Theater of the Mind
The Line-Up
78 episodes · 1950–1953 · CBS, Armed Forces Radio Service · Detective
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A police procedural set in a big-city station house, with Bill Johnstone as Lieutenant Ben Guthrie. Elliott Lewis produced and directed it for CBS from July 1950; it later moved to television.
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Episodes
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195011 episodes
- Eddie Gaynor Framed for Murder
A small-time crook is framed for murder, released on a writ, and found dead the next morning. - The Paradise Murder Case
A drunk is suspected of assault and kidnapping. - Two Girls Killed by a Hit-and-Run Driver
The summer replacement for The FBI in Peace and War. Two young girls are killed by a hit-and-run driver. What did they have in common? - Man Dies of Poisoning
A man dies of poison right after standing in a line-up, and the clues lead to a doctor's office. - UNTITLED (aka-Gas Station Robbery)
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists this date as “Gas Station Robbery.” - The Candy Store Murder
Robbery and murder at a candy store. Two brothers are suspects, but the eyewitness can't pick either one. - The Topaz Earring Case
A pair of topaz earrings helps solve a murder. - The Cop-Killer
A narcotics agent is murdered while building a case against a dealer. - The Jersey Parallel
A madman has shot seven people with a machine pistol for no reason. - The Holstedter Case
Five men rob a bank of $100,000 and shoot two people. - The Elsner Case
An unidentified woman is strangled in the park.
195128 episodes
- The Case of Frankie and Joyce
A young woman is found dead in an alley just before her wedding, then her fiance is shot by the same killer. - The Mad Bomber
Time bombs go off in two houses, and a suspect calmly admits to planting one. - Yudo in Ypsilanti
A gangster's men murder a man, and Lieutenant Guthrie and the gangster trade threats. - The Grocery Store Matter
Eight all-night stores have been robbed in a month, and during a stakeout the grocer's son is shot. - The Senile Slugging Case (February 1951)
A string of street muggings ends in the death of an old woman. - The Cigar Box Boys Case
The Cigar Store Bandit has the whole force puzzled, with a twist at the end. - The Silver Swan Case
A dance-hall hostess is strangled. The police know who did it but can't prove it. - The Molly About Seven Case
A man is knifed in the park on a gang boss's orders. - The Check Killer Case
A tramp sees a body rolled down an embankment. - The Lapinish Lighter-Upper Case
A sixty-year-old woman is strangled in the park. - The Brommel and Bellows Bloody Bullet Case
After three years of work, the only witness to a murder is killed the day before the trial. - The Hiccuping Hamster Homeostatic Case
Who killed a man with a shotgun? - Red Shirt Case
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date. - Harrowing Handball Haggada Case (aka-Culley Price and the Spartan Payroll)
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date. - Malingering Martinelli Madcap Case (aka-Lieutenant Guthrie Kidnapped)
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists this date as “Lieutenant Guthrie Is Kidnapped.” - Mad Bomber (aka-Politcians Home Bombed; George Hunter and the Time Bomb; Lewis Black)
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date. - The Syncopic Sweazy Sweat-Out Case
A doctor's killer botches his own suicide, escapes, ties up his sister and threatens another doctor. - The Flighty Fulvous Finch Case
Four men rob a theater, and a policeman is shot at the second holdup. - The Pointless Pierson Polemic Polarity Case
A man is identified as a killer. - The Senile Slugging Case (September 1951)
Old people are being beaten and robbed. - The Fur-Flaunting Floozy
A woman is shot dead by her married boyfriend. - The Wild, Wild Woman Case
A man and a woman are holding up jewelry stores around the country. - The Frivolous Forger Fracus
A man is identified as a passer of bad checks. - The Nicely Nixed Nixon Case
Two loan offices are robbed and a man killed; one of the robbers is called Orchid. - The Jolted Justice Job Case
A man is accused of knifing another in a dispute over whitewall tires. - The Pixie-Picker Pickle
A string of ice-pick stabbings at night. - The Keenly Clipped Kenovac Case
A young woman has disappeared, and her boyfriend suspects her mother killed her. - The Railroad Roundhouse Roundup Case
A woman's body is found in a trunk, and her husband hasn't been home in a week.
195235 episodes
- The Potting Peter Case
A woman is shot from outside her house. - The Murdering Mercer's Malingering Case
A boy tries to sell his mother's expensive necklace; his parents have been gone a long time and he needs food for his baby brother. - The Mirthless Moonshiner's Methyl Murders
Fifteen people have gone blind from poisoned bootleg liquor. - The Bakery Bandit's Bad Blooper
A bandit with a stocking over his face has robbed four bakeries. - Kastro's Kop Killing Karnage Kase
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date. - The Cornered Cop-Killer Case
Three bars have been robbed, and each time the robber plays 'Poor Butterfly' on the jukebox. - Nancy's Nauseating Naivete Case
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date. - Corny Complainant's Case
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date. - The Big Boy's Brutish Back-Bending Case
A drowned man found in a flooded quarry turns out to have a broken back. - Babs, the Baggy Bumbling Brunette Bombshell Case
A stripper is identified as the woman who held up a drugstore and killed the cashier. - Yudo in Ypsilanti (aka-Numbers Racket)
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date. - Wacky Williams' Wooftop Wrangle
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date. - Aching Arthritics Anxious Antic
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date. - Lobdell's Poodle-Cut Tomato Case (aka-Hit & Run Accident)
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date. - The Pitiful Patricide Case
A man is killed with a shotgun from ten feet away. - The Cutie-Calling Culprit Case
Models are getting threatening phone calls. - The Guided Gang Case
A young man is arrested for beating and robbing an old newsstand dealer. - Lugar Lugging Laddie Case (aka-Drug Store Robberies)
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date. - The Twitching Twist's .22 Tweaking Case
A witness sees a girl kidnapped, and her body is found by a lake. - The Drinkler Kidnapping Case
A man is held for $10,000 ransom, with a shoot-out at the end. - The Charles Crocked Clobbering Case
A man is found shot to death in his basement. - The Karger Cops a Clinker Case
A phantom burglar working one neighborhood shoots a policeman. - The Jane Doe Case
A man attacks well-known women after phoning them first. - The Fresno Break Case
A drug peddler is back in town, and a parolee has information. - The Poker-Party Killings
A double murder in a boarding house, possibly with a screwdriver. - The Teacher's Pet
A murdered drug dealer had been living under another name with a schoolteacher. - Bentley's Boo-Boo Case
A liquor store owner is robbed and killed. - Green Cap Case (aka-Gas Station Attendant Killed)
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date. - The Sobbing Sister Saga
A nightclub singer's husband is robbed and killed. - The Be-Bop Bandits Bungling Bang-Bang
Two bank tellers are killed with a submachine gun. - The Buggered Bunco Boys
A con man preys on the families of dead soldiers. - The Modern Sounds Case
A carhop is murdered after work. - The Matthews-Murray Mish-Mosh Case
A woman has been missing a day, and a greeting-card salesman is picked out of the line-up. - The Gasoline Bandit Case
A nervous bandit has robbed four gas stations. - The Two Tough Thugs Thing
A woman is shot, and the gun is hidden in a mattress.
19534 episodes
- Cowardly Castro (aka-Castro, Manelli, & the Younger Hold Up)
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date. - Once Upon a Snow-Plow (aka-Dorothy Shelton)
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date. - Good Enough to Eat (aka-Food Poisoning; Botulism)
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date. - That Takes Care of Everything (aka-Boots Kracov Killing)
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.