Category: OTR Detective

Richard Kollmar

One of the city’s best-dressed men doesn’t remember his past and then turns to Blackie for help. He takes a cab after meeting with Blackie and the cabbie turns up dead.

Original Air Date: March 18, 1947

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CBS, OTR Detective, Podcast, Richard Diamond

EP2453: Richard Diamond: The Cover-Up Murders

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Dick Powell

An anonymous man calls Walt and threatens to commit a murder at 8 o’clock. He succeeds and plans to do it again.

Rebroadcast Date: June 7, 1953

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NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, Rocky Fortune

EP2452: Rocky Fortune: A Sitting Duck for Death

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Frank Sinatra

A killer who Rocky put away escapes prison threatening to murder Rocky and those who sent him up. Rocky tries to get out of town, but one of the men on the list wants to use Rocky as a decoy to draw out the killer.

Original Air Date: February 23, 1954

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NBC, Nightbeat, OTR Detective, Podcast

EP2451: Night Beat: The Policy Wheel Racket

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Frank Lovejoy

A blind man tells Randy the leader of a local rescue mission has been severely beaten. Randy wants to find out why but the man won’t tell him.

Original Air Date: September 18, 1952

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Lady Sleuths, OTR Detective, Podcast, Rare Detectives

EP2450s: Police Woman: The Case of the Scheming Bridegroom

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Betty Garde

A woman is interested in marrying a man from a personals ad but fears he’s a murderer, Lt. Mary Sullivan investigates.

Original Air Date June 29, 1947

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Dragnet, NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, Procedural

EP2450: Dragnet: The Big Impossible

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Jack Webb

Friday and Smith think they’ve found the man behind a series of robberies. The only problem? He couldn’t have possibly done it because he was in a sanitarium.

Original Air Date: March 15, 1953

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CBS, OTR Detective, Podcast, Yours Truly Johnny Dollar

EP2449: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Stock in Trade Matter

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Bob Bailey

Johnny investigates the murder of a man in a small town who lived alone in an old Southern plantation house.

Original Air Date: June 4, 1961

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Boston Blackie, OTR Detective, Podcast, Syndicated

EP2448: Boston Blackie: The Joe Easton Car Theft Ring

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Richard Kollmar

Blackie is worried that boys are abandoning the local gym to curry favor with a mobster who was just released from prison and is now flush with cash. Meanwhile, a string of car thefts is plaguing the city.

Original Air Date: March 11, 1947

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CBS, OTR Detective, Podcast, Richard Diamond

EP2447: Richard Diamond: The William B. Holland Case

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Dick Powell

Diamond is hired to track down a man’s brother in South America, and takes Lt. Levinson for company.

Rebroadcast Date: May 31, 1953

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NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, Rocky Fortune

EP2446: Rocky Fortune: One Husband Too Many

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Frank Sinatra

A woman with two husbands wants Rocky to murder one of them for her.

Original Air Date: February 9, 1954

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NBC, Nightbeat, OTR Detective, Podcast

EP2445:Night Beat: Larry, the Understudy

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Frank Lovejoy

A young dancer’s understudy puts on an impressive dancing performance that has the show’s owner ready to make him a star. However, he quits and disappears from the theater.

Original Air Date: September 11, 1952

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