Shows / Procedural – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
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- Procedural – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
Dragnet: The Big Impression (EP5094)
Todays Mystery: Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Frank Smith investigate the robbery of an elderly diamond dealer who was lured to a hotel room and…
- Procedural – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
Dragnet: The Big Signet (EP5089)
Today’s Mystery: Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Frank Smith investigate an armed robbery at a Los Angeles restaurant in which an elderly owner is…
- Procedural – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
Dragnet: The Big Hate (EP5084)
Today’s Mystery: Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Frank Smith investigate the death of a 52-year-old music teacher whose body is discovered in an…
- Procedural – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
Dragnet: The Big Trio (EP5079)
Today’s Mystery: On the eve of the Fourth of July weekend, Joe Friday and Frank Smith are assigned to Accident Investigation and confront the devastating…
- Procedural – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
Dragnet: The Big Jewels (EP5069)
Today’s Mystery: Detective Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Frank Smith are assigned to narcotics detail when a drug addict is arrested carrying a…
- Procedural – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
Dragnet: The Big Donation (EP5064)
Today’s Mystery: Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Bill Lockwood investigate a group of confidence men posing as authorized solicitors for legitimate…
- Procedural – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
Dragnet: The Big Whiff (EP5059)
Today’s Mystery: Sergeant Joe Friday and Frank Smith investigate the death of an unidentified woman found in a vacant lot, apparently the victim of…
- Procedural – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
Dragnet: The Big Fourth (EP5054)
Today’s Mystery: Sergeant Joe Friday and Frank Smith investigate a disturbing series of infant abductions in which babies disappear from the same general…
- Procedural – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
Dragnet: The Big Mail (EP5044)
Todays Mystery: Mystery Summary: Sergeant Joe Friday and his new partner, Frank Smith, investigate the armed robbery of a U.S. mail truck carrying registered…
- Procedural – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
Dragnet: The Big Gamble (EP5039)
Today’s Mystery: Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Bill Lockwood investigate a professional gambling ring that keeps its games moving from place to…
- Procedural – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
Dragnet: The Big Safe
Todays Mystery: Sergeant Joe Friday and his temporary partner investigate a string of expertly planned safe burglaries that has baffled the Los Angeles Police…
- Procedural – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
Dragnet: The Big Elevator (EP5029)
Today’s Mystery: Joe Friday and Bill Lockwood investigate the body of an unidentified woman which has been found abandoned in a hospital elevator. With…
- Procedural – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
Dragnet: The Big Bunco (EP5024)
Today’s Mystery: An experienced confidence man returns to Los Angeles with the same polished investment scam, cheating trusting victims out of thousands…
- Procedural – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
Dragnet: The Big Show (EP5014)
Today’s Mystery: When a seven-week-old baby is abandoned in a downtown bus depot, Joe Friday and Ed Jacobs begin searching for the missing mother. But as…
- Procedural – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
Dragnet: The Big Streetcar (EP5009)
Today’s Mystery: After a man is gunned down outside his home following a bitter domestic argument, Joe Friday and Ed Jacobs launch a search for the…
- Procedural – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
Dragnet: The Big Border (EP4999)
Today’s Mystery: Two armed convicts escape from San Quentin and head for Los Angeles, where they launch a desperate crime spree while police race to…
- Procedural – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
Dragnet: The Big Fire (EP4994)
Todays Mystery: A landlord suddenly refuses to honor signed leases on a newly renovated apartment building and threatens prospective tenants with a loaded gun…
- Procedural – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
Dragnet: The Big Evans (EP4989)
Todays Mystery: A boarding house operator accuses a young police officer of assault, battery, and soliciting a bribe after a narcotics arrest. As Friday and…
- Procedural – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
Dragnet: The Big Plant
Today’s Mystery: A missing housewife vanishes without taking any clothes, money, or luggage. Detectives quickly begin to suspect her tight-fisted husband…
- Procedural – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
Dragnet: The Big Producer (EP4979)
Today’s Mystery: Joe Friday searches for the source of pornography being passed around by high school students. Original Radio Broadcast Date: February…
- Procedural – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
Dragnet: The Big Phone Call (EP4974)
Todays Mystery: Friday and Jacobs confront a jewelry store owner with evidence that he was behind a jewelry robbery. Original Radio Broadcast Date: February…
- Procedural – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
Dragnet: The Big Honeymoon (EP4969)
Today’s Mystery: Joe Friday and Ed Jacobs hunt down a con man who marries women for their money and leaves them. Original Radio Broadcast Date: February…
- Procedural – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
Broadway’s My Beat: The Alex Raymond Murder Case (EP4958)
Today’s Mystery: A toy inventor is implicated in the murder of his boss. Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 17, 1951 Originating from Hollywood…
- Procedural – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
Broadway’s My Beat: The Macklin and John Howard Murder Case (EP4948)
Today’s Mystery: Danny investigates when a wealthy man is found murdered through menthol alcohol while living in the Bowery. Original Radio Broadcast…
- Procedural – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
Dragnet: The Big Red, Part Two (EP4944)
Today’s Mystery: Having busted the small-time carriers in a drug ring, Friday has to capture the man behind the operation by carrying on pretending to be…
- Procedural – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
Dragnet: The Big Sorrow (EP4934)
Today’s Mystery: Joe mourns the death of his partner Ben Romero as he joins the search for two escaped robbers. Original Radio Broadcast Date: December…
- Procedural – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
Dragnet: The Big Overtime (EP4929)
Today’s Mystery: The daughter of a banker is kidnapped from her business school. Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 13, 1951 Originating from…
- Procedural – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
Dragnet: The Big Canaries (EP4924)
Today’s Mystery: A mother is found murdered in her home. Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 6, 1951 Originating from Hollywood Starring: Jack Webb…
- Procedural – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
Dragnet: The Big Affair (EP4919)
Today’s Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Romero investigate a series of jewelry store robberies. Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 29, 1951 Originating…
- Procedural – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
Dragnet: The Big Hands (EP4914)
Todays Mystery: A woman is found strangled to death in a hotel room, and Friday and Romero have to figure out who she was and who killed her. Original Radio…
- Procedural – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
Dragnet: The Big Bungalow (EP4909)
Today’s Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Romero receive a tip from an informant on the identity of a burglar. Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 15, 1951…
- Procedural – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
Dragnet: The Big Hit and Run Killer (EP4904)
Today’s Mystery: Joe Friday seeks a hit-and-run driver. Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 8, 1951 Originating from Hollywood Starring: Jack Webb as…
- Procedural – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
Dragnet: The Big Lease (EP4899)
Todays Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Romero investigate the disappeared of a widower, who recently lost his wife. Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 1, 1951…
- Procedural – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
Dragnet: The Big Market (EP4894)
Today’s Mystery: A string of supermarket robberies rocks Los Angeles. Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 25, 1951 Originating from Hollywood…
- Procedural – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
Dragnet: The Big Story Man (EP4889)
Today’s Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Romero hunt for safe burglars targeting local churches. Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 18, 1951 Originating…
- Procedural – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
Dragnet: The Big Shoplift (EP4874)
Todays Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Romero investigate a series of high-priced shoplifting cases. Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 11, 1951 Originating…
- Procedural – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
Dragnet: The Big Little Jesus (EP4869)
Today’s Mystery: Joe Friday and Frank Smith investigate the theft of a statue of the child Jesus from a church nativity scene. Original Radio Broadcast…
- Procedural – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
Dragnet: The Big Want Ad (EP4864
Today’s Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Romero investigate a case where conmen are victimizing peoople who place newspaper ads to sell their cars. Original…
- Procedural – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
Dragnet: The Big September Man (EP4859)
Today’s Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Romero investigate the brutal killing of a woman who worked in an office building. Original Radio Broadcast Date…
- Procedural – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
Dragnet: The Big Sour (EP4854)
Today’s Mystery: Two men rob an elderly couple and torture the husband in order to steal their jewelry. Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 20, 1951…
- Procedural – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
Dragnet: The Big Seventeen (EP4844)
Today’s Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Romero investigate teens going wild in a neighborhood, culminating in a small riot in a theater. Original Radio…
- Procedural – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
Dragnet: The Big Crazy (EP4839)
Today’s Mystery: A woman is missing and her sister suspects her milquetoast husband of murder. Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 30, 1951 Originating…
- Procedural – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
Dragnet: The Big In-Laws (EP4834)
Today’s Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Romero investigate a series of truck hijackings. Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 23, 1951 Originating from…
- Procedural – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
Dragnet: The Big Winchester (EP4929)
Today’s Mystery: An elderly man is found shot to death in his home. While it initially looks like a suicide, there’s reason to think it might be a…
- Procedural – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
Dragnet: The Big Screen (EP4824)
Today’s Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Romero investigate a an epidemic of crooked TV repairmen. Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 9, 1951 Originating…
- Procedural – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
Dragnet: The Big Late Script (EP4819)
Today’s Mystery: Friday and Romero are called in to investigate the kidnapping of a local businessman. Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 26, 1951…
- Procedural – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
Dragnet: The Big Sophomore (EP4814)
Today’s Mystery: Joe Friday investigates a series of petty robberies in neighborhood stores where the shopkeepers suspect a high school boy. Original…
- Procedural – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
Dragnet: The Big Set-Up (EP4809)
Today’s Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Romero investigate a series of burglaries targeting wealthy homes. Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 12, 1951…
- Procedural – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
Dragnet: The Big Love (EP4804)
Today’s Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Romero search for missing woman and her two-year-old daughter. Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 5, 1951…
- Procedural – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
Dragnet: The Big Cliff (EP4799)
Today’s Mystery: A woman in her sixties is found dead next to her husband and he claims not to know why it happened. Original Radio Broadcast Date: June…
- Procedural – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
Dragnet: The Big Run (EP4794)
Today’s Mystery: Joe Friday looks for the driver of a hit-and-run driver who struck two elderly women. Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 21, 1951…
- Procedural – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
Dragnet: The Big Building (EP4788)
Today’s Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Romero investigate the disappearance of a rich society woman. Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 14, 1951…
- Procedural – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
Dragnet: The Big Imposter (EP4783)
Today’s Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Romero investigate the disappearance of a ten-year-old boy. Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 7, 1951 Originating…
- Procedural – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
Dragnet: The Big Bindle (EP4778)
Today’s Mystery: Friday goes undercover to locate a high-grade heroin out of a luxury hotel. Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 31, 1951 Originating from…
- Procedural – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
Dragnet: The Big Mailman (EP4773)
Today’s Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Romero join forces with a USPS inspector to correct a forger who is stealing and then cashing checks. Original Radio…
- Procedural – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
Dragnet: The Big Blast (EP4768)
Today’s Mystery: A woman is shot in bed while sleeping with her seven-year-old son. Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 17, 1951 Originating from…
- Procedural – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
Dragnet: The Big Drills
Today’s Mystery: Friday investigates a series of safe burglaries at a string of markets. Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 10, 1951 Originating from…
- Procedural – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
Dragnet: The Big Casing (EP4758)
Today’s Mystery: A woman is found shot in her apartment. The husband insists it’s suicide, but the evidence seems to point to murder. Original…
- Procedural – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
Dragnet: The Big Saint (EP4748)
Today’s Mystery: A spate of thefts of GM cars leads Friday and Romero to investigate a particular salvage yard. Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 26…
- Procedural – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
Dragnet: The Big Speech (EP4742)
Today’s Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Romero search for an armed man who beat and robbed a Doctor and stole a supply of narcotics. Original Radio Broadcast…