Month: April 2023

Tales of the Texas Rangers: Ex-Con (EP4064)

Today’s Mystery:

A desperate ex-con agrees to murder a woman for $1,000 and Jace has to stop him.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 29, 1952

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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Lansing Fraud Matter, Episodes Three, Four, and Five (EP4063)

Bob Bailey

Today’s Mystery:

Johnny is convinced that an insurance policy was set up fraudulently, but can he prove it before the beneficiary is able to go to court to make the insurance company pay up?

Original Radio Broadcast Dates: December 14-16, 1955

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Philo Vance: The Shower Bath Murder Case (EP4062)

Today’s Mystery:

Philo Vance investigates the case of a man who threw his bath brush out the window before being found murdered in his shower/bathtub.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 25, 1950

Originated in: New York City

Starred: Jackson Beck as Philo Vance, George Petrie as District Attorney Markham, Joan Alexander as Ellen Dearing

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Dangerous Assignment: Nazi Fugitive (EP4061)


Today’s Mystery:

Steve goes to Malaysia to find an ex-Nazi fugitive who is stirring up rebellion and disrupting rubber production.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 3, 1951

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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Lansing Fraud Matter, Episodes One and Two (EP4060)

Bob Bailey

Today’s Mystery:

Johnny goes to Tucson to investigate the suspicious case of a man insured for $50,000 who died from malnutrition and could not have even passed the insurance physical.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 12 and 13, 1955

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Sam Spade: The Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cottontail Caper (EP4059)

Today’s Mystery:

A private eye from Chicago who lost his license pushes his way into Sam’s office and talks him into taking a case…dressed as a giant rabbit.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 4, 1949

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U.S. Marshal: R.I.P. (Video Theater 247)

A guard is implicated in a payroll robbery. He is left for dead, and speechless, by the gang who committed it.

Directed by Robert Altman

Original Air Date: June 6, 1959

Season 1, Episode 39

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