Tag: detective suspect in murder

EP3035: Rocky Jordan: Trail of the Assassin

Jack Moyles

An American is murdered and Sergeant Grecko thinks Rocky’s behind it.

Original Air Date: September 10, 1950

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Video Theater 156: Philip Marlowe: The Ugly Duckling

Philip Marlowe is hired to pay off a woman’s husband’s mistress and finds himself the prime suspect when the mistress is murdered.

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Original Air Date: October 6, 1959

EP2742: Boston Blackie: The Twin Midnight Murders

Richard Kollmar
Blackie has to find out how a man committed two murders in two different places at Midnight while one of Blackie’s friends insist that he was with the man at the time of the murderer.

Original Air Date: February 25, 1948

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EP2730: Boston Blackie: Five Bullets for Don Anderson

Richard Kollmar

Blackie finds body, leaves the scene, and runs right into a policeman.

Original Air Date: February 18, 1948

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EP2508: Boston Blackie: Blackie Breaks Into Langley Penitentiary

Richard Kollmar

Blackie breaks into prison into prison to warm a young convict with a chip on his shoulder and finds himself a suspect in a prisoner’s murder.

Original Air Date: May 21, 1947

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EP2350: Rocky Fortune: The Shipboard Jewel Robbery

Frank Sinatra

Rocky gets a job as a steward on a cruise ship. He finds a passenger dead and becomes the prime suspect.

Original Air Date: October 27, 1953

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EP1932: Boston Blackie: The Larry Brown Case

Richard Kollmar

Larry Brown owes Boston Blackie $100 and tells Blackie to go to a hotel to pick it up, Blackie sends a man who wanted to borrow from Blackie to pick up the $100. When the man is murdered, Blackie becomes the prime suspect.

Original Air Date: June 25, 1945

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EP1910s: Screen Guild Theater: The Maltese Falcon

 

In this 1943 adaptation of the original hardboiled detective story: Miles Archer, the partner of Sam Spade (played by Humphrey Bogart) is killed while shadowing someone for a client ( Mary Astor.) When the man Archer was shadowing is killed, the police suspect Spade. Spade must find Archer’s killer and to do it he has to match wits against dangerous international criminals (Peter Lorre and Sidney Greenstreet.)

Original Air Date: September 20, 1943

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