Category: OTR Detective

EP2618: Dragnet: The Big Present

Jack Webb

Friday investigate a series of burglaries that point to a juvenile as a perpetrator.

Original Air Date: November 24, 1953

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EP2617: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Nugget of Truth Matter

Mandel Kramer

Johnny is called in when a wealthy insured woman and her inventor husband have been receiving death threats.

Original Air Date: February 4, 1962

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EP2616: Boston Blackie: The Old ‘Eight-Six’ Disappears

Richard Kollmar

A train disappears and its crew is found murdered.

Original Air Date: September 24, 1947

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EP2615: Rocky Jordan: The Fall Guy

Jack Moyles

A friend asks Rocky’s to hide him from the police and clear him of the theft from a member of Cairo’s diplomatic corps.

Original Air Date: May 1, 1949

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EP2614: That Strong Guy: Bottle of Death

A pharmacist turns to Steve Strong to find a bottle of cyanide that was inadvertently sold as a bottle of aspirin.

Original Air Date: Mid-1950s (probably 1955)

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EP2613: Mister Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons: The Bride and Groom Murder Case

So lost, I'm fading

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A woman who’s only married a week is murdered on her honeymoon.

Original Air Date: January 19, 1950

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EP2612s: Roy Rogers Show: The House I Live In

Lon Clark

A friend is murdered when about to reveal who the town’s racket boss is. Roy sets out to catch his friend’s killer and uncover the identity of the town’s boss.

Original Air Date: November 18, 1954

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EP2612: Dragnet: The Big Flight

Jack Webb

Friday and Smith investigate a market robbery.

Original Air Date: November 17, 1953

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EP2611: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Can’t Be So Matter

Mandel Kramer

Johnny suspects a good friend of committing murder.

Original Air Date: January 28, 1962

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EP2610: Boston Blackie: The Car Bomb Murder

Richard Kollmar

After the owner of a munitions factory threatens to murder a business rival, the rival’s friend is killed with a car bomb.

Original Air Date: September 17, 1947

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EP2609: Rocky Jordan: Consignment for Naples

Jack Moyles

A plane carrying Rocky’s consignment of five crates to Naples crashes. Rocky gets far more from the insurance than he paid and a lot of people are furious with him.

Original Air Date: April 24, 1949

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EP2608: That Strong Guy: The Temple of Horror

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Steve Strong stumbles into a murder in the country and is then tied up and held in hopes he can’t give evidence at the trial.

Original Air Date: Mid-1950s (probably 1955)

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EP2607: Mister Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons: The Case of the Rushville Murder

So lost, I'm fading

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The married daughter of a psychiatrist is murdered shortly after her father warned her that a dangerous patient had escaped and was out for revenge.

Original Air Date: January 5, 1950

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EP2606s: Mayor of the Town: Enemy Agents

Lionel Barrymore

A man asks the Mayor to look after a cane that he’s been told holds the secret to an Axis spy ring and then is killed. The Mayor suspects foul play.

Original Air Date: December 9, 1942

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EP2606: Dragnet: The Big Kid

Jack Webb

Friday and Smith try to prevent a juvenile gang war from breaking out.

Original Air Date: November 10, 1953

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