Tag: wife

AWR0136: Lux Radio Theater: The Scarlet Pimpernel (Olivia De Havilland Tribute)

Amazing World of Radio
The wife (Olivia De Havilland) of a foppish English nobleman (Leslie Howard) is blackmailed to help the revolutionary government of France apprehend their arch-foe, the Scarlet Pimpernel, little knowing that her husband is the Pimpernel.
Original Air Date: December 12, 1938

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EP3222: Mystery is My Hobby: Phony Husband


An escaped con makes a woman pretend he’s her dead husband and then is murdered.

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EP3182: Dragnet: The Big Missus

Jack Webb

The wife of a man who broke parole in Michigan wants the police to bring her husband in before he returns to a life of robbery.

Original Air Date: August 9, 1955
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EP3150: Mystery is My Hobby: The Walking Corpse

A wealthy man calls Barton because he suspects an unidentified corpse is that of his ninth wife.

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EP3133: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Barbara James Matter

Edmond O'Brien

Johnny searches for the insured wife of a wealthy man.

Original Air Date: June 29, 1950

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EP3088: It’s a Crime, Mr. Collins: The Green-Eyed Divorcee

Greg uncovers infidelity on the part of one of a client’ s wife. Her boyfriend convinces her to murder her husband. But who will actually commit the murder and who’ll end up the corpse?

Original Air Date: September 16, 1957

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EP2980: Let George Do It: Portrait of a Suicide

A farmer calls George in after he sees the wife of a local artist in an apparent suicidal state.

Original Air Date Unknown

Likely Rebroadcast Date: June 24, 1952

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EP2947: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Man Who Wasn’t All There

Charles Russell

Johnny is called in because a man, whose wife’s policy was cancelled due to non-payment of premiums the day before she died, claims responsibility for the deaths of twelve policy holders.

Original Air Date: October 29, 1949

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EP2906: Dragnet: The Big Tar Baby

Jack Webb

A man reports his wife kidnapped but withdraws the report in a way that makes Friday suspicious.

Original Air Date: October 12, 1954

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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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EP2852s: Twelve Players: The Lady and the Letters

Jack Moyles

A private eye is hired by the wife of a racketeer to recover some letter she’s being blackmailed with.

Original Air Date: August 18, 1945

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EP2494: Man from Homicide: The Eddie Kent Case

Dan Duryea
The wife of a wanted hood returns to town, so the police expect the hood to follow. However, Lieutenant Dana smells a setup.

Original Air Date: July 23, 1951

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EP2402: Dragnet: The Big String

Jack Webb

Friday and Smith investigate the kidnapping of a college professor’s wife.

Original Air Date: January 18, 1953

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EP2349: Night Beat: Long Live the Clown

Frank Lovejoy

The wife of an acrobat clown comes to Randy to sell a story about her husband being a spy.

Original Air Date: May 8, 1952

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EP2272: That Hammer Guy: Some Kind of Satisfaction

Ted de CorsiaHammer is hired to protect a wealthy man who fears his wife and her boyfriend are going to kill him. The client is murdered and Hammer is knocked out and framed as drunk.

Original Air Date: Sometime in 1954

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