Basil Rathbone whom for a very long time played the role of Sherlock Holmes.

Here a few sound bits of Basil telling us about:

Melba Toast

Stoic

Tangerine

The Saxophone

To Get One's Goat

Enjoy the game.

Sounds like a real storm is coming up when Annie hears what sounds like little kittens meowing outside and she sends him out to rescue them. But when he goes out he is attacked and killed by what sounds like a pack of wild dogs. Meanwhile Lamont Cranston and Margo Lane are in Louisiana on their way to see Arthur Whittington an old friend of Lamont’s from college who was ridiculed for his strange voice. When come to the end of the road they see a sign which says Whittington Hall, Keep Out. Then Margo hears some meowing like kittens and goes to search for them only to be forced back by giant snarling dogs. . .

 Duration: 22:50 

Starring: Dwight Weist, Margot Stevenson 

Broadcast Date: 26th December 1937

It is 8:30 on Wednesday morning in Texas on July 7th 1951. As Sheriff Alan Hankins answers the telephone in his office. Buck Whatley has had four of his calves stolen. . . 

Duration: 29:16 

Starring: Joel McCrea 

Broadcast Date: 16th March 1952

Mrs. Carlton is having her piano tuned when her husband arrives home. She asks if he has managed to get his partners to lend him some money to get them out of their debt. They have mad some unwise investments and the only way Mr. Carlton can see to getting out of trouble is to get a loan against his wife’s jewels. Mrs. Carlton is not prepared to let him have her jewels and in the ensuing argument Mr. Carlton is shot, but how and by whom? It is either suicide or murder. 

Duration: 30:00

 Starring: James Monks

 Broadcast Date: 3rd August 1945

A tale as old as the bible, but with a ghostly twist. A mother and her two sons, Thomas, a good, loving man, keeping the family a float with his meager earnings; Paddy, his brother, is just the opposite- mean-spirited and lazy. Its the day of Thomas’ wedding, and his brother comes to him with a story of treasures under the sea. “It will only take a couple of hours”, says Paddy, “and then you’ll have money to be married with”. So the two take to the sea, but the sea takes its payment and only one man returns. . . Reviewed by Sarah B. 

Duration: 22:13 

Starring: Arch Oboler 

Broadcast Date: 16th September 1936

The grey stone building stands at the end of the alleyway. There’s a small brass plate on the door which reads, Metropolitan Police Morgue. Inside the morgue a dead man has been delivered, just another tramp involved in a hit and run case.The grey stone building stands at the end of the alleyway. There’s a small brass plate on the door which reads, Metropolitan Police Morgue. Inside the morgue a dead man has been delivered, just another tramp involved in a hit and run case or so it seems. . . 

Duration: 28:20 

Broadcast Date: Not known

Angelino Guiseppie runs butchers shop and was a friend of Richard Diamond’s. He came to Diamond for some help on behalf of all the owners of all independent butcher’s shops who had got together last night to discuss their troubles. Every week a couple of guys come round and collect and if they don’t pay they get their shops bust up and sometimes even themselves. It was too dangerous to go to the police as they had been warned they would be beaten for it. In order to help Richard Diamond became Angelino’s new assistant butcher. 

Duration: 28:56 

Starring: Dick Powell, Virginia Gregg, Wilms Herbert, Arthur Q. Bryan 

Broadcast Date: 9th March 1951

One of Joshua Masters three sons is trying to kill him and he wants to find out which two are innocent. 

Duration: 29:51 

Starring: Mercedes McCambridge 

Broadcast Date: 10th April 1952

Phyliss Kenny had hired Michael Shayne to find out if her husband was two-timing her. He wasn’t but he’d gotten himself mixed up with a character named Jasper who was following his usual routine of getting close to his blackmail victim by working for him. In this case he was the gardener at the Duval estate and that’s how Dick Kenny got mixed up with him, Dick was the Duval chauffer. 

Duration: 25:24 

Starring: Wally Maher, Cathy Lewis, William Conrad

 Broadcast Date: 6th August 1948