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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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EP2396: Dragnet: The Big Small

Jack Webb

Friday and Smith search for an elderly lady forger.

Original Air Date: January 11, 1953

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EP2395: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Informer Matter

Bob Bailey

A man calls Johnny up to tell him about a murder and that he’s not investing but then changes his mind.

Original Air Date: March 19, 1961

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EP2394: Boston Blackie: The Candy Store Murders

Richard Kollmar

Blackie goes to collect money for Shorty from someone Inspector Farraday’s about to arrest. They’re both disappointed when their quarry’s blown up.

Original Air Date: January 7, 1946

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EP2393: Richard Diamond: The White Cow Case

Dick Powell

Diamond is hired to go to Florida to purchase an object for a man who will pay him a big fee if he succeeds.

Original Air Date: January 11, 1952

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EP2392: Rocky Fortune: Murder on the Midway

Frank Sinatra

Rocky befriends an orphan boy and finds himself suspected of kidnapping the boy from his guardian when he disappears.

Original Air Date: December 8, 1953

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EP2391: Night Beat: Lost Souls

Frank Lovejoy

Randy meets a woman who treats everyone on skid row to champagne, steaks, and fresh sheets, and is being haunted across the country by a childhood friend who promises to kill her on her thirtieth birthday but died herself when she was eleven.

Original Air Date: November 16, 1951

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Video Theater 121: Sherlock Holmes: The Christmas Pudding

A serial killer threatens to get Holmes before he’s executed.

Episode 23 of the 1954-55 Sherlock Holmes series.

Original Air Date: April 4, 1955

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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AWR0037: The Big Show: Christmas Program

Tallulah Bankhead plans a Christmas party for Margaret O’Brien.

Features Jimmy Durante, Ed Wynn, and Bert Lahr.

Original Air Date: December 24, 1950

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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