Best of Classic Radio 09-12-26 - Meet Miss Sherlock, Gildy and the War Bond Drive, and Actor's Alibi

Best of Classic Radio 09-12-26 - Meet Miss Sherlock, Gildy and the War Bond Drive, and Actor's Alibi

Author: Wyatt Cox September 12, 2026 Duration: 2:06:13
Originally broadcast on Monday, September 12, 2022

Hour 1 - Meet Miss Sherlock starring Sondra Gair as Jane Sherlock, originally broadcast September 12, 1946, 80 years ago, Wilma and the Widow. Jane Sherlock, amateur detective, and her friend, attorney Peter Blossom, try to solve another murder...with a beret!

Hour 2 - The Great Gildersleeve starring Harold Peary, originally broadcast September 12, 1943, 83 years ago, The War Bond Drive. Summerfield is going all out to sell U. S. War Bonds. Gildersleeve makes an eloquent appeal for bond purchases.  Also Fibber McGee and Molly, originally broadcast September 12, 1954, 82 years ago,  Never End a Sentence with a Premonition.  Fibber's fortune cookie reads, "You have a rendezvous with a big man in a blue serge suit...beware!"

Hour 3 - Box Thirteen starring Alan Ladd, originally broadcast September 12, 1948, 78 years ago,  Actor’s Alibi.   Murder in a radio studio, death by electrical transcription?  Also Part 3 of a 5 part Yours Truly Johnny Dollar story, The Confidential Matter, originally broadcast September 12, 1956, 70 years ago.  $80,000 and a beaten girl...both missing! Then, one of the two is found and a bombshell explodes! 
 

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