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The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas

The Line Up: The Senile Slugging Case (Encore) (EP4954)

The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas

Adam Graham

Fiction, Arts, Drama, Performing Arts

4.42K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2026

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Today's Mystery: Guthrie investigates a series of brutal muggings that have targeted elderly victims.

Original Air Date: September 12, 1951

Originating in Hollywood

Starring: William Johnstone as Lt. Ben Guthrie and Barton Yarborough

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Transcript

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0:00.0

The Barton Yarborough Week continues here as we bring you another encore presentation featuring Barton Yarborough.

0:37.7

Please note that all offers and information in this episode are not valid unless currently

0:44.9

reflected on our Great Detectives of Old Time radio website at greatdetectives.net.

0:50.4

But here is another program featuring Barton Yarborough.

0:59.3

Welcome to The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho.

1:05.0

This is your host, Adam Graham.

1:07.4

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1:09.9

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1:12.7

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1:17.8

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1:21.1

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1:24.8

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1:29.1

orgatedetectives.net.

1:35.8

Well, here now is another episode of the lineup where they redid a previous program. It's time for the senile slugging case.

1:40.5

From September 12, 1951.

1:43.8

Ladies and gentlemen,

1:45.7

we take you now behind the scenes of a police headquarters in a great American city,

1:50.4

or under the cold, glaring lights will pass before us the innocent, the vagrant, the thief, the murderer.

1:57.8

This is the lineup.

1:59.9

Music murderer. This is the lineup. Well, there's Mr. Wiggins.

2:29.6

How do you feel, Mr. Wiggins?

2:30.8

Oh, better. I feel a little better.

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