The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 1

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The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 1 episodes

October 02, 2025 Sherlock Holmes: The Strange Case of the Persecuted Millionaire (EP0384)
Release Date: April 14, 2011

Sherlock Holmes is hired by a millionaire who is receiving death threats.

Original Air Date: February 10, 1947

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33 min
October 01, 2025 Let George Do It: Run Until Dead (EP0383)
Release Date: April 13, 2011

A crime-busting crusader hires George to make contact with the father of a witness. George finds the witness has died, and that’s only the first death on this case.

Original Air Date: November 14, 1949

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34 min
September 30, 2025 Nero Wolfe: The Case of the Midnight Ride (EP0382)
Release Date: April 12, 2011

Nero’s Wolfe dentist and Archie both receive a mysterious call from a woman leading to a ride in the country to do away with them.

Original Air Date: March 16, 1951

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32 min
September 29, 2025 The Abbotts: The Green-Eyed Divorcee (EP0381)
Release Date: April 11, 2011

Pat Abbott uncovers infidelity on the part of one of a client’ s wife. Her boyfriend plans to murder her husband. But who will actually commit the murder and who’ll end up the corpse?

Original Air Date: May 8, 1955

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36 min
September 26, 2025 Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Willard South Matter (EP0380)
Release Date: April 08, 2011

Johnny is off to the Virgin Islands to investigate the disappearance of a married couple on a boat. Suspicious of foul play abound, particularly regarding the husband.

Original Air Date: April 21, 1951

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31 min
September 25, 2025 Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Dying Detective (EP0379)
Release Date: April 07, 2011

Watson is summoned by Mrs. Hudson to the flat of an ailing Sherlock Holmes, who refuses medical care and tells Watson he’s dying.

Original Air Date: February 3, 1947

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35 min
September 24, 2025 Let George Do It: The Dark Chain (EP0378)
Release Date: April 06, 2011

The mother of a mentally challenged but extremely strong young man hires George, fearing that a convicted felon living nearby has stolen her broach, while the neighbor accuses her son of his murdering his dog.

Original Air Date: November 7, 1949

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35 min
September 23, 2025 Nero Wolfe: The Case of the Disappearing Diamonds (EP0377)
Release Date: April 05, 2011

A burglar comes to Wolfe to ask him to prove he didn’t commit murder and steal a fortune in diamonds.

Original Air Date: March 9, 1951

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34 min
September 22, 2025 The Adventure of the Abbotts: The Blood Red City (EP0376)
Release Date: April 4, 2011

Pat and Jean witness a murder in a small town done by the town’s boss, but everyone claims to have seen nothing, and sinister forces try to ensure that Pat and Jean never leave town alive.

Original Air Date: May 1, 1955

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35 min
September 19, 2025 Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Mickey McQueen Matter (EP0375)
Release Date: April 01 , 2011

An old friend of Johnny’s comes to him for help only to change his mind, and then turn up dead the next day.

Original Air Date: April 14, 1951

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31 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.