Category: Video Theater

Video Theater 0131: Dragnet: The Big Ham

Friday and Smith investigate the apparent suicide of a young woman in the apartment of a budding young actor.

Season 3, Episode 22

Original Air Date: January 28, 1954

Video Theater 0130: Boston Blackie: Inside Crime

 A robbery has occurred and a security guard is suspected of being the inside man.

Original Air Date: December 19, 1952

Season 2, Episode 10

 

Video Theater 0129: Dragnet: The Big Boys

Friday and Smith get a lead on four young robbers from San Francisco.

Season 3, Episode 21

Original Air Date: January 21, 1954

Video Theater 0128: Boston Blackie: 101 Blonde

Blackie tries to help a lawyer clear a client accused of a hit and run.

Original Air Date: December 12, 1952

Season 2, Episode 9

Video Theater 0127: Dragnet: The Big Trunk

Friday and Smith investigate the murder of a washed-up actress who lived in a theatrical rooming house.

Original Air Date: January 17, 1954

Season 3, Episode 19

Video Theater 0126: Your Show Time: Adventure of the Speckled Band

Sherlock Holmes is called in by a young woman who fears she for her life because of her strange stepfather and his decision to have her sleep in the same room her sister died in.

Original Air Date: March 25, 1949

Video Theater 125: Dragnet: The Big Thief

Friday and Smith look for a young couple who are calling doctors to their hotel room and beating them up and robbing them.

Season 3, Episode 16

Original Air Date: December 17, 1953

Video Theater 124: Richard Diamond: The Merry Go Round Case

The sister of an old Army buddy of Diamond’s ask him to bring her brother in after he killed a service state attendant.

Original Air Date: September 23, 1957

Season 1, Episode 12

Video Theater 123: Dragnet: The Big Will

Friday and Smith investigate the death of a middle-aged man.

Original Air Date: November 12, 1953

Season 3, Episode 11

Video Theater 121: Sherlock Holmes: The Christmas Pudding

A serial killer threatens to get Holmes before he’s executed.

Episode 23 of the 1954-55 Sherlock Holmes series.

Original Air Date: April 4, 1955

Video Theater 121: Dragnet: The Big Little Jesus

Friday and Smith try to recover a stolen statue of the child Jesus for a church before the Christmas Mass.

Original Air Date: December 24, 1953

Season 3, Episode 17

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Video Theater 120: Boston Blackie: The Queen of Thieves

A pickpocket runs afoul of his boss who appears to be a harmless old lady. When the pickpocket nearly gets killed, Blackie steps in to stop her ultimate scheme.

Season 2, Episode 8

Original Air Date: December 5, 1952

Video Theater 119: Dragnet: The Big Betty

Friday and Smith try to find a gang that’s running on a con man of the families of recently deceased people.

Season 3, Episode 4

Original Air Date: September 24, 1953

Video Theater 118: Four Star Playhouse: Search in the Night

While on the Night Beat, Randy Stone becomes curious when he sees a diver searching the river for something. 

Season 2, Episode 7

Original Air Date: November 5, 1953

Video Theater 117: Richard Diamond: The Pete Rocco Case

A criminal escapes prison, vowing revenge on Diamond for sending him up. The criminal’s mother hires Diamond to bring him in.

Season 1, Episode 10

Original Air Date: September 9, 1957

Listen to radio version of the Pete Rocco Case