The Big Story: The Case of the Cornered Cat (EP4867)
The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas
Adam Graham
4.4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Original Radio Broadcast: September 17, 1947
Originating from New York
Starring: Ward Wilson as Walter Winchell; Ed Begley as J. Edgar Hoover; Don Appell; Alan Hewitt; Mildred Clinton
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The Welcome to the great detectives of old time radio from Boise, Idaho. |
| 0:35.7 | This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're going to bring you this week's |
| 0:40.7 | episode of The Big Story. But first, I want to encourage you if you're enjoying the podcast |
| 0:46.4 | to follow us using your favorite podcast software. And if you're enjoying the podcast on YouTube, |
| 0:53.5 | be sure to like the video, subscribe to the channel, |
| 0:57.2 | and mark the notification bell. All those great things that help YouTube channels to grow. |
| 1:03.0 | The Christmas season is upon us, and so are our seasonal podcast episodes. So I'm going to go ahead and give a brief guide if you're |
| 1:13.8 | interested in hearing Christmas programs as to what we've got coming up. First on the great |
| 1:18.8 | detectives of old time radio, our Christmas programming kicks off on Thursday with Dragnet and |
| 1:26.2 | continues through next Wednesday with the exception of the big story |
| 1:31.4 | where alas all of the Christmas episodes of this series are missing. So we'll have Christmas |
| 1:37.8 | episodes of Dragnet, yours truly Johnny Dollar, a Christmas special on Sunday and Christmas episodes of |
| 1:46.3 | Danger with Granger and Broadway's Mob 8. |
| 1:49.6 | Then over on the amazing world of radio at amazing.greatdetectives.net, and we will have our |
| 1:56.8 | Christmas programs that will play on Thursday the 19th, Sunday the 21st, and Tuesday |
| 2:03.0 | the 23rd. Also this year we will have a New Year's Eve special that will drop on December |
| 2:10.5 | the 31st. Over at the old-time radio snack wagon at snackwagon.net, We will have a Christmas episode on Monday, |
| 2:20.6 | a New Year's episode, the following Monday, |
| 2:24.9 | and then on New Year's Day, |
| 2:26.7 | our annual Public Domain Day record party. |
| 2:30.2 | And finally on the Great Adventurers of Old Time Radio, |
| 2:33.8 | we will be going into a season of |
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