Video Theater – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio

Dangerous Assignment: The Mine Story (Video Theater 269(

April 14, 2024 04:00 - 31 minutes - 209 MB Video

Join Steve Mitchell as he embarks on a perilous journey behind the Iron Curtain, infiltrating a slave labor camp to extract vital intelligence. With time running against him and danger at every turn, will Steve secure the information and make it out alive, or will this assignment prove too deadly? Season 1, Episode 39 Original Air Date: Spring 1952

Sheriff of Cochise: Woman Escapes (Video Theater 268)

March 31, 2024 04:00 - 29 minutes - 198 MB Video

When Hank Gifford finds himself caught between his domineering sister and his manipulative girlfriend, a tragic accident spirals into a harrowing investigation and it's up to Sheriff Morgan (John Bomfield) to find the truth. Season 2, Episode 29 Original Air Date: October 31, 1957

Dangerous Assignment: The Missing Diplomat Story (Video Theater 267)

March 17, 2024 04:00 - 28 minutes - 192 MB Video

Steve Mitchell embarks on a high-stakes mission to locate a missing European diplomat and recover top-secret records. As tensions rise and loyalties are questioned, join Mitchell in the bustling streets of Barcelona, where every corner could hold a clue or a deadly trap. Season 1, Episode 17 Original Air Date: December 1951

Sheriff of Cochise: Vapor (Video Theater 266)

February 25, 2024 05:00 - 30 minutes - 201 MB Video

Two robbers feign car trouble and steal a traveling salesman's car. Season 1, Episode 25 Original Air Date: March 15, 1957

Dangerous Assignment: The Caboose Story (Video Theater 265)

February 11, 2024 05:00 - 29 minutes - 198 MB Video

Steve Mitchell travels to Tokyo on a dangerous assignment that reunites him with Marta Siba, an old flame with a new agenda. Dive into a tale of espionage where trains derail, bridges explode, and love might just be the deadliest force of all. Season 1, Episode 16 Original Air Date: December 1951

U.S. Marshal: Kill or Be Killed

January 28, 2024 05:00 - 28 minutes - 190 MB Video

A man who murdered a federal witness hides out at an isolated farmhouse. Original Air Date: February 22, 1960 Season 2, Episode 31

Dangerous Assignment: The Sunflower Seed Story (Video Theater 263)

January 14, 2024 05:00 - 28 minutes - 190 MB Video

Steve is sent to South America on a Cold War Mission where an American businessman is accused of assassinating an anti-American party leader. Original Broadcast Date: December 1951 Season 1, Episode 15

Dragnet: The Big Little Jesus (Encore) (Video Theater 262)

December 24, 2023 05:00 - 35 minutes - 298 MB Video

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

Dragnet: The Big Little Jesus

December 24, 2023 05:00 - 35 minutes - 298 MB Video

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

Sherlock Holmes: The Christmas Pudding (Video Theater 261)

December 10, 2023 05:00 - 29 minutes - 247 MB Video

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

U.S. Marshal: Murder, My Darling (Video Theater 260)

November 19, 2023 05:00 - 29 minutes - 193 MB Video

A woman who absconded with embezzled funds is found murdered and suspicion falls on her husband. Original Air Date: October 8, 1959 Season 2, Episode 9 Starred John Bromfield as Marshal Morgan, James Griffith as Deputy Tom Ferguson

Dangerous Assignment: The Havana Microfilm Story (Video Theater 259)

November 05, 2023 04:00 - 29 minutes - 196 MB Video

Steve (Brian Donlevy) goes to Havana to find the head of a spy ring that's been stealing U.S. Government secrets putting g them on microfilm and smuggling them out of the country. Features Lyle Talbot Original Air Date: Fall 1951 Season 1, Episode 14

U.S. Marshal: The Man Who Lived Twice (Video Theater 258)

October 22, 2023 04:00 - 28 minutes - 190 MB Video

A safecracker is thwarted when trying to rob a wealthy man and there's suspicion about the involvement of an inside man...who had been declared dead! Season 2, Episode 16 Original Air Date: November 16, 1959

Dangerous Assignment: The Burma Temple Story (Video Theater 257)

October 08, 2023 04:00 - 28 minutes - 189 MB Video

Steve heads to Burma after an American correspondent is murdered and seeks to find a woman who may be a witness...or the murderer. Original Air Date: Fall 1951 Season 1, Episode 13

U.S. Marshal: Stool Pigeon (Video Theater 256)

September 24, 2023 04:00 - 28 minutes - 188 MB Video

Marshal Morgan tries to get a captured Narcotics Smuggler to reveal who the leader of the racket is. Season 1, Episode 27 Original Air Date: January 22, 1959

Dangerous Assignment: The Blood-Stained Feather Story (Video Theater 255)

September 10, 2023 04:00 - 28 minutes - 189 MB Video

Steve goes to Cairo to take out a dangerous secret order. Original Air Date: Autumn 1951

He Walked by Night (Video Theater 254)

August 20, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour - 599 MB Video

The LAPD hunts for a desperate and cunning criminal (Richard Basehart) who killed a police officer in this groundbreaking Police Procedural that features Jack Webb. Original Release Date: November 24, 1948

U.S. Marshal: The Fence (VIdeo Theater 253)

July 30, 2023 04:00 - 28 minutes - 187 MB Video

A Tucson diamond dealer claims self-defense after killing a robber, but Marshall Morgan's not buying it. Original Air Date: January 15, 1959 Season 1, Episode 25

Dangerous Assignment: The Italian Movie Story (Video Theater 252)

July 16, 2023 04:00 - 28 minutes - 135 MB Video

Steve goes on a low-budget Italian movie set where a foreign agent got killed trying to acquire a piece of film. Season 1, Episode 11 Original Air Date: Fall 1951

U.S. Marshal: My Sons (Video Theater 251)

June 18, 2023 04:00 - 29 minutes - 199 MB Video

A son of a friend (Mary Astor) of Marshal Morgan dies in a car accident. The widow's dealing with more than grief. The death threatens to expose her family's car smuggling ring. Season 1, Episode 7 Original Air Date: September 9, 1958

Dangerous Assignment: The Lagoon Story (Video Theater 250)

June 04, 2023 04:00 - 28 minutes - 191 MB Video

Steve goes to Africa in search of two agents who were on the trail of a deadly strain of parasites. Season 1, Episode 10 Original Air Date: Fall 1951

U.S. Marshal: Ghost Town (Video Theater 249)

May 21, 2023 04:00 - 29 minutes - 198 MB Video

Two criminals escape jail with a hostage and hide out in an Arizona Ghost town. Season 2, Episode 1 Original Air Date: October 10, 1959

Dangerous Assignment: The Pat and Mike Story (Video Theater 248)

May 07, 2023 18:24 - 29 minutes - 197 MB Video

Steve is sent to Africa to bring back a British Agent transporting an enemy agent stirring up U.S. interest but when Steve arrives he finds his life depends on figuring out which is the Brtish Agent and which is the enemy. Season 1, Episode 9 Original Air Date: Fall 1951

U.S. Marshal: R.I.P. (Video Theater 247)

April 23, 2023 04:00 - 29 minutes - 199 MB Video

A guard is implicated in a payroll robbery and left for dead and speechless by the gang who committed it. Directed by Robert Altman Original Air Date: June 6, 1959

Dangerous Assignment: The Salami Story (Video Theater 246)

April 09, 2023 04:00 - 29 minutes - 195 MB Video

Steve boards a train in hopes of receiving a report from a Plastic Company CEO but finds the CEO murdered and the report missing. Original Air Date: Fall 1951 Season 1 Episode 8

U.S. Marshal: Deer Hunt (Video Theater 245)

March 26, 2023 04:00 - 29 minutes - 198 MB Video

Marshal Morgan and his friend Chris go hunting but find themselves hunted when a man shoots Chris and sets out to finish him off as well as Morgan. Season 1, Episode 38 Original Air Date: June 27, 1959

Dangerous Assignment: The Bhandara Story (Video Theater 244)

March 12, 2023 05:00 - 28 minutes - 191 MB Video

Steve goes to Bombay to meet with a witness who accused an American businessman of gunrunning. He wants to change his story but is killed and Steve has to go on the run from the police. Original Air Date: Fall 1951 Season 1, Episode 7

U.S. Marshal: MaryJo is Missing (Video Theater 243)

February 26, 2023 05:00 - 29 minutes - 195 MB Video

Marshal Morgan learns an old friend has gone missing and her husband is acting suspiciously. Original Air Date: May 30, 1959 Season 1, Episode 34

Dangerous Assignment: The Key Story (Video Theater 242)

February 12, 2023 06:55 - 31 minutes - 207 MB Video

Steve goes to the Swiss alps to obtain a foreign document that could stabilize a friendly country. Season 1, Episode 6 Original Air Date: Fall 1951 Based on Radio Play that aired March 20, 1950

U.S. Marshal: Armored Car (Video Theater 241)

January 29, 2023 05:00 - 28 minutes - 192 MB Video

Marshal Morgan investigates a precision armored car robbery. Original Release Date: April 4, 1959 Season 1, Episode 26

Dangerous Assignment: The Manger Story (Video Theater 240)

January 15, 2023 05:00 - 31 minutes - 211 MB Video

The son of a man who knows the truth about a lecture circuit spy ring disappears from a Swiss boarding school and steve has to find the missing boy. Original Release Date: Fall 1951 Season 1, Episode 5

Racket Squad: The Christmas Caper (Encore) (Video Theater 239)

December 04, 2022 05:00 - 30 minutes - 189 MB Video

A lovable old man is roped into working for a fraudulent charity Santa ring. Original Air Date: December 25, 1952 Season 3, Episode 15

U.S. Marshall: The Diner (Video Theater 238)

November 20, 2022 05:00 - 28 minutes - 192 MB Video

An attempt to arrest a parole violator goes wrong when two desperate fugitives are visiting him when the Marshall comes calling. Season 1, Episode 15 Original Air Date: January 16, 1959

Dangerous Assignment: The Memory Chain (Video Theater 237)

November 06, 2022 04:00 - 28 minutes - 190 MB Video

Steve travels to Munich to break up a spy ring that spreads its message by memory rather than in written form. Original Air Date: Fall 1951 Season 1, Episode 4

Sheriff of Cochise/U.S. Marshal: Federal Witness (Video Theater 236)

October 23, 2022 04:00 - 33 minutes - 222 MB Video

Sheriff Morgan transports a federal witness to Tucson only to see the U.S. Marshall gunned out and himself tasked with capturing the criminal behind the whole thing. Season 2, Episode 39 of Sheriff of Cochise Original Sheriff of Cochise Air Date: December 13, 1957 Order/Air Date for U.S Marshal unknown

Dangerous Assignment: The Displaced Persons Story (Video Theater 235)

October 10, 2022 05:10 - 30 minutes - 205 MB Video

Steve has to find out who's sabotaging the efforts of refugees fleeing tyranny to build a better life for themselves on an island. Original Air Date: Fall 1951 Season 1, Episode 3

Video Theater 234: U.S. Marshal: Pursuit

September 25, 2022 04:00 - 30 minutes - 200 MB Video

An imprisoned soldier (Charles Bronson) kills a guard and escapes from custody, killing a guard, and kidnapping a corporal and his girlfriend. Season 1, Episode 16 Original Air Date: January 24, 1959

Video Theater 233: Dangerous Assignment: The

September 11, 2022 04:00 - 29 minutes - 193 MB Video

Steve is assigned to impersonate a sea captain who doesn't exist in order to trap a gang of gunrunners. Original Air Date: Fall 1951 Season 1, Episode 2

Video Theater 232: U.S. Marshal: The Champ

August 28, 2022 04:00 - 31 minutes - 207 MB Video

A young boxer goes (Michael Landon) gets into a life of crime and eventually, it'll fall to his friend, Marshall Morgan, to bring him to justice. Season 1, Episode 12 Original Air Date: December 27, 1958

Video Theater: Sherlock Holmes: The Case of Harry Crocker

August 14, 2022 04:00 - 29 minutes - 196 MB Video

An escape artist asks Holmes to clear him of murder. Season 1, Episode 9 Original Air Date: December 13, 1954

Video Theater 231: Sherlock Holmes: The Case of Harry Crocker

August 14, 2022 04:00 - 29 minutes - 196 MB Video

An escape artist asks Holmes to clear him of murder. Season 1, Episode 9 Original Air Date: December 13, 1954

Video Theater 230: U.S. Marshal: Sentenced to Death

July 31, 2022 04:00 - 29 minutes - 199 MB Video

A violent criminal (Jack Lord) is sentenced to death in a fatal robbery. Marshal Morgan is charged with delivering the man to prison but suspects he has an escape plan. Season 1, Episode 3 Original Air Date: October 25, 1958

Video 230: U.S. Marshal: Sentenced to Death

July 31, 2022 04:00 - 29 minutes - 199 MB Video

A violent criminal (Jack Lord) is sentenced to death in a fatal robbery. Marshal Morgan is charged with delivering the man to prison but suspects he has an escape plan. Season 1, Episode 3 Original Air Date: October 25, 1958

Video Theater 229: Dangerous Assignment: The Alien Smuggler Story

July 17, 2022 04:00 - 33 minutes - 223 MB Video

Steve is sent to Portugal to investigate a refugee smuggling racket. Original Air Date: Fall 1951 Based on a radio play from August 13, 1949

Video Theater 228: U.S. Marshal: The Fugitives

June 26, 2022 04:00 - 32 minutes - 218 MB Video

Two fugitive bank robbers roll into Tucson and it falls to Marshal Morgan to hunt them down. ' Season 1, Episode 1 Original Air Date: October 11, 1958

Video Theater 227: Studio One: Two Sharp Knives

June 14, 2022 00:41 - 1 hour - 427 MB Video

A chief of police receives a wire indicating a man on board an incoming train is a murderer. The man then dies in his cell and the Chief struggles to find evidence to support his incarceration. Season 2, Episode 10 Original Air Date: November 14, 1949 Listen to the radio version of this story.

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