Category: OTR Detective

EP2836: Let George Do It: The Kleptomaniac

The kleptomaniac wife of a candidate for alderman hires George to follow her to prevent her compulsion from being discovered before the election.

Original Air Date: October 4, 1946

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EP2835: Boston Blackie: Murder at the Movies (Listener’s Choice Standard Divisions #15)

Richard Kollmar

Blackie agrees to be a technical adviser on a crime film and then has to solve a murder.

Original Air Date: December 13, 1945

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EP2834: Dragnet: The Big Match

Jack Webb

Friday and Smith have one clue to the identity of a robber of an auction house: a partially spent matchbook.

Original Air Date: July 27, 1954

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EP2833: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Clever Chemist Matter (Re-Creation)

Mandel Kramer
Johnny investigates a protest of a change in a scientist’s insurance policy.

Re-creation: October 1979

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EP2832: Boston Blackie: Diamonds Stolen from Blackie and Charlie

Richard Kollmar

Blackie’s friend Charlie is held up while Blackie is visiting and the thieves claim to have an alibi that Blackie has to break.
Original Air Date: July 7, 1948

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EP2831: Rocky Jordan: An Air of Death

Jack Moyles

Rocky narrowly avoids deaths when he finds a man in a local bathhouse murdered by cyanide gas.

Original Air Date: January 29, 1950

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EP2830: Let George Do It: Audition #2

George is hired to find an apartment for an elderly man’s niece and her husband.

Audition Date: April 1946

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EP2829: Easy Money: The Gem Switch (Host’s Choice/Wild Card)

Larry Haines


A small jewelry store has a $5,000 ruby disappear and be replaced with a duplicate. Mike Trent thinks he knows how to get it back–with the aid of a third hand.

Original Air Date: December 19, 1954

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EP2828: Dragnet: The Big Heel

Jack Webb

Friday and Smith investigate a series of burglaries where costume jewelry has been stolen. They believe a juvenile is behind it and the only clue is an unusual shoeprint.

Original Air Date: July 20, 1954

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EP2827: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Tip-of Matter

Mandel Kramer

A dying convict wants Johnny to recover his stolen loot and prevent a killing.

Original Air Date: September 30, 1962

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EP2826: Boston Blackie: The Professor Beasley Murder

Richard Kollmar

A professor with many enemies at Blackie’s alma mater.

Original Air Date: June 30, 1948

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EP2825: Rocky Jordan: The Face of Diana

Jack Moyles

An artist pays off a tab he owes Rocky with a painting, a wealthy man buys it, and when Rocky brings him the difference, he finds the artist dead.

Original Air Date: January 22, 1950
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EP2824: Let George Do It: Audition 1

Right out of the service, ex-GI George Lincoln starts a private investigation firm and gets an assistant and a secretary thrust on him, along with an elevator man who prepares strange food, and a first client who drops dead on the spot.

Audition Date: April 1946

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EP2823: Philip Marlowe: Trouble is My Business (Listener’s Choice Short Division #4)


Philip Marlowe is hired to look into the wedding of a wealthy young man to a woman with dubious motives.

Original Air Date: August 5, 1947
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EP2822: Dragnet: The Big Rescue

Jack Webb

Friday and Smith’s investigation of a robbery is complicated when one of the robbers is broken out along with a murder suspect.

Original Air Date: July 13, 1954

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