The run
- Network
- Mutual
- Years active
- 1946–1954
- Surviving broadcasts
- 440
- 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
12 dated broadcasts across 9 years on the air, with 3 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. Audition #1 (George Lincoln, not George Valentine) · 1 Jan 1946
- 2. Problem Child · 21 Jun 1948
- 3. The Malignant Heart · 6 Dec 1948
- 01
Audition #1 (George Lincoln, not George Valentine)
1 Jan 1946 · 21 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Let_George_Do_It_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 02
Problem Child
21 Jun 1948 · 29 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Let_George_Do_It_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 03
The Malignant Heart
6 Dec 1948 · 29 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Let_George_Do_It_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 04
Stranger Than Fiction
23 May 1949 · 28 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Let_George_Do_It_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 05
No Riders
28 Nov 1949 · 29 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Let_George_Do_It_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 06
Portuguese Cove
22 May 1950 · 29 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Let_George_Do_It_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 07
#045 - - "The House That Jack Built"
2 Oct 1950 · 27 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Let_George_Do_It_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 08
Knock on Wood
22 Jan 1951 · 29 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Let_George_Do_It_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
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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