The run
- Network
- Mutual
- Years active
- 1946–1950
- Surviving broadcasts
- 28
- Genre
- detective
The Casebook of Gregory Hood Brian Kavanaugh Tired of the role, in 1946 Basil Rathbone decided not to renew his contract playing Sherlock Holmes on radio’s The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes . Writers Denis Green and Anthony Boucher, needing a low budget summer replacement for it, came up with the idea for a San Francisco-based detective show called The Casebook of Gregory Hood. The main character, rather than being a traditional detective, was an antiques expert who encountered crime in his travels while seeking artifacts for his import house. The character was loosely based on real life importer Richard Gump, who served as a…
Source collection
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
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
6 dated broadcasts across 5 years on the air, with 2 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 1946, in original transmission order.
- 1. Casebook of Gregory Hood The Three Silver Pesos · 3 Jun 1946
- 2. Casebook of Gregory Hood The Murder of Gregory Hood · 17 Jun 1946
- 3. Casebook of Gregory Hood The Derringer Society · 8 Jul 1946
Casebook of Gregory Hood The Three Silver Pesos
3 Jun 1946 · 29 min
Broadcast 3 June 1946. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Casebook of Gregory Hood The Murder of Gregory Hood
17 Jun 1946 · 29 min
Broadcast 17 June 1946. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Casebook of Gregory Hood The Derringer Society
8 Jul 1946 · 29 min
Broadcast 8 July 1946. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Casebook of Gregory Hood The Red Capsule
22 Jul 1946 · 29 min
Broadcast 22 July 1946. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Casebook of Gregory Hood The Mad Dancer [last minutes only]
19 Aug 1946 · 20 min
Broadcast 19 August 1946. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Casebook of Gregory Hood The Adventure of the Sad Clown
7 Oct 1946 · 29 min
Broadcast 7 October 1946. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Casebook of Gregory Hood Fifth Avenue
5 May 1947 · 30 min
Broadcast 5 May 1947. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Casebook of Gregory Hood The Carnival of Death
15 Oct 1949 · 29 min
Broadcast 15 October 1949. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Also on Mutual
Mutual in 1946–1950
Other series the network carried while Casebook 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
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