Category: NBC

Dragnet: Production 5 (aka: The Helen Corday Murder) (EP4184)

Todays Mystery:

Friday and Romero investigate the brutal murder of a twenty-one-year-old woman in a vacant lot.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 7, 1949

Originated from Hollywood

Starred: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday, Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero, Raymond Burr as Ed Backstrand, Chief of Detectives, Stacy Harris, Hans Conreid

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Dangerous Assignment: China Sea Smuggling (EP4181)


Today’s Mystery:

Steve is sent to the South China Sea to use a notorious smuggler Captain Jaeger to break a smuggling racket.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 10, 1951

Originated in Hollywood

Stars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner, Tony Barrett, Irene Winston, Paul Dubov, and Jean Tatum

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Sam Spade: The Crab Louie Caper (EP4179)

Steve Dunne

Today’s Mystery:

Sam is hired to look into the disappearance and likely death of a crab fisherman.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 2, 1951

Originated from Hollywood

Starred Steven Dunne as Sam Spade, Lurene Tuttle as Effie

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Dragnet: Production 4 (aka: The Quick Trigger Men) (EP4178)

Todays Mystery:

A police officer is shot and killed in a bar robbery gone wrong.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 24, 1949

Originated from Hollywood

Starred: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday, Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero

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Dangerous Assignment: A Country’s Democracy Threatened (EP4175)


Today’s Mystery:

Steve goes to a South American country where an American is wanted for killing the leader of the Fascist Party in order to prevent the election of an anti-US Government.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 3, 1951

Originated in Hollywood

Stars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner, William Conrad, Betty Lou Gerson, Tony Barrett, Paul Frees, William Johnstone.

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Sam Spade: The Shot in the Dark Caper (EP4173)

Steve Dunne

Today’s Mystery:

A newspaper editor hires Spade to go undercover as a tenant at an apartment building where someone appears to have captured a shooting on their camera.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 23, 1951

Originated from Hollywood

Starred Steven Dunne as Sam Spade, Lurene Tuttle as Effie

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Dragnet: Production 3 (aka: The Werewolf) (EP4172)

Todays Mystery:

A man described as having a face like a werewolf is robbing and mutilating women in the wee hours on the streets of Los Angeles.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 17, 1949

Originated from Hollywood

Starred: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday, Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero, Charlie McGraw as Captain Ed Backstrand

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