Let George Do It — 1948
51 episodes broadcast in 1948.
January 5, 1948
(untitled)
January 12, 1948
(untitled)
January 19, 1948
(untitled)
January 26, 1948
(untitled)
February 2, 1948
(untitled)
February 9, 1948
(untitled)
February 16, 1948
(untitled)
February 23, 1948
(untitled)
March 1, 1948
(untitled)
March 8, 1948
(untitled)
March 15, 1948
(untitled)
March 22, 1948
(untitled)
March 29, 1948
(untitled)
George's old army buddy is confined to a sanitarium in Egypt, and the smuggled diamonds that start the case turn out to be cover for something far worse.
Hired to find a man's black-sheep brother, George reaches the missing man's room only to find a dead bookie stuffed in the closet.
An amateur bird-watcher trains his binoculars on a distant penthouse and sees one man shove another off the roof -- exactly the sort of case George gets pulled into.
In a tenement district ruled by a pack of street kids, George takes on the job of steering a sixteen-year-old fresh out of reform school away from a serious crime.
George and Brooksie go underground as sandhogs to learn why a string of accidents keeps halting a million-dollar river tunnel -- and dredge up sabotage and buried treasure.
A frightened man begs George to expose the fake medium bleeding his fiancee dry -- so George enlists a ghost of his own to trap the real killer.
May 17, 1948
(untitled)
A society wife needs her missing sister found quietly, before an old scandal reaches the newspapers and wrecks a respectable marriage.
A meek little movie comic, about to be handed his first starring role, hires George to give him a taste of real excitement -- and gets murder instead.
A glamorous trapeze star hires George to guard her against threatening letters he's sure she wrote herself for publicity -- until she turns up strangled.
A former chorus girl is about to be branded an unfit mother and lose her daughter, and swears the front-page scandal that damned her was a frame.
A gentle immigrant who wants only to become a citizen is beaten, kidnapped, and killed by a racket that preys on frightened little people.
A hated drama critic hires George to solve an old crime, then dies with a letter-opener in his chest -- just before his wife rushes in and shoots the corpse.
A woman hires George to publicly romance her so a big-game hunter will drop his affair with George's client's fragile best friend -- and the hunter promises to kill any rival.
A private eye mails George a hundred dollars and one instruction: cry murder if he turns up dead. By morning he's been run down, and a corpse is fingering him as the killer.
A man admits he faked a robbery to hide gambling losses from his wife -- then someone confesses to the phony crime, and a real murder turns up at the same hour.
A paper-mill man begs George to recover reams of stolen paper, insisting the theft could decide the fate of an entire nation he dare not name.
A respected doctor has been quietly paying blackmail for months to his own son, and now a note has arrived promising the exact time and manner of his death.
A neighborhood insists a murdered man's empty house is haunted, and George is hired to prove there's no ghost -- and maybe finally solve the killing.
A young model writes George that she means to kill herself; he races over to find her already dead, then steps out to call the police and returns to an empty room.
A social club is sure one of its own didn't knife his stepfather, and hires George to prove the jailed young man innocent.
A beer heiress can't understand why the Spanish nobleman she loves keeps his distance, and hires George to uncover the terrible family curse she's certain is to blame.
An intense young man wants George to settle it once and for all -- is his father truly guilty of the ten-year-old murder that put him away?
George is paid handsomely to romance a nightclub singer, then learns she's a pawn in a shooting war between two racketeers -- and their leverage is the woman he loves.
A wealthy woman is being driven toward madness by a bespectacled little man who appears everywhere she goes, staring and sending threats -- as fires break out around town.
October 4, 1948
(untitled)
October 11, 1948
(untitled)
Four people in one neighborhood have been killed, each time by a man in the same loud sports jacket, and an anonymous client leaves George a fee and a name.
An insurance man, out of time and money after chasing a wife-killer for nearly seven years, asks George to help before the murderer collects a $200,000 payout.
A botany student is convinced someone means to murder her professor, but no one will take the warnings of the girl named -- of all things -- Miss Brooks seriously.
A pious old man plans to give his rare Bible to whichever relative most deserves it, and to enjoy their joy while he lives -- until he's found drowned in six inches of bathwater.
November 15, 1948
The Room That Killed
A tormented husband writes George that his beautiful wife Sylvia may be slipping away from him -- or he may be going mad with jealousy -- and a fishy suicide follows.
A small-time racketeer is being blackmailed by the mob into committing a crime he can't escape, and the crime is murder.
A frightened wife asks George to explain her husband -- a retired millionaire who shoots his dog, shoplifts for the thrill of arrest, and seems to relish becoming a monster.
December 13, 1948
The Fabulous Fatso
December 20, 1948
(untitled)
A man whose only crime is a harmless private hobby has begun receiving threats on his life, and a blackmailer may be behind the murder that follows.
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