The Hardy Family: The Case of the Missing Warehouse (EP4790)
The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas
Adam Graham
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 10, 1951
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Mickey Rooney as Andy Hardy; Fay Holden; Lewis Stone; Eleanore Tanin; Richard Krenna; Eleanore Tanin
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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, I'm going to bring you |
| 0:40.4 | our first listener support and appreciation special, but first I do want to encourage you if you |
| 0:47.7 | are enjoying the podcast to please follow us using your favorite podcast software. And also, I want to encourage you to become one of our |
| 0:58.2 | Patreon supporters at patreon.gretectives.net. Our Patreon supporters are such a vital part of making |
| 1:07.1 | this podcast work. Truly appreciate it. And I hope you enjoy this special and now I've got |
| 1:14.3 | to introduce this I had expected that I would be doing corrections episodes but we did those in |
| 1:22.6 | order to buy some time to get the great adventurers podcast going. So now I get to do something that I heard |
| 1:31.6 | probably a year or so ago and knew I wanted to do this and work this in as a special during |
| 1:38.7 | one of our listener support campaigns. And it's a comedy episode, but it's from a comedy that a lot of people haven't |
| 1:46.8 | heard about. Now, we've had a bit of a nostalgia craze in recent years. There have been |
| 1:51.9 | revivals of old TV shows and film franchises, things that have been given more chapters |
| 1:58.4 | and extensions decades after their last |
| 2:02.0 | installments and there are so many reboots sequels you know you just feel like |
| 2:07.6 | nothing original is being created well this tendency is not new at all |
| 2:13.8 | MGM radio attractions in the late 1940s and early 1950s tapped into nostalgia for their |
| 2:22.1 | earlier works as film stars and concepts would come into the 1950s in familiar roles. They brought |
| 2:31.3 | back Lou Ayers as Dr. Kildare with Lionel Barrymore as Dr. Gillespie and |
| 2:38.8 | Southern as Maisie, a series of radio programs based on the 1930s crime does not pay shorts, and they |
| 2:47.0 | introduced the MGM Theater of the Air, which adapted many old MGM films of the 1930s and early 1940s to radios. |
| 2:57.6 | And they brought back Mickey Rooney as Andy Hardy. |
| 3:01.1 | The Andy Hardy film series had been big over a five-year period from 1937 to |
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