The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 1

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The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 1 episodes

June 10, 2023 Let George Do It: No Escape from the Jungle (EP0678)
Release Date: May 230, 2012

George is hired by an unassuming looking man to find a travel expert. George finds him and his client then informs him that he intends to kill the expert.

Original Air Date: March 26, 1951

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34 min
June 09, 2023 Crime on the Waterfront: Heiress Cruise (EP0677)
Release Date: May 29, 2012

Lou Kagle is asked to look after an heiress on a cruise ship who has received threats of being kidnapped.

Audition Date: March 1, 1949

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39 min
June 09, 2023 Barrie Craig: Moving Target (EP0676)
Release Date: May 28, 2012

Barrie is hired by a man who has become suspicious because catastrophe seems to follow him wherever he goes in scouting hotels in obscure locations around the world.

Original Air Date: February 16, 1955

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33 min
June 08, 2023 Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Nancy Shaw Matter (EP0675)
Release Date: May 25, 2012

Johnny is hired to investigate the missing jewels of a famous actress, and finds himself more interested in the actress than the case.

Original Air Date: August 11, 1953

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34 min
June 08, 2023 Sherlock Holmes: The Bleeding Chandelier (EP0674)
Release Date: May 24, 2012

A woman calls Holmes to help her overcome a superstitious legend to marry her first love.

Original Air Date: June 13, 1948

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33 min
June 08, 2023 Let George Do It: Murder for Two (EP0673)
Release Date: May 22, 2012

George is called in to protect a woman from her ex-husband. George arrives to find the wife dead. The ex-husband is suspected but he has an air tight alibi.

Original Air Date: March 19, 1951

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34 min
June 08, 2023 Crime on the Waterfront: Murder of Mrs. Lattimore (EP0672)
Release Date: May 22, 2012

Lou Kagle looks into the murder of the wife of a returning diplomat who used to be a mob lawyer.

Recording Date: February 24, 1949

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41 min
June 07, 2023 Barrie Craig: Nobody Lives There Anymore (EP0671)
Release Date: May 21, 2012

Barrie undertakes to help a woman who claims her husband disappeared from a hotel room where the clerk says neither of them registered.

Original Air Date: February 9, 1955

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28 min
June 07, 2023 Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Voodoo Matter (EP0670)
Release Date: May 18, 2012

Johnny flies to Haiti to solve the problem of an insured who is suffering huge crop losses. Johnny arrives to find the man suspicious that voodoo is behind it all.

Original Air Date: August 4, 1953

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34 min
June 07, 2023 Sherlock Holmes: The Complicated Poisoning At Eel Pie Island (EP0669)
Release Date: May 17, 2012

Sherlock Holmes and Watson arrive on Eel Pie Island for a glass of rum and find a poisoning murder.

Original Air Date: June 6, 1948

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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.