Syndicated
Syndicated · 1940–1950
Broadcasts
39
Cadence
Weekly
Rated
PG
Since
1940
The run
Featuring sensational radio shows of- – A Christmas Carol (Campbell Playhouse) stars Orson Welles & Lionel Barrymore – The Night Before Christmas (New Advs of Sherlock Holmes) stars Basil Rathbone & Nigel Bruce – The Games Afoot - Sherlock Holmes Radio History (6 ep.) – First extant Sherlock Holmes radio broadcasts (6 ep.) – Sherlock Holmes V Dracula – Orson Welles Wartime Radio – & more. Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “SherlockHolmesChristmas”; these recordings are in the public domain.
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
12 dated broadcasts across 19 years on the air, with 12 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Restored broadcasts from 1932, in original transmission order.
19 May 1932 · 29 min
18 Jan 1933 · 29 min
11 Nov 1934 · 28 min
18 Nov 1935 · 9 min
30 May 1936 · 24 min
6 Jun 1936 · 24 min
15 May 1938 · 59 min
11 Jul 1938 · 55 min
Same night on the air
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 30 Oct 1938.
30 October
1938
NBC
Sunday
59 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 30 October 1938.
Internet Archiveedgar-bergen-1937-12-12-32-guest-mae-westRough but complete · 32 kbps
30 October
1938
CBS
Sunday
30 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 30 October 1938.
Internet Archivesilver-theater-1945-07-29-209-gilded-pheasantCondition unmeasured
Also on Syndicated
Other series the network carried while A SHERLOCK HOLMES CHRISTMAS CAROL, Radio Shows with Basil Rathbone & Orson Welles was on the air.
Same seasons
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
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