OTRR Casebook Gregory Hood Singles

The Casebook of Gregory Hood Brian Kavanaugh Tired of the role, in 1946 Basil Rathbone decided not to renew his contract playing Sherlock Holmes on radio’s The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes . Writers Denis Green and Anthony Boucher, needing a low budget summer replacement for it, came up with the idea for a San Francisco-based detective show called The Casebook of Gregory Hood. The main character, rather than being a traditional detective, was an antiques expert who encountered crime in his travels while seeking artifacts for his import house. The character was loosely based on real life importer Richard Gump, who served as a consultant for the program and was even portrayed by Bill Johnstone in the episode “South of the Border.” Another thing that set Gregory Hood apart from other detective series of the time was that it often used real people (sometimes portrayed by actors, other times the person would play themselve), places and landmarks in its episodes. Cities even flew in the series writers in order to convince them to write an episode about them! This is the Single Episodes Page. The Maintained Set includes extras not found here. It is located here . This Single Episodes page is provided in case you want to sample the shows. Note that in many cases, file names have been modified from the original OTRR names to conform to archive.org naming requirements.

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.

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