Episodios

  • Holmes for the Holiday: Two Christmas Mysteries
    Dec 21 2025
    As we get ready for Christmas, we bring you two original old time radio Christmas plays featuring Sherlock Holmes. First up is The Night Before Christmas.

    On Christmas, 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 the kids at a Christmas party.

    Original Air Date: December 24, 1945

    Originating from Hollywood

    Starring: Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes; Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson

    Next up is The Adventure of the Christmas Bride.

    Sherlock Holmes is invited to spend the holidays with a family that needs him to ensure that a family curse doesn't prevent a wedding from occurring.

    Original Air Date: December 21, 1947

    Originating from New York

    Starring: John Stanley as Sherlock Holmes; Alfred Shirley as Dr. Watson

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  • Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Haunted Bagpipes (EP0389)
    Dec 19 2025
    Original Release Date: April 22, 2011

    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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    36 m
  • Sherlock Holmes: The Strange Case of the Persecuted Millionaire (EP0384)
    Dec 16 2025
    Original Release Date: April 15, 2011

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

    Original Air Date: February 10, 1947

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    32 m
  • Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Dying Detective (EP0379)
    Dec 9 2025
    Original Release Date: April 8, 2011

    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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    35 m
  • Sherlock Holmes: The Singular Affair of the Babbling Butler (EP0374)
    Dec 5 2025
    Original Release Date: April 1, 2011

    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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    37 m
  • Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot (EP0369)
    Dec 2 2025
    Original Release Date: March 25, 2011

    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.

    Original Air Date: January 13, 1947

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    33 m
  • Sherlock Holmes: The Darlington Substitution Case (EP0364)
    Nov 28 2025
    Original Release Date: March 18, 2011

    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.

    Original Air Date: January 4, 1947

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    33 m
  • Sherlock Holmes: The Singular Affair of the White Cockerel (EP0359)
    Mar 10 2011
    Original Release Date: March 11, 2011

    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 stake.

    Original Air Date: December 28, 1946

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    34 m
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