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E1 Episode 1: Victor Reisel

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• 30m
• Sep 17, 1959

As labor reporter on the New York Daily Mirror, Riesel fights against racketeers by exposing them to the public.

E2 Episode 2: State Scandal

• 30m
• Sep 24, 1959

Reporter George Thiem's dilemma: loyalty to a friend or respect for the law.

E3 Episode 3: Pickup

• 30m
• Oct 1, 1959

A persistent newsman tries to prove that a mild-mannered salesman is the murderer of two women.

E4 Episode 4: The Neon Touch

• 30m
• Oct 8, 1959

Two teen-agers scheme to get rich quick by passing bad checks.

E5 Episode 5: Extortion

• 30m
• Oct 15, 1959

A respected doctor becomes the victim of an extortionist.

E6 Episode 6: The accusing finger

• 30m
• Oct 22, 1959

Reporter Ed Mowery, certain that a convicted murderer is innocent, tries to have the case reopened.

E7 Episode 7: Mass Murder

• 30m
• Oct 29, 1959

A plane explodes in mid-flight, killing everyone on board.

E8 Episode 8: The Case Of The Stranger

• 30m
• Nov 5, 1959

Newsman Harry Romanoff tries to unmask a phony hero: he believes that the man committed a double murder.

E9 Episode 9: Charm Boy

• 30m
• Nov 12, 1959

A sorority meeting and a missed bus spell death for a coed and her killer has an airtight alibi.

E10 Episode 10: Old Man Lost

• 30m
• Nov 19, 1959

Don Hogan of the Boston Post tries to help an amnesic regain the will to live.

E11 Episode 11: The Human Storm

• 30m
• Nov 26, 1959

It takes a violent prison riot and a crusading reporter to alert the authorities to the inhuman conditions at a penal institution.

E12 Episode 12: Hot Stuff

• 30m
• Dec 3, 1959

To expose a shoplifting racket, fashion editor Trudy Prokop infiltrates the gang.

E13 Episode 13: The Face of a Thief

• 30m
• Dec 10, 1959

A brilliant detective matches wits with a reporter trying to clear a man caught in a web of circumstantial evidence.

E14 Episode 14: Murderess

• 30m
• Dec 17, 1959

A beautiful murderer proves true her claim that no jail built could hold her.

E15 Episode 15: Chain Reaction

• 30m
• Dec 24, 1959

A pilot becomes mentally ill after he takes part in the bombing of Hiroshima.

E16 Episode 16: Clean Kill

• 30m
• Dec 31, 1959

An unusual clue helps Gene Lindsey of the Phoenix (Ariz.) Gazette solve a murder.

E17 Episode 17: Lonely Hearts Killer

• 30m
• Jan 7, 1960

Two newsmen track a lonely-hearts killer who has claimed three victims.

E18 Episode 18: Return to Murder

• 30m
• Jan 14, 1960

Two teen-age gangs are on the verge of declaring peace when a boy returns from prison and stirs up fury anew.

E19 Episode 19: Scramble

• 30m
• Jan 21, 1960

Reporter Matt Conklin tries to foster good feelings between a quiet Texas town and a new Air Force base.

E20 Episode 20: Massacre

• 30m
• Jan 28, 1960

A berserk killer is on the loose in California.

E21 Episode 21: The Blue Dahlia

• 30m
• Feb 4, 1960

A soldier confesses to the murder of a beautiful girl but a stubborn reporter refuses to believe him.

E22 Episode 22: Checkmate

• 30m
• Feb 11, 1960

Police and reporters try to break a man suspected of having murdered a 15-year-old girl.

E23 Episode 23: Jailbreak

• 30m
• Feb 18, 1960

Three convicts escape from a maximum-security prison by forging the warden's signature on pardons.

E24 Episode 24: Mad Bomber

• 30m
• Feb 25, 1960

It's Christmas week in New York, and a mad bomber is stalking the city.

E25 Episode 25: Character Witness

• 30m
• Mar 3, 1960

Reporter Leo Sheridan is called in as a character witness at the murder trial of his best friend.

E26 Episode 26: Dumb Kid

• 30m
• Mar 10, 1960

A cub reporter stumbles onto two bandits.

E27 Episode 27: A Story for Christmas

• 30m
• Mar 17, 1960

William Key helps a despondent young girl on Christmas Eve.

E28 Episode 28: Birthday Present

• 30m
• Mar 24, 1960

A father and his son are hunting for a lost ball that rolled under their porch and discover a woman's body.

E29 Episode 29: Suspicion of Murder

• 30m
• Mar 31, 1960

Bernice Freeman stands by her friend when he is accused of murder.

E30 Episode 30: Thesis for Murder

• 30m
• Apr 7, 1960

A brilliant, but deranged, college student tries to carry out the perfect crime

E31 Episode 31: Exposure

• 30m
• Apr 14, 1960

A photo studio is the cover for a racket swindling the citizens of Columbus, Ohio, to the tune of a quarter of a million dollars a year.

E32 Episode 32: Pig Woman

• 30m
• Apr 21, 1960

A woman brutally murders a handy man after being named the beneficiary of his life-insurance policy.

E33 Episode 33: To Move a Mountain

• 30m
• Apr 28, 1960

A reporter, nursed by two Burmese women during the war, fights to keep them from being forced back to Burma and certain death.

E34 Episode 34: One Tall, One Short

• 30m
• May 5, 1960

A wild hunch helps reporter Clayton Darrah trap two phantom bandits. The only available description is "one short, one tall."

E35 Episode 35: The Cave

• 30m
• May 12, 1960

A car parked outside an uncharted cave convinces a reporter that someone is lost inside.

E36 Episode 36: The Two Ounce Trap

• 30m
• May 19, 1960

A rest home for alcoholics, scene of five deaths within a brief period, is investigated by newsman Paul Quick.

E37 Episode 37: The Last Knockout

• 30m
• May 26, 1960

Reporter Ed Reid encounters an ex-fight manager, a singer and a boxer in his search for a missing sea captain.

E38 Episode 38: Episode 38

• 30m
• Feb 1, 1961

E39 Episode 39: Smoke Screen

• 30m
• Feb 4, 1961

The Erie, Pa., fire department is looking for the arsonist terrorizing the town.