Treasury Men in Action

E1 Episode 1: The Case of the Lonely People

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• Oct 7, 1954

An investigation into government checks stolen from mailboxes leads the T-men to a couple who turn to forging disability compensation checks.

E2 Episode 2: The Case of the Still Waters

• Oct 14, 1954

A young Federal agent infiltrates a gang of bootleggers whose still is on board a freighter ship.

E3 Episode 3: The Case of the Gentleman Cheat

• Oct 21, 1954

As part of his settlement with the IRS, a tax cheat agrees to pay all the money he owes within ten days. However, a suspicious IRS agent believes that the man is going to pay his taxes with yet more money that he has illegally hidden from the government, and sets out to prove his case.

E4 Episode 4: The Case of the Tarnished Lady

• Oct 28, 1954

E5 Episode 5: The Case of the Man Outside

• Nov 4, 1954

Some ingenious convicts working in a prison's print shop have begun a counterfeiting operation. The shop's foreman is deliberately looking the other way because he's up for parole in two months and wants to stay "clean."

E6 Episode 6: The Case of the One Way Ride

• Nov 11, 1954

E7 Episode 7: The Case of the Little Tin Box

• Nov 18, 1954

Three people who own a nightclub, where much of the business is on a strictly cash basis, decide to avoid paying income taxes by skimming money from the club.

E8 Episode 8: The Case of the Green Feathers

• Nov 25, 1954

Customs agents go after a ring of gangsters who are smuggling rare parrots into the U.S. from Mexico.

E9 Episode 9: The Case of the Dangerous Dollars

• Dec 2, 1954

E10 Episode 10: The Case of the Escaped Convict

• Dec 9, 1954

E11 Episode 11: The Case of the Losing Gamble

• Dec 16, 1954

A racehorse owner proves too clever for his own good. His doctored tax returns are filled with phoney deductions, attracting the attention of the T-men.

E12 Episode 12: The Case of the Bad Bargain

• Dec 23, 1954

A Treasury agent goes undercover at an East Coast port to break up an opium smuggling ring.

E13 Episode 13: The Case of the Broken Bond

• Dec 30, 1954

Frank Shelby, ailing from heart disease, breaks into a hone at the insistence of his wife and steals government bonds that he signs the names of the recipient to and then cashes himself, thereby pocketing the stolen money.

E14 Episode 14: The Case of the Careless Murder

• Jan 6, 1955

E15 Episode 15: The Case of the Chartered Chiseler

• Jan 13, 1955

A bus-company owner decides to keep a little extra money for himself by falsely reporting charitable donations as tax deductions. In a case of "poetic justice", he is carried to a Federal penitentiary in one of his own vehicles.

E16 Episode 16: The Case of the Iron Curtain

• Jan 20, 1955

A heartless American criminal sees an opportunity to take the troubles of a shaken Holocaust survivor and turn them to his own advantage. He violates the Neutrality Act and ships airplane parts to France for sale to a country behind the Iron Curtain.

E17 Episode 17: The Case of the Unfair Verdict

• Jan 27, 1955

E18 Episode 18: The Case of the Fatal Error

• Feb 3, 1955

Barney is an old-time gangster who's quickly losing his grip on reality. He leads his gang back into bootlegging, convinced that the prohibition days are still in effect.

E19 Episode 19: The Case of the Elder Brother

• Feb 10, 1955

E20 Episode 20: The Case of the Princely Pauper

• Feb 17, 1955

Although the feds know that an importer is smuggling expensive Swiss jewelry into the US, they can't discover how he's doing it, despite his being under constant surveillance. They begin an undercover operation, hoping to discover his methods.

E21 Episode 21: The Case of the Swindler's Gold

• Feb 24, 1955

E22 Episode 22: The Case of the Perfect Crime

• Mar 3, 1955

E23 Episode 23: The Case of the Lady in Hiding

• Mar 10, 1955

E24 Episode 24: The Case of the Tight Squeeze

• Mar 17, 1955

Customs agents discover large quantities of expensive--and undeclared--Cuban perfumes that are flooding the market. They soon discover a criminal ring that has a clever plan for smuggling the goods from Cuba into the US.

E25 Episode 25: The Case of the Deadly Dilemma

• Mar 24, 1955

Undercover agent Frank Ames poses as a small-time hoodlum and gets himself hired by racketeer Herb Kerry. His mission is to uncover information on the criminal's counterfeiting operation. Kerry gets suspicious because of all the questions Ames asks and gives him a job to prove he's not a cop: to carry out a "hit".

E26 Episode 26: The Case of the Black Sheep

• Mar 31, 1955

After becoming interested in mobster's girl, the son of a sugar distributor gets hooked up with a gang selling illegal liquor.

E27 Episode 27: The Case of the Buried Treasure

• Apr 7, 1955

Paul Lacosta buries his profit from running a gambling den in the backyard to avoid paying taxes. After five years of incessant haranguing from his wife, he digs up the bills to find they've molded. Against his better judgement, they begin to spend the bills they salvaged which tips off authorities.

E28 Episode 28: The Case of the Smuggled Heroin

• Apr 14, 1955

E29 Episode 29: The Case of the Steady Hand

• Apr 21, 1955

E30 Episode 30: The Case of the Only Son

• Apr 28, 1955

E31 Episode 31: The Case of the Man Next Door

• May 5, 1955

A somewhat nosy landlady begins to suspect that one of her tenants may be a dangerous loan shark.

E32 Episode 32: The Case of the Stolen Watches

• May 12, 1955

E33 Episode 33: The Case of the Man Trap

• May 19, 1955

The Secret Service is onto counterfeiter Russ Bagley who's working for a major crime syndicate. The agency's anonymous tip comes from Russ' girlfriend who's carrying on an affair with Russ' right-hand man, Nick. They figure that if they get him out of the way, they'll be free to carry on their romance and Nick will be promoted by the mob.

E34 Episode 34: The Case of the Ready Guns

• May 26, 1955

Ben Adams picks up his younger brother, Harry, from prison after a four year sentence and gives him a job in his metal shop. Harry, though, has no intention of "going straight." He hooks up with an old criminal buddy who's heisted five cases of semi-automatics and converts them into fully automatic rifles to sell to mobsters.

E35 Episode 35: The Case of the Perfect Gentleman

• Jun 2, 1955

An enterprising crook, who wishes to improve his lot in life, lavishes jewelry on a French female opera singer.

E36 Episode 36: The Case of the Shot in the Dark

• Jun 9, 1955

Dangerous criminal Vince Sanderson visits his estranged wife Laura who he abused leaving her with a scar. The treasury men set a trap to capture the low life but endangering the beleaguered spouse.

E37 Episode 37: The Case of the Betrayed Artist

• Jun 17, 1955

E38 Episode 38: The Case of the Frightened Man

• Jun 24, 1955

E39 Episode 39: The Case of the Slippery Eel

• Jul 1, 1955