Tag: manhunt

EP3586: Jeff Regan: The Man on the Hook

The police and the mob are looking for a key mob witness, and Regan joins the fray when $1,000 is dangled before the Lyon.

 

Orignal Air Date: December 28, 1949

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EP3205: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Phantom Chase Matter, Parts Eight and Nine (Encore)

Bob Bailey

Johnny has to escape a remote island and find the elusive Tom Chase.

Original Air Dates: October 25 and 26, 1956

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EP3203: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Phantom Chase Matter, Part Five and Manhunt: The Clue of the Crimson Corpse (Encore)

Bob Bailey

Johnny gets a clue and heads to Haiti, then to Cuba, and finally in Barbados in pursuit of Tom Chase.

Original Air Date:  October 19, 1956

A dead body appears in the window of a busy store in the middle of the day.

Original Air Date: April 8, 1944

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EP3197: Air Mail Mystery: Episodes 12 and 13

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Fitz repairs the plane in mid-air and then parachutes down below as the search for Jimmy Gifford and the perpetrators of the air mail robbery comes to a head.

Original Air Date: 1932

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EP3191: The Man Called X: No One Wins On Zero

George Raft

Ken Thurston goes to Monte Carlo to search for Pegon when he learns that he’s fraudulently claimed information for a weapon of mass destruction.

Original Air Date: October 2, 1947

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EP3011: Rocky Jordan: The Man from Damascus

Jack Moyles

A disfigured man shows up in Cairo blaming Rocky for his disfigurement but willing to forgive him if he tracks down a wanted criminal for him.

Original Air Date: August 20, 1950

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EP3002: Dragnet: The Big Bar (TV Soundtrack)

Jack Webb

Friday and Smith hunt for an armed robber who often kills his victims.

Soundtrack of a TV episode aired on October 14, 1954 based on a radio play that aired November 10, 1949.

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EP2801: Rocky Jordan: The Veiled People

Jack Moyles

Men in veils come hunting for Rocky’s newest employee in the cafe.

Original Air Date: December 11, 1949

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Video Theater 153: Dragnet: The Big Fraud

Friday and Smith search for men who extort visiting businessmen by pretending to be police officers.

Season 4, Episode 2

Original Air Date: September 2, 1954

EP2780: Dragnet: The Big Watch

Jack Webb

Friday and Smith search for a man who committed a market robbery.

Original Air Date: May 25, 1954

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EP2756s: Night Beat: The Ted Carter Murder Case

Edmond O'Brien

Hank Mitchell’s friend is killed and he sets out to use his newspaper column to imply an infamous gangster is behind it. When Hank’s roughed up by some of the gangster’s men, he gets a gun to hunt him down.

Audition Date: May 19, 1949

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EP2744: Dragnet: The Big Net

Jack Webb

Friday and Smith organize a massive manhunt for a robber who targets women.

Original Air Date: April 20, 1954

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EP2711: Rocky Jordan: Lady from Istanbul

Jack Moyles

Rocky meets a beautiful woman from Istanbul who is being hunted by a dangerous man.

Original Air Date: August 28, 1949

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EP2582: Dragnet: The Big Plea

Jack Webb
Friday and Smith search for a suspect in a series of robberies.

Original Air Date: October 13, 1953

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EP2464: Rocky Fortune: The Twice-Murdered Man

Frank Sinatra

In a bar, Rocky and a friend who’s an insurance actuary search the bar for the one person in the building who’s a murderer.

Original Air Date: March 9, 1954

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