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Suspense: The Lost Special (EP1976s)

Orson Welles

Suspense opens its microphone to a condemned man who has a story to tell of how he pull off a daring crime and he’ll name his employers unless they secure a pardon for him before the broadcast ends.

Original Air Date: September 30, 1943

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EP1976: Dragnet: The Big Crazy

Jack Webb
Friday and Romero are looking for a missing woman whose husband is all but admitting to her murder, but they can find no evidence he did it.

Original Air Date: August 30, 1951

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EP1975: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Leumas Matter

Bob Bailey

Johnny is called in to find a wealthy middle aged businessman with a young wife who doesn’t care that he’s gone.

Original Air Date: September 13, 1959

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EP1974: Boston Blackie: The Evelyn Jones Murder

Richard Kollmar
Boston Blackie helps a woman deal with a troublesome blackmailer, murder results, but when Blackie brings the police back to the scene of the crime, there’s no sign of the crime.

Original Air Date: August 13, 1945

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EP1973: Richard Diamond: The Jean Cooper Murder Case

Dick Powell
A wealthy man hires Diamond to clear his son of a vehicular manslaughter charge.

Original Air Date: August 20, 1949

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EP1972: The Line Up: The Mirthless Moonshiners Methyl Murders

William Johnstone

People are dying or going blind due to bad illegal liquor and it’s up to Guthrie and Karger to track down the source.

Original Air Date: March 18, 1952

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EP1971: Michael Shayne: The Left Handed Fan

Jeff Chandler
A gorgeous actress hires Shayne to protect her for three days from an anonymous threat.

(Original Air Date: Sometime in 1948)

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EP1970s: Suspense: The Hitch Hiker

Orson Welles

A motorist driving from New York to California keeps seeing a mysterious hitch hiker by the side of the road.

Original Air Date: September 2, 1942

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EP1970: Dragnet: The Big In-Laws

Jack Webb

Friday and Romero look into a series of truck hijackings.

Original Air Date: August 23, 1951

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EP1969: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Backfire that Backfired Matter

Bob Bailey

Johnny goes to his girlfriend’s house and overhears a backfire that sets up on the trail of an unknown criminal.

Original Air Date: September , 1959

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EP1968: Boston Blackie: The Hypnotic Murder

Richard Kollmar
Blackie gets in hot water with Farraday when he takes the gun of a friend of Mary Wesley’s who has confessed to a murder.

Original Air Date: August 6, 1945

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EP1967: Richard Diamond: The Lynn Knight Case

Dick Powell
A former restaurant photographer turns to Diamond for protection.

Original Air Date: August 16, 1949

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EP1966: The Line Up: The Jolted Justice Job Case

William Johnstone
Lieutenant Guthrie investigates the stabbing of an elderly man.

Original Air Date: November 1, 1951

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EP1965: Michael Shayne: The Case of the High-Priced Twins

Jeff Chandler
Shayne searches for two valuable coins that people are willing to kill over.

Original Air Date: Sometime in 1948

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EP1964: Dragnet: The Big Winchester

Jack Webb
An elderly man is found dead of an apparent suicide but the first officer on scene suspects murder.

Original Air Date: August 16, 1951

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