Category: OTR Detective

EP2850: Dragnet: The Big Impossible

Jack Webb

Friday and Smith have a positive ID for a suspect who committed several robberies. The only problem? He was in a sanitarium at time of the robberies.

Original Air Date: March 15, 1953

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EP2849: Dragnet: The Big Casing

Jack Webb

A woman is found dead of a gunshot wound, the husband claims it was suicide but the evidence seems to point towards murder.

Original Air Date: May 3, 1951

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EP2848: Dragnet: The Big Betty

Jack Webb

Joe Friday and Ben Romero go after a gang of conmen who are victimizing the families of recently deceased people.

Original Air Date: November 23, 1950

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EP2847: Dragnet: Production 6 (a.k.a Red Light Bandit)

Jack Webb

Friday and Romero hunt for a brutal bandit who robs and beats people while impersonating a police officer.

Original Air Date: July 14, 1949

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EP2846s: Dragnet: The Big Red Parts One and Two

Jack Webb

Following a tip from an informant, Friday goes undercover to bust up a new narcotics ring.

Original Air Dates: January 3 and 10, 1952

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EP2846: Dragnet: The Big Wish

Jack Webb
A boy comes into Juvenile division asking for help to break an addiction.

Original Air Date: August 10, 1954

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EP2845: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Parakoff Policy

Charles Russell

Johnny goes to Ohio to see if he can find evidence to prevent an insured man from being executed.

Original Air Date: February 18, 1949

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EP2844: Boston Blackie: The Counterfeit Sweepstakes Ticket Racket

Richard Kollmar

Blackie believes a double murder of a couple and the killing of a cheap hood are connected.
Original Air Date: July 21, 1948

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EP2843: Rocky Jordan: Madam Dulac’s Daughter

Jack Moyles

A wealthy woman offer Rocky $1000 to break up her daughter’s love affair with an unscrupulous gambler Rocky has a history with.

Original Air Date: February 12, 1950

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EP2842: Let George Do It: The Picnic

While on a picnic, George is hit by a petite shoe and hears a voice asking for rescue.

Original Air Date: October 11, 1946

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EP2841: Candy Matson: Devil in the Deep Freeze (Listener’s Choice (Standard Division #14)

Natalie Masters

Candy is hired by a restaurant owner who found a dead man in his freezer wearing a devil’s costume.

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EP2840: Dragnet: The Big Stand

Jack Webb

Friday and Smith investigate the murder of a man on a street corner.

Original Air Date: August 3, 1954

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EP2839: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Milford Brooks III Matter

Johnny is hired to stop a young insured man who’s determined to commit suicide after changing his beneficiary to a notorious gangster.

Audition Date: December 18, 1948

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EP2838: Boston Blackie: Blackie Framed for Killing John Cummings

Richard Kollmar

Blackie is framed for murder and is locked up when he can’t prove he was out of town.

Original Air Date: July 14, 1948
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EP2837: Rocky Jordan: The Return of Toni

Jack Moyles

Two men begin following Rocky around as he gets a letter that an old flame is back in Cairo.

Original Air Date: February 5, 1950

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