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Graham Monday through Thursday of this week are on core presentations will feature

Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes. If you're interested in listening to more Sherlock

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on-core performance. Welcome to the great detectives of old-time radio. From Boise,

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And you can also follow us on Twitter at Radio Detectives. We begin with a question from

Facebook. This comes from Michelle who rots in whatever happened to Dr. Watson's wife.

Did I miss episodes? No Michelle, you didn't miss a thing. Here, briefly, is what happened.

It's the show structure. The episodes are not told in chronological order.

And a lot of home series do that. They skip around to tell stories in time. Sherlock Holmes is

really set and fixed in time. Specifically about a 27-year period between 1887 and 1914.

And any given Thursday, your episode could fall anywhere in that 27-year range.

It gives the writers a great deal of flexibility. But it also means there's no continuity.

The only old-time radio show I know of to skip around with its chronology was Horatio Hornblower.

Of course, when CS4ster wrote Horatio Hornblower, he didn't release those in strict chronological

orders. But even with the Hornblower series, you would have a long story arc that would follow a

story from beginning to end in chronological order and then it would go somewhere else in Horatio Hornblower's

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