Category: NBC

EP1916: Dragnet: The Big Building

Jack Webb
The wealthy wife of a dentist has disappeared and foul play is suspected.

Original Air Date: June 14, 1951

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EP1913: Richard Diamond: The Ralph Chase Case

Dick PowellThe executor of a wealthy young heiress’ estate calls Diamond in when he fears his niece is about to marry an unsavory character.

Original Air Date: May 15, 1949

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EP1910: Dragnet: The Big Imposter

Jack Webb

A missing ten-year-old boy suddenly reappears…but is it the same boy?

Original Air Date: June 7, 1951

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EP1907: Richard Diamond: The Dick Barton Case

Dick Powell

A wealthy man hires Richard Diamond to find the truth about a man his son believed he killed.

Original Air Date: April 24, 1949

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EP1904: Dragnet: The Big Bindle

Jack Webb
Friday goes undercover to stop a heroin racket based in a high priced hotel.

Original Air Date: May 31, 1951

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EP1898: Dragnet: The Big Mailman

Jack Webb
Friday and Romero work with a postal inspector to find a man who has been stealing checks from mailboxes and cashing them.

Original Air Date: May 24, 1951

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EP1896: Boston Blackie: The Murder of John Walters

Richard Kollmar
Blackie goes for a pleasant walk in the park and discovers a dead body.

Original Air Date: May 2, 1945

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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

jack webb
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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