Tag: Herb Butterfield

Dragnet, NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, Procedural

Dragnet: The Big Kill (EP4364)

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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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Dangerous Assignment, NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast

Dangerous Assignment: Boy Is Used as Courier (EP4355)

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Today’s Mystery:

Steve is hired as tutor to a French boy with a near photographic memory whose father believes his current tutor is using him to smuggle top secret information.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 8, 1953

Originating in Hollywood

Starring: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell; Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner; Jeanne Bates; Paul Frees; Larry Dobkin; Jay Novello

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Dragnet: The Big Grifter (EP4358)

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Today’s Mystery:

Friday and Romero face off against a veteran con-man.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 23, 1950

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

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Dangerous Assignment: Rescue Rick Perez (EP4355)

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Today’s Mystery:

Steve goes to Venezuela to rescue a U.S. agent who was investigating a Latin American revolutionary organization.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 1, 1953

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Starring: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell; Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner; Paul Frees; Paul Dubov; Ben Wright; Betty Lou Gerson; Don Diamond

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Amazing World of Radio, Podcast

Hallmark Playhouse: Ben-Hur (AWR0245)

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Amazing World of Radio

An adaptation of Lew Wallace’s classic novel of Judah Ben-Hur, a 1st Century Jewish man unjustly imprisoned by the decree of his ambitious best friend.

Original Radio Broadcast: April 10, 1952

Originating in Hollywood

Starring: Jeff Chandler as Ben-Hur; William Conrad; Virginia Gregg; Lurene Tuttle; Herb Butterfield; Richard Beals

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Dragnet: The Child Killer (EP4346)

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Today’s Mystery:

Friday and Romero search for two missing girls.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 2, 1950

Originating from Hollywood

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

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Dangerous Assignment: Stolen Information Group (EP4343)

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Today’s Mystery:

Steve goes to Norway to impersonate a captured courier who was about to collect a payoff from a gang that dealt in stolen information. Steve arrives to find someone’s beaten him to the punch – and got murdered for his effort.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 18, 1953

Originating in Hollywood

Starring: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell; Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner; Betty Lou Gerson; Dan O’Herlihy; GeGe Pearson; Paul Frees

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Dangerous Assignment: Ghost Ship (EP4337)

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Today’s Mystery:

Steve is sent to locate a phantom ship that’s smuggling supplies to guerillas in the Philippines and attacking local fishing boats.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 11, 1953

Originating in Hollywood

Starring: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell; Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner

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Dragnet: The Big Man, Part One (EP4334)

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Today’s Mystery:

Friday goes undercover in a narcotics gang to get to the get a drug kingpin.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 12, 1950

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday; Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero; Sidney Miller; Herb Butterfield; William Conrad; Peggy Webber

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CBS, OTR Detective, Podcast, Yours Truly Johnny Dollar

Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Phantom Chase Matter, Episodes Three, Four, and Five (EP4333)

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Bob Bailey

Today’s Mystery:

In New Orleans, a nasty informant has promised to take Johnny to an embezzler who made off with $120,000.

Original Radio Broadcast Dates: October 17, 18, and 19, 1956

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Marvin Miller; Junius Matthews; Herb Ellis; D. J. Thompson; Herb Butterfield; Tony Barrett; Barbara Eiler

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Dragnet: The Big Escape (EP4328)

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Today’s Mystery:

Joe Friday arrests an old army buddy for armed robbery.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 5, 1950

Originating from Hollywood

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

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CBS, OTR Detective, Podcast, Yours Truly Johnny Dollar

Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Primrose Matter, Episodes Three, Four, and Five (EP4327)

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Bob Bailey

Today’s Mystery:

Johnny gets into Primrose Camp, where he suspects two robbers are hiding out with $100,000 and finds the owners living in fear and being pushed around by a phony nephew.

Original Radio Broadcast Dates: October 10, 11, and 12, 1956

Originated from Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Marvin Miller; Junius Matthews; Herb Ellis; D. J. Thompson; Herb Butterfield; Tony Barrett; Barbara Eiler

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Dangerous Assignment: Black Market in Jewels (EP4325)

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Today’s Mystery:

Steve is sent to break up a black market founded on jewel thefts that is destabilizing the Mediterranean. In order to fight them, Steve plans to steal a necklace before the thief can.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 25, 1953

Originating in Hollywood

Starring: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell; Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner; Dan Riss; Hal Gerard; Betty Lou Gerson; Paul Dubov; Tony Barrett

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CBS, OTR Detective, Podcast, Yours Truly Johnny Dollar

Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Primrose Matter, Episodes One and Two (EP4324)

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Bob Bailey

Today’s Mystery:

Johnny goes to Arizona in search of a gang of robbers who stole a $100,000 payroll and have already committed murder.

Original Radio Broadcast Dates: October 8 and 9, 1956

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Marvin Miller; Junius Matthews; Herb Ellis; D. J. Thompson; Herb Butterfield; Tony Barrett; Barbara Eiler

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Dangerous Assignment: Family Squabble (EP4313)

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Today’s Mystery:

Steve goes to the Belgian Congo to resolve a family dispute between two women that’s threatened the U.S. access to a strategic mineral mine.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 11, 1953

Originating in Hollywood

Starring: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchel; Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner; Peter Leeds; Tony Barrett; Ben Wright; Betty Lou Gerson.

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