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50 Episodes 1951 - 1952
Episode 1
Thu, Sep 6, 195130 mins
A husband flees from home to escape his mother-in-law. While in Vegas, he falls for a check kiting scheme.
Episode 2
Thu, Sep 13, 195130 mins
Episode 3
Thu, Sep 20, 195130 mins
Likable Jim Edwards moves to the suburban town of Fairview and purchases a run-down property at a bargain price through local Realtor Mary Higgins. Mary develops a fondness for Jim and he evokes sympathy from the townspeople because of his pronounced limp. However, his leg apparently heals after being repeatedly soaked in a mineral spring located on the property. When word of the "miracle" cure gets out, a bidding war for Jim's property begins between a group of local businessmen and two health resort developers from New York. Mary's life is endangered when she accidentally discovers that things are not always as they seem and that Jim and the "developers" are actually ruthless con artists who have set out to defraud the town.
Episode 4
Thu, Sep 27, 195130 mins
Episode 5
Thu, Oct 4, 195130 mins
A recently released convict demands money from a man he has tricked into believing he has accidentally shot another man while hunting raccoons.
Episode 6
Thu, Oct 11, 195130 mins
Captain Braddock's former girlfriend Mary comes to ask him to assist her husband Pat, an insurance investigator. A Mr. Xavier has had a 5 warehouse fires in 3 years without finding arson. Braddock decides to lend a hand in the latest case.
Episode 7
Thu, Oct 18, 195130 mins
Episode 8
Thu, Oct 25, 195130 mins
A trio of con artists con a jeweler into buying back a Marie Antoinette emerald for twice the retail price.
Episode 9
Fri, Nov 2, 195130 mins
Believing he has purchased counterfeit currency, a businessman turns himself in to Braddock. Of course, Braddock will explain to him how he has actually been snookered.
Episode 10
Fri, Nov 9, 195130 mins
A shyster lawyer preys upon both frightened natural mothers and couples eager to adopt.
Episode 11
Thu, Nov 15, 195130 mins
An old mining engineer swindles a mining company by lacing its samples with gold chloride. Just how he pulled it off is a mystery. The police set up a sting and the friendly old guy takes the bait.
Episode 12
Thu, Nov 22, 195130 mins
A woman, who feels that her husband is losing interest in her, goes to a man who claims he can make her look young again. He is a phony and the result is tragic.
Episode 13
Thu, Nov 29, 195130 mins
There are odd and surprising loopholes in many trusted transactions and the unscrupulous can learn to profitably exploit this simple fact.
Episode 14
Thu, Dec 6, 195130 mins
Episode 15
Thu, Dec 13, 195130 mins
Episode 16
Thu, Dec 20, 195130 mins
Con-man poses as a rancher trying to save his cattle which have been condemned by the Mexican government.
Episode 17
Thu, Dec 27, 195130 mins
A wealthy band leader is pulled into an elaborate confidence scheme involving a supposed boxer on the take and a heavily wagered prize fight.
Episode 18
Thu, Jan 3, 195230 mins
A young couple buys a used car from a slick salesman, but soon afterwards the car's brakes fail, and the resulting accident nearly causes their death. Capt. Braddock begins to suspect that this "accident" was more the result of criminal negligence than happenstance, and sets out to prove it.
Episode 19
Thu, Jan 10, 195230 mins
Captain Braddock engineers a sting on a Lonely Hearts racket.
Episode 20
Thu, Jan 17, 195230 mins
Episode 21
Thu, Jan 24, 195230 mins
In immigrant tailor is severely beaten by a brutal loan shark. His terrified family turns to Capt. Braddock for help.
Episode 22
Thu, Jan 31, 195230 mins
Episode 23
Thu, Feb 7, 195230 mins
Woman cons her way into babysitting a couple's baby and home for 2 weeks. Her primary angle is to use the baby to extort an aging adulterer. This would have been successful had she not also used the couple's furniture in a secondary angle.
Episode 24
Thu, Feb 14, 195230 mins
An actor departing for a European vacation gets taken in by a father-daughter duo running a foreign currency con.
Episode 25
Thu, Feb 21, 195230 mins
Recently widowed young mother Lillian Lester is forced to return to work, but she is unable to afford the asking price of an established day-care center. Based upon a newspaper advertisement, she naively entrusts 3-year old Sandy to an unsafe and overcrowded facility operated by larcenous Miss Ogden and her neglectful "assistant", Miss Vera. When the unwatched Sandy is injured in a fall at the center, Sandy's grandparents attempt to gain custody of the girl by charging Lillian with neglect. Domestic worker Hetty Wilson learns of the custody action and regards the charges against Lillian as unjust. Hetty reports the unsafe conditions at the day-care center to Captain Braddock, prompting an investigation by the Department of Social Welfare. The findings convince Captain Braddock and the investigator to offer testimony on Lillian's behalf at the custody hearing.
Episode 26
Thu, Feb 28, 195230 mins
An ex-convict's sudden interest in the details of a deceased man's life arouses the interest of Capt. Braddock, who believes that the man's former cellmate, an artist who is now a washed-up alcoholic, may know the motive for the ex-con's suspicious actions.
Episode 27
Thu, Mar 6, 195230 mins
Episode 28
Thu, Mar 13, 195230 mins
Fake divorce lawyer bilks couple while they are going through a rough time in their marriage.
Episode 29
Tue, Mar 25, 195230 mins
A wealthy young widow begins to date a suave European man. A mutual friend tells her that the European has trouble clearing his fortune with customs, so he needs a certain amount of money. She makes a large loan to the European man, keeping his valuable stamp collection as collateral. Eventually, the European and his collaborators disappear, leaving the young widow to discover that her boyfriend was a fraud, and the stamp collection is almost worthless.
Episode 30
Thu, Mar 27, 195230 mins
The Racket Squad aids farmers who were swindled.
Episode 31
Thu, Apr 3, 195230 mins
Episode 32
Thu, Apr 10, 195230 mins
Episode 33
Thu, Apr 17, 195230 mins
A cohort of thieves robs homes in wealthy neighborhoods when the owners are on vacation.
Episode 34
Thu, Apr 24, 195230 mins
Johnny is studying engineering in college. But what he really wants to do with his life is be a songwriter. He sends out his songs to hundreds of publishing companies. All of which turn him down. Except for one that asks him for a $50 fee.
Episode 35
Thu, May 1, 195230 mins
Capt. Braddock recalls what happened when multiple con artists targeted each other while stuck in a hotel lobby.
Episode 36
Thu, May 8, 195230 mins
Local businessmen take instantly to John Riley, a geologist who's moving to town from Cleveland. They do their research and find he's a geologist who's made a fortune in locating oil deposits. Simply by acting like a low-key businessman, Riley has the town's leaders happily forking over $100,000 to start drilling on his next well. The investors find out too late that their man is only passing himself off as a real geologist named John Riley.
Episode 37
Thu, May 15, 195230 mins
Episode 38
Thu, May 22, 195230 mins
Episode 39
Thu, May 29, 195230 mins
Braddock recounts the story of a legendary ponzi scheme artist from a generation earlier.
Episode 40
Thu, Jun 5, 195230 mins
Episode 41
Thu, Jun 12, 195230 mins
Feeling she's always in the way living with her son's family, an old widow moves into a seemingly warm and welcoming boarding home, but when the landlady swindles her out of her money, the atmosphere changes fast.
Episode 42
Thu, Jun 19, 195230 mins
Episode 43
Thu, Jun 26, 195230 mins
A bar owner leads a group of con artists who target servicemen. Braddock recounts the case of a soldier whose entire $1800 severance check was fleeced by the group.
Episode 44
Thu, Jul 3, 195230 mins
An elderly gambler has finally hit the big time - she holds a winning lottery ticket. However, a stranger suddenly inserts himself into the woman's life, and when the winning ticket turns up missing, the Racket Squad is called in to investigate.
Episode 45
Thu, Jul 17, 195230 mins
Episode 46
Thu, Jul 31, 1952
In order to prevent a murder, small-time crook Smiley Gibbons squeals on a major gangster who's running a gambling ring, thereby putting his own life in danger.
Episode 47
Thu, Aug 7, 195230 mins
Two con artists hit upon an ingenious scheme: they pose as city Fire Marshals and conduct phony inspections of local businesses, fining the owners for nonexistent "violations" and pocketing the money.
Episode 48
Thu, Aug 14, 195230 mins
A lowly clerk is forced to participate in a phony numbers racket by submitting fake stock quotes.
Episode 49
Thu, Aug 21, 195230 mins
A husband thinks his wife is being taken by a genealogical professional but is really being set up as the mark of a con game.
Episode 50
Thu, Aug 28, 195230 mins
The con artist Stitch discovers two weak spots in the character of the eccentric millionaire Titus Meely: a greed for earning lots of money with small investments and a passion for clairvoyance. Stitch gives himself out as being a famous expert in clairvoyance, who has invented an apparatus for projecting the inner visions of clairvoyants on a film screen. He persuades Meely to invest a huge sum of money in a project, where a clairvoyant will project information for new, epoch-making inventions on a screen.