Calling All Cars — 1938
52 episodes broadcast in 1938.
A descendant of pirate Henry Morgan runs amok aboard a chartered yacht.
A motiveless killing leaves a body in a burned building on 112th Street.
A body is found in San Luis Creek.
A kidnapper-murderer is caught by the trail of the ransom money.
A hardened criminal's downfall, dramatized in the network edition with film's Chester Morris at the microphone.
An Arlington Theatre holdup; the bandit flees toward Ventura in a Ford coupe.
The owner of a Portola railroad restaurant is shot and wounded.
A stolen Nash and its murdered owner point to the harbor district.
A green Chevrolet coupe used in a gas-station holdup, the attendant kidnapped.
A menacing figure stalks a mother and child on Rowena Street.
A blonde in mink and diamonds is suspected of burglary.
An officer risks his life to break up a drug ring at Third and Flower.
The missing-persons case of a French Basque man.
A cafe holdup in progress on South Broadway.
Armed highway robbers strike near Tupman.
Trouble at the San Pedro pier as the show announces its move to Thursday nights.
A chattering parrot helps solve an old man's confession to killing and burning his wife.
Lizzie English is found dead in her burning apartment; sound films convict the killer.
Three suspects are wanted for the holdup of a garage.
A missing-persons report that may be a kidnapping.
Ray Oswald vanishes from an isolated cabin near Camarillo.
An undercover bluff cracks a dope gang led by a supposedly respectable doctor.
A murder on First Street, Long Beach.
A murder with no description of the killer to go on.
A holdup and kidnapping apparently committed by a young man.
A phony Hollywood producer proves to be an unscrupulous promoter.
A Fresno bank robbery where poor eyewitness descriptions jail the wrong men.
An old man's wife is beaten to death and found in a burning house -- and his story sounds suspicious.
A dentist reports his wife missing with $10,000 in bonds, though nothing points to a crime.
John Parker cheats four banks with forged Liberty Bonds -- but makes two mistakes.
An injured woman is found in a burning San Pedro building, with few clues.
A doctor reports his wife vanished in what proves a carefully constructed scheme.
Quiet small-town banker John Parker plots to live off the fat of the land.
A seventy-two-year-old Fresno man is reported missing.
Dapper Don, a slippery criminal since 1911, proves very hard to capture.
Threatening letters to a Hollywood producer lead to murder in Baja California.
A criminal is wounded while committing a holdup.
A woman's missing sister and her strange, meek husband -- crime does not pay, even in the imagination.
The killing of John German turns on why Mildred took a dog to the dance.
A missing woman with a strong accent may be heading for Yugoslavia.
A used brick becomes a murder weapon.
Two men set off a bomb in Seattle with two thousand sticks of dynamite.
A Portuguese immigrant's murder leads detectives to Newark, New Jersey.
A Wyoming train robbery introduced on air by the actual robber, William Carlisle.
The first murder trial to use ballistics science, told through trial and gallows.
Christian Meyer and his bride-to-be are shot by a rasping-voiced gunman.
A robbery unravels when the thieves fall out.
Two girls die of arsenic poisoning after their mother buys a bottle of arsenic.
Suicidal Dorothy Nelson vanishes after receiving strange letters.
Bill Williams is reported missing.
Three armed sixteen-year-old boys commit murder.
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