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The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 1

The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 1

Adam Graham

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Frequency: 1 episode/1d. Total Eps: 802

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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 Radiohttps://www.spreaker.com/show/otr-detective-the-great-detectives-of-olhere.

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.
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Sherlock Holmes: The Notorious Canary Trainer (EP0089)

Season 1 · Episode 89

jeudi 29 août 2024Duration 31:58

Original Release Date: February 25, 2010

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 2024Duration 33:46

Original Release Date: February 12, 2010

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 2023Duration 26:59

Release Date: October 4, 2012

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 2023Duration 33:04

Release Date: October 3, 2012

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 2023Duration 29:23

Release Date: October 2, 2012

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 2023Duration 31:59

Release Date: October 1, 2012

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 2023Duration 01:03:17

Release Date: September 30, 2012

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 2023Duration 35:33

Release Date: September 28, 2012

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 2023Duration 30:30

Release Date: September 27, 2012

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 2023Duration 33:22

Release Date: September 26, 2012

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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