The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Archives

A thief Johnny caught early in his days as an investigator is out and ready to claim the loot Johnny could never find. Original Air Date: May 22, 1960

Three men work as diamond cutters. One is stealing a diamond a day. How are they doing it as they're searched everyday and not allowed to leave the premises? Blackie sets out to find out. Original Air Date: May 7, 1946

A woman who looks awfully familiar asks Diamondâ??s help to find her husband while refusing to reveal either of their names. Original Air Date: June 21, 1950

Regan and the Lyon are hired by a wealthy man to find out to keep his hot rodding son out of trouble. Original Air Date: April 12, 1950

The owner of a book store which is selling a medieval satanic text is murdered. Original Air Date: July 24, 1950.

Friday and Bill Lockwood investigate a confidence man who has been scamming investors out of tens of thousands of dollars. Original Air Date: April 17, 1952

Johnny receives a call from his girlfriend Betty asking for her help but then calls her and she claims to know nothing about the call.

A psychiatrist friend of Blackieâ??s finds himself the prime suspect in the murder of a young woman and a target for blackmail. Original Air Date: April 30, 1946

Diamond goes to Cuba to obtain the location of $800,000 in stolen jewels from a fugitive waiting extradition. Original Air Date: June 14, 1950

The society writer husband of a wealthy woman is murdered. Original Air Date: September 27, 1951

After her husband dies in prison for a robbery where the money was never recovered, a scrub woman rents a luxury hotel suite. Original Air Date: July 17, 1950

A seven-week-old baby is abandoned in a bus terminal. Original Air Date: April 10, 1952

A wealthy man with seven previous wives calls Johnny in to protect his current wife, only for them to find sheâ??s been murdered. Original Air Date: May 8, 1960

Maryâ??s car is stolen. Original Air Date: April 23, 1946

A man who Diamond put in jail escapes and Diamond helps Walt track him down. Original Air Date: April 26, 1950

A wealthy spinster is murdered and suspicion falls on her family.

A has-been Shakespearean actor whose losing his mind assaults a producer who plots a twisted revenge, Randy has to unravel Original Air Date: July 10, 1950

Friday and Jacobs look for a woman who shot her husband. Original Air Date: April 3, 1952

Johnny investigates the death of a young inventor. Original Air Date: May 1, 1960

A baseball player tries to call Blackie before a game, and is then murdered in the middle of the game. Original Air Date: April 16, 1946

Diamond finds a messenger dead on his doorstep. Original Air Date: April 19, 1950

An arrogant Broadway star holds a party where both women heâ??s engaged to attend and they find out about each other. Twenty minutes later, the star was murdered. Original Air Date: September 13, 1951

While looking for a story, Randy meets a six-year-old boy looking for his mother with a $100 bill in his hands. Original Air Date: July 3, 1950

Sherlock Holmes lets Doctor Watson take the lead in investigating a missing person’s case involving the wife of retiree Josiah Amberly. Original Air Date: March 25, 1940

A teenage girl asks George to help a boy out of jail on a bum rap to avoid returning. Original Air Date: April 26, 1948

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. Original Air Date: April 23, 1949

A magician’s assistant asks Dan to protect her from being murdered in a trick involving a gun. Original Air Date: December 19, 1947

One of Moriarity’s henchman 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

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

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

Dan receives a book of poems by Sir Walter Scott that leads him to investigate a deadly arson. Original Air Date: December 12, 1947

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

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

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 wrap it around his shoulders and take it with him.” “Somebody had used to her badly, like a dictionary in a stupid family.”

Dan is directed to a park where he finds a precocious young girl with a confusing story and a note from her mother asking Dan to take care of her. Original Air Date: December 5, 1947

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

George Valentine is hired to reconcile two brothers, but when the dead body of a local gambling kingpen 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

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 Air Date: March 27, 1949 Get to enjoy the best in quality entertainment with Netflix. Try it free for two weeks. http://netflix.greatdetectives.net 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 elephant across a basketball court.”-Novak to Hellman.

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

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

George Valentine finds an old army buddy confined to a saniterium 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

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 hair was red, her eyes were as cold as rigamortis. And you knew the first time you met her that you’d been seeing her too often…She was as safe a tap dancer on a floor full of dynamite caps.

Dan receives a letter inviting him to a port and he’s knocked out, kidnapped, and made to spend days fishing at sea. Original Air Date: November 21, 1947

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

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

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, Hellman. Hellman: No, I’m not going to tell he’s dead, Novak. He might be a soft breather. Original Air Date: March 13, 1949