Category: Podcast

EP2270: Dragnet: The Big Paper

Jack Webb

Friday looks for a man who’s ripping off local businesses.

Original Air Date: August 21, 1950
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EP2269: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Five Down Matter

Bob Bailey

Johnny is deluged with calls for help from numerous old friends.

Original Air Date: September 25, 1960

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EP2268: Boston Blackie: The Arson Triangle Murder

Richard Kollmar

A man comes to Blackie desperate for money to satisfy his demanding wife and then his building is burned down and he’s blamed for it.

Original Air Date: August 20, 1946

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EP2267: Richard Diamond: The Homing Pigeon Case

Dick Powell

A client hires Diamond to help him foil a blackmailer. Diamond has a plan for what he’ll do when the blackmailer sends Andrew to pick up the money. However, Diamond’s plan is foiled when Andrew turns out to be a homing pigeon.

Original Air Date: October 11, 1950

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AWR0028: Humphrey Bogart Presents: Dead Man (Summer of Bogart)

Amazing World of Radio

An unaired pilot for a Bogart-produced anthology series in which Humphrey Bogart plays a railroad policeman who is killed by a young hobo who hears the dead policeman’s voice wherever he goes.

Audition Date: September 17, 1949

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EP2266: That Hammer Guy: Who’s Got the Last Laugh

Ted de Corsia

Hammer encounters a mysterious woman on a train who is being followed by a swarthy man.

Original Air Date: Sometime in 1954

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EP2265: Night Beat: Big John McMaster

Frank Lovejoy

Randy befriends an old time gangster just released from prison. He then finds the man shot and refusing to tell what happened.

Original Air Date: March 4, 1951

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AWR0027: Lux Radio Theater: Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Summer of Bogart)

Amazing World of Radio

An old, experienced prospector (Walter Huston) joins with two young men (Humphrey Bogart and Frank Lovejoy) to hunt for gold on a mountain in Mexico.

Original Air Date: April 18, 1949

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EP2264: Dragnet: The Big Drive

Jack Webb

A man is found murdered by a piece of concrete.

Original Air Date: August 14, 1952

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EP2263: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Real Smokey Matter

Bob Bailey

Johnny refuses to believe it when Harry Branson tells him his friend Smokey was killed in an arson.

Original Air Date: September 18, 1960
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EP2262: Boston Blackie: The Smuggled Diamonds Murder

Richard Kollmar

Blackie goes to help his friend Charlie Kingston purchase some diamonds. When the man selling them dies, Charlie and Blackie find themselves hunted by Farraday.

Original Air Date: August 13, 1946

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AWR0026: Lux Radio Theater: To Have and Have Not (Summer of Bogart)

Amazing World of Radio

A roguish American boat captain (Humphrey Bogart) tries to stay out of World War II in Martinique but is pulled into a web of intrigue along with an alluring young woman (Lauren Becall).

Original Air Date: October 14, 1946

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EP2261: Richard Diamond: The Pete Rocco Case

Dick Powell

A murderer Diamond sent to jail escapes from prison and the murderer’s mother hires Diamond to send him back.

Original Air Date: October 4, 1950

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EP2260: That Hammer Guy: Jim Gordon-Suicide or Murder

Ted de Corsia

A friend of Hammer’s is found dead of an apparent suicide, but Hammer thinks it’s murder.

Original Air Date: Sometime in 1954

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EP2259: Night Beat: The Slasher

Frank Lovejoy

Randy suspects an artist looking for his unfaithful girlfriend is actually a serial slasher.

Original Air Date: November 10, 1950

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