Category: OTR Detective

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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EP2388: Boston Blackie: Santa Claus and the Stolen Rings

Richard Kollmar

Blackie catches an accused thief but finds the rings he stole have disappeared.

Original Air Date: December 17, 1947

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EP2387: Richard Diamond: The Christmas Show

Dick Powell

Diamond performs a 1950s take on the Christmas Carol with his friends.

Original Air Date: December 21, 1951

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EP2386: Rocky Fortune: The Plot to Murder Santa Claus

Frank Sinatra

Rocky is hired as an assistant store detective and occasional fill in for Santa Claus. He gets into a fight with the store Santa and comes under suspicion when the store’s Santa is murdered.

Original Air Date: December 22, 1953

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EP2385: Night Beat: Five Days off for Christmas

Frank Lovejoy

Randy gets time off for Christmas, which reminds him he has no one to spend Christmas with. When a boy tries to give him an envelope and is run over by a car, Randy has to find the boy’s mother.

Original Air Date: December 21, 1951

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EP2384: Dragnet: The Big Mask, Part Two

Jack Webb

After arresting a copycat, Friday and Smith continue their search for the masked bandit, who confounds them further by changing up his methods.

Original Air Date: January 4, 1953

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EP2383: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Ring of Fire Matter

Bob Bailey

Johnny travels to Mexico to prevent a once-promising but now brain-damaged boxer from being killed in a fight set up by his corrupt manager.

Original Air Date: March 12, 1961

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EP2382: Boston Blackie: The Carl Brown Murder

Richard Kollmar

A gangster threatens a man’s life if he doesn’t pay protection money. The man is murdered by his best friend after asking Boston Blackie’s help.

Original Air Date: December 31, 1946

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EP2381: Richard Diamond: The Merry Go Round Case

Dick Powell

A hood shoots a policeman who mentored Diamond and Diamond goes searching for the shooter.

Original Air Date: January 4, 1952

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EP2380: Rocky Fortune: Murder Among the Statues

Frank Sinatra

Rocky is hired as assistant and night watchman to a shop that sells plaster statue reproductions.

Original Air Date: December 1, 1953

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EP2379: Night Beat: Railroaded

Frank Lovejoy

Randy becomes convinced that a 19-year old woman was railroaded into a conviction for manslaughter of a politician’s wife.

Original Air Date: June 19, 1952

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EP2378: Dragnet: The Big Mask, Part One

Jack Webb

Friday and Smith investigate a series of robberies of grocery stores committed by a masked man.

Original Air Date: December 28, 1952

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EP2377: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Morning After Matter

Bob Bailey

A woman is about to receive $600,000 if her husband is declared dead after seven years of being missing. She pressures the insurance company to bring Johnny in to locate her husband.

Original Air Date: March 5, 1961

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EP2376: Boston Blackie: The Harry Perkins Murder

Richard KollmarA woman in the country asks Blackie to find her brother. Blackie discovers he’s tied to a mysterious car left on the railroad tracks in the path of a train carrying a shipment of gold.

Original Air Date: December 24, 1946

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