This Is Your FBI — 1945
40 episodes broadcast in 1945.
March 8, 1945
Skyway Swindle
The series premiere follows the Bureau's pursuit of enemy agent Willie Sebring, with J. Edgar Hoover and Equitable's president appearing on the broadcast.
April 13, 1945
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Agents hunt escaped Nazi prisoners of war at large on American soil, cast as a threat to the nation's wartime internal security.
A swindler in an Army officer's uniform preys on lonely women with bad checks while a Chicago businessman is fleeced in a rigged horse-racing con.
The FBI moves against a war profiteer suspected of turning out defective hand grenades for the front.
A mild salesman by day is a safecracker by night, until the Bureau runs him down.
A quack doctor sells dangerous pills to teenagers hoping to fail their Army physicals.
Bank robber Arthur Clinton and his explosives-packed box named 'Betsy' become the object of a federal manhunt.
Three letters returned to senders who never wrote them lead agents through a doll shop to enemy spy Cora Lee Williamson.
A crew of professional con men fleeces a Chicago businessman in an elaborate horse-racing sting.
With cars nearly impossible to buy in wartime, the FBI tracks a skilled auto thief named Charles Meade.
July 6, 1945
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The Bureau pursues a 'misery chiseler' who profits by preying on the grieving and the unfortunate.
Agents break up a ring of white-collar extortionists squeezing wealthy targets with threatening letters.
A petty crook posing as a government chicken inspector draws federal attention in a deceptively small case.
Bank robber Arthur Clinton and his explosives-laden 'Betsy' return as the FBI closes in.
August 24, 1945
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August 31, 1945
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September 7, 1945
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September 14, 1945
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A menacing stranger with a suitcase and a violent secret intrudes on an old woman and her granddaughter in an isolated house.
September 28, 1945
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When a wealthy man receives a death-threat extortion letter, the Bureau must sort genuine danger from crank mail.
A prosperous Iowa farmer brings home a new bride whose warm welcome conceals a marriage racket.
A bank robber's desert escape collapses when a bullet punctures the fuel tank of his getaway car.
A down-on-her-luck New Yorker is pulled into a scheme cheating the government out of servicemen's allotment checks.
Convict Earl Dixon treats his prison term as a chance to prove himself smarter than the law by breaking out.
A special broadcast for the attack's fourth anniversary recounts how the Bureau guarded America's security before and after Pearl Harbor.
With wartime travel curbs lifted, an international thief returns to the sea lanes and meets the FBI after a killing aboard an American vessel.
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