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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ABC, Pat Novak for Hire, Podcast

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

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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): You couldn’t track down a live bear in a telephone booth.

Hellman: I’ll make a try on you, Mister. And when I’m through there’ll be enough to put you in that gas chamber.

Novak: They could save money and do the same thing.

Hellman: Huh?

Novak: They can lock me in the same closet with you.

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Box 13, Podcast

EP0041: Box 13: Book of Poems

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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

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EP0040: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Case of the $100,000 Legs

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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

ABC, Podcast, Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Old Time Radio

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

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

Original Air Date: November 6, 1939

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Let George Do It, Mutual, Podcast

EP0038: Let George Do It: The Penthouse Roof

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George is hired by a bird watcher who thinks he spotted a man pushing another off the roof.

Original Air Date: April 19, 1948

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