Category: Christmas Detectives

The Falcon: The Case of the Unwelcome Christmas Present (EP4581)

Les Damon

Today’s Mystery:

A man who bought a fur coat goes for his girlfriend for Christmas turns to The Falcon when dangerous people want it back.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 24, 1950

Originating from New York

Starring: Les Damon as The Falcon; Larry Haines; Ralph Bell

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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Nick Shurn Matter Omnibus (EP4580s)

Bob Bailey

Today’s Mystery:

At Christmastime, Johnny has to find a beautiful woman, who is the only one who knows the truth behind the murder of a New York club owner, before the killer does.

Original Radio Broadcast Dates: December 19-23, 1956

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Virginia Gregg; Peggy Webber; Don Diamond; Ben Wright; Jack Kruschen; Barney Phillips; Sam Edwards; Ken Christy

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Dragnet: Production 8 (aka the Big Missing/Juanita Lasky) (EP4580)

Todays Mystery:

At Christmastime, Joe Friday and Ben Romero try to find a missing daughter from Utah.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 28, 1949

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday; Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero; Raymond Burr as Sergeant Ed Backstrand, Chief of Detectives; Herb Butterfield

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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Missing Mouse Matter (EP4579)

Bob Bailey

Today’s Mystery:

Johnny is called in around Christmas to find a “singing mouse” that disappeared from a wealthy man’s house ahead of a performance at a children’s hospital.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 23, 1956

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Mary Jane Croft; Howard McNear; Parley Baer; G. Stanley Jones; Bill James; Lawrence Dobkin; Richard Beals

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Broadway’s My Beat: Nick Norman, Santa Claus (EP4577)

Larry Thor

Today’s Mystery:

On Christmas Eve, a recently released convict who’s set to play Santa Claus at a Police Athletic League club Christmas party is taken away in a big car by mobsters.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 24, 1949

Originating in Hollywood

Starring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Howard McNear; Gil Stratton; Shepard Menken; Peggy Webber; Hal March; Bert Holland; Estelle Dodge

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EP3638: Tales of the Texas Rangers: Christmas Present

Two men, pretending to be charity Santas, hold up a bank on Christmas Eve.

Original Air Date: December 24, 1950

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EP3330: Mystery is My Hobby: Boston for Christmas


While visting Boston at Christmas, Bart and Inspector Danton try to help a little boy by clearing his father of murder.

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EP3329: Man Called X: On a Starlit Hill

Herbert Marshall

While in the Middle East, Ken and Pegon crashed a plane. In the desert, Ken meets a young girl who says she doesn’t want to grow up.
Original Air Date: December 21, 1947

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EP3328: The Fat Man: Murder Sends a Christmas Card (AU)

Brad tries to help a woman find her missing husband around Christmas.

Original Air Date: September 2, 1954

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EP3327: Crime Photographer: Christmas Shopping

Stats Cotsworth

While shopping, Casey and Ann see a known pickpocket steal a wallet from a fat man who denies his wallet was stolen. They then find that the money the pickpocket stole was ransom from a kidnapping a year ago.

Original Air Date:December 19, 1946

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EP3013: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: How I Played Santa Claus And Almost Got Left Holding the Bag

Charles Russell

Johnny is sent to investigate a string of department store thefts, but the situation escalates with a murder on Christmas Eve.

Original Air Date: December 24, 1949

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EP3012: Boston Blackie: Blackie, Santa Claus and The Stolen Rings

Richard Kollmar

Blackie chases a jewel robber on Christmas Eve, but when he catches him the rings the robber has stolen are gone.

Original Air Date: December 22, 1948

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EP2702s:Campbell’s Playhouse: There’s Always A Woman

Orson Welles
Orson Welles

A private detective (Orson Welles) decides to give up on his one-man agency and go back to his job with the DA, but his wife is determined to make the agency work and finds herself investigating a murder case that makes life difficult for her husband.

Original Air Date: December 17, 1939

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EP2701: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Phony Phone Matter

Mandel Kramer
Mandel Kramer

Johnny interrupts scheduled time off over Christmas to pick up a check for a previous job and finds himself the alibi for the owner of a factory that was blown up.

Original Air Date: December 17, 1961

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EP2387: Richard Diamond: The Christmas Show

Dick Powell

Diamond performs a 1950s take on the Christmas Carol with his friends.

Original Air Date: December 21, 1951

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