This is another “lost” website, like the The Ocular Helmsman that I mentioned a while ago. It’s another valuable source of information, this time about Sherlock Holmes stories broadcast on the radio from 1930 to 2002.
It starts with William Gillette and Leigh Lovel in The Speckled Band on American radio on October 20th, 1930 (the first radio broadcast of a Sherlock Holmes story), and continues up to the only complete dramatisation series of the entire sixty episodes of Sherlock Holmes stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle and performed by Clive Merrison and Michael Williams and the Further Adventures where Andrew Sachs took over the role of Dr Watson when Michael Williams died.
Sometime after that, the website ceased to be updated, and it is no longer functioning. However, like The Ocular Helmsman website, an archive exists on the Internet Archive facility, the Wayback Machine.
The original website was beautifully laid out, and the structure cataloguing the recordings so well thought out that I have maintained my own version to catalogue not only radio dramatisation but also television dramatisations.
Here is the front page of the original website (though I have removed some personal details).
There are other listings of the audio and other dramatisations of Sherlock Holmes stories that I frequently use including canonical and non-canonical stories available at the following locations:
There is another major source, again now only available via the Wayback Machine. That is the grandly titled Universal Sherlock Holmes that was previously hosted by the University of Minnesota. That will be the subject of another article.
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