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Bob Bailey & Virginia Gregg

Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio! A podcast featuring the best vintage detective radio programs. Each week from Monday through Saturday, we feature six of Old Time Radio's great detective series from the beginning of the show to its very last episode. And as a bonus, twice a month we also post a public domain movie or TV mystery or detective show video.

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EP0199: Sherlock Holmes: The Strange Case of The Murderer in Wax

Basil Rathbone

Scotland Yard calls Sherlock Holmes in to catch a serial killer who has killed ten young women.

Original Air Date: January 7, 1946

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EP0198: Let George Do It: The Corpse on a Caper

Bob Bailey

George is given a simple job. Deliver the body of a dead college student to her wealthy family in Mexico. Then the body disappears.

Original Air Date: January 10, 1949

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EP0197: Jeff Regan: The Man Who Lived by the Sea

Jack Webb

Jeff Regan is hired by a phony mind-reader to protect him from a woman he’s blackmailing, and then he’s pulled off the case without notice. 

Quote of the Show: “He looked unhappy-like someone had fed him a Vaseline Sandwich.”  

Original Air Date: December 18, 1948 

He looked unhappy-like someone had fed him a Vaseline Sandwich 
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EP0196: Box 13: Death is No Joke

A friend calls Dan in for help when someone is playing a lot of practical jokes on his horrid family, many of which have turned vicious. Dan’s afraid the punch line may be murder.

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Original Air Date: September 29, 1948

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EP0195: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Pearl Carassa Matter

Edmond O'Brien

Johnny Dollar’s job is to deliver a $5000 insurance payoff to the beneficiary of a murdered woman, but he founds himself being stalked and beaten. Why?

Original Air Date: April 25, 1950

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EP0194: Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Iron Box

Basil Rathbone

An eighty-four year-old Scottish Lord who because of being born February 29 has been waiting 63-years for the inheritance he should have gotten when he was 21 finds out he’ll have to wait a little longer, and then Holmes reports he was pushed out the window.

Original Air Date: December 31, 1945

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EP0193: Let George Do It: Murder and One to Go

Bob Bailey

A man sends George a $250 retainer to track down a forgotten silent film star, and before George can see him, turns up dead.

Original Air Date: January 3, 1949

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