The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 1

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The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 1 episodes

February 24 Rogue’s Gallery: Impossible Murder (EP0482)
Release Date: August 30, 2011

Rogue is hired to protect a lawyer who has been threatened with murder.

Original Air Date: May 16, 1946

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34 min
February 23 Barrie Craig: Murder Island (EP0481)
Release Date: August 29, 2011

Barrie is hired by a wanted fugitive to find out who really committed the murder he was charged with.

Original Air Date: January 9, 1952

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34 min
February 20 Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Birdy Baskerville Matter (EP0480)
Release Date: August 26, 2011

A rich man decided to change his beneficiary to charity as he fears his brother will kill him. He’s killed immediately after meeting Johnny Dollar.

Original Air Date: November 10, 1951

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33 min
February 19 Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Speckled Band (EP0479)
Release Date: August 25, 2011

A young woman who is engaged to be married comes to Holmes because she is afraid that she’ll share the fate of her sister and die before her wedding.

Original Air Date: June 23, 1947

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35 min
February 18 Let George Do It: Picture with a Black Frame (EP0478)
Release Date: August 24, 2011

When a blackmailing photographer tries to hire George to front a blackmail scheme, George goes to warn the intended victim.

Original Air Date: May 8, 1950

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35 min
February 17 Rogue’s Gallery: Snowbound (EP0477)
Release Date: August 23, 2011

Rogue recognizes the husband of a beautiful woman, but doesn’t remember where. He’s rescued by a hermit and trapped in a cabin.

Original Air Date: May 9, 1946

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35 min
February 16 Barrie Craig: Death of a Private Eye (EP0476)
Release Date: August 22, 2011

A former confidential investigator hires Barrie to go with him on a visit.

Original Air Date: January 2, 1952

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37 min
February 13 Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Hannibal Murphy Matter (EP0475)
Release Date: August 19, 2011

Johnny goes to Jamaica to investigate the death of an insured, only to find the police have already declared the death a murder.

Original Air Date: November 3, 1951

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35 min
February 12 Sherlock Holmes: Death in the North Sea (EP0474)
Release Date: August 18, 2011

The widow of a murdered older man hires Holmes to prove her love (and the dead man’s business partner) innocent of his killing.

Original Air Date: June 16, 1947

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34 min
February 11 Let George Do It: The Chair of Humanities (EP0473)
Release Date: August 17, 2011

The wife of a prominent college professor asks for George’s help, but when he calls, she denies that she needs it. Then the professor himself asks George to stop him from being murdered.

Original Air Date: May 1, 1950

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34 min

About The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 1

From the publisher's feed

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.