Category: NBC

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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Dragnet: The Big Imposter (EP4783)

Today’s Mystery:

Joe Friday and Ben Romero investigate the disappearance of a ten-year-old boy.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 7, 1951

Originating from Hollywood

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

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Cloak and Dagger: The Kachin Story (A0010)

Today’s Adventure: An American OSS agent parachutes into Japanese-occupied Burma to organizea local native tribe to aide the allied invasion effort.

Original Radio Broadcast: June 18, 1950

Originating in New York

Starring Raymond Edward Johnson, Carl Weber, Bill Quinn, Joe Julian, Everett Sloan, Inga Adams, Jackson Beck, and Jerry Jarrett

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Dragnet: The Big Bindle (EP4778)

Today’s Mystery:

Friday goes undercover to locate a high-grade heroin out of a luxury hotel.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 31, 1951

Originating from Hollywood

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

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Dragnet: The Big Mailman (EP4773)

Today’s Mystery:

Joe Friday and Ben Romero join forces with a USPS inspector to correct a forger who is stealing and then cashing checks.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 24, 1951

Originating from Hollywood

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

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Cloak and Dagger: The Brenner Pass Story (A0006)

Today’s Adventure:

An OSS agent undertakes a secret mission to blow up a highway in Italy to block the escape of the Germans.

Original Radio Broadcast: June 4, 1950

Originating from New York

Starring: Boris Aplon; Hester Sondergaard; Berry Kroeger; Virginia Payne; Raymond Edward Johnson; Karl Weber; Joseph Julian; Everett Sloan

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Dragnet: The Big Blast (EP4768)

Today’s Mystery:

A woman is shot in bed while sleeping with her seven-year-old son.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 17, 1951

Originating from Hollywood

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

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The Falcon: The Case of the Strawberry Blonde (EP4765)

Les Damon

Today’s Mystery:

A woman working for the Communist Party in Paris tries to get her husband to steal notes on a sensitive meeting.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 14, 1952

Originating from New York

Starred: Les Damon as The Falcon; Ralph Bell

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Cloak and Dagger: The Trojan Horse (A0004)

Today’s Adventure:

A French agent of the OSS takes a singer to Casablanca to feed inaccurate information to the Nazis.

Original Radio Broadcast: May 28, 1950

Originating from New York

Starring: Jane White; Raymond Edward Johnson; Berry Kroeger; Leon Janney; Joseph Julian; Karl Weber; Guy Sorel; Bernie Gould

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