The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 1

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The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 1 episodes

May 19 Rogue’s Gallery: Phyllis Adrian Is Missing (EP0522)
Release Date: October 25, 2011

Rogue is hired to find the wife of a lawyer who wants to divorce her.

Original Air Date: June 29, 1947

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34 min
May 18 Barrie Craig: Murder by Threes (EP0521)
Release Date: October 24, 2011

Barrie Craig is hired by a man to find out who is trying to kill his wife, an entrant in a combination beauty and pie-baking contest.

Original Air Date: October 8, 1952

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34 min
May 08 Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The James Clayton Matter (EP0520)
Release Date: October 21, 2011

A doctor tells Johnny that he advised a patient to divorce her husband, and his life is now in danger from the irate husband

Original Air Date: December 5, 1952

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37 min
May 07 Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Copper Beeches (EP0519)
Release Date: October 20, 2011

A young governess turns to Holmes when she receives an unusual offer of employment.

Original Air Date: November 2, 1947

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34 min
May 06 Let George Do It: Scream of the Eagle (EP0518)
Release Date: October 19, 2011

A woman appears claiming to be an heiress that’s been long thought to be dead. The one man who can identify her for sure is murdered.

Original Air Date: July 3, 1950

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32 min
May 05 Rogue’s Gallery: Where There’s a Will, There’s a Murder (EP0517)
Release Date: October 18, 2011

Rogue is hired by a miserly old woman to find out who stole her will. It becomes a murder case when Rogue finds her dead.

Original Air Date: July 14, 1946

Quote of the show: “”Every nerve in my head was doing the highland fling to the tune of the anvil chorus.”

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31 min
May 04 Barrie Craig: The Long Way Home (EP0516)
Release Date: October 17, 2011

Barrie Craig is hired by a woman to protect from her estranged husband-a dangerous killer, but Craig senses something is wrong with the whole set up.

Original Air Date: July 8, 1952

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34 min
May 01 Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Transpacific Matter (EP0515)
Release Date: October 14, 2011

Johnny goes to a war-torn Hong Kong to find out the truth behind a suspicious fire.

Audition: November 1952

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39 min
April 30 Sherlock Holmes: The Laughing Lemur of High Tower Heath (EP0514)
Release Date: October 13, 2011

Sherlock Holmes is up against an old legend that states a young child who is doomed to die.

Original Air Date: October 26, 1947

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32 min
April 29 Let George Do It: Most Likely to Die (EP0513)
Release Date: October 12, 2011

George is take for a sucker by two college pranksters who never grew up, but no one’s laughing when a real murder comes to their 20th Reunion.

Original Air Date: June 26, 1950

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33 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.