Saints and Sinners
Nick Alexander works for the New York Bulletin as an investigative reporter and is willing to go to great lengths for a story. His colleagues are supportive and take the place of any family or social life.
- 1962-1963
- 1 season
- NBC
- Drama
Nick Alexander works for the New York Bulletin as an investigative reporter and is willing to go to great lengths for a story. His colleagues are supportive and take the place of any family or social life.
Season 1 Episode Guide
18 Episodes 1962 - 1963
Episode 1
Dear George, the Siamese Cat Is Missing
Mon, Sep 17, 1962 60 mins
A distraught woman arrives at the Bulletin's offices late on a Saturday afternoon wanting to insert an advertisement in the Personal column - a coded message to the kidnappers of her husband.
Episode 2
All the Hard Young Men
Mon, Sep 24, 1962 60 mins
When a young student is involved in apprehending a criminal, he finds himself at the center of a media circus - which puts his life in danger.
Episode 3
The Man on the Rim
Mon, Sep 24, 1962 60 mins
A veteran reporter with a drink problem is determined to nail a crooked union leader.
Episode 4
Judgement in Jazz Alley
Mon, Oct 8, 1962 60 mins
A disreputable lawyer implies that a famous judge is involved in corruption, and Nick must investigate.
Episode 5
Source of Information
Mon, Oct 15, 1962 60 mins
Nick becomes very impressed with a dying woman.
Episode 6
Three Columns of Anger
Mon, Oct 22, 1962 60 mins
When a soldier gets attacked in the street, the story proves to be more complicated than it appears to be.
Episode 7
Servant in the House of My Party
Mon, Nov 5, 1962 60 mins
Nick, covering his first political convention, gets involved in the campaigning of a veteran senator.
Episode 8
Daddy's Girl
Mon, Nov 12, 1962 60 mins
Nick is required to write a routine profile of an up-and-coming actress. It proves anything but a routine assignment.
Episode 9
Luscious Lois
Mon, Nov 19, 1962 60 mins
An old World War II plane is found in the desert, with the name "Luscious Lois" inscribed on its side. But who was - or is - she?
Episode 10
A Shame for the Diamond Wedding
Mon, Nov 26, 1962 60 mins
About to celebrate their 75th wedding anniversary, an elderly couple announce plans for divorce.
Episode 11
Judith Was a Lady
Mon, Dec 3, 1962 60 mins
The "Bulletin" finds itself facing a million-dollar lawsuit after a middle-aged housewife is killed (accident? murder?) by her gardener and their account of the case hints that he was the dead woman's lover.
Episode 12
A Night of Horns and Bells
Mon, Dec 24, 1962 60 mins
It's New Year's Eve on a New York City newspaper, and a young and inexperienced reporter finds himself in charge of the skeleton crew at the city room with a group of misfit writers and oddballs--such as the pet columnist--who are suddenly forced to come together to get the night edition out.
Episode 13
Taste of Evil
Mon, Dec 31, 1962 60 mins
A cop-killer claims he was the victim of police brutality.
Episode 14
The Home-Coming Bit
Mon, Jan 7, 1963 60 mins
The Bulletin recalls reporter Lizzie Hogan from her DC based assignment to take up an undercover role as a newly released prison parolee in New York. There, with the agreement and support of the local parole service, she will shadow a real parolee, Eadie Donelli, gain her trust, investigate her life circumstances, and write a feature about it. The Bulletin wants a story, the parole service want analysis into why so many female parolees end up back behind bars. Both Hogan and Donelli have to prove themselves to others, Donelli, diagnosed as a manic depressive, has to repair relations with her parents and brother whilst bonding again as a widowed mother with her young child. Hogan had become too pally with the Washington political crowd and her editors believed it was lowering the quality of her reports. Also stepping into the situation is Ray, a bartender with unknown background who may or may not offer Eadie the love she psychologically craves..
Episode 15
Slug It, Miss Joyous
Mon, Jan 14, 1963 60 mins
Nick receives a call from a Beauty contest winner he dubbed "Miss Joyous" in a column years ago, sounding suicidal.He spends the day talking to her family and friends trying to locate her, and piecing together her life story. Meanwhile, she's had a falling out with her dangerous, married lover.
Episode 16
The Year Joan Crawford Won the Oscar
Mon, Jan 21, 1963 60 mins
A famous entertainer inadvertently shoots a hotel bellhop during a drunken game. But when Nick investigates, he finds the bellhop reluctant to talk.
Episode 17
New Lead Berlin
Mon, Jan 28, 1963 60 mins
A girl reporter goes to Berlin with an older man,a correspondent once famous for his exposé of the Nazis before World War Two. Now twenty years later, his still living associates apparently believe he betrayed them to the Gestapo and fled. Once highly impressed with him, her faith is shaken as she presses for the truth.
Episode 18
Ten Days for a Shirt-Tail
Mon, Feb 4, 1963 60 mins
Nick spends ten days in jail when he refuses to name his sources.