Category: OTR Detective

EP3034: It’s a Crime, Mr. Collins: White Plumes, Red Blood

A police commissioner of a small Louisiana town is murdered by a knife thrown through the window of a bar.

Original Air Date: April 29, 1957

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EP3033: Box 13: Suicide or Murder

A grieving mother asks Dan to prove her reporter son didn’t commit suicide.

Original Air Date: December 26, 1947

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EP3032: Dragnet: The Big Slug

Jack Webb

Friday and Smith search for a robber who was shot while committing the crime.

Original Air Date: February 22, 1955
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EP3031: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: Alec Jefferson (Youthful Millionaire)

Edmond O'Brien

A wealthy young man whose plunged his fortune into an Independent wildcat oil operation disappears.

Original Air Date: March 7, 1950

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EP3030: Boston Blackie: Joe Gates Murdered on Sightseeing Bus

Richard Kollmar

A man is murdered on a tour bus in broad daylight.

Original Air Date: May 4, 1949

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EP3029: Rocky Jordan: Ace High Straight

Jack Moyles
Rocky is implicated in the murder of a gambler named Ace, and is dealt a hand including King, Queen, and Jack.

Original Air Date: September 3, 1950

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EP3028: It’s a Crime, Mr. Collins: The Chrome Yellow Death

Greg and Gail visit a friend who runs a tobacco plantation in Argentina who fears for his life.

Original Air Date: April 15, 1957

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EP3027: Box 13: The Great Torino

A magician’s assistant asks Dan to protect her from being murdered in a trick involving a gun.

Original Air Date: December 19, 1947

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EP3026: Screen Guild Theatre: Whistling in Dixie (Encore)

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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EP3025: Screen Guild Theatre: Call Northside 777 (Encore)

Jimmy Stewart plays a cynical reporter turned crusader who seeks to clear a man wrongly convicted of murdering a police officer. This episode was based on the 1949 Edgar Award-Winning Movie of the same name.

Original Air Date: October 7, 1948

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EP3024: Screen Guild Theatre: The Mask of Demetrios (Encore)

Peter Lorre

A mystery writer (Peter Lorre) tries to unravel the truth about Demetrios, an international criminal of legendary proportion. In the course of this search, he garners the interest of another mystery man (Sidney Greenstreet).

Original Air Date: April 16, 1945

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EP3023: Sherlock Holmes: New Year’s Eve Off The Scilly Isles (Encore)

Sherlock Holmes and Watson race to save a luxury liner from being blown up.

Original Air Date: December 28, 1947

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EP3022: Philip Marlowe: The Old Acquaintance

Gerald Mohr
Marlowe is hired on New Year’s Eve to a locate a missing fiancée who disappeared at the same day a dangerous convict broke out of prison.

Original Air Date: December 26, 1948

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EP3021: Candy Matson: Valley of the Moon (Encore)

Natalie Masters

Candy goes on vacation at a dude ranch at the Valley of the Moon and quickly runs into murder.

Original Air Date: December 17, 1949

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EP3020: Dragnet: The Big Hat

Jack Webb

Friday and Smith search for a diamond robber.

Original Air Date: February 15, 1955

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