Video Theater – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
Summary: Presented as part of the Great Detectives of Old Time Radios, Video Theater adds one public domain mystery or detective movie or TV episode per month.
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The case of a con man tricks a lonely spinster into giving her life savings to buy worthless oil stock. Season 2, Episode 25 Original Air Date: June 25, 1955
Mike thinks the pictures he took of a crooked gambling syndicate operator will help a reform candidate wins. He's shocked to find his photos have been used in composites to blackmail the reform candidate. Season 1, Episode 5 Original Air Date: November 7, 1958
The head of a prison print shop tries to stay out of a counterfeiting scheme carried out by other inmates in his shop in hopes of being paroled. Season 5, Episode 5 Original Air Date: November 4, 1954
A street gang comes after Mike and steals his camera after he takes a picture at the scene of a fire. Season 1, Episode 4 Original Air Date: October 31, 1958
An American exporter willing to deal with countries behind the Iron Curtain sets up a guilt-ridden French survivor of a POW camp to take the fall for him. Season 5, Episode 16 (1955) Original Air Date: January 20, 1955 Veteran radio and TV character actor Ben Wright guest stars.
Mike's in a bank when it's robbed by a psychopath. Mike is kidnapped and survives by promising to get the killer prominent media coverage. Season 1, Episode 3 Original Air Date: October 24, 1958
A treasury man poses as an opium dealer in order to catch a ring of opium smugglers. Season 5, Episode 12 Original Air Date: December 23, 1954
Mike is called out on a job and is coerced by a criminal into taking a picture of a man as he's murdered. Original Air Date: October 17, 1958 Season 1, Episode 2
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
A woman accused of murder learns a female sheriff's deputy is undercover as a prisoner. But who is the undercover woman? Original Air Date: December 24, 1957 Season 1, Episode 39
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