Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Speckled Band 06/23/1947 (Conway & Bruce)
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Choice Classic Radio Detectives | Old Time Radio
29 min
5 speakers
6 chapters
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What is the opening introduction and sponsor message for this episode?
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Creme hair tonic and creel shampoo present the new adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Starring Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson and Tom Conway as Sherlock Holmes.
Here we are once again in Dr. Watson's study. Good evening, Dr. Watson. Good evening, Mr. Bell. What incident are you going to tell us about this evening, Dr. Watson? Well,
uh now the I I haven't quite decided. Uh, suppose if we What was that? Oh yeah. The plugs has fallen off. Where did I put that poker? Oh here it is. There we go. Ah, that's better.
Oh, what a curious old poker, Dr. Watson. It looks as though it had been seen many years of service.
Yes, so it has, my dear fellow, so it has. Belonged to Sherlock Holmes himself in the days when we were sharing rooms in Baker Street. Yeah, you know that. I think I could do no better than to tell you the particular incident that that provoker he recalls to my mind. But please do. I can't recall any case which presented more singular features than that which we always referred to. As the adventure The speckled band.
Feckle band. What does that mean, Doctor Watson?
We'll get to that in a minute, Mr Bell. But uh first
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It was early one April morning, very early, I might say. Holmes, as you doubtless know, was a notoriously late riser. So you can imagine my surprise to find him standing fully dressed. on the side of my bed.
Watson. I say Watson, wake up.
Why
know, fellow, if you don't manage to wake up immediately, I shall be obliged to enter the contents of this water pitcher over your
what's up, Mr.
The
far?
No, a client.
Oh client?
Quite so. A client. It's um a girl, a rather charming looking girl. She's waiting in the sitting room now.
How does Dr. Watson introduce the mysterious case of Helen Stoner?
Is she? Yeah, I'll uh open the door, Crack, so you can take a look at her.
Lady dressed in black. And uh so heavily veiled that you can't tell a thing about her. Where's my other slipper?
On the contrary, my dear Watson, we can gather a great deal about her. Here's your slipper on the table where you left it last night to the paperweight. Uh your tie, your good tie, is on the third shelf behind Boswell's Life of Johnson. I presume that's the one you want, in as much as it's the one you always wear when you wish to make an impression on one of the opposite sex.
Don't be silly, old
man. But to return to the young lady, she left home very early this morning. Came by train. And yet she had a good drive in a dog cart along heavy roads before she reached the station. Holmes, you're trying to be uncanny again. Not at all, my dear Watson. It's as plain as the nose on your face. The left arm of the jacket is pattered with mud. There's no vehicle save a dog cart which throws up mud in that disgusting wave. As for the train journey, I observed the second half of the return ticket in the palm of the left glove.
I never even saw it. Oh, yes, you did, Watson.
You merely did not notice it.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the opening introduction and sponsor message for this episode?
0:00–3:31
2
How does Dr. Watson introduce the mysterious case of Helen Stoner?
3:31–8:23
3
What clues do Holmes and Watson discover while inspecting Stoke Moran?
8:23–13:42
4
How do Holmes and Watson set up the night‑watch plan in the victim’s bedroom?
13:42–19:23
5
What happens during the midnight vigil that reveals the “speckled band”?
19:23–26:17
6
How does Holmes identify the snake as the murder weapon and explain the doctor’s scheme?
26:17–29:43
Speakers
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