Category: Podcast

EP2239: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Twisted Twin Matter

Bob Bailey

Johnny sets out to find the the missing twin son of a recently deceased World War I fighting ace who is entitled to a share of his father’s insurance.

Original Air Date: August 21, 1960

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EP2238: Boston Blackie: The Green Line Trucking Murder

Richard Kollmar

After re-assuring a woman her truck driver husband is fine, Blackie sets out to solve his murder when he turns up dead.

Original Air Date: July 16, 1946

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EP2237: Richard Diamond: The Misplaced Laundry Case

Dick Powell

Diamond gets the wrong person’s dry cleaning and is threatened at gun, beaten, and involved in a murder case because of it.

Original Air Date: September 6, 1950

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AWR0022: Screen Guild Theater: The Maltese Falcon (Summer of Bogart)

Amazing World of Radio

In this 1943 adaptation of the original hard-boiled 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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EP2236: That Hammer Guy: Sophisticated Lady

Larry Haines

Hammer opens the door to a flop house apartment and is shot. Hammer sets out to find who shot him and why.

Original Air Date: April 7, 1953

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EP2235: Night Beat: Einar Pearce and Family

Frank Lovejoy

Randy becomes prisoner to the family of an escaped murderer in Minnesota.

Original Air Date: October 13, 1950

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Video Theater 111: Dragnet: The Big Lease

Joe Friday and Frank Smith search for a missing landlord.

Season 2, Episode 27 (May 14, 1953)

EP2234: Dragnet: The Big Roll

Jack Webb

Friday looks for a local businessman who disappeared with hundreds of dollars on him.

Original Air Date: June 26, 1952

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EP2233: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Paradise Lost Matter

Bob Bailey

Johnny investigates a series of suspicious deaths at a nursing home.

Original Air Date: August 14, 1960

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EP2232: Boston Blackie: The Skating Rink Murders

Richard Kollmar

A woman is found murdered in a skating rink with a $50,000 ring on her finger.

Original Air Date: July 9, 1946

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EP2231: Richard Diamond: The Big Foot Grafton Case

Dick Powell

Diamond is hired to find a missing second baseman on a women’s baseball team.

Original Air Date: August 30, 1950

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AWR0021: Shakespeare Cycle: Henry IV (Summer of Bogart)

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In this adaptation of both parts of Shakespeare’s Henry IV, in his old age, King Henry has to stave off a revolt led by Hotspur (Humphrey Bogart) and worry about his reckless son.
Original Air Date: August 23, 1937

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EP2230: That Hammer Guy: There’s Something About a Dame

Larry Haines

Hammer pledges to complete the job he was paid to do: protecting someone newly arrived from France. Then Hammer finds out that someone is a French poodle.

Original Air Date: March 31, 1953

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EP2229: Night Beat: The Kenny Day Amnesia Case

Frank Lovejoy

Randy has to help an ex-cop with amnesia fill in what’s happened in the three years since he left the force and why he claims to have killed his wife.

Original Air Date: October 6, 1950

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EP2228: Dragnet: The Big Jules

Jack Webb

Friday searches for the source behind a wave of European high grade narcotics.

Original Air Date: June 19, 1952
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