← Nick Carter, Master Detective
Nick Carter, Master Detective — 1945
52 episodes broadcast in 1945.
A professor Nick once met on a Peru expedition summons him to Boston over some private trouble -- and is dead by the time Nick arrives, with a stuffed monkey holding the answer.
Nick untangles who killed Jenny Baker and what lay behind the midnight blaze that destroyed a button factory.
Nick puzzles out how a shot from a disused gravel pit managed to kill a marquis's heir.
A dead Scottie dog helps Nick unravel the trouble at the Aime farm and save a young heir marked for murder.
February 11, 1945
Face of Death
Nick races to stop the Vedanta killings before a strange poison can claim another victim.
A thief will kill twice to steal a shipment of black-widow spider silk prized for bombsight cross-hairs -- until one of the spiders stops him.
Nick takes up the cause of a persecuted actor to keep a backstage threat of death from becoming real.
April 1, 1945
Death at the Studio
April 8, 1945
Death at the Toll Bridge
April 15, 1945
Missing Dead
A moldy old coin lures Nick into a superstition-haunted community beneath Donderberg Mountain -- and the puzzle of a pregnant woman who climbed the hospital steps and vanished.
May 6, 1945
The Vanishing Lady
Nick sets out to explain why a dead pirate's shadow falls across an abandoned barn under every full moon.
A young woman is terrified of a rocking chair that rocks by itself -- because every time it does, somebody dies.
June 3, 1945
Short Range Death
June 10, 1945
Murder in Cell 17
June 17, 1945
The Corpse Accuses
June 24, 1945
D Is for Death
A broker and amateur inventor is murdered after lying about his own coming death; when the man's janitor is shot too, Nick asks who stands to profit.
July 8, 1945
The Case of the Near Sighted Picture
July 15, 1945
A Penny for Your Thoughts
A jewel robbery and a killing are staged as the shooting of a movie, duping the police and a crowd of onlookers into playing extras.
Nick investigates a man found dead clutching a blank sheet of paper, and cracks the murder through an 'interview' with the corpse.
A landlord's odd insistence on new wallpaper for a little old lady's room -- and a broken perfume bottle -- lead Nick to a killer.
A frightened housemaid writes to Nick that a 'plague' has struck her employer's Park Avenue home: first the statues took sick, and she fears the household is next.
August 19, 1945
The Case of the Bleeding Bobolink
Nick reopens a cold case seven years old and cracks it with the help of a blind witness.
September 2, 1945
Factory of Death
Nick looks into the killing of a panhandler who was carrying a small fortune, and the puzzle of a talking tree.
September 16, 1945
The Case of the Queen's Eyebrow
September 23, 1945
The Mystery of Wonderful Willie
Scubby hauls Nick to an upstate farm where an explorer's imported horses howl in the dark -- and have been tearing cattle apart.
October 7, 1945
The Case of the Worried Mom
October 14, 1945
The Case of the Weeping Clown
October 21, 1945
Ambassador of Death
October 28, 1945
The Case of the Goldon Seed
November 4, 1945
Return of Lucresia Borgia
November 11, 1945
The Case of the Insane House
November 18, 1945
The Case of the Whispering Venus
November 25, 1945
Sweet Singer of Death
December 2, 1945
Uncle Sam's Nephew
December 9, 1945
Vanishing Diamonds
December 16, 1945
The House That Walked Away
December 23, 1945
The Case of the Educated Corpse
A stolen rare manuscript and a fresh corpse seem to point straight at the butler -- and a ghost stands accused of murder.
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