G. W. Thomas
Presents
THE
GHOSTBREAKERS
JACK PACKARD/DOC LONG/REGGIE YORK (1939-1952) I LOVE A MYSTERY
"Well then, honey, NEXT to love, it's adventure that makes the world spin, I reckon..." -- Doc Long
I Love a Mystery was radio's Ghostbusters. The group was lead by Jack Packard (played by Michael Raffetto, Jay Novello, John McIntyre, Russell Thorson and Robert Dryden). The second member was Doc Long (played by Barton Yarborough and Jim Boles) a Texan who loved the ladies and fighting. The third member was Reggie York ( played by Walter Paterson and Tony Randall), was the muscles of the band and British. These men met in a Asian prison then later formed the A-1 Detective Agency in Hollywood. The series was written by Carleton E. Morse. The radio show ran through several formats and casts from 1939 until 1952, the beginnings of television. Not all episodes had false supernatural elements.
1 "The Roxy Gangsters"
2. "Death Aboard
the Lady Mary"
3. "The Case Of
The Nevada Cougar"
4. "Mystery of the
Lazy K Ranch"
5. "Strange Affair
of Sandy Spring Sanatorium"
6. "The Texas Border
Smugglers"
7. "The El Paso,
Texas Murders"
8. "Flight To Death"
9. "Murder Hollywood
Style"
10. "Incident Concerning
Death"
11 "Yolo County
Battle Of The Century"
12. "Blue Phantom"
13. "Castle Island
(a: “The Fear That Creeps Like A Cat")
14. "Hollywood
Cherry” (a: “The Thing That Cries in the Night”)
15. "Bury Your Dead,
Arizona"
16. 16. "San
Diego Murders" (a: "The Million Dollar Curse")
17. "Temple Of Vampires"
18. "Brooks Kidnapping"
19. "Murder In Turquoise
Pass"
20. "The Snake With
The Diamond Eyes"
21. “The Tropics
Don't Call It Murder”
22.
“The Case Of The Transplanted Castle"
23.
"Murder On February Island"
24. "Eight Kinds Of Murder"
25. "The Monster
In The Mansion"
26.
"Secret Passage To Death"
27.
"Terror Of Frozen Corpse Lodge"
28.
"Pirate Loot of The Island of Skulls"
29. "The Girl In
The Gilded Gage"
30.
"Blood On The Cat"
31.
"The Killer Of Circle M"
32.
“Stairway To The Sun"
33. "The Graves
Of Whamperjaw, Texas"
34.
"Murder Is The Word For It"
35.
"The Decapitation Of Jefferson"
36.
"My Beloved Is AVampire"
37.
The Hermit Of San Felipe Atabapo”
38.
"The Deadly Sin Of Richard Coyle"
39.
“The Twenty Traitors Of Timbuktu”
40.
“The African Jungle Mystery”
41. “The Widow With
The Amputation”
42.
"I Am The Destroyer Of Women"
43.
You Can't Pin A Murder On Nevada”
44.
"The Corpse In Compartment C, Car 76”
45.
"The Thing Wouldn't Die"
46.
"The Case Of The Terrified Comedian"
47. "The Man Who Hated To Shave"
48.
"Temple Of Vampires"
49.
"Bride Of The Werewolf"
50.
"The Monster In The Mansion"
51.
"Portrait Of A Murderess"
52
"Find Elsa Holberg, Dead Or Alive"
53."The China Coast
Incident"
54."The Great Airmail
Robbery"
55. "The Devil's
Sanctuary"
56. "The Pearl Of
Great Price"
57. "The Hundred
Million Dollar Manhunt"
58. "The Girl's
Finishing School Kidnapping"
59. "But Grandma,
What Big Teeth You Have"
60. "The Man With
The Third Green Eye"
61. "The Girl In
The Street"
62. "The Kwan Moon
Dagger"
63. "Assignment
With A Displaced Person"
64. "Hearse On The
Highway"
65. "The Ambassador
Ricardo Santos Affair"