The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 1

The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 1

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.

Episodes

April 24, 2025 32 mins
Original Release Date: November 4, 2010

Holmes is off with a supernatural investigator to find out what’s going on with the re-appearance of the legendary headless monk.

Original Air Date: April 15, 1946

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Original Release Date: November 3, 2010

George is called in when a brother fears his sister is falling for a mentalist. Things take an odd turn when the mentalist is poisoned and two bottles of poison are missing.

Original Air Date: May 2, 1949

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Original Release Date: November 2, 2010

Father Brown investigates the death of a best-selling proponent of optomism.

Original Air Date: July 22, 1945

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Original Release Date: November 1, 2010

Nick Charles, a retired private detective is drawn back to detection with the insistence of his wife, Nora, when a former client is suspected of several murders.

Original Air Date: June 8, 1936

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Release Date: October 29, 2010

An old friend of Johnny’s comes to him for help only to change his mind, and then turn up dead the next day.

Original Air Date: August 17, 1950

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Original Release Date: October 28, 2010

Holmes wants to retire, but is in demand to solve one last case before taking up bee farming.

Original Air Date: April 8, 1946


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Original Release Date: October 27, 2010

With George out of town on a wild goose chase, Brooksie is tricked into impersonating a night club singer, and finds herself charged with murder.

Original Air Date: April 25, 1949


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Original Release Date: October 26, 2010

Regan is hired by a jockey to find a missing man.

Original Air Date: August 27, 1950

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Original Release Date: October 25, 2010

A reporter (Alan Ladd) finds a woman dead of TB and is determined to find out why she died.

Original Air Date: March 24, 1950

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Commentary on Season 2 of the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio: Series covered and changes to the program are discussed.

Series include:
  • The Thin Man
  • The Adventures of the Abbotts
  • Barrie Craig
  • The Adventures of Father Brown
  • Nero Wolfe
  • Rogue's Gallery

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Release Date: October 22, 2010

Johnny heads to a small town to investigate the murder of an insured

Original Air Date: August 7, 1950


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Release Date: October 21, 2010

Watson joins in an April Fools prank on Sherlock Holmes.

Original Air Date: April 1, 1946


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Release Date: October 20, 2010

George goes to Nevada to help an actor with gambling debts make enough ona deal to pay off the syndicate. But getting the one hundred grand is not as hard as holding onto it.

Original Air Date:April 18, 1949


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Release Date: October 19, 2010

International is hired to protect a bad, but commercially successful poet, who is then killed after a radio broadcast.

Original Air Date: August 6, 1950


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April 7, 2025 30 mins
Release Date: October 18, 2010

A letter to Box 13 puts Dan Holiday in the middle of a complicated blackmail scheme.

Original Air Date: December 22, 1948


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Release Date: October 15, 2010

An ex-con who Johnny sent up, frames him for murder.

Original Air Date: July 20, 1950


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Release Date: October 14, 2010

An art expert disappears and Sherlock Holmes of being involved.

Original Air Date: March 25, 1946


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Release Date: October 13, 2010

George is hired to go to Mexico to bring back a fugitive member of a political machine that is promising to tell the truth-for a price. George and Brooksie find themselves on a bus surrounded by characters all headed for the same place-Casa Diablo.

Original Air Date: March 28, 1949


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Release Date: October 12, 2010

Regan takes the case of an immigrant shopkeeper who has suffered an arson attempt. Regan suspects a hateful neighbor, as the case becomes a murder investigation.

Original Air Date: July 30, 1950


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March 31, 2025 29 mins
Release Date: October 11, 2010

Dan Holiday is told to go to a doctor’s office under an assumed name, and finds himself in the crossfire.

Original Air Date: December 15, 1948


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