Video Theater – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
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Video Theater 223: So Was Goliath (Encore)
April 17, 2022 04:00 - 29 minutes - 187 MB VideoBlackie 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
Video Theater 222: Dragnet: The Big Test (Encore)
March 06, 2022 05:00 - 29 minutes - 249 MB VideoAt their end of their shift, Friday and Smith meet a young man who came in to report the murder of his best friend while the two were in Mexico. Original Air Date: April 9, 1953 (Season 2, Episode 22)
Video Theater 221: The Cases of Eddie Drake: Shoot the Works (Encore)
February 14, 2022 00:58 - 32 minutes - 265 MB VideoEddie is hired by a wealthy woman to recover a watch that could reveal an indiscretion. Along the way, Eddie runs into murder. Original Air Date: April 10, 1952
Video Theater 220: Sheriff of Cochise: Triangle
January 30, 2022 05:00 - 31 minutes - 207 MB VideoA beloved local doctor's death is initially thought to be a heart attack, but it quickly becomes apparent that someone murdered him. Season 1, Episode 22 Original Air Date: February 22, 1957
Video Theater 219: Man with a Camera: Blind Spot
January 16, 2022 05:00 - 31 minutes - 209 MB VideoAn old friend of Mike's dies why telling him about a racket he's about his reveal. Mike travels to Lisbon to find who killed his friend. Original Air Date: December 5, 1958 Season 1, Episode 8
OTR Animated: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Nick Shurn Matter Omnibus
December 22, 2021 05:00 - 4 minutes - 63.4 MB VideoJohnny Dollar (Bob Bailey) seeks the witness to a murder in New York in the Michigan woods on Christmas Eve in this brief scene from the Nick Shurn Matter, Part Four from the radio series Yours Truly Johnny Dollar Original Air Date: December 22, 1955
Video Theater 218: Dragnet: The Big Little Jesus
December 19, 2021 17:00 - 35 minutes - 298 MB VideoFriday 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
Video Theater 218: Dragnet: THe Big Little Jesus
December 19, 2021 17:00 - 35 minutes - 298 MB VideoFriday 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
Video Theater 217: Sherlock Holmes: The Christmas Pudding
December 12, 2021 05:00 - 29 minutes - 247 MB VideoA 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
Video Theater 216: Sheriff of Cochise: Bank Robbery
November 28, 2021 05:00 - 30 minutes - 205 MB VideoTwo bank robbers are plotting at a bank robbery at the county seat, but the sheriff begins to suspect of robbing another bank at the other end of the County. Season 1, Episode 23 Original Air Date: March 1, 1957
Video Theater 215: Man with a Camera: Another Barrier
November 15, 2021 15:19 - 29 minutes - 194 MB VideoMike Chronicles the test flight of a pilot whose girlfriend is scared of him dying while him in flight and thinks she's a jinx. Season 1, Episode 7 Original Air Date: November 28, 1958
Video Theater 214: Sheriff of Cochise: Lynching Party
October 31, 2021 22:09 - 29 minutes - 193 MB VideoA young man (James Best) kills his boss in a fight. The Sherrif arrests him, but has to save him from a lynching mob. Season 1, Episode 19 Original Air Date: February 1, 1957
Video Theater 213: Philo Vance: The Kennel Murder Case
October 17, 2021 05:53 - 1 hour - 526 MB VideoPhilo Vance (William Powell) is called in when a wealthy man is found murdered and in the process of undressing in his locked bedroom. Original Release Date: October 28, 1933
Video Theater 212: Sheriff of Cochise: Red-Haired Stranger
September 26, 2021 04:00 - 30 minutes - 204 MB VideoA wanted man comes to town, dyes his hair to lay low and then kills a local mechanic. Season 1, Episode 10 Original Air Date: November 23, 1956
Video Theater 211: Man with a Camera: Double Negative
September 14, 2021 06:19 - 29 minutes - 198 MB VideoMike teams up with a writer with a bad reputation and obtains a picture of a woman who was supposed to have been murdered...or did he? Original Air Date: November 21, 1958 Season 1, Episode 6
Video Theater 210: Man Behind the Badge: The Case of Operation Sabotage (Public Domain Video Theater)
August 29, 2021 04:00 - 29 minutes - 195 MB VideoSaboteurs plot against a bomber squadron. Season 2, Episode 37 Original Air Date: September 17, 1955
Video Theater 210: Man Behind the Badge: The Case of Operation Sabotage
August 29, 2021 04:00 - 29 minutes - 195 MB VideoSaboteurs plot against a bomber squadron. Season 2, Episode 37 Original Air Date: September 17, 1955
Video Theater 209: Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Blind Man's Bluff
August 16, 2021 18:07 - 29 minutes - 194 MB VideoSherlock Holmes is called into investigate a case where the only clue is a chicken bone. Season 1, Episode 8 Original Air Date: December 6, 1954
Video Theater 209: The Case of the Blind Man's Bluff
August 16, 2021 18:07 - 29 minutes - 194 MB VideoSherlock Holmes is called into investigate a case where the only clue is a chicken bone. Season 1, Episode 8 Original Air Date: December 6, 1954
Video Theater 208: Man Behind the Badge: The Case of the Hot Stock
July 31, 2021 16:00 - 28 minutes - 187 MB VideoThe 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
Video Theater 207: Man with a Camera: Turntable
July 18, 2021 04:00 - 29 minutes - 195 MB VideoMike 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
Video Theater 207: Federal Men: The Case of the Man Outside
June 20, 2021 04:00 - 28 minutes - 191 MB VideoThe 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
Video Theater 206: Federal Men: The Case of the Man Outside
June 20, 2021 04:00 - 28 minutes - 191 MB VideoThe 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
Video Theater 205: Man with a Camera: Close-Up on Violence
June 04, 2021 21:50 - 29 minutes - 194 MB VideoA 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
Video Theater 204: Federal Men: The Case of the Iron Curtain
May 23, 2021 04:00 - 28 minutes - 189 MB VideoAn 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.
Video Theater 203: Man With A Camera: Profile of a Kilelr
May 11, 2021 13:22 - 29 minutes - 193 MB VideoMike'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
Video Theater 202: Federal Men: The Case of the Bad Bargain
April 25, 2021 04:00 - 27 minutes - 184 MB VideoA 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
Video Theater 201: Man With A Camera: The Warning
April 11, 2021 04:00 - 31 minutes - 207 MB VideoMike 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
Video Theater 200: Treasury Men in Action: The Case of the Deadly Dilemma"
March 28, 2021 05:54 - 31 minutes - 207 MB VideoA 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
Video Theater 199: Man With a Camera: Second Avenue Assassin
March 14, 2021 05:00 - 28 minutes - 188 MB VideoMike 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
Video Theater 198: Federal Men: The Case of the Buried Treasure
March 02, 2021 02:20 - 30 minutes - 201 MB VideoIn 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
Video Theater 197: Here's Flash Casey
February 14, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 411 MB VideoFlash 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
Video Theater 196: Code 3: The Benson Case
February 03, 2021 14:52 - 29 minutes - 197 MB VideoA 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
Video Theater 195: Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome
January 17, 2021 07:54 - 1 hour - 476 MB VideoDick 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
Video Theater 194: Dragnet: The Big Little Jesus
December 21, 2020 19:29 - 35 minutes - 298 MB VideoFriday 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
Video Theater 193: Racket Squad: The Christmas Caper
December 06, 2020 15:30 - 30 minutes - 189 MB VideoA lovable old man is roped into working for a fraudulent charity Santa ring. Original Air Date: December 25, 1952 Season 3, Episode 15
Video Theater 192: Code 3: Case 2206
November 23, 2020 16:36 - 33 minutes - 220 MB VideoSeveral allegations of theft began to mount against a Sheriff's Deputy. Season 1, Episode 20 Original AIr Date: August 13, 1957
Video Theater 191: Dick Tracy's Dilemma
November 08, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour - 423 MB VideoDick Tracy investigates a fur theft that turned deadly. Original Release Date: May 20, 1947
Video Theater 190: Code 3: The Sniper
October 26, 2020 13:50 - 28 minutes - 189 MB VideoA 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
Video Theater 189: Dick Tracy v. Cueball
October 11, 2020 04:00 - 1 hour - 436 MB VideoDick 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
Video Theater 188: The Court of Last Resort: The Mary Morales Case
September 28, 2020 05:43 - 28 minutes - 188 MB VideoThe 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
Video Theater 187: General Elected Theater: Committed
September 13, 2020 04:00 - 34 minutes - 223 MB VideoWriter 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
Video Theater 186: The Court of Last Resort: The Frank Clark Case
August 30, 2020 04:00 - 28 minutes - 187 MB VideoThe 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
Video Theater 185: Dick Tracy
August 16, 2020 04:00 - 1 hour - 449 MB VideoDick Tracy (Morgan Conway) hunts a serial killer known as splitface. Release Date: December 20, 1945
Video Theater 0184: The Court of Last Resort: The John Smith Case
July 31, 2020 22:00 - 28 minutes - 183 MB VideoThe 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
Video Theater 183: Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Winthrop Legend
July 12, 2020 04:00 - 31 minutes - 207 MB VideoSherlock 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
Video Theater 182:Man Behind the Badge: Case of the Dying Past (Public Domain Video Theater)
June 22, 2020 05:29 - 28 minutes - 186 MB VideoA Vermont State's Attorney investigates the murder of a suspected illegal money lender. Season 2, Episode 11 Original Air Date: February 12, 1955
Video Theater 181: Sherlock Holmes; The Case of the Belligerent Ghost
June 07, 2020 03:28 - 28 minutes - 188 MB VideoDoctor Watson is punched in the eye by a man he pronounced dead. Season 1, Episode 5 Original Air Date: November 15, 1954
Video Theater 180: Man Behind the Badge: The Case of the Priceless Passport
May 25, 2020 21:14 - 28 minutes - 193 MB VideoTwo immigration agents go undercover in Mexico to find the source of counterfeit passports. Season 2, Episode 8 Original Air Date: February 26, 1955
Video Theater 179: Sherlock Holmes; The Case of the Texas Cowgirl
May 12, 2020 02:21 - 29 minutes - 196 MB VideoA 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