Tag: robbery

Dragnet: The Jade Thumb Rings (EP4304)

Today’s Mystery:

Friday and his partner Romero race against the clock to recover $8,000 worth of stolen Chinese jade. The only lead? A vicious criminal and a six-year-old witness with a wild imagination.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 8, 1949

Originating from Hollywood

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

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EP3692: Tales of the Texas Rangers: Lucky Dollar

A shopkeeper’s wife is murdered in a robbery.

Original Air Date; December 10, 1950

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EP3675: Casey, Crime Photographer: The Wolverine

Stats Cotsworth

An intelligent but insane killer is killing and robbing racketeers.

Original Air Date: May 5, 1949

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EP3627: Casey, Crime Photographer: Tough Guy

Stats Cotsworth

A tough-talking passenger makes a cabbie driving by a theater three times after which it’s robbed.

Original Air Date: March 4, 1948

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EP3573: Casey, Crime Photographer: Queen of the Amazon

Stats Cotsworth

Casey and Ann interview an ex-circus strongwoman who captured two burglars who made the mistake of trying to rob her hope chest. What was in the chest?

Original Air Date: January 8, 1948

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EP3554: Squad Room: February 3, 1954

A woman confessed to killing her abusive husband and then Lt. Douglas investigates a robbery gone bad that left a woman dead by the side of the road.

Original Air Date: February 3, 1954

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EP3499: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Baltimore Matter

John Lund

 

A convicted felon in need of a stake to start a new life offers Johnny half of a $10,000 reward to help solve a years old robbery.

Original Air Date: January 2, 1953

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EP3421: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Tolhurst Theft Matter

Edmond O'Brien
Johnny takes a tip on a robbery case on the condition he not tell the police.

Original Air Date: October 27, 1951

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EP3296: Indictment: The Grand Slam Heist

The Assistant DA suspects a major fur robbery was an inside job.

Original Air Date: September 1958

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EP3279: Box 13: Archimedes and The Roman

A letter from a young boy leads 250 miles from home where he’s held hostage in an observatory by a jewelry robbery.

Original Air Date: 1948

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EP3263: The Man Called X: Assignment: Naples

George Raft
Ken Thurston goes to Naples to protect a shipment of seeds, and is robbed by two juvenile war orphans.

Original Air Date: December 28, 1947

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EP3197: Air Mail Mystery: Episodes 12 and 13

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Fitz repairs the plane in mid-air and then parachutes down below as the search for Jimmy Gifford and the perpetrators of the air mail robbery comes to a head.

Original Air Date: 1932

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EP3182: Dragnet: The Big Missus

Jack Webb

The wife of a man who broke parole in Michigan wants the police to bring her husband in before he returns to a life of robbery.

Original Air Date: August 9, 1955
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EP3176: Dragnet: The Big Sheet

Jack Webb

Friday and Smith investigate a drug store robbery.

Original Air Date: August 2, 1955

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EP3152: Dragnet: The Big Rush

Jack Webb

Friday and Smith investigate a series of tavern robberies.

Original Air Date: July 5, 1955

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