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Burton Trent, OTR Detective, Podcast, Syndicated

Burton Trent: A Birthday Present for Dora (EP5102)

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Today’s Mystery: When wealthy aircraft manufacturer Robert Halliday sets out to have two valuable diamonds made into a birthday present for his daughter Dora, a chance encounter with a young woman leaves him drugged and robbed. Investigating on behalf of the insurance company, Burton Trent suspects that the theft was carefully planned.

Original Radio Broadcast:Unknown. The episode is believed to have aired sometime between 1938 and 1942, possibly before or shortly after Australia’s entry into World War II.

Originating in Brisbane

Starring the 4BC Players

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Molle Mystery Theatre: The Comic Strip Murder

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Today’s Mystery: The wife of a successful comic strip artist fears that her husband is planning to murder her. As his popular detective strip, Buzz O’Keefe, builds toward the gruesome death of a character modeled after her, she becomes convinced that her husband intends to carry out the same crime in real life. She turns to the district attorney for protection, but the approaching midnight deadline brings unexpected revelations.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 24, 1944

Production Credits: Corporal Frederick Mitchell, writer; Jack Miller, composer and conductor; Jeffrey Barnes, host; Dan Seymour, announcer.

Originated from New York City

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Broadway’s My Beat: The Kenny Purdue Murder Case

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Larry Thor

Today’s Mystery:

Detective Danny Clover investigates the stabbing death of jazz trumpeter Kenny Perdue, whose body is discovered in the bed of a party host. His investigation leads him through New York’s jazz clubs and nightlife, uncovering a trail of broken relationships, drug use, and a lonely young woman whose husband is serving in Korea. As Clover pieces together Perdue’s final hours, he discovers that grief and guilt may hold the key to the murder.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 15, 1952

Originating from Hollywood

Cast:

  • Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover

  • Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia

  • Jack Kruschen as Sergeant Muggavan

  • Sammie Hill as Karen Marlin

  • Whitfield Connor

  • Charlotte Lawrence

  • Paul Frees

  • Jerry Hausner

  • Bill Anders — announcer

Production Credits: Morton Fine and David Friedkin, writers; Elliott Lewis, producer and director; Alexander Courage, composer and conductor.

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Burton Trent, OTR Detective, Podcast, Syndicated

Burton Trent: A Long Shot

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Today’s Mystery:

When wealthy invalid Oliver Deems is shot dead on his country estate, Scotland Yard investigator MacDonald Craig faces a baffling mystery – nobody appears to have been close enough to fire the fatal shot. Burton Trent joins the investigation, uncovering suspicious relationships, a possible motive, and an apparently unbreakable alibi. Can Trent discover how the murder was committed?

Original Radio Broadcast: May 15, 1938 (probable premiere date)

Originating in Brisbane

Starring the 4BC Players

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Video Theater

Dragnet: The Big Jump

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Sergeant Joe Friday responds to an emergency at a downtown Los Angeles office building, where a distraught man named Walter Harrison is standing on a narrow ninth-floor ledge, threatening to jump at ten o’clock. Harrison is armed and violently resists anyone who approaches him. With time running out, Friday and the other officers must devise a way to bring him safely inside before he carries out his threat.

Original Television Air Date: September 11, 1952

Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 11, 1951

Cast:

  • Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday

  • Paul Richards as Walter Harrison

  • Kenneth Patterson as Officer Bill Lockwood

  • Alice Backes

  • Lillian Buyeff

  • Anthony Jochim

  • Milburn Stone

Production: Jack Webb, director; James E. Moser, writer

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ABC, Counterspy, OTR Detective, Podcast

Counterspy: The Magic Murder (A0136)

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Today’s Adventure:

Harry Peters is critically wounded in a mysterious shooting while interviewing a European scientist working on a secret American government project. As David Harding searches for the gunman, Peters’ life hangs in the balance, and Harding must arrange an urgent consultation with a renowned brain surgeon who is traveling through South America. Meanwhile, an unusual clue raises questions about the identity of the attacker and the intended target.

Original Radio Broadcast: April 4, 1950

Originating from New York

Cast:

  • Don McLaughlin as David Harding

  • Mandel Kramer as Harry Peters

  • Leonard L. Bass, director

  • Paul Milton, writer

  • Jesse Crawford, music

  • Philip H. Lord, producer

  • Jay Jackson, announcer

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Dragnet, NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, Procedural

Dragnet: The Big Impression (EP5094)

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Todays Mystery: Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Frank Smith investigate the robbery of an elderly diamond dealer who was lured to a hotel room and assaulted by a seemingly respectable businessman. With more than $150,000 in diamonds missing, the detectives struggle to locate the thief until a suspect is caught attempting to sell some of the stolen stones. However, the suspect’s unusual appetite for fine dining complicates their efforts to uncover the truth.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 7, 1952

Originating from Hollywood

Cast:

  • Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday

  • Vic Perrin as Sergeant Frank Smith

  • Herb Ellis

  • Vic Rodman

  • John Robinson — writer

  • Walter Schumann — music

  • Hal Gibney — announcer

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Dragnet: The Big Signet (EP5089)

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Today’s Mystery:

Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Frank Smith investigate an armed robbery at a Los Angeles restaurant in which an elderly owner is brutally beaten and a valuable family heirloom stolen. Although one robber is shot by police, his accomplice escapes, leaving the detectives to track him down.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 31, 1952

Originating from Hollywood

Cast:

  • Jack Webb as Sgt. Joe Friday
  • Herb Ellis as Sgt. Frank Smith
  • Vic Perrin
  • Virginia Gregg
  • Harry Bartell
  • Ralph Moody
  • Jim Moser, writer
  • Walter Schumann, music
  • Technical advice from the office of Chief W.H. Parker
  • Captain Jack Donahue, Sgt. Marty Wynn, and Sgt. Vance Brasher, addt’l technical advisors
  • Hal Gibney, announcer

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ABC, Counterspy, OTR Detective, Podcast

Counterspy: The International Intrigue (A0132)

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Today’s Adventure:

David Harding and Harry Peters travel to Switzerland after learning that a notorious international information broker is offering an American atomic scientist—and his knowledge of the nation’s nuclear secrets—to the highest bidder. With foreign intelligence agents competing for the scientist’s services, Harding must determine whether the scientist has betrayed his country and find a way to prevent America’s atomic secrets from falling into enemy hands.

Original Radio Broadcast: October 20, 1949

Originating in New York

Cast:

  • Don McLaughlin as David Harding

  • Mandel Kramer as Harry Peters

  • Marks B. Loeb, director

  • Palmer Thompson, writer

  • Jesse Crawford, music

  • Philip H. Lord, producer

  • Bob Shepard, announcer

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Dragnet: The Big Hate (EP5084)

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Today’s Mystery:

Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Frank Smith investigate the death of a 52-year-old music teacher whose body is discovered in an abandoned freight car, cradled in the arms of a young man who refuses to explain what happened. When the young man finally confesses to killing her, the detectives struggle to understand why he would murder a woman he claims to have loved deeply and who had devoted years to nurturing his musical ambitions.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 10, 1952

Originating from Hollywood

Cast:

  • Jack Webb as Sgt. Joe Friday

  • Herb Ellis as Sgt. Frank Smith

  • Vic Perrin

  • Harry Bartell

  • Joyce McCluskey

  • Jim Moser, writer

  • Walter Schumann, music

  • Technical advice from the office of Chief W.H. Parker

  • Captain Jack Donahoe, Sgt. Marty Wynn, and Sgt. Vance Brasher, technical advisors

  • George Fenneman, announcer

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Dragnet: The Big Trio (EP5079)

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Today’s Mystery:

On the eve of the Fourth of July weekend, Joe Friday and Frank Smith are assigned to Accident Investigation and confront the devastating consequences of reckless driving when a 16-year-old takes his father’s car on a high-speed ride through Los Angeles. As the holiday begins, a succession of traffic calls illustrates how quickly carelessness, alcohol, and poor judgment can turn an ordinary drive into tragedy.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 3, 1952

Originating from Hollywood

Cast:

  • Jack Webb as Sgt. Joe Friday
  • Herb Ellis as Frank Smith
  • Vic Perrin
  • Stacy Harris
  • Vic Rodman
  • Jim Moser, writer
  • Walter Schumann, music
  • Technical advice from the office of Chief W.H. Parker
  • Captain Jack Donahoe, Sgt. Marty Wynn, and Sgt. Vance Brasher, technical advisors
  • Hal Gibney, announcer

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Broadway’s My Beat: The Robert Turk Murder Case (EP5078)

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Larry Thor

Today’s Mystery:

Danny Clover investigates the apparent suicide of Robert Turk, a devotee of occult rituals who has been found with his throat cut after a former member of his cult, Maura Spencer, makes a frantic call to police. When Maura’s fiancé dies soon afterward, under suspicious circumstances, Danny begins examining the strange pattern of deaths surrounding her and the unsettling role that superstition and black magic seem to play in them.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 18, 1952

Originating from Hollywood

Cast:

  • Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover
  • Charles Calvert as Sgt. Gino Tartaglia
  • Jack Kruschen as Sgt. Muggavan
  • Sammy Hill as Maura Spencer
  • Lee Millar
  • Truda Marson
  • Lou Merrill
  • Morton Fine and David Friedkin, writers
  • Elliott Lewis, director
  • Alexander Courage, composer and conductor
  • Bill Anders, announcer

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NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, The Big Story

The Big Story: Too Terrible to be Believed (EP5072)

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Today’s Mystery:

Prince George’s County reporter Arthur Milky becomes suspicious when a young child dies at a nursery home and the medical examiner determines that the boy’s severe head injuries could not have been self-inflicted. When the woman running the home offers conflicting explanations for the injuries, Milky begins investigating both the child’s death and the operator’s troubling history, determined to uncover evidence strong enough to establish what really happened.

Original Radio Broadcast: January 27, 1954

Originating from New York

Cast:

  • Lyle Sudrow as Arthur Milky
  • Court Benson
  • Maurice Wells
  • Louis Van Rooten
  • Barbara Weeks
  • Joan Lorring
  • Ted Osborne

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Video Theater

The Bat (Public Domain Video Theater 305)

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Mystery writer Cornelia Van Gorder rents The Oaks, an isolated country mansion already surrounded by frightening stories about a killer known as The Bat. When a million dollars in securities disappears from the local bank and suspicion falls on cashier Victor Bailey, Cornelia begins to suspect that the missing fortune may be hidden somewhere inside The Oaks—just as The Bat appears to resume his murderous activities.

Original Release Date: December 17, 1959

Cast:

Vincent Price as Dr. Malcolm Wells
Agnes Moorehead as Cornelia Van Gorder
Gavin Gordon as Lt. Andy Anderson
John Sutton as Warner
Lenita Lane as Lizzie Allen
Elaine Edwards as Dale Bailey
Darla Hood as Judy Hollander
John Bryant as Mark Fleming
Harvey Stephens as John Fleming
Mike Steele as Victor Bailey
Riza Royce as Jane Patterson
Robert B. Williams as Detective Davenport

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Counterspy: The Sweepstakes Murder (A0124)

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Today’s Adventure:

After newspaper reporter Tom Fisher and a small-time grifter are murdered while investigating a fraudulent Mexican sweepstakes racket, David Harding sends Harry Peters to Gulfport, Texas, to follow the trail. A distinctive gold poker chip points Peters toward the offshore gambling ship El Toro, where he discovers that the gambling operation may conceal something far more dangerous below decks.

Original Radio Broadcast: October 4, 1949

Originating from New York

Cast:

  • Don McLaughlin as David Harding
  • Mandel Kramer as Harry Peters
  • Maurice Tarplin as one of the criminals (probable identification)
  • Leonard L. Bass, director
  • Jesse Crawford, music
  • Philip H. Lord, producer

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