Category: NBC

Cloak and Dagger: The Black Radio (A0028)

Today’s Adventure: An OSS agent parachutes into Germany to team up with a local operative to run an underground broadcast to undermine the Nazi propoganda.

Original Radio Broadcast: August 27, 1950

Originating in New York

Starring: Larry Haines, Lily Darvas, Berry Kroeger, Arnold Moss, Stefan Schnabel, Bob Wile, Jerry Jarrett,

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Dragnet: The Big Screen (EP4824)

Today’s Mystery:

Joe Friday and Ben Romero investigate a an epidemic of crooked TV repairmen.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 9, 1951

Originating from Hollywood

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

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Cloak and the Dagger: The Norweigan Incident (A0026)

Today’s Adventure:

Two OSS Agents go into occupied Norway to blow up a key Nazi-controlled bridge.

Original Radio Broadcast: August 20, 1950

Originating from New York

Starring: Berry Kroeger; Raymond Edward Johnson; Jerry Jarrett; Frank Barrens; Karl Weber; Joseph Julian; Ralph Bell

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Dragnet: The Big Late Script (EP4819)

Today’s Mystery:

Friday and Romero are called in to investigate the kidnapping of a local businessman.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 26, 1951

Originating from Hollywood

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

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Cloak and Dagger: Roof of the World (A0024)

Today’s Adventure:

A husband and wife team of geologists are recruited by the IRS to journey into Tibet to seek the favor of the Dalai Lama. They find themselves in competition with two Nazi officers.

Original Radio Broadcast: August 13, 1950

Originating from New York

Starring: Louise Barclay; Grant Richards; Raymond Edward Johnson; Stefan Schnabel; Berry Kroeger; Janice Gilbert; Karl Weber; Ralph Bell; Jerry Jarrett

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Dragnet: The Big Sophomore (EP4814)

Today’s Mystery:

Joe Friday investigates a series of petty robberies in neighborhood stores where the shopkeepers suspect a high school boy.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 19, 1951

Originating from Hollywood

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

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Cloak and Dagger: A Recommendation from Rommel (A0022)

Today’s Adventure:

An OSS agent in Italy finds himself in a compartment on the train has been double-booked, and his travel companion is General Rommel.

Original Radio Broadcast: August 6, 1950

Originating from New York

Starring: Ralph Bell; Barry Kroeger; Jan Miner; Boris Aplon; Arnold Moss; Jerry Jarrett; Raymond Edward Johnson; Karl Weber

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Dragnet: The Big Set-Up (EP4809)

Today’s Mystery:

Joe Friday and Ben Romero investigate a series of burglaries targeting wealthy homes.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 12, 1951

Originating from Hollywood

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

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Cloak and Dagger: Swastika on the Windmill (A0020)

Today’s Adventure: An OSS agent goes behind enemy lines into occupied Holland to stay at his uncle’s house.

Original Radio Broadcast: July 30, 1950

Originating from New York

Starring: Les Tremayne; Lester Fletcher; Harvey Hayes; Jared Burke; Gordon Stern; Francois Grimar; Basil Langton; Patricia Courtleigh; Beulah Garrick; Victor Chapin

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Dragnet: The Big Love (EP4804)

Today’s Mystery:

Joe Friday and Ben Romero search for missing woman and her two-year-old daughter.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 5, 1951

Originating from Hollywood

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

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Cloak and Dagger: The Secret Box (A0018)

Today’s Adventure:

Two OSS agents are on a mission to bring in a captured Japanese colonel, but the mission goes awry, leaving the two men in a battle for survival.

Original Radio Broadcast: July 23, 1950

Originating from New York

Starring: Jerry Lester; Larry Haines; Dan Ocko; Irene Hubbard; Raymond Edward Johnson; Karl Weber; Arnold Robertson

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Cloak and Dagger: The Trap

Today’s Adventure:

A cartoonist in the OSS goes undercover in a German-occupied French village ahead of an American advance.

Original Radio Broadcast: July 9, 1950

Originating from New York

Starring: Virginia Payne; Raymond Edward Johnson; Karl Weber; Stefan Schnabel; Jerry Jarrett; Ralph Bell; Lotte Stavisky; Everett Sloan

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Dragnet: The Big Run (EP4794)

Today’s Mystery:

Joe Friday looks for the driver of a hit-and-run driver who struck two elderly women.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 21, 1951

Originating from Hollywood

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

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Dragnet: The Big Building (EP4788)

Today’s Mystery:

Joe Friday and Ben Romero investigate the disappearance of a rich society woman.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 14, 1951

Originating from Hollywood

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

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Cloak and Dagger: Direct Line to Bombers (A0012)

Today’s Adventure:

An OSS agent and an escaped political prisoner go behind enemy lines in Berlin to help support an Allied bombing raid.Original Radio Broadcast:June 25, 1950

Originating in New York

Starring: Bill Zuckert; Everett Sloane; Lily Darvas; Berry Kroeger; Michael Artist; Karl Weber; Jerry Jarrett; Bobby Weil; Brad Barker

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