Category: Podcast

EP2409: Night Beat: The Smell of Peaches

Frank Lovejoy

Randy meets a recently paroled old-time gangster who suffered a nervous breakdown who swears he’s being followed by two men who want to kill him for $100,000.

Original Air Date: July 17, 1952

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Video Theater 123: Dragnet: The Big Will

Friday and Smith investigate the death of a middle-aged man.

Original Air Date: November 12, 1953

Season 3, Episode 11

EP2408: Dragnet: The Big Lay-Out

Jack Webb

A friend of Friday’s turns his son in for doing drugs.

Original Air Date: January 25, 1953

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EP2407: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Wrong Sign Matter

Bob Bailey

Johnny investigates the death of an ill woman who made a sudden change in her will.

Original Air Date: April 2, 1961

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EP2406: Boston Blackie: The Copycat Firebug

Richard Kollmar

An insurance investigator wants Blackie’s help finding a murderer/robber, but an arson that destroys the investigator’s room gets in the way.

Original Air Date: January 21, 1947

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EP2405: Richard Diamond: The Al Brenners Case

Dick Powell

A professional stoolie offers Diamond a chance to make $5,000 by catching a wanted criminal.

Original Air Date: January 25, 1952

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EP2404: Rocky Fortune: The Prize Fight Fix

Frank Sinatra

Rocky is a dead ringer for a has-been Bolivian fighter whose managers have arranged a dive but has disappeared. Rocky has to fill in for him.

Original Air Date: December 29, 1953

 

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EP2403: Night Beat: The Old Itch

Frank Lovejoy

Randy gets scooped by an intrepid, globe-trotting, female reporter.

Original Air Date: July 3, 1952

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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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