Calling All Cars — 1939
37 episodes broadcast in 1939.
A holdup in San Francisco.
A Santa Monica police chief introduces the story of a troubled woman.
A holdup man is marked by a ring with a blue stone.
A Greek baker's body is found in the woods after his wife reports him missing.
A seemingly dim janitor makes monkeys of the police after $74,000 vanishes from a bank.
A holdup at a Los Angeles bar.
A murder at Ninth and Wall Street in Los Angeles.
Poisoned candy mailed from Stockton kills a congressman's daughter in Delaware.
A fourteen-year-old girl is arrested for shoplifting.
A bullet-riddled body in the bay, and a ghostly voice that prompts a confession.
March 10, 1939
The $20.00 Bill
Outlaw Jack Weston shoots a lawman and ties a kidnapped sheriff to a desert tree.
Earl Durand escapes from jail in Cody, Wyoming.
Mail clerks find a body in a trunk, and an armed woman is wanted for murder.
An unusually ugly man assaults two women.
A murder in El Centro sends police after three suspects.
A murder in Baldwin Park.
The Highway Patrol uses modern methods to trace a Laguna Beach hit-and-run.
Two bandits pull a holdup in Oregon.
A parolee from Walla Walla poses as a wealthy gambler and sportsman.
Eighteen-year-old Marion Williams is reported missing.
Narcotics agents move to break a drug ring.
Roy Sherwood, armed and dangerous, is suspected of passing forged checks.
A murder and robbery in Nogales.
Al Foster is wanted for a murder in Salem, Oregon.
Carl Harden, missing two days, may have been murdered.
A Washington man known as The Flea is suspected of forging payroll checks.
An armed and dangerous man escapes from San Quentin.
Suspicious men are spotted around Los Angeles.
Joseph Walsh goes missing in Orange County.
Death visits the offshore gambling boat Johanna Smith, anchored in the waters off Long Beach.
A murder in Lincoln County, New Mexico.
An armed and dangerous man is wanted for murder in Portland.
A man named Lin Yung is wanted for murder.
A mad-dog killer is loose after a murder in Bremerton, Washington.
The series' final broadcast: a murder in Oakland, as the show announces a move to Tuesday nights.
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