Big Town Season 4 Episodes

Episode 1

Baseball Story

Thu, Sep 10, 1953

A baseball star learns he has glaucoma and is going blind.

Episode 2

Fear, Inc.

Thu, Sep 17, 1953

Episode 3

Applejack

Wed, Sep 23, 1953

Episode 4

Murder by Messenger

Thu, Oct 1, 1953

Episode 5

Innocence Will Out

Thu, Oct 8, 1953

Episode 6

Watch the Birdie

Thu, Oct 15, 195326 mins

A famous stage actress friend of Steve's reports a valuable necklace stolen. Then she recants. Then she is found dead. Her death is ruled a suicide but neither Steve nor Lt. Jameson are buying it.

Episode 7

On Their Own

Thu, Oct 22, 195326 mins

Episode 8

Train Story

Thu, Oct 29, 1953

Episode 9

Blind Justice

Thu, Nov 5, 1953

Episode 10

The Room

Thu, Nov 12, 1953

Episode 11

Chance of a Lifetime

Thu, Nov 19, 195330 mins

Episode 12

An Honest Man

Thu, Nov 26, 1953

An honest and respected veteran who's been elected to the city council in part due to Steve's favorable press coverage, now looks like he's betrayed everyone by taking a bribe to vote for an unwanted race track to be built that will be run by a gangster.

Episode 13

Shoplifter

Thu, Dec 3, 1953

Episode 14

Fall Guy

Thu, Dec 10, 1953

Steve agrees to help on of the town's notorious gangsters who wants to confess to the police but is afraid of other powerful mobsters.

Episode 15

Dangerous Man

Thu, Dec 17, 1953

A convict is working on a medicine that will cure the common cold when he's released.Seeing the fortune to be made with it, another prisoner conspires to seize the formula, and escapes by luring Steve and his editor to the prison, then threatening to blow them up with a homemade bomb unless they drive him out, where he can hunt down his former cell mate.

Episode 16

Return of the Hoodlum

Thu, Dec 24, 1953

Episode 17

Taxi Dancer

Thu, Dec 31, 1953

A Dime-a-dance girl knows too much about her gangster boss and wants out - he lets her out by a high window to her death. The girl's twin sister comes to the News for help after the police rule it a suicide, so Merrilee goes undercover as one of the girls at the dance hall.

Episode 18

The Stranger

Thu, Jan 7, 1954

A socialite has a dark secret in her past; she and her first husband are ex-convicts. He shows up to blackmail her into giving him a huge amount of money or forcing her to running away with him. Steve and Lorie investigate and find that he doesn't realize they have a son that was born in prison.

Episode 19

The Consulate

Thu, Jan 14, 195426 mins

Episode 20

Killer for Hire

Thu, Jan 21, 1954

Episode 21

Kid Stuff

Thu, Jan 28, 1954

Episode 22

Planned Danger

Thu, Feb 4, 1954

Episode 23

The Heir

Thu, Feb 11, 1954

Episode 24

Deadline

Thu, Feb 18, 1954

Episode 25

The Auctioneer

Thu, Feb 25, 195426 mins

Steve and Merrilee investigate a crooked auction house.

Episode 26

Fifty Dollar Bill

Thu, Mar 4, 1954

Episode 27

Walking Dead

Thu, Mar 11, 1954

Episode 28

Mute Justice

Thu, Mar 18, 1954

A deaf mute sues for damages after being run over at a crosswalk. But at trial he gives testimony that sinks his own case. Steve smells a rat.

Episode 29

Pursuit

Thu, Mar 25, 1954

Episode 30

The Jurist

Thu, Apr 1, 1954

Episode 31

Innocent Target

Thu, Apr 8, 1954

Episode 32

Babies for Sale

Thu, Apr 15, 1954

Episode 33

Thirty Days to Live

Thu, Apr 22, 195426 mins

Episode 34

Lost Lady

Thu, Apr 29, 1954

Episode 35

Jeopardy

Thu, May 6, 1954

Episode 36

Lovers Lane Bandit

Thu, May 13, 1954

Episode 37

Dead to Rights

Thu, May 20, 1954

Episode 38

Invitation to Death

Thu, May 27, 1954

A condemned killer's son swears vengeance on the judge that sentenced his father to the electric chair.

Episode 39

Four Hours to Live

Thu, Jun 3, 1954

Episode 42

Episode #4.42

Thu, Jun 24, 1954