Syndicated
Syndicated · 1940–1950
39 EpisodesWeeklyPGSince 1940
The run
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
12 dated broadcasts across 19 years on the air, with 12 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Restored broadcasts from 1932, in original transmission order.
19 May 1932 · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
18 Jan 1933 · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
11 Nov 1934 · 28 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
18 Nov 1935 · 9 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
30 May 1936 · 24 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
6 Jun 1936 · 24 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
15 May 1938 · 59 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
11 Jul 1938 · 55 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Same night on the air
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 30 Oct 1938.
30 Oct 1938 · 59 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 30 October 1938. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 30 October 1938. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on Syndicated
Other series the network carried while A SHERLOCK HOLMES CHRISTMAS CAROL, Radio Shows with Basil Rathbone & Orson Welles was on the air.
Same seasons
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
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
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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