The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Old Time Radio Drama - Volume 4: Part 2 of 2
36. (0:00:14) “The Indiscretion of Mr. Edwards” - Starring: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Harry Bartell (announcer) - February 4, 1946.
In this episode, Holmes and Watson are ringside at a circus in Paris to investigate a female performer who has caught the eye of an English prince.
37. (0:30:49) “The Case of the Camberwell Poisoner” - Starring: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Harry Bartell (announcer) - February 18, 1946.
In this episode, Holmes is on the case of four cousins…one of which he suspects is about to poison the others.
38. (1:01:17) “The Submarine Caves” - Starring: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Harry Bartell (announcer) - March 4, 1946.
In this episode, Holmes and Watson are on a small island in the English Channel to thwart the Nazis from using the island’s undersea caves as a submarine base.
39. (1:31:53) “The Adventure of the Living Doll” - Starring: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Harry Bartell (announcer) - March 11, 1946.
In this episode, Dr. Watson has a lady friend visiting that helps to recount a murder mystery that begins when she was a little girl.
40. (2:01:51) “The Adventure of the Blarney Stone” - Starring: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Harry Bartell (announcer) - March 18, 1946.
In this episode, Holmes and Watson are visiting Blarney Castle in Ireland when a man falls to his death while kissing the Blarney Stone. Holmes must put his own life in danger to find out if it was murder, an accident, or an act of revenge by the “little people.”
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The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a radio drama series which aired in the USA from 1939 to 1950. The show ran for 374 episodes, with many episodes now considered lost media. The series was based on the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and was billed in different listings under various titles including Sherlock Holmes, and Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson. The most popularly remembered title is The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
For most of the show’s run, the program starred Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson, together they starred in 220 episodes. Other actors played Holmes and Watson in later seasons. The show first aired on the NBC Blue Network but later moved to the Mutual Broadcasting System. The program aired on ABC instead of Mutual for its sixth and ninth seasons.
From 1939 until 1943, episodes were adapted or written by Edith Meiser who had written the earlier series The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes which aired from 1930 to 1935. From 1943 onward, most episodes were written by the team of Denis Green and Anthony Boucher with some early episodes written by Green and Leslie Charteris. Edith Meiser returned to write for the show for its seventh season. Max Ehrlich and Howard Merrill wrote the episodes of season 8. Denis Green returned as a writer for the final season.
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