William Gargan starts as Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator in this classic 1951-55 old time radio detective series. Host Adam Graham brings you all surviving episode of this classic series.
Barrie Craig – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
Barrie is protecting a woman’s jewels at a tennis match and then witnesses a tennis player dying Read more ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A small college’s strong basketball team loses to two no-account schools feeding talk of the gam Read more ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A man visits Barrie at midnight under the cloak of darkness to ask if a murder is unsolvable. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Barrie arrests a boy for trying to mug him. When the boy confesses to an unsolved robbery and murder, Read more ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A mummy sent to Craig’s office sets him on the trail of a very modern murder. Original Ai Read more ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Barrie Craig investigates a case of a Broadway producer overselling his show, but invariably finds h Read more ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Barrie is getting competing offers and a few beatings over a relic from Egypt. Original Air Date: March 2, 1955 Be Read more ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Barrie is hired by a man who has become suspicious because catastrophe seems to follow him wherever he Read more ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Barrie undertakes to help a woman who claims her husband disappeared from a hotel room where the clerk Read more ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Barrie is hired by a wealthy woman to be companion to her accident prone husband who keeps almost killing himself. Original Read more ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Barrie investigates when a woman at Willy’s wagon complains that someone stole her bull fiddle, and finds himself in the Read more ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
While on vacation in Florida, Barrie investigates the disappearance of an old friend. Original Air Date: November 21, 195 Read more ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Barrie Craig tries to save the bitter boyfriend of a young woman, who asked for his help, from a life of crime Original Air Read more ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Barrie and a beautiful young woman are invited to the house of a wealthy man. They find the house is o Read more ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Barrie Craig and his elevator man go to Vermont on a vacation. The peaceful rest is interrupted when they find a body in a hay wago Read more ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Barrie subcontracts to an aging private eye to find a missing rug merchant. Barrie finds the man dead and has to stop killer from Read more ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
At a resort, Barrie is hired by a wealthy young woman to investigate a young man who claims to be wealthy too. Barrie finds both Read more ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Barrie Craig investigates embezzlement and murder at a department store. Original Air Date: August 10, 1954 Become Read more ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Barrie bails out a Runyanesque character who attacked an agent that had stolen his girl. Craig comes t Read more ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
On board a train heading for a fishing vacation to the Adirondacks, Barrie runs into mystery and murd Read more ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Barrie Craig helps a just released ex-con turn over a new leaf has he tries to find the ex-con’s loot. Original Air Read more ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Barrie is hired to find the wife of a dead man. Original Air Date: May 25, 1954 Take the listener survey at [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Barrie heads to a small town to track down a man who embezzled money from a local bank. Original Air Date: March 30, 1954 Become one of our fr Read more ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Barrie Craig goes to Vermont ski country to investigate a two year old attempted murder with four suspects and no proof as to wh Read more ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Barrie Craig is hired to go out of town and undercover to investigate a series of fires at a chemical plants. Original A Read more ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Barrie finds a jewel thief dead in his office. Original Air Date: November 3, 1953 Become one of our friends on Fa Read more ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Barrie is hired by a doctor to discover who is amnesiatic patient is. Original Air Date: October 13, 1953 Become o Read more ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Barrie is hired to find out if a man is selling information from his business to a rival firm, but he begins to suspect that Read more ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Barrie Craig is assigned as a bodyguard at a party and finds himself investigating a murder. Original Air Date: August 9, Read more ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Barrie is hired by a boxer to protect him from someone who is trying to kill him. Original Air Date: July 19, 1953 [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Craig is hired to go shopping with a wealthy man’s wife. When they stop at a store, she disappears in a dressing room and Read more ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Barrie is hired by a woman to walk her dog because she believes someone is trying to shoot the dog. Original Air Date: Ma Read more ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A woman’s long-lost husband reappears, but she claims not to be sure its him. Craig thinks the case is phony from the get- Read more ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Barrie witnesses a slip, fall, and die in front of an apartment building, but was it really an accident or murder? Origin Read more ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A dying man asks Craig to find his murderer. When he’s dead, he leaves one clue behind-a crimson queen. Original Air Date: January 4, 1 Read more ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Barrie is hired to protect a man until his divorce can be finalized. Original Air Date: October 15, 1952 Become on Read more ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
William Gargan is hired by a man to find out who is trying to kill his wife, an entrant in a combination beauty and pie baking contest. Origi Read more ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Barrie Craig is hired by a woman to protect from her estranged husband-a dangerous killer, but Craig senses something is wrong Read more ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Barrie is hired to guard the heir to a $40 million fortune. Originally Air Date: February Read more ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A woman hops into Barrie’s car and they’re chased by another car all the way to New Jersey. Who is this woman and wh Read more ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Barrie contacts with a small upstate town to find a murderer. Original Air Date: February 6, 1952 Nominate the show in [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Barrie is hired to deliver a puppet to a showgirl but that’s not the end of this odd job. Original Air Date: Januar Read more ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Barrie is paid $500 to bid on a boxer’s trophy. Lieutenant Trav Rogers hires him to find out what happened to the bo Read more ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Barrie Craig is hired by a jealous wife to verify that her husband went to a meeting with his mistress. When Barrie arrives, he Read more ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Barrie is hired by a wanted fugitive to find out who really committed the murder he was charged with. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A former confidential investigator hires Barrie to go with him on a visit. Original Air Date: January 2, 1952 Purc Read more ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Barrie saves a woman from drowning and finds himself in the midst of a lawsuit over a popular song where some party is willing to use violence in pu Read more ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Barrie Craig is hired by an insurance company that suspects it was defrauded when it paid off on an insurance policy for a man w Read more ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
The sister of a man in trouble hires Barrie to help him out. It all started over a purple cow. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Barrie is hired to track down a missing prize-winning manuscript. Original Air Date: December 5, 1951 Become one o Read more ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]