FIVE MINUTE MYSTERY

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The Five Mysteries Program was an audience participation radio series broadcast on the Mutual Broadcasting System from August 10, 1947 to March 27, 1950. In 1947-48 it aired on Sundays at 2pm.

Such mysteries were produced and syndicated (1945-48) to individual local radio stations as a "barter-trade" program to sell advertising to local merchants or trade the advertising announcements for goods, services or premiums, such as prizes awarded to listeners in radio station contests or promotions. To facilitate personalizing the shows to individual stations and insert the local ads, the producers put musical interludes in the shows with enough time for a local announcer to introduce the episode, present the advertiser's message and wrap things up with other local information.

Each 30-minute show featured five mini-mysteries dramatized with actors, organ music and sound effects. Solutions to each mystery were then suggested by a panel of listeners and studio guests. The panelists sometimes shared a common background; for example, on the April 14, 1949 program, the amateur sleuths were gas industry officials.

Cast members included Jackson Beck, Staats Cotsworth, Michael Fitzmaurice, Timmy Hyler, Abby Lewis, Frank Lovejoy and Ian MacAllister. Organist Rosa Rio provided the music.

While the premise was simple, the mysteries were well written, requiring some thought to come up with the right answer. Similar to the Ellery Queen's Minute Mysteries, one listened to the story, evaluated the clues, and at the conclusion, matched wits with the sleuths to correctly identify the suspect. It was one of the few interactive radio shows.

EPISODES LIST

Five Minute Mysteries (001) My Pal Patsy
Five Minute Mysteries (002) Death Calls at Dinner
Five Minute Mysteries (003) Blood Brothers
Five Minute Mysteries (004) Best Laid Plans
Five Minute Mysteries (005) Three Scarlet Letters aka Life's Blood
Five Minute Mysteries (006) Murder Diamond Row aka Allure On Diamond
Five Minute Mysteries (007) No Leg to Stand On
Five Minute Mysteries (008) Missing Ruby
Five Minute Mysteries (009) Command Performance
Five Minute Mysteries (010) Death in a Turkish Bath
Five Minute Mysteries (011) The Book Case
Five Minute Mysteries (012) Case of Oversight
Five Minute Mysteries (016) Home Stretch Homicide
Five Minute Mysteries (017) Blind Confession
Five Minute Mysteries (025) Signal Block aka Death On A Train
Five Minute Mysteries (026) A Rose By Any Other Name
Five Minute Mysteries (027) A Bit of Logic aka Death In The Tub
Five Minute Mysteries (028) The Tell Tale Knife aka Knife In The Tree
Five Minute Mysteries (029) Death's Own Clue aka Dead Man's Bruise aka Dead Men Do Tell
Five Minute Mysteries (030) Clue Of The Drinking Dog aka Mr Daily's Fake Robbery
Five Minute Mysteries (031) The Corpse Gives a Clue aka The Sheridan Murder
Five Minute Mysteries (032) Revenge With A Flame aka The Private Elevator
Five Minute Mysteries (033) In Reverse aka The Mirror Murder
Five Minute Mysteries (035) The Partners aka The Sprinkler Clue
Five Minute Mysteries (036) Air Raid aka The Blackout Murder
Five Minute Mysteries (043) Radium Murder Case
Five Minute Mysteries (044) Methodical To A Fault
Five Minute Mysteries (045) Squealing Gearshift aka Lady Garage Mechanic
Five Minute Mysteries (046) Announcers Delight aka Case Of The Announcer
Five Minute Mysteries (047) Carnival Murder
Five Minute Mysteries (048) Man in Back Seat aka Highway Death
Five Minute Mysteries (049) Return Mr Lawrence
Five Minute Mysteries (050) Collectors Item
Five Minute Mysteries (051) Broken Wheel
Five Minute Mysteries (052) Misfit Clue
Five Minute Mysteries (053) Murder Sounds Alarm aka Police Special
Five Minute Mysteries (054) Marks of Death
Five Minute Mysteries (063) The Fortune Teller
Five Minute Mysteries (064) The Masquerade
Five Minute Mysteries (065) The Weapon
Five Minute Mysteries (066) The Needle
Five Minute Mysteries (067) Scientific Clue
Five Minute Mysteries (068) Zombie
Five Minute Mysteries (069) Snap Judgement
Five Minute Mysteries (070) In Darkness
Five Minute Mysteries (073) The Man From Nowhere
Five Minute Mysteries (075) Sound And Fury
Five Minute Mysteries (079) Murder In The Tomb
Five Minute Mysteries (084) Locale - Tibet
Five Minute Mysteries (103) Too- Early Bird
Five Minute Mysteries (104) Fine Art of Murder
Five Minute Mysteries (105) Murder If You Please
Five Minute Mysteries (106) Murder in Blue
Five Minute Mysteries (107) Spitting Revolver
Five Minute Mysteries (108) Blood on My Hands
Five Minute Mysteries (109) Broken Window
Five Minute Mysteries (110) Alibi in Red
Five Minute Mysteries (111) Murder in Cairo
Five Minute Mysteries (112) License for Murder
Five Minute Mysteries (113) Postman Didn't Ring
Five Minute Mysteries (114) Clue in the Hand
Five Minute Mysteries (121) Death at X Bar
Five Minute Mysteries (122) Study in Ornithology
Five Minute Mysteries (123) Pattern of Guilt
Five Minute Mysteries (124) Fishermans Clue
Five Minute Mysteries (125) Trial by Fire
Five Minute Mysteries (126) Murder Under Tent
Five Minute Mysteries (196) Murder At The Mountain Lodge
Five Minute Mysteries (238) Ebb Tide For Murder
Five Minute Mysteries (254) Tune Into Murder
Five Minute Mysteries (263) Alec Kills Martha On Lake
Five Minute Mysteries Chicago To Denver
Five Minute Mysteries Dr Brown's Poisoned Wife
Five Minute Mysteries Hammond Killed
Five Minute Mysteries Jules Buck Murder
Five Minute Mysteries Lord Duncan Murdered
Five Minute Mysteries Mrs Sheppard Murder
Five Minute Mysteries Murdered Wife In A Box
Five Minute Mysteries Plane Crash Death
Five Minute Mysteries Prize Diamond Stolen
Five Minute Mysteries Rawlings Is Dead
Five Minute Mysteries Rocky Marino Evidence
Five Minute Mysteries Rocky Stebbins' Alibi
Five Minute Mysteries Sapphire Theft
Five Minute Mysteries Stabbing Murder
Five Minute Mysteries The Chloroform Murder
Five Minute Mysteries The Forsythe Case
Five Minute Mysteries The Horse Stable Murder
Five Minute Mysteries Thomas Murders Partner

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