The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 1

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The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 1 episodes

January 28 Rogue’s Gallery: Special Added Attraction (EP0462)
Release Date: August 02, 2011

Rogue is hired to protect a circus prima dona who is knocked off right before his very eyes.

Original Air Date; January 31, 1946

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33 min
January 26 Barrie Craig: Death and the Purple Cow (EP0461)
Release Date: August 01, 2011

The sister of a man in trouble hires Barrie to help him out. It all started over a purple cow.

Original Air Date: December 12, 1951

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32 min
January 23 Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Douglas Taylor Matter (EP0460)
Release Date: July 29, 2011

Johnny looks into the death of a private investigator who was killed while working for him.

Original Air Date: October 6, 1951

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33 min
January 22 Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Submerged Baronet (EP0459)
Release Date: July 28, 2011

Holmes and Watson witness an apparent accidential drowning, but Holmes suspects homicide. But how can he prove it?

Original Air Date: May 26, 1947

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34 min
January 21 Rogue’s Gallery: A Will In Question (EP0457)
Release Date: July 26, 2011

A friend of Rogue’s is made executor of an estate and hires Rogue to check the validity of the will.

Original Air Date: January 17, 1946

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33 min
January 21 Let George Do It: Portrait by Priscilla (EP0458)
Release Date: July 27, 2011

A man from out of town hires George after he’s assaulted after seeing a portrait by Priscilla. George meets the artist and finds she a gawdy woman and bad painter. She also ends up murdered.

Original Air Date: April 10, 1950

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34 min
January 19 Barrie Craig: The Paper Bullets (EP0456)
Release Date: July 25, 2011

Barrie is hired to track down a missing prize-winning manuscript.

Original Air Date: December 5, 1951

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36 min
January 16 Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Protection Matter (EP0455)
Release Date: July 22, 2011

Johnny investigates a burnt out shop where the shopowner is refusing to file a claim.

Original Air Date: September 26, 1951

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33 min
January 15 Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Harley Street Murders (EP0454)
Release Date: July 21, 2011

Doctors are being murdered on Harley Street and Holmes thinks Moriarity is involved.

Original Air Date: May 19, 1947

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38 min
January 14 Let George Do It: The Brothers McIntosh (EP0453)
Release Date: July 20, 2011

A butler to two brothers, one well-loved and one totally despised, asks George to investigate as he fears the beloved brother will soon be murdered.

Original Air Date: April 3, 1950

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33 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.