Summary: Colonel Warburton's Madness (Aired September 10, 1945) From 1881, Holmes is described as having lodgings at 221B Baker Street, London, from where he runs his private detective agency. 221B is an apartment up seventeen steps, stated in an early manuscript to be at the "upper end" of the road. Until the arrival of Dr. Watson, Holmes works alone, only occasionally employing agents from the city's underclass, including a host of informants and a group of street children he calls the Baker Street Irregulars. The Irregulars appear in three stories, "The Sign of the Four", "A Study in Scarlet" and "The Adventure of the Crooked Man". THIS EPISODE: September 10, 1945. Mutual network. "Colonel Warburton's Madness". Sponsored by: Petri Wines. The Colonel has gone raving mad, and only Sherlock Holmes and a dog can discover the cause! Based on the story, "The Engineer's Thumb." Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Harry Bartell (announcer), Denis Green (writer), Anthony Boucher (writer), Arthur Conan Doyle (author), Edna Best (producer). 29:47. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.
