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32 Episodes 1964 - 1965
Episode 1
Wed, Sep 16, 196460 mins
Rising actress and beach queen Tina Romaine surfs a difficult wave, walks a few steps, and drops dead. A bullet grazed her right temple, but the wound was superficial and the autopsy finds that she was killed by an archaic poison. Posing as a beach bum, Tim goes undercover to infiltrate the surfing crowd.

Episode 2
Wed, Sep 23, 196460 mins
A number of vaudeville old-timers are among the suspects when Burke investigates the death of a comedian.
Episode 3
Wed, Sep 30, 196460 mins
While the water for her before dinner bath is being drawn, high society blackmailer Cassandra Cass is gunned down in her bedroom in her mansion. The prime suspects are her four victims, all of whom had been invited to dinner that evening. And, of course, there's the butler.

Episode 4
Wed, Oct 7, 196460 mins
While hosting a garden party on a sunny Sunday afternoon, modeling mogul Charles Lee Horne telephones the homicide squad and asks for Burke. A single rifle shot ends both the phone call and Horne's life. The investigation takes an unexpected and disturbing twist when one of Horne's models, Felice Knight, files an internal affairs complaint alleging that Tim helped her to blackmail Horne into signing her.
Episode 5
Wed, Oct 14, 196460 mins
Four poker buddies celebrate the first anniversary of their weekly games with a private party at the Hillsdale Country Club. The festivities end when all four men are killed by a bottle of poisoned wine. There is no shortage of suspects. Besides having four unhappy wives, the men had incurred the ire of Butterfield, the club's historian, baseball coach, and busybody.
Episode 6
Wed, Oct 21, 196460 mins
When the wealthy Emory Cartwheel is murdered at a coin auction, Amos Burke finds himself in jail in the Wild West town of Epitaph Flats.
Episode 7
Wed, Oct 28, 196460 mins
The life of hotel magnate Cornelius Gilbert comes to an electrifying finish when somebody hot wires the metal ladder in his swimming pool. A torn piece of plaid cloth, a gold St. Christopher's medal, and Gilbert's annual round-the-world charter flight are the clues.
Episode 8
Wed, Nov 4, 196460 mins
Murdered Lenore has left a note that she's changing her will with the heir as nephew Jay Boy who is involved with daughter of Jim Clover who needs Lenore's land to complete his development but Jay Boy's fiancée Effie Mae is in town.
Episode 9
Wed, Nov 11, 196460 mins
When wealthy Amenor arrives in town to sell a lucrative oil lease, an apparent sniper attack on Amenor kills his bookkeeper and suspicion immediately suggests the culprit is one of three parties vying for deal.
Episode 10
Wed, Nov 25, 196460 mins
The De Armand Sisters are a trio of singing siblings. When Alicia - the tall one in the middle - gets murdered, Amos Burke is surprised at how little the other two seem to be upset.
Episode 11
Wed, Dec 2, 196460 mins
Escape artist Jack Merlin at a convention of competitive magicians attempts his stock in trade trick of staying under water for five hours sealed in coffin with an hour air supply but he dies - from a gunshot wound.
Episode 12
Wed, Dec 9, 196460 mins
When a businessman, Buddy Jack Cook, with a very shady reputation is found slain in a hotel elevator, Harold Harold, his accountant, is the prime suspect.

Episode 13
Wed, Dec 16, 196460 mins
Four famous cops (from London, Paris, Tokyo and Budapest), plus an irascible American private eye, are all suspects when yet another famous sleuth is murdered.
Episode 14
Wed, Dec 23, 196460 mins
After a developer is found stabbed to death and on a meat hook, another man is found dead with the same letter of a list of six names discovered on the developer which includes Amos and then Amos receives such a letter.

Episode 15
Wed, Dec 30, 196460 mins
When the anchor of millionaire Davidian Jonas's yacht is raised, his corpse is found attached to it.
Episode 16
Wed, Jan 6, 196560 mins
During a match a professional wrestler is killed by a poison dart that originated from a special section in which only five persons sat.

Episode 17
Wed, Jan 13, 196560 mins
The suspects are a prodigal son, a secretary and a number of people whose livelihood involves children when a writer of children's books is strangled with a typewriter ribbon.

Episode 18
Wed, Jan 20, 196560 mins
The nasty boss of a toy firm is murdered.
Episode 19
Wed, Jan 27, 196560 mins
Who could have murdered the nice old lady who sold maps of the stars' homes? And why?
Episode 20
Wed, Feb 3, 196560 mins
A tennis star is murdered at a charity event - by an exploding tennis ball.

Episode 21
Wed, Feb 10, 196560 mins
Suspicion falls on the figurehead presidents of his four corporations when shady conglomerate owner Monty Crippen dies chewing on a cyanide laced toothpick at a costume party.

Episode 22
Wed, Feb 17, 196560 mins
Cowboy star Clayton Steele is murdered at the rodeo. The suspects are many but only one had the motive and opportunity.
Episode 23
Wed, Feb 24, 196560 mins
Somehow or other, thirteen circus clowns always manage to squeeze into a tiny car - and get our of it again at the end of the act. But this time, the thirteenth clown is dead.
Episode 24
Wed, Mar 3, 196530 mins
With Burke in Chicago, the unit must solve the murder of a blackmailing department store maintenance man with unsavory connections past and present and who has a penchant for the horses.

Episode 25
Wed, Mar 17, 196560 mins
When a boat blows up, killing a notorious gossip columnist, Burke, who is holidaying in the area, finds himself the chief suspect.
Episode 26
Wed, Mar 24, 196560 mins
A list of interconnected suspects of people that escaped justice some time ago are left to Burke after Officer Danny Robin, Burke's sponsor for the police department, is shot to death.

Episode 27
Wed, Mar 31, 196560 mins
Novelist Graham Tree whose smeared characters are thinly disguised awakens on the autopsy table after a severe beating and attempted barbiturate poisoning so Amos believes the culprit must be caught before a successful second attempt.

Episode 28
Wed, Apr 7, 196560 mins
A pretentious method actor is killed during a performance of "Hamlet".

Episode 29
Wed, Apr 14, 196560 mins
When a doctor is shot to death, suspicion falls on his young wife who due to an abusive childhood frequently runs away and from time to time falls into a dissociative trance.

Episode 30
Wed, Apr 21, 196551 mins
When a wealthy banker is found murdered atop a seedy hotel's neon sign, a race to find the murderer develops between Burke and the beautiful private detective who was working for the dead man.

Episode 31
Wed, Apr 28, 196560 mins
An exploding piano kills off a famous musician.

Episode 32
Wed, May 5, 196560 mins
The unpleasant head of a greetings-card company is murdered.