The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 1

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The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 1 episodes

October 16, 2025 Sherlock Holmes: The Horseless Carriage (EP0394)
Release Date: April 28, 2011

Holmes is hired to guard a car from sabotage before an endurance race.

Original Air Date: February 24, 1947

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35 min
October 15, 2025 Let George Do It: No Riders (EP0393)
Release Date: April 27, 2011

In response to the plea of waitress, George tries to help a young man suspected of murdering a truck driver, who has a big problem with the truth.

Original Air Date: November 28, 1949

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34 min
October 14, 2025 Nero Wolfe: The Case of the Tell-tale Ribbon (EP0392)
Release Date: April 26, 2011

A strange old man delivers Archie and Wolfe a letter requesting immediate help. Archie heads to the home, only to be told that no detective is needed.

Original Air Date: March 30, 1951

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33 min
October 13, 2025 The Abbotts: The Clicking Silver Pen (EP0391)
Release Date: April 25, 2011

While touring a steel plant, Pat and Jean see a worker fall to his death into a caldron, and that’s just the first body to fall.

Original Air Date: May 22, 1955

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34 min
October 10, 2025 Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Virginia Towne Matter (EP0390)
Release Date: April 22, 2011

An insured sends Johnny to find some missing jewelry, claiming to know who did it. Johnny finds the woman but she has a different explanation.

Original Air Date: May 5, 1951

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31 min
October 09, 2025 Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Haunted Bagpipes (EP0389)
Release Date: April 21, 2011

Holmes and Watson head to Edinburgh to investigate a report of haunted tenements involving the devil and a bagpiper.

Original Air Date: February 17, 1947

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37 min
October 08, 2025 Let George Do It: Sweet Poison (EP0388)
Release Date: April 20, 2011

A Cat is poisoned by eating chocolate that arrived in the mail of an artist. George sets out to find out who sent the chocolate and who the intended victim was.

Original Air Date: November 21, 1949

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34 min
October 07, 2025 Nero Wolfe: The Case of the Final Page (EP0387)
Release Date: April 19, 2011

Wolfe and Archie arrive for a dinner date to find their host, a best-selling novelist, murdered.

Original Air Date: March 23, 1951

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33 min
October 06, 2025 The Abbotts: The Canary-Blond Heiress (EP0386)
Release Date: April 18, 2011

A two bit criminal fingers Pat as having stolen blackmail letters from him.

Original Air Date: May 15, 1955

1957 AFRTS Transcription

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35 min
October 03, 2025 Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Month-End Raid Matter (EP0385)
Release Date: April 15, 2011

Johnny heads to Kansas City to investigate a robbery that left a guard dead.

Original Air Date: April 28, 1951

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30 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.