The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 1

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The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 1 episodes

December 03, 2025 Let George Do It: Juniper Lane (EP0423)
Release Date: June 08, 2011

Instead of a letter requesting his help, George receives a thank you note for wristlets by mistake. George figures out a mixup was made, and goes to find the woman who got the thank you note. She finds her dead.

Original Air Date: January 16, 1950

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35 min
December 02, 2025 Rogue’s Gallery: Murder with Muriel (EP0422)
Release Date: June 07, 2011

A man who owes Rogue $500 sends him and another man he owes money to, each half of a treasure map. Rogue hasn’t received his half and the other creditor is killed for his.

Original Air Date: October 25, 1945

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36 min
December 01, 2025 Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator: The Judge and the Champ (EP0421)
Release Date: June 06, 2011

Barrie Craig is hired to guard a columnist who has been hinting that a former champion threw a fight. When Craig hears his client murdered, he needs to find out who did it.

Original Air Date: October 17, 1951

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38 min
November 28, 2025 Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Hatchet House Theft Matter (EP0420)
Release Date: June 03, 2011

Johnny heads to England to investigate the theft of $100,000 in jewels.

Original Air Date: June 27, 1951

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36 min
November 27, 2025 Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of Maltree Abbey (EP0419)
Release Date: June 02, 2011

Sherlock Holmes is called in by a woman who hopes that a song will save her family’s estate.

Original Air Date: March 31, 1947

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34 min
November 26, 2025 Let George Do It: The Silent Waterfall (EP0418)
Release Date: June 01, 2011

George is hired by a deaf-mute woman to attend a gathering at 8 o’clock. He arrives to find her dead with a house full of suspects.

Original Air Date: January 9, 1950

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34 min
November 25, 2025 Rogue’s Gallery: Murder in Drawing Room A (EP0417)
Release Date: May 31, 2011

A woman is murdered on board a train and Rogue searches for the killer.

Original Air Date: October 11, 1945

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33 min
November 24, 2025 I Deal in Crime: The Abigail Murray Case (EP0416)
Release Date: May 30, 2011

Ross Dolan is hired to guard a New England matron as she travels across town. She needs protection as someone shoots in them and a dead body is found in the truck.

Original Air Story: September 27, 1946

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35 min
November 21, 2025 Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Malcolm Wish, MD Matter (EP0415)
Release Date: May 27, 2011

Johnny heads to San Francisco to investigate the disappearance of a doctor.

Original Air Date: June 20, 1951

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38 min
November 20, 2025 Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Scarlet Worm (EP0414)
Release Date: May 26, 2011

Watson goes undercover to catch a femme fatale, but will he have the heart to trap her.

Original Air Date: March 24, 1947

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39 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.