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48 Episodes 1952 - 1953
Episode 1
Tue, Oct 14, 195230 mins
Detective Ben Shaley has been hired to guard The Blue Panther, a valuable painting on loan to a gallery. During the invitation-only preview, both the painting and the necklace of a society art patron are stolen. The gallery's owner, Drexel Courtney, is willing to pay $15,000 for the painting's safe return. Shaley's attempts to negotiate with the thieves becomes an ordeal beach each is trying to double-cross the other.
Episode 2
Tue, Oct 21, 195230 mins
A Hollywood assistant director in a stop-over in Paris is attacked by criminals on the Montmarte.
Episode 3
Tue, Oct 28, 195230 mins
In 1880s London, Mr. Markheim stabs to death a pawnbroker whose wealth he has long envied. Markheim says he intends take some of the businessman's riches, marry, and become a saintly man. An otherworldly visitor who knows Markheim intimately informs him that he will never change his evil ways and therefore should kill again.
Episode 4
Tue, Nov 11, 195230 mins
Based on the true story of a Hungarian sharpshooter at the 1952 Olympic Games, this episode focused on an athlete whose father is held as collateral so that the athlete will not try to defect to the west. At the end of the program, a public service announcement for Radio Free Europe is heard.
Episode 5
Tue, Nov 18, 195230 mins
A series of thefts at France's national museum threatens to become an international issue. Scotland Yard sends Williams to Paris to request help from the city's renowned, retired police commissioner, Monsieur Vidocq. Vidocq sets up a meeting with a highly-placed criminal who can lead them to the guilty, while also arranging for Williams to be killed when they all meet at a dangerous, seedy bar.
Episode 6
Tue, Nov 25, 195230 mins
A mobster is tripped up by a simple law he overlooks.
Episode 7
Tue, Dec 2, 195230 mins
Middle-aged Henry wants to divorce his London wife, Carol, and return home to America, but she intends to keep all of their savings. After striking up a romance with his young secretary, Henry sends out announcements saying Carol has unexpectedly died on an American trip. A friend of Carol's finds this suspicious and goes to Scotland Yard, forcing Henry and his secretary to hop a boat incognito and head across the Atlantic.
Episode 8
Tue, Dec 9, 195230 mins
A neurotic woman becomes distressed when she sees her best friend becoming successful.
Episode 9
Tue, Dec 16, 195230 mins
A 19th century nobleman is tortured with pain in his hand, the one he used to commit murder defending his family's honor.
Episode 10
Tue, Dec 23, 195230 mins
A woman becomes the object of affection between two brothers in this romantic triangle story.
Episode 11
Tue, Dec 30, 195230 mins
Pilot Dan Crowley is grounded by his doctor for his intense behavior. A delusional man who's constantly trying to prove himself, he believes the doctor's daughter should be his, even though she is happily engaged to his boss. When the couple and the doctor go for a hunting trip in the woods, Dan follows and, at night, begins firing on their cabin using a rifle with an infrared scope.
Episode 12
Tue, Jan 6, 195330 mins
Convinced that she is cursed by an old family vendetta, a woman tries to convince her American fiance of the threat.
Episode 13
Tue, Jan 13, 195330 mins
An arsonist-for-hire dubbed "Mr. Matches" has been been torching buildings all around the city. Bernard Frank, head of the fire bureau, knows who he's looking for because he's spotted in the crowd at each of his jobs admiring his work. To catch "Mr. Matches" in the act, the department has an ex-con hire him to take down a building they're monitoring. His capture becomes personal after Frank's son is killed in one of the arsonist's fires.
Episode 14
Tue, Jan 20, 195330 mins
Clara and Sam Warren own a run-down boarding house which acts as a front for their real business: arranging for their boarders to have "accidents." One particular evening, Sam and a partner bring home a renter, knock him out cold and turn on the gas. It finally becomes clear to Clara what type of man her husband really is.
Episode 15
Tue, Jan 27, 195330 mins
A British agent wants to give up her spying in Nazi Germany in this story of espionage.
Episode 16
Tue, Feb 3, 195330 mins
After saving the chief engineer's life, Danny and Snow are hired as watch officers on a rusty steamer traveling the Indian Ocean. Reading a newspaper story about a stolen diamond being smuggled into Australia, the boiler room crew becomes convinced that Danny and Snow have the jewel. They stage a mutiny, even though the old ship is about to sink.
Episode 17
Tue, Feb 10, 195330 mins
After carefully faking insanity, a sculptor is acquitted of his wife's murder, but he finds nature's justice cannot be circumvented.
Episode 18
Tue, Feb 17, 195330 mins
After preventing a stranger from being shot outside of his hotel, widower Don Ashley realizes why a pair of thugs have been trailing him for days--the goons had the two similar-looking men confused. The man he saved, Gorden, had the misfortune of witnessing a mob hit and they want to silence the only man who saw what they did. With the deadly duo staking out the lobby, Don hides his face and races past the pair. Again mistaking Don for their actual prey, the two give chase. This should give Gorden the chance to contact the police and tell his story.
Episode 19
Tue, Feb 24, 195330 mins
An Asian-American agent's life is in jeopardy while attempting to break a powerful protection racket in Chinatown. Based on the work of Gon Sam Mue.
Episode 20
Tue, Mar 3, 195330 mins
Tom Walker, an ex-convict who was wrongly convicted and just released, holds up a tax office and leaves behind an obvious clue as to his identity. He gives the bag of money to his patient girlfriend and sends her ahead to Florida saying he'll join her soon. Soon enough, he gets the expected visit from the DA and cop who wrongly convicted him. Tom intends to make fools of his former persecutors.
Episode 21
Tue, Mar 10, 195330 mins
The story of accused axe-murderer Lizzie Borden is dramatized.
Episode 22
Tue, Mar 17, 195330 mins
Convinced that the sinister "Mad Monk" Rasputin will bring about the fall of Russia with his growing power over the royal family, a group of noblemen take action. Serge Soudekine invites Rasputin to his home and fills the prophet with a enough poisoned wine and cakes to kill twenty men. This succeeds only in making him tipsy. In desperation, Serge pulls out his gun and fires repeatedly. That should put an end to the madman.
Episode 23
Tue, Mar 24, 195330 mins
A newlywed accompanies her detective husband on the search for a long-missing woman, whom he once was madly in love with. A reported sighting takes Burt and Sally Hastings to a resort town where a bust of Constance awaits them in their cabin. As Burt races to see the sculptor, Sally realizes her husband's still mesmerized by the young lady. The artist confesses that the model was indeed Constance, his wife, and that he jealously murdered her.
Episode 24
Tue, Mar 31, 195330 mins
The tale of two adventurers trapped by an earthquake in a vast underground cavern.
Episode 25
Tue, Apr 14, 195330 mins
A serial killer is on the loose in 1946 London with five victims so far. Elderly Mrs. Thompson rents a room to a secretive young Tim Matthews and is convinced he's the murderer. She calls police after discovering a knife in his room. Meanwhile, Tim has taken a young woman he's obsessed with on a picnic in the country. Having been discharged from the Royal Air Force for physical reasons, he's insanely jealous of her former boyfriend, a strapping man who had served during the war.
Episode 26
Tue, Apr 21, 195330 mins
Madeleine does not care for Raoul, the officer her father intends for her to marry. Instead, she loves Lt. Andre Duport. Her father intends to send her back to Paris and put a stop to their affair. The jilted Raoul challenges Andre to an unusual duel--only one of the pistols will be loaded and each aimed just three inches from the heart. When the time comes to prove he's more than just words, Raoul proves to be a crafty coward.
Episode 27
Tue, Apr 28, 195330 mins
Lawrence Stevens, an American engineer, accompanies a shipment of lathes to an electrical factory in Vienna. A female reporter tells him about the huge black market for industrial machinery from the West. Corrupt businessmen are only too happy to sell products to the Communists and that his lathes are heading behind the iron Curtain to Poland.
Episode 28
Tue, May 5, 195330 mins
A lonely widow lives on a farm where weird and baffling mysteries are occurring.
Episode 29
Tue, May 12, 195330 mins
A militant editor's death is plotted and carried out by foreign agents.
Episode 30
Tue, May 19, 195330 mins
A man becomes involved with a teenage gang.
Episode 31
Tue, May 26, 195330 mins
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are called upon to solve the case of Colonel Jocelyn Dalcy, who was found stabbed to death while visiting at the home of Sir Reginald Lavington.
Episode 32
Tue, Jun 2, 195330 mins
The story is based on an experience in the life of Elizabeth I.
Episode 33
Tue, Jun 9, 195330 mins
An attaché working at the Russian embassy in Mexico is about to be called home for becoming too friendly with the freedom-loving locals. In exchange for asylum, he frantically tries to interest a newspaper and the Justice Department in papers showing a communist conspiracy involving some in the Mexican government. No one believes him because of the propaganda he tried to peddle them the year before.
Episode 34
Tue, Jun 16, 195330 mins
A night club singer helps a gang plan a robbery, believing their promise not to harm the night watchman, her father.
Episode 35
Tue, Jun 23, 195330 mins
A demented railroad signalman is tortured by fears that he is responsible for a series of train wrecks.
Episode 36
Tue, Jun 30, 195330 mins
A highborn lady in the 19th century of Peru plots with her stableman to murder her uncle.
Episode 37
Tue, Jul 7, 195330 mins
An American correspondent risks his life to secretly record a candid interview with an army deserter, exposing his evil plan to become dictator of a Mediterranean Island.
Episode 38
Tue, Jul 14, 195330 mins
True story of the notorious gangster Dutch Schultz who became kingpin of the underworld, only to be knocked from his throne by blazing guns in a New Jersey tavern.
Episode 39
Tue, Jul 21, 195330 mins
A drama of frustrated lovers caught in a web of crime and deceit.
Episode 40
Tue, Jul 28, 195330 mins
Joan Hale first sees the Charleston performed at a society party on a visit to the South. During her stay, she and Charlie fall in love despite his engagement to the scheming Marie. Gunshots interrupt the dance and Marie is found upstairs--murdered. Though Charlie is the prime suspect, several others has ample motivation to pull the trigger.
Episode 41
Tue, Aug 4, 195330 mins
A deadly vial of cholera is stolen from a doctor's medical bag.
Episode 42
Tue, Aug 11, 195330 mins
When a gang leader tries to burn his bridges behind him the backfires get awfully, warm.
Episode 43
Tue, Aug 18, 195330 mins
The Nevada Proving Ground is set for another nuclear bomb blast at 4 AM. A harried artist is rushing to finish the mannequins he's been hired to construct that will populate a house at ground zero. His nagging wife, who does nothing but complain about his work, finally pushes him over the edge. As contracted, he delivers five "people" to the house that's about to be destroyed.
Episode 44
Tue, Aug 25, 195330 mins
A tale of murder on Manila's waterfront and an island detective with one of the most puzzling cases of his career.
Episode 45
Tue, Sep 1, 195330 mins
The story of a traveling circus and its unhappy owner.
Episode 46
Tue, Sep 8, 195330 mins
An innocent woman is sentenced to death during the French Revolution.
Episode 47
Tue, Sep 15, 195330 mins
Murder and blackmail ruin a bride-to-be's bridal shower.
Episode 48
Tue, Sep 22, 195330 mins
A dramatic adaptation of the famous and true story of a commoner's ill-fated romance with the Archduke Rudolph of Hapsburg.