Calling All Cars — 1936
53 episodes broadcast in 1936.
Safecrackers disguised as carpenters are undone by an alert citizen.
A Ford roadster is the getaway car in the Arizona murder of Frank Szell.
A burglar leaves burned matches at the scene of every crime.
A shotgun-mutilated body in a canyon leads detectives to killer John Vittore.
Boxer Bull Kelly is wanted for a crime of passion.
A violent disturbance stirs memories of San Francisco's old Barbary Coast.
Eddie Griffith flees to California after killing a Seattle policeman -- no relation to the famous Dillinger.
A jeweler is murdered and robbed; police hunt a man with blood still on his hands.
John Hassle is sought for questioning in the murder of his wife.
A lighter case carried by the comic character Joe Murphy.
The killing of a streetcar conductor and a parolee who exploits a lenient system.
A gang of housebreakers works the countryside near San Francisco.
Motor-officer Tom Kramer is killed, and police hunt a black touring car.
Two men hold up the Pacific Theatre in San Jose.
A murder in a haberdashery, framed by Chief Davis's talk on the police complex.
A body at the Holmes Hotel in a case that nearly solves itself.
A woman is found murdered on Arlington Street.
A burglar works the Marina district and Nob Hill.
The Bunko Squad targets swindlers and bookmakers as Chief Davis orders ex-convicts to register.
A long stakeout for two men who robbed a Clovis bank of $30,000.
A routine forgery case spirals into three graves after Andy Holman kills a detective.
A body in an Arcadia irrigation ditch sends detectives across the county.
Two prospectors vanish from Yuma, Arizona.
A body is found in a car trunk on the Newhall Grade.
Police hunt Mexican Jim, who runs the state's largest marijuana fields.
A murder-suicide on Grand Avenue that is nearly the perfect crime.
A young woman in a green dress is murdered near San Francisco.
A cross-eyed, ego-driven man is wanted for murder.
In Arizona's Maricopa County, Ben Knight is wanted for murder.
A short man in a checked cap is hunted for murder.
A detective's hunch cracks a Chinatown opium operation.
An ideal officer solves a brutal crime near Pasadena Avenue.
A man is seen dragging a body down from Franklin Avenue.
Two elderly brothers' hidden gold becomes a motive for murder on their farm.
James Kip has been missing for eight days.
A carpenter's helper, Dale Slater, has been missing since June.
A couple finds a woman with her throat cut, bludgeoned with a beer bottle.
A woman is found murdered in her office in the Dillman building.
A bloodied man waves a red lantern to stop cars in Huntington Beach.
A pyromaniac sets fire to Brandon Street.
A shooting on Francis Avenue.
A stakeout squad sets out to catch the Phantom Bomber terrorizing a San Francisco church.
Two men run a bunco racket, borrowing large sums against phantom properties.
A woman is found murdered in her room at the Prescott Hotel.
Fifteen-year-old Pete Galitson and two pals are wanted for safe robbery.
On the show's third anniversary, a body is found in a canyon wearing nothing but a necktie.
Two armed boys hold up gas stations and flee by car.
An arson fire breaks out in Oakland.
A gangland-style killing on the Ninth Street Bridge and a man lured by easy money.
A man's body is found in Bootlegger's Canyon.
A man arrested for stealing a bottle of milk kills the arresting officer.
Hosted by the Oakland sheriff, Patrolman O'Brien finds a lost boy on his beat.
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