Category: OTR Detective

EP3259: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Jarvis Wilder Matter

Edmond O'Brien

Johnny investigates the death of an insured where the man’s wife confessed to killing her husband but insisted it was in self-defense.

Original Air Date: February 24, 1951
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EP3258: Mystery is My Hobby: Wife and Her Friends

Barton Drake and Inspector Danton investigate the murder of a jealous husband who invited his wife’s ex-boyfriends over.

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EP3257: Man Called X: Delta Concerto

George Raft

The Man Called X travels to Columbia to foil a plot to destabilize the country and all of Latin America.
Original Air Date: December 14, 1947

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EP3256: Dick Tracy: Who is the Purple Rider/Junior Kidnapped

Dick Tracy tries to get the criminal responsible for setting off an avalanche that stopped the sled carrying Pat Patton while stopping the Purple Rider from taking the law into his own hand.
Original Air Date: April 13 and 14, 1938

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EP3255: Box 13: House of Darkness

A blind man after he finds a message from someone requesting help written in brail in a library book.

Original Air Date: 1948

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EP3254s: Command Performance: Dick Tracy in B-Flat

Dick Tracy (Bing Crosby) is about to wed his long-time fiancee Tess Trueheart (Diana Shore) but his wedding keeps getting interrupted by desperate gangsters Flattop (Bob Hope), the Mole (Jimmy Durante), and Shaky (Frank Sinatra)

Original Air Date: February 15, 1945

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EP3254: Treasury Agent: Lady in Red

Larry Haines

Treasury Agent Joe Lincoln tries to find a way to break a female blackmailer.
Original Air Date: Possibly November 9, 1958

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EP3253: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The David Rockey Matter

Edmond O'Brien

Johnny travels to Nicaragua to inform a merchant seaman that he’s the heir to over $1 million. He finds the seaman has been charged with murder.

Original Air Date: January 20, 1951

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EP3252: Mystery is My Hobby: Murder at Asa Cook’s House


Barton Drake and Inspector Danton investigate a suspected suicide in a U.S. Senator’s house…that may be murder.

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EP3251: Man Called X: Shipment Condemned

George Raft
The Man Called X goes to Uruguay when a friend is murdered while investigating an entire shipment of meat that was found to be bad by a meat inspector…by the name of Pegon Zellschmidt.

Original Air Date: December 7, 1947

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EP3250: Dick Tracy: Mounties at Pitchblend/Snow Slide


Dick Tracy is in the Yukon, helping the inhabitants of a small mining town stand up to a crook who’s taking advantage of the local uranium miners.

Original Air Date: April 11 and 12, 1938

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EP3249: Box Thirteen: Speed to Burn

A young woman asks Dan to help rescue her ex-con brother from a car theft ring.

Original Air Date: 1948

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EP3248: Treasury Agent: Know Your Money

Larry Haines

A bartender puts the Treasury Department on the trail of some counterfeit money.

Original Air Date: Between 1954 and 1957

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EP3247: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Port O-Call Matter

Edmond O'Brien
Johnny goes to San Francisco to investigate the simultaneous robberies of several branches of a loan company.
Original Air Date: January 13, 1951

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EP3246: Mystery is My Hobby: Hit Plan Gone Astray


An elderly man hires a hitman to murder his terminally ill wife as a “mercy killing.” Then finds out a surgery could save her life, then a Doctor caring for her dies.

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