The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 1

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The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 1 episodes

June 13, 2025 Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Joan Sebastian Matter (EP0305)
Release Date: December 24, 2010

A young woman is found dead. Is it murder or suicide? Neither the police nor Johnny can tell for sure.

Original Air Date: October 28, 1950

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36 min
June 12, 2025 Sherlock Holmes: Adventure of the Stuttering Ghost (EP0304)
Release Date: December 23, 2010

A woman comes to Holmes with a “talking dog” for the purpose of robbing him of an old case file. Why?

Original Air Date: October 12, 1946

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36 min
June 11, 2025 Let George Do It: Follow that Train (EP0303)
Original Release Date: December 22, 2010

It’s Christmas and George gets a letter from a new client-a department store Santa Claus that wants him to solve the mystery of a missing electric train. But when Brooksie disappears, the case takes a more serious turn.

Original Air Date: December 19, 1949

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32 min
June 10, 2025 Nero Wolfe: The Case of the Slaughtered Santas (EP0302)
Original Release Date: December 21, 2010

Nero Wolfe is hired to investigate the death of several sidewalk Santas by a Santa who fears he will be next.

Original Air Date: December 22, 1950

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36 min
June 09, 2025 Thin Man: The Boogie Woogie Murder (EP0301)
Release Date: December 20, 2010

Nick and Nora are in a record shop when a woman is murdered. Nick sets out to solve the case.

Original Air Date: February 9, 1945

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35 min
June 08, 2025 Mercury Theatre on the Air: The Man Who Was Thursday (EP0300s)
Release Date: December 18, 2010

In G.K. Chesterton’s classic, Gabriel Syme (Orson Welles) is a police detective infiltrating the anarchist counsel of Europe.

Original Air Date: September 5, 1938

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1 hr 3 min
June 06, 2025 Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Jack Madigan Matter (EP0300)
Release Date: December 17, 2010

A bail bondsman stands to lose $50,000 if two witnesses fail to show at trial and it’s Johnny’s job to locate them.

Original Air Date: October 21, 1950

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32 min
June 05, 2025 Sherlock Holmes: The Baconian Cipher (EP0299)
Release Date: December 16, 2010

Sherlock Holmes is having a friendly argument with a visiting French detective over which country has the most ingenous criminals when the agony column leads the two Detectives and Dr. Watson into the English countryside to rescue a man in distress and finds himself asked to investigate who wrote Shakespeare’s plays.

Original Air Date: May 27, 1946

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35 min
June 04, 2025 Let George Do It: Serenade to the Southern Star (EP0298)
Release Date: December 15, 2010

George is hired to go on a cruise ship under false pretenses, and finds himself left at port, with someone having already boarded the ship.

Original Air Date: June 13, 1949

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33 min
June 03, 2025 Nero Wolfe: Case of The Dear Dead Lady (EP0297)
Release Date: December 14, 2010

Nero Wolfe is retained by the leader of a religious cult to save the life of the woman he loves. The woman is killed and now Wolfe’s client and two other men are accusing each other.

Original Air Date: November 3, 1950

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32 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.