The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 1

40 Episodes
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By: Adam Graham

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...

Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Yankee Pride Matter (EP0295)
#36
Last Friday at 1:00 PM

Release Date: December 10, 2010

Johnny Dollar goes to Signapore to investigate some delayed shipments that could cost the insurance company $300,000.

Original Air Date: October 14, 1950

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Sherlock Holmes: The Haunting of Sherlock Holmes (EP0294)
#35
Last Thursday at 12:00 PM

Release Date: December 9, 2010

Sherlock Holmes declines to work to exonerate a talented singer for treason, as he believes she’s unquestionably guilty. After she’s been executed, it appears that she’s haunting Holmes.

Original Air Date: May 20, 1946

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Let George Do It: Death in Blue Jeans (EP0293)
#34
Last Wednesday at 6:00 AM

Release Date: December 8, 2010

George arrives in a small California gold rush town where the librarian suspects the brother of the town’s patriarch of trying to poison him for a newly discovered treasure.

Original Air Date: June 6, 1949

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Nero Wolfe: The Case of the Careworn Cuff (EP0292)
#33
Last Tuesday at 12:00 PM

Release Date: December 7, 2010

A man pays Wolfe a thousand dollars to drop a client he never had.

Original Air Date: October 27, 1950

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Thin Man: Nora’s Night Out (EP0291)
#32
Last Monday at 12:00 PM

Release Date: December 6, 2010

Nora is all out night, and breaks a mirror, and asks another man to marry her. Nick suspects she’s been drugged. Things get even more serious when they find a corpse.

Original Air Date: October 6, 1944

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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Richard Splain Matter (EP0290)
#31
05/23/2025

Release Date: December 3, 2010

An investigation into the apparent murder of a carpenter leads Johnny into the shadowy world of narcotics.

Original Air Date: October 7, 1950

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Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Uneasy Chair (EP0289)
#30
05/22/2025

Original Release Date: December 2, 2010

Scotland Yard has a suspect in the murder of a wealthy man, but no murder weapon, and the case begins to look think when another murder done in the same way takes place while the alleged murder is in jail.

Original Air Date: May 13, 1946

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Let George Do It: A Matter of Doubt (EP0288)
#29
05/21/2025

Release Date: December 1, 2010

George investigates the case of a boy who told his mother that he tended the wounds of an injured man, only to claim he later made the whole thing up. The boy has had a long series of unfortunate “accidents” that his mother alarmed.

Original Air Date: May 30, 1949

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Nero Wolfe: Stamped for Murder (EP0287)
#28
05/20/2025

Original Release Date: November 30, 2010

A woman comes to Wolfe to help her recover $10,000 from two swindlers who cheated her father. Wolfe becomes suspicious when the conmen return the money too eagerly.

Original Air Date: October 20, 1950

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The Thin Man: The Case of the Glamorous Clue (EP0286)
#27
05/19/2025

Release Date: November 29, 2010

A man Nora brought home is murdered. When Nick refuses to believe her because she refuses to believe his story about him solving a crime with the help of an ex-girlfriend Broadway starlet, Nora sets out to solve the case alone.

Original Air Date: June 16, 1944

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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Howard Caldwell Matter (EP0285)
#26
05/16/2025

Release Date: November 26, 2010

Johnny Dollar finds himself searching through low class San Francisco dives to find the missing son of a wealthy New England matron.

Original Air Date: September 30, 1950

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Sherlock Holmes: The Man With the Twisted Lip (EP0284)
#25
05/15/2025

Release Date: November 25, 2010

Sherlock Holmes is hired to find a missing husband who appears to either have met with foul play–or disappeared into thin air.

Original Air Date: May 6, 1946

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Let George Do It: Stranger than Fiction (EP0283)
#24
05/14/2025

Original Release Date: November 24, 2010

George isn’t interested when a woman wants to hire him to find out if her husband based a steamy protagonist in his novel on a real-life mistress, but changes his mind when someone takes a shot at the husband/author.

Original Air Date: May 23, 1949


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The Amazing Nero Wolfe: The Shakespeare Folio (EP0282)
#23
05/13/2025

Original Release Date: November 23, 2010

Archie and a cabbie are attacked by a car after the cabbie bought a book to sit on. Wolfe discovers the book is a first edition Shakespeare Folio.

Original Air Date: November 30, 1945

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Thin Man: The Case of the Wandering Corpse (EP0281)
#22
05/12/2025

Original Release Date: November 22, 2010

A corpse disappears along with a necklace, Nick bought for Nora as an anniversary present, and its place is another corpse.

Original Air Date: October 10, 1943

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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Virginia Beach Matter (EP0280)
#21
05/09/2025

Original Release Date: November 19, 2010

Johnny is sent to Virginia Beach to guard a woman from her boyfriend who has just been released from prison, but quickly finds out he wasn’t told the whole truth.

Original Air Date: August 31, 1950

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Sherlock Holmes: The Waltz of Death (EP0279)
#20
05/08/2025

Original Air Date: November 18, 2010

Every time a certain waltz played in Austria, a beautiful woman is killed.

Original Air Date: April 29, 1946

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Let George Do It: Come and Get Me (EP0278)
#19
05/07/2025

Release Date: November 17, 2010

A little man hires George to prove him guilty of murder.

Original Air Date: May 16, 1949

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Adventures of Nero Wolfe: The Last Laugh Murder (EP0277)
#18
05/06/2025

Original Release Date: November 26, 2010

Nero Wolfe attempts to deduce the details of a passerby’s life. The man denies all of Wolfe’s deductions, and after he leaves, Wolfe concludes he’s a murderer.

Original Air Date: July 14, 1944

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Thin Man: The Strange Case of Professor Wainger (EP0276)
#17
05/05/2025

Release Date: November 15, 2010

A brother and sister approach Nick Charles to ask him to introduce them to a long-lost Uncle who is working as a scientist for the allies. The scientists claims not to know who they are.

Original Air Date: Sometime in 1942

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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Trans-Pacific Export Matter (EP0275)
#16
05/02/2025

Original Release Date: November 12, 2010

Johnny is called in when an export Company has a fire at its Hong Kong Office that looks suspiciously like the same thing as happened at their Shanghai office, where an insurance investigator was murdered.

Original Air Date: August 24, 1950

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Sherlock Holmes: The Tankerville Club Scandal (EP0274)
#15
05/01/2025

Original Release Date: November 11, 2010

A young man is accused of cheating at cards. Holmes believes the man is innocent and one of Moriarity’s associates is behind the frame with the goal of murder in mind.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 22, 1946

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Let George Do It: Vultures on the Wing (EP0273)
#14
04/30/2025

Original Release Date: November 10, 2010

George is hired to guard $20,000 and pick up four paintings, but finds a collection of characters trying to stop him.

Original Air Date: May 9, 1949

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Adventures of Father Brown: The Mystified Mind (EP0272)
#13
04/29/2025

Original Release Date: November 9, 2010

A young man is accused of killing a window cleaner, but Father Brown believes he’s innocent.

Original Air Date: August 13, 1945

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Lux Radio Theater: After the Thin Man (EP0271)
#12
04/28/2025

Original Release Date: November 8, 2010

Returning from investigating the “Thin Man” case, Nick Charles again hopes to retire, but finds himself drawn into another mystery when his wife’s cousin is approved of murdering her no good husband.

Original Air Date: June 17, 1940

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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Hartford Alliance Matter (EP0270)
#11
04/27/2025

Original Release Date: November 8, 2010

An arson on an insured building was committed by a mild-manner young man. Why did he do it and who is he covering up for?

Original Air Date: August 10, 1950

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Sherlock Holmes: The Headless Monk (EP0269)
#10
04/24/2025

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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Let George Do It: Out of Mind (EP0268)
#9
04/23/2025

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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Adventures of Father Brown: The Three Tools of Death (EP0267)
#8
04/22/2025

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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Lux Radio Theater: The Thin Man (EP0266)
#7
04/21/2025

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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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Mickey McQueen Matter (EP0265)
#6
04/18/2025

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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Sherlock Holmes: The Disappearing Scientists (EP0264)
#5
04/17/2025

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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Let George Do It: Lady in Distress (EP0263)
#4
04/16/2025

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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Jeff Regan: Gentlemen Prefer Horses (EP0262)
#3
04/14/2025

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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Screen Director’s Playhouse: Chicago Deadline (EP0261)
#2
04/14/2025

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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Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Season 2 Commentary
#1
04/13/2025

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 ManThe Adventures of the AbbottsBarrie CraigThe Adventures of Father BrownNero WolfeRogue's Gallery
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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Blood River Matter (EP0260)
#264
04/12/2025

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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Sherlock Holmes: The April Fools Adventure (EP0259)
#263
04/11/2025

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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Let George Do It: The Elusive One Hundred Grand (EP0258)
#262
04/10/2025

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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Box 13: Round Robin (EP0256)
#260
04/07/2025

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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