Tag: cop killer

Today’s Mystery:

Friday and Romero investigate the murder of a police officer in his home.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 2, 1950

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday; Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero; Stacy Harris; Jack Kruschen; Herb Butterfield

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OTR Detective, Podcast

EP3650: Dragnet: The Big New Years (Encore)

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Jack Webb
A police office is gunned down on New Year’s Eve.

Original Air Date: March 8, 1951

Podcast Release Date: March 19, 2016

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EP3025: Screen Guild Theatre: Call Northside 777 (Encore)

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Jimmy Stewart plays a cynical reporter turned crusader who seeks to clear a man wrongly convicted of murdering a police officer. This episode was based on the 1949 Edgar Award-Winning Movie of the same name.

Original Air Date: October 7, 1948

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Dragnet, NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, Procedural

EP2762: Dragnet: The Big Stop

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Jack Webb

Friday and Smith investigate the shooting of a traffic officer at a stop.

Original Air Date: May 4, 1954

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ABC, OTR Detective, Podcast, Richard Diamond

EP2381: Richard Diamond: The Merry Go Round Case

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Dick Powell

A hood shoots a policeman who mentored Diamond and Diamond goes searching for the shooter.

Original Air Date: January 4, 1952

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Boston Blackie, OTR Detective, Podcast, Syndicated

EP2322: Boston Blackie: Inspector Farraday Gunned Down

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Richard Kollmar

Boston Blackie sets out to find out who shot Inspector Farraday.

Original Air Date: October 22, 1946
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NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, Richard Diamond

EP2291: Richard Diamond: The Chapel Hill Case

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Dick Powell

Diamond and Lieutenant Levinson travel to a police conference in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and meet a police woman who is murdered on the train.

Original Air Date: December 13, 1950

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Amazing World of Radio, Podcast, Summer of Bogart

AWR0028: Humphrey Bogart Presents: Dead Man (Summer of Bogart)

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Amazing World of Radio

An unaired pilot for a Bogart-produced anthology series in which Humphrey Bogart plays a railroad policeman who is killed by a young hobo who hears the dead policeman’s voice wherever he goes.

Audition Date: September 17, 1949

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NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, Richard Diamond

EP2117: Richard Diamond: The Pop Skoals Case

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Dick Powell

Diamond investigates a cop killing and a blind ex-con is tied in.

Original Air Date: February 26, 1950
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ABC, Forgotten Detectives, Hollywood Mystery Time, OTR Detective, Podcast

EP2098: Hollywood Mystery Time: Hot and Low Down

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Dennis O'Keefe

A police captain friend asks Ted and Gloria to persuade his brother not to become a policeman while they investigate the strange deaths of two policemen.

Original Air Date: July 29, 1945

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