Casey, Crime Photographer — 1947
52 episodes broadcast in 1947.
January 2, 1947
Last of the Faradays
January 9, 1947
Dead Pigeon
A counterfeit nobleman lures a gullible heiress into a killing plot, only to be out-schemed by a chain of double-crosses.
January 23, 1947
The Purloined Payroll
January 30, 1947
Held for Ransom
A stray grey cat leads Casey to a lakeside bluebeard who has been marrying and murdering his way through a string of wives.
A man is shot dead mid-sentence while phoning his insurance agent on the very day his policy lapses, suicide on paper but murder to Casey.
February 27, 1947
The Red-Headed Kid
A frail widow reports that her woman lodger has been stabbed to death, a quiet little killing that very nearly beats Casey.
March 13, 1947
Undercover Man
When six miners die in identical accidents, the pit crew swears a demon walks the coal seams, and Casey goes underground to prove otherwise.
March 27, 1947
Blood Pact
April 10, 1947
Ugly Duckling
A patrolman finds a packing crate abandoned on the sidewalk at three in the morning, and inside is a woman's husband, delivered dead by a killer who trusts a lucky penny.
A soft-spoken madman strangles his way through three victims, a judge first, then turns his patient hands toward Casey.
Death stalks the big top during a trained-ape circus act, and Casey's press assignment becomes a hunt for who has been monkeying with murder.
An oddly-sized pistol is planted to pin a killing on a newly-released convict, unspooling a tale of a ruined bandleader, a scheming blues singer, and a gambling boss.
May 15, 1947
Mad Dog
Casey survives being killed twice in a single night while a street-corner acquaintance is silenced for knowing too much about a dead jockey.
May 29, 1947
Out of the Past
June 5, 1947
The Haunted House
June 12, 1947
In the Sweet Name of Charity
June 19, 1947
Find the Papers
June 26, 1947
A Package for Annie
Suspended for roughing up a suspect, hard-nosed cop Big Mike Ryan becomes the obvious killer when that suspect turns up shot dead.
A smooth stranger back from ten years in Europe may be the lady-killer who has left eight different women dead.
A restaged favorite: timid Wellington Cliffside manufactures his own heroics to impress his sweetheart, and Casey exposes the fraud.
A bogus swami peddles photographs of the departed to grieving marks, and Casey, camera in hand, calls the spirit racket's bluff.
On the eve of a Broadway opening its leading lady is brutally killed, leaving Casey a stageful of suspects with motive.
Casey hunts a murderer known as the Lover's Lane Killer, who signs each victim with a calling card reading I'm Death.
A witness to a robbery-murder won't name the gunman, and jealousy finally cracks a case built around a loan-office safe.
With Casey conveniently on vacation, Inspector Logan and Ann handle a waitress's beau who has swiped a diamond and doesn't know it's the priceless Bishop's ring.
Two fugitives sitting on $100,000 pay a grasping flophouse keeper a thousand a week to hide, until his greed turns deadly.
A three-hundred-pound gambler is found stabbed atop a pair of loaded dice, with every clue pointing at the debtor who swears he is innocent.
A restaging of the cemetery yarn: a stalled car at a graveyard gate throws Casey and Ann together with an eccentric old woman and her stuffed-snake companion, Roger.
Shopping with Ann, Casey spots a gentlemanly pickpocket who robs the rich to help the poor, just as murder strikes the department store.
A fishing trip becomes a murder assignment as Casey, Ann and Captain Logan probe four eerie deaths in the depths of Treasure Cave.
A man sits in prison for murdering a wife who is very much alive, and his father's chance street encounter with her could free him, if she survives.
A titled bridegroom is murdered on his wedding morning with the framed man out cold beside him, and the answer may wag in on a cocker spaniel.
A would-be press photographer chasing a job on the Morning Express catches a murder on film and puts himself in the killer's frame.
A cowboy's kindness toward a frightened woman who then vanishes leads Casey to a swindle dressed up as murder.
Told in flashback, the roguish tale of Casey's great-grandfather Patrick and a hundred-year-old rent receipt back in the old country.
A welfare-fund collector disappears with $10,000 in cash, and the trail, to Casey's embarrassment, runs straight through the Blue Note.
Ethelbert's investment in a shaky Broadway show turns sour when murder strikes before the curtain, a washed-up dance team waiting in the wings.
A restaging: rival lensman Shorty Irwin risks his neck for a $5,000 reward on a killer and nearly develops his own death.
A Thanksgiving filling-station holdup pins the blame on a young ex-convict, and Casey trades dessert for a surprising truth.
Two jungle adventurers come home rich in emeralds and trailing a legend, a woman-faced serpent said to squeeze its victims to death.
A millionaire is murdered moments after rewriting his will to disinherit his daughter and her phony-Count suitor, and the new will has vanished.
An art student plunges a knife into his own chest as Casey and Ann look on, a suicide the photographer refuses to take at face value.
On Christmas Day the skid-row Santa who hands out cash is robbed of his $300, and Casey works the crumbiest street in town for the thief.
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