The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 1

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The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 1 episodes

June 07, 2023 Let George Do It: The Prairie Dog (EP0668)
Release Date: May 16, 2012

George investigates the murder of a fellow detective.

Original Air Date: March 12, 1951

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33 min
June 06, 2023 Hercule Poirot: The Bride Wore Fright (EP0667)
Release Date: May 15, 2012

Poirot comes into his apartment to find a woman in a wedding dress hiding from a most dangerous groom.

Original Air Date: December 7, 1945

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34 min
June 06, 2023 Barrie Craig: Angel of Death (EP0666)
Release Date: May 14, 2012

Barrie is hired by a wealthy woman to be companion to her accident prone husband who keeps almost killing himself.

Original Air Date: January 4, 1955

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28 min
June 06, 2023 Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The James Forbes Matter (EP0665)
Release Date: May 11, 2012

Johnny investigates a case where a rich man has fallen off a cliff–or was he pushed.

Original Air Date: July 28, 1953

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43 min
June 06, 2023 Sherlock Holmes: A Case of Identity (EP0664)
Release Date: May 10, 2012

A young lady asks Sherlock Holmes to investigate the disappearance of her fiancé.

Original Air Date: May 30, 1948

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36 min
June 05, 2023 Let George Do It: The Public Eye (EP0663)
Release Date: May 9, 2012

The wife of a politician hires George to visit a blackmailer. George finds the blackmailer dead and himself in the middle of a murder investigation.

Original Air Date: March 5, 1951

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35 min
June 05, 2023 Hercule Poirot: Murder is a Private Affair (EP0662)
Release Date: May 8, 2012

Hercule Poirot is called in by a bitter and domineering old woman to investigate the murder of a maid but to keep it private.

Original Air Date: November 30, 1945

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32 min
June 05, 2023 Barrie Craig: Dead Bull in a China Shop (EP0661)
Release Date: May 7, 2012

Barrie investigates when a woman at Willy’s wagon complains that someone stole her bull fiddle, and finds himself in the midst of the dangerous murder case.

Original Air Date: December 19, 1954

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29 min
June 05, 2023 Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Black Doll Matter (EP0660)
Release Date: May 4, 2012

Johnny investigates the murder of an insured and a key clue is a missing black doll.

Original Air Date: July 21, 1953

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33 min
June 04, 2023 Sherlock Holmes: The Case Of The Accommodating Valise (EP0659)
Release Date: May 3, 2012

Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of jewel disappearances at railway stations.

Original Air Date: May 23, 1948

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34 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.