Category: Video Theater

Video Theater 161: Dragnet: The Big Present

Friday and Smith investigate a series of burglaries where they suspect a juvenile is the perpetrator.

Season 4, Episode 9

Original Air Date: October 21, 1954

Video Theater 160: The Fat Man

Brad Runyon (J Scott Smart) heads to the West Coast to find out why a Dentist was murdered.

Theatrical Release Date: May 19, 1951

Video Theater 159: Dragnet: The Big Bar

Friday and Smith a series of hold ups where the victims are often shot and killed.

Season 4, Episode 8

Original Air Date: October 14, 1954

Video Theater 158: Sherlock Holmes: The Cunningham Heritage

Holmes and Watson meet and then Holmes has to solve the death of a wealthy man where the evidence points to the man’s ex-convict fiancée.

Season 1, Episode 1

Original Air Date: October 18, 1954

Video Theater 157: Dragnet: The Big Pair

A girl and her grandfather turn to Friday and Smith for help when someone steals everything in their home while they’re on vacation.

Season 4, Episode 4

Original Air Date: September 16, 1954

Video Theater 156: Philip Marlowe: The Ugly Duckling

Philip Marlowe is hired to pay off a woman’s husband’s mistress and finds himself the prime suspect when the mistress is murdered.

Episode 1

Original Air Date: October 6, 1959

Video Theater 155: Dragnet: The Big Crime

Friday and Smith search for two missing twin little girls.

Season 4, Episode 3

Original Air Date: September 9, 1954

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Video Theater 154: Ellery Queen: Buck Fever

While on a hunting vacation, Ellery comes under suspicion when a Sheriff’s Deputy is apparently shot by a hunter.

Season 4, Episode 5

Original Air Date: 1954

Video Theater 153: Dragnet: The Big Fraud

Friday and Smith search for men who extort visiting businessmen by pretending to be police officers.

Season 4, Episode 2

Original Air Date: September 2, 1954

Video Theater 152: Dragnet: The Big Producer

Friday and Smith try to find out who’s behind a group of teenagers selling smut in High School.

Season 4, Episode 1

Original Air Date: August 26, 1954

Video Theater 151: Climax!: An Error in Chemistry

A carnival huckster (Edmond O’Brien) settles in a Mississippi town and marries the daughter of a wealthy recluse. Based on a story by William Faulkner.

Season 1, Episode 7

Original Air Date: December 2, 1954

Video Theater 150: Dragnet: The Big False Make

A man confesses to a robbery and is positively identified by the victim, but Friday and Smith have serious doubts about his story.

Season 3, Episode 39

Original Air Date: May 27, 1954

Video Theater 149: Boston Blackie: Revenge

A man Blackie sent to prison for ten years is out for revenge.

Season 2, Episode 15

Original Air Date: January 23, 1953

Video Theater 148: Dragnet: The Big Threat

Friday and Smith investigate a robbery where the victim is unwilling to testify due to threats from the robbers.


Season 3, Episode 37

Original Air Date: May 13, 1954

Video Theater 147: Boston Blackie: False Face

A friend of Blackie has an exact double who robs the bank he’s president of and frames Blackie’s friend for the crime.

Season 2, Episode 27

Original Air Date: April 27, 1953