The assistant curator of the Manhatten Museum asks Mr. Keen to find a young female art copyist. Original Air Date: February 3, 1944 Support the show monthly at: patreon.greatdetectives.net Support... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Friday and Smith investigate a series of high-priced shopliftings. Original Air Date: May 3, 1953 Support the show monthly at: patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Johnny is sent to ensure that an insured woman isn’t murdered by her husband. When making your travel plans, remember http://johnnydollarair.com Read more ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A man with thousands of dollars in gambling debts agrees to introduce a woman to his baseball player brother. Original Air Date: April 29, 1947 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Diamond is called to Hollywood to help a producer who’s being blackmailed. Rebroadcast Date: August 23, 1952 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Lieutenant Dana investigates the death of a nightclub singer. Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Original Air Date: June 25, 1961 Support the show on a one-time basis... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Mr. Keen is called in by the owner of a war plant to find a missing chemical engineer. Original Air Date: February 17, 1944 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Friday and Smith track down three robbers who pulled off a big jewel robbery in San Diego. Original Air Date: April 26, 1953 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Johnny is called in by an insurance agent who fears a well-insured elderly client will be murdered. Original Air Date: July 16, 1961 When making your travel plans, remember http://johnnydollarair.com... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
With Blackie out of town, Farraday tries to recover a kidnapped woman. Original Air Date: April 22, 1947 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
An Oklahoma rancher brings Diamond to solve the death of his brother. Rebroadcast Date: August 16, 1953 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Rocky stays at a flophouse, but a small man insists that he and his wife had rented the room, but there’s no sign of his wife and the landlords claim not to know him. Original Air Date: March... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A boy comes to Mr. Keen concerned about his uncle’s strange behavior. Mr. Keen doesn’t take the case and the boy’s uncle is murdered and the boy disappears. Original Air Date:... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Friday and Smith get a tip on the identity of safe burglars from a suspect in a previous case. Original Air Date: April 19, 1952 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Johnny is called in to find a missing rare violin. Original Air Date: July 9, 1961 When making your travel plans, remember http://johnnydollarair.com Read more ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A man receives a record saying he’s going to be murdered and then he’s killed while listening to it. Original Air Date: April 15, 1947 Support the show monthly at... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A man stumbles into Diamond’s office and dies from being stabbed with ice pick, but not before giving clues that lead Diamond to a health club. Rebroadcast Date: August 9, 1953 Support the show... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Rocky is hired for an odd job and dragged to Utah where he’s designated as the pilot of a private rocket ship to the moon. Original Air Date: March 23, 1954 Support the show monthly at... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Mr. Keen investigates the disappearance of a singer from a theater. Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at http://support.greatdetectives.net.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Friday and Smith investigate a series of false alarms being called in. Original Air Date: April 12, 1953 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Johnny notices a suspicious cash payment from an insured and goes to investigate. Original Air Date: July 2, 1961 When making your travel plans, remember http://johnnydollarair.com Read more ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A wealthy eccentric woman who lived in a clutter-filled house, is murdered. Original Air Date: April 8, 1947 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Lieutenant Levinson is kidnapped. A warning is given that if a man Levinson sent to death row dies…Levinson dies. Rebroadcast Date: August 2, 1950 Support the show monthly at... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Rocky helps a woman who’s afraid she’ll murder her husband. Original Air Date: March 16, 1954 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Mr. Keen investigates the murder of a fashion queen’s daughter. Original Air Date: January 13, 1944 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
An ex-con gives Friday and Smith a tip in a series of robberies. Original Air Date: April 5, 1953 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
The young wife of a mystery writer is afraid her husband is going to kill her. Original Air Date: June 25, 1961 When making your travel plans, remember http://johnnydollarair.com Read more ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A man calls Blackie for help and tells him to take a bus to the country. On the bus, a woman with a gun forces Blackie off the bus. Original Air Date: April 1, 1946 Support the show monthly at... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A gunmaker has received threats and asks Diamond to protect him until he can deliver his designs to the government. Rebroadcast Date: June 21, 1953 Support the show monthly at... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
In a bar, Rocky and a friend who’s an insurance actuary search the bar for the one person in the building who’s a murderer. Original Air Date: March 9, 1954 Support the show monthly at... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A woman calls Mr. Keen in to find her missing uncle. Original Air Date: January 6, 1944 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Friday and Smith investigate a $5,000 liquor store hold up. Original Air Date: March 29, 1953 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Johnny is called in by an insurance agent who fears a wealthy man is going to be murdered by his business partner. Original Air Date: June 18, 1961 When making your travel plans, remember... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A man decides to commit a series of robberies of horse racing betting rooms and frame Boston Blackie for it. Original Air Date: March 25, 1947 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Diamond is hired to find a missing night watchman who disappeared with $50,000 in consigned jewels Rebroadcast Date: June 21, 1953 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Rocky tries to help a doctor who has to account for $25,000 in missing drugs and a drug addict son who is behind it. Original Air Date: March 2, 1954 Support the show monthly at... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Randy is investigating a series of murders where the killer calls the police in advance of each killing. Original Air Date: September 25, 1952 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Friday and Smith are trying to track down a team of safe burglars. Their search leads them to a man who denies involvement but is glad to help. Original Air Date: March 22, 1953 Support the show... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
After finishing a case in Miami, Johnny has to drive up to Sarasota. If he doesn’t, it could send another insurance agent to jail. Then Johnny meets a mysterious woman and finds himself... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
One of the city’s best-dressed men doesn’t remember his past and then turns to Blackie for help. He takes a cab after meeting with Blackie and the cabbie turns up dead. Original Air Date:... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
An anonymous man calls Walt and threatens to commit a murder at 8 o’clock. He succeeds and plans to do it again. Rebroadcast Date: June 7, 1953 Support the show monthly at... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A killer who Rocky put away escapes prison threatening to murder Rocky and those who sent him up. Rocky tries to get out of town, but one of the men on the list wants to use Rocky as a decoy to draw... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A blind man tells Randy the leader of a local rescue mission has been severely beaten. Randy wants to find out why but the man won’t tell him. Original Air Date: September 18, 1952 Support the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A woman is interested in marrying a man from a personals ad but fears he’s a murderer, Lt. Mary Sullivan investigates. Original Air Date June 29, 1947 Support the show monthly at [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Friday and Smith think they’ve found the man behind a series of robberies. The only problem? He couldn’t have possibly done it because he was in a sanitarium. Original Air Date: March 15,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Johnny investigates the murder of a man in a small town who lived alone in an old Southern plantation house. Original Air Date: June 4, 1961 When making your travel plans, remember... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Blackie is worried that boys are abandoning the local gym to curry favor with a mobster who was just released from prison and is now flush with cash. Meanwhile, a string of car thefts is plaguing the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Diamond is hired to track down a man’s brother in South America, and takes Lt. Levinson for company. Rebroadcast Date: May 31, 1953 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A woman with two husbands wants Rocky to murder one of them for her. Original Air Date: February 9, 1954 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A young dancer’s understudy puts on an impressive dancing performance that has the show’s owner ready to make him a star. However, he quits and disappears from the Read more ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A young woman is jilted when her fiancé instead marries her best friend. The jilted bride follows the newly married couple around on their honeymoon. Original Air Date: July 12, 1945 Support the show... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Friday and Smith investigate a man who is taking advantage of lonely single women. Original Air Date: March 8, 1953 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Johnny is sent to Montana to investigate the status of a man insured for half a million dollars. Original Air Date: May 28, 1961 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A boxer is threatened if he doesn’t fix a fight and turns to Blackie for help. Original Air Date: March 4, 1946 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A factory owner hires Diamond to find out who is sabotaging his factory. Original Air Date: April 4, 1953 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Rocky is hired as a social director at a Catskills bed and breakfast but finds the owner needs help with her fugitive son. Original Air Date: February 9, 1954 Support the show monthly at... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Randy receives a tip that there’s a bomb on a plane to Denver. Original Air Date: September 4, 1952 Support the show monthly at [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A soldier returns from Korea to find his brother-in-law’s been murdered and no one in town will talk about it. Original Air Date: November 10, 1952 Support Read more ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Friday and Smith search for a fugitive from another city. Original Air Date: March 1, 1953 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Johnny is called in to help a respected businessman being blackmailed by his ex-partner. Original Air Date: May 21, 1961 When making your travel plans, remember http://johnnydollarair.com Read more... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A couple in rural New York ask Blackie to look for their missing son. Original Air Date: February 25, 1947 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Mr. Walker wants Diamond to tail a man but doesn’t want to tell Diamond what he suspects. Original Air Date: March 28, 1952 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Rocky is hired as a bodyguard to a football quarterback who wants to turn down a request to throw the big game. Original Air Date: February 2, 1954 Support the show monthly at... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
On his night off, Randy meets a woman at a bar. She turns to ice when she sees a man with red hair. Original Air Date: August 21, 1952 Support the show monthly a Read more ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A man in his seventies is murdered and his bed-ridden wife brutally beaten. Friday and Smith search for the perpetrator. Original Air Date: February 22, 1953 Support the show monthly at... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Johnny is called in on a case that the police suspect is a suicide made to look like an accident. The only thing to argue otherwise is an anonymous caller who will only speak to Johnny. Original Air... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
An actress calls Blackie, asking for his help. She makes him wait outside of her dressing room, and the next thing Blackie knows, she’s been murdered. Original Air Date: February 18, 1947... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A badly injured, wanted felon will surrender to Diamond so Diamond can collect the reward if Diamond captures a female accomplice and turns her in. Original Air Date: March 21, 1952 Support the show... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Rocky is hired to drive a truckload of Nitro from New York to Los Angeles. Original Air Date: January 26, 1954 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A former burlesque dancer, a shoeshine man, and a delicatessen owner are among those acting out of character and raising money for a mysterious “him.” Origi Read more ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A woman fears her mother’s been murdered by her father. Original Air Date: February 15, 1953 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Johnny is sent to a small town to investigate a series of thefts by a ring of young car thieves. Original Air Date: April 23, 1961 When making your travel plans, remember http://johnnydollarair.com... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Two mobsters break jail and one of their thugs is determined to intimidate a radio player. Original Air Date: February 11, 1947 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Diamond to hire to locate a man whose blackmailing a wealthy man’s wife. Original Air Date: March 14, 1952 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
While working as a tour guide, Rocky takes his group to a museum and finds one of his party dead in a sarcophagus. When he goes back with Sergeant Finger, the body is gone. Original Air Date: January... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A female columnist enlists Randy’s help because she fears her estranged husband will kill her and her children. Original Air Date: August 7, 1952 Support t Read more ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Friday and Smith search for forgers who’ve been passing fake payroll checks. Original Air Date: February 8, 1953 Support the show monthly at: patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Johnny is called by an Entomologist who fears he’ll be murdered for his research. Original Air Date: April 16, 1961 When making your travel plans, remember http://johnnydollarair.com Read more... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A man is found dead with a note advising to contact Boston Blackie in case of emergency but Blackie has no idea who he is. Original Air Date: February 4, 1947 Support the show monthly at... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A man demands Diamond give him something. Diamond has no idea what he’s talking about and is beaten up. Original Air Date: February 8, 1952 Support the show monthly at... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Rocky is hired by the owner of a rodeo and finds himself framed for his employer’s murder. Original Air Date: January 12, 1954 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
An elderly layout man pulls part of a columnist’s article on a young talented swimmer. The swimmer refused to try out for the Olympics and ends up threatening the colum Read more ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Friday and Smith search for a gang of car strippers. Original Air Date: February 1, 1953 Support the show monthly at: patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Johnny is called to Arizona to investigate a suspicious death at a rest home. Is it suicide or murder? Original Air Date: April 9, 1961 When making your travel plans, remember... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Blackie tries to recover stolen jewels. Original Air Date: January 28, 1947 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A woman hires Diamond to find a witness who could clear her brother before he’s executed the next day. Original Air Date: February 1, 1952 Support the show monthly at... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Rocky becomes suspicious that a friend was killed by her husband for her insurance money. Original Air Date: January 5, 1954 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Randy meets a recently paroled old-time gangster who suffered a nervous breakdown who swears he’s being followed by two men who want to kill him for $100,000. Original Air Date: July 17, 1952... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A friend of Friday’s turns his son in for doing drugs. Original Air Date: January 25, 1953 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Johnny investigates the death of an ill woman who made a sudden change in her will. Original Air Date: April 2, 1961 When making your travel plans, remember http://johnnydollarair.com Read more ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
An insurance investigator wants Blackie’s help finding a murderer/robber, but an arson that destroys the investigator’s room gets in the way. Original Air Date: January 21, 1947 Support... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A professional stoolie offers Diamond a chance to make $5,000 by catching a wanted criminal. Original Air Date: January 25, 1952 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Rocky is a dead ringer for a has-been Bolivian fighter whose managers have arranged a dive but has disappeared. Rocky has to fill in for him. Original Air Date: December 29, 1953 Support the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Randy gets scooped by an intrepid, globe-trotting, female reporter. Original Air Date: July 3, 1952 Support the show monthly at [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A young adventurer is sent to the New World to find out why his Guardian’s debtors haven’t been paying. He discovers they’ve been missing for a year. Original Air Date: October 14,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Friday and Smith investigate the kidnapping of a college professor’s wife. Original Air Date: January 18, 1953 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Johnny heads West to find a missing robber. He has to find him before a mentally ill NYPD officer administers his own rough form of justice. Original Air Date: March 26, 1961 When making your travel... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Two fur thieves try and use Blackie as a patsy for their crimes. Original Air Date: January 14, 1947 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Diamond is hired to find out who’s been taking shots at a wealthy man who made his fortune in oil. Original Air Date: January 18, 1952 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Rocky is hired as a companion to a TV star chimp. Rocky is waylaid and the chimp stolen. Original Air Date: December 15, 1953 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A farmer from rural Illinois comes to Chicago determined to take down a corrupt political boss “with love.” Original Air Date: June 26, 1952 Support Read more ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Friday and Smith search for an elderly lady forger. Original Air Date: January 11, 1953 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A man calls Johnny up to tell him about a murder and that he’s not investing but then changes his mind. Original Air Date: March 19, 1961 When making your travel plans, remember... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Blackie goes to collect money for Shorty from someone Inspector Farraday’s about to arrest. They’re both disappointed when their quarry’s blown up. Original Air Date: January 7,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Diamond is hired to go to Florida to purchase an object for a man who will pay him a big fee if he succeeds. Original Air Date: January 11, 1952 Support the show monthly at... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Rocky befriends an orphan boy and finds himself suspected of kidnapping the boy from his guardian when he disappears. Original Air Date: December 8, 1953 Support the show on a one-time basis at... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Randy meets a woman who treats everyone on skid row to champagne, steaks, and fresh sheets, and is being haunted across the country by a childhood friend who promises to kill Read more ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Friday and Smith try to find a stolen statue of the child Jesus before Christmas Eve mass. Original Air Date: December 22, 1953 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
On Christmas Eve, an eccentric miner wants to change the beneficiary of his life insurance to his beloved burrow. Original Air Date: December 22, 1957 When making your travel plans, remember... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Blackie catches an accused thief but finds the rings he stole have disappeared. Original Air Date: December 17, 1947 Support the show monthly at [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Diamond performs a 1950s take on the Christmas Carol with his friends. Original Air Date: December 21, 1951 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Rocky is hired as an assistant store detective and occasional fill in for Santa Claus. He gets into a fight with the store Santa and comes under suspicion when the store’s Santa is murdered.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Randy gets time off for Christmas, which reminds him he has no one to spend Christmas with. When a boy tries to give him an envelope and is run over by a car, Randy has to fin Read more ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
After arresting a copycat, Friday and Smith continue their search for the masked bandit, who confounds them further by changing up his methods. Original Air Date: January 4, 1953 Support the show... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Johnny travels to Mexico to prevent a once-promising but now brain-damaged boxer from being killed in a fight set up by his corrupt manager. Original Air Date: March 12, 1961 When making your travel... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A gangster threatens a man’s life if he doesn’t pay protection money. The man is murdered by his best friend after asking Boston Blackie’s help. Original Air Date: December 31, 1946... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A hood shoots a policeman who mentored Diamond and Diamond goes searching for the shooter. Original Air Date: January 4, 1952 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Rocky is hired as assistant and night watchman to a shop that sells plaster statue reproductions. Original Air Date: December 1, 1953 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Randy becomes convinced that a 19-year old woman was railroaded into a conviction for manslaughter of a politician’s wife. Original Air Date: June 19, 1952 [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Friday and Smith investigate a series of robberies of grocery stores committed by a masked man. Original Air Date: December 28, 1952 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A woman is about to receive $600,000 if her husband is declared dead after seven years of being missing. She pressures the insurance company to bring Johnny in to locate her husband. Original Air... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A woman in the country asks Blackie to find her brother. Blackie discovers he’s tied to a mysterious car left on the railroad tracks in the path of a train carrying a shipment of gold. Original... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A man in a distinctive overcoat walks into Diamond’s office and beats him up for no apparent reason. Original Air Date: December 28, 1951 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Rocky is hired to play bodyguard to an alcoholic theater critic. When the critic is murdered, Rocky has to find out who did it or be fingered for the crime. Original Air Date: November 24, 1953... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A once-promising scientist visits the scene of a murder Randy is covering. Original Air Date: June 5, 1952 Support the show monthly at [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
While waiting for a contact, Friday and Smith overhear a drunk confessing to murder. Original Air Date: December 14, 1952 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Johnny is called at 2 a.m. in the morning to a party where a jewel theft has occurred. Original Air Date: February 26, 1961 When making your travel plans, remember http://johnnydollarair.com Read... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A gangster hires an impersonator to pretend to be Blackie and finger a rival mobster. When the rival gangster survives, he comes after Blackie. Original Air Date: December 17, 1946 Support the show... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Diamond’s car is wrecked, but that’s just the start of his troubles. Original Air Date: December 7, 1951 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Rocky takes a job filling in as a bass player and stumbles on the body of a dead woman. Original Air Date: November 17, 1953 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A star jockey’s younger brother returns to Chicago. Little Brother is determined to prove himself a better jockey and will do anything to prove it. Original Air D Read more ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Friday and Smith investigate a series of burglaries. Original Air Date: December 7, 1952 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Johnny sets out to solve a pair of $200,000 warehouse fires. Original Air Date: February 12, 1961 When making your travel plans, remember http://johnnydollarair.com Read more ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Mary is hired to serve as a nurse for a bed-ridden man and then is immediately dismissed after giving him a sedative injection. Later that day, the man is found dead after leaving a suicide note.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A tall strong man hires Diamond to investigate threats to a Carnival dance. Original Air Date: March 30, 1951 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Rocky is working for a messenger service and a client offers him a $100 tip for delivering a package that she doesn’t want opened. Original Air Date: November 10, 1953 Support the show monthly... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Randy is accused of a murder by an anonymous columnist for a rival newspaper. Original Air Date: May 22, 1952 Support the show monthly at [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Friday and Smith investigate the murder of a pawnbroker. Original Air Date: November 30, 1952 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Johnny receives a call from Fort Worth asking him about payment for a job he did there last week, but Johnny wasn’t in Fort Worth and is told he’s an impersonator. Original Air Date:... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Blackie is sentenced for stealing $100,000 in jewels. Original Air Date: December 3, 1946 Support the show monthly at: patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A planter asks Diamond to investigate the cause of the loss of his cattle and his wife’s illness before dying in Diamond’s office. Diamond travels to Haiti to investigate. Original Air... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
An 8-year-old boy shows up at a diner Rocky’s working with a bag he says contains $50,000. Original Air Date: November 3, 1953 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
The owner of the factory is giving it to the workers and wants to be clear he’s not doing so for humanitarian reasons. Original Air Date: May 15, 1952 Sup Read more ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
An opera singer asks a model to impersonate her so she can have a few moments of peace. The model is murdered and it’s up to Deputy Parr to solve the case. Original Air Date: October 13, 1942... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Friday and Smith investigate a dead man found in a bad part of town. Original Air Date: November 23, 1952 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Despite extreme back pain, Johnny goes to New Jersey to catch a safe cracker that he failed to catch several years back. Original Air Date: January 29, 1961 When making your travel plans, remember... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A wealthy businessman is killed and $25,000 is stolen from him while waiting for a flight in a private plane. Suspicion falls on the three owners of the company. Original Air Date: November 26, 1946... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Diamond is hired to deliver a face cream sample to a beauty products magnate. Original Air Date: March 16, 1951 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Rocky gets a job as a steward on a cruise ship. He finds a passenger dead and becomes the prime suspect. Original Air Date: October 27, 1953 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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 Support the show monthly at [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Friday goes undercover as an out of town drug dealer in order to find out who is behind a potent new supply of heroin. Original Air Date: November 16, 1952 Support the show monthly at... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
An insurance company in Vegas wants Johnny to go fishing to prevent a murder. Original Air Date: January 15, 1961 When making your travel plans, remember http://johnnydollarair.com Read more ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Two thieves steal a $50,000 necklace at the request of the owner. When they find that he double-crossed them, they want Blackie to return the necklace. Original Air Date: November 19, 1946 Support... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Diamond is brought in by Independent butchers to stop a protection racket. Original Air Date: March 9, 1951 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Rocky is sent by the employment agency about a job as a chauffeur. He wakes up in a sanitarium in Denver, Colorado. Original Air Date: October 20, 1953 Support the show monthly at... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A friend of Randy’s owes $3,000 to a notorious wanted racketeer. Original Air Date: May 1, 1952 Support the show monthly at [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
An unidentified woman is found dead in the apartment of a rented room. Original Air Date: November 9, 1952 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Johnny investigates when an old con man reports he’s receiving threatening letters. Original Air Date: January 8, 1961 When making your travel plans, remember http://johnnydollarair.com Read... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A friend of Blackie’s asks Blackie to find why a man who owed him money committed suicide. Original Air Date: November 12, 1946 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A man had been planning to have himself killed by a hitman so his family could collect the insurance, but now he wants to live and for Diamond to stop the killer. Original Air Date: March 2, 1951... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Rocky is assigned to work as an oyster shucker at a sea food restaurant. He finds pearls in twelve consecutive oysters. Original Air Date: October 6, 1953 Support the show monthly at... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Randy keeps company with a colleague whose wife is having a baby. Original Air Date: December 28, 1951 Support the show monthly at [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Friday and Smith investigate a murder on a movie sound stage. Original Air Date: November 2, 1952 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Johnny is called to solve a string of robberies in the same neighborhood. Original Air Date: December 18, 1960 When making your travel plans, remember http://johnnydollarair.com Read more ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
An embezzler plans to escape by getting an underground doctor to change his face, but finds the doctor gave him a face of a wanted cop killer. Original Air Date: November 5, 1946 Support the show... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A woman begs Diamond for help, gives him a $300 retainer and then dies in his office. Original Air Date: February 23, 1951 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Inspector Peter Black asks for and receives carte blanche to stop smuggling that’s undermining the British economy. Original Air Date: July 22, 1950 Support the show monthly at... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A cute elderly couple from rural Illinois asks Randy’s help to plan a big splurge in Chicago, but Randy senses something troubling. Original Air Date: October 26, Read more ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Friday and Smith investigate a bank robbery. Original Air Date: October 26, 1952 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Johnny is called in to investigate when an insured man is robbed of an urn containing $5,000. Original Air Date: December 4, 1960 When making your travel plans, remember... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A strange woman shows up at Mary’s Halloween party prophesying doom for Boston Blackie. Original Air Date: October 29, 1946 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A man who looks deathly ill asks Diamond to find a man before he dies. Original Air Date: February 16, 1951 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
An undercover police officer calls Black to report he’s uncovered the identity of a key narcotics dealer and the dealer is dead. Black arrives to find both the officer and the drug... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A mental patient has gotten loose on the grounds with a gun. Original Air Date: August 17, 1951 Support the show monthly at [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Friday and Smith are called in when two AWOL marines are found poisoned. Original Air Date: October 19, 1952 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Johnny is called in to protect a retired lawyer who’s been receiving death threats. Original Air Date: November 27, 1960 When making your travel plans, remember http://johnnydollarair.com Read... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Boston Blackie sets out to find out who shot Inspector Farraday. Original Air Date: October 22, 1946 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
The owner of a high end male clothing store hires Diamond to find out why someone is stealing all of his blue serge suits. Original Air Date: February 9, 1951 Support the show monthly at... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
While transporting a member of a masked gang on a train, the remaining members of the gang hijacked the train and shoot the suspect right in front of Inspector Black. Support the show monthly at... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Randy meets a feverish woman who believes he’s her husband, Anton. Randy sets out to find her husband when he learns she’s about to die. Original Air Date: Read more ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Friday and Smith investigate when a woman reports her son was shot. Original Air Date: October 12, 1952 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
The Canary Diamonds have been stolen again. Original Air Date: November 20, 1960 When making your travel plans, remember http://johnnydollarair.com Read more ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Someone plants a spur under a trick horse rider’s saddle at the rodeo and Blackie comes in to investigate. Original Air Date: October 15, 1946 Support the show monthly at... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A woman hires Diamond to protect her. He arrives to find her murdered. Original Air Date: February 2, 1951 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Inspector Black is called to a hotel room where a man is out on a ledge, saying he can’t deal with his guilt over a killing he’d committed. Original Air Date: July 1, 1950 Support the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A discharged soldier with amnesia asks Randy’s help to find his wife and recover his memory. Original Air Date: July 6, 1952 Support the show monthly at [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Friday and Smith investigate when a formerly good’s student slide ends up with him causing a riot in class. Original Air Date: October 5, 1952 Support the show monthly at... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Johnny is called out to Little Rock to investigate the death of the insured where a young man with a record holds the key to the solution. Original Air Date: November 13, 1960 When making your travel... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
The breeder of two prize-winning dogs is murdered and one of her nieces asks Blackie to investigate. Original Air Date: October 8, 1946 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A wealthy man wants to hire Diamond to protect him from his recently paroled brother. Diamond isn’t interested until someone tries to threaten him off the case. Original Air Date: January 26,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
The Judge investigates the death of the stepson of a wealthy woman who is a reform activist. Audition Date: February 13, 1952 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A dying has-been reporter asks Randy to get the truth behind the man who framed him for liable and ruined his career. Original Air Date: June 29, 1951 Support th Read more ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Friday and Smith search for a gang that are robbing motorists and then shoving them in the trunks of their car. Original Air Date: September 28, 1952 Thanks to Care.com for supporting The Great... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Johnny is called in when suspicion for switching a genuine jewel with a fake copy falls on the jeweler who identified the switch. Original Air Date: October 10, 1960 Thanks to Care.com for... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A diver in a treasure hunting expedition is nearly murdered by his partner after discovering millions in sunken gold. When he makes it to shore, he pledges to kill his partner. His sister asks... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A member of the parole board is being blackmailed by friends of a criminal who have accused his son of murder. He wants Diamond to prove his son innocent. Original Air Date: January 19, 1951 Support... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A woman runs into Steve Mallory’s office asking for protection from the man who’s pursuing her. Mallory finds the pursuer dead and discovers the pursuer was his partner. Support the show... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A mad man is holding a missing five year old boy in a church’s bell tower. Original Air Date: June 22, 1951 Support the show monthly at [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A man travels via Cloud Nine to an office building where all the world’s famous radio detectives work and is mistaken for Sam Spade and hired to find a woman’s murderer if she’s... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]