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Dangerous Assignment, NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast

Dangerous Assignment: Riot (EP4253)

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Today’s Mystery:

Steve goes to Vienna to investigate a shooting in which U.S. soldiers have been implicated in an attack on a mine across the border in Hungary.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 10, 1952

Originating in Hollywood

Starring: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell; Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner; Paul Dubov; Bob O’Connor; Paul Frees; Jeanne Tatum; Vivi Janis

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Dragnet, NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, Procedural

Dragnet: James Vickers (EP4250)

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Today’s Mystery:

Friday and Romero have to find out why a man shot down a traffic cop.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 17, 1949

Originating from Hollywood

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

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Dangerous Assignment: Italian Actress (EP4247)

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Today’s Mystery:

Steve goes to Nice, Italy to find out who is behind a ring blackmailing American citizens by threatening relatives living in foreign countries.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 3, 1952

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell; Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner; Howard McNear; Betty Lou Gerson; Nester Paiva; Ben Wright; and Paul Dubov

Link to Pat Novak for Hire Quotes.

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Dragnet, NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, Procedural

Dragnet: The Sullivan Kidnapping (EP4244)

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Todays Mystery:

The daughter of the vice-president of a bank is kidnapped.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 10, 1949

Originating from Hollywood

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

Post-episode Question: Should AI be used to reconstruct lost episodes of old time radio from existing scripts?

Gotham Radio Players Recreation of The Big Cop (Recreation begins at 35:43)

Hot Copy Radio Theater

American Radio Theater

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Dangerous Assignment: A Nursery Rhyme (EP4241)

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Today’s Mystery:

Steve goes to Stockholm to investigate a leak from a project the U.S. is participating in. He finds the head of the project murdered, and a nursery rhyme is the only clue to his killer.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 26, 1952

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell; Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner; Ken Peters; Kay Stewart; Tony Barrett; Dan Riss; Herb Vigran

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Dragnet, NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, Procedural

Dragnet: Eric Kelby (EP4238)

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Todays Mystery:

A man reports his wife missing, but investigators suspect murder.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 3, 1949

Originated from Hollywood

Starring: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday; Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero; Harry Morgan as Captain Kearney; Herb Butterfield

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Dangerous Assignment: The Private Sanitorium (EP4235)

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Today’s Mystery:

Steve is sent to Bavaria to infiltrate a sanitorium, where an American journalist who is wanted for trumped-up charges behind the Iron Curtain is being held incommunicado.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 19, 1952

Originated in Hollywood

Starring: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell; Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner; Byron Kane; Paul Frees; Tony Barrett; Jack Kruschen; Jeanne Tatum

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Dragnet, NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, Procedural

Dragnet: Myra the Redhead (EP4232)

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Todays Mystery:

Friday and Romero have caught two teenagers breaking into their car. Can they use them to find the mastermind behind hundreds of car burglaries?

Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 1, 1949

Originated from Hollywood

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

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Dangerous Assignment: Mr. Alexander’s File (EP4229)

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Today’s Mystery:

Steve goes to Turkey to intercept a thief before he sells a sensitive the file to the highest bidder.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 12, 1952

Originated in Hollywood

Starring: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell; Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner; Harry Bartel

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NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, Sam Spade

Sam Spade: The Hail and Farewell Caper (EP4227)

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Steve Dunne

Today’s Mystery:

A nervous man sets Spade on the case of a man who is about to be executed at San Quentin.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 27, 1951

Originated from Hollywood

Starring: Steven Dunne as Sam Spade; Lurene Tuttle as Effie; Paul Frees; Olan Soule; Junius Matthews; Wally Maher; Sidney Miller; Cathy Lewis; Lou Merrill; Edwin Max

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Dragnet: Police Academy (EP4226)

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Today’s Mystery:

Friday and Romero hunt for a gang of blitz robbers, while an army buddy of Friday’s enters the police academy.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 25, 1949

Originated from Hollywood

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

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Dangerous Assignment: The Smuggling Racket (EP4223)

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Today’s Mystery:

Steve Mitchell is sent to Havanna to meet an informant and break up a smuggling racket. He soon finds himself investigating the murder of the informant.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 5, 1952

Originated in Hollywood

Starring: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell; Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner; Harry Bartell; Herb Ellis; Kay Stewart; Tony Barrett; Nestor Paiva

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NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, Sam Spade

Sam Spade: The Rowdy Dowser Caper (EP4221)

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Steve Dunne

Today’s Mystery:

Sam goes to a rural county to investigate the theft of $53,000 from a bank where an ex-client works.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 20, 1951

Originated from Hollywood

Starred Steven Dunne as Sam Spade, Lurene Tuttle as Effie, Peggy Webber, Verna Felton, Sidney Miller, Alice Wellman, Charles Smith, Nestor Paiva,

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Dragnet: Production 11 (aka: Sixteen Jewel Thefts) (EP4220)

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Todays Mystery:

Friday and Romero investigate a series of nightly jewelry thefts.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 18, 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, Harry Morgan, Jack Kruschen, Herb Butterfield

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Dangerous Assignment: The Butterfly Chasers (EP4217)

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Today’s Mystery:

Steve parachutes into Brazil in pursuit of a party of lepidopterists, one of whom has a sensitive document that belongs to the US and has been auctioned off to the highest bidder.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 22, 1952

Originated in Hollywood

Stars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner

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