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22 Episodes 1959 - 1959
Episode 1
Thu, Jan 1, 195930 mins
A hermit is accused of murdering a man and a woman, but Blake believe the man was framed.
Episode 2
Thu, Jan 8, 195930 mins
When a woman is electrocuted in an abandoned mine, Blake determines that the "accident" was really murder and suspects the mine's owner had the best motive.
Episode 3
Thu, Jan 15, 195930 mins
The former girlfriend of a rising comedian refuses to take being dumped lightly and threatens to provide her juicy story to the newspaper gossip columnists. She then threatens a chorus girl whom she accuses of trying to replace her. When the gold digger is found strangled to death in her car, Blake must check his two primary suspects shaky alibis.
Episode 4
Tue, Mar 24, 195930 mins
The owner of a curio shop contacts Rod Blake when he discovers a valuable necklace hidden in an antique baby carriage outside his shop. Blake soon learns that necklace was stolen from a Carson City museum and the thief, a beautiful ex-convict, was found murdered in the desert. Blake sets a trap for the thief's partner.
Episode 5
Thu, Jan 29, 195930 mins
Lt. Blake responds to a desperate request for help from Piute Indians in a remote valley. He discovers a family of hermits, crazed by atomic tests in the desert nearby, believe that Armageddon is approaching and they have been appointed to cleanse the land prior to the Lord's arrival - meaning killing anyone and everyone they see. Blake tries to end the bloodshed before more men and women die.
Episode 7
Thu, Apr 16, 195930 mins
Rod Blake travels to Mexico to investigate the murder of a Reno couple who were vacationing south of the border. His favorite hunting guide, a young Indian man, confessed to the crime to protect is wife who was also accused . When Blake finds a sharp rock covered with blood at the scene of the crime and learns that a hotel guest was treated for a cut foot, he focuses his investigation on the other American couple staying at the local hotel.
Episode 8
Thu, Feb 19, 195930 mins
A holdup gang steals the car of Frank DeVol who is only concerned about getting the priceless Stradivarius violin that lay in the back seat of the car. The police, though, are just as interested in capturing the murderous robbers who used the popular bandleader's vehicle as a getaway car after a murderous holdup. Blake and Anderson persuade DeVol to use the missing violin as bait to lure the gang out of hiding.
Episode 9
Thu, Apr 2, 195930 mins
A drifter sleeping in a hayloft is awaken when he hears two thugs beat an old farmer to death. After fleeing the scene, he reads that the wrong man was arrested for the crime and sends a note to the local newspaper with information that exonerates the accused neighbor. Blake and the local police search for the informant, but the two killers find the witness to their crime first and strangle him. Now the police have to contend with a double-homicide with little to assist their investigation.
Episode 10
Tue, Mar 3, 195930 mins
After the death of a wealthy rancher, Katherine Baker Easton arrives in Reno claiming to be the dead man's estranged wife. The rancher's mother believes that Katherine is trying to perpetrate a hoax, but when Easton's son is shot in the back and another bullet is blasted into the woman's car Blake searches for evidence that one of the rancher's heirs believes Katherine's story and doesn't want anyone else getting a cut of inheritance.
Episode 11
Tue, Mar 10, 195930 mins
An old friend of Rod's, now a sheriff in Arizona, asks him to go undercover to investigate a rancher and his workforce of ex-convicts for running a protection racket and organizing a crime wave against the rural county's citizenry. Rod discovers that the rancher's son, recently returned from college, is the driving force behind the criminal activities, but the lawman may not live long enough to file his report.
Episode 12
Tue, Mar 17, 195930 mins
While en route to a coin collectors' convention at Lake Tahoe, a numismatist has his valuable collection stolen by a pretty blackjack dealer and her sticky-fingered boyfriend. Blake's idea to place an advertisement offering a reward for the coins safe return causes the two thieves to have a falling out.
Episode 13
Thu, May 7, 195930 mins
Newspaper editors in San Francisco are outraged when a Nevada coroner's inquest finds a mobster killed a reporter investigating his rackets in self-defense. Blake agrees to help the Bay area police set a trap to break up the organized crime ring and bring the killer to justice.
Episode 14
Thu, May 21, 195930 mins
A petty thief is caught by a beautiful woman while ransacking a guest room in a Lake Tahoe resort. She threatens to call the police unless the crook agrees to murder her estranged lover. The thief counters that shooting men isn't his line, but offers to find a suitable man for the job and asks Lt. Rod Blake to pose as the killer-for-hire.
Episode 15
Thu, Apr 9, 195930 mins
Blake and Anderson investigate a serial killer preying on pretty waitresses that work in Reno's nightclubs. Their only lead is a choker that turns up in a skid row pawnshop that belonged to the latest victim. Based on the description provided by the pawnshop owner, Blake surmises that the murderer may be living in Reno's hobo jungle.
Episode 17
Thu, Apr 23, 195930 mins
Blake pursues a hipster wanted for murder. The trail leads to a national forest where the killer wants to eliminate the husband of his former girlfriend, but a lightning strike and resultant forest fire causes the murderer to flee before the can carry out his revenge. To protect the smokejumpers fighting the blaze, Blaze risks parachuting into the vicinity to capture his quarry.
Episode 18
Thu, Apr 30, 195930 mins
Blake investigates when a truck striking an abandoned mansion outside Reno cause a wall to collapse - and a skeleton to be revealed. Blake must sift through the clues revealed by a young man who told his mother of the disappearance of a boy 25 years earlier, a caretaker reluctant to cooperate in the investigation and a military school graduate with an ax to grind.
Episode 19
Thu, Jun 11, 195930 mins
After a gunman is seriously wounded in a New York City currency exchange robbery, he asks his sister to contact Rod Blake in Nevada with an offer to give himself up if he can convince the governor to pardon his wife whom he claims had no part in a homicide he committed several years earlier. Blake goes to meet the killer, but finds him dead in his apartment with the proceeds of the robbery missing.
Episode 20
Thu, May 14, 195930 mins
Blake investigates the murder of a ranch owner found dead in a burning car. His prime suspects are the ranch foreman and the dead man's former spouse.
Episode 22
Thu, May 28, 195930 mins
Blake is called in to assist the sheriff of Tonopah track Danny Holden a man wanted for murdering Rena Desmond, a flinty businesswoman who foreclosed on his father's gold mine and is trying to break up his relationship with Rena's pretty niece. Blake thinks the sheriff is too focused on one suspect, because plenty of others had reason to hate her.
Episode 23
Thu, Jun 4, 195930 mins
Blake arrests a wealthy socialite for robbing a Lake Tahoe casino based on the identification of numerous eyewitnesses. The woman claims to have been with her fiancé at the time of the holdup but her alibi doesn't stand up under close scrutiny. The case against the woman is so solid that the state trooper starts to wonder if she hasn't been framed for the crime.
Episode 24
Mon, May 18, 195930 mins
Blake investigates when a visitor disappears from a military academy's campus under mysterious circumstances.
Episode 26
Thu, Jun 25, 195930 mins
While in Las Vegas to assist in the insurance fraud case involving a three-year-old hit-and-run accident claim, Blake is asked to investigate a brutal attack on a beautiful deaf woman and discovers that the two cases are linked. Working with a blonde insurance investigator, Blake tries to trap the attacker who dabbles in blackmail on the side.