Category: Video Theater

Video Theater 209: Sherlock Holmes: Blind Man’s Bluff

Sherlock Holmes is called into investigate a case where the only clue is a chicken bone.

Season 1, Episode 8

Original Air Date: December 6, 1954

Video Theater 208: Man Behind the Badge: The Case of the Hot Stock

A con man tricks a lonely spinster into giving her life savings to buy worthless oil stock.

Season 2, Episode 25

Original Air Date: June 25, 1955

Video Theater 207: Man with a Camera: Turntable

Mike thinks the pictures he took of a crooked gambling syndicate operator will help a reform candidate win. He’s shocked to find his photos have been used in composites to blackmail the reform candidate.

Season 1, Episode 5

Original Air Date: November 7, 1958

Video Theater 206: Federal Men: Case of the Outside Man

A street gang comes after Mike and steals his camera after he takes a picture at the scene of a fire.

Season 1, Episode 4

Original Air Date: October 31, 1958

Video Theater 205: Man with a Camera: Close-Up on Violence

A street gang comes after Mike and steals his camera after he takes a picture at the scene of a fire.

Season 1, Episode 4

Original Air Date: October 31, 1958

Video Theater 204: Federal Men: The Case of the Iron Curtain

An American exporter willing to deal with countries behind the Iron Curtain sets up a guilt-ridden French survivor of a POW camp to take the fall for him.

Season 5, Episode 16 (1955)

Original Air Date: January 20, 1955
Veteran radio and TV character actor Ben Wright guest stars.

Video Theater 203: Man with A Camera: Profile of a Killer

Mike’s in a bank when it’s robbed by a psychopath. Mike is kidnapped and survives by promising to get the killer prominent media coverage.

Season 1, Episode 3

Original Air Date: October 24, 1958

Video Theater 202; The Case of the Bad Bargain

A treasury man poses as an opium dealer in order to catch a ring of opium smugglers.

Season 5, Episode 12

Original Air Date: December 23, 1954

Video Theater 201: Man with A Camera: The Warning

Mike is called out on a job and is coerced by a criminal into taking a picture of a man as he’s murdered.

Original Air Date: October 17, 1958

Season 1, Episode 2

Season 5 Ep 25 Federal Men Treasury Men in Action

Video Theater 200: Treasury Men in Action: The Case of the Deadly Dilemma

A Treasury Agent (Charles Bronson) wants to get in good with a criminal and gets an opportunity…if he performs a hit job.

Original Air Date: March 24, 1958

Season 5, Episode 25

Video Theater 199: Man with a Camera: Second Avenue Assassin

Mike tries to get a picture of a prize fighter from his old neighborhood who has been blowing off the press. Mike gets punched out in a sparring match by the boxer and then asked to help him.

Season 1, Episode 1

Original Air Date: October 10, 1958

Video Theater 198: Federal Men: The Case of the Buried Treasure

In order to avoid taxes, a man buries $200,000 in his backyard only to dig it up and find the currency full of holes.

Original Air Date: April 7, 1955

Season 5, Episode 27

Video Theater 197: Here’s Flash Casey

Flash Casey (Eric Linden) graduates college and gets a drop at a newspaper, but wants to help the kindly editor of the pictoral magazine.

Original Release; January 7, 1938

Video Theater 196: Code 3: The Benson Case

A woman accused of murder learns a female sheriff’s deputy is undercover as a prisoner. But who is the undercover woman?

Original Air Date: December 24, 1957 Season 1, Episode 39

Video Theater 195: Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome

Dick Tracy (Ralph Byrd) investigates when a gang of crooks including Gruesome (Boris Karloff) rob a bank using a gas that freezes everyone in place.

Original Release Date: September 26, 1947