The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 1

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The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 1 episodes

May 27, 2023 Sherlock Holmes: The Case of The Very Best Butter (EP0639)
Release Date: April 5, 2012

A wealthy and overweight woman turns to Holmes when she fears her young French husband will kill her.

Original Air Date: April 18, 1948

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36 min
May 27, 2023 Let George Do It: Tune on a Triangle (EP0638)
Release Date: April 4, 2012

George is suckered into a publicity stunt for an acrobat and quickly finds himself in the middle of a love triangle that’s headed toward murder.

Original Air Date: January 15, 1951

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37 min
May 26, 2023 Hercule Poirot: Death in the Golden Gate (EP0637)
Release Date: April 3, 2012

While attending a peace conference in San Francisco, Poirot witnesses a kidnapping and finds himself involved in International intrigue with the fate of the world at stake.

Original Air Date: May 17, 1945

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35 min
May 26, 2023 Barrie Craig: Blood Money (EP0636)
Release Date: April 2, 2012

Barrie subcontracts to an aging private eye to find a missing rug merchant. Barrie finds the man dead and has to stop killer from killing the private eye.

Original Air Date: August 24, 1954

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32 min
May 25, 2023 Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Oklahoma Red Matter (EP0635)
Release Date: March 30, 2012

Johnny Dollar investigates a $65,000 claim for the death of a race horse.

Original Air Date: June 9, 1953

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31 min
May 25, 2023 Sherlock Holmes: The Empty House (EP0634)
Release Date: March 29, 2012

Thought dead for three years, Holmes returns to track down the last member of Moriarty’s gang.

Original Air Date: April 11, 1948

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35 min
May 25, 2023 Let George Do It: The Man Behind the Frame (EP0633)
Release Date: March 28, 2012

George helps a young man on his first trip to the city who finds him in the middle of a murder investigation.

Original Air Date: January 8, 1951

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35 min
May 25, 2023 Hercule Poirot: Murder Wears a Mask (EP0632)
Release Date: March 27, 2012

Hercule Poirot matches wits with a murderer who tries to frame a protective father for the murder of an actor.

Original Air Date: May 3, 1945

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33 min
May 24, 2023 Barrie Craig: Mid-Summer Lunacy (EP0631)
Release Date: March 26, 2012

At a resort, Barrie is hired by a wealthy young woman to investigate a young man who claims to be wealthy too. Barrie finds both are frauds, but that’s just the start of the case.

Original Air Date: August 17, 1954

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32 min
May 24, 2023 Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Costain Matter (EP0630)
Release Date: March 23, 2012

Johnny Dollar investigates a series of high priced shoplifting cases.

Original Air Date: June 2, 1953

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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.