The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Old Time Radio
Oct 2, 2026 · 34 min · 23 segments
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes presents “The Case of the Out of Date Murder,” originally broadcast September 17, 1945. This is episode 184 of the series, starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes…
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Yet he could be humbled by his own mistakes and was deeply attached to his friendship with Dr. Watson.
He distrusted women and yet spoke glowingly of Maude Bellamy as a most remarkable woman.
A man of almost manic depressive nature, he could be brilliant beyond belief, and yet turn quickly to cocaine when his depression reached deeply into his inner being.
With an almost photographic memory, he could recall some small detail in a long-forgotten unsolved case and then use it to solve one on which he was presently working.
Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers.
Could this be the foreshadowing upon retiring of his desire to become a beekeeper on a small farm in the Sussex Downs? Although Holmes did not cultivate friendships, with the major exception of Watson, he did have some friends.
At least Dennis Green and Anthony Boucher, the writers of the out-of-date murder would like us to think so.
They enjoyed embellishing the original Holmes stories and adding information to the canon that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle never touched upon.
Listen carefully to the end of this exciting adventure, where the story reveals the exact kind of payment Holmes accepts for solving this case.
It's a delightful addition to the canon, totally imagined by Dennis Green and Anthony Boucher.
And here they are now, Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Roos as Dr. Watson in The Out-of-Date Murder.
Yet he could be humbled by his own mistakes and was deeply attached to his friendship with Dr. Watson.
He distrusted women and yet spoke glowingly of Maude Bellamy as a most remarkable woman.
A man of almost manic depressive nature, he could be brilliant beyond belief, and yet turn quickly to cocaine when his depression reached deeply into his inner being.
With an almost photographic memory, he could recall some small detail in a long-forgotten unsolved case and then use it to solve one on which he was presently working.
Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers.
Could this be the foreshadowing upon retiring of his desire to become a beekeeper on a small farm in the Sussex Downs? Although Holmes did not cultivate friendships, with the major exception of Watson, he did have some friends.
At least Dennis Green and Anthony Boucher, the writers of the out-of-date murder would like us to think so.
They enjoyed embellishing the original Holmes stories and adding information to the canon that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle never touched upon.
Listen carefully to the end of this exciting adventure, where the story reveals the exact kind of payment Holmes accepts for solving this case.
It's a delightful addition to the canon, totally imagined by Dennis Green and Anthony Boucher.
And here they are now, Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Roos as Dr. Watson in The Out-of-Date Murder.
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