Category: OTR Detective

EP2402s: Studio One: Anthony Adverse

Bud Collyer

A young adventurer is sent to the New World to find out why his Guardian’s debtors haven’t been paying. He discovers they’ve been missing for a year.

Original Air Date: October 14, 1947

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EP2402: Dragnet: The Big String

Jack Webb

Friday and Smith investigate the kidnapping of a college professor’s wife.

Original Air Date: January 18, 1953

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EP2401: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Two’s A Crowd Matter

Bob Bailey

Johnny heads West to find a missing robber. He has to find him before a mentally ill NYPD officer administers his own rough form of justice.

Original Air Date: March 26, 1961

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EP2400: Boston Blackie: Blackie Framed for Fur Thefts

Richard Kollmar

Two fur thieves try and use Blackie as a patsy for their crimes.

Original Air Date: January 14, 1947

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EP2399: Richard Diamond: The Simpson Case

Dick Powell

Diamond is hired to find out who’s been taking shots at a wealthy man who made his fortune in oil.

Original Air Date: January 18, 1952

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EP2398: Rocky Fortune: Companion to a Chimp

Frank Sinatra

Rocky is hired as a companion to a TV star chimp. Rocky is waylaid and the chimp stolen.

Original Air Date: December 15, 1953

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EP2397: Night Beat: Reformer

Frank Lovejoy

A farmer from rural Illinois comes to Chicago determined to take down a corrupt political boss “with love.”

Original Air Date: June 26, 1952

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EP2396: Dragnet: The Big Small

Jack Webb

Friday and Smith search for an elderly lady forger.

Original Air Date: January 11, 1953

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EP2395: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Informer Matter

Bob Bailey

A man calls Johnny up to tell him about a murder and that he’s not investing but then changes his mind.

Original Air Date: March 19, 1961

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EP2394: Boston Blackie: The Candy Store Murders

Richard Kollmar

Blackie goes to collect money for Shorty from someone Inspector Farraday’s about to arrest. They’re both disappointed when their quarry’s blown up.

Original Air Date: January 7, 1946

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EP2393: Richard Diamond: The White Cow Case

Dick Powell

Diamond is hired to go to Florida to purchase an object for a man who will pay him a big fee if he succeeds.

Original Air Date: January 11, 1952

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EP2392: Rocky Fortune: Murder on the Midway

Frank Sinatra

Rocky befriends an orphan boy and finds himself suspected of kidnapping the boy from his guardian when he disappears.

Original Air Date: December 8, 1953

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EP2391: Night Beat: Lost Souls

Frank Lovejoy

Randy meets a woman who treats everyone on skid row to champagne, steaks, and fresh sheets, and is being haunted across the country by a childhood friend who promises to kill her on her thirtieth birthday but died herself when she was eleven.

Original Air Date: November 16, 1951

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EP2390:Dragnet: The Big Little Jesus

Jack Webb

Friday and Smith try to find a stolen statue of the child Jesus before Christmas Eve mass.

Original Air Date: December 22, 1953

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EP2389: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Karmen Kringle Matter

Bob Bailey
On Christmas Eve, an eccentric miner wants to change the beneficiary of his life insurance to his beloved burrow.

Original Air Date: December 22, 1957

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