The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 1
Episodes
Let George Do It: The Corpse that Took a Powder (EP0123)
02 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: April 14, 2010A hysterical letter threatening suicide sends George cross town where he finds the woman who wrote him dead from ...
Jeff Regan: The Diamond Quartet (EP0122)
01 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: April 13, 2010Jeff Regan is given a simple job, return a necklace held by the owner of an illegal gambling joint to its owner, ...
Box 13: Last Will and Nursery Rhyme (EP0121)
30 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: April 12, 2010Dan thinks he’s going on vacation when an old friend invites him to a white elephant of a house that he’s bei...
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: Bodyguard to Anne Connelly (EP0120)
27 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Release Date: April 9, 2010Johnny Dollar flies to Wisconsin to guard a woman who says she can’t afford a body guard. Johnny’s shocked to find her ...
Sherlock Holmes: The Story of Colonel Warburton’s Madness (EP0119)
26 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Release Date: April 8, 2010Dr. Watson is on vacation and runs into an old army man with a guest visiting from Africa. The Colonel hears whistles no on...
Let George Do It: The Ghost on Bliss Terrace (EP0118)
26 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Release Date: April 7, 2010George is called in when a neighborhood becomes concerned about rumors that there’s a ghost living in a house where a mur...
Jeff Regan: The Man Who Liked Mountains (EP0117)
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: April 6, 2010Regan knows its trouble when a disbarred lawyer retains International to help find an underworld figure and makes ...
Box 13: The Philanthropist (EP0116)
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: April 5, 2010A homeless man contacts Box 13 when his friends disappears. When the homeless man dies, Dan suspects foul play, an...
Sherlock Holmes: The Limping Ghost (EP0114)
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: April 1, 2010 Holmes is off to a Scottish castle to investigate the legend of a ghost whose appearance announces death.Original...
Let George Do It: The Perfect Specimen (EP0113)
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: March 31, 2010A doctor gets a note advising him of when he’ll die and how. He hires George to stop it. But despite the threat...
Jeff Regan: The Lady With the Golden Hair (EP0112)
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: March 30, 2010A rich make-up artist hires International to protect him from someone who’s trying to kill him.Original Air Dat...
Box 13: Three to Die (EP0111)
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: March 29, 2010Dan goes undercover as a sandhog to find out who’s been sabotaging the construction of a tunnel.Original Air Da...
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Melanie Carter Matter (EP0110)
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: March 26, 2010An 82-year-old woman hires Johnny Dollar to protect her from her relatives who she fears will murder her for her ...
Sherlock Holmes: The Paradol Chamber (EP0109)
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: March 25, 2010A female scientist wants Dr. Watson and his wife to invest in her invention, a metal that facilitates human telep...
Let George Do It: The Money Maker (EP0108)
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: March 24, 2010George is called in to investigate when paper used to print foreign currency is stolen.Original Air Date: August ...
Jeff Regan: The Lonesome Lady (EP0107)
24 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: March 23, 2010Jeff Regan investigates a fishy insurance policy.Original Air Date: July 24, 1948Support the show monthly at htt...
Box 13: The Dowager and Dan Holiday (EP0106)
23 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: March 22, 2010A society matron asks Dan Holiday to masquerade as her intended in order to flesh out whether the woman her grand...
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Island of Tin Yutan (EP0105)
20 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: March 19, 2010Johnny Dollar is off to the South Pacific to check up on six insured missing men.Original Air Date: November 5, 1...
Sherlock Holmes: In Flanders Field (EP0104)
19 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: March 18, 2010Holmes and Watson come out of retirement to help the British Military in World War I. Holmes has to find out if a...
Let George Do It: The Seven Murder (EP0103)
18 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: March 17, 2010A man makes up a fake robbery to hide his gambling from his wife, but it gets complicated when another man confes...
Jeff Regan: The Prodigal Daughter (EP0102)
17 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: March 16, 2010The Lyon hires Jeff Regan out to go to New Orleans to find an old man’s daughter. Regan finds she’s already d...
Box 13: Professor and the Puzzle (EP0101)
16 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: March 15, 2010Dan Holiday goes to help an old college professor friend whose fiance unexpectedly left him when her uncle died. ...
Screen Guild Theatre: The Maltese Falcon (EP0100s)
15 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: March 13, 2010In this 1943 adaptation of the original hardboiled detective story: Miles Archer, the partner of Sam Spade (playe...
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Little Man Who Wasn’t All There (EP0100)
13 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: March 12, 2010Johnny Dollar is dispatched to San Francisco to investigate a man who is hinting that he’s behind a series of “...
Sherlock Holmes: The Purloined Ruby (EP0099)
12 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: March 11, 2010Sherlock Holmes again returns from retirement. This time he and Watson are trying to solve a mystery that surroun...
Let George Do It: Cry Murder (EP0098)
11 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: March 10, 2010Another private investigator sent George a letter hiring him “just in case” he’s murdered. When the other i...
Johnny Madero: The Fatal Auction (EP0097)
10 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: March 9, 2010Johnny Madero is offered $50 to buy an item at an auction. His client disappears and before he knows it, Warchek f...
Box 13: The Better Man (EP0096)
09 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: March 8, 2010 Dan Holiday can get $200,000 to charity if he’s willing to play a twisted rich man’s game and go head to head...
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: Witness, Witness, Who’s Got the Witness? (EP0095)
07 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Release Date: March 5, 2010Dollar is retained by a bail bondsman to find two witnesses that have disappeared, leaving the bondsman on the hook for $50...
Sherlock Holmes: The Unfortunate Tobacconist (EP0094)
06 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: March 4, 2010Tobacconists aren’t the world’s most likely murder victims, so why have three different tobacconists been murd...
Let George Do It: A Close Call (EP0093)
05 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Release Date: March 3, 2010A woman wants to break up a love triangle with her best friend’s husband, and pays George to pretend to be her new beau. ...
Johnny Madero: Pete Sutro (EP0092)
04 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: March 2, 2010A rich man from Nob Hill hires Johnny to find a man whose name he keeps hearing in his dreams.Original Air Date: J...
Box 13: Hot Box (EP0091)
03 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: March 1, 2010Dan Holiday is asked to bid on an item at an auction. He loses the item and the winner hit by a car and the item i...
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: Dr Otto Schmedlich (EP0090)
02 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: February 26, 2010Johnny Dollar goes to California to investigate an unethical doctor.Original Air Date: October 15, 1949Support...
Sherlock Holmes: The Notorious Canary Trainer (EP0089)
29 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: February 25, 2010After retiring and while on vacation, Sherlock Holmes witnesses a suicide of one of Moriarity’s former hench...
Let George Do It: The Man Who Was Murdered Twice (EP0088)
28 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Release Date: February 24, 2010George Valentine wants out when he gets hired by a nasty drama critic. However, when he tries to quit, he finds his cli...
Pat Novak for Hire: Little Jake Siegel (EP0087)
27 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: February 23, 2010An altar boy is shot and killed in a church saving Novak’s life. Novak’s goal: get the killer.Original Air...
Box 13: The Sad Night (EP0086)
26 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Release Date: February 22, 2010Dan Holiday receives a child’s copy book in the mail. When a couple who claim it’s their’s lies to him, he become...
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Racehorse Piledriver Matter (EP0085)
23 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: February 19, 2010An ex-jockey asks Johnny’s help to save a beloved horse from an insurance fraud scheme.Original Air Date: Oc...
Sherlock Holmes: The Vienese Strangler (EP0084)
22 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: February 18, 2010Watson recalls an adventure in Vienna where Holmes had to solve the murder of a Blackmailer.Original Air Date:...
Let George Do It: The Immigration Racket (EP0083)
21 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: February 17, 2010An immigrant preparing for his citizenship test asks for George’s help when he figures out he’s been roped...
Pat Novak for Hire: Joe Dineen (EP0082)
20 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: February 16, 2010Two men kidnap Pat Novak from a wrestling match and demand he take them to a man Novak doesn’t know by the n...
Box 13: The Haunted Artist (EP0081)
19 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date; February 15, 2010Dan helps an artist whose painting is being mysteriously vandalized.Original Air Date: April 28, 1948Become on...
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Fishing Boat Affair (EP0080)
17 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: February 12, 2010Johnny Dollar investigates the suspicious sinking of two fishing boats and a $400,000 claim.Original Air Date:...
Sherlock Holmes: The Amateur Medicant Society (EP0079)
16 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: February 11, 2010Dr. Watson is summoned to an eccentric club. Sherlock Holmes is called when it’s believed a murder occurred....
Let George Do It: Unfit Mother (EP0078)
15 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: February 10, 2010George is hired by a widow who wants him to prove that she’s not an unfit mother.Original Air Date: June 21,...
Pat Novak for Hire: Georgie Lampson (EP0077)
13 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: February 9, 2010 Novak is hired by an old flame and finds himself once again, in the thick of a murder investigation.Original A...
Box 13: Look Pleasant, Please (EP0076)
12 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: February 8, 2010Dan Holiday answers a letter to Box 13 and finds himself engaged to a wealthy heiress whose first two intendeds...
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Search for Michelle Marsh (EP0075)
09 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: February 5, 2010Johnny Dollar goes to Boston in search of a missing insured woman.Original Air Date: September 25, 1949Support ...
Sherlock Holmes: The Book of Tobit (EP0074)
08 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: February 4, 2010Is a biblical demon behind the death’s of a beautiful woman’s first two husbands and will Sherlock Holmes b...
Let George Do It: A Piece of Publicity (EP0073)
07 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: February 3, 2010A high wire performer hires George to be her bodyguard to “protect her” from someone who has been sending h...
Pat Novak: Agnes Bolton (EP0072)
06 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Air Date: February 2, 2010Pat Novak is hired to follow a woman, and while he’s doing it, she drops dead in a phone booth, and once again He...
Box 13: Double Right Cross (EP0071)
05 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: February 1, 2010Dan Holiday goes to a friend’s boxing match. When his friend goes down for the count before Holiday even gets...
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Expiring Nickles (EP0070)
02 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: January 29, 2010Johnny Dollar does a favor for his old chaplain. He has to get a leper and a gun from Calcutta to Egypt to save...
Sherlock Holmes: The Superflous Pearl (EP0069)
01 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: January 28, 2010Sherlock Holmes is retained to guard the necklace of a well-known actress at a party. His prime suspect? The sn...
Let George Do It: Have Some Excitement (EP0068)
31 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: January 27, 2010A Hollywood character actor hires George to bring some excitement into his life, so that he’ll have the confi...
Pat Novak for Hire: Give Envelope to John St. John (EP0067)
30 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: January 26, 2010A dying man gives Novak an envelope with the mission to deliver it to John St. John.Original Air Date: May 22, ...
Box 13: Diamond in the Sky (EP0066)
29 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: January 25, 2010Dan Holiday heads to Paris to pick up an ultra-expensive diamond.Original Air Date: April 7, 1948Support the sh...
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: Out of the Fire Into the Frying Pan (EP0065)
26 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: January 22, 2010Johnny Dollar travels to Iowa to serve as bodyguard to a champion hog. Original Air Date: August 21, 1949Suppor...
Sherlock Holmes: The Missing Bloodstains (EP0064)
25 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: January 21, 2010Sherlock Holmes investigates a murder with political overtones in a Turkish bath.Original Air Date: May 15, 194...
Let George Do It: The Island on Tuxedo Lake (EP0063)
24 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: January 20, 2010George is hired to investigate the disappearance of a young woman who met her older husband through a dating se...
Pat Novak for Hire: The Geranium Plant (EP0062)
23 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: January 19, 2010Pat Novak’s hired to deliver a geranium. He’s hit by a car after the pick-up and that’s just the start of...
Box 13: Damsel in Distress (EP0061)
22 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: January 18, 2010A teenager writes Box 13 and tells Dan she’s received letters threatening a kidnapping.Original Air Date: Mar...
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: Murder Ain’t Minor (EP0060)
19 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: January 15, 2010Johnny Dollar makes a rare exception and takes on a private client seeking for a 19-year old woman he wants to ...
Sherlock Holmes: Mrs. Warren’s Key (EP0059)
18 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: January 14, 2010Sherlock Holmes investigates a mysterious lodger.Original Air Date: December 7, 1941Support the show monthly at...
Let George Do It: The Spirit World (EP0058)
17 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: January 13, 2010George investigates a fraudulent medium. When she accuses a young woman of murdering her mother, and the woman ...
Pat Novak for Hire: Wendy Morris (EP0057)
16 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: January 12, 2010Pat Novak is hired by an attorney to keep an eye on a woman whose husband has returned from the Navy. The Attor...
Box 13: Triple Cross (EP0056)
15 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: January 11, 2010A letter in Box 13 leads Dan Holiday to a Nevada casino where he wins $100,000 at a rigged roulette wheel. Trou...
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: Who Took the Taxis for a Ride (EP0055)
12 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: January 8, 2010Johnny Dollar is called in when a taxi company has several of its taxis stolen and the drivers beaten.Original A...
Sherlock Holmes: The Copper Beeches (EP0054)
11 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: January 7, 2010A young woman consults with Sherlock Holmes when she’s offered a position as a governess with some strange con...
Let George Do It: The Tunnel Project (EP0053)
10 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: January 6, 2010George is hired to investigate sabotage at a tunnel project.Original Air Date: May 3, 1948Support the show month...
Pat Novak for Hire: Rita Malloy (EP0052)
09 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Air Date: January 5, 2010 A gunsol steals a boat from Pat Novak, and winds up dead, and when Novak goes to the Hotel he finds a nightclub sin...
Box 13: Foreign Correspondent (EP0051)
08 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Air Date: January 4, 2010A grieving mother sends a letter to Box 13 asking Dan Holiday to find the truth behind her son’s death.Original Ai...
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Barton Drake Case (EP0050)
05 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Air Date: January 1, 2010An insurance company hires Johnny Dollar after a notorious gangster who was covered by life insurance and presumed d...
Sherlock Holmes: The Retired Colourman (EP0049)
04 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Air Date: December 31, 2009Sherlock Holmes lets Doctor Watson take the lead in investigating a missing person’s case involving the wife of ...
Let George Do It: The Wolf Pack (EP0048)
03 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: December 30, 2009A teenage girl asks George to help a boy out of jail on a bum rap to avoid returning.Original Air Date: April ...
Pat Novak for Hire: Sam Toliver (EP0047)
02 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release: December 29, 2009Pat Novak does a favor for a friend out of prison and picks up a package. He returns to his office to find a cop st...
Box 13: The Great Torino (EP0046)
01 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: December 28, 2009Dan is asked to help a magician’s assistant who’s afraid that a jealous magician will create an accident d...
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: How I Played Santa Claus And Almost Got Left Holding the Bag (EP0045)
28 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: December 25, 2009Johnny Dollar is called in to investigate a series of thefts in the department store. When a store detective i...
Sherlock Holmes: The Night Before Christmas (EP0044)
27 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: December 24, 2009One of Moriarity’s henchmen switches Christmas sacks with Dr. Watson when both are dressed as Santa Claus. S...
Let George Do It: Follow That Train (EP0043)
26 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: December 23, 2009It’s Christmas and George gets a letter from a new client-a department store Santa Claus that wants him to s...
Pat Novak for Hire: Shirt Mix Up at the Laundry (EP0042)
25 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: December 22, 2009When Pat Novak gets the wrong bundle at the laundry, he tries to switch with the man who was given his shirts....
Box 13: Book of Poems (EP0041)
24 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Air Date: December 21, 2009Dan receives a book of poems in Box 13 that takes him back to a fire he covered ten years ago when working for the...
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Case of the $100,000 Legs (EP0040)
21 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: December 18, 2009Johnny Dollar is sent to protect an actresses legs as part of a publicity policy. He arrives to find her murde...
Sherlock Holmes The Bruce Partington Plans (Rathbone-Bruce Version) (EP0039)
20 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Release Date: December 17, 2009Sherlock Holmes’ brother Mycroft calls on Holmes to help find stolen top secret papers relating to submarine plans.Or...
Let George Do It: The Penthouse Roof (EP0038)
19 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: December 16, 2009George is hired by a bird watcher who thinks he spotted a man pushing another off the roof.Original Air Date: ...
Pat Novak: Father Lahey (EP0037)
18 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Release Date: December 15, 2009A priest hires Pat Novak to intercept an escaping convict. However, when Novak allows the convict to make an unplanned ...
Box 13: Double Mothers (EP0036)
17 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: December 14, 2009Dan Holiday goes to a park and finds himself taking care of a young child who seems to be confused about who h...
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Stolen Portrait (EP0035)
14 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: December 11, 2009Johnny Dollar heads to London in search of a rare stolen painting.Original Air Date: April 1, 1949Support the ...
Mercury Theater on the Air: The Immortal Sherlock Holmes (EP0034)
13 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: December 10, 2009Sherlock Holmes (played by Orson Welles) seeks to reclaim letters being used as blackmail and foil the plans o...
Let George Do It: Am I My Brother’s Keeper? (EP0033)
12 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: December 9, 2009George Valentine is hired to reconcile two brothers, but when the dead body of a local gambling kingpin is foun...
Pat Novak: Joe Condano (EP0032)
11 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: December 8, 2009After being hired to pay off a beautiful woman’s brother’s gambling debt, Novak finds himself next to a dea...
Box 13: Short Assignment (EP0031)
10 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: December 7, 2009Dan Holiday fills in for a vertically challenged Private Detective to guard the son of a dead man who relatives...
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Milford Brooks III Matter (Charles Russell Version) (EP0030)
07 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Air Date: December 4, 2009Johnny Dollar has to keep a young man from committing suicide and costing his insurance company $2 million. The ben...
Sherlock Holmes: The Armchair Solution (EP0029)
06 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: December 3, 2009Confined to 221B Baker Street, Sherlock Holmes gets a mystery he can solve in his own backyard when a neighbor ...
Let George Do It: The Smugglers (EP0028)
05 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: November 2, 2009George Valentine finds an old army buddy confined to a sanitarium after an alleged explosion in Egypt. George’...
Pat Novak for Hire: Rory Malone (EP0027)
04 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Release Date: December 1, 2009Pat Novak gets an offer for $300 from a beautiful woman to stay away from boxer Rory Malone, and $300 from Malone’s ma...
Box 13: Shanghied (EP0026)
03 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: November 30, 2009Dan Holiday answers a letter in Box 13 and finds himself kidnapped and fishing at sea.Original Air Date: Febru...
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar: Murder’s a Merry Go Round (EP0025)
31 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Release Date: November 27, 2009Johnny Dollar heads out to investigate a series of accidents at a carnival, only to find that murder is on the agenda.O...
Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot (EP0024)
30 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: November 26, 2009While on vacation in Cornwall, Holmes and Watson find themselves in a mystery that has led to unexplained madn...