Tag: suicide

EP3741: Casey, Crime Photographer: Suicide

Stats Cotsworth

While Logan’s convinced a failed playwright committed suicide, Casey is sure it was murder.

Original Air Date: May 4, 1950

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EP3641: Man Called X: From a Starlit Hill

Herbert Marshall

The Man Called X crashes a plane in the Middle East and meets a mysterious young girl who’s decided she no longer wants to live in the world.

Original Air Date: December 23, 1950

Bonus Episode from Christmas on the Blue:

The emergency council has failed in their quest to locate Santa Claus. So they call in the Man Called X who wants to be called Y since he’s undercover.

Original Air Date: December 24, 1945

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EP3295: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Mickey McQueen Matter

Edmond O'Brien

A police officer friend of Johnny’s has a problem and visits Johnny in the middle of the night and doesn’t reveal what’s going on. The next day, his friend is found of an apparent suicide, and Johnny doesn’t buy it.

Original Air Date: April 14, 1951

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EP3234: Mystery is My Hobby: Mink Coat


A woman’s found dead with a suicide note stating that she didn’t want to live if she didn’t have a mink coat. However, she already had a new mink coat and Inspector Danton doesn’t think its a suicide.

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EP2894: Dragnet: The Big Bible

Jack Webb

A man appears to have committed suicide in a locked room, but one piece of evidence suggests a murder may have occurred.

Original Air Date: September 28, 1954

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EP2785: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Oldest Gag Matter

Mandel Kramer

Johnny goes into investigate the death of an insured man. The police think it was a suicide, but every potential suspect in a potential murder investigation insists that it’s not suicide.

Original Air Date: August 12, 1962

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EP2713: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Two Steps to Murder Matter

Mandel Kramer

Johnny is called in by an insurance agent who wants him to prove one of his employees didn’t commit suicide.

Original Air Date: May 20, 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

EP2500: Man from Homicide: The Drowned Girl case

Dan Duryea

The body of a young woman is dragged from the river and a policeman said he saw her jump in, but Lieutenant Dana doesn’t believe it was suicide.

Original Air Date: August 6, 1951

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EP2364: Boston Blackie: Mary’s Patient Commits Suicide

Richard Kollmar

Mary is hired to serve as a nurse for a bed-ridden man and then is immediately dismissed after giving him a sedative injection. Later that day, the man is found dead after leaving a suicide note.

Original Air Date: November 12, 1946

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EP2340: Boston Blackie: The Frank Burton Suicide

Richard Kollmar

A friend of Blackie’s asks Blackie to find why a man who owed him money committed suicide.

Original Air Date: November 12, 1946

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EP2339: Richard Diamond: The Red Rose

Dick Powell

A man had been planning to have himself killed by a hitman so his family could collect the insurance, but now he wants to live and for Diamond to stop the killer.

Original Air Date: March 2, 1951

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EP2037: Night Beat: Zero

Frank LovejoyLucky Stone has to find a fastidious man who plans to commit suicide at midnight as a result of getting a false terminal diagnosis.

Original Air Date: February 6, 1950

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EP1704: Nick Carter: Case of the Failing Eyes

Lon Clark
Nick Carter doesn’t buy it that an old friend committed suicide.

Original Air Date: August 29, 1948

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EP1697: Philip Marlowe: The Fox’s Tail

Gerald Mohr

Marlowe is called in when a witness in a civil trial commits suicide to help ensure the defense believes the witness is alive.

Original Air Date: May 23, 1950

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