The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (radio 1939-1946)
From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is an American radio series broadcasted on NBC network from 2 october 1939 to 27 may 1946, starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes, Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson (replaced by Eric Snowden and Joseph Kearns) and Louis Hector as Professor Moriarty.
From october 1943, the show has been renamed : The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Announcers : Knox Manning (seasons 1-5), Harry Bartell (6)
- Writers : Edith Meiser (1-5); Denis Green & Anthony Boucher (6)
- Producers : Harold Kemp (1, 4, 5 & 6), Tom McKnight (2 & 3)
- Music : Lou Coslowe (1-5), Dean Fosler (6)
- Sponsors : Bromo Quinine (1-3), Petri Wine (4-6)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Season 1
WJZ-NBC (NBC Blue) on Mondays 8.30-9pm
1939
- 01. The Sussex Vampire (2 october 1939)
- 02. Silver Blaze (9 october 1939)
- 03. The Speckled Band (16 october 1939)
- 04. The Man with the Twisted Lip (23 october 1939)
- 05. The Devil's Foot (30 october 1939)
- 06.
The Bruce-Partington Plans (6 november 1939) - 07. The Lion's Mane (13 november 1939)
- 08. The Dying Detective (20 november 1939)
- 09. The Creeping Man (27 november 1939)
- 10. Charles Augustus Milverton (4 december 1939)
- 11. The Musgrave Ritual (11 december 1939)
- 12. Wisteria Lodge (18 december 1939)
- 13. The Three Garridebs (25 december 1939)
1940
- 14. The Blue Carbuncle (1st january 1940)
- 15. The Priory School (8 january 1940)
- 16. The Greek Interpreter (15 january 1940)
- 17. The Cardboard Box (22 january 1940)
- 18. The Second Stain (29 january 1940)
- 19. Abbey Grange (5 february 1940)
- 20. Shoscombe Old Place (12 february 1940)
- 21. The Blanched Soldier (19 february 1940)
- 22. The Reigate Squires (26 february 1940)
- 23. The Beryl Coronet (4 march 1940)
- 24. The Retired Colourman (11 march 1940)
Season 2
WJZ-NBC (NBC Blue) on Sundays 8.30-9pm
- 01. The Empty House (29 september 1940)
- 02. The Copper Beeches (6 october 1940)
- 03. The Noble Bachelor (13 october 1940)
- 04. The Engineer's Thumb (20 october 1940)
- 05. The Red-Headed League (27 october 1940)
- 06. Thor Bridge (3 november 1940)
- 07. The Crooked Man (10 november 1940)
- 08. The Norwood Hills Mystery (17 november 1940)
- 09. The Three Students (24 november 1940)
- 10. The Dancing Men (1st december 1940)
- 11. Black Peter (8 december 1940)
- 12. The Lost Naval Treaty (15 december 1940)
- 13. The Boscombe Valley Mystery (22 december 1940)
- 14. The Missing Three-Quarter (29 december 1940)
1941
- 15. The Mazarin Stone (5 january 1941)
- 16. The Hound of the Baskervilles 1/6 (12 january 1941)
- 17. The Hound of the Baskervilles 2/6 (19 january 1941)
- 18. The Hound of the Baskervilles 3/6 (26 january 1941)
- 19. The Hound of the Baskervilles 4/6 (2 february 1941)
- 20. The Hound of the Baskervilles 5/6 (9 february 1941)
- 21. The Hound of the Baskervilles 6/6 (16 february 1941)
- 22. The Resident Patient (The Chess Club Murders) (23 february 1941)
- 23. The Speckled Band (2 march 1941)
- 24. Shoscombe Old Place (9 march 1941)
Season 3
WEAF-NBC / Blue on Sundays 10.30-11pm
- 01. The Illustrious Client (5 october 1941)
- 02. The Six Napoleons (12 october 1941)
- 03. The Devil's Foot (19 october 1941)
- 04. The Solitary Cyclist (26 october 1941)
- 05. The Walking Corpse (2 november 1941)
- 06. The Stockbroker's Clerk (9 november 1941)
- 07. The Missing Papers (16 november 1941)
- 08. The Magician (23 november 1941)
- 09. A Case of Identity (30 november 1941)
- 10. Mrs. Warren's Key (7 december 1941)
- 11. The Dark Gentleman (14 december 1941)
- 12. Donald's Death (21 december 1941)
- 13. The Gloria Scott (28 december 1941)
1942
- 14. The Second Stain (4 january 1942)
- 15. The Haunted Bagpipes (11 january 1942)
- 16. The Three Gables (18 january 1942)
- 17. The Lion's Mane (25 january 1942)
- 18. The Five Orange Pips (1st february 1942)
- 19. The Voodoo Curse (8 february 1942)
- 20. The Dark Tragedy of the Circus (15 february 1942)
- 21. The Sussex Vampire (22 february 1942)
- 22. The Giant Rat of Sumatra (1st march 1942)
Season 4
WOR-MBS (The Mutual Network) on Fridays 8.30-8.55pm
1943
- 01. The Copper Beeches (7 may 1943)
- 02. The Man with the Twisted Lip (14 may 1943)
- 03. The Devil's Foot (21 may 1943)
- 04. The Red-Headed League (28 may 1943)
- 05. The Engineer's Thumb (4 june 1943)
- 06. Silver Blaze (11 june 1943)
- 07. The Dying Detective (18 june 1943)
- 08. Wisteria Lodge (25 june 1943)
- 09. The Priory School (2 july 1943)
- 10. The Creeping Man (9 july 1943)
- 11. The Musgrave Ritual (16 july 1943)
- 12. The Greek Interpreter (23 july 1943)
- 13. Murder in the Waxworks (30 july 1943)
- 14. The Missing Leonardo da Vinci (6 august 1943)
- 15. The Syrian Mummy (13 august 1943)
- 16. The Missing Dancer (20 august 1943)
- 17. The Cardboard Box (27 august 1943)
- 18. The Retired Colourman (3 september 1943)
- 19. The Bruce-Partington Plans (10 september 1943)
- 20. The Dying Rosebush (17 september 1943)
- 21. The Missing Black Bag (24 september 1943)
- 22. The Speckled Band (1st october 1943)
- 23. The Dundas Separation Case (8 october 1943)
- 24. The Old Russian Woman (15 october 1943)
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Season 5
WOR-MBS (The Mutual Network) on Mondays 8.30-9pm
- 01. Ricoletti of the Club Foot (25 october 1943)
- 02. The Brother's Footsteps (1st november 1943)
- 03. The Shocking Affair of the S.S. Friesland (8 november 1943)
- 04. The Apparition at Sadler's Wells (15 november 1943)
- 05. Murder at the Park (22 november 1943)
- 06. Mrs Farintosh's Opal Tiara (29 november 1943)
- 07. The Camberwell Poisoning Case (6 december 1943)
- 08. The Jumping Jack (13 december 1943)
- 09. The Missing Black Dog (20 december 1943)
- 10. The Tired Captain (27 december 1943)
1944
- 11. The Incredible Mystery of Mr. James Philmore (3 january 1944)
- 12. The Unlucky White Horse (10 january 1944)
- 13. The Departed Banker (17 january 1944)
- 14. The Amateur Mendicant Society (24 january 1944)
- 15. The Dog that Howled in the Night (31 january 1944)
- 16. Death at Cornwall (7 february 1944)
- 17. The Red Leeches (14 february 1944)
- 18. Dr. Moore Agar (21 february 1944)
- 19. The Missing Bullion (28 february 1944)
- 20. Death on the Scottish Express (6 march 1944)
- 21. The Peculiar Persecution of John Vincent Hardin (13 march 1944)
- 22. The Man who Drowned in Paddington Station (20 march 1944)
- 23. The Haunted Bagpipes (27 march 1944)
- 24. The Fingerprints that Couldn't Lie (3 april 1944)
- 25. The Man who Was Hanged (10 april 1944)
- 26. The Singular Contents of the Ancient British Barrow (17 april 1944)
- 27. The Dentist who Used Wolfbane (24 april 1944)
- 28. Holmes and the HalfMan (1st may 1944)
- 29. The Phantom Iceberg (8 may 1944)
- 30. The Missing Bloodstain (15 may 1944)
- 31. The Superfluous Pearl (22 may 1944)
- 32. Skull and Bones (29 may 1944)
- 33. The Corpse in a Trunk (5 june 1944)
- 34. The Monster of Gyre (12 june 1944)
- 35. The Man with the Twisted Lip (19 june 1944)
- 36. The Dissimilar Body (26 june 1944)
- 37. The Amateur Mendicant Society (3 july 1944)
- 38. The Devil's Foot (10 july 1944)
- 39. The Bruce-Partington Plans (17 july 1944)
- 40. The Strange Case of the Aluminium Crutch (24 july 1944)
- 41. The Giant Rat of Sumatra (31 july 1944)
- 42. The Lighthouse, the Frightened Politician and the Trained Cormorant (7 august 1944)
- 43. Murder by Remote Control (14 august 1944)
- 44. The Missing Corpse (21 august 1944)
- 45. The African Leopard Man (28 august 1944)
- 46. Dimitrios, the Divine (4 september 1944)
- 47. Guardian of the Dead (11 september 1944)
- 48. The Invisible Necklace (18 september 1944)
- 49. The Vampire of Cadiz (25 september 1944)
- 50. 200 Year-Old Murderer (2 october 1944)
- 51. The Third Hunchback (9 october 1944)
- 52. The Missing Treaty (16 october 1944)
- 53. League of Unhappy Orphans (23 october 1944)
- 54. The Haunted Chateau (30 october 1944)
- 55. Murder under the Big Top (6 november 1944)
- 56. The Strange Case of the Veiled Horseman (13 november 1944)
- 57. The Secret of Glaive (20 november 1944)
- 58. The Steamship Friesland (27 november 1944)
- 59. The Telltale Bruises (4 december 1944)
- 60. The Island of Uffa (11 december 1944)
- 61. The Wandering Miser (18 december 1944)
- 62. The Blue Carbuncle (25 december 1944)
1945
- 63. Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot? (1st january 1945)
- 64. The Play's the Thing (8 january 1945)
- 65. Dr. Anselmo (15 january 1945)
- 66. The Elusive Umbrella (22 january 1945)
- 67. The Werewolf of Vair (29 january 1945)
- 68. The Dead Adventuress (5 february 1945)
- 69. The Newmarket Killers (12 february 1945)
- 70. The Surrey Inn (19 february 1945)
- 71. Lady Frances Carfax (26 february 1945)
- 72. The Doomed Sextet (5 march 1945)
- 73. The Erratic Windmill (12 march 1945)
- 74. The Secret of Stonehenge (19 march 1945)
- 75. The Book of Tobit (26 march 1945)
- 76. The Amateur Mendicant Society (2 april 1945)
- 77. The Viennese Strangler (9 april 1945)
- 78. The Remarkable Worm (16 april 1945)
- 79. The Notorious Canary Trainer (23 april 1945)
- 80. The Unfortunate Tobacconist (30 april 1945)
- 81. The Purloined Ruby (7 may 1945)
- 82. In Flanders Field (14 may 1945)
- 83. The Paradol Chamber (21 may 1945)
- 84. Dance of Death (28 may 1945)
Season 6
WOR-MBS (The Mutual Network) on Mondays 8.30-9pm
- 01. The Limping Ghost (3 september 1945)
- 02. Colonel Warburton's Madness (10 september 1945)
- 03. The Case of the Out of Date Murder (17 september 1945)
- 04. The Eyes of Mr. Leyton (24 september 1945)
- 05. The Problem of Thor Bridge (1st october 1945)
- 06. The Vanishing White Elephant (8 october 1945)
- 07. The Manor House Case (15 october 1945)
- 08. The Great Gandolfo (22 october 1945)
- 09. Murder by Moonlight (29 october 1945)
- 10. The Gunpowder Plot (5 november 1945)
- 11. The Adventure of the Speckled Band (12 november 1945)
- 12. The Double Zero (19 november 1945)
- 13. The Accidental Murderess (26 november 1945)
- 14. Murder in the Casbah (3 december 1945)
- 15. A Scandal in Bohemia (The Woman) (10 december 1945)
- 16. The Daughter of Irene Adler (The Second Generation) (17 december 1945)
- 17. The Night Before Christmas (The Christmas Eve Show) (24 december 1945)
- 18. The Iron Box (31 december 1945)
1946
- 19. The Strange Case of the Murderer in Wax (The Hampton Heath Killer) (7 january 1946)
- 20. Murder in the Himalayas (Murder Beyond the Mountains) (14 january 1946)
- 21. The Telltale Pigeon Feathers (21 january 1946)
- 22. Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber (28 january 1946)
- 23. The Indiscretion of Mr. Edwards (The Cross of Damascus) (4 february 1946)
- 24. The Guileless Gypsy (11 february 1946)
- 25. The Camberwell Poisoning Case (18 february 1946)
- 26. Murder at the Opera (The Terrifying Cats) (25 february 1946) Nigel Bruce replaced by Eric Snowden
- 27. The Submarine Caves (4 march 1946)
- 28. The Living Doll (11 march 1946)
- 29. The Blarney Stone (18 march 1946)
- 30. The Girl with the Gazelle (25 march 1946)
- 31. The April Fool's Adventure (1st april 1946)
- 32. The Disappearing Scientists (8 april 1946)
- 33. The Headless Monk (15 april 1946)
- 34. The Tankerville Club (22 april 1946)
- 35. The Waltz of Death (29 april 1946)
- 36. The Man with the Twisted Lip (6 may 1946)
- 37. The Uneasy Easy Chair (13 may 1946)
- 38. The Haunting of Sherlock Holmes (20 may 1946) Nigel Bruce replaced by Joseph Kearns
- 39. The Singular Affair of the Baconian Cipher (27 may 1946)
