The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 1

https://www.spreaker.com/show/5599688/episodes/feed

57 Followers 802 Episodes

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 allBefore 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 FinalThe Radio Adventures of the Thin Man including radio adaptations of the first two Thin Man Movies starring William PowellThe Father Brown radio series starring Karl SwensonGolden 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 InvestigatorDick Powell's first hard-boiled detective series in Rogue's Gallery. Glamourous Private Eye Candy Matson solves crimes in San FranciscoGlenn Ford stars as Christopher LondonBefore he became, a famous journalist known for 60 minutes, Mike Wallace starred in Crime on the WaterfrontThe 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 CityThe 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.

Episode List

Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The David Rockey Matter (EP0345)

Aug 8th, 2025 6:00 AM

Release Date: February 18, 2011Johnny goes to Nicaragua to let an insurance beneficiary know that he’s become a millionaire only to find the benficiary in jail on a murder charge.Original Air Date: January 20, 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

Sherlock Holmes: The Singular Affair of the Coptic Compass (EP0344)

Aug 7th, 2025 12:00 PM

Release Date: February 17, 2011In order to distract Holmes, so he can steal a valuable jewel, Moriarty plants a fascinating murder in Holmes flat.Original Air Date: December 7, 1946Support 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

Let George Do It: Everything is Nice (EP0343)

Aug 6th, 2025 12:00 PM

Release Date: February 16, 2011George is hired to watch the daughter of a rich man who has been hanging out at a suspicious dive. She ends up shot and George’s client is murdered.Original Air Date: September 5, 1949Support 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

Nero Wolfe: The Case of the Killer Card (EP0342)

Aug 5th, 2025 12:00 PM

Release Date: February 15, 2011At a card game to divide a lucrative business, one of the partners is killed. Archie Goodwin is kidnapped to get Nero Wolfe to solve the case, or both he and Archie will die.Original Air Date: January 12, 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

The Abbotts: The Dead-White Flame (EP0341)

Aug 4th, 2025 6:00 AM

Release Date: February 14, 2011When a famous psychiatrist is murdered in a plane crash, Pat fakes an injury to get into a British mental hospital to find out why the murder occurred.Original Air Date: March 13, 1955Support 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

More Episodes