Category: OTR Detective

EP3175: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Trans-Pacific Import Export Company, South China Branch Matter

Edmond O'Brien

Johnny goes to Hong Kong to investigate a case of very inconvenient arson, knowing that an investigator of a similar fire was murdered.

Original Air Date: August 24, 1950

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EP3174: Mystery is My Hobby: Shots at Curtis Window

A wealthy elderly man asks Barton Drake to find out who’s trying to kill him.

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EP3173: Man Called X: Till Death Do Us Part

George Raft

Ken travels to Lisbon to investigate a racket that helps women get into the U.S. through fraudulent marriages.

Original Air Date: August 7, 1947

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EP3172: Air Mail Mystery: Episodes 1 and 2

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Justice Department investigator Irene Delroy begins an investigation into a series of plane crashes where thousands of dollars in government cash and securities disappeared from U.S. mail shipments.

Original Air Date: Sometime in 1932

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EP3171: Box 13: Tempest in a Casserole

A restaurant owner turns to Dan when his business is being wrecked after he refused to sublet it.

Original Air Date: 1948

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EP3170: Dragnet: The Big Housemaid

Jack Webb

An elderly woman who’s known Frank Smith all her life has had her jewelry stolen by a housemaid.

Original Air Date: July 26, 1955

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EP3169: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Mickey McQueen Matter

Edmond O'Brien

A police officer friend of Johnny’s has a problem and visits Johnny in the middle of the night and doesn’t reveal what’s going on. The next day, his friend is found of an apparent suicide, and Johnny doesn’t buy it.

Original Air Date: August 17, 1950

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EP3168: Mystery is My Hobby: Engaged to Death

Barton Drake investigates a murder at an engagement party where he suspects that someone is pretending not to know the dead man.

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EP3167: Man Called X: Destination Manilla

George Raft

The Man Called X tries to make sure that vitally needed radium is delivered to a hospital in Manilla.

Original Air Date: July 24, 1947

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EP3166: Defense Attorney: Basketball Fix

Marty hired to defend a college basketball player by a man who expects to be murdered and for the basketball player to be blamed.

Original Air Date: July 17, 1952

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EP3165: Box 13: Dan and the Wonderful Lamp

Dan gets a mysterious invitation to a dinner party and wins a bean counting contest and an ugly lamp that somebody wants badly.

Original Air Date: 1948

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EP3164: Dragnet: The Big Bobo

Jack Webb

A woman reports that a police officer shook her down for $5,000 in order to get her husband out of prison.

Original Air Date: July 19, 1955

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EP3163: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Hartford Alliance Matter

Edmond O'Brien

Johnny is called in when a building insured for $300,000 is burned down. The arsonist is caught and fingers the owner.

Original Air Date: August 10, 1950

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EP3162: Roger Kilgore, Public Defender: The Eddie Lewis Story

A prize fighter accuses a disabled veteran of a brutal attempted murder.

Original Air Date: October 12, 1948

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EP3161: Man Called X: Rembrandt in Rio

George Raft

A report from Pegon’s cousin reveals that three Rembrandts hanging at a New York gallery are forgeries and sends the Man Called X to Brazil in search of the actual paintings.

Original Air Date:June 26, 1947

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