The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 1
Enjoy the first three seasons of the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from 2009-12 including more than 750 old-time radio mysteries, Let George Do It, Sherlock Holmes, Yours Truly Johnny Dollar, Box 13, The Thin Man, the Abbotts, Barrie Craig, Frank Race, Pat Novak, Jeff Regan, Father Brown, Rogue's Gallery, Nero Wolfe as well as several other programs and specials.
Episodes
Original Air Date: December 4, 2009
Johnny Dollar has to keep a young man from committing suicide and costing his insurance company $2 million. The benficiary on the policy: a ruthless gambler who the young man owes big money to.
Original Broadcast: March 25, 1949
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Johnny Dollar has to keep a young man from committing suicide and costing his insurance company $2 million. The benficiary on the policy: a ruthless gambler who the young man owes big money to.
Original Broadcast: March 25, 1949
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June 6, 2024 • 30 mins
Original Release Date: December 3, 2009
Confined to 221B Baker Street, Sherlock Holmes gets a mystery he can solve in his own backyard when a neighbor is shot to death, and Holmes and Watson see her nephew flee the scene of the crime.
Original Air Date: June 6, 1936
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Confined to 221B Baker Street, Sherlock Holmes gets a mystery he can solve in his own backyard when a neighbor is shot to death, and Holmes and Watson see her nephew flee the scene of the crime.
Original Air Date: June 6, 1936
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June 5, 2024 • 33 mins
Original Release Date: November 2, 2009
George Valentine finds an old army buddy confined to a sanitarium after an alleged explosion in Egypt. George’s suspicions are aroused when someone takes a shot at him and Brooksie.
Original Air Date: April 5, 1948
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George Valentine finds an old army buddy confined to a sanitarium after an alleged explosion in Egypt. George’s suspicions are aroused when someone takes a shot at him and Brooksie.
Original Air Date: April 5, 1948
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June 4, 2024 • 34 mins
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Pat Novak gets an offer for $300 from a beautiful woman to stay away from boxer Rory Malone, and $300 from Malone’s manager. Whichever side he ends up on, it’s going to be trouble.
Original Air Date: March 20, 1949
Quote of the Show:
She was a lovely girl. The sort of person you expected to see in a Choir loft-about three hours after choir practice had ended. Her hair was red, her eyes were as cold as rig...
Pat Novak gets an offer for $300 from a beautiful woman to stay away from boxer Rory Malone, and $300 from Malone’s manager. Whichever side he ends up on, it’s going to be trouble.
Original Air Date: March 20, 1949
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She was a lovely girl. The sort of person you expected to see in a Choir loft-about three hours after choir practice had ended. Her hair was red, her eyes were as cold as rig...
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June 3, 2024 • 36 mins
Original Release Date: November 30, 2009
Dan Holiday answers a letter in Box 13 and finds himself kidnapped and fishing at sea.
Original Air Date: February 11, 1948
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Dan Holiday answers a letter in Box 13 and finds himself kidnapped and fishing at sea.
Original Air Date: February 11, 1948
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May 31, 2024 • 45 mins
Release Date: November 27, 2009
Johnny Dollar heads out to investigate a series of accidents at a carnival, only to find that murder is on the agenda.
Original Broadcast: March 11, 1949
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Johnny Dollar heads out to investigate a series of accidents at a carnival, only to find that murder is on the agenda.
Original Broadcast: March 11, 1949
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May 30, 2024 • 32 mins
Original Release Date: November 26, 2009
While on vacation in Cornwall, Holmes and Watson find themselves in a mystery that has led to unexplained madness in one case and unexplained death in another.
Original Air Date: May 30, 1936
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While on vacation in Cornwall, Holmes and Watson find themselves in a mystery that has led to unexplained madness in one case and unexplained death in another.
Original Air Date: May 30, 1936
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May 29, 2024 • 36 mins
Original Release Date: November 25, 2009
George Valentine gets a lot more than he bargained for when he helps a woman with a lost pearl when she steals his wallet. When George tries to get his wallet back he comes face to face with a big gun and an international smuggling conspiracy.
Original Air Date: October 3, 1947
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George Valentine gets a lot more than he bargained for when he helps a woman with a lost pearl when she steals his wallet. When George tries to get his wallet back he comes face to face with a big gun and an international smuggling conspiracy.
Original Air Date: October 3, 1947
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May 28, 2024 • 33 mins
Original Release Date: November 24, 2009
Pat Novak comes across a man tossed in the bay, who gives him the key to a bus locker. A woman pays him $200 to bring her the contents of the locker.
Quotes:
“It was like washing your kid’s face and finding out he was ugly to begin with.”-Pat Novak
“You couldn’t strike oil in a filling station.”-Pat Novak
Novak: And you’re going to tell me he’s dead, Hellman.
Hellman: No, I’m not going to tell he’...
Pat Novak comes across a man tossed in the bay, who gives him the key to a bus locker. A woman pays him $200 to bring her the contents of the locker.
Quotes:
“It was like washing your kid’s face and finding out he was ugly to begin with.”-Pat Novak
“You couldn’t strike oil in a filling station.”-Pat Novak
Novak: And you’re going to tell me he’s dead, Hellman.
Hellman: No, I’m not going to tell he’...
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May 27, 2024 • 33 mins
Original Release Date: November 23, 2009
A newspaper boy asks Dan Holiday to help him free his father, who has been charged as an accessory in a Jewelry Story Robbery.
Original Air Date: February 4, 1948
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A newspaper boy asks Dan Holiday to help him free his father, who has been charged as an accessory in a Jewelry Story Robbery.
Original Air Date: February 4, 1948
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May 24, 2024 • 42 mins
Original Release Date: November 20, 2009
Johnny Dollar is assigned as a bodyguard to a highly insured businessman, who dies as soon as Johnny arrives. Now he must find the killer and find out if the insurance company that’s retained him has to pay off.
Original Air Date: March 4, 1949
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Johnny Dollar is assigned as a bodyguard to a highly insured businessman, who dies as soon as Johnny arrives. Now he must find the killer and find out if the insurance company that’s retained him has to pay off.
Original Air Date: March 4, 1949
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May 23, 2024 • 35 mins
Original Release Date: November 19, 2009
Sherlock Holmes investigates a case of disappearing cadavers.
Original Air Date: Sometime in 1935, though it may have been 1933. Who knows?
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Sherlock Holmes investigates a case of disappearing cadavers.
Original Air Date: Sometime in 1935, though it may have been 1933. Who knows?
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May 22, 2024 • 33 mins
Original Release Date: November 18, 2009
A book shop owner dies and his widow hires George, believing that money is hidden inside the book shop.
Original Air Date: November 8, 1946
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A book shop owner dies and his widow hires George, believing that money is hidden inside the book shop.
Original Air Date: November 8, 1946
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May 21, 2024 • 33 mins
Original Release Date: November 17, 2009
Pat Novak’s hired to find a horse, and he finds the horse and a dead body.
Original Air Date: March 6, 1949
Jockey: I want a horse. Can you find me a horse?
Novak: Yeah, I breed them in the back room.
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Pat Novak’s hired to find a horse, and he finds the horse and a dead body.
Original Air Date: March 6, 1949
Jockey: I want a horse. Can you find me a horse?
Novak: Yeah, I breed them in the back room.
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May 20, 2024 • 29 mins
Original Release Date: November 16, 2009
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Dan Holiday receives an impossible call from a woman as she’s being murdered.
Original Air Date: January 28, 1948'
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Dan Holiday receives an impossible call from a woman as she’s being murdered.
Original Air Date: January 28, 1948'
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May 17, 2024 • 44 mins
Original Release Date: November 13, 2009
Johnny Dollar heads to Singapore to save an insurance company from a paying out $2500 day for a shipping delay. Trouble comes when Dollar finds the Insurance company’s man in Singapore missing.
Original Air Date: February 5, 1949
Originating in Hollywood
Starring Charles Russell as Johnny Dollar
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Johnny Dollar heads to Singapore to save an insurance company from a paying out $2500 day for a shipping delay. Trouble comes when Dollar finds the Insurance company’s man in Singapore missing.
Original Air Date: February 5, 1949
Originating in Hollywood
Starring Charles Russell as Johnny Dollar
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May 16, 2024 • 33 mins
Original Release Date: November 12, 2009
Holmes investigates a mystery surrounding a relic dating back to the time of King Solomon.
Original Air Date: November 11, 1934
Originated in New York
Starred Luis Hector as Sherlock Holmes
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Holmes investigates a mystery surrounding a relic dating back to the time of King Solomon.
Original Air Date: November 11, 1934
Originated in New York
Starred Luis Hector as Sherlock Holmes
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May 15, 2024 • 32 mins
Original Release Date: November 11, 2009
George is retained by a Western Movie Actor who has become afraid of horses and even more afraid of letting down the kids at an orphanage who want to see him perform. George has to find someone to ride the horse.
Original Air Date: October 25, 1946
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George is retained by a Western Movie Actor who has become afraid of horses and even more afraid of letting down the kids at an orphanage who want to see him perform. George has to find someone to ride the horse.
Original Air Date: October 25, 1946
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May 14, 2024 • 30 mins
Original Release Date: November 10, 2009
A woman with apparent amnesia stumbles into Pat Novak and then dies. Novak has to find out who she really is before Hellman rushes him off to the gas chamber.
Quote of the Episode:
“If I didn’t move fast, I was deader than a Philadelphia nightclub.”
Original Air Date: February 27, 1949
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A woman with apparent amnesia stumbles into Pat Novak and then dies. Novak has to find out who she really is before Hellman rushes him off to the gas chamber.
Quote of the Episode:
“If I didn’t move fast, I was deader than a Philadelphia nightclub.”
Original Air Date: February 27, 1949
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May 13, 2024 • 29 mins
Original Release Date: November 9, 2009
An elderly woman sends an urgent message to Box 13. The reason…there’s a dead body in her room.
Original Air Date: January 21, 1948
Originated in Hollywood
Starring Alan Ladd as Dan Holiday
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An elderly woman sends an urgent message to Box 13. The reason…there’s a dead body in her room.
Original Air Date: January 21, 1948
Originated in Hollywood
Starring Alan Ladd as Dan Holiday
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