"The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" (1939~1963)

[Shangas]

From 1939, up to about 1963, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson came to people all over the world via way of the wireless radio.

 

Starting with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce in 1939, for about twenty years, people could listen to "The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes".

 

i have nearly the entire collection of surviving episodes on my computer. Only a handful of the episodes from the War (1939-1945) survive. A couple from 1939, and one or two from the 1943-1944 season. But almost every other episode from 1946 onwards remains.

 

Originally, the producers used the original Canon stories, and adapted them as radio-plays. When they ran out of original material, radio scriptwriter Edith Miser wrote nearly all the other episodes as original, non-canonical short stories, taking her influence from incidents mentioned in original canon stories, or completely new story-ideas.

 

Her works were so ingenious that the Doyle family made their feelings known to Miser, and went on the record as saying how impressed they were with her work.

 

The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes was sponsered at various times, by Groves Bromo Quinine Tablets, the Petri Wine Co., Kreml Hair Products for Men., and Klipper Craft Men's Clothing.

 

At various times, Holmes & Co. were portrayed on radio by...

 

Mary Gordon (Mrs. Hudson).

Dennis Hoey (Inspector Lestrade).

Basil Rathbone, Tom Conway, John Stanley, (Sherlock Holmes).

Nigel Bruce, Alfred Shirley, (Dr. John Watson).

[Bakerstreet Irregular]

I used to have these radio plays on records. Sadly in all my moves most of my earliest Sherlock Holmes collection got lost. I am trying to rebuild it.

[Shangas]

They're all on the Public Domain now. You can download them from various websites.

 

www.otrfan.com is one.

[Pawse]

Basil and Nigel were wonderful!