Tag: racket

Video Theater 219: Man with a Camera: Blind Spot

An old friend of Mike’s dies why telling him about a racket he’s about his reveal. Mike travels to Lisbon to find who killed his friend.

Original Air Date: December 5, 1958
Season 1, Episode 8

EP3612: Philo Vance: The Blue Lady Murder Case

Vance and Markham are warned that a beautiful lady gangster is going to be moving in on the city’s rackets.

Original Air Date: November 28, 1946

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EP3173: Man Called X: Till Death Do Us Part

George Raft

Ken travels to Lisbon to investigate a racket that helps women get into the U.S. through fraudulent marriages.

Original Air Date: August 7, 1947

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EP3152s: The Fourth Estate: Tip Off

Edmond O'Brien

A reporter (Edmond O’Brien) goes undercover to bust up a counterfeiting racket.

Audition Date:June 26, 1946

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EP3005: Rocky Jordan: City of the Baksheesh

Jack Moyles

A reporter collapses after someone put something in his drink and then he invites Rocky to join a blackmail racket.

Original Air Date: August 13, 1950

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EP2964: Boston Blackie: The Fake Accident Racket

Richard Kollmar

A reporter receives threats after he writes a story that drops a hint about a phony accident racket.

Original Air Date: March 2, 1949

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EP2952: Boston Blackie: The Fred Palmer Waterfront Racket

Richard Kollmar

Blackie tries to bust a waterfront racket as murders accumulate.

Original Air Date: February 16, 1949

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EP2796: Boston Blackie: The Junk Cars Insurance Scam Murder

Richard Kollmar

Blackie tries to solve the murder of a man who refused to go along with a car insurance racket.

Original Air Date: April 21, 1948

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EP2788: Stand by for Crime: Naomi Needs an Operation

Glenn Langan
A desperate man promises to tell Chuck about a racket, but only if Chuck promises to broadcast so that he’s murdered within 48 hours.

Original Air Date: 1952

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EP2516: Dragnet: The Big Gun, Part Two

Jack Webb

Friday and Smith have captured one of the men in a car theft and narcotics racket, but now have to catch the ringleader.

Original Air Date: May 31, 1953

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EP1840: The Avenger: Blue Pearls

A dying woman’s words about “blue pearls,” sets Jim on the trail of a racket.

Original Air Date: January 3, 1946

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