Friday's Favorite OTR

 Great Gildersleeve: "Gildy Repairs His Car" 4/4/43

Gildersleeve's car isn't running. Since the local mechanic has been drafted, Gildy decides to repair it himself. What could possibly go wrong?

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Friday's Favorite OTR

 Philip Marlowe: "The Sea Horse Jockey" 5/2/50

Marlowe is initially hired to transport a valuable sea-horse shaped brooch to a buyer. But he ends up having to catch a thief and a killer.

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Friday's Favorite OTR

 Nick Carter: "The Haunted Rocking Chair" 5/20/45

Nick is asked to investigate a rocking chair that seems to rock by itself. This, of course, soon evolves into a murder case.

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Friday's Favorite OTR

 X Minus One: "At the Post" 3/27/57

The fate of humanity might be in the hands of a man who handicaps horses for a living.

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Friday's Favorite OTR

 Crime Classics:"John Hayes: His Head and How They Were Parted" 10/28/53

In the early 18th Century, a British soldier pays a bounty to end his enlistment early. He goes home to his lovely wife. This does not end well.

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Friday's Favorite OTR

 The Chase: "Penny-Pinching Boarding House Owners" 2/8/53

You might think that stealing money from a dead man would be a safe way of getting rich, but you'd be wrong.

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Friday's Favorite OTR

 Black Museum: "The Canvas Bag" 1952

A woman makes an unwise decision regarding what man she runs off with.

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Friday's Favorite OTR

 Dragnet: "The Big Press" 6/15/50

Women are getting mugged and beaten by the same two guys. Friday is tasked with catching them.

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Friday's Favorite OTR

 Suspense: "A Week Ago Wednesday" 11/29/45

A woman comes home to discover she's lost a week of her life--and according to the newspaper, she's been murdered by her husband.

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Friday's Favorite OTR

 Escape: "Seven Hours to Freedom" 11/3/50

A commercial fishing boat is hijacked by escaping convicts. The two-man crew is given a choice: Die now, or take the convicts to Mexico and die later.

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Friday's Favorite OTR

 Screen Guild Theater: "Destry Rides Again" 2/2/41

Henry Fonda takes the role as the soft-spoken deputy tasked with cleaning up a lawless town.

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Friday's Favorite OTR

 Burns and Allen: "Cast Your Ballot" 2/9/43

Gracie wants to be president of her women's club, so she wants to get a celebrity speaker for the next meeting. This requires telling one fib to Charles Laughton, telling a different fib to George and a THIRD fib to the club members. What can possibly go wrong?

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Friday's Favorite OTR

 Broadway is my Beat: "The Charles and Jane Kimbell Murder Case" 3/17/50

 A car is dredged up from the river. But the two corpses in it didn't drown--they were shot.

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Friday's Favorite OTR

 You Are There: "New Amsterdam" 1/22/50

The British are demanding the Dutch surrender the city of New Amersterdam. Will they fight or will they give up?

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Friday's Favorite OTR

 Gunsmoke: "Romeo" 1/22/56

Two wealthy ranchers hate each other. But the daughter of one rancher has fallen in love with the son of the other. This is likely to get someone killed.

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Friday's Favorite OTR

 Archie Andrews: "Dinner in a Restaurant" 1949 

Mr. Andrews decides to take his wife and Archie out to a nice restaurant for Sunday dinner. What can possibly go wrong?

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Friday's Favorite OTR

 The Six-Shooter: "The Capure of Stacy Gault" 11/8/53

People are in a panic when outlaw Stacy Gault rides into town. Britt, though, has some doubts about whether the stranger really is Gault.

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Friday's Favorite OTR

 Tales of the Texas Rangers: "The Wheelchair Killer" 10/7/51

A man confined to a wheelchair is found beaten to death. A few grains of sand found at the murder scene is the first clue in tracking down the killer.

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Friday's Favorite OTR

 Lights Out: "Fast One" 1/5/43

25 burgalries are committed in just a half-an-hour, with no witnesses. A private detective thinks its the work of one man. But how could that be possible?

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Friday's Favorite OTR

 Sherlock Holmes: "The Iron Box" 12/31/45

Because he was born on February 29, a man has waited over eight decades to reach his 21st birthday and receive the iron box (reputedly containing gold) that is his inheritance. But reaching this milestone might be a motive for someone else to commit murder.

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