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This Is Your FBI — 1951

52 episodes broadcast in 1951.

January 5, 1951 The Helpful Corpse Listen (MP3)
January 12, 1951 The Criminal Caravan Listen (MP3)
January 19, 1951 The Selective Service Swindle Listen (MP3)
A trio of swindlers cheats mothers by selling forged draft cards to keep their sons out of the Army.
January 26, 1951 The Continental Killer Listen (MP3)
A policewoman is used to trap a deported killer who has slipped back into the country aboard a freighter.
February 2, 1951 The Innocent Hijacker Listen (MP3)
A paroled convict pressured back into his old gang is shot down by police.
February 9, 1951 The Island Fugitive Listen (MP3)
A wanted murderer holes up on an isolated island through a winter storm.
February 16, 1951 The Penny Lender Listen (MP3)
A skid-row murder leads agents to the loot from a $37,000 bank job.
February 23, 1951 The Canvas Backed Frame Up Listen (MP3)
A $50,000 jewel theft traces to a washed-up boxer willing to take a dive for a price.
March 2, 1951 The Tin Can Killing Listen (MP3)
A plane crash on an Indian reservation leads to murder, and a bullet and a tin can give the FBI its clues.
March 9, 1951 Captain Larceny Listen (MP3)
A drunken sea captain is caught holding a large cache of stolen goods.
March 16, 1951 Hollywood Shakedown Listen (MP3)
A movie actor is blackmailed while shooting on location, and the FBI steps in.
March 23, 1951 Success Story Listen (MP3)
Two tough kids climb from bootlegging to gangland and finally to a veneer of respectable business.
March 30, 1951 The Saboteurs Listen (MP3)
Four Nazi saboteurs land from a U-boat, with four more expected from a second submarine.
April 6, 1951 The Soybean Shakedown Listen (MP3)
Two children from broken homes drift into delinquency, and their farmer-targeting protection racket ends in kidnapping.
April 13, 1951 The Runaway Sister Listen (MP3)
A young woman is forced by her boyfriend into a robbery that leaves a policeman dead.
April 20, 1951 The Big Fix Listen (MP3)
A racketeer runs a slot-machine empire and more with the help of crooked politicians.
April 27, 1951 The Wild Pitch Listen (MP3)
May 4, 1951 The Profiteers Listen (MP3)
A maker of Army telephone wire ships an inferior product that costs GIs their lives, in a case of wartime fraud.
May 11, 1951 The Corruptors Listen (MP3)
A corrupt bridge builder resorts to arson and kidnapping when an honest official refuses a bribe.
May 18, 1951 The Straw Hat Shakedown Listen (MP3)
An actor turns to blackmail, and a suicide brings down the curtain.
May 25, 1951 Old Mother Larceny Listen (MP3)
Stolen watches and binoculars are the trade of the fun-loving Berian brothers and their mother.
June 1, 1951 The Night Rider Listen (MP3)
June 8, 1951 The Return of Father Crime Listen (MP3)
June 15, 1951 The Mountain Murder Listen (MP3)
June 22, 1951 The Traitor Listen (MP3)
An American draws a series of harbor maps of European ports for a foreign power.
June 29, 1951 The Fraudulent Healer Listen (MP3)
Con artists keep a young woman isolated by 'astral control' as part of a jewel-theft scheme, until a beekeeper interferes.
July 6, 1951 The Runaway Corpse Listen (MP3)
July 13, 1951 The Tribal Shakedown Listen (MP3)
July 20, 1951 The Roaring Twenties Listen (MP3)
A big warehouse robbery nets hundreds of cases of bourbon.
July 27, 1951 The Connoisseurs of Crime Listen (MP3)
August 3, 1951 The Post Time Stick Up Listen (MP3)
A jockey saving for his daughter's schooling is framed for a racetrack robbery.
August 10, 1951 The Adopted Thief Listen (MP3)
August 17, 1951 The Bogus Hijacking Listen (MP3)
An FBI agent goes undercover in a seedy hotel to head off a gang of hijackers.
August 24, 1951 The Bad Samaritan Listen (MP3)
A phony Army officer swindles grieving families by claiming their dead soldiers are alive and need bribe money.
August 31, 1951 Ghost Town Listen (MP3)
Bank robbers hiding out in a western ghost town have their plans upset by a visiting movie crew.
September 7, 1951 The Curious Fisherman Listen (MP3)
A robbery and the murder of a yacht skipper aboard 'The Queen' draw the Bureau's attention.
September 14, 1951 The Interrupted Journey Listen (MP3)
Four saboteurs enter the country on false papers, and the FBI moves to stop the infiltrators.
September 21, 1951 The Telltale Cargo Listen (MP3)
The FBI suspects a sunken barge was scuttled as part of an aspirin-and-fraud scheme.
September 28, 1951 The Harvest Listen (MP3)
The holdup and murder of a bank messenger leads agents to a crew of migrant farm workers.
October 5, 1951 The Hostage Listen (MP3)
A young bank teller flees town by freight train, fearing a murder, while $12,000 is missing from his accounts.
October 12, 1951 The Tropical Frame Up Listen (MP3)
A truck-hijacking gang's trail leads south of the border to a banana plantation.
October 19, 1951 The Stranger Listen (MP3)
October 26, 1951 Citizen Caldwell Listen (MP3)
An anonymous accusation of Communist ties launches a loyalty investigation of Thomas Caldwell.
November 2, 1951 The Million Dollar Question Listen (MP3)
The rise and fall of 'Curly,' a criminal who thrived because no one would testify against him.
November 9, 1951 The Traveling Bride Listen (MP3)
Two women run a racket marrying servicemen to collect their allotment checks.
November 16, 1951 The Unwilling Host Listen (MP3)
An escaped convict forces his way in on a former cellmate and the man's wife.
November 23, 1951 The Flying Felon Listen (MP3)
A counterfeit-check ring uses a teenager to pass its bad paper, and the boy hangs himself after his arrest.
November 30, 1951 The Unhappy Embezzler Listen (MP3)
A meek, flower-loving bank teller of eighteen years embezzles $8,000 and slips away on vacation.
December 7, 1951 The Un American Patriot Listen (MP3)
The FBI counters Communist activity with the help of a loyal secretary born in Russia.
December 14, 1951 Crime for Sale Listen (MP3)
A professional burglary gang uses a manicurist to gather intelligence on its targets.
December 21, 1951 The Innocent Santa Claus Listen (MP3)
A washed-up vaudevillian who finally lands work as a party Santa finds himself accused of a crime.
December 28, 1951 The Intruder Listen (MP3)
A young woman learns the hard way what her flashy, exciting boyfriend really is.
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