Category: NBC

NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, Sam Spade

Sam Spade: The 25-1235679 Caper (EP4113)

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Steve Dunne

Today’s Mystery: A friend of Sam’s asks him to find out why a street musician was nearly brained to death.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 15, 1950

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: Cover Up (EP4112)

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Today’s Mystery:A man shows up at his best friend’s house to find blood on the floor and a stranger claimed to have been hired to take care of the house.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 17, 1952

Originiated from Hollywood

Starred: Joel McCrea as Jace Pearson, Paul Frees, Dolly Major, Lamont Johnson, Leo Curley, Lou Krugman

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Dangerous Assignment, NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast

Dangerous Assignment: Atomic Fission Formula (EP4109)

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Today’s Mystery: Steve goes to Java to make himself a target for someone who’s stolen half of a top-secret formula…and killed the person who had it.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 31, 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 Dry Gulch Caper (EP4107)

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Steve Dunne

Today’s Mystery:

Sam is summoned to a ghost town by an elderly man, who believes Sam is a California Marshal, to help him fight an outlaw.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 8, 1950

Originated from Hollywood

Starred Steven Dunne as Sam Spade, Lurene Tuttle as Effie, Wally Maher as Buck, Alan Reed

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

Tales of the Texas Rangers: Last Stop (EP4100)

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Today’s Mystery:

Jace Pearson suspects foul play in a fatal train crash.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 10, 1952

Originiated from Hollywood

Starred: Joel McCrea as Jace Pearson, Tony Barrett, Leo Curley, Ken Christie, Burt Holland, Whitfield Connor, Jeffrey Silver

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Dangerous Assignment: Recover Stolen Dynamite (EP4097)

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Today’s Mystery:

Steven goes to Panama to take up the case of an old friend who was murdered while looking for stolen dynamite. Steve’s only clue? A piece of string found in his pocket.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 24, 1951

Originated in Hollywood

Stars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner; Stacy Harris, Al Brown, Kay Stewart, Byron Kane, Don Diamond, Raymond Burr

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NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, Sam Spade

Sam Spade: The Dog Bed Caper (EP4095)

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Steve Dunne

Today’s Mystery:

The owner of an investment firm hires Spade to shadow one of her clients, whom she says may be involved in a racket.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 1, 1950

Originated from Hollywood

Starred Steven Dunne as Sam Spade, Lurene Tuttle as Effie

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

Inheritance: The Texas Rangers (Texas Rangers Bicentenial Special) (EP4094s)

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A Texas Rangers Captain is assigned to form a group of special forces to stop rustlers stealing cattle and taking them across the Rio Grande.

Original Radio Broadcast Date:June 13, 1954

Starred: Lloyd Talbot as Captain McNally

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Tales of the Texas Rangers: Double Edge (EP4094)

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Today’s Mystery:

Jace searches for a man who robbed a bank.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 3, 1952

Originated from Hollywood

Starred: Joel McCrea as Jace Pearson, Tony Barrett, Virginia Gregg, Frank Gerstle, Parley Baer

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Dangerous Assignment: Recover a Hospital Chart (EP4091)

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Today’s Mystery: Steve is sent to Macao to locate a hospital chart that could lead to a US ally being defeated for re-election.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 17, 1951

Originated in Hollywood

Stars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Buttefield as the Commissioner, Jack Moyles, Tony Barrett, Tyler McVeigh, Bill Johnstone, Peter Leeds, Betty Lou Gerson

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NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, Sam Spade

Sam Spade: The Terrified Turkey Caper (EP4089)

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Steve Dunne

Today’s Mystery:

A man named Tom Turkey shows up in Sam’s office and says he’s afraid someone’s going to kill him.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 24, 1950

Originated from Hollywood

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

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

Tales of the Texas Rangers: Stick-Up (EP4088)

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Today’s Mystery:

Jace is called in when an elderly town character is shot down in a store stick-up.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 27, 1952

Originiated from Hollywood

Starred: Joel McCrea as Jace Pearson

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Dangerous Assignment: Solve Your Own Murder (EP4085)

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Today’s Mystery:

Steve goes to a South American country to find out who killed a man with papers identifying him as Steve Mitchell.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 10, 1951

Originated in Hollywood

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

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NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, Sam Spade

Sam Spade: Caper Over My Dead Body (EP4083)

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Steve Dunne

Today’s Mystery:

Sam explains to a confused Effie how he’s still alive.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 17, 1950

Originated from Hollywood

Starred Stephen 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: Round Trip (EP4082)

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Today’s Mystery:

Jace Pearson tracks down a robber who robbed and killed a newspaper delivery driver.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 20, 1952

Originated from Hollywood

Starred: Joel McCrea as Jace Pearson

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