Category: OTR Detective

EP2919: Box 13: Find Me, Find Death (Listener’s Choice Standard Division #6 (Tied)

Dan receives a letter to Box 13 where the writer announces he’ll kill Dan in four days.

Original Air Date: Sometime in 1948

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EP2918s: A Life in Your Hands: The Rooming House Murder

A blackmailing boarder is murdered at Mrs. O’Malley’s boarding house.

Original Air Date: September 13, 1949
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EP2918: Dragnet: The Big Key

Jack Webb
Friday and Smith investigate a series of drug store robberies.

Original Air Date: October 26, 1954
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EP2917: Yours Truly Johnny Expiring Nickles Matter or the Egyptian Jackpot

Charles Russell

At the behest of a chaplain Johnny met during the war, he escorts a dying man to Egypt with evidence that could clear a wealthy man who’s about to be executed.

Original Air Date: September 4, 1949

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EP2916: Boston Blackie: Charlie Kingston and The Vanishing 4th Floor

Richard Kollmar

Charlie Kingston is taken for $20,000 at a crooked gambling den. When Blackie comes to get Charlie’s money they find the gambling den has vanished.

Original Air Date: January 5, 1949

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EP2915: Rocky Jordan: The Mystery of the Carl Kleist

Jack Moyles

A German man is murdered and his brother fears for his life.

Original Air Date: April 30, 1950
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EP2914: Let George Do It: Tonight the Mayhem’s Going to be Different

George and Claire are invited to spend a weekend with a woman who pretends to be a longtime friend of Claire’s.

Original Air Date:June 18, 1951

Rebroadcast date: June 9, 1953

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EP2913: Dragnet: The Big Badge (Standard Division #6 (Tied)

Jack Webb

Friday and Romero search for “The Badge Bandit” holds up couples in parked cars while pretending to be a police officer.

Original Air Date: May 4, 1950

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EP2912s: Casebook of Gregory Hood: Death from The Red Capsule

A young woman is poisoned when visiting Gregory Hood’s campfire and Gregory is arrested for the crime.

Original Air Date: July 22, 1946
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EP2912: Dragnet: The Big Mannikin

Jack Webb
A woman reports her husband missing.

Original Air Date: October 19, 1954

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EP2911: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: Out of the Fire and Into the Frying Pan

Charles Russell

Johnny is sent to a State fair to protect a prize hog.

Original Air Date: August 21, 1949

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EP2910: Boston Blackie: The ‘Killer Lightning’ Murders

Richard Kollmar

A woman and her scientist lover murder her husband by lightning.

Original Air Date: December 8, 1948

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EP2909: Rocky Jordan: The Big Gamble

Jack Moyles

A racketeer tries to pressure Rocky into letting him set up gambling tables in the Tambourine.

Original Air Date: April 23, 1950

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EP2908: Let George Do It: Sucker Stunt

George tries to turn the tables on a man who played him for a sucker but finds out he gave him a perfect alibi for the murder of his wife.

Original Air Date: June 11, 1951

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EP2907: Sherlock Holmes: The Solitary Cyclist (Host’s Choice/Wild Card)

John Gielgud

A charming young governess is haunted by a mysterious bearded bicyclist.

Original Air Date: February 27, 1955

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