A SHERLOCK HOLMES CHRISTMAS CAROL, Radio Shows with Basil Rathbone & Orson Welles
Syndicated
Syndicated · 1940–1950
39 EpisodesWeeklyPGSince 1940
The run
- Network
- Syndicated
- Years active
- 1940–1950
- Surviving broadcasts
- 39
- Genre
- detective
Featuring sensational radio shows of- – A Christmas Carol (Campbell Playhouse) stars Orson Welles & Lionel Barrymore – The Night Before Christmas (New Advs of Sherlock Holmes) stars Basil Rathbone & Nigel Bruce – The Games Afoot - Sherlock Holmes Radio History (6 ep.) – First extant Sherlock Holmes radio broadcasts (6 ep.) – Sherlock Holmes V Dracula – Orson Welles Wartime Radio – & more. Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “SherlockHolmesChristmas”; these recordings are in the public domain.
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
0 dated broadcasts across 11 years on the air, with 11 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from NaN, in original transmission order.
- 1. 82-04-02 (1310), The Naval Treaty · Date unknown
- 2. Ep 3. The Boscombe Valley Mystery. (66-12-12) · Date unknown
- 3. We Hold These Truths (41-12-15) · Date unknown
82-04-02 (1310), The Naval Treaty
Date unknown · 49 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Ep 3. The Boscombe Valley Mystery. (66-12-12)
Date unknown · 26 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
We Hold These Truths (41-12-15)
Date unknown · 59 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
The Hound of the Baskervilles - Ep 01
Date unknown · 56 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
The Final Problem, 32-05-19 (069)
Date unknown · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Stage Play Scenes (35-11-18, episode 55)
Date unknown · 9 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
82-11-25 (1396), The Reigate Mystery
Date unknown · 50 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Ep 2. The Red Headed League. (54-10-19)
Date unknown · 23 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on Syndicated
Syndicated in 1940–1950
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Same seasons
detective on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The private eye at the microphone
First-person narration, a case that walks in the door, and a city that talks back. Marlowe, Sam Spade and Johnny Dollar turned detection into a listening form.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
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