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🎙️ THE NEW ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES ⭐ “THE AFFAIR OF THE POLITICIAN” Starring John Stanley as Sherlock Holmes and Alfred Shirley as Dr. Watson Mutual Broadcasting System (New York) 📅 Broadcast Date October 12, 1947 This was the third episode of the newly relaunched Stanley/Shirley season. ✍️ Writer As with most episodes in the 1947–49 run, the script is attributed to the writing rotation of: Dennis Green & Anthony Boucher (Occasionally) Dennis Green & Leslie Charteris No surviving docu

⭐ 1001 STORIES FROM THE OLD WEST 🎙️ GUNSMOKE DOUBLE‑PLAY CHESTER’S HANGING POOR PEARL 🎙️ CHESTER’S HANGING Gunsmoke (CBS Radio) Original Airdate: August 8, 1953 Writer: John Meston Starring: William Conrad as Marshal Matt Dillon Parley Baer as Chester Proudfoot Howard McNear as Doc Adams Georgia Ellis as Kitty Russell 📘 Episode Summary (Spoiler‑Safe) “Chester’s Hanging” is one of the most gripping and emotionally charged episodes of the early Gunsmoke run — a story that places Chester in th

🎙️ 1001 RADIO CRIME SOLVERS SHOW NOTES Dragnet – “The Big Eavesdrop” A whispered conversation. A hidden motive. A crime that unfolds one overheard sentence at a time. In The Big Eavesdrop, Friday and Smith are pulled into a case that begins with something seemingly harmless — a woman overhearing a fragment of conversation through an apartment wall. But that fragment hints at something darker: a planned crime, a dangerous secret, or a threat that could cost someone their life. As the detectives

🎙️ THE NEW ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES ⭐ “THE CASE OF THE MISSING HEIRESS” Starring John Stanley as Sherlock Holmes and Alfred Shirley as Dr. Watson (Mutual Broadcasting System) 📅 Broadcast Date October 5, 1947 This was Episode #2 of the newly relaunched New York–based Stanley/Shirley era, which began on September 28, 1947. ✍️ Writer The episode is part of the 1947–1949 run, during which scripts were written or adapted by Dennis Green & Anthony Boucher, or Green & Leslie Charteris. Episode

🎙️ 1001 RADIO CRIME SOLVERS SHOW NOTES Dragnet – “The Big Guilt” In The Big Guilt, Friday and Smith investigate a brutal assault that leaves a young woman fighting for her life. What begins as a straightforward search for a suspect quickly becomes a tense, emotionally charged case as the detectives uncover layers of guilt, fear, and desperation among the people connected to the victim. Dragnet’s trademark realism is on full display here: clipped dialogue, methodical police work, and the slow tig

As the group awaits their likely deaths, Juanna pleads to Olfan to help save their lives-Olfan questions her motives. Join us Sunday for 29 and 30.

⭐ 1001 STORIES FROM THE OLD WEST 🎙️ GUNSMOKE DOUBLE‑PLAY YOUNG LOVE CHEYENNES 🎙️ YOUNG LOVE Gunsmoke (CBS Radio) Original Airdate: July 19, 1954 Writer: John Meston Starring: William Conrad as Marshal Matt Dillon Parley Baer as Chester Proudfoot Georgia Ellis as Kitty Russell Howard McNear as Doc Adams 📘 Episode Summary (Spoiler‑Safe) “Young Love” is one of Gunsmoke’s most heartfelt and human stories — a tale of two young people whose affection for each other runs headlong into the harsh re

🎙️ SHOW NOTES — A Wagner Matinée by Willa Cather 1001 Stories From the Gilded Age Willa Cather’s A Wagner Matinée is one of her most powerful early stories—an intimate portrait of memory, sacrifice, and the emotional cost of frontier life. When Aunt Georgiana returns to Boston after thirty years on a Nebraska homestead, her nephew Clark takes her to a Wagner concert. What unfolds in that concert hall is a deeply moving awakening: a reminder of the beauty she once lived for, and the life she surr

🎙️ 1001 Stories From the Old West SHOW NOTES – A COWBOY DETECTIVE Chapter 14(Part 1) On the Trail of the Union Pacific Train Robbers In this first installment, Charlie Siringo launches one of the most sweeping manhunts of his detective career — a pursuit that will eventually stretch across Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, Kansas, the Indian Territory, Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi, Montana, and even into Mexico. Charlie remembering back as a young cowboy, goes up against Bat Masterson in a bar fig

🎙️ SHOW NOTES “Early Recollections” – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories & The Best of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ABOUT THIS EPISODE In this episode, we step beyond Baker Street and into the childhood world of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle himself. Early Recollections, the opening chapter of Doyle’s memoir Memories & Adventures, offers a rare and intimate look at the people, places, and experiences that shaped the young boy who would one day create Sherlock Holmes. Doyle’s voice here is w

SHOW NOTES — MS. FOUND IN A BOTTLE by Edgar Allan Poe 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales Episode Summary In this early sea‑tale from Edgar Allan Poe—first published in 1833 and winner of a Baltimore literary contest—we follow an unnamed narrator whose voyage from Java becomes a descent into terror, isolation, and the unknown. After a catastrophic storm destroys his ship, he and an old Swede survive adrift for days, only to encounter a massive, ghostly vessel crewed by ancient mariners who seem u

🎙️ SHOW NOTES – CHAPTER 27 1001 Stories For the Road THE PEOPLE OF THE MIST – Chapter 27 “The Truth Revealed” SUMMARY Chapter 27 marks a turning point in The People of the Mist. The tension that has been quietly building finally snaps when Soa, driven by fear and loyalty, confesses the truth to her father about their mysterious visitors. Her revelation doesn’t just shift the emotional landscape — it alters the fate of every character in the story. The chapter pivots from adventure into suspense