{"podcast":{"title":"1001 Radio Crime Solvers","slug":"1001-radio-crime-solvers-5874010","podcast_index_feed_id":5874010,"rss_url":"https://feeds.libsyn.com/529217/rss","website_url":"https://www.bestof1001stories.com/show/1001-radio-crime-solvers/","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/0/a/1/a/0a1a12190707444fe55e3c100dce7605/1001Radio_logo2.jpg","author":"Jon Hagadorn","episode_count":281,"summary":"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.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-03T08:29:05.147245+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers-5874010"},"episode":{"title":"THE BIG CANARY and THE BIG OVERTIME   DRAGNET   TRUE CRIME IN LOS ANGELES","slug":"the-big-canary-and-the-big-overtime-dragnet-true-crime-in-los-angeles","published_at":"2026-08-21T19:29:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers-5874010/the-big-canary-and-the-big-overtime-dragnet-true-crime-in-los-angeles","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers-5874010","url":"https://6d90722a-143f-45eb-83cc-2b5ba24978df.libsyn.com/the-big-canaries-and-the-big-overtime-dragnet-true-crime-in-los-angeles","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/6d90722a-143f-45eb-83cc-2b5ba24978df/THE_BIG_CANARIES_and_THE_BIG_OVERTIME_REV_1.mp3?dest-id=4552092","summary":"THE BIG CANARY: : 12.06.1951 ( December 6, 1951) Plot : + \"The Big Canary\". Sponsored by: Fatima. The mother of sixteen-year-old Roberta Dixon has been murdered. Well written. + Detective Sergeant Joe Friday was assigned to homicide detail. A forty-year-old mother was found murdered in the bedroom in her own home. The body bears the marks of a savage attack with a knife. The killer showed no mercy, it's Friday's job to get him.Joyce McCluskey portrayed Roberta Dixon, the 16 yr. old murderer and absolutely nailed it... but you didn't give her credit for it, instead you listed George McCluskey. she is long RIP but still deserve's credit where credit is due...she was that good. THE BIG OVERTIME: 12.13.1951 ( December 13, 1951) Plot : + Dragnet. December 13, 1951. Program #131. \"The Big Overtime\". Sponsored by: Fatima. A banker's twenty-two-year-old daughter, Judith Sullivan, has been kidnapped and held for a $30,000 ransom. The script is similar to cat. #10735. Barton Yarborough's next-to-last appearance on the program, he died shortly after this broadcast. An announcement is made that a preview of \"Dragnet\" on television is to be seen on \"Sound Off Time,\" next week. + This was the last episode of Dragnet featuring Sergeant Ben Romero played by Barton Yarborough who created and starred in the role of Sergeant Ben Romero and who died on December 19th, 1951 six days after this episode was broadcast. Detective Sergeant Joe Friday was assigned to homicide detail. A twenty-two-year-old girl has been abducted and her family receives an anonymous message. The abductor demands $30,000 for the safe return of the girl. I","meta_description":"THE BIG CANARY: : 12.06.1951 ( December 6, 1951) Plot : + \"The Big Canary\". Sponsored by: Fatima. The mother of sixteen-year-old Roberta Dixon has been mu…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3541,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/1001-radio-crime-solvers-5874010/episodes/the-big-canary-and-the-big-overtime-dragnet-true-crime-in-los-angeles/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers-5874010/the-big-canary-and-the-big-overtime-dragnet-true-crime-in-los-angeles.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}