The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 1

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The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 1 episodes

June 14, 2023 Let George Do It: Uncle Harry’s Bones (EP0688)
Release Date: June 13, 2012

In a small town, a skeleton found in the lake could represent a skeleton in the closet for both George’s client and the rest of the town.

Original Air Date: April 9, 1951

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35 min
June 13, 2023 Pete Kelly’s Blues: Vera Brand (EP0687)
Release Date: June 12, 2012

Pete finds himself being forced into marriage with a mobster’s girl.

Original Air Date: July 11, 1951

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35 min
June 13, 2023 Barrie Craig: Corpse on the Town (EP0686)
Original Release Date: June 11, 2012

Barrie Craig investigates a case of a Broadway producer overselling his show, but invariably finds himself investigating a murder.

Original Air Date: March 9, 1955

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27 min
June 13, 2023 Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Nelson Matter (EP0685)
Release Date: June 8, 2012

Johnny investigates the death of a criminal who made a woman a beneficiary of a $10,000 insurance policy.

Original Air Date: August 25, 1953

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34 min
June 13, 2023 Sherlcok Holmes: The Unwelcome Ambassador(EP0684)
Release Date: June 7, 2012

Sherlock Holmes is hired to look into a case involving a new ambassador to England. However, Holmes quickly finds the new ambassador dead.

Original Air Date: September 12, 1948

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41 min
June 12, 2023 Let George Do It: The Eight Ball (EP0683)
Release Date: June 6, 2012

George goes to a small town to help clean up corruption but finds himself suspected of murder. The murder of George Valentine.

Original Air Date: April 2, 1951

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35 min
June 12, 2023 Pete Kelly’s Blues: Gus Trudeau (EP0682)
Release Date: June 5, 2012

An old friend of Kelly’s is suspected of murdering a local Kansas City mobster.

Original Air Date: July 4, 1951

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36 min
June 12, 2023 Barrie Craig: Sweet Larceny(EP0681)
Release Date: June 4, 2012

Barrie is getting competing offers and a few beatings over a relic from Egypt.

Original Air Date: March 2, 1955

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29 min
June 11, 2023 Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Isabel James Matter (EP0680)
Release Date: June 1, 2012

The death of an insured sends Johnny to a small town to investigate a series of slasher killings.

Original Air Date: August 18, 1953

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35 min
June 10, 2023 Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger (EP0679)
Release Date: May 31, 2012

Holmes investigates a case of treachery and death at the circus.

Original Air Date: June 20, 1948

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37 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.