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Man Against Crime

  • 1949-1954
  • 5 seasons
  • CBS
  • Action & Adventure, Drama, Suspense

Mike Barnett is a bright and tough private detective in New York.

Season 5 Episode Guide

38 Episodes 1953 - 1954

Episode 1

Death Wears Lead Shoes: Part 1

Sun, Oct 11, 1953

Episode 2

Death Wears Lead Shoes: Part 2

Sun, Oct 18, 1953

Episode 3

Three Cents Worth of Murder

Sun, Oct 25, 1953

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Episode 4

The Time Keepers

Sun, Nov 1, 1953

Episode 5

Murder in the Rough

Sun, Nov 8, 1953

Mike is invited to play in a pro/am golf championship. While there a seemingly impossible murder takes place. Mike begins to investigate and worry about his own safety.

Episode 6

Main Bout Is Murder

Sun, Nov 15, 1953

A boxing trainer calls Barnett in because he has concerns about his boxers performance, and suspects the fight be fixed. As Barnett investigates he discovers things are worse than anyone thought, and Barnett's own life could be in danger.

Episode 7

Thirty Dimes

Sun, Nov 22, 1953

Chris, a former POW who has been returned from Korea, searches for an informer who betrayed him. The man is known only as Judas. Mike has to find Chris before he commits murder.

Episode 8

Cube Root of Evil

Sun, Nov 29, 1953

A drunken conventioneer looking for "a good time" gets lured to a private party with the promise of a high-takes dice game, but winds up getting beaten up and robbed.

Episode 9

Murder Mountain

Sun, Dec 6, 1953

Barnett's car breaks down near an old hotel. Deciding to stay the night he discovers things are not as expected, and despite being on holiday becomes dragged into a very strange situation.

Episode 10

A Very Dead Ringer

Sun, Dec 13, 1953

Episode 11

Petite Larceny

Sun, Dec 20, 1953 27 mins

Barnett acting as a store detective discovers a rash of thefts from the staff and customers within the store. Because the thefts all occurred in and around the toy department, Barnett suspects a child must be somehow involved.

Episode 12

Going, Going Gone

Sun, Dec 27, 1953

Episode 13

Don't Feed the Animals

Sun, Jan 3, 1954

Episode 14

Danger for Duffy

Sun, Jan 10, 1954

Episode 15

Terror 12 Stories High

Sun, Jan 17, 1954

Episode 16

Holler Uncle

Sun, Jan 24, 1954

Episode 17

Beauty and the Beasts

Sun, Jan 31, 1954

While investigating a suspicious insurance claim regarding stolen jewelry, Mike discovers that a local beauty parlor is connected with several such crimes that take place when the victim is having a complete makeover.

Episode 18

Little Boy Blues

Sun, Feb 7, 1954

Episode 19

Target with Two T's

Sun, Feb 14, 1954

Episode 20

Mike's Missing Marbles

Sun, Feb 21, 1954

Episode 21

U. F. O.

Sun, Feb 28, 1954

Episode 22

Will o' the Wisp

Sun, Mar 7, 1954

Episode 23

Rigged for Murder

Sun, Mar 14, 1954

Episode 24

Hit and Run

Sun, Mar 21, 1954

Episode 25

Canary Yellow

Sun, Mar 28, 1954

Episode 26

The Plugged Shilling

Sat, Apr 3, 1954

Episode 27

The Chinese Dolls

Sat, Apr 10, 1954

Episode 28

Barometer Falling

Sun, Apr 18, 1954

Episode 29

The Man from Dannemora

Sun, Apr 25, 1954

Episode 30

The Man in the Iron Car

Sun, May 2, 1954

Episode 31

Sunset Farm

Sun, May 9, 1954 30 mins

Episode 32

Where's Mimi?

Sun, May 16, 1954

Episode 33

Hot as Three Pistols

Sun, May 23, 1954

Episode 34

Rumble in the Streets - Part 1

Sun, May 30, 1954

Episode 35

The Young Hoods

Sun, Jun 6, 1954

Episode 36

Next to Closing

Sun, Jun 13, 1954

Episode 37

No Place to Hide

Sun, Jun 20, 1954 26 mins

Mike is hired by a his fashion model friend after a fellow model is murdered in her apartment and she recognized the suspect when he left her building...more importantly, the murder suspect recognized her.

Episode 38

Connecticut State Police

Sun, Jun 27, 1954 26 mins

Mike Barnett focuses on the Connecticut State Police as they track two armed and dangerous bank robbers through the forests in the western part of the state. Barnett only appears in the beginning, ending and as the narrator.

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