The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 1

By Adam GrahamArts Fiction Drama Performing Arts

The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 1 episodes

January 13 Rogue’s Gallery: Murder at Minden (EP0452)
Release Date: July 19, 2011

Rogue is sent $500 to go to Minden, California. When he arrives, he finds his client has been murdered.

Original Air Date: January 3, 1946

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36 min
January 12 Barrie Craig: The Case of the Naughty Necklace (EP0451)
Release Date: July 18, 2011

Barrie Craig is hired to buy a pearl necklace. He arrives to find the woman he was supposed to buy it from was dead.

Original Air Date: November 28, 1951

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32 min
January 12 WW2 Special: Suspense: Menace in Wax and You Were Wonderful (EP0450s)
Release Date: July 16, 2011

This Suspense doublebill features two episodes of CBS’ signature anthology series.

First in "Menace in Wax," a reporter is summoned to a wax museum and finds a code that could spell trouble for a war plant in Great Britain.

Original Air Date: November 17, 1942

Then in, "You Were Wonderful," the great Lena Horne plays a talented singer who finds herself embroiled in intrigue in Brazil and employed by rough characters with hidden motives.

Original Air Date: November 9, 1944

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1 hr 6 min
January 09 Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Cuban Jewel Matter (EP0450)
Release Date: July 15, 2011

A jewel thief hiding out in Cuba has confessed to a crime he’d committed several years earlier, but still hasn’t revealed the location of the jewels he stole. Johnny heads to Cuba to find the truth.

Original Air Date: September 19, 1951

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39 min
January 08 Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge (EP0449)
Release Date: July 14, 2011

A respectable Englishman finds himself mixed up in a murder after his host ends up dead and turns to Holmes for help.

Original Air Date: May 12, 1947

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34 min
January 07 Let George Do It: The Tears of Sorrow (EP0448)
Release Date: July 13, 2011

A travelling salesman hires George to help him confront a puzzling situation at a roadside motel. When George arrives he finds the body of a Malaysian cook and a silver coffin.

Original Air Date: March 27, 1950

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34 min
January 06 Rogue’s Gallery: Fortune in Furs (EP0447)
Release Date: July 12, 2011

A man comes to Rogue, claiming to have proof that a fur warehouse fire was arson. As Rogue’s making a deal to investigage with the insurance company, his witness is hot.

Original Air Date: December 20, 1945

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33 min
January 05 Barrie Craig: Murder in Wax (EP0446)
Release Date: July 11, 2011

Barrie stumbles onto a death parrot which leads to a corpse. He then gets an invitation to a wax museum exhibit portraying the murder-and his killer.

Original Air Date: November 21, 1951

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33 min
January 02 Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Leland Case Matter (EP0445)
Release Date: July 08, 2011

Johnny investigates the disappearance of a wealthy New York business tycoon.

Rehersal of Episode that Aired August 22, 1951

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39 min
January 01 Sherlock Holmes: The Remarkable Affair of the Pointless Robbery (EP0444)
Release Date: July 07, 2011

While in retirement, Sherlock Holmes investigates a seemingly random burglary of the local vicar’s home but finds something far more sinister is afoot.

Original Air Date: May 5, 1947

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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.