Tag: elderly man

EP3388: Fat Man: Murder Rides a Wheelchair (AU)


An ailing elderly man hires Brad to get his wild daughter out of trouble with the operator of a gambling den.

Original Air Date: January 20, 1955

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EP3246: Mystery is My Hobby: Hit Plan Gone Astray


An elderly man hires a hitman to murder his terminally ill wife as a “mercy killing.” Then finds out a surgery could save her life, then a Doctor caring for her dies.

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EP3174: Mystery is My Hobby: Shots at Curtis Window

A wealthy elderly man asks Barton Drake to find out who’s trying to kill him.

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EP3126: Mystery is My Hobby: Who Killed David Austin?

A wealthy elderly man is murdered and suspicion falls on the recently returned black sheep of the family.

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EP2830: Let George Do It: Audition #2

George is hired to find an apartment for an elderly man’s niece and her husband.

Audition Date: April 1946

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EP2737: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Hood of Death Matter

Mandel Kramer

Johnny is called in by a Nashville insurance agent who suspects that an elderly man caused his own injury to claim accident injury coverage.

Original Air Date: June 24, 1962
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Video Theater 0135: Dragnet: The Big Winchester

What first appears to be a suicide by a wealthy elderly bachelor turns into a murder investigation.

Original Air Date: March 4, 1954

Season 3, Episode 27

EP2551: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Three for One Matter

Mandel Kramer

Johnny goes to New Hampshire to investigate the disappearance of a sixty-year-old insured man.

Original Air Date: October 15, 1961

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EP2432: Dragnet: The Big Smoke

Jack Webb

A man in his seventies is murdered and his bed-ridden wife brutally beaten. Friday and Smith search for the perpetrator.

Original Air Date: February 22, 1953

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EP2415: Night Beat: Flight from Fear

Frank Lovejoy

An elderly layout man pulls part of a columnist’s article on a young talented swimmer. The swimmer refused to try out for the Olympics and ends up threatening the columnist and Randy.

Original Air Date: July 31, 1952

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EP2061: Night Beat: The Number 13

Frank Lovejoy
A seventy year-old man robs Randy at gun point and shoots him. Randy survives and sets out to find the robber at the request of the robber’s wife.

Original Air Date: March 6, 1950

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EP2059: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Haunted Ham Matter

Bob Bailey

An elderly man calls Johnny asking for help and is then found murdered.

Original Air Date: January 3, 1960

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EP2035: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Wrong Man Matter

Johnny’s called to investigate an attack on an elderly, bed-ridden man.

Original Air Date: November 29, 1959

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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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EP1917: Michael Shayne: The Case of the Borrowed Heirloom

Jeff Chandler
Shayne is hired by an elderly man to retrieve a leather case with nothing in it.

Original Air Date: Sometime in 1948

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