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Nick Carter, Master Detective — 1947
52 episodes broadcast in 1947.
January 5, 1947
The Case of the Unfamiliar Fiancee
January 12, 1947
The Case of the Farewell Kiss
At a South African diamond mine, a guest pockets a few 'samples,' and Nick takes up the chase.
The city's panhandlers have quietly been unionized and run by crooks who answer to a masked figure known only as the 'Boss.'
Three window washers plunge to their deaths in two weeks after years without a single fall, and Nick refuses to call it coincidence.
February 9, 1947
The Case of the Significant Sneeze
February 16, 1947
The Case of the Colossal Cave Murders
February 23, 1947
The Case of the Single Edition
March 2, 1947
The Case of the Hit and Run Hideout
March 9, 1947
The Case of the Seagoing Wig
March 16, 1947
The Case of the Self-Convicted Crook
A fortune teller foresees wealthy widows taking their own lives -- and, one after another, they do.
March 30, 1947
The Case of the Smuggled Perfume
April 6, 1947
The Case of the Max Fingers
When Waldo's breakfast eggs turn out to be laced with nitroglycerine by the very hens that laid them, Nick and Patsy start digging.
A rash of new-car thefts, none ever recovered, sends the insurers to Nick -- who finds the wrecks are being made to order.
A boy from Nick's Downtown Boys Club is murdered, and a newly developed chemical supplies the clues.
May 11, 1947
The Case of the Stolen Earth
May 18, 1947
The Case of the Kindly Killer
May 25, 1947
The Case of the Future Murders
June 1, 1947
The Case of the Coughing Killer
June 8, 1947
The Case of the Conquered City
June 15, 1947
The Case of the Manicured Murders
June 22, 1947
The Case of the Frozen Fraud
Counterfeiters kill a coin dealer for his 1804 silver dollar -- one of only three left -- leaving behind a scrap of a phony $500 bill and a date scrawled in blood.
July 6, 1947
The Case of the Golden Bullet
Hired to look into a crooked gambling ship, Nick and Patsy find themselves hunting the vanished -- and perhaps murdered -- ship's piano player.
A plate of macaroni at a lunch counter hides a capsule worth a fortune -- and rigged to become a tiny bomb -- sending Nick through trash cans and furnaces to find it.
July 27, 1947
The Case of the Dead Camera
August 3, 1947
The Case of the Lost Symphony
August 10, 1947
The Case of the Silver Spots
August 17, 1947
The Case of the Frightened Camper
August 24, 1947
The Case of the Murdered Mummies
August 31, 1947
The Case of the Precious Pebbles
When Scubby's car is stolen and a Boys Club member is arrested for it, Nick is certain a ruthless adult pushed the boy into a car-theft ring.
September 14, 1947
The Case of the Million Dollar Secret
A botched robbery leaves one young crook dead and another caught, but what troubles Nick is the professional filing serial numbers off guns for the underworld.
September 28, 1947
The Case of the Bobby Sox Racketeer
October 5, 1947
The Case of the Curious Countess
A retired concert singer who has shut himself indoors for fifteen years suddenly vanishes -- leaving a corpse in the house behind him.
A nervous man buys Nick as his $10,000 alibi for the night, certain he'll be framed for a murder -- which happens anyway.
October 26, 1947
The Case of the Halloween Broom
November 2, 1947
The Case of the Gangster's Ghost
November 9, 1947
The Case of the Phantom Car
November 16, 1947
The Case of the Man Who Wouldn't Die
A distinguished Park Avenue banker announces he'll walk home barefoot, then remembers none of it -- and even his own psychiatrist fears he's losing his mind.
Hard men lean on the last surviving member of a long-shuttered chess club to sell his worthless share for $1,000, and Nick wonders what an Elizabethan fortune has to do with it.
Passing the museum at three in the morning, Nick sees the lights on, stops, and finds a night watchman murdered and a scarab stolen -- by a man with an airtight alibi.
A robbery at a famous writer's ancestral home leaves one great-granddaughter dead, and a rare-book dealer's timely call pulls Nick into a case of stolen manuscripts and murder.
A state-senate candidate is framed as a hit-and-run killer by a gang that traffics in dead bodies and blackmail.
A bogus policeman steals a list of twenty thousand ex-GIs' names for a shakedown, and a young contractor's imaginary street helps Nick spring the trap.
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