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EP0527: Rogue’s Gallery: The Janice Kroll Murder

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Rouge investigates the murder of a woman at the request of her teacher sister.

Original Air Date: November 15, 1950

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EP0489: Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Iron Maiden

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 06:01:31 +0000

While visiting Nuremburg, the curator of a black museum asks Holmes to investigate anonymous letters attacking him. While touring the museum, a body is found in the iron maiden.< Read more ...

EP0484: Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Innocent Murderess

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 06:01:52 +0000

A woman bursts into 221B Baker street and shoots a foreign emissary staying with Holmes. Holmes and Watson testify against the woman, but then have to scramble to find what reall Read more ...

EP0479: Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Speckled Band

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 06:01:18 +0000

A young woman who is engaged to be married comes to Holmes because she is afraid that she'll share the fate of her sister and die before her wedding.

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EP0474: Sherlock Holmes: Death in the North Sea

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 06:01:12 +0000

The widow of a murdered older man hires Holmes to prove her love (and the dead man's business partner) innocent of his killing.

Original Air Date: June 16, 1947

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EP0469: Sherlock Holmes: Murder in the Locked Room

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 06:01:07 +0000

A mystery writer comes up with an idea for a locked room mystery while drunk, but forgets the solution. He goes to Holmes and tricks him into providing the solution. He then wind Read more ...

EP0464: Sherlock Holmes: The Red Headed League

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 06:01:33 +0000

Holmes and Watson investigate a mysterious league for red headed men that hired a local shopkeeper to copy pages from the encyclopedia and then discontinued his services.

EP0459: Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Submerged Baronet

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 06:01:34 +0000

Holmes and Watson witness an apparent accidential drowning, but Holmes suspects homicide. But how can he prove it?

Original Air Date: May 26, 1947

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EP0454: Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Harley Street Murders

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 06:01:37 +0000

Doctors are being murdered on Harley Street and Holmes thinks Moriarity is involved.

Original Air Date: May 19, 1947

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EP0449: Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 06:01:40 +0000

A respectable Englishman finds himself mixed up in a murder after his host ends up dead and turns to Holmes for help.

Original Air Date: May 12, 1947

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EP0444: Sherlock Holmes: The Remarkable Affair of the Pointless Robbery

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 06:01:01 +0000

While in retirement, Sherlock Holmes investigates a seemingly random burglary of the local vicar's home but finds something far more sinister is afoot.

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EP0439: Sherlock Holmes: The Island of Death

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 06:01:07 +0000

A psychologist hires four circus sideshow performers to head to a desserted Island off of Scotland.

Original Air Date: April 28, 1947

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EP0434: Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Lion’s Mane

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 06:01:02 +0000

While retired, Sherlock Holmes investigates the murder of a school teacher.

Original Air Date: April 21, 1947

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EP0429: Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Carpathian Horror

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 06:01:30 +0000

Holmes is hired by a count with a family history shrouded in mystery who fears he's going insane.

Original Air Date: April 14, 1947

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EP0424: Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Tolling Bell

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 06:01:21 +0000

While on vacation in a rural village, Holmes investigates the disappearance of a local woman's son.

Original Air Date: April 7, 1947

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EP0419: Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of Maltree Abbey

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 06:01:08 +0000

Sherlock Holmes is called in by a woman who hopes that a song will save her family's estate.

Original Air Date: March 31, 1947

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EP0416: I Deal in Crime: The Abigail Murray Case

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Mon, 30 May 2011 06:15:42 +0000

Ross Dolan is hired to guard a New England matron as she travels across town. She needs protection as someone shoots in them and a dead body is found in the truck.< Read more ...

EP0414: Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Scarlet Worm

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 26 May 2011 06:01:34 +0000

Watson goes undercover to catch a femme fatale, but will he have the heart to trap her.

Original Air Date: March 24, 1947

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EP0411: I Deal in Crime: The William A. Davis Case

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Mon, 23 May 2011 06:01:38 +0000

Ross Dolan is hired to bring back his client's runaway 17-year old daughter, but someone doesn't want her found.

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EP0409: Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Creeping Man

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 19 May 2011 06:01:56 +0000

A startling change in a college professor including the professor's wolf hound attacking him.

Original Air Date: March 17, 1947

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EP0406: I Deal in Crime: Bodyguard to Laura Shields

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Mon, 16 May 2011 06:01:32 +0000

Ross Dolan, just returned from service in World War II gets a job from a woman who wants to protect her from killing her husband.

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EP0404: Sherlock Holmes: The Singular Affair of the Egyptian Curse

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 12 May 2011 06:01:21 +0000

Holmes and Watson investigate a case where several deaths revolve around a purported Egyptian curse.

Original Air Date: March 10, 1947

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EP0399: Sherlock Holmes: Queue for Murder

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 05 May 2011 06:01:37 +0000

A dead man in an opioum den leads to a dead doctor and then a headless corpse.

Original Air Date: March 3, 1947

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EP0394: Sherlock Holmes: The Horseless Carriage

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 06:01:27 +0000

Holmes is hired to guard a car from sabotage before an endurance race.

Original Air Date: February 24, 1947

EP0389: Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Haunted Bagpipes

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 06:01:30 +0000

Holmes and Watson head to Edinburgh to investigate a report of haunted tenements involving the devil and a bagpiper.

Original Air Date: February 17, 1947

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Long-Running Soaps Scrubbed

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 01:32:58 +0000

ABC announced this week that two of its long-running soap operas, "One Life to Live" and "All My Children" will be cancelled, one in September and the other in January. One Life to Live has been on the air for 44 years, and All My Chi Read more ...

EP0384: Sherlock Holmes: The Strange Case of the Persecuted Millionaire

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 06:01:22 +0000

Sherlock Holmes is hired by a millionaire who is receiving death threats.

Original Air Date: February 10, 1947

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EP0379: Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Dying Detective

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 06:01:35 +0000

Watson is summoned by Mrs. Hudson to the flat of an ailing Sherlock Holmes, who refuses medical care and tells Watson he's dying.

Original Air Date: February 3, 1947

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EP0374: Sherlock Holmes: The Singular Affair of the Babbling Butler

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 06:01:30 +0000

The butler of a playwright who has satirized Holmes comes to Holmes for helping fearing his master is about to kill him.

Original Air Date: January 27, 1947

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EP0369: Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 07:01:11 +0000

Also known as the Cornish horror. While recovering from a convalescence, Holmes has to solve a bizarre murder that local legend would seem to blame on the devil.

EP0364: Sherlock Holmes: The Darlington Substitution Case

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 07:01:20 +0000

Early in his career and desperate for a case, Holmes accepts as a job as a bodyguard to an unlikable man who turns out to be blackmailer.

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EP0359: Sherlock Holmes: The Singular Affair of the White Cockerel

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 07:01:26 +0000

While Sherlock Holmes is retired on his bee farm, he is asked to investigate a missing chicken. He finds the case is far more serious than first thought as a human life is at sta Read more ...

EP0354: Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Grand Old Man

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 07:01:21 +0000

Sherlock Holmes needs to ensure that a dying elderly playwrite isn't murdered, and to help him find the living relatives of the man whose play he stole.

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EP0349: Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Elusive Emerald

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 07:01:13 +0000

Sherlock Holmes is hired by the family of a duchess who claim she is a kleptomaniac. The duchess denies it, but Holmes follows her and the r Read more ...

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

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 07:01:17 +0000

In order to distract Holmes, so he can steal a valuable jewel, Moriarty plants a fascinating murder in Holmes flat.

Original Air Date: December 7, 1946

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EP0339: Sherlock Holmes: The Strange Death of Mrs. Abernathy

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 07:01:17 +0000

Sherlock Holmes investigates the death of a country matriarch in a house where everyone has a motive. The key clue? Parsley.

Original Air Date: November 30, 1946

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EP0334: Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Sally Martin

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 07:01:17 +0000

Holmes and Watson investigate the murder of the owner of a ship.

Original Air Date: November 23, 1946

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EP0329: Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Genuine Gunarius

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 07:01:36 +0000

Sherlocks Holmes helps a famous singer who is being blacmailed. When he shows up to collect his fee, he finds his client dead.

Original Air Date: November 2, 1946

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EP0324: Sherlock Holmes: The Singular Affair of the Dying Schoolboys

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 07:15:45 +0000

A man hires Holmes to investigate the death of his young brother at an exclusive boarding school run by an odd doctor.

Original Air Date: November 9, 1946

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EP0319: Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Original Hamlet

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 07:01:02 +0000

A man who is nearly run over by a carriage tells Watson that he's being haunted by a ghost.

Original Air Date: November 2, 1946

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EP0314: Sherlock Holmes: The Clue of the Hungry Cat

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 07:01:31 +0000

A man is convicted of murdering a woman, but Holmes believes otherwise when he founds the victim's cat wasn't fed.

Original Air Date: October 26, 1946

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EP0309: Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Black Angus

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 07:01:42 +0000

A son of a Scottish Lord breaks off his engagement and the jilted bride hires Holmes to find out the reason why. Holmes and Watson find themselves involved a mystery involv Read more ...

EP0277: Adventures of Nero Wolfe: The Last Laugh Murder

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 06:01:28 +0000

Nero Wolfe attempts to deduce the details of a passerby's life. The man denies all of Wolfe's deductions, and after he leaves, Wolfe concludes h Read more ...

EP0087: Pat Novak for Hire: Little Jake Siegel

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 06:01:19 +0000

An altar boy is shot and killed in a church saving Novak's life. Novak's goal: get the killer.

Original Air Date: June 26, 1949

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EP0082: Pat Novak for Hire: Joe Dineen

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 06:01:59 +0000

Two men kidnap Pat Novak from a wrestling match and demand he take them to a man Novak doesn't know by the name of Joe Dineen.

Original Air Date: June 19, 1949

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EP0077: Pat Novak for Hire: Georgie Lampson

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:01:17 +0000

Novak is hired by an old flame and finds himself once again, in the thick of a murder investigation.

Original Air Date: June 12, 1949

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EP0072: Pat Novak: Agnes Bolton

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 06:01:32 +0000

Pat Novak hired to follow a woman, and while he's doing it, she drops dead in a phone book and once again Hellman puts the finger on Novak.

Original Air Date: June 5, 1949

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EP0067: Pat Novak for Hire: Give Envelope to John St. John

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 06:01:13 +0000

A dying man gives Novak an envelope with the mission to deliver it to John St. John.

Original Air Date: May 22, 1949

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EP0062: Pat Novak for Hire: The Geranium Plant

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 06:01:36 +0000

Pat Novak's hired to deliver a geranium. He's hit by a car after the pick-up and that's just the start of his trouble.

Original Air Date: May 14, 1949

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EP0059: Sherlock Holmes: Mrs. Warren’s Key

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 06:01:45 +0000

Sherlock Holmes investigates a mysterious lodger.

Original Air Date: December 7, 1941

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EP0057: Pat Novak for Hire: Wendy Morris

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 06:01:44 +0000

Pat Novak is hired by an attorney to keep an eye on a woman whose husband has returned from the Navy. The Attorney alleges the husband is an imposter.
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EP0054: Sherlock Holmes: The Copper Beeches

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 06:01:47 +0000

A young woman consults with Sherlock Holmes when she's offered a position as a governess with some strange conditions attached.

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EP0052: Pat Novak for Hire: Rita Malloy

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 06:01:38 +0000

A gunsol steals a boat from Pat Novak, and winds up dead, and when Novak goes to the Hotel he finds a nightclub singer dead. As usual, Hellman's ready to pin the crime on Novak.
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EP0049: Sherlock Holmes: The Retired Colourman (Rathbone-Bruce)

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 06:01:24 +0000

Sherlock Holmes lets Doctor Watson take the lead in investigating a missing person's case involving the wife of retiree Josiah Amberly.

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EP0047: Pat Novak for Hire: Sam Toliver

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 06:01:43 +0000

Pat Novak does a favor for a friend out of prison and picks up a package. He returns to his office to find a cop standing over a dead body.

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EP0042: Pat Novak for Hire: Shirt Mix Up at the Laundry

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 06:01:15 +0000

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 b Read more ...

EP0039: The Bruce Partington Plans (Rathbone-Bruce Version)

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 06:01:30 +0000

Sherlock Holmes' brother Mycroft calls on Holmes to help find stolen top secret papers relating to submarine plans.

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EP0037: Pat Novak: Father Lahey

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:01:50 +0000

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.

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EP0032: Pat Novak: Joe Condano

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 06:01:03 +0000

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.

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EP0027: Pat Novak for Hire: Rory Malone

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 06:01:32 +0000

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.

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EP0022: Pat Novak: Rubin Calloway’s Pictures

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:01:41 +0000

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.

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EP0019: Sherlock Holmes: Murder by Proxy

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:01:32 +0000

Sherlock Holmes investigates a case of disappearing cadavers.

Original Air Date: Sometime in 1935, though it may have been 1933. Who knows?

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EP0017: Pat Novak for Hire: Fleet Lady

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:01:48 +0000

Pat Novak's hired to find a horse, and he finds the horse and a dead body.

Original Air Date: March 6, 1949

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EP0014: Sherlock Holmes: The Hebraic Breastplate

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:01:55 +0000

Holmes investigates a mystery surrounding a relic dating back to the time of King Solomon.

Original Air Date: November 11, 1934

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EP0012: Pat Novak for Hire: Marcia Halpern

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:01:54 +0000

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EP0007: Pat Novak for Hire: The Jack of Clubs

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:01:08 +0000

When Pat Novak finds $1000 depsited in his bank account and a beautiful woman who wants him to find a Jack of Clubs, he runs into murder.

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