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The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 1

The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 1

Auteur(s): Adam Graham
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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 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.Copyright Adam Graham
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  • Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Elusive Emerald (EP0349)
    Aug 14 2025
    Release Date: February 24, 2011

    Sherlock Holmes is hired by the family of a duchess who claim she is a kleptomaniac. The duchess denies it, but Holmes follows her and the rumor is confirmed.

    Original Air Date: December 14, 1946

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    34 min
  • Let George Do It: Valley Sunset (EP0348)
    Aug 13 2025
    Release Date: February 23, 2011

    A 14-year old gets George to a vineyard, where George finds the vineyard patriarch running everyone’s life, and headed for a crisis.

    Original Air Date: September 12, 1949

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    34 min
  • Nero Wolfe: The Case of the Calculated Risk (EP0347)
    Aug 12 2025
    Release Date: February 22, 2011

    A man plans to carry out a revenge on a man who framed him for Murder, and wants Wolfe to clear his name if he fails. Wolfe refuses, but ends up drawn into the case when the potential client is murdered.

    Original Air Date: January 19, 1951

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    33 min
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