The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 1

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The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 1 episodes

October 29, 2025 Let George Do It: Partner in Panama (EP0403)
Release Date: May 11, 2011

George is sent to Panama by a movie producer to deliver a payoff to a wanted criminal who is threatening lawsuit over a film about his exploits.

Original Air Date: December 12, 1949

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35 min
October 28, 2025 Nero Wolfe: The Case of the Lost Heir (EP0402)
Release Date: May 10, 2011

Nero Wolfe is hired to find out if a woman is really the air of a wealthy blind man, but Wolfe suspect the man also fears being murdered.

Original Air Date: April 20, 1951

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35 min
October 27, 2025 The Adventures of the Abbotts: The Murder of a Faubulous Redhead (EP0401)
Release Date: May 09, 2011

Pat is hired to find a missing woman after a fellow private detective was murdered trying to do the same job.

Original Air Date: June 5, 1955 AFRTS Transcription

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34 min
October 26, 2025 Screen Director’s Playhouse: D.O.A. (EP0400s)
Release Date: May 07, 2011

A man (Edmund O’Brien) is poisoned and spends his last days trying to find the man who murdered him.

Original Air Date: June 21, 1951

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1 hr 5 min
October 24, 2025 Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Soderbury, Maine Matter (EP0400)
Release Date: May 06, 2011

Johnny goes to Maine to investigate the death of a local businessman who was trying to bring unwanted progress to a New England town.

Rehersal of Show that Aired June 2, 1951

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32 min
October 23, 2025 Sherlock Holmes: Queue for Murder (EP0399)
Release Date: May 05, 2011

A dead man in an opioum den leads to a dead doctor and then a headless corpse.

Original Air Date: March 3, 1947

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37 min
October 22, 2025 Let George Do It: Too Near the Sky (EP0398)
Release Date: May 04, 2011

George is hired to go to a party and await further instructions and runs into a strange cast of characters, one of who has claimed to commit murder.

Original Air Date: December 5, 1949

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37 min
October 21, 2025 Nero Wolfe: A Slight Case of Perjury (EP0397)
Release Date: May 03, 2011

A man is acquitted of murder on perjured testimony and hires Wolfe to locate the real killer.

Original Air Date: April 6, 1951

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32 min
October 19, 2025 The Abbotts: The Man in the Nile Green Suit (EP0396)
Release Date: May 2, 2011

Pat and Jean have yet another second honeymoon and find a corpse in their cabin. Then Jean meets a frenchmen who tells her he’d like to commit murder.

Original Air Date: May 29, 1955

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35 min
October 17, 2025 Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Lillis Bond Matter (EP0395)
Release Date: April 29, 2011

Johnny investigates a theft from a bank with all evidence pointing to a trusted young bank employee.

Reherasal of program that aired May 26, 1951

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32 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.