Category: NBC

EP2199: Night Beat: Doctor’s Secret

Frank Lovejoy

A doctor, the father of a man executed in the electric chair, keeps calling the warden asking to see the chair.

Original Air Date: August 21, 1950

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EP2198: Dragnet: The Big Mail

Jack Webb

Friday investigates a mail truck robbery.

Original Air Date: May 15, 1952

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EP2195: Richard Diamond: The Ice Pick Murder Case

Dick Powell

Diamond finds a man dead on his office door step with an ice pick in his chest.

Original Air Date: July 12, 1950

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EP2193: Night Beat: Gunner’s Last Fight

Frank Lovejoy

A down-on-his-luck boxer refuses to take a bribe to take a fall and his wife is leaving him over it.

Original Air Date: August 14, 1951

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EP2192: Dragnet: The Big Gamble

Jack Webb

Friday and Lockwood try to break up a floating gambling game.

Original Air Date: May 8, 1952

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EP2189: Richard Diamond: The Tobias P. Briggs Case

Dick Powell

A wrestler hires Diamond to find out what happened to a truck driver who was an old wrestling buddy.

Original Air Date: July 5, 1950

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EP2187: Night Beat: Old Blind Pop

Frank Lovejoy

Randy finds out a blind street musician traded his violin into a pawn shop in exchange for a loaded gun.

Original Air Date: August 7, 1950

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EP2186: Dragnet: The Big Safe

Jack Webb

Friday investigates a series of safe burglaries.

Original Air Date: May 1, 1952

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EP2183: Richard Diamond: The Mary Bellman Case

Dick Powell

Diamond is paid $100 to meet with a female client. He’s knocked out and wakes up next to her corpse with Walt and Sergeant Otis ready to break down the door.

Original Air Date: June 28, 1950

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EP2181: Night Beat: A City at Your Fingertips

Frank Lovejoy

Randy randomly dials a phone number and reaches a woman in danger of being killed by her husband.

Original Air Date: July 31, 1950

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EP2180: Dragnet: The Big Elevator

Jack Webb

A woman’s body is sent up to the third floor of a hospital. Friday and Lockwood investigate her death.

Original Air Date: April 24, 1952

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EP2177: Richard Diamond: Mrs. X Can’t Find Mr. X

Dick Powell

A woman who looks awfully familiar asks Diamond’s help to find her husband while refusing to reveal either of their names.

Original Air Date: June 21, 1950

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EP2175: Night Beat: The Devil’s Bible

Frank Lovejoy

Randy discovers that a man who tried to take a $50,000 medieval satanic book from a bookstore was blamed for the murder of the last owner and his body positively identified.

Original Air Date: July 24, 1950

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EP2174: Dragnet: The Big Bunco

Jack Webb

Friday and Bill Lockwood investigate a confidence man who has been scamming investors out of tens of thousands of dollars.

Original Air Date: April 17, 1952

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EP2172: Boston Blackie: The Frances Fielding Murder

Richard Kollmar

A psychiatrist friend of Blackie’s finds himself the prime suspect in the murder of a young woman and a target for blackmail.

Original Air Date: April 30, 1946
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