Category: OTR Detective

EP2011: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Hand of Providential Matter

Bob Bailey
Johnny is hired by an insurance company he’d never heard of to recover $200,000 stolen out of the company’s office.

Original Air Date: November 1, 1959

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EP2010: Boston Blackie: The Murdered Boxer

Richard Kollmar
A champion boxer who was expected to throw a fight doesn’t and then is murdered and Blackie is arrested.

Original Air Date: October 18, 1945

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EP2009: Richard Diamond: The Gibson Murder Case

Dick Powell
A school teacher calls Diamond for help when she finds a body in a locked room.

Original Air Date: October 8, 1949

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EP2008: Private Files of Rex Saunders: The Lady with Hate in Her Heart

Rex Harrison

A woman in distress gets Rex to kiss her and then pulls a gun on him.

Original Air Date: May 2, 1951

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EP2007: Michael Shayne: The Case of the Phantom Neighbor

Jeff Chandler
A woman calls Michael Shayne up to report a dead man in her apartment and that she may have killed him.

Original Air Date: Sometime in 1948

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EP2006: Dragnet: The Big Want Ad

Jack Webb

Friday and Romero investigate a conman who is taking advantage of people selling their cars through weekend want ads.

Original Air Date: October 4, 1951

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EP2005: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Missing Missile Matter

Bob Bailey

Johnny is called in to investigate the disappearance of missile plans from a secret missile plant.
Original Air Date: October 25, 1959

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EP2004: Boston Blackie: Imitation Diamond Bracelet

Richard Kollmar

A jeweler friend of Blackie’s finds an expensive diamond has been replaced with a copy.

Original Air Date: October 11, 1945

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EP2003: Richard Diamond: The Two Thousand Dollar Bundle

Dick Powell

Two thugs show up demanding Diamond tell them where a bundle is, but Diamond doesn’t know what they’re talking about and receives a beating for it.

Original Air Date: September 24, 1949

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EP2002: The Line Up: Wacky Williams’ Wooftop Wrangle

William Johnstone
A disturbed man is holding bar patrons hostage.

Original Air Date: May 20, 1952

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EP2001: Michael Shayne: The Case of the Mail-Order Murder

Jeff Chandler

A man hires Shayne after receiving a note threatening his life.

Original Air Date: Sometime in 1948

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EP2000s: NBC University Theater: Trent’s Last Case

Dan O'Herlihy

Amateur detective Philip Trent tells the story of the case that ended his detective career.

Original Air Date: July 30, 1950

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EP2000: Dragnet: The Big September Man

Jack Webb
Friday and Romero investigate the brutal killing of a beautiful woman.

Original Air Date: September 27, 1951

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EP1999: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Double Identity Matter

Bob Bailey
Several men have died of apparent accidents. However, Johnny’s old friend Lieutenant Randy Singer of the NYPD becomes suspicious when he finds they were all married to the same woman, Johnny’s steady girlfriend Betty Lewis.

Original Air Date: October 18, 1959

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EP1998: Boston Blackie: Charlie Kingston’s Unlucky at Cards

Richard Kollmar
A friend of Blackie’s loses a valuable diamond he left in a card game but when he arrives at Blackie’s apartment to reclaim it, it’s gone.

Original Air Date: October 4, 1945

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