The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 1

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The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 1 episodes

September 04, 2025 Sherlock Holmes: The Darlington Substitution Case (EP0364)
Release Date: March 17, 2011

Early in his career and desperate for a case, Holmes accepts as a job as a bodyguard to an unlikable man who turns out to be blackmailer.

Original Air Date: January 4, 1947

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33 min
September 03, 2025 Let George Do It: Double Death (EP0363)
Release Date: March 16, 2011

George is hired by a man to find his missing wife, but all the evidence George can find points to the man having murdered her.

Original Air Date: October 17, 1949

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33 min
September 02, 2025 Nero Wolfe: The Case of the Party for Death (EP0362)
Release Date: March 15, 2011

Nero Wolfe sends Archie to a party, advising him to call when the murder occurs, and occur it does.

Original Air Date: February 16, 1951

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35 min
September 01, 2025 The Abbotts: The Pink Elephant (EP0361)
Release Date: March 14, 2011

A mobster threatens the life of a reporter and then is shot while talking to him and the reporter insists he didn’t do it.

Original Air Date: April 10, 1955

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34 min
August 29, 2025 Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Stanley Springs Matter (EP0360)
Release Date: March 11, 2011

Johnny Dollar is dispatched to a cotton ginning operation after an anonymous letter alleges a smuggling racket is operating there.

Original Air Date: March 10, 1951

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36 min
August 28, 2025 Sherlock Holmes: The Singular Affair of the White Cockerel (EP0359)
Release Date: March 10, 2011

While Sherlock Holmes is retired on his bee farm, he is asked to investigate a missing chicken. He finds the case is far more serious than first thought as a human life is at stake.

Original Air Date: December 28, 1946

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35 min
August 27, 2025 Let George Do It: The Man Under the Elm Tree (EP0358)
Release Date: March 09, 2011

George goes to a quiet college town, sent by a man who fears a lodger at his sister’s inn is up to no good. He finds an eccentric professor who seems to know something about the death of the lady’s husband.

Original Air Date: September 26, 1949

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34 min
August 26, 2025 Nero Wolfe: The Case of the Vanishing Shells (EP0357)
Release Date: March 08, 2011

Archie gets Nero Wolfe hired by an actress who is afraid of being cut out of a lead role in a play.

Original Air Date: February 2, 1951

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37 min
August 25, 2025 The Abbotts: The Fabulous Emerald Necklace (EP0356)
Release Date: March 07, 2011

The husband of a femme fatale is murdered in a robbery and her fabulous emerald necklace is held for ransom. Pat is convinced that she connived with robber and offers some bait to prove it-Jean.

Original Air Date: April 3, 1955

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36 min
August 22, 2025 Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Celia Woodstock Matter (EP0355)
Release Date: March 04, 2011

Johnny wants to abandon a case when he comes to the conclusion that an ensured wife has left home. He changes his mind when her shot with her husband dead.

Original Air Date: March 3, 1951

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33 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.