The run
- Network
- Mutual
- Years active
- 1946–1954
- Surviving broadcasts
- 283
- Genre
- detective
Let George Do It was a radio drama series produced by Owen and Pauline Vinson from 1946 to 1954. It starred Bob Bailey as detective-for-hire George Valentine (with Olan Soule stepping into the role in 1954). Clients came to Valentine's office after reading a newspaper carrying his classified ad: Personal notice: Danger's my stock in trade
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
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
11 dated broadcasts across 9 years on the air, with 7 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 1952, in original transmission order.
- 1. A School Of Sharks · 7 Jan 1952
- 2. The Bad Little God · 14 Jan 1952
- 3. A Matter of Honor · 21 Jan 1952
The Ghost of Ireland Betty
27 Sep 1954 · 30 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 27 September 1954. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The Coward
20 Sep 1954 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 20 September 1954. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The Man Under the Elm Trees
13 Sep 1954 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 13 September 1954. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The Stand-In
17 Nov 1952 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 17 November 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Dead on Arrival
10 Nov 1952 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 10 November 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Portrait of a Suicide
7 Nov 1952 · 27 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 7 November 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
There Ain't No Justice
31 Oct 1952 · 27 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 31 October 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Guy Reposo
20 Oct 1952 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 20 October 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Also on Mutual
Mutual in 1946–1954
Other series the network carried while Let George Do It 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
Working in the tradition of Let George Do It
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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