Category: NBC

EP2492: Dragnet: The Big Carney

Jack Webb

Friday and Smith investigate a series of high-priced shopliftings.

Original Air Date: May 3, 1953

Support the show monthly at: patreon.greatdetectives.net

Support the show on a one-time basis at: http://support.greatdetectives.net.

Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715
(more…)

EP2486: Dragnet: The Big Scrapbook

Jack Webb

Friday and Smith track down three robbers who pulled off a big jewel robbery in San Diego.

Original Air Date: April 26, 1953

Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net

Support the show on a one-time basis at: http://support.greatdetectives.net.

Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715
(more…)

EP2482: Rocky Fortune: Boarding House Doublecross

Frank Sinatra

Rocky stays at a flophouse, but a small man insists that he and his wife had rented the room, but there’s no sign of his wife and the landlords claim not to know him.

Original Air Date: March 30, 1954

Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net

Support the show on a one-time basis at http://support.greatdetectives.net.

Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715
(more…)

EP2480: Dragnet: The Big Rip

Jack Webb

Friday and Smith get a tip on the identity of safe burglars from a suspect in a previous case.

Original Air Date: April 19, 1952

Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net

Support the show on a one-time basis at http://support.greatdetectives.net.

Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715
(more…)

EP2476: Rocky Fortune: Rocket Racket

Frank Sinatra

Rocky is hired for an odd job and dragged to Utah where he’s designated as the pilot of a private rocket ship to the moon.

Original Air Date: March 23, 1954

Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net

Support the show on a one-time basis at http://support.greatdetectives.net.

Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715
(more…)

EP2474: Dragnet: The Big Compulsion

Jack Webb

Friday and Smith investigate a series of false alarms being called in.

Original Air Date: April 12, 1953

Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net

Support the show on a one-time basis at http://support.greatdetectives.net.

Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715
(more…)

EP2470: Rocky Fortune: Psychological Murder

Frank Sinatra

Rocky helps a woman who’s afraid she’ll murder her husband.

Original Air Date: March 16, 1954

Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net

Support the show on a one-time basis at http://support.greatdetectives.net.

Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715
(more…)

EP2468: Dragnet: The Big Chet

Jack Webb

An ex-con gives Friday and Smith a tip in a series of robberies.

Original Air Date: April 5, 1953

Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net

Support the show on a one-time basis at http://support.greatdetectives.net.

Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715
(more…)

EP2464: Rocky Fortune: The Twice-Murdered Man

Frank Sinatra

In a bar, Rocky and a friend who’s an insurance actuary search the bar for the one person in the building who’s a murderer.

Original Air Date: March 9, 1954

Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net

Support the show on a one-time basis at http://support.greatdetectives.net.

Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715
(more…)

EP2462: Dragnet: The Big Dream

Jack Webb

Friday and Smith investigate a $5,000 liquor store hold up.

Original Air Date: March 29, 1953

Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net

Support the show on a one-time basis at http://support.greatdetectives.net.

Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715
(more…)

EP2458: Rocky Fortune: Honor Among Thieves

Frank Sinatra

Rocky tries to help a doctor who has to account for $25,000 in missing drugs and a drug addict son who is behind it.

Original Air Date: March 2, 1954

Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net

Support the show on a one-time basis at http://support.greatdetectives.net.

Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715
(more…)

EP2457: Night Beat: The “Bug” Killings

Frank Lovejoy

Randy is investigating a series of murders where the killer calls the police in advance of each killing.

Original Air Date: September 25, 1952

Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net

Support the show on a one-time basis at http://support.greatdetectives.net.

Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715

Take the listener survey…http://survey.greatdetectives.net
(more…)

EP2456: Dragnet: The Big Informant

Jack Webb

Friday and Smith are trying to track down a team of safe burglars. Their search leads them to a man who denies involvement but is glad to help.

Original Air Date: March 22, 1953

Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net

Support the show on a one-time basis at http://support.greatdetectives.net.

Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715
(more…)

EP2452: Rocky Fortune: A Sitting Duck for Death

Frank Sinatra

A killer who Rocky put away escapes prison threatening to murder Rocky and those who sent him up. Rocky tries to get out of town, but one of the men on the list wants to use Rocky as a decoy to draw out the killer.

Original Air Date: February 23, 1954

Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net

Support the show on a one-time basis at http://support.greatdetectives.net.

Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715
(more…)

EP2451: Night Beat: The Policy Wheel Racket

Frank Lovejoy

A blind man tells Randy the leader of a local rescue mission has been severely beaten. Randy wants to find out why but the man won’t tell him.

Original Air Date: September 18, 1952

Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net

Support the show on a one-time basis at http://support.greatdetectives.net.

Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715

Take the listener survey…http://survey.greatdetectives.net

(more…)