The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 1

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The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 1 episodes

May 23, 2024 Sherlock Holmes: Murder by Proxy (EP0019)
Original Release Date: November 19, 2009

Sherlock Holmes investigates a case of disappearing cadavers.
Original Air Date: Sometime in 1935, though it may have been 1933. Who knows?

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36 min
May 22, 2024 Let George Do It: The Robber (EP0018)
Original Release Date: November 18, 2009

A book shop owner dies and his widow hires George, believing that money is hidden inside the book shop.
Original Air Date: November 8, 1946

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34 min
May 21, 2024 Pat Novak for Hire: Fleet Lady (EP0017)
Original Release Date: November 17, 2009

Pat Novak’s hired to find a horse, and he finds the horse and a dead body.
Original Air Date: March 6, 1949
Jockey: I want a horse. Can you find me a horse?
Novak: Yeah, I breed them in the back room.

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33 min
May 20, 2024 Box 13: Actor’s Alibi (EP0016)
Original Release Date: November 16, 2009
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Dan Holiday receives an impossible call from a woman as she’s being murdered.
Original Air Date: January 28, 1948'

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30 min
May 20, 2024 You Might Also Like: Via Podcast
Introducing Make it a State Park Summer with Peter Fish from Via Podcast.
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On the latest episode of the Via Podcast, hosts Michelle Donati and Mitti Hicks learn why state parks are their best bet for getting out into nature without the crowds.
Travel journalist and parks expert Peter Fish shares his favorite state parks, the stories behind lesser-known ones, and why you shouldn't judge a park by its name.
Via Podcast is a production of AAA Mountain West Group.
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34 min
May 17, 2024 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar: The Slow Boat From China (EP0015)
Original Release Date: November 13, 2009

Johnny Dollar heads to Singapore to save an insurance company from a paying out $2500 day for a shipping delay. Trouble comes when Dollar finds the Insurance company’s man in Singapore missing.

Original Air Date: February 5, 1949

Originating in Hollywood

Starring Charles Russell as Johnny Dollar

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45 min
May 16, 2024 Sherlock Holmes: The Hebraic Breastplate (EP0014)
Original Release Date: November 12, 2009

Holmes investigates a mystery surrounding a relic dating back to the time of King Solomon.
Original Air Date: November 11, 1934

Originated in New York

Starred Luis Hector as Sherlock Holmes

Update: I didn't notice when I recorded but apparently, this was based on a non-Holmes Doyle story, Professor Eliezar Siegel has the details in this article on his website.

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34 min
May 15, 2024 Let George Do It: The Brooksdale Orphanage (EP0013)
Original Release Date: November 11, 2009

George is retained by a Western Movie Actor who has become afraid of horses and even more afraid of letting down the kids at an orphanage who want to see him perform. George has to find someone to ride the horse.
Original Air Date: October 25, 1946

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33 min
May 15, 2024 You Might Also Like: Working Smarter
Introducing Etiquette 2 with Travis and Teresa McElroy | Remotely Curious from Working Smarter.
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On our final episode of Remotely Curious, we’ll have a fun conversation with Teresa and Travis McElroy, humorists and hosts of the podcast Shmanners, about how to treat others with respect, come across the way you want to, and avoid embarrassing gaffes.
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33 min
May 14, 2024 Pat Novak for Hire: Marcia Halpern (EP0012)
Original Release Date: November 10, 2009

A woman with apparent amnesia stumbles into Pat Novak and then dies. Novak has to find out who she really is before Hellman rushes him off to the gas chamber.

Quote of the Episode:

“If I didn’t move fast, I was deader than a Philadelphia nightclub.”

Original Air Date: February 27, 1949

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31 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.