Screen Guild Theater: The Glass Key (EP4920e)
The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas
Adam Graham
4.4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Original Air Date: July 22, 1946
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Alan Ladd; Marjorie Reynolds; Ward Bond
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| 0:00.0 | The Welcome to the great detectives of old time radio and our first listener support and appreciation special. |
| 0:37.1 | From Boise, Idaho. |
| 0:38.7 | This is your host, Adam Graham. |
| 0:41.7 | In a moment, we are going to bring you today's program, but first, I do want to encourage |
| 0:47.3 | you if you're enjoying the podcast, please follow us using your favorite podcast software. |
| 0:54.5 | Now, since this is our first podcast in the month of March, |
| 0:58.2 | I do want to take a moment to thank all of our latest Platinum Patreon supporters. |
| 1:05.9 | These are listeners who have been supporting the podcast for 10 years this month, and we have quite a few. |
| 1:15.3 | And I want to thank Dan and Nancy currently supporting the podcast at the detective sergeant level of $7.14 or more per month. |
| 1:27.4 | And I want to go ahead and thank James, Lisa, Judith, and Michael, and Jim and Rachel, and Jennifer, supporting the podcast at the Shawmus level of $4 or more per month. |
| 1:42.3 | And I want to thank Jesse and Paul, currently |
| 1:48.1 | supporting the podcast at the rookie level of $2 or more per month. |
| 1:52.9 | Again, thank you so much for supporting the podcast these last 10 years. |
| 1:57.8 | I really appreciate it. |
| 1:59.2 | While our listener support and appreciation campaign |
| 2:02.7 | begins tomorrow, and we'll talk more about that after tomorrow's show, but as part of that, |
| 2:10.7 | we will bring you three special episodes. And we're going to start with another adaptation of a story we brought you previously. |
| 2:21.4 | And I actually thought this one was more recent that we did the first adaptation of it. |
| 2:27.5 | But when I was looking back, I see that this was actually, we did our 3,800th episode special, which was the Campbell's Playhouse |
| 2:37.7 | adaptation of the Glass Key. |
| 2:40.5 | Today, we are going to bring you the Scringle-Dak Theater adaptation of the Glass Key. |
| 2:46.3 | This, of course, is based on the 1942 film starring |
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