Summary: The Paradol Chamber (Aired May 21, 1945) His earliest cases, which he pursued as an amateur, came from fellow university students. According to Holmes, it was an encounter with the father of one of his classmates that led him to take up detection as a profession and he spent the six years following university working as a consulting detective, before financial difficulties led him to take Watson as a roommate, at which point the narrative of the stories begins. 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: May 21, 1945. Mutual network. "The Paradol Chamber". Sponsored by: Petri Wines. Professor Moriarty traps Holmes and Watson in a teleportation chamber...and Mrs. Watson to the rescue! Some commercials deleted. Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Bob Campbell (announcer), Denis Green (writer), Anthony Boucher (writer), Arthur Conan Doyle (creator), Luis Hector. 25:29. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.
