| The Case of the Girl Who Came Back | | 1945-07-26 | A girl appears at a rich man's house and insists she's the man's daughter. The man says he's never seen her before, but Vance believes the girl! AFRS program name: "Mystery Playhouse." |
| The Eagle Murder Case | | 1946-09-26 | A case of murder in an ambulance. This is first show of the series that featured Jackson Beck and Joan Alexander. The first 26 programs of the series were heard on Mutual on the dates indicated and then were syndicated by Frederick W. Ziv. It's not know whether Ziv recorded the programs and then sold a package of the first 26 shows to Mutual, or simply bought the rights to the first 26 shows after they had been broadcast on Mutual. There's even the possibility that Ziv produced the shows as they were being broadcast on Mutual and kept the rights for later syndication. There is no indication that Ziv was involved in actually producing the first 26 shows, so even though he might have been involved, he's not listed as the producer until program #27. Starting with program #27 and continuing through program #104 (the last known show of the series), the programs were syndicated and were therefore heard on many different stations on many different dates and in many different sequences. Since the cast members were all New York based, and all known to have been associated with WOR-Mutual, it would have seem more economical to have had the programs recorded-as-they-were-broadcast on a New York City station (possibly WOR), but they may have been been assembled in a recording studio (possibly at WOR), pressed to transcriptions directly and then syndicated. Program #27 through #33 are dated based on a run of the programs known to have been heard on KGO, San Francisco. Program #33 through #100 are based on a second run of the program heard in New York City (possibly on WOR) that began on July 13, 1948. |
| The Merry Murder Case | | 1946-10-03 | A puzzling case with one corpse; but there are three killers, three guns, and three bullets in the body! |
| The Poetic Murder Case | | 1946-11-07 | Two drama critics are murdered, with a poem knifed to each of their chests. A third critic is then killed, and the main suspect is, "Longfellow!" |
| The Coachman Murder Case | | 1946-11-14 | A famous fly fisherman named Jonathan Zachery is found dead, floating in his pool. |
| The Blue Lady Murder Case | | 1946-11-21 | A tough lady-gangster takes over the rackets, with a style all her own. |
| The Midget Murder Case | | 1946-11-21 | A short killing, with the solution leading to a big problem. |
| The Backstage Murder Case | | 1946-12-05 | After a theatre has been robbed, the star receives a threatening letter and her understudy is murdered. |
| The Argus Murder Case | | 1946-12-12 | A man's wife is murdered after she visits an off-shore gambling ship. She was a victim of compulsive gambling. |
| The Bulletin Murder Case | | 1946-12-19 | A lady reporter on "The Bulletin" is assigned to interview Philo Vance, but is murdered! Then, the cab driver who discovered the body is bumped off! |
| The Cover Girl Murder Case | | 1946-12-26 | "Sugar Keen," a beautiful photographer's model, has been strangled with a wire. |
| The Best Seller Murder Case | | 1947-01-16 | An author, about to ruin a woman's life when his new book is published, is found shot to death. |
| The President Murder Case | | 1947-01-23 | The president of a railroad is found under one of his locomotives, shot to death. Later, the new president of the railroad is also shot. The script was previously used on "Philo Vance" on January 23, 1947 and July 22, 1948. Joan Alexander is not heard, the final theme has been deleted. |
| The Blackjack Murder Case | | 1947-02-13 | When the guard at a private sanitarium is murdered, Joan Wescott pleads with Vance not to take the case, which of course has the opposite effect with Philo Vance! The only clues available to Vance are the three black hairs in the corpse's hands. |
| The Star-Studded Murder Case | | 1947-02-20 | There's been a murder at the observatory, just after a famous astronomer receives a medal for discovering a new planet. |
| The Murdock Murder Case | | 1947-02-27 | A horse trainer is murdered and a jockey answers questions on a radio quiz show. An exercise boy is then killed as Vance is determined that the killer doesn't win, place or show. While talking to the District Attorney, Vance says "Just a moment while I answer the phone," and THEN the phone rings! |
| The Vanilla Murder Case | | 1947-03-06 | A soda jerk is killed with a syrup pump! Vance decides that this is the last straw, and solves the case! |
| The Rhumba Murder Case | | 1947-03-13 | A Latin dance instructor named Rosita Ortega is murdered in her studio. |
| The Magic Murder Case | | 1947-03-20 | A thoroughly nasty magician is found knifed in the back in a locked and bolted room. A neat trick! A retired magician practically admits the crime to Vance and challenges him to prove his guilt! A good story! |
| The Idol Murder Case | | 1948-10-07 | A murder at the museum. Three different collectors want the "Bongee," a 1000-year-old copper statue, badly enough to kill for it. A good mystery, you'll never guess whodunit. |
| The Golden Murder Case | | 1948-10-14 | The thoroughly rotten Mr. Golden is shot after being accused of looting the estate of the beautiful Miss Kay Stone. A fortune teller's crystal ball foretells of a future filled with murder! |
| The Flying Murder Case | | 1948-10-21 | An airline pilot named Gregory Allen has been murdered. The co-pilot and one of the passengers have an excellent motive. |
| The Butler Murder Case | | 1948-10-28 | An extortionist who calls himself "Professor Powell," tries to get $100,000 from Dr. Michael Butler, a dentist who is killed when he's unable to fill the cavity in his wallet. The program has a surprise ending and is a better than average entry in this series. |
| The Herringbone Murder Case | | 1948-11-04 | Edith Payne, the owner of a successful dress shop, is killed by a truck. What's wrong with the suit of the man in the photo? |
| The Listless Murder Case | | 1949-03-01 | The crook running a phony charity racket is found murdered. Vance immediately deduces that the killer will have a bruised cheek! |
| The Curtain Call Murder Case | | 1949-03-08 | Actor Richard West has been murdered. He was one of those universally hated guys, almost everyone had a motive! |
| The Million Dollar Murder Case | | 1949-03-15 | Mr. Simmons is a wealthy old man. He's built a high wall around his property. An "electric eye" and a gun adds to his sense of security. Of course, he is soon found murdered. A deaf butler and a dissatisfied secretary indicate a possible "inside job." The cops catch the killer, but Vance disagrees with the identity of the culprit. He explains the case implausibly, with a rented helicopter! |
| The White Willow Murder Case | | 1949-03-22 | A stockbroker is murdered while giving bad advice and romancing a gangster's girlfriend. |
| The High Hat Murder Case | | 1949-03-29 | A plain looking woman predicts that she'll soon be killed and asks Vance not to look for her murderer! |
| The Movie Murder Case | | 1949-04-05 | Movie star Art Ingraham is thrown off his horse and drops dead on the set, while a ring disappears off his finger! |
| The Green Girls Murder Case | | 1949-04-12 | After Jane Green is murdered, Penny Green is knifed in exactly the same way! The district attorney is warned not to call Philo Vance in on the case or he'll be killed! |
| The Cardinal Murder Case | | 1949-04-19 | Tony Cardinal's girlfriend has been murdered. A British car and an English butler figure in the solution to the case. |
| The Cipher Murder Case | | 1949-04-26 | A strange robbery, where one crook shoots the other, and the dead gangster has a paper with the words "Live On" written on it. A better-than-usual-whodunit. |
| The Masters Murder Case | | 1949-05-03 | The District Attorney realizes that the defendant has been framed for murder. A pearl-handled automatic is involved in the case. |
| The Meanest Man Murder Case | | 1949-05-10 | The "meanest man" announces his own killing...at police headquarters! |
| The Butterfly Murder Case | | 1949-05-17 | Josie Daniels, "The Broadway Butterfly," is a nightclub singer that dabbles in blackmail! |
| The Hurdy-Gurdy Murder Case | | 1949-05-24 | Gangster Eddie Mills has been shot and killed, despite his hiring a body guard. An organ-grinder could provide a clue to the crime, but he's been murdered too! |
| The Red Duck Murder Case | | 1949-05-31 | Noticing blood on the feet of some ducks while playing golf, by super-sleuthing, Philo breaks up a counterfeit ring and catches a killer! |
| The Mistletoe Murder Case | | 1949-06-07 | Who murdered Simon Joyce? The wealthy corpse was killed by a hit-and-run driver, with all the evidence pointing toward the victim's brother. Keep your eye on a newly painted 1942 Plymouth! |
| The Combination Murder Case | | 1949-06-14 | Joyce Dixon, the owner of a gambling operation, reports to the cops that she's about to be murdered! However, her gardener and ex-fiance are the ones who get killed! Watch out for that sandwich! |
| The Peacock Murder Case | | 1949-06-21 | Vance is beat up to encourage him to stay away from the David Peacock case, even before he's ever heard of the man! Peacock tells Vance that his burglar-proof safe isn't...and then he's murdered! |
| The Motor Murder Case | | 1949-06-28 | Who killed racing driver Duke Wilson? |
| The White Murder Case | | 1949-07-05 | While Philo is being held by kidnappers, Peter White has been killed. How did Vance find out where he was taken, even though he was blindfolded? |
| The One-Cent Murder Case | | 1949-07-12 | Al Baker, owner of a penny arcade and blackmailer, is killed. Keep your eye on that penny, and on the new desk set! |
| The Racket Murder Case | | 1949-07-19 | A numbers and horse betting racket runs into Philo Vance and is the worse for it. |
| The Cheesecake Murder Case | | 1949-07-26 | A photographer of leg art has been killed. The murderer crashes his getaway car and is found dead behind the wheel. Vance suspects the corpse was not the killer, and he investigates a different kind of cheesecake. |
| The Tick-Tock Murder Case | | 1949-08-02 | A burglar alarm at the Wellington Loan Company has gone off. "Tick-Tock" Maxwell has been murdered. "Sometimes dead men can be more interesting than live ones." A crook willingly admits to robbing the safe, it's his alibi for the murder! |
| The Deep Sea Murder Case | | 1949-08-09 | Millard Case plans to catch a large tuna and won't take "No" for an answer. After two murders, Vance reels in a killer. |
| The Johnny 'A' Murder Case | | 1949-08-16 | Nobody crosses Johnny A without stopping a dose of lead from Johnny's shotgun. Johnny himself is killed by a bomb, while his ex-girlfriend flies to South America. |
| The Blue Penny Murder Case | | 1949-08-23 | Edith Allen has been murdered; no motive has been discovered. The clues lie in the sheet music business, and who printed the song, "The Blue Penny." |
| The Brotherly Murder Case | | 1949-08-30 | A false brother joins a real one to try to inherit $250,000 from the estate of the deceased father. Philo breaks into a brotherly fight, saying, "I am Philo Vance," to which the reply is made (quite rightly), "I don't care if you're Dick Tracy!" A confusing plot! |
| The Oxford Murder Case | | 1949-09-06 | An old lady in the park needs help, but is unwilling to accept any. Wealthy Mr. Richard Oxford has been robbed and killed, and the butler has disappeared. He's the special friend of the lady in the park. |
| The Checkered Murder Case | | 1949-09-13 | A man in a checkered suit commits a robbery, shoots the victim and then vanishes! This crook then commits three crimes at the same time in three different places...and vanishes from each place! A better-than-usual plot for this series. |
| The Black Gold Murder Case | | 1949-10-04 | Mrs. Willoughby spends $10,000 to buy a machine that makes $1 dollar bills...but only after she makes sure it really works! |
| The Meeker Murder Case | | 1949-10-17 | John Meeker has been murdered. The suspect is David Worth. |
| The Deathless Murder Case | | 1949-10-24 | John Bells says that he's 400-years-old. Happy birthday, John! |
| The Revealing Ring Murder Case | | 1949-10-31 | null |
| The Muddy Murder Case | | 1949-11-08 | Gangster John Williams has been shot and murdered in a house surrounded by mud...and there's no visible footprints in the mud. The program has also been identified as program #104 (and the last show in the series) and dated July 4, 1950. |
| The Little Murder Case | | 1949-11-15 | A busienssman's safe is robbed after the combination has been changed. He's been shot and killed by the robber. The clue is in a cab ride to nowhere. |
| The Nightmare Murder Case | | 1949-11-22 | A woman tells Vance that she's had two dreams, both of which came true! Her third dream is that she's going to kill a man! |
| The Thundering Murder Case | | 1949-11-29 | David Wilkins is on the phone during a thunderstorm. He says, "What a night for murder," whereupon he is shot. |
| The Birdcage Murder Case | | 1949-12-06 | A married man accepts an invitation to a party given by his former girlfriend's fiance. A magician performing "The Disappearing Bird Cage" trick provides the opportunity for a perfect murder. |
| The Gray Glove Murder Case | | 1949-12-13 | A locked-room murder takes place. A man is choked to death by a man wearing a gray glove. There's no body attached to the glove! |
| The Chop Suey Murder Case | | 1949-12-20 | After a robbery and murder in Chinatown, Vance gets a jive-talking young Chinese assistant (who sounds like Charlie Chan's "Number One" son). The killer asks for an order of Din Yip Har...at $15,000 a dish! |
| The Identical Murder Case | | 1949-12-27 | Tommy Orchid has killed a man who looked like Philo Vance and Tommy Orchid doesn't tolerate mistakes! |
| The Tip-Top Murder Case | | 1950-01-03 | A chorus girl named Susan Blake has no money. Nevertheless, she's being blackmailed for $5000, and then is murdered! |
| The Left-Handed Murder Case | | 1950-01-10 | A gangster trying to quit the mob is killed shortly after asking Vance for protection. |
| The Talking Corpse Murder Case | | 1950-01-17 | A woman is frightened by a chance meeting with her husband...who's been dead for the last ten months! A cat hair provides Vance with the needed clue. |
| The Music Box Murder Case | | 1950-01-24 | A bride-to-be wants to help her future husband succeed in business...as a murderer! Two wealthy men have been killed with a rope, their safes have been robbed, and their music boxes taken. Jackson Beck misreads a line near the end of the show, nearly cracking up George Petrie. |
| The Sterling Murder Case | | 1950-01-31 | Two maiden little old ladies have been confessing to every murder in sight. Are they really up to something? |
| The Chicken Murder Case | | 1950-02-07 | Tommy Morrow is moving in on Frankie Stacy's operations. "Chick" Lewis is sent to peck him death, but is shot himself! Real chicken blood is found on the body! |
| The Scarface Murder Case | | 1950-02-14 | A woman identifies an ugly gangster as a murderer, but Vance and the D.A. saw the gangster in a restaurant at the time of the killing! |
| The Church Murder Case | | 1950-03-07 | A practical joker who loves exploding cigars and whoopee cushions is murdered, and the suspect is obviously the killer. |
| The Mathematical Murder Case | | 1950-03-14 | Eddie Stone wants out of his dance partnership with Betty Lou Taylor. When Eddie is killed, Betty Lou seems to be in step for the murder. A "pick-a-number" gimmick is a simple mathematical formula. |
| The Jackpot Murder Case | | 1950-03-21 | A gangster involved with slot machines murders a stool pigeon, a morgue attendant and two others. Vance lets himself be beat up to put the killer behind the three bars. |
| The Ivory Murder Case | | 1950-03-28 | A jungle killing, $2 million in ivory and a vengeful native lead to a classic locked-room murder. |
| The Mimic Murder Case | | 1950-04-04 | A gangster kidnaps Vance and hires a nightclub mimic to imitate his voice. The crook uses this scheme to get the criminal charges against him dropped. |
| The Nylon Murder Case | | 1950-04-11 | Vance uses a torn stocking to "run" in a gang of three vicious ladies. |
| The Golden Key Murder Case | | 1950-04-18 | After Vance receives a mysterious key in the mail, he discovers a dead man sitting at his desk...with an identical golden key in his hand. |
| The Shower Bath Murder Case | | 1950-04-25 | A man is found murdered in an unlocked bathroom. He was dying of poison and threw a brush through the window. Why did he do that instead of opening the door? |
| The Rooftop Murder Case | | 1950-05-02 | Joe Somer has committed suicide by jumping off the roof. The suicide note he left behind is legit, but Vance suspects that the case is a murder. |
| The Whistling Murder Case | | 1950-05-09 | As the killer whistles, "Comin' Through The Rye," a husband and wife are shot after being blackmailed. Evidence points to the neer-do-well son of a banker. |
| The Manicure Murder Case | | 1950-05-16 | A scientist named Edgar Wilson has been shot and is dying. But first, he stops for a manicure! The Miller brothers, who killed Professor Wilson, are blown to pieces when they try to get "Experiment X." |
| The Money Machine Murder Case | | 1950-05-23 | A gang of conmen is selling machines that they say can manufacture genuine $1 bills. It's a neat scam, but it leads to murder! How did the traveling monogram illusion work? |
| The Alibi Murder Case | | 1950-06-06 | John Green is murdered while on the telephone to the district attorney. The obvious killer has a good alibi; the D.A. is then shot. |
| The Argyle Murder Case | | 1950-06-27 | An actor's dead body is found on a ferryboat. The body has on all new clothes...and argyle socks that don't match. |
