Category: NBC

EP1892: Dragnet: The Big Blast

Jack Webb
A mother is shot in bed with her seven year old sleeping right beside her.

Original Air Date: May 17, 1951

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EP1886: Dragnet: The Big Drills

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Friday and Romero investigate a string of store burglaries.

Original Air Date: May 10, 1951

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EP1884: Boston Blackie: The Missing String of Pearls

Chester Morris

Boston Blackie is accused of stealing a pearl necklace from a jewelry store he frequents, and he discovers behind it all is a distressed, elderly lady clerk.

Original Air Date: August 11, 1944

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EP1883: The Defense Rests: Client Joseph Moriano

Mercedes McCambridge
At the request of an old man, Martha Ellis Bryant undertakes the case of the man’s son who’s serving life in prison for a murder he claims he didn’t commit.

Audition Date: April 17, 1951

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EP1880: Dragnet: The Big Casing

Jack Webb
Friday and Romero arrive on the scene of a woman’s death. Her husband says it was suicide. The evidence says otherwise.

Original Air Date: May 3, 1951

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EP1878: Boston Blackie: Alice Manletter, Dead or Alive

Chester Morris
Boston Blackie is supposed to show a friend’s niece around New York City, but another man picks her up, and Blackie ends up accused of her murder.

Original Air Date: August 4, 1944

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EP1877: Screen Director’s Playhouse: Spellbound

Mercedes McCambridge
A psychiatrist tries to unravel the mystery of a man who believes he murdered another psychiatrist. Will she find out the truth or become his next victim.

Original Air Date: January 25, 1951

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EP1874: Dragnet: The Big Saint

Jack Webb
Friday and Romero try and find who’s behind a drop in recovered automobiles from auto theft.

Original Air Date: April 26, 1951

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EP1872: Boston Blackie: The Devon Caretaker Murder

Chester Morris

Boston Blackie is arrested coming out of a restaurant and accused of murdering a caretaker at an estate.

Original Air Date: July 28, 1944

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EP1868: Dragnet: The Big Speech

Jack Webb
Friday and Romero hunt for a young man behind a series of narcotics robberies.

Original Air Date: April 19, 1951

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EP1866: Boston Blackie: Black Market Blackie

Cheaster Morris

Boston Blackie helps out a woman who owns a ranch and cattle shipping company who is being coerced by black marketeers.

Original Air Date: July 21, 1944

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EP1862: Dragnet: The Big Threat

Jack Webb

A man was held and robbed and refused to tell Friday and Romero about it.

Original Air Date: April 12, 1951

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EP1860: Boston Blackie: Star of the Nile

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Chester Morris
Boston Blackie is accused of stealing a jewel on a train. He’s cleared but quickly drawn into a web of intrigue.

Original Air Date: July 14, 1944

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EP1856: Dragnet: The Big Friend

Jack Webb
A man calls the police to report his wife murdered and that his friend said he committed the crime.

Original Air Date: April 5, 1951

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EP1854: Boston Blackie: 50 Hunter Street

Chester Morris

A friend’s business faces foreclosure unless Blackie visits a mysterious house on Hunter Street.

Original Air Date: June 30, 1944

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