans to commit suicide at midnight as a result of getting a false terminal diagnosis. Original Air Date: February 6, 1950 Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715 Read more ...
Lucky Stone’s friend is killed and he sets out to use his newspaper column to imply an infamous gangster is behind it. When he is roughed up by some of the gangster’s men, he gets a gun to hunt him down. Audition Date: January 13, 1950 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show…
Hank Mitchell’s friend is killed and he sets out to use his newspaper column to imply an infamous gangster is behind it. When Hank’s roughed up by some of the gangster’s men, he gets a gun to hunt him down. Audition Date: May 19, 1949 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on…
Randy tries to unravel the secrets of a fearful young woman in a park whose boyfriend is about to be executed. Special Rebroadcast Date: April 23, 1950 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at http://support.greatdetectives.net. Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715 Read…
A killer has escaped prison. When a crowd gathers to witness the murderer’s capture, a young couple in trouble captures Randy’s attention. Original Rebroadcast Date: April 30, 1950 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at http://support.greatdetectives.net. Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715…