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Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)

Episode 56 - Citizen Holmes (Mercury Theatre On the Air)

Broadcast on:
04 May 2014

Just a month before they terrified the nation with "The War of the Worlds," Orson Welles and his Mercury Theatre On the Air presented an adaptation of "Sherlock Holmes," the 1899 play co-written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.  The legendary actor/director stars as the legendary detective in this broadcast originally aired on CBS on September 25, 1938.