Category: OTR Detective

EP2949: Nero Wolfe: Party for Death (Listener’s Choice Standard Division T-3rd Place)

Wolfe sends Archie to a party he was invited to and asks him to call when the murder is committed.

Original Air Date: February 16, 1951

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EP2948: Dragnet: The Big Gone

Jack Webb

Friday and Smith investigate a robbery where a security man shot and apparently killed one of two robbers. However, the apparently dead man disappears.

Original Air Date: November 30, 1954

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EP2947: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Man Who Wasn’t All There

Charles Russell

Johnny is called in because a man, whose wife’s policy was cancelled due to non-payment of premiums the day before she died, claims responsibility for the deaths of twelve policy holders.

Original Air Date: October 29, 1949

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EP2946: Boston Blackie: The Paul Martin Murders

Richard Kollmar

A series of murders breaks out over $50,000 in bonds that were purchased with stolen money.

Original Air Date: February 9, 1949

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EP2945: Rocky Jordan: The Word of a Bishop

Jack Moyles

Rocky witnesses a murder by a woman in a White evening dress, however another witness insisted the murderer was actually a man.

Original Air Date: June 4, 1950

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EP2944: Let George Do It: Drop Dead

A writer calls George in to investigate when a parrot who always says, “Drop dead!” is sold to the owner of a hotel in a run-down area of town and the sailor who sold him is murdered.

Original Air Date: July 23, 1951

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EP2943: Philip Marlowe: The Name to Remember (Listener’s Choice Standard Division T-3rd Place)

Marlowe is hired by the owner of a war surplus store to find out who’s following him.

Original Air Date: April 9, 1949

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EP2942: Dragnet: The Big Switch

Jack Webb

Friday and Smith investigate the murder of a man whose watch and ring were stolen

Original Air Date: November 23, 1954

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EP2941: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: Witness, Witness, Who’s Got the Witness

Charles Russell

Johnny is hired by a bail bondsman to find two missing witnesses who were released on bond.

Original Air Date: October 22, 1949

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EP2940: Boston Blackie: The Five-Note Murder Clue

Richard Kollmar

A composer in a songwriting team is murdered while Blackie’s nearby.

Original Air Date: February 2, 1949

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EP2939: Rocky Jordan: Song in the Night

Jack Moyles

A man in a foreign legionnaire outfit is shot near Rocky’s home in the middle of the night, setting off a string of killings.

Original Air Date: May 28, 1950

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EP2938: Let George Do It: What’s Become of Terry Cable?

A bar owner hires George to find a customer who disappeared and hawked his watch.

Original Air Date: July 16, 1951

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EP2937: Barrie Craig: Zero Hour (Host’s Choice/Wild Card)

Barrie is hired by a man to go to Vermont to investigate a suspicious ski accident that left his estranged wife in a wheel chair.

Original Air Date: February 2, 1954

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EP2936: Dragnet: The Big Dog

Jack Webb

An elderly man sits on a porch brandishing a shotgun and promising to kill the man who poisoned his fourteen year-old dog.

Original Air Date: November 16, 1954
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EP2935: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: Dr. Otto Schmedlich

Charles Russell

Johnny is sent to Los Angeles to find evidence of illegal activity so the company can cancel the policy of a doctor they suspect is a quack.

Original Air Date: October 15, 1949

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