Category: OTR Detective

EP2462: Dragnet: The Big Dream

Jack Webb

Friday and Smith investigate a $5,000 liquor store hold up.

Original Air Date: March 29, 1953

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EP2461: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Low Tide Matter

Mandel Kramer

Johnny is called in by an insurance agent who fears a wealthy man is going to be murdered by his business partner.

Original Air Date: June 18, 1961

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EP2460: Boston Blackie: Blackie Framed for Horse Room Thefts

Richard Kollmar

A man decides to commit a series of robberies of horse racing betting rooms and frame Boston Blackie for it.

Original Air Date: March 25, 1947

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EP2459: Richard Diamond: The Missing Night Watchman

Dick Powell

Diamond is hired to find a missing night watchman who disappeared with $50,000 in consigned jewels

Rebroadcast Date: June 21, 1953

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EP2458: Rocky Fortune: Honor Among Thieves

Frank Sinatra

Rocky tries to help a doctor who has to account for $25,000 in missing drugs and a drug addict son who is behind it.

Original Air Date: March 2, 1954

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EP2457: Night Beat: The “Bug” Killings

Frank Lovejoy

Randy is investigating a series of murders where the killer calls the police in advance of each killing.

Original Air Date: September 25, 1952

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EP2456: Dragnet: The Big Informant

Jack Webb

Friday and Smith are trying to track down a team of safe burglars. Their search leads them to a man who denies involvement but is glad to help.

Original Air Date: March 22, 1953

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EP2455: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Big Date Matter

Bob Bailey

After finishing a case in Miami, Johnny has to drive up to Sarasota. If he doesn’t, it could send another insurance agent to jail. Then Johnny meets a mysterious woman and finds himself investing a robbery.

Original Air Date: Sometime in the first half of 1961

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EP2454: Boston Blackie: The ‘Sam Fisher’ Murder

Richard Kollmar

One of the city’s best-dressed men doesn’t remember his past and then turns to Blackie for help. He takes a cab after meeting with Blackie and the cabbie turns up dead.

Original Air Date: March 18, 1947

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EP2453: Richard Diamond: The Cover-Up Murders

Dick Powell

An anonymous man calls Walt and threatens to commit a murder at 8 o’clock. He succeeds and plans to do it again.

Rebroadcast Date: June 7, 1953

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EP2452: Rocky Fortune: A Sitting Duck for Death

Frank Sinatra

A killer who Rocky put away escapes prison threatening to murder Rocky and those who sent him up. Rocky tries to get out of town, but one of the men on the list wants to use Rocky as a decoy to draw out the killer.

Original Air Date: February 23, 1954

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EP2451: Night Beat: The Policy Wheel Racket

Frank Lovejoy

A blind man tells Randy the leader of a local rescue mission has been severely beaten. Randy wants to find out why but the man won’t tell him.

Original Air Date: September 18, 1952

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EP2450s: Police Woman: The Case of the Scheming Bridegroom

Betty Garde

A woman is interested in marrying a man from a personals ad but fears he’s a murderer, Lt. Mary Sullivan investigates.

Original Air Date June 29, 1947

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EP2450: Dragnet: The Big Impossible

Jack Webb

Friday and Smith think they’ve found the man behind a series of robberies. The only problem? He couldn’t have possibly done it because he was in a sanitarium.

Original Air Date: March 15, 1953

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EP2449: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Stock in Trade Matter

Bob Bailey

Johnny investigates the murder of a man in a small town who lived alone in an old Southern plantation house.

Original Air Date: June 4, 1961

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