• The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 1

  • By: Adam Graham
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The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 1

By: Adam Graham
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  • Summary

  • 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.
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Episodes
  • Let George Do It: Death in Fancy Dress (EP0188)

    Let George Do It: Death in Fancy Dress (EP0188)
    Jan 1 2025
    Release Date: July 14, 2010

    The latest person to respond to George’s ad, an apparent blackmailer whose victim committed suicide is so repugnant that George offers his services to bring his wannabe client down.

    Original Air Date: December 27, 1948

    Support the show monthly at https://patreon.greatdetectives.net

    Support the show on a one-time basis at https://support.greatdetectives.net

    Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715

    GIve us a call at 208-991-4783

    Take the listener survey at https://survey.greatdetectives.net

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    33 mins
  • Jeff Regan: The Lawyer and the Lady (EP0187)

    Jeff Regan: The Lawyer and the Lady (EP0187)
    Dec 31 2024
    Release Date: July 13, 2010

    Once again, the Lyon agrees to send Regan out on a case he knows nothing about. Within minutes of arriving at his client’s office, someone takes a shot.

    Original Air Date: December 4, 1948

    Support the show monthly at https://patreon.greatdetectives.net

    Support the show on a one-time basis at https://support.greatdetectives.net

    Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715

    GIve us a call at 208-991-4783

    Take the listener survey at https://survey.greatdetectives.net

    Check out our social media at https://www.greatdetectives.net
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    32 mins
  • Box 13: One of These Four (EP0186)

    Box 13: One of These Four (EP0186)
    Dec 30 2024
    Original Release Date: July 12, 2010

    Dan is one of four people on board a luxury yacht. The owner claims that one of them is a killer and Dan must find who if he wants to get off the boat alive.

    Original Air Date: September 15, 1948

    Support the show monthly at https://patreon.greatdetectives.net

    Support the show on a one-time basis at https://support.greatdetectives.net

    Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715

    GIve us a call at 208-991-4783

    Take the listener survey at https://survey.greatdetectives.net

    Check out our social media at https://www.greatdetectives.net
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    31 mins

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