Radio Shows that Turned into Television and Feature Film

Check and Double Check (1930)

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• Big Town After Dark
• I Cover Big Town

Buck Rogers (1939) w/ starring Buster Crabbe

• 1943--"Crime Doctor"
• 1943--"Crime Doctor's Strangest Case"
• 1944--"Shadows in the Night"
• 1945--"Crime Doctor's Courage"
• 1945--"Crime Doctor's Warning"
• 1946--"Crime Doctor's Man Hunt"
• 1946--"Just Before Dawn"
• 1947--"The Millerson Case"
• 1947--"Crime Doctor's Gamble"
• 1949--"Crime Doctor's Diary"

• Dick Tracy (1937) w/ Ralph Byrd
• Dick Tracy Returns (1938) w/ Ralph Byrd
• Dick Tracy's G-Men (1939) w/ Ralph Byrd
• Dick Tracy vs Crime, Inc. (1941) w/ Ralph Byrd

• Don Winslow of the Navy (1942) w/ Don Terry
• Don Winslow of the Coast Guard (1943) w/ Don Terry

Movies:

• Dragnet (Feature Film) (1954)
• Dragnet (1987)

1950s Television Series

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The Fat Man (1951) starring J. Scott Smart

• Heavenly Days
• Here We Go Again
• Look Who's Laughing

• Flash Gordon (1936) starring Buster Crabbe
• Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars (1938) starring Buster Crabbe
• Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (Universal, 1940) w/ Buster Crabbe

• The Great Gildersleeve
• Gildersleeve's Bad Day
• Gildersleeve on Broadway
• Gildersleeve's Ghost

• The Green Hornet (1940) w/ Gordon Jones
• The Green Hornet Strikes Again (1940) w/ Warren Hull

Television Series

• Season 1
• Season 2
• Season 3
• Season 4
• Season 5
• Season 6

Inner Sanctum Mysteries

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• The Devil's Mask
• I Love a Mystery
• The Unknown

• Buck Benny Rides Again
• The Horn Blows at Midnight

• Dreaming Out Loud
• Goin' To Town
• Lum & Abner Abroad
• Partners in Time
• So This Is Washington
• The Bashful Bachelor
• Two Weeks To Live

Movies:

• I, The Jury (1953)
• Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
• My Gun is Quick (1957)
• The Girl Hunters (1963)
• I, The Jury (1982)
• Mike Hammer's Mickey Spillane (1998 Documentary)

Television:

• Mickey Spillane's Murder Me, Murder You (1983)
• Mickey Spillane's More than Murder (1984)
• Mike Hammer-Private Eye (1997-98)

Martin Kane Private Eye :

• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Volume 3
• Volume 4

Michael Shayne Detective

• My Little Margie Vol.1
• My Little Margie Vol. 2

Nero Wolfe Television Series (2001)

• Volume 1
• Volume 2

TV Show:

• Season 1 pt 1 pt 2
• Season 2 pt 1 pt 2
• Season 3
• Season 4
• Season 5
• Season 6
• Season 7
• Season 8

Marlowe Private Eye (1984)

Marlowe Private Eye (1986)

• Adventures of Red Ryder (1940) w/ Don "Red" Barry
• Red Ryder series (1944-1947) starring Bill Elliott and Allan "Rocky" Lane.

• Richard Diamond Private Detective (TV Show)
• Picture of Fear / The Chess Player (1957)

• Superman (Columbia, 1948) w/ Kirk AlynAtom
• Man vs Superman (Columbia, 1950) w/ Kirk Alyn

• Tarzan, the Fearless (Principal, 1933) w/ Buster Crabbe
• New Adventures of Tarzan (Dearholt, 1935) w/ Herman Brix (Bruce Bennett)
• Tarzan series with Johnny Weismuller (MGM & RKO)

The Thin Man

Feature Films :

• The Thin Man (1934)
• After Thin Man (1936)
• Another Thin Man (1939)
• Shadow of the THin Man (1941)
• The Thin Man Goes Home (1944)
• Song of the Thin Man (1947)

Terry and the Pirates

Topper

Films:

• Topper
• Topper Returns

Television:

• Adventures of Topper Vol. 1
• Adventures of Topper Vol. 2

Here is a partial list of fictional detectives that appeared in both OTR and old time movies: