Old time radio show series available at RUSC Old Time Radio
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FIRST BROADCAST: October 20th 1930
LAST BROADCAST: September 4th 1956
SPONSORS: George Washington Coffee, Household Finance, Bromo Quinine, Petri Wines, Clipper Craft
CAST: Richard Gordon, Louis Hector, Basil Rathbone, Tom Conway, Ben Wright, John Stanley, Leigh Lovel, Nigel Bruce, Eric Snowden, Alfred Shirley, Ian Martin, Orson Welles, Louis Hector, Joseph Bell, Agnes Moorehead, Harry Neville, Lucille Wall, Bill Shelley, Junius Matthews
ANNOUNCERS: Knox Manning, Harry Bartell
PRODUCERS/DIRECTORS: Edna Best, Basil Loughrane, Joseph Bell, Tom McKnight, Glendall Taylor
WRITERS: Edith Meiser, Bruce Taylor (pseudonym of Leslie Charteris), Dennis Green, Anthony Boucher, Howard Merrill, Max Ehrlich
SOUND EFFECTS: Bill Hoffman
ORGANIST: Dean Foster
MUSICAL DIRECTOR: Graham Harris
THEME: ‘March of the Ancestors’ – based on a theme from Ruddigore by Gilbert and Sullivan
Sherlock Holmes – 1930-1960s
The famous Sherlock Holmes detective stories appeared on radio for more than 25 years, with a long list of performers playing the parts of Holmes and Dr Watson. They stories were written by Edith Meiser, a self-confessed Holmes addict. At first she used Arthur Conan Doyles’ original stories, but, after the series outlived the original material, she created her own new stories. These were so well written that she was warmly praised by Arthur Conan Doyle’s widow and son.
RUSC Old Time Radio (or RU Sitting Comfortably to give the site its full title) is a web site specializing in the wonderful world of old time radio. It is run by a crazy guy (that's me) who has nothing better to do than listen to old radio shows all day. To find out more visit the web site at www.rusc.com. All the old time radio shows on RUSC are understood to be in the public domain. RUSC has been on the web since January 1999 and is run on a not-for-profit basis.