Category: NBC

Dangerous Assignment, NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast

Dangerous Assignment: Epidemic-Needle in a Haystack (EP4151)

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Today’s Mystery:

Steve is sent to a U.S.-occupied town in West Germany to find the source of an epidemic that’s making everyone sick.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 11, 1951

Originated in Hollywood

Stars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner

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NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, Sam Spade

Sam Spade: The Chateau McCloud Caper (EP4149)

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Steve Dunne

Today’s Mystery:

Sam is hired by a man who received a threat after scheduling a ski weekend with a bunch of volatile guests.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 26, 1951

Originated from Hollywood

Starred Steven Dunne as Sam Spade, Lurene Tuttle as Effie, William Conrad, Jay Novello

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Dangerous Assignment, NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast

Dangerous Assignment: Find Rudolf Karpel (EP4145)

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Today’s Mystery:

Steve goes to Rotterdam, Netherlands on a tip from a female track athlete who claims to have seen a Nazi war criminal at a china shop. The problem? The china shop has disappeared and everyone claims it was never there.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 4, 1951

Originated in Hollywood

Stars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner, Martha Wentworth, Sidney Miller, Barney Phillips, Tony Barrett, Virginia Gregg

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NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, Sam Spade

Sam Spade: The Cloak and Dagger Caper (EP4143)

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Steve Dunne

Today’s Mystery:

A mysterious woman comes to Sam Spade’s apartment dressed as a harem girl, tries to poison Spade, and accidentally kills herself.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 19, 1951

Originated from Hollywood

Starred Steven Dunne as Sam Spade, Lurene Tuttle as Effie

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NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, Procedural, Tales of the Texas Rangers

Tales of the Texas Rangers: Drive In (EP4142)

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Today’s Mystery:

A couple are held up by a teenage boy at a drive in theater.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 14, 1952

Originiated from Hollywood

Starred: Joel McCrea as Jace Pearson, Tony Barrett

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Dangerous Assignment, NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast

Dangeorus Assignment: Outlaw Radio Station (EP4139)

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Today’s Mystery:

Steve is called in to a Balkan country to stop an American who is running an illegal radio station broadcasting anti-American propaganda.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 28, 1951

Originated in Hollywood

Stars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner, Paul Frees, Jeanne Bates, Don Diamond, Stacy Harris, Tim Graham, Shepard Menken

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NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, Sam Spade

Sam Spade: The Red Star Caper (EP4137)

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Steve Dunne

Today’s Mystery:

A foreign correspondent, whom Sam was hired to bodyguard, is murdered while giving a lecture.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 12, 1951

Originated from Hollywood

Starred Steven Dunne as Sam Spade, Lurene Tuttle as Effie, Wally Maher, William Conrad

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NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, Procedural, Tales of the Texas Rangers

Tales of the Texas Rangers: Alibi (EP4136)

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Today’s Mystery:

An elderly store owner is beaten and robbed.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 7, 1952

Originiated from Hollywood

Starred: Joel McCrea as Jace Pearson, Tony Barrett, Herb Vigran, Betty Lou Gerson, Paul Frees, Dan Riss

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Dangerous Assignment: Retrieve Gouczek (EP4133)

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Today’s Mystery:

On the French Riviera, the life of a key scientist, who wants to defect, depends on Steve solving the murder of a famous writer.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 21, 1951

Originated in Hollywood

Stars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner, Betty Lou Gerson, Don Diamond, Hal Girard, Lynn Allen, Fitz Feld

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NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, Sam Spade

Sam Spade: The Biddle Riddle Caper (EP4131)

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Steve Dunne

Today’s Mystery:

Spade is called in by the producer of a true crime radio program to find a witness who claims to know who committed an unsolved murder.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 5, 1951

Originated from Hollywood

Starred Steven Dunne as Sam Spade, Lurene Tuttle as Effie, William Conrad

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NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, Procedural, Tales of the Texas Rangers

Tales of the Texas Rangers: Displaced Person (EP4124)

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Today’s Mystery:

A mother and her son find an unidentified woman dead in the woods.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 31, 1952

Originiated from Hollywood

Starred: Joel McCrea as Jace Pearson, Tony Barrett, Virginia Gregg, Richard Beals, Herb Ellis, Henry Roland, Dan Riss

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Dangerous Assignment: Stolen UN Documents (EP4121)

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Today’s Mystery:

Steve goes to the Middle East to find out how sensitive diplomatic information disappeared from an official’s home, and finds himself investigating the official’s wife’s murder.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 14, 1951

Originated in Hollywood

Stars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner, Jan Arvan, Don Diamond, Wally Maher, Paul Dubov

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NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, Sam Spade

Sam Spade: The Prodigal Panda Caper (EP4119)

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Today’s Mystery:

Sam is hired by a 9 year-old who claims to have been robbed of a toy panda

Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 29, 1950

Originated from Hollywood

Starred Steven Dunne as Sam Spade, Lurene Tuttle as Effie, William Conrad, Wally Maher, Tommy Cook, Cathy Lewis, Sidney Miller, Tony Barret

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NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, Tales of the Texas Rangers

Tales of the Texas Rangers: Three Victims (EP4118)

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Today’s Mystery:

A middle-aged husband and wife are found dead, with their son surviving as the witness.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 24, 1952

Originated from Hollywood

Starred: Joel McCrea as Jace Pearson, Ken Christy, Roy Glenn, Tony Barrett, Virginia Gregg

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Dangerous Assignment: File 72 (EP4115)

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Today’s Mystery: Steve goes to Balkans to recapture a stolen top secret file from an official of a Balkan Country who offers to return it…for a price.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 7, 1951

Originated in Hollywood

Stars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner, Tony Barrett, Raymond Burr, Paul Dubov, Don Diamond

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