Category: OTR Detective

EP1912: The Avenger: Diploma of Death

While visiting Fern’s Alma Mater, Jim witnesses a runner murdered at a track meet.

Original Air Date: March 28, 1946

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EP1911: Michael Shayne: The Pursuit of Death

Jeff Chandler
Mike tries to help a woman who is afraid someone is out to kill her.

Original Air Date: Sometime in 1948

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EP1910s: Screen Guild Theater: The Maltese Falcon

 

In this 1943 adaptation of the original hardboiled detective story: Miles Archer, the partner of Sam Spade (played by Humphrey Bogart) is killed while shadowing someone for a client ( Mary Astor.) When the man Archer was shadowing is killed, the police suspect Spade. Spade must find Archer’s killer and to do it he has to match wits against dangerous international criminals (Peter Lorre and Sidney Greenstreet.)

Original Air Date: September 20, 1943

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EP1910: Dragnet: The Big Imposter

Jack Webb

A missing ten-year-old boy suddenly reappears…but is it the same boy?

Original Air Date: June 7, 1951

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EP1909: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Mei Ling Buddha Matter

Bob Bailey
Johnny has to investigate the apparent disappearance of a valuable Buddha statue from a sealed room.

Original Air Date: June 28, 1959

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EP1908: Boston Blackie: Bill Blaine’s Legacy

Richard Kollmar
A wealthy man blackmails Boston Blackie into protecting him from his family, one of whom he’s convinced will try to kill him for his money.

Original Air Date: May 16, 1945

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EP1907: Richard Diamond: The Dick Barton Case

Dick Powell

A wealthy man hires Richard Diamond to find the truth about a man his son believed he killed.

Original Air Date: April 24, 1949

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EP1906: The Avenger: Murder Hits the Jackpot

A murder sets Jim on the trail of a counterfeiting ring.

Original Air Date: March 21, 1946

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EP1905: Michael Shayne: A Problem in Murder

Jeff Chandler
Mike has to square himself with the police when his business card is found on a corpse.

Original Air Date: Sometime in 1948

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EP1904s: Screen Guild Theatre: Whistling in Dixie

Red Skelton
Wally “The Fox” Benton goes down South to solve the murder of a woman’s boyfriend.

Original Air Date: May 17, 1943

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EP1904: Dragnet: The Big Bindle

Jack Webb
Friday goes undercover to stop a heroin racket based in a high priced hotel.

Original Air Date: May 31, 1951

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EP1903: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Life at Stake Matter

Bob Bailey
An old client of Johnny’s summons him on urgent business. Johnny meets one of the man’s eccentric friends who believes he was murdered.

Original Air Date: June 21, 1959

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EP1902: Boston Blackie: Blackie Covers for Mary

Richard Kollmar
Mary confronts an ex-boyfriend with Blackie’s gun. When she returns the gun with a spent shell and Blackie finds a body at his house, he decides to cover up for her.

Original Air Date: May 9, 1945

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EP1901: Defense Attorney: Client: Joshua Masters

Mecedes McCambridge
An elderly wealthy man asks Martha Ellis Bryant to find out which of his sons want to kill him and then one of his sons is killed.

Original Air Date: April 10, 1952

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EP1900: The Avenger: Death Meets the Boat

An Australian heiress is kidnapped and a newspaper photographer is murdered.

Original Air Date: March 14, 1946

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