Everglades!

Episode 1

The Escape

Mon, Oct 9, 1961 30 mins

Reuben Sales is and escaped convict whose father's demise leaves no one to care for Reuben's wife and child.

Episode 2

Heat in Town

Mon, Oct 16, 1961 30 mins

A crooked police chief enlists Vail's aid to track down an escaped prisoner who had been arrested for loitering. Vail learns from a newspaper reporter that the charge was trumped up and the escapee chances of surviving another arrest are slim.

Episode 3

Greed of the Glades

Mon, Oct 23, 1961 30 mins

An escaped, wounded robber holds a young man and wife prisoner in their isolated swamp home, but when he succumbs to the injury, the couple are left with a moral conflict over returning the stolen loot.

Episode 4

Primer for Pioneers

Mon, Oct 30, 1961 30 mins

After a truant officer is seriously wounded by a backwoods squatter while trying to force his children to attend school, Linc decides to try gentle persuasion instead.

Episode 5

Angry Town

Mon, Nov 6, 1961 30 mins

An ex-con returns to the everglades, but the townsfolk plot to have him killed.

Episode 6

The Photographer

Mon, Nov 13, 1961 30 mins

Linc becomes suspicious of a wildlife photographer who has frequent contact with a helicopter and a seaplane in the middle of the Everglades.

Episode 7

Clay Island Murder

Mon, Nov 20, 1961 30 mins

Vail comes to a large landowner's home seeking to force him to pay back taxes or move out. Instead he finds the old man's been murdered, so he then tries to investigate the suspicious, but hostile family members.

Episode 8

Lie Detector

Mon, Nov 27, 1961 30 mins

Although Mary Webster has flunked a lie detector test, Linc's instinct tells him that the woman did not murder her abusive husband and investigates other suspects.

Episode 9

Flight at Boca Chico

Mon, Dec 4, 1961 30 mins

Piney Danning races to Linc's police substation to tell him that a neighbor has badly injured his leg in a trap. When Linc arrives at the scene of the accident he discovers that Piney's story was a ruse - he's really needed to settle a century-old land dispute between two feuding families.

Episode 10

The Experts

Mon, Dec 11, 1961 30 mins

A number of Glades County businesses have been victimized by a safecracker and Captain Benson is on the hot seat. The safe company sends a pair of private detectives to assist the local police with their investigation. While the detectives use the latest scientific equipment to arrest a suspect, Linc uses good old-fashioned legwork and a network of informants to track down the real perpetrator.

Episode 11

Good Boy

Mon, Dec 18, 1961 30 mins

When Linc arrests a youth for reckless driving and assaulting a police officer, his father, the owner of a notorious gambling club, does everything possible to get the charges thrown out.

Episode 12

The Long Walk

Tue, Dec 26, 1961 30 mins

Lincoln Vail enters the trackless Everglades pursuing a no-account swamp rat robs a general store and fractures the skull of its proprietor. Linc is forced to drag his prisoner back to town through the marshes on foot after the his airboat breaks down. To make matters worse, the crook's brother chases the pair with the intent on rescuing Linc's prisoner.

Episode 13

The Brand

Mon, Jan 1, 1962 30 mins

A trail from a break-in a general store leads Link to an illegal gambling operation where the proprietor is fleecing the county's inhabitants while their children go hungry and without proper clothing.

Episode 14

Young Osceola

Mon, Jan 8, 1962 30 mins

Coley Jarrett, an up-and-coming boxer, returns to the Everglades after defeating a leading contender. He becomes the target for every would-be tough guy in the 'Glades, as well as mobsters who are angry that he wouldn't take a dive when ordered to do so. When Coley refuses to testify against the racketeers, Linc uses the fighter's girlfriend to change his mind.

Episode 15

Force Ten

Mon, Jan 15, 1962 30 mins

During a hurricane, Linc's airboat sinks and he forced to take refuge in an old hotel with a disparate group of castaways - one of whom is a murderous escaped mental patient.

Episode 16

The Running Target

Mon, Jan 22, 1962 26 mins

Captain Andy Benson gets word that a deported mobster plans to return to Miami via the Everglades and rounds up Linc to help him make the arrest. In the ensuing gun battle, Benson is shot and Linc vows to avenge his boss even though he's been suspended from duty.

Episode 17

The Hostage

Mon, Jan 29, 1962 30 mins

A backwoods family hold Linc responsible when one of their kin is bitten by a rattlesnake when the constable was chasing the fugitive. They capture the lawman and drag him into the heart of the Everglades and leave him without food or water to die of exposure..

Episode 18

Black Honeymoon

Mon, Feb 5, 1962 30 mins

A bride is horrified when her husband changes their honeymoon plans at the last minute and takes them into the Everglades to camp. The groom's jealously and desire for secrecy makes her worry about his secretive past. Clues lead her to believe he's the infamous "Bluebeard killer" who murders his new brides in out of the way locations.

Episode 19

Edge of Panic

Mon, Feb 12, 1962 30 mins

Episode 20

Emergency Treatment

Mon, Feb 19, 1962 30 mins

Steve Harper hears that his fiancee has stolen some narcotics and shot a doctor.

Episode 21

Final Hours

Mon, Feb 26, 1962 30 mins

Following his wife's death, a man abducts his young daughter after being served papers regarding the child's custody. Linc must find the pair immediately because the girl has been bitten by a rabid dog.

Episode 22

River of No Return

Mon, Mar 5, 1962 30 mins

When Linc captures a husband and wife whom he suspects of beating and robbing a pretty Seminole girl. When the young woman refuses to identify her assailants, Linc suspects that her fiancé plans to exact his own revenge without involving the authorities.

Episode 23

Friday's Children

Mon, Mar 12, 1962 30 mins

A pair of escaped convicts take a boatload of schoolchildren hostage and force the teacher to hide them from the police who are combing the Everglades in search of them.

Episode 24

Rowboat Teacher

Mon, Mar 19, 1962 30 mins

A pretty schoolteacher meets with resistance when she tries to open a school in the heart of the Everglades. A trio of crooks fear that, by teaching the local inhabitants to read, they'll realize that they're being cheated by the gang.

Episode 25

Curtains for Kocomo

Tue, Mar 27, 1962 30 mins

When Cappy Royal claims he was bitten by a performing chimpanzee, his father gets a court order to kill the animal and Linc is ordered to carry out the execution. Linc believes that the animal has been falsely accused and sets about finding out why the boy lied.

Episode 26

Fatal Information

Tue, Apr 3, 1962 30 mins

Linc and a pretty ornithologist become targets for the mob when the dying witness to a gangland killing tells a pair of hitmen that he told the lawman and scientist who the mob boss's killers were.

Episode 27

Killer in Calico

Tue, Apr 10, 1962 30 mins

A nightclub dancer double-crosses a killer and flees to her aunt's home in the Everglades with $20,000 in stolen money. The crook tracks her down and tries to reclaim his share of the loot.

Episode 28

Keene's Choice

Tue, Apr 17, 1962 30 mins

When a Veteran's Administration official travels to the Everglades to meet with Willie Keene about additional benefits, gets driven off by his shotgun wielding relatives, he turns to Linc Vail for assistance. Linc learns that the signatures on recent government checks that had been cashed in Willie's name were inconsistent with earlier ones and decides to investigate.

Episode 29

The Perfect Crime

Tue, Apr 24, 1962 30 mins

Will Moody is out of prison after an armed robbery and returns to the area. Odella Burns, who scarred Moody during the crime, is fearful and asks Vail for protection against any revenge from the felon.

Episode 30

Unwanted: Dead or Alive

Tue, May 1, 1962 30 mins

An ex-convict out on parole after twenty years in prison has only one desire in life - to get back behind bars.

Episode 31

The Stranger

Tue, May 8, 1962 30 mins

A dying convict hires a hunter to kill Lincoln Vail, the man who sent him to prison. The convict promises pay for the murder by revealing where the stolen loot from the heist is hidden once the contract killing is completed.

Episode 32

Hideout

Tue, May 15, 1962 30 mins

Episode 33

Price of Evil

Tue, May 22, 1962 30 mins

Linc's attempts to break up a drug smuggling ring are hampered by his mentor, a police officer who is accepting bribes from the gang.

Episode 34

A Day's Occupation

Tue, May 29, 1962 30 mins

Two bank robbers capture Linc and plan to force him to guide them around the police patrols closing in to capture them.

Episode 35

The Rookie

Tue, Jun 5, 1962 30 mins

While he's trying to break up a smuggler's ring, Linc is saddled with a college football star who's more interested in chasing women than crooks.

Episode 36

The Four Day Weekend

Tue, Jun 12, 1962 30 mins

Linc's plans for a long weekend in the Bahamas is dashed when his friend, Pete Hammond, a known poacher and scofflaw, is accused of murder. While Linc tries to poke holes in the witnesses' statements, another murder takes place.

Episode 37

Appointment with Death

Tue, Jun 19, 1962 30 mins

While guiding a biologist through the Everglades, Linc must contend with his flirtatious wife and a pair of Seminole Indians who resent their treatment by the scientist.

Episode 38

The Expedition

Tue, Jun 26, 1962 30 mins

A group of graduate students searching for a lost tribe of Seminoles run afoul of a member of the tribe who was banished for murder.

Episode 39

Havoc at Harmony House

Fri, Aug 24, 1962 26 mins

When Lincoln Vail spots a guest a local fishing lodge acting suspiciously, he calls in a description and learns that the man is wanted for a gangland killing in New York. When he goes to make the arrest, Linc discovers that the lodge has become a popular hideout for gangsters from The Empire State to use until the heat's off.