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Great Radio Detectives
- Narrated by: Vincent Price, Bob Bailey, Dick Powell
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
- Radio/TV Program
- Release date: 10-23-15
- Language: English
- Publisher: Radio Spirits
Regular price: $27.99
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Publisher's Summary
Gunshots, fist fights, and footsteps in the dark! Come hear crime and mystery, action and suspense with radio's greatest detectives! Ten hours of bracing crime-stopping broadcasts bring you Sherlock Holmes, Sam Spade, The Saint, The Shadow, Johnny Dollar, Bulldog Drummond - and 14 more favorites! Vincent Price, Bob Bailey, Basil Rathbone, Howard Duff, Dick Powell, and more star in 20 tales that are hard boiled and heroic, brilliant and bloody.
Episodes include: Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator: Visitor at Midnight 05-12-55; Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar: The Meek Memorial Matter 03-03-57; The Shadow: Death on the Bridge 03-03-40; Nick Carter, Master Detective: Death in the Pines 03-04-44; Mr. and Mrs. North: The Norths Go To the Dogs 02-02-44; Candy Matson: The Egyptian Amulet 10-23-50; Bulldog Drummond: Death Rides a Racehorse 03-03-48; Boston Blackie: Kingston and the Disappearing Office Building 09-08-48; Sherlock Holmes: The Bruce Partington Plans 11-06-39; Pat Novak for Hire: Rubin Callaway's Pictures 03-13-49; Gang Busters: The Case of the Cowboy Killers 08-28-48; Dragnet: The Big Watch 05-25-54; The Saint: The Horrible Hamburger 09-10-50; The Falcon: The Case of the Widow's Gorilla 11-12-50; Night Beat: Flowers on the Water 03-27-50; Broadway's My Beat: The Bob Foster Murder Case 11-08-52; The Adventures of Sam Spade, Detective: The Queen Bee Caper 07-10-49; The Adventures of Philip Marlowe: The Uneasy Head 06-06-50; Michael Shayne: The Case of Tahlani's Tears 01-15-49; Richard Diamond, Private Detective: Central Park Murder 08-20-49.
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- J.Daily
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Great Radio Detectives
This is great entertainment, if you have never heard one of the old radio shows before you don't know what you are missing. The radio shows allows the listener to use their imagination and visualize the situations in their minds. It is a special experience...
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- craig e leonard
- 02-05-18
Time travel through enjoying old time detective radio
These are some of the best of the past radio shows. Enjoy the past. using your imagination.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful
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- Laura Ralph
- palmyra, new york
- 06-25-17
Entertaining Suspenseful Loveable bunch of Rogue
loved those ruff and tumble bunch of charming rogues & mugs. keep them coming sweetheart
6 of 7 people found this review helpful
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- Jennifer
- 03-06-16
Love it
My dad got me to liking to his generational programs such as theses and I really enjoy them.
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- Lee
- 08-27-18
Great Radio Detectives
I’d love more episodes of this series this is absolute magic. If you like oldies, this is the one.
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- linda
- 05-11-16
its awefull.
its really awefull, terrible quality sound, really old rubbish plots in yhe stories. I was so disaointed. no British stuff either
5 of 16 people found this review helpful