Video Theater – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio

A Treasury Agent (Charles Bronson) wants to get in good with a criminal and gets an opportunity...if he performs a hit job.

Original Air Date: March 24, 1958

Season 5, Episode 25

Mike tries to get a picture of a prize fighter from his old neighborhood who has been blowing off the press. Mike gets punched out in a sparring match by the boxer and then asked to help him.

Season 1, Episode 1

Original Air Date: October 10, 1958

In order to avoid taxes, a man buries $200,000 in his backyard only to dig up and find the currency full of holes.

Original Air Date: April 7, 1955

Season 5, Episode 27

Flash Casey (Eric Linden) graduates college and gets a drop at a newspaper, but wants to help the kindly editor of the pictoral magazine.

Original Release; January 7, 1938

Dick Tracy (Ralph Byrd) investigates when a gang of crooks including Gruesome (Boris Karloff) rob a bank using a gas that freezes everyone in place.

Original Release Date: September 26, 1947

Friday and Smith try to recover a stolen statue of the child Jesus for a church before the Christmas Mass.

Original Air Date: December 24, 1953

Season 3, Episode 17

A lovable old man is roped into working for a fraudulent charity Santa ring.

Original Air Date: December 25, 1952

Season 3, Episode 15

Several allegations of theft began to mount against a Sheriff's Deputy.

Season 1, Episode 20

Original AIr Date: August 13, 1957

Dick Tracy investigates a fur theft that turned deadly.

Original Release Date: May 20, 1947

A successful businesswoman is an apparent target of a sniper that's been attacking women in Los Angeles County.

Season 1, Episode 21

Original Air Date: August 20, 1957

Dick Tracy tries to catch the robbers in a Diamond robbery gone bad. Can Dick catch any of the criminals before they wipe each other out.

Original Release Date: December 18, 1946

The Court of Last Resort investigates the case of a woman convicted of murder in a case that she insists was an accidental shooting. Season 1, Episode 23

Original Air Date: March 21, 1958

Writer Dan Holiday (Alan Ladd) answers a letter to Box 13 and meets a man for lunch and then finds himself in a Sanitarium where everyone calls him "Stokes."

Original Air Date: December 5, 1954

Season 3, Episode 11

The Court of Last Resort looks into the case of a convicted murdered whose sister insists he was taking care of her at the time of the crime.

Original Air Date: February 21, 1958

Season 1, Episode 19

Dick Tracy (Morgan Conway) hunts a serial killer known as splitface.

Release Date: December 20, 1945

The Court of Last Resort re-investigates the case of a friendless man who insists his confession twenty-two years previous was coerced.

Season 1, Episode 12

Original Air Date: December 20, 1957

Sherlock Holmes is called in by a brother who fears his brother will die as a result of a family legend.

Season 1, Episode 7

Original Air Date: November 24, 1954

A Vermont State's Attorney investigates the murder of a suspected illegal money lender.

Season 2, Episode 11

Original Air Date: February 12, 1955

Doctor Watson is punched in the eye by a man he pronounced dead.

Season 1, Episode 5

Original Air Date: November 15, 1954

Two immigration agents go undercover in Mexico to find the source of counterfeit passports.

Season 2, Episode 8

Original Air Date: February 26, 1955

A performer in a travelling Western show asks Holmes to solve the mystery of a body found in her room.

Season 1, Episode 4

Original Air Date: November 8, 1954

A small businessman (Edmond O'Brien) is poisoned with a toxin for which there is no antidote.and sets out to find out who murdered him and why.

Theatrical Release Date: December 22, 1949

A Deputy goes undercover in a Hobo jungle to find a man who's committing lovers' lane robberies.

Original Air Date: August 25, 1955

Season 2, Episode 32

A man decides to turn the tables on a genealogist (Hugh Beaumont) who he believes is conning his wife (Francis Bavier.)

Original Air Date: August 21, 1952

Season 2, Episode 49

Lieutenant Kirby befriends a boy whose father was murdered. Season 1, Episode 14

Original Air Date: May 15, 1953

A young engaged couple are in an accident after getting a "good deal" on a used car. Captain Braddock of the Racket Squad senses something is wrong.

Season 1, Episode 18

Original Air Date: January 3, 1952

Friday and Smith try to recover a stolen statue of the child Jesus for a church before the Christmas Mass.

Original Air Date: December 24, 1953

Season 3, Episode 17

A serial killer threatens to get Holmes before he’s executed. Episode 23 of the 1954-55 Sherlock Holmes series. Original Air Date: April 4, 1955 

A funeral home director goes to Vegas to get away from his mother-in-law and finds himself the target of conmen running a private game. '

Original Air Date: September 6, 1951

Season 2, Episode 1

Friday and Smith investigate a petty theft.

Original Air Date: October 14, 1958

Season 8, Episode 4

Marlowe is hired to prove that a young lovesick actresses death was murder rather than suicide. The job is contemplated when the body disappears.

Original Air Date: March 8, 1960

Season 1, Episode 23

Friday and Smith try to prevent a juvenile gang war.

Original Air Date; April 10, 1958

Season 7, Episode 28

A woman snaps a picture of two suspicious men in the woods and Diamond gets caught in the middle while on vacation.

Season 1, Episode 5

Original Air Date: July 29, 1957

Friday and Smith investigate the shooting of a police officer on New Year's eve.

Season 4, Episode 12

Original Air Date: November 11, 1954

A singing cowboy asks Lieutenant George Kirby (George Raft) to help out a beautiful professional trick shooter, however she quickly becomes a murder suspect.

Season 1, Episode 2 

Original Air Date: February 20, 1953

Friday and Smith investigate a series of burglaries where they suspect a juvenile is the perpetrator.

Season 4, Episode 9

Original Air Date: October 21, 1954

Brad Runyon (J Scott Smart) heads to the West Coast to find out why a Dentist was murdered.

Theatrical Release Date: May 19, 1951

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

Holmes and Watson meet and then Holmes has to solve the death of a wealthy where the evidence points to the man's ex-convict fiancée.

Season 1, Episode 1

Original Air Date: October 18, 1954

A girl and her grandfather turn to Friday and Smith for help when someone steals everything in their home while they're on vacation.

Season 4, Episode 4

Original Air Date: September 16, 1954

Philip Marlowe is hired to pay off a woman's husband's mistress and finds himself the prime suspect when the mistress is murdered.

Episode 1

Original Air Date: October 6, 1959

Friday and Smith search for two missing twin little girls.

Season 4, Episode 3

Original Air Date: September 9, 1954

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While on a hunting vacation, Ellery comes under suspicion when a Sheriff's Deputy is apparently shot by a hunter.

Season 4, Episode 5

Original Air Date: 1954

Friday and Smith search for men who extort visiting businessmen by pretending to be police officers.

Season 4, Episode 2

Original Air Date: September 2, 1954

Friday and Smith try to find out who's behind a group of teenagers selling smut in High School.

Season 4, Episode 1

Original Air Date: August 26, 1954

A man confesses to a robbery and is positively identified by the victim, but Friday and Smith have serious doubts about his story.

Season 3, Episode 39

Original Air Date: May 27, 1954

A man Blackie sent to prison for ten years is out for revenge.

Season 2, Episode 15

Original Air Date: January 23, 1953

Friday and Smith investigate a robbery where the victim is unwilling to testify due to threats from the robbers.

Season 3, Episode 37

Original Air Date: May 13, 1954

A friend of Blackie has an exact double who robs the bank he's president of and frames Blackie's friend for the crime.

Season 2, Episode 27

Original Air Date: April 27, 1953

Friday and Smith try to recover a stolen statue of the child Jesus for a church before the Christmas Mass.

Original Air Date: December 24, 1953

Season 3, Episode 17

A lovable old man is roped into working for a fraudulent charity Santa ring.

Original Air Date: December 25, 1952

Season 3, Episode 15

A gambler friend of Blackie is murdered in Las Vegas while placing a big bet.

Season 2, Episode 24

Original Air Date: March 27, 1953

Friday and Smith investigate an apparent hit and run that has signs of being a murder.

Original Air Date: April 22, 1954

Season 3, Episode 34

A cabbie ex-con who Blackie sent to prison is implicated in a robbery. Season 2, Episode 17

Original Air Date: February 6, 1953

Friday and Smith investigate a series of robberies committed by a beautiful woman with an ever-changing description.

Season 3, Episode 31

Original Air Date: April 1, 1954

A bank teller tips Blackie off that an East Coast bank robber is waiting in the next line. The robber's friend murders the teller and threatens the teller's wife if she talks.

Season 1, Episode 16

Original Air Date: January 30, 1953

Friday and Smith search for the driver of a truck that hit and killed a woman and her grandson.

Season 3, Episode 29

Original Air Date: March 18, 1954

Alonzo Pace Graham (Peter Lorre) is released from prison and plots revenge on the man who sent him there, Doctor Carl Hyatt (Jonathan Cabot.)

Season 1, Episode 16,

Original Air Date: January 14, 1961

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

Blackie investigates the murder of a waiter.

Original Air Date: January 2, 1953

Season 2, Episode 12

Friday and Smith investigate a case of child neglect in a well-to-do neighborhood.

Original Air Date: February 11, 1954

Season 3, Episode 11

Blackie tries to help out a boxer/law student who wants out of the fight game, but is held in place by a contract and a crooked fight boss.

Season 2, Episode 11

Original Air Date: December 26, 1952

Friday and Smith investigate the apparent suicide of a young woman in the apartment of a budding young actor.

Season 3, Episode 22

Original Air Date: January 28, 1954

A robbery has occurred and a security guard is suspected of being the inside man.

Original Air Date: December 19, 1952

Season 2, Episode 10

Friday and Smith get a lead on four young robbers from San Francisco.

Season 3, Episode 21

Original Air Date: January 21, 1954

Blackie tries to help a lawyer clear a client accused of a hit and run.

Original Air Date: December 12, 1952

Season 2, Episode 9

Friday and Smith investigate the murder of a washed-up actress who lived in a theatrical rooming house.

Original Air Date: January 17, 1954

Season 3, Episode 19

Sherlock Holmes is called in by a young woman who fears she for her life because of her strange stepfather and his decision to have her sleep in the same room her sister died in.

Original Air Date: March 25, 1949

Friday and Smith look for a young couple who are calling doctors to their hotel room and beating them up and robbing them.

Season 3, Episode 16

Original Air Date: December 17, 1953

The sister of an old Army buddy of Diamond's ask him to bring her brother in after he killed a service state attendant.

Original Air Date: September 23, 1957

Season 1, Episode 12

Friday and Smith investigate the death of a middle-aged man.

Original Air Date: November 12, 1953

Season 3, Episode 11

Friday and Smith try to recover a stolen statue of the child Jesus for a church before the Christmas Mass.

Original Air Date: December 24, 1953

Season 3, Episode 17

A pickpocket runs afoul of his boss who appears to be a harmless old lady. When the pickpocket nearly gets killed, Blackie steps in to stop her ultimate scheme.

Season 2, Episode 8

Original Air Date: December 5, 1952

Friday and Smith try to find a gang that's running on a con man of the families of recently deceased people.

Season 3, Episode 4

Original Air Date: September 24, 1953

While on the Night Beat, Randy Stone becomes curious when he sees a diver searching the river for something. 

Season 2, Episode 7

Original Air Date: November 5, 1953

A criminal escapes prison, vowing revenge on Diamond for sending him up. The criminal's mother hires Diamond to bring him in.

Season 1, Episode 10

Original Air Date: September 9, 1957

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Friday and Smith search for two young hold up men.

Season 2, Episode 33 (June 25, 1953)