Adam Graham

Let George Do It Presented by the Great Detectives of Old TIme Radio

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Adam Graham serves as your host, providing his idiosyncratic as he goes, as we go through the much underrated 1946-54 detective series starring a pre-Johnny Dollar Bob Bailey as Detective George Valentine a World War II vet, who along with his secretary and assistant Brooksie take on every case that's mailed to them.

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Adam Graham

Episodes

Let George Do It: The Dark Chain 12.12.2025 34:54

Original Release Date: April 6, 2011 The mother of a mentally challenged but extremely strong young man hires George, fearing that a convicted felon living nearby has stolen her broach, while the neighbor accuses her son of his murdering his dog. Original Air Date: November 7, 1949 Support the show monthly at https://patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at https://su...

Let George Do It: Every Shot Counts 09.12.2025 34:27

Original Release Date: March 30, 2011 A singing cowboy hires George to investigate someone who is threatening a female sharpshooter. The sharpshooter tries to get George off the case, but a shot fired from across the street. A murdered blackmailer sets the stage for a mystery where everyone seems to be a sharpshooter. Original Air Date: October 31, 1949 Support the show monthly at https://patreon...

Let George Do It: Rose Petal Staircase 05.12.2025 36:20

Original Release Date: March 23, 2011 George gets a strange letter from a man who says he’s mailed him before, when George didn’t get the letter. Driven by curiosity, George heads out to a house that features two spinsters who care for a paralyzed man. George finds that his correspondent has died and decides to check into the case further. Original Air Date: October 24, 1949 Support the show month...

Let George Do It: Double Death 02.12.2025 32:54

Original Release Date: March 16, 2011 George is hired by a man to find his missing wife, but all the evidence George can find points to the man having murdered her. Original Air Date: October 17, 1949 Support the show monthly at https://patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at https://support.greatdetectives.net Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Ida...

Let George Do It: The Man Under the Elm Tree 28.11.2025 33:49

Original Release Date: March 9, 2011 George goes to a quiet college town, sent by a man who fears a lodger at his sister’s inn is up to no good. He finds an eccentric professor who seems to know something about the death of the lady’s husband. Original Air Date: September 26, 1949 Support the show monthly at https://patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at https://supp...

Let George Do It: The Coward 25.11.2025 32:21

Original Release Date: March 2, 2011 A series of shootings are tied to a 1942 massacre where one man’s betrayal led to 37 deaths. George has to find the coward-and the murderer. Original Air Date: September 19, 1949 Support the show monthly at https://patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at https://support.greatdetectives.net Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15...

Let George Do It: Valley Sunset 21.11.2025 33:46

Original 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 Support the show monthly at https://patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at https://support.greatdetectives.net Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913,...

Let George Do It: Everything is Nice 18.11.2025 33:58

Original Release Date: February 16, 2011 George 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, 1949 Support the show monthly at https://patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at https://support.greatdetectives.net Mail a donation to: Adam Graham...

Let George Do It: The End of Summer 14.11.2025 35:01

Original Release Date: February 9, 2011 George is called up to a house in the country where a man’s wife is missing as is a local doctor. The sister-in-law is suspicious and confused, while the husband is acting guilty. Original Air Date: August 29, 1949 Support the show monthly at https://patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at https://support.greatdetectives.net Mai...

Let George Do It: The Empress of Fishfalls 11.11.2025 33:17

Original Release Date: February 2, 2011 George, Lt. Riley, and Claire go on a fishing vacation, and end up fishing a murdered midget out of the water. In a town full of ex-circus people, who committed the crime? Original Air Date: August 22, 1949 Support the show monthly at https://patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at https://support.greatdetectives.net Mail a dona...

Let George Do It: The Problem with Joe Martin 07.11.2025 32:44

Original Release Date: January 26, 2011 George is dispatched by a South American insurance to pay a $10,000 settlement to a man who doesn’t respond to the company’s request. When George gets to the town, he finds betrayal and madness on the loose, and murder in the air. Original Air Date: August 15, 1949 Support the show monthly at https://patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-tim...

Let George Do It: One Chance at the World 04.11.2025 36:28

Original Release Date: January 19, 2011 George tries to help a man who was just released from prison understand the cause of his wife’s death. Then the man who accidentally hit his wife is shot and the man disappears. Original Air Date: August 8, 1949 Support the show monthly at https://patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at https://support.greatdetectives.net Mail a...

Let George Do It: The Perfect Alibi 31.10.2025 34:17

Original Release Date: January 12, 2011 The wife of a gangster who despises him, hires George to prove her husband innocent. Original Air Date: August 1, 1949 Support the show monthly at https://patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at https://support.greatdetectives.net Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715 Give us a call at 208-991-4783 Ta...

Let George Do It: Laura’s House 24.10.2025 31:36

Original Release Date: January 5, 2011 George and Brooksie are summoned to a house rumored to be haunted by a distraught woman who fears an evil house is influencing its owners. They arrive to find their client dead. Is it natural causes or murder? Original Air Date: July 25, 1949 Support the show monthly at https://patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at https://supp...

Let George Do It: The Next to Last Guest 16.10.2025 32:53

Original Release Date: December 29, 2010 An elderly man hires George to see to the distribution of his securities to his three heirs goes off without a hitch. George finds out quickly that things aren’t what they seem when one of the benficiaries commits suicide. Original Air Date: June 20, 1949 Support the show monthly at https://patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis a...

Let George Do It: Follow that Train 14.10.2025 31:11

Original Release Date: December 22, 2010 It’s Christmas and George gets a letter from a new client-a department store Santa Claus that wants him to solve the mystery of a missing electric train. But when Brooksie disappears, the case takes a more serious turn. Original Air Date: December 19, 1949 Support the show monthly at https://patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis...

Let George Do It: Serenade to the Southern Star 10.10.2025 32:55

Original Release Date: December 15, 2010 George is hired to go on a cruise ship under false pretenses, and finds himself left at port, with someone having already boarded the ship. Original Air Date: June 13, 1949 Support the show monthly at https://patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at https://support.greatdetectives.net Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 1591...

Let George Do It: Death in Blue Jeans 07.10.2025 34:15

Original Release Date: December 8, 2010 George arrives in a small California gold rush town where the librarian suspects the brother of the town’s patriarch of trying to poison him for a newly discovered treasure. Original Air Date: June 6, 1949 Support the show monthly at https://patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at https://support.greatdetectives.net Mail a donat...

Let George Do It: A Matter of Doubt 03.10.2025 36:15

Original Release Date: December 1, 2010 George investigates the case of a boy who told his mother that he tended the wounds of an injured man, only to claim he later made the whole thing up. The boy has had a long series of unfortunate “accidents” that his mother alarmed. Original Air Date: May 30, 1949 Support the show monthly at https://patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time...

Let George Do It: Stranger than Fiction 30.09.2025 32:16

Original Release Date: November 24, 2010 George isn’t interested when a woman wants to hire him to find out if her husband based a steamy protagonist in his novel on a real life mistress, but changes his mind when someone takes a shot at the husband/author. Original Air Date: May 23, 1949 Support the show monthly at https://patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at http...

Let George Do It: Come and Get Me 26.09.2025 33:41

Original Release Date: November 17, 2010 A little man hires George to prove him guilty of murder. Original Air Date: May 16, 1949 Support the show monthly at https://patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at https://support.greatdetectives.net Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715 Give us a call at 208-991-4783 Take the listener survey at ht...

Let George Do It: Vultures on the Wing 19.09.2025 35:15

Original Release Date: November 10, 2010 George is hired to guard $20,000 and pick up four paintings, but finds a collection of characters trying to stop him. Original Air Date: May 9, 1949 Support the show monthly at https://patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at https://support.greatdetectives.net Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715 Gi...

Let George Do It: Out of Mind 16.09.2025 32:18

Original Release Date: November 3, 2010 George is called in when a brother fears his sister is falling for a mentalist. Things take an odd turn when the mentalist is poisoned and two bottles of poison are missing. Original Air Date: May 2, 1949 Support the show monthly at https://patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at https://support.greatdetectives.net Mail a donati...

Let George Do It: Lady in Distress 12.09.2025 36:26

Original Release Date: October 27, 2010 With George out of town on a wild goose chase, Brooksie is tricked into impersonating a night club singer, and finds herself charged with murder. Original Air Date: April 25, 1949 Support the show monthly at https://patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at https://support.greatdetectives.net Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Bo...

Let George Do It: The Elusive One Hundred Grand 09.09.2025 33:26

Original Release Date: October 20, 2010 George goes to Nevada to help an actor with gambling debts make enough ona deal to pay off the syndicate. But getting the one hundred grand is not as hard as holding onto it. Original Air Date:April 18, 1949 Support the show monthly at https://patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at https://support.greatdetectives.net Mail a don...