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

October 3, 2025 29 mins
Release Date: April 15, 2011

Johnny heads to Kansas City to investigate a robbery that left a guard dead.

Original Air Date: April 28, 1951

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Release Date: April 14, 2011

Sherlock Holmes is hired by a millionaire who is receiving death threats.

Original Air Date: February 10, 1947

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Release Date: April 13, 2011

A crime-busting crusader hires George to make contact with the father of a witness. George finds the witness has died, and that’s only the first death on this case.

Original Air Date: November 14, 1949

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Release Date: April 12, 2011

Nero’s Wolfe dentist and Archie both receive a mysterious call from a woman leading to a ride in the country to do away with them.

Original Air Date: March 16, 1951

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September 29, 2025 35 mins
Release Date: April 11, 2011

Pat Abbott uncovers infidelity on the part of one of a client’ s wife. Her boyfriend plans to murder her husband. But who will actually commit the murder and who’ll end up the corpse?

Original Air Date: May 8, 1955

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Release Date: April 08, 2011

Johnny is off to the Virgin Islands to investigate the disappearance of a married couple on a boat. Suspicious of foul play abound, particularly regarding the husband.

Original Air Date: April 21, 1951

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Release Date: April 07, 2011

Watson is summoned by Mrs. Hudson to the flat of an ailing Sherlock Holmes, who refuses medical care and tells Watson he’s dying.

Original Air Date: February 3, 1947

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September 24, 2025 34 mins
Release Date: April 06, 2011

The mother of a mentally challenged but extremely strong young man hires George, fearing that a convicted felon living nearby has stolen her broach, while the neighbor accuses her son of his murdering his dog.

Original Air Date: November 7, 1949

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Release Date: April 05, 2011

A burglar comes to Wolfe to ask him to prove he didn’t commit murder and steal a fortune in diamonds.

Original Air Date: March 9, 1951

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Release Date: April 4, 2011

Pat and Jean witness a murder in a small town done by the town’s boss, but everyone claims to have seen nothing, and sinister forces try to ensure that Pat and Jean never leave town alive.

Original Air Date: May 1, 1955

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Release Date: April 01 , 2011

An old friend of Johnny’s comes to him for help only to change his mind, and then turn up dead the next day.

Original Air Date: April 14, 1951

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Release Date: March 31, 2011

The butler of a playwright who has satirized Holmes comes to Holmes for helping fearing his master is about to kill him.

Original Air Date: January 27, 1947

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September 17, 2025 34 mins
Release Date: March 30, 2011

A singing cowboy hires George to investigate someone who is threatening a female sharpshooter. The sharpshooter tries to get George off the case, but a shot fired from across the street. A murdered blackmailer sets the stage for a mystery where everyone seems to be a sharpshooter.

Original Air Date: October 31, 1949

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Release Date: March 29, 2011

A man hires Archie to witness a new will and then disappears.

Original Air Date: March 2, 1951

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September 15, 2025 33 mins
Release Date: March 28, 2011

A woman asks Pat to pretend to be her husband in order to save her life.

Original Air Date: April 24, 1955

1957 AFRTS Transcription

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Release Date: March 25, 2011

Johnny Dollar goes to the Malay provinces to investigate the disappearance of a plantation owner. The wife claims her husband was attacked by bandits, but Johnny finds evidence to suggest its her boyfriend.

Original Air Date: April 7, 1951

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Release Date: March 24, 2011

Also known as the Cornish horror. While recovering from a convalescence, Holmes has to solve a bizarre murder that local legend would seem to blame on the devil.

Original Air Date: January 13, 1947

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Release Date: March 23, 2011

George gets a strange letter from a man who says he’s mailed him before, when George didn’t get the letter. Driven by curiosity, George heads out to a house that features two spinsters who care for a paralyzed man. George finds that his correspondent has died and decides to check into the case further.

Original Air Date: October 24, 1949

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Release Date: March 22, 2011

The wife of a millionaire dies. The doctor says its a heart attack, but the husband suspects murder and hires Wolfe.

Original Air Date: February 23, 1951

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Release Date: March 21, 2011

Pat and Jean find the body of a scientist specializing in biological warfare dead in their compartment. When Pat finds out a man identifying himself as the scientist is a passenger on a train to California, he and Jean enter a race against time to stop the train and the imposter aboard.

Original Air Date: April 17, 1955

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