Category: Video Theater

Video Theater 179: Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Careless

A performer in a traveling Western show asks Holmes to solve the mystery of a body found in her room.

Season 1, Episode 4

Original Air Date: November 8, 1954

Video Theater 178: D.O.A.

A small businessman (Edmond O’Brien) is poisoned with a toxin for which there is no antidote.and sets out to find out who murdered him and why.

Theatrical Release Date: December 22, 1949

Video Theater 177: Man Behind the Badge: The Case of Hunted Hobo

A Deputy goes undercover in a Hobo jungle to find a man who’s committing lovers’ lane robberies.

Original Air Date: August 25, 1955

Season 2, Episode 32

Video Theater 176: Climax: Casino Royale

Jimmy Bond (Barry Nelson) tries to bankrupt a Soviet Agent (Peter Lorre) whose gambling with stolen funds at the Baccarat tables.

Original Air Date: October 21, 1954

Season 1, Episode 3

Video Theater 175: Racket Squad: Family Tree

A man decides to turn the tables on a genealogist (Hugh Beaumont) who he believes is conning his wife (Francis Bavier.)

Original Air Date: August 21, 1952

Season 2, Episode 49

Video Theater 174: I’m the Law: O Solo Mio

Lieutenant Kirby befriends a boy whose father was murdered. Season 1, Episode 14

Original Air Date: May 15, 1953

Video Theater 173: Racket Squad: Accidentally on Purpose

A young engaged couple are in an accident after getting a “good deal” on a used car. Captain Braddock of the Racket Squad senses something is wrong.

Season 1, Episode 18

Original Air Date: January 3, 1952

Video Theater 172: Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Pennsylvania Gun

Holmes sets out to solve the murder of a wealthy man killed in a castle. 

Season 1, Episode 3

Original Air Date: November 1, 1954

Video Theater 171: 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

Video Theater 170: 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 169: Racket Squad Kite High

A funeral home director goes to Vegas to get away from his mother-in-law and finds himself the target of conmen running a private game. ‘

Original Air Date: September 6, 1951

Season 2, Episode 1

Video Theater 168: Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Lady Beryl

Lady Beryl (Claudette Colbert) confesses to a murder, but Holmes insists she didn’t do it.

Season 1, Episode 2

Original Air Date: October 25, 1954

Video Theater 165: Dragnet: The Big War

Video Theater 164: Richard Diamond: Picture of Fear

A woman snaps a picture of two suspicious men in the woods and Diamond gets caught in the middle while on vacation.

Season 1, Episode 5

Original Air Date: July 29, 1957

Video Theater 162: I’m the Law: the Cowboy and the Blind Man Story

A singing cowboy asks Lieutenant George Kirby (George Raft) to help out a beautiful professional trick shooter, however she quickly becomes a murder suspect.

Season 1, Episode 2

Original Air Date: February 20, 1953