Let George Do It Presented by the Great Detectives of Old TIme Radio

Mar 06 2025 214 ep. 34 mins 563
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Adam Graham serves as your host, providing his idiosyncratic as he goes, as we go through the much underrated 1946-54 detective series starring a pre-Johnny Dollar Bob Bailey as Detective George Valentine a World War II vet, who along with his secretary and assistant Brooksie take on every case that's mailed to them.

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Let George Do It: Cousin Jeff and the Pigs

Mar 06 2025 37 mins  
Original Release Date: November 4, 2009 George Valentine is hired by his farmer cousin, Jeff to find him a bride that loves pigs.Original Air Date: October 25, 1946 Support the show monthly at https://patreon.greatdetectives.netSupport the show on a one-time basis at https://support.greatdetectives.netMail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715Give us a call a

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Let George Do It: The Picnic

Feb 27 2025 44 mins  
Original Release Date: June 4, 2019While on a picnic, George is hit by a petite shoe and hears a voice asking for rescue. Original Air Date: October 11, 1946 Support the show monthly at https://patreon.greatdetectives.netSupport the show on a one-time basis at https://support.greatdetectives.netMail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715Give us a call at 208-9

Let George Do It: The Kleptomaniac

Feb 20 2025 40 mins  
Original Release Date: May 28, 2019The kleptomaniac wife of a candidate for alderman hires George to follow her to prevent her compulsion from being discovered before the election.Original Air Date: October 4, 1946 Support the show monthly at https://patreon.greatdetectives.netSupport the show on a one-time basis at https://support.greatdetectives.netMail a donation to: Adam Graham

Let George Do It: The First Client

Feb 13 2025 34 mins  
Original Release Date: October 28, 2009On his first day as a Private Detective, George Valentine gets his first client-a famous writer who tells him he’s about to be murdered and collapses on the spot. The body then vanishes, leaving George to find out what happened.Original Production Date: May 14, 1946Support the show monthly at https://patreon.greatdetectives.netSupport the sh

Let George Do It: Audition #2

Feb 06 2025 27 mins  
George is hired to find an apartment for an elderly man’s niece and her husband.Audition Date: April 1946Support the show monthly at https://patreon.greatdetectives.netSupport the show on a one-time basis at https://support.greatdetectives.netMail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715Give us a call at 208-991-4783Take the listener survey at https://survey.g

Let George Do It: Audition #1

Jan 30 2025 26 mins  
Original Release Date: May 14, 2019Right out of the service, ex-GI George Lincoln starts a private investigation firm and gets an assistant and a secretary thrust on him, along with an elevator man who prepares strange food, and a first client who drops dead on the spot.Audition Date: April 1946Support the show monthly at https://patreon.greatdetectives.netSupport the show on a one

Let George Do It: That Ain't No Way to Run a Railroad

Jun 13 2023 40 mins  
Today's Mystery:George is hired by a wealthy man who is suspicious because his bid to buy a broken-down railroad for a million dollars was refused.Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 2, 1952Originated from HollywoodStarred: Bob Bailey as George Valentine, Virginia Gregg as Brooksie, Earle RossSupport the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.netSupport the show on a one-time

Let George Do It: How Gullible Can You Be?

Jun 12 2023 34 mins  
Today's Mystery: A chauffeur of a rich man whose partner died in a suspicious "accident" asks George to take care of the envelope plunging George into the middle of the case.Original Radio Broadcast Date:May 28, 1951Originated from HollywoodStarred: Bob Bailey as George Valentine, Virginia Gregg as Brooksie, Ken Christy as Lieutenant Johnson, Tony BarrettSupport the show monthly at

Let George Do It: Triple Indemnity

Jun 11 2023 38 mins  
Today's Mystery:George goes to a small town where gossip says a man has murdered his missing wife.Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 6, 1950Originated from HollywoodStarred: Bob Bailey as George Valentine, Virginia Gregg as Brooksie, Wally Maher as Lieutenant RileySupport the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.netSupport the show on a one-time basis at http://support.greatde