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Ep.202 Dragnet: The Big Gun Pt.2 Apr 29, 2022

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Dragnet ran from June 3rd,1949 to February 26th,1957 on NBC at various times and days and starred Jack Webb as Detective Sergeant Joe Friday. Various partners throughout the show's run were Sergeant Ben Romero (Barton Yarborough), Ed Jacobs (Barney Phillips), and Officer Frank Smith (Ben Alexander).
Webb was the creator/Director of the series and wanted everything to be as authentic as possible, down to the last sound effect. The stories were based on actual police files and "the names were changed to protect the innocent".
Dragnet broke a few radio taboos as well, such as dramatizing sex crimes. Children also were killed on occasion as in the episode "Twenty-Two Rifle For Christmas". The series eventually went to television and ran there for many years.
The Big Gun: Detective Sergeant Friday was assigned to Auto theft Detail. He gets a call from a truck rental service, one of their trucks has disappeared. There’s no sign of the man who rented it. It’s Sergeant Friday’s job to find him. Originally aired May 29th,1956.

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Ep.201 Dragnet: The Big Gun Pt.1 Apr 29, 2022

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Ep.200 Tales Of The Texas Rangers: Loggers Larceny Apr 27, 2022

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Tales of the Texas Rangers, a western adventure old-time radio drama, premiered on July 8, 1950, on the US NBC radio network and remained on the air through September 14, 1952.
Movie star Joel McCrea starred as Texas Ranger Jayce Pearson, who used the latest scientific techniques to identify the criminals and his faithful horse, Charcoal (or "Charky," as Jayce would sometimes refer to him), to track them down. The shows were reenactments of actual Texas Ranger cases.
Loggers Larceny: A logging foreman finds the paymaster and decides to steal the payroll. Will Jayce Pearson be able to uncover the crime?
Originally aired February 4th,1951.

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Ep.199 Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot: The Mystery Of The Blue Train: Pt.4 Apr 20, 2022

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Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot: the world-renowned, moustachioed Belgian private detective, unsurpassed in his intelligence and understanding of the criminal mind, respected and admired by police forces and heads of state across the globe.
Since his inception over 100 years ago, Poirot has stolen the hearts and minds of audiences from Azerbaijan to Vietnam, and his celebrated cases have been recorded across 33 original novels and over 50 short stories.
The Mystery Of The Blue Train: Poirot investigates the brutal murder of an American heiress and the theft of a fabulous ruby on the Blue Train between Calais and Nice.

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Ep.198 Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot: The Mystery Of The Blue Train: Pt.3 Apr 20, 2022

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Ep.197 Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot: The Mystery Of The Blue Train: Pt.2 Apr 20, 2022

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Ep.196 Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot: The Mystery Of The Blue Train: Pt.1 Apr 20, 2022

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Ep.195 The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes: The Disappearing Scientists Apr 18, 2022

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Sherlock Holmes, fictional character created by the Scottish writer Arthur Conan Doyle. The prototype for the modern mastermind detective, Holmes first appeared in Conan Doyle’s A Study in Scarlet, published in Beeton’s Christmas Annual of 1887. As the world’s first and only “consulting detective,” he pursued criminals throughout Victorian and Edwardian London, the south of England, and continental Europe.
From 1939 to 1946, Basil Rathbone played Sherlock Holmes with his friend Nigel Bruce on cinema and radio.
The Disappearing Scientists: Holmes wants to retire, but is in demand to solve one last case before taking up bee farming. Originally aired April 8th,1946.

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Ep.194 Broadway Is My Beat: The Otto Prokosh Murder Case Apr 14, 2022

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Broadway is my Beat is a love affair with noir and hardboiled radio detective series blossomed during the 1940's. The golden age of radio had found a new following in the crime drama genre, and managed to churn out several note-worthy serializations. One of the more popular old time radio shows of the period was Broadway is my Beat which featured the talented Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover. Clover truly loved his beat on the colorful and gritty streets of Broadway and it shined through in his passion and dedication to his job. He tirelessly patrolled the city streets and instilled fear into the hoodlums and villains that threatened the peace. Remarkably enough, the program enjoyed a lengthy run from 1949-1954, unlike its other contemporaries who only lasted for a season.
The Otto Prokosh Murder Case: A good story about multiple murders in a vaudeville theatre, starting with Otto Prokosh, an athlete from Vienna. Originally aired July 21st,1949.

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Ep.193 The New Adventures Of Nero Wolfe: The Brave Rabbit Apr 12, 2022

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Nero Wolfe is a fictional character, a brilliant, oversized, eccentric armchair detective created in 1934 by American mystery writer Rex Stout. Wolfe was born in Montenegro and keeps his past murky.
He lives in a luxurious brownstone on West 35th Street in New York City, and he is loath to leave his home for business or anything that would keep him from reading his books, tending his orchids, or eating the gourmet meals prepared by his chef, Fritz Brenner. Archie Goodwin, Wolfe's sharp-witted, dapper young confidential assistant with an eye for attractive women, narrates the cases and does the legwork for the detective genius.
The Brave Rabbit: Archie Goodwin is the assistant of Nero Wolfe, a mountain of a man engaged in deep thought sitting in an oversized chair. Having answered the phone Archie announces, "Mr. Wolfe, we've got a case. I'm not sure if somebody's going to kill a rabbit or a rabbit is going to kill somebody but either way it's going to be murder".
Originally aired December 1st,1950.

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