Tag: cop killer

Dragnet: The Big Kill (EP4364)

Today’s Mystery:

Friday and Romero investigate the murder of a police officer in his home.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 2, 1950

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday; Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero; Stacy Harris; Jack Kruschen; Herb Butterfield

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EP3650: Dragnet: The Big New Years (Encore)

Jack Webb
A police office is gunned down on New Year’s Eve.

Original Air Date: March 8, 1951

Podcast Release Date: March 19, 2016

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EP3025: Screen Guild Theatre: Call Northside 777 (Encore)

Jimmy Stewart plays a cynical reporter turned crusader who seeks to clear a man wrongly convicted of murdering a police officer. This episode was based on the 1949 Edgar Award-Winning Movie of the same name.

Original Air Date: October 7, 1948

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EP2762: Dragnet: The Big Stop

Jack Webb

Friday and Smith investigate the shooting of a traffic officer at a stop.

Original Air Date: May 4, 1954

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EP2381: Richard Diamond: The Merry Go Round Case

Dick Powell

A hood shoots a policeman who mentored Diamond and Diamond goes searching for the shooter.

Original Air Date: January 4, 1952

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EP2322: Boston Blackie: Inspector Farraday Gunned Down

Richard Kollmar

Boston Blackie sets out to find out who shot Inspector Farraday.

Original Air Date: October 22, 1946
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EP2291: Richard Diamond: The Chapel Hill Case

Dick Powell

Diamond and Lieutenant Levinson travel to a police conference in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and meet a police woman who is murdered on the train.

Original Air Date: December 13, 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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EP2117: Richard Diamond: The Pop Skoals Case

Dick Powell

Diamond investigates a cop killing and a blind ex-con is tied in.

Original Air Date: February 26, 1950
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EP2098: Hollywood Mystery Time: Hot and Low Down

Dennis O'Keefe

A police captain friend asks Ted and Gloria to persuade his brother not to become a policeman while they investigate the strange deaths of two policemen.

Original Air Date: July 29, 1945

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EP1984: The Line Up: The Cornered Cop Killer Case

William Johnstone
The search for a robber escalates when the chief suspect kills a police officer.

Original Air Date: April 8, 1952

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EP1978: The Line Up: Kastro’s Cop Killing Karnage Case

William Johnstone

Guthrie looks for the master planner behind a bank robbery a police officer was killed in.

Original Air Date: April 1, 1952

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EP1584: Nick Carter: The Case of the Wandering Corpse

Lon ClarkNick is called in by a mother whose son is accused of murdering a police officer.

Original Air Date: February 15, 1947

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