Let George Do It — 1950
52 episodes broadcast in 1950.
A frantic collector's most priceless possessions -- twelve prize roses -- are stolen just before the Rose Bowl, and the thorny theft soon threatens to bloom into murder.
A wealthy woman who cannot hear and will not speak summons George to her isolated home, and is found dead by the waterfall on her own land.
A hated woman on Juniper Lane lives in constant danger of murder, and the warning letter meant for George is mistakenly sent to the very victim it describes.
At a Mexican-border motel that collects the desperate like flies, George finds a couple thought to be suicides -- until he realizes both were murdered, and his client has vanished.
A dying composer leaves behind a secret sonata, and the friend of his broken, joyless wife begs George to uncover the fear that has stolen her ability to smile.
An antiquarian curio dealer who studies old crimes as a hobby mails George a mystery he cannot crack -- one that may cost him his life.
A man in trouble with a gambler won't ask for help, and neither will the gambler who's already had George thrown out of his club -- but the beaten man they carry in changes everything.
February 20, 1950
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February 27, 1950
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March 6, 1950
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March 13, 1950
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March 20, 1950
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At a desert motel run by an angry cook and his roving-eyed wife, the only cheerful man keeps a silver coffin in his room -- and George won't believe his death was anything but murder.
Of two brothers -- one loathed, one everyone's friend -- it's the beloved Mervyn who turns up dead, exactly as his brother and their strange butler both foretold.
A stolen portrait leads George to take a dead man's place at a meeting, only to learn that both the woman in the painting and the man who owned it have been murdered.
Hired to steal a diamond necklace from his own client in a Mexican town, George is jailed, framed, and congratulated on a theft he hasn't even been told to commit yet.
A gangster and a dignified suburban doctor are shot dead by the same .45 in peaceful River Vista, and George can find no thread connecting the houseboat to the barge.
A small-town editor reports that the local witch has been burned, and George arrives to hear the supposedly dead woman scream as she flees him into the dark.
A doctor paid $5,000 to commit an inventor to an asylum is struck down with an iron cat, and a tape recorder holds the key to a case George must crack fast.
An operatic phonograph record whispers a death sentence to the singer who mailed it, and both she and an aging opera star die like the doomed figures in the operas they loved.
At a class reunion, the perennial joker of the class of 1930 dies of his own prank -- undone by a suicide note he wrote in advance and never lived to laugh at.
An amnesiac woman may be a drowned heiress whose body was never found, but the one man who could say for sure has been killed in a traffic accident.
A Mexican detective is shot dead while writing to George for help on a fire-insurance job, and George finds himself locked out of Mexico as the real angle surfaces.
At a women's college, one girl disappears at eleven o'clock and another is thrown from a tampered-with saddle -- and the psychology professor behind it freely admits his hypnosis experiments.
Sent to Acapulco to buy an impoverished playboy's yacht, George can't shake the feeling behind two men who came for the same boat and died -- one drowned, one seemingly a suicide.
Under a huge tower clock, the daughter of a man supposedly felled by a heart attack now claims she killed him -- and George is certain she is the one who needs help.
A dashing bachelor who's a fixture of the gossip columns turns out to be a fiction invented by a publicity man -- until the imaginary man turns up as a very real corpse.
A millionaire couple die in a car crash everyone calls an accident, but when the photographer who shot the scene is murdered, George starts to doubt.
At a seaside town George meets a shot-at parrot, a woman dreaming of sunken Spanish galleons, and a ship's captain who knocks him cold -- then turns up drowned in a diving helmet.
An unsolved murder, four suspects the police gave up on, and a marked deck in a club card room draw George into the killing of Dorothy Fullman.
A convicted killer is shot dead in the street while handcuffed to a policeman, and his murderer walks straight up to surrender, content to face the chair for a crime he wanted to commit.
A little old lady indifferent to her own life offers George $1,000 to catch her murderer, and survives a poisoning only because two people dosed her with cancelling poisons at once.
Locked in a closet by a messenger boy, George opens it onto a dead man carrying his own name and papers -- leaving Lt. Riley to ask how the corpse came to be George Valentine.
A lisping voice runs a deadly game: phony contest prizes lure wealthy winners to collect, and each one is marked for murder the moment she answers.
A stranger other men fear -- and who seems to work for a mobster the police have chased for years -- hires George without explaining why, and George means to find out.
Two secretive newlyweds guard their fenced estate against every eye, and refuse all help when a neighbor is struck down at their gate.
A week after remarrying, a man in a wheelchair goes over a two-hundred-foot drop to his death; the police shrug it off as an accident, and George does not.
The police bring in a terrified boy of ten who can't or won't speak, and George grasps the reason once a man's body surfaces in the water near where the child was found.
A legendary honest old recluse loses his guide dog and then his life to what looks like an accident, as vultures with claims on his fortune gather -- and one of them is murdered.
A great actress is terrorized by a blackmailer who smashes the master records of her performances and demands $10,000, and George senses far more than blackmail in her strange household.
A rare edition of Robert Burns's poems draws burglars, an eager buyer, and finally murder to a quiet bookshop.
The police call Abel Merton's death a suicide, but his nephew insists it was murder, and George questions why the dead man's partner should suddenly faint.
A Christmas episode turning on a roast-duck dinner and an 'other woman' whose identity is the surprise, capped by Bob Bailey stepping out of character to wish listeners a merry Christmas.
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