The Great Detectives Present Sherlock Holmes (Old Time Radio)

Today is Guy Fawkes Day and we celebrate with two different Guy-Fawkes-related Sherlock Holmes adventures.

First, in The Fifth of November, a man named James Stuart comes to Baker Street pleading for Holmes' help, as he fears his cousin, Guy Falkenberry, is going to blow him up.Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 5, 1945Originated from Hollywood

Starring: Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes; Nigel Bruce as Doctor Watson.

Second, in The Guy Fawkes Society, Holmes and Watson find a man with his throat slit from ear to ear and it sets Holmes on the trail of a sinister conspiracy.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 10, 1948

Starring: John Stanley as Sherlock Holmes; George Spelvin as Watson

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Holmes is called in to investigate the theft of several cadavers from a hospital.

Original Air Date: May 19, 1932

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Sherlock Holmes tries to recover blackmail letters leading to a confrontation with the Napoleon of Crime-Professor Moriarty.

Original Air Date: September 25, 1938

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While on vacation at Stonehenge, Holmes and Watson investigate the murder of a Presbyterian Minister.

Original Air Date: March 15, 1933

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Sherlock Holmes battles his archenemy Professor Moriarty in one of his most perilous adventure.
Original Air Date: April 10, 1955

A young woman whose sister died from a mysterious poisoning asks Holmes and Watson to help, fearing her stepfather may kill her next.
Original Air Date: March 20, 1955

A lost goose sets Holmes on the trail of a jewel thief.
Original Air Date: March 13, 1955

A charming young governess is haunted by a mysterious bearded bicyclist.
Original Air Date: February 27, 1955

Sherlock Holmes is dying of a mysterious disease and he won’t let Watson examine him.
Original Air Date: February 13, 1955

Holmes investigates the disappearance of a letter that could plunge England into war.
Original Air Date: January 30, 1955

Sherlock Holmes investigates the case of a young woman’s fiancé disappearing.
Original Air Date: January 23, 1955

Sherlock Holmes seeks to find scandalous photographs that endanger the king of Bohemia.
Original Air Date: January 9, 1955

Dr. Watson recalls his first meeting with Sherlock Holmes as Watson assists Holmes in a case of notorious blackmailer, Charles Augustus Milverton.
Original Air Date: January 2, 1955

An indiscreet duke asks Holmes to find out who is blackmailing him.
Original Air Date: March 22, 1950

Sherlock Holmes investigates the disappearance of a wealthy man who spent a fortune on his crypt.
Original Air Date: May 30, 1949

A woman comes to Holmes alleging her husband murdered a prominent actress who was also his mistress.
Original Air Date: May 23, 1949

A man left a will leaving his fortune to men who share his unusual last name of Garrideb.
Original Air Date: May 9, 1949

Holmes and Watson pursue a murderer who has made off with a fortune in invalid currency.
Original Air Date: May 2, 1949

Sherlock Holmes’ investigates the mysterious death of a scholar’s assistant.
Original Air Date: April 25, 1949

The German Agents have captured Holmes and Watson to get information on the secret plans. Will Holmes and Watson survive and will they keep the plans out of the hands of the enemy agents.
Original Air Date: April 4, 1949

Sherlock Holmes investigates a case of stolen plans on the eve of World War I.
Original Air Date: March 21, 1949

A lost Christmas goose puts Sherlock Holmes on the trail of a jewel thief with the freedom of an innocent man lying in the balance.
Original Air Date: December 26, 1948

Sherlock Holmes tries to find out who is behind the murder of the owner of a Burmese Idol and why they are willing to kill over it.
Original Air Date: April 18, 1949

What’s horrific site is causing seasoned miners to go mad as soon as they see it.
Original Air Date: April 11, 1949

The promiscuous wife of a doctor is murdered.
Original Air Date: March 14, 1949
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Two notorious international criminals gamble in Monte Carlo on the ability of one of them to commit a crime Sherlock Holmes can’t solve-a murder.
Original Air Date: March 7, 1949

Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of mysterious stranglings of wealthy women.
Original Air Date: February 28, 1949

Sherlock Holmes investigates the death of a cheating wife.
Original Air Date: February 21, 1949
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Someone has declared open war on London’s policemen and ordered a coffin for Sherlock Holmes.
Original Air Date: February 14, 1949

Sherlock Holmes is asked to find a woman who is inciting a revolt in a Chinese province. But is she really the villain?
Original Air Date: February 7, 1949

While convalescing in Cornish country, Sherlock Holmes is confronted with a bizarre murder mystery that has seen two brothers and a sister wiped out.
Original Air Date: January 31, 1949

A man selling a knife sharpening service is murdering his customers.
Original Air Date: January 10, 1949

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Sherlock Holmes investigates the theft of the crown jewels from the Tower of London.
Original Air Date: December 12,1948

Holmes and Watson search for missing wealthy young newlyweds.
Original Air Date: December 5, 1948

A doctor comes to Holmes after a woman has threatened to murder her husband but did the doctor come too late?
Original Air Date: November 28, 1948

Holmes investigates mysterious goings on surrounding the discovery of the mummy of an ancient Egyptian queen.
Original Air Date: November 14, 1948

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Sherlock Holmes is on the trail of a professor of logic who has become obsessed with finding out how to commit the perfect murder.
Original Air Date: November 7, 1948

A Scottish lord has been murdered. Rumors of a witch seeking revenge on the descendants of witch hunters abound. Holmes and Watson must find the truth.
Original Air Date: October 31, 1948

An old sea captain who stole a fortune is found stabbed with a harpoon. The son of the man who the old captain robbed and murdered is quickly suspect by a Holmes protégé on the police force, but Holmes believes someone else is behind the plot.
Original Air Date: October 17, 1948

When a man is found dead at Baker Street’s doorstep, Holmes goes undercover to stop a plot again parliament.
Original Air Date: October 10, 1948

Sherlock Holmes tries to solve the death of a young government official and recover stolen submarine twins.
Original Air Date: September 26, 1948

Sherlock Holmes investigates the death of a nobleman which is tied in to a mysterious ghost who haunts an English castle.
Original Air Date: September 19, 1948

Sherlock Holmes is hired to look into a case involving a new ambassador to England. However, Holmes quickly finds the new ambassador dead.
Original Air Date: September 12, 1948

Holmes investigates a case of treachery and death at the circus.
Original Air Date: June 20, 1948

A woman calls Holmes to help her overcome a superstitious legend to marry her first love.
Original Air Date: June 13, 1948

A young lady asks Sherlock Holmes to investigate the disappearance of her fiancé.
Original Air Date: May 30, 1948

Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of jewel disappearances at railway stations.
Original Air Date: May 23, 1948

A minister calls Holmes in to investigate the case of the ghostly repeated blooming of roses.
Original Air Date: May 16, 1948

Sherlock Holmes is brought in by the request of a certain noble client to protect the daughter of a general from the notorious criminal, Baron Gruener.
Original Air Date: May 9, 1948

Doctor Watson tells of an encounter with Professor Moriarty that left him hating cabbages.
Original Air Date: May 2, 1948

A wealthy and overweight woman turns to Holmes when she fears her young French husband will kill her.
Original Air Date: April 18, 1948

Thought dead for three years, Holmes returns to track down the last member of Moriarty’s gang.
Original Air Date: April 11, 1948

Holmes seeks to avoid embarrassment for a prominent family over the disappearance of imitation jewels.
Original Air Date: April 4, 1948

Holmes dispatches Watson to look into the disappearance of a wealthy woman.
Original Air Date: March 28, 1948

Sherlock Holmes is called in by members of an archery club to stop a rivalry from getting out of hand, but it’s not long before Holmes is looking for a murderer.
Original Air Date: March 21, 1948

Sherlock Holmes is called in to protect an Indian prince who is feared to have fallen under the influence of an evil Hindu cult.
Original Air Date: March 14, 1948

Statues of Napoleon are being busted. When someone is murdered, Holmes becomes involved.
Original Air Date: March 7, 1948
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The intended of a British officer accused of stealing a cup from a pompous and overbearing British lord turns to Holmes and Watson for help.
Original Air Date: February 29, 1948

A bank manager turns to Holmes for help when the bank suffers a series of Saturday Night robberies from a “cat man.”
Original Air Date: February 22, 1948

Sherlock Holmes is called in at the behest of a horse trainer, suspicious that its owner may be losing his mind.
Original Air Date: February 15, 1948

Sherlock Holmes is called to spend the night at an old British manor and stop it from being sold to a pickle king.
Original Air Date: February 8, 1948

Sherlock Holmes helps the lord of a manor who has received a threatening letter.
Original Air Date: February 1, 1948

A man who was attacked and nearly murdered comes to Watson for treatment and Holmes for help.
Original Air Date: January 25, 1948

Sherlock Holmes is asked by the Lady Monooth to help find her son. While she’s talking to Holmes, her son comes in and hangs himself
Original Air Date: January 18, 1948

Sherlock Holmes and Watson race to save a luxury liner from being blown up.
Original Air Date: December 28, 1947

Sherlock Holmes is invited to spend the holidays with a family that needs him to assure a wedding occurs.
Original Air Date: December 21, 1947

Sherlock Holmes investigates the case of a five year old horse that died of senility.
Original Air Date: January 11, 1948

Sherlock Holmes seeks to recover the stolen crown diamond and finds his life on the line.
Original Air Date: January 4, 1948

Sherlock Holmes is called in to investigate charges that a South American wife of a rich man is abusing the man’s children, with an allegation of vampirism.
Original Air Date: December 14, 1947

Six years after their famous battle, Professor Moriarty returns to menace Sherlock Holmes as Queen Victoria is celebrating her diamond jubilee.
Original Air Date: December 7, 1947

Holmes helps a friend of Watson’s who works in the foreign office and lost a treaty vital to British national security.
Original Air Date: November 23, 1947

Sherlock Holmes returns to the Cornish country and investigates a frightening story of a rocking cradle that’s frightening a pregnant woman and endangering her life.
Original Air Date: November 30, 1947
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A doctor is shot and the evidence seems to point in one direction, but Holmes thinks its a frame up.
Original Air Date: November 16, 1947

Sherlock Holmes goes to investigate the case of a man found dead in Toga where there used to be Roman baths.
Original Air Date: November 9, 1947

A young governess turns to Holmes when she receives an unusual offer of employment.
Original Air Date: November 2, 1947

Sherlock Holmes is up against an old legend that states a young child who is doomed to die.
Original Air Date: October 26, 1947

Sherlock Holmes tries to break up the Limehouse drug trade, but finds himself confronted with the murder of Madam Fishface.
Original Air Date: October 19, 1947

Sherlock Holmes investigates the case of a man who was hired to do nominal work for a mysterious league for red-headed men.
Original Air Date: October 12, 1947′

Sherlock Holmes searches for the daughter of a Canadian multimillionaire.
Original Air Date: October 5, 1947

A rich woman dies after her 89th birthday after her drinking her last bottle of birthday wine.
Original Air Date: September 28, 1947

While visiting Nuremburg, the curator of a black museum asks Holmes to investigate anonymous letters attacking him. While touring the museum, a body is found in the iron maiden.
Original Air Date: July 7, 1947

A woman bursts into 221B Baker street and shoots a foreign emissary staying with Holmes. Holmes and Watson testify against the woman, but then have to scramble to find what really happened and save their reputation when the woman is acquitted when it turns out the man was poisoned.
Original Air Date: June 30, 1947

A young woman who is engaged to be married comes to Holmes because she is afraid that she’ll share the fate of her sister and die before her wedding.
Original Air Date: June 23, 1947

The widow of a murdered older man hires Holmes to prove her love (and the dead man’s business partner) innocent of his killing.
Original Air Date: June 16, 1947

A mystery writer comes up with an idea for a locked room mystery while drunk, but forgets the solution. He goes to Holmes and tricks him into providing the solution. He then winds up dead.
Original Air Date: June 9, 1947

Holmes and Watson investigate a mysterious league for red headed men that hired a local shopkeeper to copy pages from the encyclopedia and then discontinued his services.
Original Air Date: June 2, 1947

Holmes and Watson witness an apparent accidential drowning, but Holmes suspects homicide. But how can he prove it?
Original Air Date: May 26, 1947

Doctors are being murdered on Harley Street and Holmes thinks Moriarity is involved.
Original Air Date: May 19, 1947

A respectable Englishman finds himself mixed up in a murder after his host ends up dead and turns to Holmes for help.
Original Air Date: May 12, 1947

While in retirement, Sherlock Holmes investigates a seemingly random burglary of the local vicar’s home but finds something far more sinister is afoot.
Original Air Date: May 5, 1947

A psychologist hires four circus sideshow performers to head to a desserted Island off of Scotland.
Original Air Date: April 28, 1947

While retired, Sherlock Holmes investigates the murder of a school teacher.
Original Air Date: April 21, 1947

Holmes is hired by a count with a family history shrouded in mystery who fears he’s going insane.
Original Air Date: April 14, 1947

While on vacation in a rural village, Holmes investigates the disappearance of a local woman’s son.
Original Air Date: April 7, 1947

Sherlock Holmes is called in by a woman who hopes that a song will save her family’s estate.
Original Air Date: March 31, 1947

Watson goes undercover to catch a femme fatale, but will he have the heart to trap her.
Original Air Date: March 24, 1947

A startling change in a college professor including the professor’s wolf hound attacking him.
Original Air Date: March 17, 1947

Holmes and Watson investigate a case where several deaths revolve around a purported Egyptian curse.
Original Air Date: March 10, 1947

A dead man in an opium den leads to a dead doctor and then a headless corpse.
Original Air Date: March 3, 1947