The run
- Network
- Syndicated
- Years active
- 1940–1950
- Surviving broadcasts
- 52
- Genre
- detective
South African Radio Show Collection No 32 Stories of Sherlock Holmes ran on South African 'Springbok Radio' in the early 1980's. It starred Graham Armitage as Sherlock and Kerry Jordan as Watson. Watson is no longer the bumbling mumbling Watson of Nigel Bruce. The stories do not attempt to stick to the original Conan Doyle canon. Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “stories-of-sherlock-holmes-sa-85-04-28-x-the-sarussi-pea”; 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
What survives, year by year
0 dated broadcasts across 11 years on the air, with 11 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 NaN, in original transmission order.
- 1. Stories Of Sherlock Holmes - SA 80-09-11 (x) The Waldhausen · Date unknown
- 2. Stories Of Sherlock Holmes - SA 83-02-20 (x) Missing Invento · Date unknown
- 3. Stories Of Sherlock Holmes - SA 85-01-13 (x) Friend In Need, · Date unknown
Stories Of Sherlock Holmes - SA 80-09-11 (x) The Waldhausen
Date unknown · 23 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Stories Of Sherlock Holmes - SA 83-02-20 (x) Missing Invento
Date unknown · 23 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Stories Of Sherlock Holmes - SA 85-01-13 (x) Friend In Need,
Date unknown · 23 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Stories Of Sherlock Holmes - SA 85-04-21 (x) Lack Of Evidenc
Date unknown · 27 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Stories Of Sherlock Holmes - SA xx-xx-xx (x) Longworth Cove
Date unknown · 21 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Stories Of Sherlock Holmes - SA xx-xx-xx (x) Unpaid Debt, Th
Date unknown · 23 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Stories Of Sherlock Holmes - SA 83-01-30 (x) Gray Goose, The
Date unknown · 22 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Stories Of Sherlock Holmes - SA 85-02-17 (x) Bloemhof Diamon
Date unknown · 23 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on Syndicated
Syndicated in 1940–1950
Other series the network carried while Stories of Sherlock Holmes 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 Stories of Sherlock Holmes
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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