Old Time Radio Mystery Specials
Jun 21, 2026 · 1 hr 6 min · 11 segments
Today's Mystery: After returning to New York following years of imprisonment during the Spanish Civil War, John McKittrick learns that a close friend has died under suspicious circumstances. As he…
Lux presents Hollywood.
The Lux Radio Theater brings you Robert Young, Maureen O'Hara, and Walter Slazek in The Fallen Sparrow.
Deep in the heart of most of us, There must be a suppressed longing to emulate Sherlock Holmes and the other masters of his profession.
How else can you explain the appeal of the mystery story to farmer and financier, haberdasher and housewife, chorus girl or clergyman? A shiver running down the spine is no respecter of persons, and I, for one, look forward with gusto to these manhunting excursions.
Tonight we have one of the best, RKO's object lesson in suspense, Fallen Sparrow.
And our guides on this trail of intrigue, romance, and murder are Robert Young, Maureen O'Hara, and Walter Slazek.
Bob Young had just returned to Hollywood after a tour of Army hospitals.
RKO provided Maureen O'Hara and Walter Slazek, both of whom starred in the film production of The Fallen Sparrow.
It takes all kinds of people to make a world and all kinds of plays to make a theater.
But I think this play will please young and old alike.
Those who've just tried Luxe Flakes and those who've been using it for years.
We had a letter last week from a woman who, at 62, is doing her bit in a war plant in Chicago.
She says she first started buying Luxe in a little textile town in Lancashire, England, about 1901.
Since then, she's used our product in Switzerland and Canada and for the last 25 years in the United States.
She wonders if anyone else beats her record of 43 years in four countries.
I can't answer for that, but she must be mighty sure about Lux Flakes by this time.
And this time is curtain time for Dorothy Hughes' mystery thriller, The Fallen Sparrow, starring Robert Young as Kit, Maureen O'Hara as Elmer Doan, and Walter Slazak as Dr. Scouse.
In a world at war, many sparrows must fall.
In 1940, long after the fascist...
His name is John McKittrick.
He had fought in the Loyalist Army and after its defeat, spent two years in the horrors of a Spanish prison.
Then he escaped.
Lux presents Hollywood.
The Lux Radio Theater brings you Robert Young, Maureen O'Hara, and Walter Slazek in The Fallen Sparrow.
Deep in the heart of most of us, There must be a suppressed longing to emulate Sherlock Holmes and the other masters of his profession.
How else can you explain the appeal of the mystery story to farmer and financier, haberdasher and housewife, chorus girl or clergyman? A shiver running down the spine is no respecter of persons, and I, for one, look forward with gusto to these manhunting excursions.
Tonight we have one of the best, RKO's object lesson in suspense, Fallen Sparrow.
And our guides on this trail of intrigue, romance, and murder are Robert Young, Maureen O'Hara, and Walter Slazek.
Bob Young had just returned to Hollywood after a tour of Army hospitals.
RKO provided Maureen O'Hara and Walter Slazek, both of whom starred in the film production of The Fallen Sparrow.
It takes all kinds of people to make a world and all kinds of plays to make a theater.
But I think this play will please young and old alike.
Those who've just tried Luxe Flakes and those who've been using it for years.
We had a letter last week from a woman who, at 62, is doing her bit in a war plant in Chicago.
She says she first started buying Luxe in a little textile town in Lancashire, England, about 1901.
Since then, she's used our product in Switzerland and Canada and for the last 25 years in the United States.
She wonders if anyone else beats her record of 43 years in four countries.
I can't answer for that, but she must be mighty sure about Lux Flakes by this time.
And this time is curtain time for Dorothy Hughes' mystery thriller, The Fallen Sparrow, starring Robert Young as Kit, Maureen O'Hara as Elmer Doan, and Walter Slazak as Dr. Scouse.
In a world at war, many sparrows must fall.
In 1940, long after the fascist...
His name is John McKittrick.
He had fought in the Loyalist Army and after its defeat, spent two years in the horrors of a Spanish prison.
Then he escaped.
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