The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 1

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The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 1 episodes

June 02, 2025 Thin Man: The Case of the All-American Menace (EP0296)
Release Date: December 13, 2010

A young woman comes to Nick Charles to ask her help to kill a man and get away with it. Nick and Nora then get notice that the potential victim “is dead.”

Original Air Date: December 1, 1944

Quote of the show: “I do wish people would get bumped off before we go to sleep.”-Nora

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25 min
May 30, 2025 Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Yankee Pride Matter (EP0295)
Release Date: December 10, 2010

Johnny Dollar goes to Signapore to investigate some delayed shipments that could cost the insurance company $300,000.

Original Air Date: October 14, 1950

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38 min
May 29, 2025 Sherlock Holmes: The Haunting of Sherlock Holmes (EP0294)
Release Date: December 9, 2010

Sherlock Holmes declines to work to exonerate a talented singer for treason, as he believes she’s unquestionably guilty. After she’s been executed, it appears that she’s haunting Holmes.

Original Air Date: May 20, 1946

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36 min
May 28, 2025 Let George Do It: Death in Blue Jeans (EP0293)
Release Date: December 8, 2010

George arrives in a small California gold rush town where the librarian suspects the brother of the town’s patriarch of trying to poison him for a newly discovered treasure.

Original Air Date: June 6, 1949

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35 min
May 27, 2025 Nero Wolfe: The Case of the Careworn Cuff (EP0292)
Release Date: December 7, 2010

A man pays Wolfe a thousand dollars to drop a client he never had.

Original Air Date: October 27, 1950

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35 min
May 26, 2025 Thin Man: Nora’s Night Out (EP0291)
Release Date: December 6, 2010

Nora is all out night, and breaks a mirror, and asks another man to marry her. Nick suspects she’s been drugged. Things get even more serious when they find a corpse.

Original Air Date: October 6, 1944

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30 min
May 23, 2025 Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Richard Splain Matter (EP0290)
Release Date: December 3, 2010

An investigation into the apparent murder of a carpenter leads Johnny into the shadowy world of narcotics.

Original Air Date: October 7, 1950

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37 min
May 22, 2025 Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Uneasy Chair (EP0289)
Original Release Date: December 2, 2010

Scotland Yard has a suspect in the murder of a wealthy man, but no murder weapon, and the case begins to look think when another murder done in the same way takes place while the alleged murder is in jail.

Original Air Date: May 13, 1946

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35 min
May 21, 2025 Let George Do It: A Matter of Doubt (EP0288)
Release Date: December 1, 2010

George investigates the case of a boy who told his mother that he tended the wounds of an injured man, only to claim he later made the whole thing up. The boy has had a long series of unfortunate “accidents” that his mother alarmed.

Original Air Date: May 30, 1949

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37 min
May 20, 2025 Nero Wolfe: Stamped for Murder (EP0287)
Original Release Date: November 30, 2010

A woman comes to Wolfe to help her recover $10,000 from two swindlers who cheated her father. Wolfe becomes suspicious when the conmen return the money too eagerly.

Original Air Date: October 20, 1950

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35 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.