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The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 1

The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 1

Author: 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.
802 Episodes
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Release Date: February 3, 2012An insurance company receives news that a man about to be declared dead under the Enoch Arden law was spotted and sends Johnny to investigate.Original Air Date: April 7, 1953Support the show monthly at https://patreon.greatdetectives.netSupport the show on a one-time basis at https://support.greatdetectives.netMail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715Give us a call at 208-991-4783Take the listener survey at https://survey.greatdetectives.netCheck out our social media at https://www.greatdetectives.net
Release Date: February 2, 2012Sherlock Holmes is called in at the behest of a horse trainer, suspicious that its owner may be losing his mind.Original Air Date: February 15, 1948Support the show monthly at https://patreon.greatdetectives.netSupport the show on a one-time basis at https://support.greatdetectives.netMail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715Give us a call at 208-991-4783Take the listener survey at https://survey.greatdetectives.netCheck out our social media at https://www.greatdetectives.net
Release Date: February 1, 2012George is hired by a man of mystery to protect his family, but George senses he’s up to no good.Original Air Date: October 2, 1950Support the show monthly at https://patreon.greatdetectives.netSupport the show on a one-time basis at https://support.greatdetectives.netMail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715Give us a call at 208-991-4783Take the listener survey at https://survey.greatdetectives.netCheck out our social media at https://www.greatdetectives.net
Release Date: January 31, 2012Mallard is acting suspicious and Candy looks into it. When a body turns up, Candy has to find out the truth about the murder and Mallard.Original Air Date: April 29, 1951Support the show monthly at https://patreon.greatdetectives.netSupport the show on a one-time basis at https://support.greatdetectives.netMail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715Give us a call at 208-991-4783Take the listener survey at https://survey.greatdetectives.netCheck out our social media at https://www.greatdetectives.net
Release Date: January 30, 2012Barrie heads to a small town to track down a man who embezzled money from a local bank.Original Air Date: March 30, 1954Support the show monthly at https://patreon.greatdetectives.netSupport the show on a one-time basis at https://support.greatdetectives.netMail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715Give us a call at 208-991-4783Take the listener survey at https://survey.greatdetectives.netCheck out our social media at https://www.greatdetectives.net
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