Category: Nightbeat

EP3526: Night Beat: Gusher James


Randy investigates when a convicted murder insists the crime he was convicted of was committed by a wealthy and influential oil man.

Original Air Date: March 7, 1952

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EP2457: Night Beat: The “Bug” Killings

Frank Lovejoy

Randy is investigating a series of murders where the killer calls the police in advance of each killing.

Original Air Date: September 25, 1952

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EP2451: Night Beat: The Policy Wheel Racket

Frank Lovejoy

A blind man tells Randy the leader of a local rescue mission has been severely beaten. Randy wants to find out why but the man won’t tell him.

Original Air Date: September 18, 1952

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EP2445:Night Beat: Larry, the Understudy

Frank Lovejoy

A young dancer’s understudy puts on an impressive dancing performance that has the show’s owner ready to make him a star. However, he quits and disappears from the theater.

Original Air Date: September 11, 1952

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EP2439: Night Beat: The Bomb On Flight 63

Frank Lovejoy

Randy receives a tip that there’s a bomb on a plane to Denver.

Original Air Date: September 4, 1952

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EP2433: Night Beat: The Man with the Red Hair

Frank Lovejoy

On his night off, Randy meets a woman at a bar. She turns to ice when she sees a man with red hair.

Original Air Date: August 21, 1952

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EP2427: Night Beat: His Name is Luke

Frank Lovejoy

A former burlesque dancer, a shoeshine man, and a delicatessen owner are among those acting out of character and raising money for a mysterious “him.”

Original Air Date: August 14, 1952

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EP2421: Night Beat: Somebody Stop Ann

Frank Lovejoy

A female columnist enlists Randy’s help because she fears her estranged husband will kill her and her children.

Original Air Date: August 7, 1952

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EP2415: Night Beat: Flight from Fear

Frank Lovejoy

An elderly layout man pulls part of a columnist’s article on a young talented swimmer. The swimmer refused to try out for the Olympics and ends up threatening the columnist and Randy.

Original Air Date: July 31, 1952

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EP2409: Night Beat: The Smell of Peaches

Frank Lovejoy

Randy meets a recently paroled old-time gangster who suffered a nervous breakdown who swears he’s being followed by two men who want to kill him for $100,000.

Original Air Date: July 17, 1952

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EP2403: Night Beat: The Old Itch

Frank Lovejoy

Randy gets scooped by an intrepid, globe-trotting, female reporter.

Original Air Date: July 3, 1952

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EP2397: Night Beat: Reformer

Frank Lovejoy

A farmer from rural Illinois comes to Chicago determined to take down a corrupt political boss “with love.”

Original Air Date: June 26, 1952

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EP2391: Night Beat: Lost Souls

Frank Lovejoy

Randy meets a woman who treats everyone on skid row to champagne, steaks, and fresh sheets, and is being haunted across the country by a childhood friend who promises to kill her on her thirtieth birthday but died herself when she was eleven.

Original Air Date: November 16, 1951

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EP2385: Night Beat: Five Days off for Christmas

Frank Lovejoy

Randy gets time off for Christmas, which reminds him he has no one to spend Christmas with. When a boy tries to give him an envelope and is run over by a car, Randy has to find the boy’s mother.

Original Air Date: December 21, 1951

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EP2379: Night Beat: Railroaded

Frank Lovejoy

Randy becomes convinced that a 19-year old woman was railroaded into a conviction for manslaughter of a politician’s wife.

Original Air Date: June 19, 1952

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