Tag: Blackmail

EP3626: Tales of the Texas Rangers: Candy Man

A candy-loving killer blackmails a short-term prisoner to help him break jail.

Original Air Date: September 16, 1950

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EP3615: Casey, Crime Photographer: Holiday

132Stats Cotsworth

Casey and Ann’s plan for a Thanksgiving holiday is disrupted by a reformed safe cracker whose being asked to crack a safe for $10,000 or else.

 

Original Air Date: November 25, 1948

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EP3542s: Mercury Theater of the Air: The Immortal Sherlock Holmes


Sherlock Holmes tries to recover blackmail letters leading to a confrontation with the Napoleon of Crime-Professor Moriarty.

Original Air Date: September 25, 1938

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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

EP3468: Mystery is My Hobby: Death Buys Flowers

An elderly elevator operator’s plan to get “honest” money by helping a rich man foil a blackmail scheme goes wrong when the rich man is murdered by poison.

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EP3346: The Fat Man: Murder Takes a Ham (AU)

Brad is hired by an up and coming politician who’s being blackmailed with a compromising picture, and the woman he says is blackmailing him.
Original Air Date: November 4, 1954
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EP3298: The Fat Man: Murder Squares the Triangle (AU)

A woman who claims a private detective is trying to blackmail her by threatening to tell her husband she has a non-existent lover.

Original Air Date: August 19, 1954

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EP3291: Box 13: Round Robin

Dan is told to go to a hotel and register as John Johnson and finds himself drawn into a web of blackmail and lies.

Original Air Date: 1948

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EP3270: Mystery is My Hobby: Andrew Bradford Runs for Governor

An Independent Candidate for Governor is murdered after an escaped convict ex-friend tries to blackmail him.

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EP3254: Treasury Agent: Lady in Red

Larry Haines

Treasury Agent Joe Lincoln tries to find a way to break a female blackmailer.
Original Air Date: Possibly November 9, 1958

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AWR0136: Lux Radio Theater: The Scarlet Pimpernel (Olivia De Havilland Tribute)

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The wife (Olivia De Havilland) of a foppish English nobleman (Leslie Howard) is blackmailed to help the revolutionary government of France apprehend their arch-foe, the Scarlet Pimpernel, little knowing that her husband is the Pimpernel.
Original Air Date: December 12, 1938

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EP3206: Lux Radio Theater: Murder My Sweet (Encore)

Dick Powell

Philip Marlowe (Dick Powell) becomes involved in a mixed up case of stolen jade, a missing girlfriend,  blackmail, and narcotics.

Original Air Date: June 11, 1945

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EP3164: Dragnet: The Big Bobo

Jack Webb

A woman reports that a police officer shook her down for $5,000 in order to get her husband out of prison.

Original Air Date: July 19, 1955

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EP3144: Mystery is My Hobby: Blackmail

Barton Drake and Inspector Danton investigate the murder of a female blackmailer.

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EP3040: It’s a Crime, Mr. Collins: The Brown Alligator Briefcase

While in Italy, Greg looks into the murder of a blackmailer.

Original Air Date: May 6, 1957

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