Category: OTR Detective

EP2864: Dragnet: the Big Shock

Jack Webb
Friday and Smith investigate a series of tunnel burglaries.

Original Air Date: August 24, 1954

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EP2863: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Robert Perry Case

Charles Russell

Johnny is called in to serve as bodyguard to a wealthy businessman who is blown up as soon as his secretary pages him after Johnny arrived.

Original Air Date: March 4, 1949

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EP2862: Boston Blackie: Blackie Gives a Killer a Perfect Alibi

Richard Kollmar

A man insults Mary and Blackie belts him, giving the man an alibi for murder.

Original Air Date: August 4, 1948

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EP2861: Rocky Jordan: The Return of Dr. Pyrue

Jack Moyles

A physician Rocky sent to prison for murder when he lived in Istanbul is in Cairo plotting Rocky’s death? The problem? The doctor died in prison.

Original Air Date: February 26, 1950

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EP2860: Let George Do It: The Investment

An attorney hires George to make a big investment on behalf of an anonymous client but things go wrong because George has a nail in his shoe.

Original Air Date: November 29, 1946

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EP2859: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Imperfect Crime Matter (Listener’s Choice Standard Division #12)

Johnny is called in by an insurance agent who fears a mystery writer is going to murder his wife.

Original Air Date: June 25, 1961

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EP2858: Dragnet: The Big Cad

Jack Webb

An addict provides Friday and Smith a lead in a case of stolen morphine.
Original Air Date: August 17, 1954

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EP2857: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Slow Boat from China

Charles Russell

Johnny goes to Signapore to find out what’s behind delays that are stopping a ship from reaching America.

Original Air Date: February 25, 1949

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EP2856: Boston Blackie: Richard Allistar Disappears in a Vacant Lot

Richard Kollmar

A man leaves a cab, walks into a vacant lot, and disappears into thin air. Blackie thinks the incident may have been tied into a murder.

Original Air Date: July 28, 1948

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EP2855: Rocky Jordan: Paid in Full

Jack Moyles
A few hours after Sergeant Greco stormed into the Cafe Tambourine to try and falsely arrest Jordan for aiding a jailbreak, Captain Sabaya comes to Jordan and asks him to find Greco and help him out of a jam.

Original Air Date: February 19, 1950

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EP2854: Let George Do It: Snookums

George agrees to watch a dog for $200 plus expenses but finds he’s gotten more than he bargained for when he finds out the dog is a voracious Great Dane that’s been reported stolen.

Original Air Date: November 15, 1946

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EP2853: Pat Novak for Hire: Father Leahy (Listener’s Choice Standard Division #13)

A priest asks Pat to intersect an escapee from prison and bring him to the priest.

Original Air Date: April 2, 1949

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EP2852s: Twelve Players: The Lady and the Letters

Jack Moyles

A private eye is hired by the wife of a racketeer to recover some letter she’s being blackmailed with.

Original Air Date: August 18, 1945

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EP2852: Dragnet: The Big Missus

Jack Webb

The wife of a escaped parolee from Michigan comes to Friday and Smith to bring her husband in for his own good.

Original Air Date: August 9, 1955

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EP2851: Dragnet: The Big Rod

Jack Webb

Friday and Smith search for the driver of a souped up car who hit a woman and left her for dead.

Original Air Date: March 16, 1954

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