The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 1

The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 1

Adam Graham continues his journey through Old Time Radio Detective programs from their first available adventure to their final bow in Seasons 1-3 which were released between 2009 and 2012, featuring nearly 800 Old Time Radio episodes. You can listen to the current podcast feed of The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio here. In this volume, you'll hear: Alan Ladd playing Dan Holiday, a reporter-mystery writer who will go anywhere and do anything to those who send him a letter to Box 13. Jack Webb as Pat Novak for Hire, a Man Who Rents Boats and also ends up getting involved in murders in the most hard-boiled detective series of them all Before he was Johnny Dollar, Bob Bailey starred in Let George Do It as George Valentine, a detective who advertised that danger was his stock and trade. The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes featuring early 1930s episodes with Richard Gordon and Luis Hector, followed by the definitive performance of Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce as SHerlock Holmes and Watson as well as later series starring Tom Conway and John Stanley as Holmes. The early adventures of the Man with Action-Packed Expense Account with episodes starring Dick Powell, Charles Russell, Edmond O'Brien, and John Lund,. Jack Webb and later Frank Graham star as Jeff Regan, Investigator, a detective who was known as the Lyon's Eye. Jeff Chandler stars in a failed Pilot for San Francisco Final The Radio Adventures of the Thin Man including radio adaptations of the first two Thin Man Movies starring William Powell The Father Brown radio series starring Karl Swenson Golden Age Radio episodes featuring Rex Stout's housebound sleuth Nero Wolfe, most notably played by Sidney Greenstreet. The mid-1950s series features a Detective and His Glamourous Wife in The Adventures of the Abbotts. William Gargan stars in two separate detective series as hard-boiled private eye Ross Dolan in I Deal in Crime and as Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator Dick Powell's first hard-boiled detective series in Rogue's Gallery. Glamourous Private Eye Candy Matson solves crimes in San Francisco Glenn Ford stars as Christopher London Before he became, a famous journalist known for 60 minutes, Mike Wallace starred in Crime on the Waterfront The old-time radio adventures of Hercules Poirot starring Harold Huber. This one's about Pete Kelly (played by Jack Webb) in Pete Kelly's Blues, a 1920s Blue Clarinet Player who gets into trouble and mystery in Kansas City The Adventures of Frank Race, a former lawyer who became a freelance troubleshooter. Broadway Legend Walter Hampden stars as Leonidas Witherall, a boy's school headmaster who looks like William Shakespeare and finds mystery and adventure. J. Scott Smart stars as The Fat Man, the rotund private eye with the famous theme. Listen for specials starring Alan Ladd, Humphrey Bogart, Howard Duff, Orson Welles, Peter Lorrre, Sidney Greenstreet, Edmond O'Brien, Vincent Price, Lena Horne, Dick Powell, Glenn Ford, Charlton Heston. and more.

Episodes

December 22, 2025 33 mins
Release Date: June 27, 2011

Barrie Craig is hired by a woman to ensure her marriage goes forward.

Original Air Date: November 7, 1951

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Release Date: June 24, 2011

Johnny searches for a missing witness who can tell which of two parents died first in a car accident. At stake? $200,000 in Life Insurance money.

Original Air Date: August 1, 1951

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Release Date: June 23, 2011

While retired, Sherlock Holmes investigates the murder of a school teacher.

Original Air Date: April 21, 1947

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Release Date: June 22, 2011

A famous composer has died and his widow is hiding something. George has to find out what.

Original Air Date: January 30, 1950

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Release Date: June 21, 2011

Rogue is hired by an insurance company to investigate the theft of a priceless diamond. When the family refuses to cooperate, Rogue becomes suspicious.

Original Air Date: November 15, 1945

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December 14, 2025 31 mins
Release Date: June 20, 2011

Barrie is hired by a bailbondsman to find a racketeer who has threatened to skip town and leave the bondsman holding the bag for $50,000.

Original Air Date: October 31, 1951

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Release Date: June 17, 2011

Johnny investigates a plane bombing that left more than dozen people dead.

Original Air Date: July 11, 1951

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Release Date: June 16, 2011

Holmes is hired by a count with a family history shrouded in mystery who fears he’s going insane.

Original Air Date: April 14, 1947

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December 10, 2025 32 mins
Release Date: June 15, 2011

On an urgent two a.m. call, George and Brooksie travel to a rundown hotel and find an apparent double suicide.

Original Air Date: January 23, 1950

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Release Date: June 14, 2011

A beautiful woman hires Rogue to get her husband to help her get her husband to come back to her. They find her husband dead.

Original Air Date: November 7, 1945

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Release Date: June 13, 2011

When Barrie’s tailor is killed and and a fire is set to the tailor’s shop. TO find the murder, Barrie investigates the rackets.

Original Air Date: October 24, 1951

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Release Date: June 10, 2011

Johnny investigates the murder of a philandering salesman.

Original Air Date: July 4, 1951

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Release Date: June 09, 2011

While on vacation in a rural village, Holmes investigates the disappearance of a local woman’s son.

Original Air Date: April 7, 1947

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December 3, 2025 34 mins
Release Date: June 08, 2011

Instead of a letter requesting his help, George receives a thank you note for wristlets by mistake. George figures out a mixup was made, and goes to find the woman who got the thank you note. She finds her dead.

Original Air Date: January 16, 1950

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Release Date: June 07, 2011

A man who owes Rogue $500 sends him and another man he owes money to, each half of a treasure map. Rogue hasn’t received his half and the other creditor is killed for his.

Original Air Date: October 25, 1945

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Release Date: June 06, 2011

Barrie Craig is hired to guard a columnist who has been hinting that a former champion threw a fight. When Craig hears his client murdered, he needs to find out who did it.

Original Air Date: October 17, 1951

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Release Date: June 03, 2011

Johnny heads to England to investigate the theft of $100,000 in jewels.

Original Air Date: June 27, 1951

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Release Date: June 02, 2011

Sherlock Holmes is called in by a woman who hopes that a song will save her family’s estate.

Original Air Date: March 31, 1947

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Release Date: June 01, 2011

George is hired by a deaf-mute woman to attend a gathering at 8 o’clock. He arrives to find her dead with a house full of suspects.

Original Air Date: January 9, 1950

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Release Date: May 31, 2011

A woman is murdered on board a train and Rogue searches for the killer.

Original Air Date: October 11, 1945

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