Category: NBC

Frank Sinatra

Rocky is a dead ringer for a has-been Bolivian fighter whose managers have arranged a dive but has disappeared. Rocky has to fill in for him.

Original Air Date: December 29, 1953

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NBC, Nightbeat, OTR Detective, Podcast

EP2403: Night Beat: The Old Itch

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Frank Lovejoy

Randy gets scooped by an intrepid, globe-trotting, female reporter.

Original Air Date: July 3, 1952

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Dragnet, NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, Procedural

EP2402: Dragnet: The Big String

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Jack Webb

Friday and Smith investigate the kidnapping of a college professor’s wife.

Original Air Date: January 18, 1953

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NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, Rocky Fortune

EP2398: Rocky Fortune: Companion to a Chimp

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Rocky is hired as a companion to a TV star chimp. Rocky is waylaid and the chimp stolen.

Original Air Date: December 15, 1953

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NBC, Nightbeat, OTR Detective, Podcast

EP2397: Night Beat: Reformer

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Frank Lovejoy

A farmer from rural Illinois comes to Chicago determined to take down a corrupt political boss “with love.”

Original Air Date: June 26, 1952

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Dragnet, NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, Procedural

EP2396: Dragnet: The Big Small

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Jack Webb

Friday and Smith search for an elderly lady forger.

Original Air Date: January 11, 1953

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NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, Rocky Fortune

EP2392: Rocky Fortune: Murder on the Midway

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Frank Sinatra

Rocky befriends an orphan boy and finds himself suspected of kidnapping the boy from his guardian when he disappears.

Original Air Date: December 8, 1953

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NBC, Nightbeat, OTR Detective, Podcast

EP2391: Night Beat: Lost Souls

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Frank Lovejoy

Randy meets a woman who treats everyone on skid row to champagne, steaks, and fresh sheets, and is being haunted across the country by a childhood friend who promises to kill her on her thirtieth birthday but died herself when she was eleven.

Original Air Date: November 16, 1951

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Dragnet, NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, Procedural

EP2390:Dragnet: The Big Little Jesus

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Jack Webb

Friday and Smith try to find a stolen statue of the child Jesus before Christmas Eve mass.

Original Air Date: December 22, 1953

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Christmas Detectives, NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, Rocky Fortune

EP2386: Rocky Fortune: The Plot to Murder Santa Claus

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Frank Sinatra

Rocky is hired as an assistant store detective and occasional fill in for Santa Claus. He gets into a fight with the store Santa and comes under suspicion when the store’s Santa is murdered.

Original Air Date: December 22, 1953

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NBC, Nightbeat, OTR Detective, Podcast

EP2385: Night Beat: Five Days off for Christmas

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Frank Lovejoy

Randy gets time off for Christmas, which reminds him he has no one to spend Christmas with. When a boy tries to give him an envelope and is run over by a car, Randy has to find the boy’s mother.

Original Air Date: December 21, 1951

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