The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Old Time Radio Drama - Volume 2: Part 1 of 2
11. (0:00:14) “The Purloined Ruby” - Starring: Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce - May 7, 1945
12. (0:27:43) “In Flanders Field” - Starring: Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce - May 14, 1945
13. (0:54:21) “The Paradol Chamber” - Starring: Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce - May 21, 1945
14. (1:17:59) “The Limping Ghost” - Starring: Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce - September 3, 1945
15. (1:45:21) “Colonel Warburton’s Madness” - Starring: Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce - September 10, 1945
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a radio drama series which aired in the USA from 1939 to 1950. The show ran for 374 episodes, with many episodes now considered lost media. The series was based on the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and was billed in different listings under various titles including Sherlock Holmes, and Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson. The most popularly remembered title is The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
For most of the show’s run, the program starred Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson, together they starred in 220 episodes. Other actors played Holmes and Watson in later seasons. The show first aired on the NBC Blue Network but later moved to the Mutual Broadcasting System. The program aired on ABC instead of Mutual for its sixth and ninth seasons.
From 1939 until 1943, episodes were adapted or written by Edith Meiser who had written the earlier series The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes which aired from 1930 to 1935. From 1943 onward, most episodes were written by the team of Denis Green and Anthony Boucher with some early episodes written by Green and Leslie Charteris. Edith Meiser returned to write for the show for its seventh season. Max Ehrlich and Howard Merrill wrote the episodes of season 8. Denis Green returned as a writer for the final season.
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