The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Old Time Radio
Oct 3, 2026 · 24 min · 9 segments
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes presents “The Adventure of the Superfluous Pearl,” episode 130, originally broadcast May 22, 1944. This original radio drama by Edith Meiser stars Basil Rathbone as…
The town was full of babies of fresh young beauties brought up from the country to be presented at court.
The tapers were full of accounts of dinners, forays, garden parties, and all the rest of what now seems like a forgotten life.
Naturally, all this meant very little to Holmes.
Consequently, I was more than a bit surprised on returning one afternoon to our date of street lodging to find him deep in a veritable snowdrift of illustrated society magazines and papers.
Welcome.
What do you know about this man, Damery? Damery? Damery? What Damery? Lord Damery, of course.
He took his photograph and all was discarded these days.
Well, that's true.
The fellow's a household word in society.
Yes.
He's a man of the world, and the fact will turn to diplomacy
and ask you for a 430 appointment if I grant it.
You mean that Lord Damery's coming here with 430 now, and look at the mess that's making him.
Oh, darn you,
sir.
Darn you, sir.
If that is Mrs. Hudson, Lord Damery is not paying a visit to Baker Street to investigate our house-making, but to consult me in my professional capacity.
Ah.
That will be the gentleman now, unless I'm very much mistaken.
Thanks for the minute.
Take a look out of the window, will you, Watson? That'll do it, fellow.
Why
do you always expect me to play Sister Anne for you? Oh, that very well.
Yes.
Yes, Mrs. Harold Hudson.
The town was full of babies of fresh young beauties brought up from the country to be presented at court.
The tapers were full of accounts of dinners, forays, garden parties, and all the rest of what now seems like a forgotten life.
Naturally, all this meant very little to Holmes.
Consequently, I was more than a bit surprised on returning one afternoon to our date of street lodging to find him deep in a veritable snowdrift of illustrated society magazines and papers.
Welcome.
What do you know about this man, Damery? Damery? Damery? What Damery? Lord Damery, of course.
He took his photograph and all was discarded these days.
Well, that's true.
The fellow's a household word in society.
Yes.
He's a man of the world, and the fact will turn to diplomacy
and ask you for a 430 appointment if I grant it.
You mean that Lord Damery's coming here with 430 now, and look at the mess that's making him.
Oh, darn you,
sir.
Darn you, sir.
If that is Mrs. Hudson, Lord Damery is not paying a visit to Baker Street to investigate our house-making, but to consult me in my professional capacity.
Ah.
That will be the gentleman now, unless I'm very much mistaken.
Thanks for the minute.
Take a look out of the window, will you, Watson? That'll do it, fellow.
Why
do you always expect me to play Sister Anne for you? Oh, that very well.
Yes.
Yes, Mrs. Harold Hudson.
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