The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 1

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The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 1 episodes

July 11, 2025 Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Woodward Manilla Matter (EP0325)
Release Date: January 21, 2011

Johnny Dollar goes to the Philippines to investigate the theft of $75,000.

Original Air Date: November 25, 1950

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34 min
July 10, 2025 Sherlock Holmes: The Singular Affair of the Dying Schoolboys (EP0324)
Release Date: January 20, 2011

A man hires Holmes to investigate the death of his young brother at an exclusive boarding school run by an odd doctor.

Original Air Date: November 9, 1946

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34 min
July 09, 2025 Let George Do It: One Chance at the World (EP0323)
Release Date: January 19, 2011

George tries to help a man who was just released from prison understand the cause of his wife’s death. Then the man who accidentally hit his wife is shot and the man disappears.

Original Air Date: August 8, 1949

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37 min
July 08, 2025 Nero Wolfe: The Case of the Impolite Corpse (EP0322)
Release Date: January 18, 2011

Nero Wolfe investigates the murder of a despised boss with a nasty desposition.

Original Air Date: December 8, 1950

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33 min
July 07, 2025 The Abbotts: The Rickshaw-Red Lipstick (EP0321)
Release Date: January 17, 2011

A crew man on a ship travelling to Europe with food supplies thinks something is wrong and asks Pat to look into it.

Original Air Date: January 30, 1955

1957 AFRTS Transcription

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34 min
July 04, 2025 Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Nora Faulkner Matter (EP0320)
Release Date: January 14, 2011

Johnny is sent out to Los Angeles to investigate a woman who wants to take out a $200,000 life insurance policy.

Original Air Date: November 18, 1950

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34 min
July 03, 2025 Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Original Hamlet (EP0319)
Release Date: January 13, 2011

A man who is nearly run over by a carriage tells Watson that he’s being haunted by a ghost.

Original Air Date: November 2, 1946

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37 min
July 02, 2025 Let George Do It: The Perfect Alibi (EP0318)
Release Date: January 12, 2011

The wife of a gangster who despises him, hires George to prove her husband innocent.

Original Air Date: August 1, 1949

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35 min
July 01, 2025 Nero Wolfe: The Friendly Rabbit (EP0317)
Release Date: January 11, 2011

Nero Wolfe ventures forth from the brownstone at the behest of the Governor to investigate potential corruption in the crime commission.

Original Air Date: December 1, 1950

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35 min
June 30, 2025 The Adventures of the Abbotts: The Royal Purple Scooter (EP0316)
Release Date: January 10, 2011

Pat Abbott is hired to investigate the death of a man in a car wreck. The insurance company thinks it was caused by a faulty, but Pat Abbot suspects murder.

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Original Air Date: January 23, 1955 (1957 AFRTS rebroadcast)

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36 min

About The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 1

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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.