The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 1

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The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 1 episodes

August 08, 2025 Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The David Rockey Matter (EP0345)
Release Date: February 18, 2011

Johnny goes to Nicaragua to let an insurance beneficiary know that he’s become a millionaire only to find the benficiary in jail on a murder charge.

Original Air Date: January 20, 1951

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36 min
August 07, 2025 Sherlock Holmes: The Singular Affair of the Coptic Compass (EP0344)
Release Date: February 17, 2011

In order to distract Holmes, so he can steal a valuable jewel, Moriarty plants a fascinating murder in Holmes flat.

Original Air Date: December 7, 1946

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40 min
August 06, 2025 Let George Do It: Everything is Nice (EP0343)
Release Date: February 16, 2011

George is hired to watch the daughter of a rich man who has been hanging out at a suspicious dive. She ends up shot and George’s client is murdered.

Original Air Date: September 5, 1949

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34 min
August 05, 2025 Nero Wolfe: The Case of the Killer Card (EP0342)
Release Date: February 15, 2011

At a card game to divide a lucrative business, one of the partners is killed. Archie Goodwin is kidnapped to get Nero Wolfe to solve the case, or both he and Archie will die.

Original Air Date: January 12, 1951

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33 min
August 04, 2025 The Abbotts: The Dead-White Flame (EP0341)
Release Date: February 14, 2011

When a famous psychiatrist is murdered in a plane crash, Pat fakes an injury to get into a British mental hospital to find out why the murder occurred.

Original Air Date: March 13, 1955

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34 min
August 01, 2025 Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Port O’Call Matter (EP0340)
Release Date: February 11, 2011

Johnny investigates the near simultaneous robberies of several finance companies.

Original Air Date: January 13, 1953

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38 min
July 31, 2025 Sherlock Holmes: The Strange Death of Mrs. Abernathy (EP0339)
Release Date: February 10, 2011

Sherlock Holmes investigates the death of a country matriarch in a house where everyone has a motive. The key clue? Parsley.

Original Air Date: November 30, 1946

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33 min
July 30, 2025 Let George Do It: The End of Summer (EP0338)
Release Date: February 09, 2011

George is called up to a house in the country where a man’s wife is missing as is a local doctor. The sister-in-law is suspicious and confused, while the husband is acting guilty.

Original Air Date: August 29, 1949

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36 min
July 29, 2025 Nero Wolfe: The Case of the Deadly Sell Out (EP0337)
Release Date: February 08, 2011

Nero Wolfe is hired to find a missing boxer, when the boxer turns up dead, Wolfe must find the murderer.

Original Air Date: January 5, 1951

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36 min
July 28, 2025 The Adventures of Abbotts: The Blood Red Diamond (EP0336)
Release Date: February 07, 2011

A Catcher is murdered before a big game, Pat Abbott believes that the team’s star pitcher may be the key to finding the murderer, but doesn’t like Jean’s tactic of going undercover as a single girl to extract information from the wolfish pitcher.

Guest starring Jackie Robinson

Original Air Date: March 6, 1955

1957 AFRTS Transcription

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37 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.