Danger, Dr. Danfield
Danger, Dr. Danfield gives crime drama to a criminal psychologist rather than a detective. Dr. Daniel Danfield studies motive and behavior, then dictates case summaries to his secretary Rusty Fairfax, creating a structure that moves between clinical explanation and dramatized action.
Where to Start
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The Professor
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Episode details →Who Killed Eve Shelton
This is a middle-period broadcast in the GRH holdings and gives a useful point of comparison within the surviving material.
Episode details →Ghost of Murdock Swamp
This is a later surviving broadcast in the GRH holdings and gives a useful point of comparison within the surviving material.
Episode details →Program History
Crime drama about criminal psychologist Dr. Daniel Danfield, who analyzes criminals and reconstructs cases for his secretary Rusty Fairfax while assisting law enforcement investigations.
Crime/detective drama built around criminal psychologist Dr. Daniel Danfield dictating solved cases to secretary Rusty Fairfax.
The run breaks into several distinct periods: 26-program surviving transcription sequence (August 18, 1946 to February 9, 1947) on American Broadcasting Company and Documented ABC network airing span (August 18, 1946 to April 13, 1947) on American Broadcasting Company.
Names that turn up again and again in the surviving run include Michael Dunn (performer), Ralph Wilkinson (writer), Wally Ramsey (producer), Joanne Johnson (performer), and Joanne Jackson (performer).
Across its run, the surviving broadcasts are tied to ABC Radio Network.
The stories often return to criminal psychology and behavioral inference, police consultation and criminal investigation, murder and suspicious death, apparently supernatural or uncanny clues, deception, fraud and hidden motives, and insurance, money and financial crime.
The show also sits in a wider radio history that includes Criminal psychologist as radio detective, Teleways transcription and syndication model, ABC network and Knox sponsorship, and Surviving package versus longer network chronology.
All Episodes & Recordings
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The Professor
Dr. Danfield sets out to trap bank robbers Trixie and Nick Talbot, deliberately involving himself with the pair so he can study their criminal behavior and help bring their scheme…
Manuel Abello
After Manuel Abello returns from Mexico with a new wife whose marriage was partly a scheme to control him through his immigration status, death follows. Danfield poses as a lawyer…
Murder of Cora Rogers
Aspiring actress Cora Rogers threatens theatrical producer Oliver Norton with exposure unless he gives her a leading role. When Cora is killed, Danfield investigates the people caught in the blackmail…
Norman Miles
Norman Miles tells Danfield that one of three greedy relatives may be planning to murder him. After Miles is found dead and Danfield receives ten thousand dollars with an anonymous…
Nola Jerrolds Wants to Kill Her Husband
A shooting takes place in a summer house after Nola Jerrolds has expressed a desire to kill her husband. Nola's amnesia complicates Danfield's effort to determine what actually happened and…
The Case of the Darkened Face
An actress whose face is disfigured could be cured by a remarkable medicinal cream, but the formula is stolen. Danfield investigates the theft and the people who stand to gain…
Harriet Miller
Senator George Miller's daughter Harriet discovers a stranger, Muggs Verando, dead on her bedroom floor beside a gun and a suicide note. To avoid scandal, the senator's family turns to…
Red Jacoby
Notorious prisoner Red Jacoby carries out the jailbreak he predicted. Danfield goes undercover as a reporter while pursuing the escaped criminal and becomes a target himself as he tries to…
Henry Comes Home
Henry, long believed lost during the war, returns to confront his twin brother Fred and the wife Fred has married after falsely claiming Henry was dead. A violent struggle leaves…
Death Paints a Picture
While traveling through Death Valley, Danfield and Rusty become involved when an eccentric artist is murdered after refusing to sell a painting of a dead cow. The painting disappears, and…
Edgar Allen Poe Manuscript
An apparently accidental death coincides with the disappearance of a valuable Edgar Allan Poe manuscript. Danfield investigates whether the death was truly an accident and how the missing literary treasure…
Legend of Windigo
At Bald Eagle Lodge, Danfield and Rusty hear the local legend of the Windigo, a half-human mountain creature said to haunt the surrounding forest. When a ski instructor's girlfriend is…
A Diamond Pendant Stolen
A famous diamond pendant is stolen, and Danfield discovers that the motive behind the theft is tied not simply to money but to a romantic entanglement.
Who Killed Eve Shelton
Eve Shelton is murdered, leaving suspicion centered on two men with very different connections to her: her poor husband and her wealthy lover. Danfield must determine which relationship supplied the…
The Case of the Whirling Mirrors
Thirty million dollars' worth of crown jewels from the principality of Beronia vanish while on display at Carter's jewelry store. The store owner remembers showing them to a man and…
Snowbound (No Opening or Closing)
After three days of unexpected snow trap a group together on an Arizona ranch, tempers deteriorate and talk of death unsettles one guest, Christine. Her warning that a real death…
One Hundred Thousand Dollar Life Insurance Claim
Howard Holbrook's body is discovered buried in a field in a case involving a one-hundred-thousand-dollar life-insurance claim. Danfield investigates the death, with an unusual clue involving birds helping point toward…
Sam Hardy Makes a Bet With Death
Sam Hardy makes a provocative wager involving death and is murdered shortly afterward. Danfield investigates the circumstances of the bet and the people around Hardy to determine who made the…
The Case of the Counterfeit Ten Dollar Bills
Danfield unknowingly becomes involved with counterfeit ten-dollar bills and is caught passing the fake money. With a federal Treasury agent following him, he has to trace where the currency came…
Money in a Basket (No Opening or Closing)
Two star football players disappear just before an important game and are believed to have been kidnapped. Danfield investigates whether the abduction is genuine and what lies behind the players'…
Mad Men Strike Swiftly
James Smith faces execution for the deliberate murder of his business partner, with evidence against him that appears overwhelming. Still insisting he is innocent, Smith has only hours left while…
Death Tunes in at 790 Kilocycles
Danfield and Rusty attend a radio broadcast and instead find themselves investigating the murder of soloist Helen McGregor inside the studio. Every apparent suspect has an alibi that survives Danfield's…
Mental Hospital
To stop the plans of a corrupt doctor operating inside a mental institution, Danfield deliberately has himself committed to the asylum and works from inside to expose the scheme.
Tunnel Smelled of Death
Danfield investigates after a tunnel collapse kills seventy groundhogs, treating the strange mass death as evidence that something more than an ordinary accident may have occurred underground.
Little Meteorite Who Wanted to Be a Star
During a snowstorm, vaudeville performer Tiny is found dead in a room filled with gas. Danfield investigates the suspected murder through the frustrated ambitions, jealousy, and hatred surrounding the performer's…
Ghost of Murdock Swamp
Missing pearls, unexplained lights over Murdock Swamp, and a murder draw Danfield into a case that appears supernatural until he investigates the connection between the valuables, the swamp, and the…
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