Category: Video Theater

Video Theater 224: Decoy: Stranglehold (Encore)

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)

Video Theater 223: So Was Goliath (Encore)

Blackie tries to help out a boxer/law student who wants out of the fight game, but is held in place by a contract and a crooked fight boss.

Season 2, Episode 11

Original Air Date: December 26, 1952

Video Theater 222: Dragnet: The Big Test (Encore)

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)

Video Theater 221: The Cases of Eddie Drake: Shoot the Works (Encore)

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

Video Theater 220: Sheriff of Cochise: Triangle

A beloved local doctor’s death is initially thought to be a heart attack, but it quickly becomes apparent that someone murdered him.

Season 1, Episode 22

Original Air Date: February 22, 1957

Video Theater 219: Man with a Camera: Blind Spot

An old friend of Mike’s dies why telling him about a racket he’s about his reveal. Mike travels to Lisbon to find who killed his friend.

Original Air Date: December 5, 1958
Season 1, Episode 8

Video Theater 218: Dragnet: The Big Little Jesus

Friday and Smith try to recover a stolen statue of the child Jesus for a church before the Christmas Mass.

Original Air Date: December 24, 1953

Season 3, Episode 17

Video Theater 217: 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

Video Theater 216: Sheriff of Cochise: Bank Robbery

Two bank robbers are plotting at a bank robbery at the county seat, but the sheriff begins to suspect of robbing another bank at the other end of the County.

Season 1, Episode 23

Original Air Date: March 1, 1957

Video Theater 215: Man With a Camera: Another Barrier

Mike Chronicles the test flight of a pilot whose girlfriend is scared of him dying while him in flight and thinks she’s a jinx.

Season 1, Episode 7

Original Air Date: November 28, 1958

Video Theater 214: Sheriff of Cochise: Lynching Party

A young man (James Best) kills his boss in a fight. The Sherrif arrests him, but has to save him from a lynching mob.

Season 1, Episode 19

Original Air Date: February 1, 1957

Video Theater 213: Philo Vance: The Kennel Murder Case

Philo Vance (William Powell) is called in when a wealthy man is found murdered in the process of undressing in his locked bedroom.

Original Release Date: October 28, 1933

Video Theater 212: Sheriff of Cochise: Red-Haired Stranger

A wanted man comes to town, dyes his hair to lay low and then kills a local mechanic.

Season 1, Episode 10

Original Air Date: November 23, 1956

Video Theater 211: Man with a Camera: Double Negative

Mike teams up with a writer with a bad reputation and obtains a picture of a woman who was supposed to have been murdered…or did he?

Original Air Date: November 21, 1958

Season 1, Episode 6

Video Theater 210: Man Behind the Badge: The Case of Operation Sabotage

Saboteurs plot against a bomber squadron.

Season 2, Episode 37

Original Air Date: September 17, 1955