ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES, THE Volume 1

Starring Tom Conway and Nigel Bruce (12 half-hour episodes / 6 hours via digital download)

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective genius, Sherlock Holmes, came to NBC radio in 1930 starring Richard Gordon. By 1939, Basil Rathbone was heard as Holmes with Nigel Bruce as Doctor Watson. The duo were simultaneously starring in a popular series of Sherlock Holmes features for Fox, and later for Universal. By the end of the feature run in the mid 1940’s, Rathbone was eager to separate himself from the radio show to avoid being typecast, and even though the show’s sponsor (Petri Wines) offered him generous pay to continue, he decided to move on. Tom Conway took over with Nigel Bruce continuing as Watson (in this paring Nigel Bruce received top billing). Tom Conway and Nigel Bruce were replaced in 1947 by John Stanley and Alfred Shirley. Others to portray Holmes and Watson over the radio run were George Shelton and Ian Martin and Ben Wright and Eric Snowden. In 1955, NBC signed heavyweights Sir John Gielgud and Sir Ralph Richardson to star as Holmes and Watson, but with radio fast giving way to television, it only lasted one season. This collection contains 12 amazing detective adventures of Sherlock Holmes starring Tom Conway and Nigel Bruce.

10/26/46 The Clue of the Hungry Cat

11/2/46 The Adventure of the Original Hamlet

11/9/46 The Singular Affair of the Dying Schoolboys

11/16/46 The Adventure of the Genuine Guarnarius

11/23/46 The Adventure of the Sally Martin

11/30/46 The Strange Death of Mrs. Abernetty

12/7/46 The Half-Eaten Apple, The Coptic Compass and the Unclothed Corpse

12/14/46 The Adventure of the Elusive Emerald

12/21/46 The Adventure of the Grand Old Man

12/28/46 The Singular Affair of the White Cockerel

1/4/47 The Darlington Substitution Case

1/27/47 The Singular Affair of the Babbling Butler