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Burke's Law Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
32 Episodes 1963 - 1964
Episode 1
Who Killed Holly Howard?
Fri, Sep 20, 196360 mins
Model Holly Howard is found murdered, and the only clues seem to link a trio of wealthy Texans to her death.
Episode 2
Who Killed Mr.X?
Fri, Sep 27, 196350 mins
A body turns up at a merry-go-round. There are no identifying papers on the body and the labels have been removed from the man's clothing. The few clues available point Burke toward an actress under exclusive contract to Flood, a rarely seen industrialist. Burke discovers a number of women are under such exclusive contracts. Then, the detective discovers the dead man was Flood himself. Burke must figure out who, among a number of suspects, committed the crime.
Episode 3
Who Killed Cable Roberts?
Fri, Oct 4, 196350 mins
Cable Roberts, a legendary writer, documentary filmmaker, and hunter in the Hemingway mold, is found murdered in his study. There are three significant clues: he was killed with one of his own rifles, he was shot twice big game style, and his body was propped against a wall alongside his many hunting trophies.
Episode 4
Who Killed Harris Crown?
Fri, Oct 11, 196350 mins
Burke's investigation of the murder of Harris Crown is complicated by the fact that Mrs. Crown is pregnant - and not by her husband.
Episode 5
Who Killed Julian Buck?
Fri, Oct 18, 196350 mins
Julian Buck, one of America's most respected authors, is found strangled to death in his study. The manuscript for his latest novel is missing, but one curious item is found: what appears to be an extra rubber cap for the feet of his typewriter stand.
Episode 6
Who Killed Alex Debbs?
Fri, Oct 25, 196360 mins
The publisher of a girlie magazine is murdered at one of his own key clubs.
Episode 7
Who Killed Sweet Betsy ?
Fri, Nov 1, 196350 mins
One of a set of identical sisters with odd personalities is poisoned with cyanide at the residence of a beach bum and Burke and Tilson uncover a family history of suspicious deaths involving a cast of quirky characters.
Episode 8
Who Killed Billy Jo?
Fri, Nov 8, 196360 mins
A recording star is murdered. Was the killer his agent, his sister, his music arranger, or someone else?
Episode 9
Who Killed Wade Walker?
Fri, Nov 15, 196360 mins
Wealthy Wade Walker is killed when his plane blows up in mid-air. Burke's investigation concentrates on four women - a nurse, a singer, a beauty queen and an explosives expert.
Episode 10
Who Killed the Kind Doctor?
Fri, Nov 29, 196360 mins
Dr. Eric Techman, a fashionable LA psychiatrist, telephones Burke to warn him of an impending murder by one of his patients -- his own. But Techman is gunned down before he can name the killer.
Episode 11
Who Killed Purity Mather?
Fri, Dec 6, 1963
Prior to her apparent murder, a practicing witch sends Amos a message predicting her murder with a list of five suspects from the occult arts.
Episode 12
Who Killed Cynthia Royal?
Fri, Dec 13, 196360 mins
Burke has to search for a missing cat before he can find a killer.
Episode 13
Who Killed Eleanora Davis?
Fri, Dec 20, 196360 mins
"Professor" Kingston runs a cheap sideshow in a traveling carnival; one of his exhibits is a supposedly genuine electric chair. The girl strapped to it is certainly dead.
Episode 14
Who Killed Beau Sparrow?
Fri, Dec 27, 196360 mins
Burke is at a poolside party when he sees artist Beau Sparrow take a hard dive into a pool---a dive which kills him. Investigation shows the diving board's catapult was deliberately tampered with.
Episode 15
Who Killed Jason Shaw?
Fri, Jan 3, 196460 mins
Charred 1,000 dollar bills from a poker game surround the body of a wealthy man.
Episode 16
Who Killed Snooky Martinelli?
Fri, Jan 10, 196460 mins
Can it be that Amos Burke himself has been murdered?
Episode 17
Who Killed What's His Name?
Fri, Jan 17, 196460 mins
The elaborate robbery of a bank ends with the unprovoked shooting death of its owner, financier Victor S. Barrows. The key to solving the mystery is locating one of perpetrators, a man so average in appearance that nobody can clearly describe him.
Episode 18
Who Killed Madison Cooper?
Fri, Jan 24, 196460 mins
A shady attorney carrying a lot of money is murdered after making a telephone call.
Episode 19
Who Killed April?
Fri, Jan 31, 196460 mins
Carhop waitress April Adams is found murdered in an automobile scrapyard. The discovery that she had over $40,000 in the bank indicates that she had a second income that was both lucrative and illicit.
Episode 20
Who Killed Carrie Cornell?
Fri, Feb 14, 196460 mins
Carrie Cornell, singer and model, is found murdered on a beach. A photograph of her in Girlicue magazine links her to sleazy millionaire Martin Van Martin and he has disappeared.
Episode 21
Who Killed His Royal Highness?
Fri, Feb 21, 196460 mins
A man claiming to be an exiled Russian prince - not that anyone ever believed that - is murdered.
Episode 22
Who Killed Marty Kelso?
Fri, Feb 28, 196460 mins
Ruthless Hollywood agent Marty Kelso is murdered and leaves behind a plethora of suspects including a new wife and three ex-wives.
Episode 23
Who Killed Avery Lord?
Fri, Mar 6, 196460 mins
Burke and his team investigate the murder of a wealthy industrial designer.
Episode 24
Who Killed Andy Zygmunt?
Fri, Mar 13, 196460 mins
Pop artist Andy Zygmunt is fatally impaled on the spikes of one of his creations. The discovery that he blackmailed people into buying his works provides a motive and five suspects: his last four customers and the possessor of a missing fifth work.
Episode 25
Who Killed the Paper Dragon?
Fri, Mar 20, 196460 mins
During Chinese New Year celebrations, a body is found concealed in a car.
Episode 26
Who Killed Molly?
Fri, Mar 27, 196460 mins
Housewife Molly Baker, a brunette, is found dead in her shower, the apparent victim of a fall and drowning. But the autopsy shows that she was strangled and the discovery of blond wig hairs on four of her dresses is the first indication of her very busy secret life.
Episode 27
Who Killed WHO IV?
Fri, Apr 3, 196460 mins
Socialite equestrian William Henry Otis IV, nicknamed WHO IV ("WHO Four"), is beaten to death in his stable with a horseshoe from a riding trophy. The suspects are the regulars in his weekly fox hunts, among them Burke's old flame Jennifer and her husband St. John ("Sinjin") Carlisle, and, of course, the butler.
Episode 28
Who Killed Annie Foran?
Fri, Apr 10, 196460 mins
Party girl Annie Foran is found strangled in the back seat of a customer's car at the exclusive restaurant Club Nova. Suspicion falls on her ex-boyfriend, baseball sensation Eddie Dineen, who was there at the time in the company of his mentor, the acerbic columnist Whitman Saunders, and Saunder's assistant, Milo Morgan.
Episode 29
Who Killed My Girl?
Fri, Apr 17, 196460 mins
Using a .38 revolver with a silencer, an assailant murders heiress Diana Mercer in her bedroom after she's been dropped off by her date--her old flame, Amos Burke. As he investigates her death, Burke discovers that the woman who was murdered was a far cry from the one he knew and loved years earlier.
Episode 30
Who Killed the Eleventh Best Dressed Woman in the World?
Fri, Apr 24, 196460 mins
Nirvana is an upscale health spa for women only in the wooded hills near LA. The karma there is disrupted when socialite Celia Bannerman, a notorious husband stealer, is found murdered in the mud bath. Suspicion centers on the five women who shared her bungalow. Four had reasons to kill her and all received a free stay at Nirvana courtesy of an unknown party.
Episode 31
Who Killed Don Pablo?
Fri, May 1, 196460 mins
A waxwork in a museum turns out not to be a waxwork at all - it's a corpse.
Episode 32
Who Killed 1/2 of Glory Lee?
Fri, May 8, 196450 mins
The unpleasant Benjamin Glory, one half of the ownership of the Glory Lee fashion house, is found dead in an elevator after it crashes. But he was dead before he ever entered it, killed by "a sharp and blunt instrument".
