The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 1

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The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 1 episodes

May 10, 2023 Barrie Craig: The Embezzler (EP0591)
Release Date: January 30, 2012

Barrie heads to a small town to track down a man who embezzled money from a local bank.

Original Air Date: March 30, 1954

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40 min
May 10, 2023 Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Lester James Matter (EP0590)
Release Date: January 27, 2012

$4,000 has been embezzled. The company has the embezzler, but Johnny’s job is to find the money.

Original Air Date: March 31, 1953

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28 min
May 10, 2023 Sherlock Holmes: The Case Of The Sanguinary Spectre (EP0589)
Release Date: January 26, 2012

Sherlock Holmes is called to spend the night at an old British manor and stop it from being sold to a pickle king.

Original Air Date: February 8, 1948

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35 min
May 10, 2023 Let George Do It: Tag, You’re It (EP0588)
Release Date: January 25, 2012

A letter from a woman afraid that someone is going to kill her leads George to a serial killer using a phony contest racket.

Original Air Date: September 25, 1950

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32 min
May 09, 2023 Candy Matson: San Juan Bautista (EP0587)
Release Date: January 24, 2012

Candy, Rembrandt, and Mallard visit a historic California mission and find themselves embroiled in a murder case.

Original Air Date: November 26, 1950

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35 min
May 09, 2023 Barrie Craig: Zero Hour (EP0586)
Release Date: January 23, 2012

Barrie Craig goes to Vermont ski country to investigate a two year old attempted murder with four suspects and no proof as to who did it.

Original Air Date: February 2, 1954

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35 min
May 09, 2023 Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Syndicate Matter (EP0585)
Release Date: January 20, 2012

Johnny investigates a series of murders that have cause the insurance company thousands of dollars on group accidental death insurance.

Original Air Date: March 24, 1953

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30 min
May 09, 2023 Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Avenging Blade (EP0584)
Release Date: January 19, 2012

Sherlock Holmes helps the lord of a manor who has received a threatening letter.

Original Air Date: February 1, 1948

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34 min
May 08, 2023 Let George Do It: Cover for an Hour (EP0583)
Release Date: January 18, 2012

George is talking to a man who claims to need his help when he’s knocked senseless for an hour and wakes up determined to find out what happened.

Original Air Date: September 18, 1950

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35 min
May 08, 2023 Candy Matson: The Egyptian Amulet (EP0582)
Release Date: January 17, 2012

Mallard gives Candy an amulet with Egyptian writing on it to get translation help. She goes to Rembrandt and finds out he’s moving and offers to find him a new place. The first place they go she finds more than she bargained for.

Original Air Date: September 12, 1950

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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.