The Whistler
Broadcast 11 February 1946. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Radio
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
NBC Blue / Mutual
NBC Blue / Mutual · 1939–1946
52 EpisodesSeasonalPGSince 1939
The run
- Network
- NBC Blue / Mutual
- Years active
- 1939–1946
- Surviving broadcasts
- 52
- Genre
- detective
NOTE: Unfortunately many of these files in this upload were apparently corrupted during upload. I have created a new upload here : ( I apologize for the inconvenience. This upload contains 52 episodes of the Old Time Radio program, The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The show, which aired from 1939-1946, starred the great Basil Rathbone as Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson. The dates, episode numbers and titles are believed to be correct based on available information, but any corrections are welcome. Disclaimer: By uploading these files, I make no claim to ownership or copyright. These recordings have been acquired from publicly available sources on the Internet, and my goal has been to put together a collection of every available episode where possible. I will add to these collections if I discover new episodes or if any new episodes become available. Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “sherlock-holmes-1939-11-06-6-the-bruce-partington-plans”; these recordings are in the public domain.
1946 · 41945 · 61944 · 11939 · 1
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
Every broadcast below carries its own provenance sheet — transfer quality, file source and rights.Archive record: sherlock-holmes-1939-11-06-6-the-bruce-partington-plans
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
12 dated broadcasts across 8 years on the air, with 4 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1939, in original transmission order.
- 1. Sherlock Holmes 1939-11-06 (6) The Bruce Partington Plans · 6 Nov 1939
- 2. Sherlock Holmes 1944-05-15 (129) The Adventure of the Missing Bloodstains · 15 May 1944
- 3. Sherlock Holmes 1945-04-09 (174) The Viennese Strangler · 9 Apr 1945
- 01
Sherlock Holmes 1939-11-06 (6) The Bruce Partington Plans
6 Nov 1939 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 6 November 1939. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 02
Sherlock Holmes 1944-05-15 (129) The Adventure of the Missing Bloodstains
15 May 1944 · 23 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 15 May 1944. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 03
Sherlock Holmes 1945-04-09 (174) The Viennese Strangler
9 Apr 1945 · 25 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 9 April 1945. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 04
Sherlock Holmes 1945-05-14 (179) In Flanders Field
14 May 1945 · 33 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 14 May 1945. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 05
Sherlock Holmes 1945-09-17 (184) The Case of the Out of Date Murder
17 Sep 1945 · 32 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 17 September 1945. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 06
Sherlock Holmes 1945-10-22 (189) The Great Gandolfo
22 Oct 1945 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 22 October 1945. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 07
Sherlock Holmes 1945-11-19 (193) The Case of the Double Zero
19 Nov 1945 · 32 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 19 November 1945. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 08
Sherlock Holmes 1945-12-17 (197) The Second Generation
17 Dec 1945 · 24 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 17 December 1945. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Same night on the air
11 Feb 1946
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 11 Feb 1946.
Aunt Mary
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 11 February 1946. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on NBC Blue / Mutual
NBC Blue / Mutual in 1939–1946
Other series the network carried while The New Adventures 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 The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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