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39 Episodes 1957 - 1959
Episode 1
Thu, Sep 19, 195730 mins
A publicist calls the Las Vegas police to claim an entertainer he represents has been kidnapped. Blake and Elder's investigation reveals a link between the abduction and a bank robbery.
Episode 2
Sun, Sep 15, 195730 mins
Rod tries to capture a murderous robber through his ex-wife, a Las Vegas chorus girl.
Episode 3
Sun, Sep 22, 195730 mins
When a gangster is arrested for attacking his ex-wife with a wrench, he pleads insanity. Blake works to prove that the thug is competent to stand trail and intended to maim his former spouse.
Episode 4
Sun, Dec 1, 195730 mins
The captain of a sightseeing boat reports a passenger, who had been acting oddly after spotting a couple on the dock, has disappeared during a tour of Lake Mead.
Episode 8
Fri, Jan 3, 195830 mins
An actress driving on a remote Nevada highway is chased by a motorcyclist pretending to be a police officer. She wrecks her vehicle and, between the time of the accident and the ambulance's arrival, her valuable jewelry is stolen. Her husband accuses the police officer who first of arrived at the scene of the theft.
Episode 9
Sun, Jan 12, 195830 mins
Blake investigates when a Hoover Dam worker irrationally flees a plainclothes detective and falls to his death.
Episode 10
Sun, Jan 19, 195830 mins
A fired employee harbors a grudge against a factory owner and trails them to a remote Nevada state park where he holds the man's wife and daughter prisoner while his accomplice collects money to ransom them. Blake and Sheriff Elder learn the husband is cashing checks all over Las Vegas and investigate the unusual financial transactions.
Episode 11
Sun, Jan 26, 195830 mins
A booby-trap critically injures a replacement driver during a speedboat's shakedown run just before a high-stakes race. Ben Ericson, the regular driver, had several enemies - the owner of one of the other boats in the race who he ran over in a earlier event and his current boss with whose wife he is not-so-secretly having an affair.
Episode 12
Sun, Feb 23, 195830 mins
The police investigate a mysterious plane crash in the Nevada desert. The occupants have no identification and the plane has been stripped of most of its markings. Blake discovers that one man survived the wreck and is desperately trying to raise funds to cover the money he and his partner embezzled from his employers before the the missing funds were discovered.
Episode 13
Sun, Feb 9, 195830 mins
An ex-convict hopes to make one last score before he retires and makes plans with an expert mechanic to rig a bomb to use when robbing a Western Union office. The parolee pulls off the robbery, but is double-crossed by his partner and dies when the bomb prematurely explodes. Blake searches for the loot while the dead man's wife goes gunning for her husband's murderous partner.
Episode 14
Sun, Feb 16, 195830 mins
Blake is asked to investigate a mysterious car fire outside of Las Vegas. He learns that the fire was started with kerosene and the driver had a head wound on the back of his head, rather than the front as would be expected after a crash. Blake learns that the dead man was tried for embezzlement, but found not guilty and a woman who testified on his behalf lived at a ranch only a few miles from the crash site.
Episode 15
Sun, Dec 15, 195730 mins
A gang of thieves stealing scrap metal, copper wire and steel rails plaguing the copper mines near Ely, Nevada. Blake goes undercover to find the thieves, but first must butt heads with the mine foreman who was fired from his old job as a railroad detective for brutality.
Episode 16
Sun, Dec 22, 195730 mins
The federal government asks for Blake's assistance finding evidence to defend a wrongful death lawsuit filed against the United States when a blind woman is trampled to death by a stampeding her of cattle that Shoshone Indians couldn't control. At the same time, one of the Indians asks Blake's help finding his father, who went missing after the stampede. Blake turns up evidence that the stampede and the old man's disappearance were part of the same plot.
Episode 17
Sun, Dec 29, 195730 mins
Sheriff Elder spots a beautiful blonde matching the description of a notorious con artist who preys on businessmen throughout the country. Blake goes undercover to gather evidence against the grifter, but his plans hit a snag when one of the woman's former marks shows up in Las Vegas with plans of renewing their acquaintance.
Episode 18
Sun, Apr 13, 195830 mins
Episode 19
Sat, Mar 1, 195830 mins
The sheriff of Tonopah reports an unusual kidnapping - the body of a Chinese woman the local undertaker had kept in storage for twenty years had been stolen and held for ransom. Blake traces the movements of the casket to San Francisco's Chinatown were he goes undercover to retrieve the body and bring the bodysnatchers to justice.
Episode 20
Sat, Mar 15, 195830 mins
Blake is asked to assist the FBI investigate the theft of a payroll bound for Nellis Air Force Base. It seems that the trio of crooks have committed the perfect crime until Blake's legwork garners some small clues - a pair of fake glasses, two observant witnesses and two cans of peaches - that lead to the identification of the suspects.
Episode 23
Sun, May 11, 195830 mins
In order to get a line on an underworld racket that provides transportation and posh hideouts for criminals on the lam, Rod Blake poses as a bank robber with plenty of money to spend to avoid capture. His pretty blonde partner is recognized as a policewoman, placing both Blake and the female detective in peril.
Episode 24
Sun, Feb 16, 195830 mins
The Nevada state and Las Vegas city police are asked to assist a truck company's internal investigation when a series of hijacking occur that leaves the drivers seriously injured. Blake goes undercover as a long-haul trucker and narrows the suspects to the denizens of a roadside café where a pretty waitress knows more than she lets on.
Episode 26
Sun, Apr 6, 195830 mins
A storekeeper with a beautiful daughter is forced to relocate to an unsavory neighborhood beside the railroad tracks when business becomes poor. Soon after moving in, the Hendersons are beset by prowlers breaking into the house and sending threatening letters to their daughter. Sheriff Henderson investigates a ne'er-do-well neighbor and hobos traveling the tracks, but Blake is inclined to look elsewhere for the perpetrator.
Episode 27
Sat, Mar 8, 195830 mins
Blake is called in to investigate when the parents of a pretty college student are reported missing. Although the girl and her fiancé pretend to cooperate, Blake discovers that the parents home has been swept clean of fingerprints, the student's birth certificate was forged and an ex-con with a note from her father is found dead in the campus pond.
Episode 28
Sun, Apr 20, 195830 mins
Blake is called to the scene when a woman is found dead of gas inhalation and discovers a cloud of suspects - a jilted lifeguard, a jealous disc jockey, a resentful ex-roommate and a blackmail victim. A boiling pot of soup and a stick of butter provide sufficient clues for the state trooper to arrest the guilty party.
Episode 29
Fri, Mar 22, 195730 mins
A case of mistaken identity after a fatal car wreck sets in motion a series of attempted murders. Believing her son dead, Virginia Syckles shoots Ogden Karnes, the man she blames for her husband's death in a mine he owned. Her son, Jamie, is Karnes sole heir and when the old man seems to be recovering from his wounds, decides to finish the job with the help of his gold-digging girlfriend.
Episode 30
Fri, Mar 29, 195730 mins
Fishermen, hunters and picnickers are plagued by a sniper who takes potshots to frighten them away from Blue Lake. When one of the shots results in a fatal automobile accident, Lieutenant Blake is called in to arrest the killer. His investigation takes him into a remote area and a strange family trying to protect the youngest member who can speak a word.
Episode 31
Wed, Sep 10, 195830 mins
Captain Horton requests Rod's assistance when a Nevada miner is found drowned in San Francisco Bay. Blake becomes suspicious when the dead man's lungs are found to be full of fresh water and his investigation focuses on three suspects - the miner's beautiful widow and the couple who grubstaked his mining operations.
Episode 32
Sun, Jun 22, 195830 mins
Blake investigates when a man is killed interrupting a burglary. His investigation shows that burglary fits into a pattern of other crimes with the link being a home-repair company. Blake goes undercover as a carpenter to investigate the company's personnel.
Episode 34
Sun, Apr 27, 195830 mins
After selling his Kansas farm, an old man hires a shady private eye to find his long-lost niece who had left the Midwest to join a carnival five years earlier. The missing persons case becomes a murder investigation when the detective is found murdered in a Las Vegas alley and the only thing missing from his personal effects is the picture of the missing girl.
Episode 35
Sun, May 4, 195830 mins
The death of a honeymooning couple in a forest fire is considered a tragic accident by the police until their expensive camera, fishing tackle and hunting rifle show up in pawn shops throughout northern Nevada. Lieutenant Blake and Sheriff Anderson go undercover to locate the culprits and nearly fall victim to a fire set by arsonists.
Episode 37
Sun, May 18, 195830 mins
A family of crooks plans to hijack appliances bound for a new housing development.
Episode 38
Mon, Aug 18, 195830 mins
Blake is asked to investigate the disappearance of Constance Trayles husband, but the missing person's search turns into a murder investigation when the man is found to have suffocated to death in his company's vault. Circumstantial evidence points to the dead man's business partner, but the state trooper begins to wonder if the businessman hasn't been framed for the crime.
Episode 39
Sun, Jun 1, 195830 mins
A father trying to prevent his daughter's wedding, sends a man to prevent their elopement in Reno.
Episode 40
Mon, Aug 25, 195830 mins
Blake investigates an insurance man's claims that a con artist swindled him out of $1600. When the swindler is found in his trunk shot through the heart, Blake investigations shows that the insurance agent, his pretty wife, the con artist's apartment manager and her homely daughter all had reasons for killing him and the firepower to pull it off.
Episode 41
Thu, Feb 26, 195930 mins
An mental patient suffering from echo psychosis escapes from a mental asylum and returns to Virginia City intent on recreating a famous murder that occurred nearly one hundred years earlier when his grandfather threw a beautiful actress down a mine shaft. Coincidentally, the actress' granddaughter is directing a summer stock company in Virginia City and could be the escapee's next victim.
Episode 42
Thu, Feb 12, 195930 mins
The arrest of a con-artist renews interest in an unsolved theft of negotiable bonds that sends Blake in pursuit of a beautiful blonde secretary, Carol Ward. In Honolulu, Blake goes undercover to smoke out the missing bonds and the woman's equally missing partner only to discover, too late, that she was double-crossing the real thief who had followed Blake and Ward to Hawaii to retrieve the stolen documents.
Episode 44
Thu, Jan 22, 195930 mins
Blake investigates a lumber mill where a series of deadly accidents have caused the owner to fear a saboteur was at work. His work is complicated by the attention he is receiving from the mill owner's beautiful daughter which is resented by nearly all of the unmarried men working in the yard. Blake finally gets a break when his cover is blown and one of the workers tries to kill him.
Episode 45
Mon, Jul 14, 195830 mins
When a practical joker is found murdered in a guest ranch's exercise room, Lt. Blake and Sheriff Anderson investigate and discover a cloud of suspects, ranging from a dazed former wrestler once tried for manslaughter, a small town businessman being blackmailed by the murdered man and the dead man's wife, a criminal living under an assumed name.
Episode 46
Mon, Jul 21, 195830 mins
Blake's investigation of a bank robbery in which a deputy sheriff was killed leads to an old friend who makes bullet-proof vests.
Episode 47
Mon, Jul 28, 195830 mins
After arresting Bob Evans for speeding, a sheriff's deputy discovers an expensive stolen bracelet in the car's glove compartment. The young man claims to have purchased the jewelry from a man named "Smith" and planned to give it as a present to his fiancée. Evans' alibi goes up in smoke when the woman who introduced him to the jewelry salesman refuses to back his story.
Episode 52
Mon, Sep 1, 195830 mins
Blake goes undercover to assist an insurance detective investigating a series of burglaries occurring in the proximity of town's where a traveling carnival is appearing. Blake's task becomes more difficult when the insurance man is murdered and he has no backup when he finds himself trapped in wagon with a angry, hungry lion.