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39 Episodes 1957 - 1958
Episode 1
Fri, Oct 11, 195730 mins
Two smugglers are surprised by a harbor policeman, and shoot him down.Baxter gets to him, an old friend, in time to hear his last words, "Camphor Tubes". He soon realizes this is the method of hiding contraband the killers are using.
Episode 2
Fri, Oct 18, 195730 mins
A junkman and stevedore working in cahoots heist a crate of cameras and murder the night watchman. The perfect crime quickly unravels, however, as Captain Baxter and the Harbor Command connect the clues and close in.
Episode 3
Fri, Oct 25, 195730 mins
When Captain Hardesty fires an electrician for constantly picking fights with his fellow crew members, the enraged sailor threatens to blow the vessel into smithereens. Hardesty thought nothing of the threat until he discovered detailed plans to build a time bomb and reports his fears to Harbor Command. Captain Baxter and his men try to locate the crazed sailor before he can complete his bomb full of nitroglycerin.
Episode 4
Fri, Nov 1, 195730 mins
Baxter and his men are in a race against time when a derelict steals a jar containing a highly combustible chemical that will burst into flame upon contact with air or water.
Episode 5
Fri, Nov 8, 195730 mins
A protection racket shakes down local fishermen by destroying their day's catch by dousing it with gasoline if they won't or can't pay up.
Episode 6
Fri, Nov 15, 195730 mins
A well-known gangster and his men pressure watchmen at waterfront warehouses into keeping quiet while they loot various goods being stored there, by threatening them and their families.
Episode 7
Fri, Nov 22, 195730 mins
After being tipped off that a passenger on a liner docking that day will be shot, Baxter and his plain-clothes men stake out the pier and try to spot the would-be killer in time.
Episode 8
Fri, Nov 29, 195730 mins
When police break up a craps game, one of the arrested men is found to have two counterfeit $20 bills in his pocket. The Harbor Command and the Treasury Department track the money through seaman slated to leave port that day for Hong Kong to a pawnshop owner who claims to have never met the seaman.
Episode 9
Fri, Dec 6, 195730 mins
A young ex-con working as a longshoreman is made to look like the perpetrator of a safe cracking and the killer of a night watchman by the man who took him in when he left prison.
Episode 10
Fri, Dec 13, 195730 mins
A porter on a passenger liner kills a jewel smuggler in his cabin, then tries selling the gems in San Francisco pawn shops, until the smuggler's partner catches up with him.
Episode 11
Fri, Dec 20, 195730 mins
Two hoodlums steal a valuable ship stabilizer prototype and hold it hostage, demanding ransom from the ship builder.
Episode 12
Fri, Dec 27, 195730 mins
Band of smugglers are dumping their loot overboard just before docking, using homing devices to recover the loot from the bay.
Episode 13
Fri, Jan 3, 195830 mins
Investigative Reporter is spreading the word about crime boss Pete Saguras. Saguras is out to silence the Reporter.
Episode 14
Fri, Jan 10, 195830 mins
Old man and blind daughter witness a burglary. Perps kidnap the old man but he is diabetic & needs insulin.
Episode 15
Fri, Jan 17, 195830 mins
Embezzler completes his 5-year sentence and immediately returns to his former employer seeking revenge. After killing the man whose testimony put him away, he must flee from the Harbor Command.
Episode 16
Fri, Jan 24, 195830 mins
Three hoods who frequent Ma Sperling's Harbor Mission have been robbing local businesses. When one of them muffs a job the other 2 rub him out. When Ma finds some gems they stole, she may get rubbed out too.
Episode 17
Fri, Jan 31, 195830 mins
Two dental office workers steal gold from the dentist and attempt to smuggle it out of the country.
Episode 18
Fri, Feb 7, 195830 mins
A small-time shipping company also helps smuggle diamonds for a gangster. When the shipper-turned-smuggler's brother finds out, he threatens to call the police, and is killed in a fight. Guilty over the murder, he wants to confess, but the gangster threatens his girlfriend.
Episode 19
Fri, Feb 14, 195830 mins
When a dope pusher confronts his boss about his boss's addiction to their merchandise, the boss murders the pusher to keep the syndicate from learning that he is addicted. To complicate matters, his son is a Harbor Command Officer.
Episode 20
Fri, Feb 21, 195830 mins
Young Mexican boy who speaks only Spanish witnesses a murder and immediately abandons his father's boat and begins tailing the killer.
Episode 21
Fri, Feb 28, 195830 mins
An escaped convict holds his former cellmate and his wife hostage.
Episode 22
Fri, Mar 7, 195830 mins
Two men are found murdered each with a black pearl at the scene of the crime. Baxter believes two more men may meet the same fate unless he acts fast.
Episode 23
Fri, Mar 14, 195830 mins
A killer trying to flee the country forces his way onto a ship and takes a newlywed couple hostage.
Episode 24
Fri, Mar 21, 195830 mins
A woman is found dead in the harbor and her boat destroyed. As Baxter investigates, it becomes obvious that the woman's death was no accident.
Episode 25
Fri, Mar 28, 195830 mins
Old man tries to get himself whacked so that his wife can collect the insurance money.
Episode 26
Fri, Apr 4, 195830 mins
Captain Baxter and his men respond to report of a disabled fishing boat and discover that old Pop Cates has run out of gas for the third time in a month. Baxter learns that Pop's daughter has canceled her visit and the elderly fisherman is distraught because he has never seen his six-year-old grandson and fears the worst when the leaky vessel is spotted heading for the open ocean.
Episode 27
Fri, Apr 11, 195830 mins
Captain Baxter and Sergeant Warren investigate the murder of night watchman on one of San Francisco's piers. They discover a map covered with oriental writing and learn that it marked the spot where Japanese smugglers hid $100, 000 worth of gold bars just before World War II. When a merchant seaman is discovered fatally stabbed, the Harbor Command officers find a clue to the killer.
Episode 28
Fri, Apr 18, 195830 mins
Captain Baxter is asked to go undercover to follow a lead developed by a U.S. Treasury agent who murdered after gaining the information about a counterfeit ring. He travels to Los Angeles and attempts to follow counterfeit plates from one crook to another until they reach the head of the syndicate.
Episode 29
Fri, Apr 25, 195830 mins
Harbor Command and the San Francisco Fire Department match wits with an arsonist that causes a false alarm at one waterfront location, then sets another conflagration while the fire equipment is concentrated miles away from the real fire. Captain Baxter devises a plan to trap the firebug with fake bags of nitrate.
Episode 30
Fri, May 2, 195830 mins
When 4500 sailors from a U.S. Navy carrier task force return to port with six months of back pay in their pocket, they are ready for shore liberty - and the crooks and con men are waiting for them. The Harbor Patrol request assistance from the Navy's shore patrol when a sailor is stabbed in a bungled robbery and it appears that the crook are planning to dispose of the wounded man in the Pacific Ocean.
Episode 31
Fri, May 9, 195830 mins
The Harbor Patrol searches the waterfront for a seaman who is suffering from smallpox before he can inflect anyone else.
Episode 32
Fri, May 16, 195830 mins
Harbor Command investigates the report of a derelict fishing boat floating in the middle of San Francisco Harbor. They quickly discard their initial theory of insurance fraud when they discover human blood in the cockpit and a check for $10,000 missing from the captain's cabin. Captain Baxter and Sergeant Warren's investigation focuses on the individual crew members and learn the first mate was new to the vessel.
Episode 33
Fri, May 23, 195830 mins
A waterfront bum spots a young couple throwing a young man into the San Francisco harbor, but is afraid to report it to the police because he was supposed to be covering for the night watchman who was playing poker. When the tycoon's death is reported in the newspaper, the watchman and the bum use the couple's license plate to trace the murderers and blackmail them. Meanwhile the harbor command investigates the murder.
Episode 34
Fri, May 30, 195830 mins
A teenage girl sneaks out of her father's house for an assignation with an older man. While the couple are making out, an armed robber sneaks up beside their car and kills the young man when he refuses to give the crook his wallet. Fearing her father will punish her for seeing the young man over his objections, the teenager refuses to assist the Harbor Command with their investigation. Listening to the police radio band, the crooks learn the girl's identity and determine to eliminate the witness before she changes her mind.
Episode 35
Fri, Jun 6, 195830 mins
Captain Baxter receives a tip that a gang of lobster smugglers might be behind the murder of an ex-convict found floating in San Francisco Bay. After discussing the matter with state fishing personnel, Baxter decides he's searching for bigger game - a deported criminal seeking to reenter the country illegally on board a small fishing boat.
Episode 36
Fri, Jun 13, 195830 mins
A recently released convict won't forget that it was Baxter that had him sent up, and now determined to exact revenge with a high powered rifle he steals from a gunsmith's shop. He taunts Captain Baxter with phone calls to his office, takes a shot at him at his apartment, and follows him to a highly public meeting, concealing the gun in a brief case.
Episode 37
Fri, Jun 20, 195830 mins
Captain Baxter and Sergeant Warren respond to a call from a hotel clerk who states he was beaten by a boarder, who had also ruined his bed with repeated knife thrusts. The Harbor Patrol learns that the perpetrator was Leon Faulkner, a former convict recently released from prison who harbored a grudge against the psychiatrist who testified against him at the convict's trial ten years earlier.
Episode 38
Fri, Jun 27, 195830 mins
When Captain Baxter learns a freighter from a communist country that docks in San Francisco to make emergency repairs he decides to pay the ship's captain a visit. He discovers that a famous scientist used the visit to seek asylum in the United States. Fearing the police and the communist operatives who are pursuing him, the scientist desperately tries to reach a street mission where he had been advised to seek sanctuary. Baxter and his men try to reach the scientist before he comes to harm.
Episode 39
Fri, Jul 4, 195830 mins
Two armed robbers, one of whom was wounded during a shootout with a watchman, hijack a San Francisco Bay water taxi and force the passengers to hide them on a yacht in the marina. Fearing for the safety of the hostages, Captain Baxter masquerades as the vessels owner so he can climb aboard to affect a rescue.