The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 1

By Adam GrahamArts Fiction Drama Performing Arts

The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 1 episodes

September 03 Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Christmas Bride (EP0564)
Release Date: December 22, 2011

Sherlock Holmes is invited to spend the holidays with a family that needs him to assure a wedding occurs.

Original Air Date: December 21, 1947

Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net

Support the show on a one-time basis at http://support.greatdetectives.net

Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715

Take the listener survey at http://survey.greatdetectives.net

Check out all our social media links and connect with us at http://www.greatdetectives.net
32 min
September 02 Let George Do It: Santa Claus In Glass (EP0563)
Release Date: December 21, 2011

George pledges to stay out of mysteries on Christmas day and we know how that’ll turn out.

Original Air Date: December 25, 1950

Support the show monthly at https://patreon.greatdetectives.net

Support the show on a one-time basis at https://support.greatdetectives.net

Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715

GIve us a call at 208-991-4783

Take the listener survey at https://survey.greatdetectives.net

Check out our social media at https://www.greatdetectives.net
35 min
September 01 Candy Matson: Jack Frost (EP0562)
Release Date: December 20, 2011

Santa’s helper, Jack Frost, turns up missing and at the request of a friend, Candy gets Rembrandt to take the job. However, Candy has concerns when the missing Jack Frost turns up murdered.

Original Air Date: December 10, 1949

Support the show monthly at https://patreon.greatdetectives.net

Support the show on a one-time basis at https://support.greatdetectives.net

Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715

GIve us a call at 208-991-4783

Take the listener survey at https://survey.greatdetectives.net

Check out our social media at https://www.greatdetectives.net
33 min
August 31 Barrie Craig: The Thirteenth Guest (EP0561)
Release Date: December 19, 2011

Barrie Craig is assigned as a bodyguard at a party and finds himself investigating a murder.

Original Air Date: August 9, 1953

Support the show monthly at https://patreon.greatdetectives.net

Support the show on a one-time basis at https://support.greatdetectives.net

Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715

Give us a call at 208-991-4783

Take the listener survey at https://survey.greatdetectives.net

Check out our social media at https://www.greatdetectives.net
32 min
August 28 Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Chicago Fraud Matter (EP0560)
Release Date: December 16, 2011

Johnny heads to Chicago to investigate the death of a man with a $50,000 life insurance policy-from starvation.

Original Air Date: February 6, 1953

Support the show monthly at https://patreon.greatdetectives.net

Support the show on a one-time basis at https://support.greatdetectives.net

Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715

Give us a call at 208-991-4783

Take the listener survey at https://survey.greatdetectives.net

Check out our social media at https://www.greatdetectives.net
34 min
August 20 Sherlock Holmes: The Case Of Sudden Senility (EP0559)
Release Date: December 15, 2011

Sherlock Holmes investigates the case of a five year old horse that died of senility.

Original Air Date: January 11, 1948

Support the show monthly at https://patreon.greatdetectives.net

Support the show on a one-time basis at https://support.greatdetectives.net

Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715

Give us a call at 208-991-4783

Take the listener survey at https://survey.greatdetectives.net

Check out our social media at https://www.greatdetectives.net
33 min
August 19 Let George Do It: The Treasure of Millie’s Wharf (EP0558)
Release Date: December 14, 2011

A woman calls George to investigate when her parrot finds a treasure map.

Original Air Date: August 21, 1950

Support the show monthly at https://patreon.greatdetectives.net

Support the show on a one-time basis at https://support.greatdetectives.net

Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715

Give us a call at 208-991-4783

Take the listener survey at https://survey.greatdetectives.net

Check out our social media at https://www.greatdetectives.net
34 min
August 18 Candy Matson: The Eric Spaulding Concert (EP0557)
Release Date: December 13, 2011

Candy is hired by a conductor to investigate what’s causing an orchestra concert to be ruined.

Original Air Date: February 7, 1950

Support the show monthly at https://patreon.greatdetectives.net

Support the show on a one-time basis at https://support.greatdetectives.net

Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715

Give us a call at 208-991-4783

Take the listener survey at https://survey.greatdetectives.net

Check out our social media at https://www.greatdetectives.net
37 min
August 17 Barrie Craig: Scream for Murder (EP0556)
Release Date: December 12, 2011

Barrie is hired by a boxer to protect him from someone who is trying to kill him.

Original Air Date: July 19, 1953

Support the show monthly at https://patreon.greatdetectives.net

Support the show on a one-time basis at https://support.greatdetectives.net

Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715

Give us a call at 208-991-4783

Take the listener survey at https://survey.greatdetectives.net

Check out our social media at https://www.greatdetectives.net
34 min
August 14 Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Kay Belamy Matter (EP0555)
Release Date: December 9, 2011

Johnny investigates a famous radio singer whose agent wants to ensure her. Johnny is shocked to find that between radio appearances, she plays burlesque.

Original Air Date: January 30, 1953

Support the show monthly at https://patreon.greatdetectives.net

Support the show on a one-time basis at https://support.greatdetectives.net

Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715

Give us a call at 208-991-4783

Take the listener survey at https://survey.greatdetectives.net

Check out our social media at https://www.greatdetectives.net
39 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.