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

August 1, 2025 37 mins
Release Date: February 11, 2011

Johnny investigates the near simultaneous robberies of several finance companies.

Original Air Date: January 13, 1953

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Release Date: February 10, 2011

Sherlock Holmes investigates the death of a country matriarch in a house where everyone has a motive. The key clue? Parsley.

Original Air Date: November 30, 1946

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Release Date: February 09, 2011

George is called up to a house in the country where a man’s wife is missing as is a local doctor. The sister-in-law is suspicious and confused, while the husband is acting guilty.

Original Air Date: August 29, 1949

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Release Date: February 08, 2011

Nero Wolfe is hired to find a missing boxer, when the boxer turns up dead, Wolfe must find the murderer.

Original Air Date: January 5, 1951

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Release Date: February 07, 2011

A Catcher is murdered before a big game, Pat Abbott believes that the team’s star pitcher may be the key to finding the murderer, but doesn’t like Jean’s tactic of going undercover as a single girl to extract information from the wolfish pitcher.

Guest starring Jackie Robinson

Original Air Date: March 6, 1955

1957 AFRTS Transcription

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Release Date: February 04, 2011

An old friend is murdered while investigating another murder in South Carolina. Is the murdered investigator’s wife (an ex-flame of Johnny’s) behind the killing or did the perpetrators of the original murder do it.

Original Air Date: December 16, 1950

1957 AFRTS Transcription

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Release Date: February 03, 2011

Holmes and Watson investigate the murder of the owner of a ship.

Original Air Date: November 23, 1946

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Release Date: February 02, 2011

George, Lt. Riley, and Claire go on a fishing vacation, and end up fishing a murdered midget out of the water. In a town full of ex-circus people, who committed the crime?

Original Air Date: August 22, 1949

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Release Date: February 01, 2011

While visiting an orchid shop, Archie finds the dead body of a disliked man. By the time, Archie gets Nero Wolfe, the body is gone with only some blood on a fern.

Original Air Date: December 29, 1950

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Release Date: January 31, 2011

A Hollywood starlet comes to Pat admitting she’d committed murder and offering Pat $100,000 to cover it up.

Original Air Date: February 27, 1955

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Release Date: January 28, 2011

Johnny Dollar is hired to find the benficiary of a life insurance policy, but is the case legitimate?

Original Air Date: December 9, 1950

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Release Date: January 27, 2011

Sherlocks Holmes helps a famous singer who is being blacmailed. When he shows up to collect his fee, he finds his client dead.

Original Air Date: November 2, 1946

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Release Date: January 26, 2011

George is dispatched by a South American insurance to pay a $10,000 settlement to a man who doesn’t respond to the company’s request. When George gets to the town, he finds betrayal and madness on the loose, and murder in the air.

Original Air Date: August 15, 1949

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Release Date: January 25, 2011

A woman tries to enlist Wolfe in finding a missing employer. She then disappears and the employer turns up dead.

Original Air Date: December 15, 1950

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July 14, 2025 35 mins
Release Date: January 24, 2011

Pat Abbott goes to Las Vegas at the request of the government to find a secret formula.

Original Air Date: February 20, 1955 (AFRTS Rebroadcast.)

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Release Date: January 21, 2011

Johnny Dollar goes to the Philippines to investigate the theft of $75,000.

Original Air Date: November 25, 1950

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Release Date: January 20, 2011

A man hires Holmes to investigate the death of his young brother at an exclusive boarding school run by an odd doctor.

Original Air Date: November 9, 1946

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Release Date: January 19, 2011

George tries to help a man who was just released from prison understand the cause of his wife’s death. Then the man who accidentally hit his wife is shot and the man disappears.

Original Air Date: August 8, 1949

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Release Date: January 18, 2011

Nero Wolfe investigates the murder of a despised boss with a nasty desposition.

Original Air Date: December 8, 1950

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Release Date: January 17, 2011

A crew man on a ship travelling to Europe with food supplies thinks something is wrong and asks Pat to look into it.

Original Air Date: January 30, 1955

1957 AFRTS Transcription

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