Category: OTR Detective

EP1987: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Buffalo Matter

Bob Bailey
Johnny goes to Buffalo to investigate a $400,000 department store robbery.

Original Air Date: October 4, 1959

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EP1986: Boston Blackie: Bill Crane, Attorney

Richard Kollmar
An attorney asks for Blackie’s help to clear a client facing a perjury charge after the one person who could clear him was murdered.

Original Air Date: September 13, 1945

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EP1985: Richard Diamond: The Henry Baker Case

Dick Powell
An elderly kleptomaniac jumps to her death at the same time a thief who’d been in an upscale department store when she made off with expensive jewels.

Original Air Date: September 3, 1949

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EP1984: The Line Up: The Cornered Cop Killer Case

William Johnstone
The search for a robber escalates when the chief suspect kills a police officer.

Original Air Date: April 8, 1952

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EP1983: Michael Shayne: The Corresponding Corpse

Jeff Chandler
A man comes to Shayne saying he received a letter from a friend in New Orleans–who’s been dead for two years.

Original Air Date: Sometime in 1948

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Suspense: Sorry, Wrong Numbern (EP1982s)

Agnes Moorhead

A bed-ridden woman gets connected to a wrong number and overhears two men plotting a murder and tries to stop it.

Original Air Date: August 21, 1943

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EP1982: Dragnet: The Big 17

Jack Webb

Teenagers are going wild and committing violent crimes without explanation.

Original Air Date: September 6, 1951

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EP1981: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Little Man Who Was There Matter

Bob Bailey

Johnny is called in to find a missing husband where the local police are sure the husband is committing a fraud, Johnny isn’t quite convinced.

Original Air Date: September 20, 1959

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EP1980: Boston Blackie: Blackie Steals a Necklace for Charity

Richard Kollmar
An elderly woman asks Blackie to steal an ugly family heirloom from her safe and give the money to charity. Once Blackie is convinced it’s not an insurance fraud, he agrees. After he and Mary steal the necklace, she reports the theft to the police and fingers Blackie.

Original Air Date: August 20, 1945

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EP1979: Richard Diamond: The Eddie Garrett Case

Dick Powell

A man on death row calls for Diamond and asks him to help his little brother avoid his fate.

Original Air Date: August 27, 1949

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EP1978: The Line Up: Kastro’s Cop Killing Karnage Case

William Johnstone

Guthrie looks for the master planner behind a bank robbery a police officer was killed in.

Original Air Date: April 1, 1952

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EP1977: Michael Shayne: The Case of Tahlani’s Tears

Jeff Chandler
A grifter comes into Shayne’s office and asking for help and when Shayne refuses, the conman is shot. Then a bunch of shady characters are after Shayne in search of Tahliani’s tears.

Original Air Date: Sometime in 1948

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Suspense: The Lost Special (EP1976s)

Orson Welles

Suspense opens its microphone to a condemned man who has a story to tell of how he pull off a daring crime and he’ll name his employers unless they secure a pardon for him before the broadcast ends.

Original Air Date: September 30, 1943

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EP1976: Dragnet: The Big Crazy

Jack Webb
Friday and Romero are looking for a missing woman whose husband is all but admitting to her murder, but they can find no evidence he did it.

Original Air Date: August 30, 1951

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EP1975: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Leumas Matter

Bob Bailey

Johnny is called in to find a wealthy middle aged businessman with a young wife who doesn’t care that he’s gone.

Original Air Date: September 13, 1959

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