The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 1

Original Release Date: December 25, 2009 Johnny Dollar is called in to investigate a series of thefts in the department store. When a store detective is shot, the case takes on a more menacing turn. Original Air Date: December 24, 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: Ad...

Original Release Date: December 24, 2009 One of Moriarity’s henchmen switches Christmas sacks with Dr. Watson when both are dressed as Santa Claus. Sherlock Holmes has to catch the thief and save Watson and his Christmas party. Original Air Date: December 24, 1945 Support the show monthly at  https://patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at  https://support.greatdetectiv...

Original Release Date: December 23, 2009 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...

Original Release Date: December 22, 2009 When Pat Novak gets the wrong bundle at the laundry, he tries to switch with the man who was given his shirts. Novak is knocked out and wakes up next to a dead body. Par for the course, Hellman suspects him of murder. Original Air Date: April 9, 1949 Quotes: You’re not going to make any more headway than a hummingbird in a wind tunnel. Novak (to Hellman): Y...

Original Air Date: December 21, 2009 Dan receives a book of poems in Box 13 that takes him back to a fire he covered ten years ago when working for the Star-Times. Original Air Date: March 3, 1948 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 8...

Original Release Date: December 18, 2009 Johnny Dollar is sent to protect an actresses legs as part of a publicity policy. He arrives to find her murdered and him the prime suspect. Original Air Date: April 15, 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...

Release Date: December 17, 2009 Sherlock Holmes’ brother Mycroft calls on Holmes to help find stolen top secret papers relating to submarine plans. Original Air Date: November 6, 1939 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...

Original Release Date: December 16, 2009 George is hired by a bird watcher who thinks he spotted a man pushing another off the roof. Original Air Date: April 19, 1948 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...

Release Date: December 15, 2009 A priest hires Pat Novak to intercept an escaping convict. However, when Novak allows the convict to make an unplanned stop, trouble of the lethal kind ensues. Original Air Date: April 2, 1949 Quotes: “Your men couldn’t follow a moose through a revolving door.”-Novak to Hellman “You got a funny feeling that he didn’t walk into the night, that he was big enough to wr...

Original Release Date: December 14, 2009 Dan Holiday goes to a park and finds himself taking care of a young child who seems to be confused about who her mother is. Original Air Date: February 25, 1948 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, Id...

Original Release Date: December 11, 2009 Johnny Dollar heads to London in search of a rare stolen painting. Original Air Date: April 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 Take the listener su...

Original Release Date: December 10, 2009 Sherlock Holmes (played by Orson Welles) seeks to reclaim letters being used as blackmail and foil the plans of Professor Moriarity. Original Air Date: September 25, 1938 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,...

Original Release Date: December 9, 2009 George Valentine is hired to reconcile two brothers, but when the dead body of a local gambling kingpin is found in the missing brother’s apartment, the mission takes on a new sense of urgency, as George must find the brother before the dead kingpin’s gang does. Original Air Date: April 12, 1948 Support the show monthly at  https://patreon.greatdetectives.ne...

Original Release Date: December 8, 2009 After being hired to pay off a beautiful woman’s brother’s gambling debt, Novak finds himself next to a dead body with Inspector Hellman on the way up. Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 27, 1949 Quotes: “I’ve run across better people in sewers.” “You can’t add a pair of zeroes without crib notes.”-Novak to Hellman. “Stop posing. You couldn’t follow an ele...

Original Release Date: December 7, 2009 Dan Holiday fills in for a vertically challenged Private Detective to guard the son of a dead man who relatives fear might commit suicide. Original Air Date: February 18, 1948 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...

Original Air Date: December 4, 2009 Johnny Dollar has to keep a young man from committing suicide and costing his insurance company $2 million. The benficiary on the policy: a ruthless gambler who the young man owes big money to. Original Broadcast: March 25, 1949 Support the show monthly at  https://patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at  https://support.greatdetectiv...

Original Release Date: December 3, 2009 Confined to 221B Baker Street, Sherlock Holmes gets a mystery he can solve in his own backyard when a neighbor is shot to death, and Holmes and Watson see her nephew flee the scene of the crime. Original Air Date: June 6, 1936 Support the show monthly at  https://patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at  https://support.greatdetect...

Original Release Date: November 2, 2009 George Valentine finds an old army buddy confined to a sanitarium after an alleged explosion in Egypt. George’s suspicions are aroused when someone takes a shot at him and Brooksie. Original Air Date: April 5, 1948 Support the show monthly at  https://patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at  https://support.greatdetectives.net Mai...

Release Date: December 1, 2009 Pat Novak gets an offer for $300 from a beautiful woman to stay away from boxer Rory Malone, and $300 from Malone’s manager. Whichever side he ends up on, it’s going to be trouble. Original Air Date: March 20, 1949 Quote of the Show: She was a lovely girl. The sort of person you expected to see in a Choir loft-about three hours after choir practice had ended. Her hai...

Original Release Date: November 30, 2009 Dan Holiday answers a letter in Box 13 and finds himself kidnapped and fishing at sea. Original Air Date: February 11, 1948 Support the show monthly at  https://patreon.greatdetectives.net 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 Gra...

Release Date: November 27, 2009 Johnny Dollar heads out to investigate a series of accidents at a carnival, only to find that murder is on the agenda. Original Broadcast: March 11, 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 u...

Original Release Date: November 26, 2009 While on vacation in Cornwall, Holmes and Watson find themselves in a mystery that has led to unexplained madness in one case and unexplained death in another. Original Air Date: May 30, 1936 Support the show monthly at  https://patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show monthly at  https://patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis...

Original Release Date: November 25, 2009 George Valentine gets a lot more than he bargained for when he helps a woman with a lost pearl when she steals his wallet. When George tries to get his wallet back he comes face to face with a big gun and an international smuggling conspiracy. Original Air Date: October 3, 1947 Support the show monthly at  https://patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the sho...

Original Release Date: November 24, 2009 Pat Novak comes across a man tossed in the bay, who gives him the key to a bus locker. A woman pays him $200 to bring her the contents of the locker. Quotes: “It was like washing your kid’s face and finding out he was ugly to begin with.”-Pat Novak “You couldn’t strike oil in a filling station.”-Pat Novak Novak: And you’re going to tell me he’s dead, Hellma...

Original Release Date: November 23, 2009 A newspaper boy asks Dan Holiday to help him free his father, who has been charged as an accessory in a Jewelry Story Robbery. Original Air Date: February 4, 1948 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,...