Category: OTR Detective

EP2906s: Frank Race: The Istanbul Adventure

Race encounters a woman in distress in Istanbul and then is hired to help her in her cause: stopping vicious black marketeers who are stealing medicine.

Original Air Date: March 19, 1949

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EP2906: Dragnet: The Big Tar Baby

Jack Webb

A man reports his wife kidnapped but withdraws the report in a way that makes Friday suspicious.

Original Air Date: October 12, 1954

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EP2905: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: Murder Ain’t Minor

Charles Russell

Johnny takes a simple job from a disreputable man to find a woman to sign insurance. Johnny finds himself in the midst of a murder investigation.

Original Air Date: August 7, 1949

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EP2904: Boston Blackie: Joe Gatling Murdered Over Marked Money

Richard Kollmar

A man’s father dies and he expects to collect a fortune from a wealthy gangster in exchange for a dollar bill.

Original Air Date: October 6, 1948

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EP2903: Rocky Jordan: Adventure in Zaqaziq

Jack Moyles

Captain Sabaya suggests Jordan go on an adventure for adventure’s sake…going undercover as an American black market drug buyer.

Original Air Date: April 16, 1950

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EP2902: Let George Do It: Big Brother

A club owner wants to find out who socked him on the head and at the center of the mystery is a girl who has a lot of men who treat her like a little sister.

Original Air Date: May 21, 1951

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EP2901: Boston Blackie: Alice Manletter, Dead or Alive? (Listener’s Choice Short Division #2)

Chester Morris
Boston Blackie is supposed to show a friend’s niece around New York City, but another man picks her up, and Blackie ends up accused of her murder.

Original Air Date: August 4, 1944

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EP2900s: Molle Mystery Theater: Leg Man

The reporter investigates the murder of a bar owner that the police believe is open and shut.

Original Air Date: October 19, 1945

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EP2900: Dragnet: The Big Handsome Bandit

Jack Webb

Friday and Smith investigate a series of hold ups.

Original Air Date: October 5, 1954
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EP2899: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: Who Took the Taxis for a Ride?

Charles Russell

Johnny investigates the theft of a dozen taxi cabs all owned by the same company.

Original Air Date: July 24, 1949

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EP2898: Boston Blackie: Carl Grady, Golf Instructor

Richard Kollmar

A racketeer sends one of his henchmen to kill his wife’s golf teacher because he’s jealous. The henchman is killed and found with a list of colleges in his pocket.

Original Air Date: September 29, 1948
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EP2897: Rocky Jordan: Holiday Weekend

Jack Moyles

A man collapses inside the Tambourine and then asks Rocky’s help to find a female dancer.

Original Air Date: April 9, 1950

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EP2896: Let George Do It: Ponce the Lion

George is called to a small town because the town’s most infamous citizen has been released from the prison and the towns people fear he’ll murder everyone who sent him to prison for manslaughter.

Original Air Date: April 30, 1951

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EP2895: Rocky Jordan: The Case of the Sleepy Camel (Listener’s Choice #8)

Jack Moyles

Rocky’s given three camels by an old friend and that’s when the trouble starts.

Original Air Date: January 16, 1949

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EP2894: Dragnet: The Big Bible

Jack Webb

A man appears to have committed suicide in a locked room, but one piece of evidence suggests a murder may have occurred.

Original Air Date: September 28, 1954

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