Category: OTR Detective

EP2576: Dragnet: The Big Little Mother

Jack Webb

Friday and Smith try to find a young woman who’s been forging checks to buy children’s clothes.

Original Air Date: October 6, 1953

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EP2575: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Guide to Murder Matter

Mandel Kramer

After some rainy days, Johnny finally gets in some good fishing in Florida, on a trip that was supposed to be free of business…until a dead body is found in the fishing guide’s garage.

Original Air Date: November 19, 1961
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EP2574: Boston Blackie: The Butcher Mob

Richard Kollmar

Blackie sends an underworld figure to Farraday to provide a tip on the activities of the butcher mob. The figure is caught by the mob and sells Blackie out.

Original Air Date: August 6, 1947

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EP2573: Rocky Jordan: The Two O’clock Man

Jack Moyles

A teenager breaks into the Café Tambourine. When Rocky hands him over to police, he escapes and is shot but not by the police.

Original Air Date: March 6, 1949

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EP2572: Nick Carter: Kidnapped for Sale, Parts Six and Seven

Lon ClarkNick, Patsy, and Scubby are tied up with guns pointed at them as the gang of kidnappers prepares to execute them.

Original Air Dates: April 24 and 25, 1944

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EP2571: Mister Keen Tracer of Lost Persons: The Case of Murder with a Thousand Witnesses

So lost, I'm fading

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A man is poisoned after eating his wife’s pie while judging a contest at the fair.

Original Air Date: September 29, 1949

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EP2570: Dragnet: The Big Try

Jack Webb

Friday tries to talk a man out of committing suicide.

Original Air Date: September 29, 1953

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EP2569: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Wrong One Matter

Mandel Kramer

Earl Poorman calls Johnny out to Florida for some fishing, but first Johnny has to go into the Everglades to check on the health of an insured recluse.

Original Air Date: November 12, 1961

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EP2568: Boston Blackie: Mayor Bob Rogers Assassinated

Richard Kollmar

Blackie and Farraday try to find out who murdered the mayor.

Original Air Date: July 30, 1947

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EP2567: Rocky Jordan: Twenty Fathoms Under

Jack Moyles

An old seafaring acquaintance of Rocky’s asks to borrow his boat to salvage a wreck. Rocky agrees and then finds a newspaper article stating he was financing an expedition brings him unwanted attention.

Original Air Date: February 20, 1949

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EP2566: Nick Carter: Kidnapped for Sale, Parts Three and Five

Lon Clark

Shots are fired but the shooter gets away as Nick closes in on the baby stealing ring.

Original Air Dates: April 19 and 21, 1944

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EP2565: Mister Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons: The Yellow Talon Murder

So lost, I'm fading

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A man asks Keen to solve the murder of his sister, with the only clue pointing to murder by a large bird’s talon.

Original Air Date: September 22, 1949

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EP2564: Dragnet: The Big Slip

Jack Webb

A car dealer buys a stolen car where the seller has the pink slip.

Original Air Date: September 22, 1953

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EP2563: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Monticello Mystery Matter

Mandel Kramer

An older woman and her young husband have the insurance company send Johnny out to their cottage to meet them and go fishing. Johnny suspects something’s wrong.

Original Air Date: November 5, 1961

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EP2562: Boston Blackie: Boston Blackie In Wax

Richard Kollmar

An artist makes a perfect wax statue of Boston Blackie, which plays into a plot of two local mobsters to protect their turf from a mob boss from the midwest.

Original Air Date: July 23, 1947

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