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The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

55 episodes · 1939–1947 · Mutual, NBC Blue · Detective

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Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce brought their movie Holmes and Watson to radio on October 2, 1939, and did 220 episodes together until May 1946. The show moved from the Blue Network to Mutual in 1943, when Denis Green and Anthony Boucher took over the writing; Petri Wine sponsored those seasons. Tom Conway replaced Rathbone that fall, and the series ran until June 14, 1950.

Sources: The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Wikipedia

Episodes

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19391 episode
  • The Bruce-Partington Plans November 6, 1939 · NBC Blue · 29 min
    From the first season: Holmes and Watson hunt for stolen submarine plans. From Doyle's story.
19402 episodes
  • The Retired Colourman March 11, 1940 · NBC Blue · 30 min
    A miser's wife and his money have both disappeared. From Doyle's story; the last show of the first season.
  • Copper Beeches October 6, 1940 · 27 min
    Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
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194525 episodes
  • The Book of Tobit March 26, 1945 · Mutual · 30 min
    A beautiful woman whose husbands keep dying, and a warning from the Book of Tobit. Holmes takes a wife.
  • The Amateur Mendicant Society April 2, 1945 · Mutual · 30 min
    Rich eccentrics who like to dress as beggars hire Holmes when one of them is murdered, and a time bomb points to a plot against the Prime Minister.
  • The Viennese Strangler April 9, 1945 · Mutual · 26 min
    A blackmailer is murdered at the Vienna boarding house where Holmes and Watson are staying. Which guest did it?
  • The Notorious Canary Trainer April 23, 1945 · Mutual · 27 min
    A man confesses to murder and kills himself, but there are no bodies, only two dead canaries.
  • Unfortunate Tobacconist April 30, 1945 · 26 min
    Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
  • The Purloined Ruby May 7, 1945 · Mutual · 30 min
    Holmes and Watson are at a play about Sherlock Holmes when a gem goes missing. Moriarty is back.
  • In Flanders Fields May 14, 1945 · Mutual · 33 min
    Just before the Battle of the Marne in 1914, Holmes performs Shakespeare and foils a German spy. Broadcast from the Paramount Theatre in Hollywood as a benefit for the Seventh War Loan.
  • The Paradol Chamber May 21, 1945 · Mutual · 26 min
    Moriarty traps Holmes and Watson in a strange chamber, and Mrs. Watson comes to the rescue.
  • The Limping Ghost September 3, 1945 · Mutual · 28 min
    The first show of the season. The Lochnair ghost walks again, as it always does before a death in the family.
  • Colonel Warburton's Madness September 10, 1945 · 37 min
    Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
  • The Out-of-Date Murder September 17, 1945 · Mutual · 32 min
    Holmes finds the mummified body of a man killed in 1777 in a hidden cave, and his skill with bird calls flushes out a modern murderer.
  • The Eyes of Mr. Leyton September 24, 1945 · Mutual · 33 min
    In Limehouse, a dying man whispers one word: Mandalay.
  • The Problem of Thor Bridge October 1, 1945 · Mutual · 32 min
    A wife is found shot, and the woman she suspected of stealing her husband is charged with murder.
  • The Vanishing Elephant October 8, 1945 · Mutual · 29 min
    In India, a maharajah's sacred white elephant vanishes, and Holmes finds a murderer he can't bring to justice.
  • The Great Gandolfo October 22, 1945 · Mutual · 29 min
    Mycroft bets Sherlock he can catch a spy first, and the trail leads to a music-hall magician.
  • Murder by Moonlight October 29, 1945 · Mutual · 29 min
    Poison strikes an Indian noblewoman aboard a steamship, despite her food taster.
  • The Fifth of November November 5, 1945 · Mutual · 30 min
    A Guy Fawkes Day adventure with plenty of action.
  • The Speckled Band November 12, 1945 · Mutual · 30 min
    A young woman fears the bedroom where her sister died.
  • The Adventure of the Double Zero November 19, 1945 · Mutual · 32 min
    Murder at a casino in the south of France, and a second killing follows. The clue is at the roulette table.
  • The Case of the Accidental Murderess November 26, 1945 · Mutual · 29 min
    Broadcast from the Paramount Theatre in Hollywood for a Victory Bond benefit. Holmes is shot, but was it an accident?
  • Murder in the Casbah December 3, 1945 · Mutual · 29 min
    The search for a missing man takes Holmes and Watson to Algeria.
  • A Scandal in Bohemia December 10, 1945 · Mutual · 30 min
    Holmes meets his match in Irene Adler.
  • Second Generation December 17, 1945 · 25 min
    Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
  • The Night Before Christmas December 24, 1945 · Mutual · 27 min
    A Christmas story with two Santas, one of them a henchman of Moriarty's.
  • The Iron Box December 31, 1945 · Mutual · 28 min
    A cask of gold in a Scottish castle, and an old baronet pushed into the moat.
194622 episodes
  • The Strange Case of the Murder in Wax January 7, 1946 · Mutual · 29 min
    Broadcast from Camp Roberts, California. Ten women have been killed on Hampstead Heath, and Holmes spends the night in a waxworks chamber of horrors.
  • Murder in the Himalayas January 14, 1946 · Mutual · 30 min
    While the world thinks he died at Reichenbach Falls, Holmes, traveling in disguise, solves the murder of a Tibetan monk.
  • The Telltale Pigeon Feathers January 21, 1946 · Mutual · 32 min
    Mycroft puts Sherlock on a spy's trail, and Watson is arrested for murder.
  • The Demon Barber January 28, 1946 · Mutual · 29 min
    An actor playing Sweeney Todd is found with his throat cut.
  • The Guileless Gypsy February 11, 1946 · Mutual · 29 min
    At a gypsy camp, Holmes and Watson find kidnapping, attempted murder, and a girl who gives her life for Holmes.
  • The Camberwell Poisoner February 18, 1946 · Mutual · 30 min
    Four cousins are sure cousin Gerald means to murder them all for the inheritance, until Gerald is the one found dead. Based on Doyle's "The Five Orange Pips."
  • Indiscretion of Mr. Edwards February 24, 1946 · 32 min
    Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs doesn't list this date, but lists the same title on February 4, 1946.
  • The Terrifying Cats February 25, 1946 · Mutual · 29 min
    A murder at the opera. Eric Snowdon fills in for Nigel Bruce as Watson.
  • The Submarine Caves March 4, 1946 · Mutual · 30 min
    On a Channel island, Holmes tries to secure the underground caves for the Crown and meets a murderess who dares him to stop her.
  • The Adventure of the Living Doll March 11, 1946 · Mutual · 29 min
    A girl's life is in danger, and a dying woman's only clue is a sixpence.
  • The Adventure of the Blarney Stone March 18, 1946 · Mutual · 29 min
    A St. Patrick's Day murder at Blarney Castle.
  • The Girl with the Gazelle March 25, 1946 · Mutual · 28 min
    Moriarty again, and a painting stolen from a sealed room.
  • The April Fool's Day Adventure April 1, 1946 · Mutual · 29 min
    A practical joke on Holmes works, but an emerald is stolen anyway. An early case and the first round against Moriarty.
  • The Disappearing Scientists April 8, 1946 · Mutual · 29 min
    A scientist studying radium is murdered, his three assistants vanish, and Holmes solves it without meeting a suspect.
  • The Headless Monk April 15, 1946 · Mutual · 28 min
    A haunted chapel and an organ that plays a hymn to murder.
  • The Tankerville Club April 22, 1946 · Mutual · 29 min
    A sealed deck of cards turns out to be marked, and Holmes stops a duel.
  • The Waltz of Death April 29, 1946 · Mutual · 32 min
    In Vienna, a waltz kills a beautiful woman every time it's played.
  • The Man with the Twisted Lip May 6, 1946 · Mutual · 29 min
    A husband and father vanishes from an opium den, and a disfigured beggar is the only clue. From Doyle's story. One of Rathbone's last broadcasts as Holmes.
  • Strange Adventure of the Uneasy Easy Chair May 13, 1946 · 31 min
    Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
  • The Haunting of Sherlock Holmes May 20, 1946 · Mutual · 29 min
    Holmes defends a singer accused of spying. Joseph Kearns plays Watson.
  • The Singular Affair of the Baconian Cipher May 27, 1946 · Mutual · 29 min
    The last Holmes broadcast with Basil Rathbone: an agony-column notice leads to a Shakespeare scholar and a murder.
  • Adventure of the Uneasy Chair May 31, 1946 · 29 min
19472 episodes
  • The Haunted Bagpipes February 17, 1947 · 29 min
    Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
  • Queue for Murder March 3, 1947 · 30 min
    Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.