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I had read about this somewhere, and for a long time I thought this show was lost. Any internet compilations of Request Performance that I could find were missing it. Therefore, I was delighted when I saw it had been found on Basil Rathbone.net. Basil Rathbone revives his Bruce impersonation in the radio show The Strange Case of the Murderer in Wax. In between unintelligble mutterings, you can hear him uttering barely audible putdowns to the show's villian like, "That's awfully unkind of you." Nigel Bruce also becomes the lead detective in the radio show, The Manor House Case. Both are from the 1945-1946 season and both are available from the Simon & Schuster sets and also on the net. BTW: I think Nigel Bruce's Watson was the greatest. He was a lot more like Conan-Doyle's Watson than most purists will admit, but he also married to Conan-Doyle's rather bare boned character his own marvelous persona.

Actually, I think that going through the films and radio broadcasts shows that Bruce's Watson was, many times, a lot more helpful than his bungler persona would lead you to believe, and if you go through the stories, there were plenty of times that Conan-Doyle's Watson was something of a bungler. David Stuart Davies also makes the point that Conan-Doyle's Watson was not a very deeply developed character, often as a result of his acting as the narrator of the stories. However, there is no doubt that much of what Bruce's Watson did was for comic effect. I happen to like that, and I think it contributes to the films and broadcasts. As for Edith Meiser, she was a major force in the development of radio drama and the prime mover behind the Sherlock Holmes radio show, but imo she had a dry as dust approach to the material, and many of her scripts, particularly those touching on Moriarty, were not particularly good. IMO, the Boucher-Green written broadcasts, produced by Glenn Hall Taylor or Edna Best, from spring 1945 through the end of the 1946 season are superior to the extant broadcasts from the years of her involvement with the show. On radio, Bruce's comedy is there, but it never takes over the show. There's a great moment in the radio show The Waltz of Death, where Holmes and Watson meet with Emporer of Franz Joseph after having solved some big case for him, where one of the characters is talking about the rarity and high honor of some award the Emporer gave Holmes, and you can barely hear Watson muttering something like, "Well, he could have come up with one more of those."