The run
- Network
- Mutual
- Years active
- 1946–1951
- Surviving broadcasts
- 10
- Genre
- detective
The Casebook of Gregory Hood was created by Anthony Boucher and Denis Green, the writing team then working on Sherlock Holmes, and ran on Mutual from 1946 into the early 1950s. Hood was an importer whose travels supplied a fresh mystery each week. The surviving episodes here are public domain and stream from the Internet Archive.
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 6 years on the air, with 6 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. Case Of Three Silver Pecos · Date unknown
- 2. Derringer Society · Date unknown
- 3. Double Diamond · Date unknown
Case Of Three Silver Pecos
Date unknown · 28 min
The Casebook of Gregory Hood was created by Anthony Boucher and Denis Green, the writing team then working on Sherlock Holmes, and ran on Mutual from 1946 into the early 1950s.
Derringer Society
Date unknown · 29 min
The Casebook of Gregory Hood was created by Anthony Boucher and Denis Green, the writing team then working on Sherlock Holmes, and ran on Mutual from 1946 into the early 1950s.
Double Diamond
Date unknown · 26 min
The Casebook of Gregory Hood was created by Anthony Boucher and Denis Green, the writing team then working on Sherlock Holmes, and ran on Mutual from 1946 into the early 1950s.
Forgetful Murderer
Date unknown · 28 min
The Casebook of Gregory Hood was created by Anthony Boucher and Denis Green, the writing team then working on Sherlock Holmes, and ran on Mutual from 1946 into the early 1950s.
Suspect
Date unknown · 29 min
The Casebook of Gregory Hood was created by Anthony Boucher and Denis Green, the writing team then working on Sherlock Holmes, and ran on Mutual from 1946 into the early 1950s.
Murder in Celluloid
Date unknown · 28 min
The Casebook of Gregory Hood was created by Anthony Boucher and Denis Green, the writing team then working on Sherlock Holmes, and ran on Mutual from 1946 into the early 1950s.
South of Border
Date unknown · 29 min
The Casebook of Gregory Hood was created by Anthony Boucher and Denis Green, the writing team then working on Sherlock Holmes, and ran on Mutual from 1946 into the early 1950s.
Beeswax Candle
Date unknown · 28 min
The Casebook of Gregory Hood was created by Anthony Boucher and Denis Green, the writing team then working on Sherlock Holmes, and ran on Mutual from 1946 into the early 1950s.
Also on Mutual
Mutual in 1946–1951
Other series the network carried while The Casebook of Gregory Hood was on the air.
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.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of The Casebook of Gregory Hood
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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