Category: NBC

Dragnet: The Big September Man (EP4859)

Today’s Mystery:

Joe Friday and Ben Romero investigate the brutal killing of a woman who worked in an office building.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 27, 1951

Originating from Hollywood

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

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The Big Story: The Case of the Final Curtain (EP4857)

Today’s Mystery:

A woman suspects that her father was poisoned in a nursing home.

Original Radio Broadcast: December 7, 1947

Originating from New York

Starring: Les Tremayne as Aubrey Maddock; Alice Reinhart; Ted Osborn; Agnes Young; John Gibson; Will Geer

Windsor Historical Society article on the murders: https://windsorhistoricalsociety.org/amy-archer-gilligan-entrepreneurism-gone-wrong-in-windsor/

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Cloak and Dagger: Delay on Route (A0040)

Today’s Adventure:

In a territory the partisans seized from the fascists in Italy, an OSS agent has to sneak out two fascists ready to give vital information to the Allies and finds himself having to overcome his partisan comrades to do so.

Original Radio Broadcast: October 6, 1950

Originating from New York

Starring: Grant Richards; Arnold Moss; Luis Van Rooten

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Cloak and Dagger: Delay on Route

Today’s Adventure:

In a territory the partisans seized from the fascists in Italy, an OSS agent has to sneak out two fascists ready to give vital information to the Allies and finds himself having to overcome his partisan comrades to do so.

Original Radio Broadcast: October 6, 1950

Originating in New York

Starring: Grant Richards; Arnold Moss; Luis Van Rooten

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Dragnet: The Big Sour (EP4854)

Today’s Mystery:

Two men rob an elderly couple and torture the husband in order to steal their jewelry.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 20, 1951

Originating from Hollywood

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

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Cloak and Dagger: The Last Mission (A0038)

Today’s Adventure:

A woman in Canton, whose family was murdered by the Japanese military, makes an unusual connection with the OSS.

Original Radio Broadcast: September 29, 1950

Originating from New York

Starring: Bryna Raeburn; Ian Martin; Arnold Moss; Ralph Bell; Raymond Edward Johnson; Karl Weber

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Dragnet: The Big Waiter (EP4849)

Today’s Mystery:

Joe Friday and Ben Romero investigating the murder of the philandering owner of a habadashery store.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 13,1951

Originating from Hollywood

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

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The Big Story: The Bobby-Sox Kid from Bayonne (EP4847)

Today’s Mystery:

Dorothy Kilgaren is called in to investigate the killing-by-hatchet of a woman; police suspect her seventeen-year-old daughter.

Original Radio Broadcast: October 15, 1947

Originating from New York

Starring: Janet Fox as Dorothy Kilgaren; Burt Brazier; Francis De Sales; Jerry Lewis; Mitzi Gould; Eleanor Audley

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Cloak and Dagger: Operation Sellout (A0036)

Today’s Adventure:

An OSS agent leads a mission with a British officer and a former German officer.

Original Radio Broadcast: September 22, 1950

Originating from New York

Starring: Carl Eastman; Louise Erickson; Ian Martin; Luis Van Rooten; Arnold Moss; Karl Weber; Raymond Edward Johnson

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Dragnet: The Big Seventeen (EP4844)

Today’s Mystery:

Joe Friday and Ben Romero investigate teens going wild in a neighborhood, culminating in a small riot in a theater.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 6, 1951

Originating from Hollywood

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

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The Big Story: The Case of the Counterfeit Coins (EP4842)

Today’s Mystery:

Reporter Jack Adams goes undercover in a gang of counterfeiters to catch the man at the top.

Original Radio Broadcast: October 19, 1947

Originating from New York

Starring: Dwight Weist as Jack Adams; Mason Adams; Larry Haines; Richard Keith; Eileen Heckart; James Boles; Jackson Beck

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Adventure Ahead: Inside the FBI

Today’s Adventure:

An FBI agent tells a young visitor about a case that began with cattle rustling but led to a nationwide conspiracy.

Originating Radio Broadcast Date: August 26, 1944

Originating from New York

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Cloak and Dagger: Seeds of Doubt (A0034)

Today’s Adventure:

In the waning days of the war, an OSS agent impersonates a dead Frenchman and pretends to marry his fiancée in order to weed out German agents trying to undermine Allied morale.

Original Radio Broadcast: September 15, 1950

Originating from New York

Starring: Charles Webster; Alice Frost; Joseph Julian; Karl Weber; Evie Juster; Jerry Jarrett; Louis Sorin; Horace Braham; Anna Karen

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Dragnet: The Big Crazy (EP4839)

Today’s Mystery:

A woman is missing and her sister suspects her milquetoast husband of murder.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 30, 1951

Originating from Hollywood

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

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The Big Story: The Thirteenth Key (EP4837)

Today’s Mystery:

A Columbus reporter investigates the brutal stabbing death of a woman found at a shooting range.

Original Radio Broadcast: June 4, 1947

Originating from New York

Starring: John Gibson as James Fusco of the Columbus Citizen; James McCallion; Gilbert Mack; Ward Wilson; Horace Braham; Connie Lembke; Janet Fox

Related: Columbus Underground article on the true story behind this week’s episode. (NSFW)

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