Mystery shows
Radio was ideal medium for mystery shows - their influence on audience was far bigger than later during the television era. Well developed audio effects could have created great atmosphere with good script, while television or movie special effects were still in very early stages of development.
Ellery Queen’s Minute Mysteries
Ellery Queen was a fictional detective who appeared in the books, on the radio and on TV. The Minute Mysteries was one of the forms of the show.
Five Minute Mysteries
Is five minutes enough to set up the perfect mystery and then solve it? Find out for yourself...
Green Eye Theatre
Polish radio anthology series that covered wide range of themes and genres - from crime and mystery to sci-fi and even horror.
Inner Sanctum Mystery
Anthology series that presented stories of mystery and suspense, not to mention the creaking door that were not fixed throughout the 10 years of program original broadcasting.
Murder at Midnight
Radio series of macabre and supernatural stories surrounding people, who think murder is the way ahead.
Murder by Experts
Anthology show presenting stories of murder and suspense written by the best writers of detective and crime stories.
Murder on the Orient Express
Hercule Poirot climbs aboard the Orient Express, but everywhere he goes the mysteries are following him.
Radio Mystery Theater
Radio drama anthology similar in style to classics like The Mysterious Traveler and The Whistler, but produced in 1970s and early 1980s and with more broad variety of genres.
Suspense
One of the longest running suspense and mystery anthology radio series that ran from 1940 (or rather 1942) until 1962 and had the biggest stars of Hollywood appearing in different episodes.
The Black Museum
Old time radio shows presenting true crime cases from the dark corners of famous Scotland Yard’s Black Museum.
The Mysterious Traveler
Mystery and supernatural anthology series featuring Mysterious Traveler, who each week arrived by train to another place, where strange and unexplained things have happened.
The Orson Welles Show
One of the few anthology radio shows directed and hosted by Orson Welles. The show presented a wide range of material, from drama to comedy, poetry and commentary on current events.
Whitehall 1212
Old time radio show presenting true stories from the world-famous Scotland Yard’s Black Museum.
