Category: OTR Detective

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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EP3245: Man Called X: Checkmate in Tahiti

George Raft
Ken Thurston travels to Tahiti to investigate a series of “accidents” occurring at a large phosphate mine in Tahiti that’s taken the life of a prominent man who reached out to him for help.

Original Air Date: November 30, 1947

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EP3244: Dick Tracy: Junior Kidnapped/Junior Escapes

Junior is kidnapped by the Mogul who wants the Black Pearl in exchange for Junior’s safe return.
Original Air Date: February 24 and 25, 1938

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EP3243: Box 13: Killer at Large

A man pays someone to find a hitman to kill him. He changes his mind but the go-between he paid is dead, and he doesn’t know who’s gunning for him. He turns to Dan Holiday for help.

Original Air Date: 1948

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EP3242: Treasury Agent: The Case of the Faithful Wife

The Treasury Department’s caught and convicted a counterfeiter but can’t locate the plates.  Joe Lincoln suspects the wife of the counterfeiter of hiding the plates.

Original Air Date: April 11, 1947

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EP3241: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Blackburn Matter

Edmond O'Brien
Johnny heads South to investigate whether the death of another insurance investigator was tied into the death of an insured he’d been investigating.
Original Air Date: December 16, 1950

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EP3240: Mystery is My Hobby: Stella Dix is Murdered


Barton Drake investigates the murder of a wealthy woman who was favored to be elected to the U.S. Senate.

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EP3239: Man Called X: Report from the Arctic

George Raft

A report from a recently arctic expedition that could open the Arctic to colonization is missing.

Original Air Date: November 23, 1947

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EP3238: Dick Tracy: Dick Captured/Escape


Under hypnosis, Pat Patton attempts to obtains the ring containing the pearl and deliver to the Mogul.
Original Air Dates: February 22 and 23, 1938

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EP3237: Box 13: Design for Danger

A woman asks Dan to help her stop a man just released from prison from committing murder or being murdered.
Original Air Date: 1948

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EP3236s: Screen Director’s Playhouse: Chicago Deadline

A reporter (Alan Ladd) finds a woman dead of TB and is determined to find out why she died.

Original Air Date: March 24, 1950
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EP3236: Treasury Agent: The Hate Racket

The Treasury Department tries to infiltrate a nationwide network of hate groups.

Original Air Date: April 14.1947

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