Tag: murder

EP2918s: A Life in Your Hands: The Rooming House Murder

A blackmailing boarder is murdered at Mrs. O’Malley’s boarding house.

Original Air Date: September 13, 1949
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EP2915: Rocky Jordan: The Mystery of the Carl Kleist

Jack Moyles

A German man is murdered and his brother fears for his life.

Original Air Date: April 30, 1950
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EP2910: Boston Blackie: The ‘Killer Lightning’ Murders

Richard Kollmar

A woman and her scientist lover murder her husband by lightning.

Original Air Date: December 8, 1948

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EP2908: Let George Do It: Sucker Stunt

George tries to turn the tables on a man who played him for a sucker but finds out he gave him a perfect alibi for the murder of his wife.

Original Air Date: June 11, 1951

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EP2900s: Molle Mystery Theater: Leg Man

The reporter investigates the murder of a bar owner that the police believe is open and shut.

Original Air Date: October 19, 1945

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EP2898: Boston Blackie: Carl Grady, Golf Instructor

Richard Kollmar

A racketeer sends one of his henchmen to kill his wife’s golf teacher because he’s jealous. The henchman is killed and found with a list of colleges in his pocket.

Original Air Date: September 29, 1948
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EP2878: Let George Do It: Sedan from the City


A sedan arrives from the city arrives in a small town and then its leading benefactor is gunned down.

Original Air Date: October 30, 1950

Rebroadcast Date: January 27, 1953

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EP2874: Boston Blackie: Mrs. Trilling’s Maid is Murdered in Her Place

Richard Kollmar

A maid is murdered after a door-to-door salesman shows up at her employer’s apartment

Original Air Date: August 18, 1948

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EP2871: The Fat Man: Murder Plays Hide and Seek (Listener’s Choice Short Division #3)

J. Scott Smart

A cabbie comes to Brad asking him to prove he didn’t kill a corpse in the back of his cab. Brad then finds the corpse missing.

Original Air Date: January 2, 1948

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EP2867: Rocky Jordan: Wong Lee’s Secret

Jack Moyles

A friend of Rocky’s and the leader of Chinese expatriates in Cairo, summons Rocky to his home and then murders a man right in front of Rocky’s eyes and tells him to tell whoever he wants.

Original Air Date: March 5, 1950

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Video Theater 159: Dragnet: The Big Bar

Friday and Smith a series of hold ups where the victims are often shot and killed.

Season 4, Episode 8

Original Air Date: October 14, 1954

EP2861: Rocky Jordan: The Return of Dr. Pyrue

Jack Moyles

A physician Rocky sent to prison for murder when he lived in Istanbul is in Cairo plotting Rocky’s death? The problem? The doctor died in prison.

Original Air Date: February 26, 1950

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EP2856: Boston Blackie: Richard Allistar Disappears in a Vacant Lot

Richard Kollmar

A man leaves a cab, walks into a vacant lot, and disappears into thin air. Blackie thinks the incident may have been tied into a murder.

Original Air Date: July 28, 1948

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EP2840: Dragnet: The Big Stand

Jack Webb

Friday and Smith investigate the murder of a man on a street corner.

Original Air Date: August 3, 1954

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EP2835: Boston Blackie: Murder at the Movies (Listener’s Choice Standard Divisions #15)

Richard Kollmar

Blackie agrees to be a technical adviser on a crime film and then has to solve a murder.

Original Air Date: December 13, 1945

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