Category: Video Theater

Video Theater 111: Dragnet: The Big Lease

Joe Friday and Frank Smith search for a missing landlord.

Season 2, Episode 27 (May 14, 1953)

Video Theater 110: Richard Diamond: The Big Score

Diamond goes undercover as a Canadian businessman to connect with a gambling racket and find out if a client’s husband actually witnessed a murder.

Original Air Date: August 12, 1957

Season 1, Episode 7

Video Theater 109: Dragnet: The Big Light

Friday and Smith investigate the death of a hated director on a Hollywood Sound Stage.

Season 2, Episode 20

Original Air Date: March 26, 1953

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Video Theater 108: Richard Diamond: Hit and Run

Richard Diamond tries to clear a young couple who are accused of a hit and run slaying.

Season 1, Episode 6

Original Air Date: August 5, 1957

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Video Theater 107: Dragnet: The Big Frank

Friday and Smith investigate when a man is ripped from his car and beaten.

Original Air Date: May 7, 1953

Season 2, Episode 26

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Video Theater 106: Richard Diamond: Escape from Oak Lane

A man leaving in town hires Diamond to serve as escort for his troubled wife. She runs away from dinner suddenly.

Season 1, Episode 3

Original Air Date: July 15, 1957

Video Theater 105: Dragnet: The Big Test

At their end of their shift, Friday and Smith meet a young man who came in to report the murder of his best friend while the two were in Mexico.

Original Air Date: April 9, 1953 (Season 2, Episode 22)

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Video Theater 104: Peter Gunn: Let’s Kill Timothy

Peter is hired to act as bodyguard for a seal.

Original Air Date: January 19, 1959

 

Video Theater 035: Decoy: Stranglehold

Casey Jones (Beverly Garland) is called in to befriend a young woman when police suspect that her boyfriend is behind a strangulation.

Originally Aired: 1957 (Episode 1)

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Video Theater 004: Cases of Eddie Drake: Shoot the Works

Eddie is hired by a wealthy woman to recover a watch that could reveal an indiscretion. Along the way, Eddie runs into murder.

Original Air Date: April 10, 1952

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Video Theater 002: The Bat


A mystery writer (Agnes Moorhead) finds herself in the middle of a real life murder mystery in a small town and up against a dangerous serial killer who victimizes women and calls himself “The Bat.” Vincent Price also co-stars.

Rated PG for Violence.

Released: August 9, 1959

Video Theater 001: Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon

Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and Watson (Nigel Bruce) try to ensure that a devestating weapon and its creator don’t fall into the hands of Professor Moriarity and the Nazis.

New York Premier: January 4, 1943