Category: OTR Detective

EP2750s: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Alvin Summers Matter Omnibus

Johnny goes to Mexico in search of a man who embezzled $75,000.

Original Air Dates: October 24-28, 1955

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EP2750: Dragnet: The Big Lift

Jack Webb

Friday and Smith investigate a series of high-priced shop-lifting incidents.

Original Air Date: April 27, 1954

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EP2749: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Rilldoe Matter

Mandel Kramer

Johnny goes fishing with a friend who may know whether a missing insured man is still alive.

Original Air Date: July 8, 1962

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EP2748: Boston Blackie: The Cobb and Vale Trucking Murder

Richard Kollmar

A man turns to Blackie for help when the dead body of his business partner is found in the back of his car.

Original Air Date: March 3, 1948

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EP2747: Rocky Jordan: The Man with No Name

Jack Moyles

A man who was in the Tambourine and refused to give his name is murdered. Some people think Jordan knows all about the man.

Original Air Date:October 9, 1949

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EP2746: Stand by for Crime: Mr. Hendrick’s Mines of Death

Glenn Langan

Chuck thinks something’s fishy when multiple men have been killed at a mine with the mining company collecting on the insurance.

Original Air Date: 1952

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EP2745: Mister Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons: The Rented Cottage Murder Case

So lost, I'm fading

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A man is murdered after making a deal to rent a cottage for $25 a month.

Original Air Date: April 3, 1952

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EP2744: Dragnet: The Big Net

Jack Webb

Friday and Smith organize a massive manhunt for a robber who targets women.

Original Air Date: April 20, 1954

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EP2743: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Vociferous Dolphin Matter

Mandel Kramer

Johnny goes to investigate the possibility of insuring a dolphin.

Original Air Date: July 1, 1962

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EP2742: Boston Blackie: The Twin Midnight Murders

Richard Kollmar
Blackie has to find out how a man committed two murders in two different places at Midnight while one of Blackie’s friends insist that he was with the man at the time of the murderer.

Original Air Date: February 25, 1948

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EP2741: Rocky Jordan: Pattern for Revenge

Jack Moyles

Jordan receives a threatening phone call and Sam Sabaya tells him two other men have already been murdered.

Original Air Date: October 2, 1949

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EP2740: Stand by for Crime: Hollywood Love Triangle

Glenn Langan

Chuck gets involved in a love triangle involving a powerful Hollywood producer.

Original Air Date: 1952

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EP2739: Mister Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons: The Silver Candlestick Murder Case

So lost, I'm fading

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An actor/model goes to a house for a job, decides to leave, and then is murdered with a silver candlestick.

Original Air Date: March 13, 1952

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EP2738s: Nero Wolfe: Dear Dead Lady (Herb Ellis Special)

Wolfe is hired to help a man protect a woman he’s in love with from a man he believes will threaten her. The case turns into a murder case and three rivals end up all accusing each other.

Original Air Date:November 3, 1950

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EP2738: Dragnet: The Big Note

Jack Webb

Friday receives a note from a young woman promising a tip on drugs being provided to a minor.

Original Air Date: April 13, 1954

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