ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES, THE Volume 2

Starring Basil Rathbone 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 Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce.

1/7/46 The Strange Case of the Murder in Wax

1/14/46 An untitled story known as Murder Beyond the Mountains

1/21/46 The Telltale Pigeon Feathers

1/28/46 “The Case of Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber”

2/18/46 The Camberwell Poisoner

3/4/46 An untitled story known as The Submarine Caves

3/18/46 The Adventure of the Blarney Stone

4/1/46 The April Fool’s Day Adventure

4/8/46 The Disappearing Scientists

4/22/46 The Tankerville Club

4/29/46 The Waltz of Death

5/6/46 The Man with the Twisted Lip