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The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 1
Adam Graham
Frequency: 1 episode/1d. Total Eps: 802

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.
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Sherlock Holmes: The Notorious Canary Trainer (EP0089)
Season 1 · Episode 89
jeudi 29 août 2024 • Duration 31:58
After retiring and while on vacation, Sherlock Holmes witnesses a suicide of one of Moriarity’s former henchmen–or does he?
Original Air Date: April 23, 1945
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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Fishing Boat Affair (EP0080)
Season 1 · Episode 79
samedi 17 août 2024 • Duration 33:46
Johnny Dollar investigates the suspicious sinking of two fishing boats and a $400,000 claim.
Original Air Date: October 1, 1949
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Sherlock Holmes: The Fabulous Celebrities (EP0769)
Season 3 · Episode 260
mercredi 12 juillet 2023 • Duration 26:59
Holmes could be the next target of a serial killer who is killing off celebrities.
Original Air Date: January 17, 1949
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Let George Do It: Surprise! Surprise! (EP0768)
Season 3 · Episode 259
mercredi 12 juillet 2023 • Duration 33:04
A beautiful young woman is promised a wonderful surprise by an uncle with a wicked sense of humor. She asks George to accompany her. When she arrives, she finds her uncle is dying.
Original Air Date: February 4, 1952
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The Fat Man: A Window for Murder (EP0767)
Season 3 · Episode 258
mercredi 12 juillet 2023 • Duration 29:23
When Brad dines with an old schoolmate, she witnesses a murder.
Original Air Date: October 3, 1947
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Frank Race: The Adventure of the Reckless Daughter (EP0766)
Season 3 · Episode 257
mardi 11 juillet 2023 • Duration 31:59
Race needs to get an old friend to accept the job of Prime Minister in a war-torn country but his rebellious daughter threatens to plunge the country into a dictatorship.
Original Air Date: May 14, 1949
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50th Anniversary of the End of the Golden Age of Radio (EP0765s)
Season 3 · Episode 252
mardi 11 juillet 2023 • Duration 01:03:17
The golden age of radio came to an end with episodes of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar and Suspense. In the “Tip-Off Matter,” an ex-con tells Johnny the location of his loot. In “Devilstone,” a rich young Irishman is having trouble renting a house that is rumored to be haunted.
On September 30th 1962
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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Fairway Matter (EP0765)
Season 3 · Episode 255
mardi 11 juillet 2023 • Duration 35:33
Johnny tries to assign responsibility in the case of bomb that blew up on an airplane, killing more than 13 people.
Original Air Date: January 5, 1954
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Sherlock Holmes: The Knife Of Vengence (EP0764)
Season 3 · Episode 254
mardi 11 juillet 2023 • Duration 30:30
A man selling a knife sharpening service is murdering his customers.
Original Air Date: January 10, 1949
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Let George Do It: The Common Denominator (EP0763)
Season 3 · Episode 253
lundi 10 juillet 2023 • Duration 33:22
A woman is getting premonitions prior to murders being committed and George is hired to find out what the reason is.
Original Air Date: January 28, 1952
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