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35 Episodes 1961 - 1962
Episode 1
Fri, Sep 29, 196130 mins
An Investigation into racketeering in the garbage collection industry.
Episode 2
Fri, Oct 6, 196160 mins
"Dutch" Kleburg (Jack Klugman) is under investigation for murder, corruption and racketeering in the dockside labour market. Newspaper reporter Paul Marino and Jack Flood, Marino's undercover agent, secretly compile a dossier of Kleburg's activities in order to bring him to justice.
Episode 3
Tue, Oct 31, 196160 mins
A new state highway is being built but the construction company hired by the state commission is being forced to build it on the cheap and below specification. An investigation is underway to expose those responsible for the misuse of state funds, bribery and fraud.
Episode 4
Fri, Oct 20, 196160 mins
State senator Finley is murdered, thrown out of his office window, because he refused to put forward legislation proposed by an influential but corrupt lobbyist Ollie Crown. The Senator's wife knows her husband's death was anything but a suicide and asks Marino to investigate Crown in an attempt to expose his unethical methods. Does Crown have the state legislators wrapped around his little finger?
Episode 5
Fri, Oct 27, 196160 mins
A former entrepreneur Mr Welcome is now a heroin importer and his activities cause Marino and Flood to investigate a heroin addicted pregnant woman admitted to hospital, whose husband may be connected to Welcome and the heroin trade. The husband, Johnny Praisewater, used to work for Welcome but is on parole and is desperately trying to wean his wife off of the stuff. Marino and Flood convince him to go back to work for Welcome as an undercover informer in order to take down his empire.
Episode 6
Fri, Nov 3, 196160 mins
A special assistant District Attorney Robert Larch is murdered on the order of a corrupt official after he begins to uncover financial irregularities within the City Hall of Records. Marino and Flood discover a tape recording made prior to his death and hold a press conference determined to uncover the extent of the corruption within the city, starting with the Governor's office.
Episode 7
Fri, Nov 10, 196160 mins
A gambling syndicate is preying on small-time school basketball players, getting them to shave points on key games. This breach of honor wears on one boy enough to drive him to suicide, but the gamblers continue. With the help of a trainer, local star Cornelius Linsky is a great player, but poor and needs money, so he too reluctantly goes on the take.
Episode 8
Fri, Nov 17, 196160 mins
A businessman who has been funded by the mob runs for Governor with there backing. When he tries to distance himself from them, they take action against him.
Episode 9
Fri, Nov 24, 196160 mins
A newspaper reporter phones in with a tip off for Marino and Flood regarding racketeers who are swindling money from legitimate charities, but before he can meet them to tell his story he is murdered. Marino starts his investigation at a fund-raising event for National Children's Week where he soon finds that there is more than meets the eye with the apparently friendly fund raiser Chuck Baxter (Larry Blyden) and his sidekick Tyler (Edward Asner). Jack Flood goes undercover in the fund-raising organization to root out the fraudsters.
Episode 10
Fri, Dec 1, 196160 mins
A loophole in state law allows crooked poker palaces to operate legally. Reporter Paul Marino is tasked by the new police commander to do an article on corruption in the city and by publicising the truth he hopes to make citizens aware the true cost to them in the form of extra taxes, property devaluation, police bribery, crime and the moral risks to family life.
Episode 11
Fri, Dec 8, 196160 mins
Reporter Paul Marino investigates Victor Cobalt, a ruthless gangster who lends money to garment manufacturers at exorbitant rates and takes huge cuts from their profits to siphon off millions of dollars for the Mob. The take from the garment business isn't enough to satisfy Cobalt so he takes over the trucking firms they use. Jack Flood signs up as a truck driver to help Marino expose the racketeers.
Episode 12
Fri, Dec 15, 196160 mins
Labour racketeer mobster Harvey Bragen is finally sent to prison after repeated mistrials. However Bragen has friends in high places and is rewarded with special treatment from Warden Blakely, allowing him to continue his racketeering operations on the outside. Paul Marino joins forces with the labour unions to investigate.
Episode 13
Fri, Dec 22, 196160 mins
Marino and Flood fly to Harbour City to investigate Superior court Judge Loren Tolliver's involvement in protecting crooked racketeers' running the city's gambling establishments by taking bribes, and who also has a major influence on the police and city officials. The State Attorney and the Governor are also interested in Tolliver's activities, but when Tolliver begins to show an interest in the local police lieutenant's young daughter his empire is in jeopardy.
Episode 14
Fri, Dec 29, 196160 mins
An assistant district attorney teams up with a crooked lawyer who defends bookies when he loses a case against him.
Episode 15
Fri, Jan 5, 196260 mins
A man released from prison is accused of killing 2 men who testified against him. He is framed for these murders by the head of a mob who wants him deported. He must figure out how to keep a third man alive who testified against him to avoid deportation as the mob wants him killed also.
Episode 16
Fri, Jan 12, 196260 mins
A crooked real estate developer bribes the commissioner of the alcohol licenses bureau into issuing liquor licenses to people who he scams.
Episode 17
Fri, Jan 19, 196260 mins
Al Deus is a hoodlum and racketeer making millions out of slot machines, bootlegging records and operating jukeboxes all around the country, and has a special way of convincing his customers to use his illegal services. Pop singer Barry Steele is something special and Deus wants the rights to his music profits. Marino and Flood investigate Deus starting with his record bootlegging business.
Episode 18
Fri, Jan 26, 196260 mins
A Korean vet is recruited by the Red Chinese to smuggle drugs into the US to increase their wealth.
Episode 19
Fri, Feb 2, 196260 mins
Exposing fraud between unions and crooked owners who make "sweetheart contracts" taking advantage of the workers.
Episode 20
Fri, Feb 9, 196260 mins
A Vegas comedian tries to break away from the mob. Unfortunately, the mob owns him as he is in debt to them.
Episode 21
Fri, Feb 16, 196260 mins
Overcrowding at the women's detention center has disastrous effects on young girls.
Episode 22
Fri, Mar 2, 196260 mins
Johnathan Amber (Luther Adler) is a ruthless businessman who will stop at nothing to eliminate his rivals. His racketeering involves takeover business deals then strips the wealth from companies which are left wrecked. His troublesome daughter wants to marry a man he disapproves of. She is his only weakness. and investigator Paul Marino takes advantage of this to try and bring Amber down.
Episode 23
Fri, Mar 9, 196260 mins
With the advent of space travel, precious metals like zirconium and uranium are in high demand, businessman Rick Manet gets huge investment for a zirconium mine in Honduras, the trouble is the site is unworkable.
Episode 24
Fri, Mar 16, 196260 mins
In a fictional parallel to Lucky Luciano, once-powerful gangland figure Dimitris Hagias has been deported to the country of his birth by U.S. authorities, though the country here is Greece, not Italy. Though still running an international crime network, he craves a return to America so much he's trying to buy off congressmen so they'll pass a law allowing him to come back. Marino and Flood investigate with tacit help from local police and piece Hagias' story together with informants, including his mistress.
Episode 25
Fri, Mar 23, 196260 mins
A young couple go for a walk in the park one night and the boyfriend is subsequently murdered by a gang of feral youths. His heartbroken parents want answers and call in Paul Marino. During the trial the District Attorney is determined to get guilty verdicts and the harshest punishments possible despite defence arguments that the ages of the young defendants should be taken into consideration.
Episode 26
Fri, Mar 30, 196260 mins
The rent collector (Jack Elam) for a slum landlord accidentally kills one of the tenants and threatens the only witness and his family to keep him quiet. The police investigate the death and even though the other tenants have nothing good to say about the landlord their hands are tied without a witness to the deadly act. Paul Marino and Jack Flood investigate and uncover a plan by the landlord to illegally empty the building in order to make a fortune in a housing scam.
Episode 27
Fri, Apr 13, 196260 mins
Jack Flood goes undercover to work for a crooked trucking company owner suspected of the exploitation of migrant farm workers. The workers are hired with promises of good wages, accommodation and free meals, but when they get to their destination they find that the pay and conditions are not what they were promised. Paul Marino sets out to expose the corruption in the industry.
Episode 28
Fri, Apr 20, 196260 mins
Corrupt probate court judges use outdated probate laws to swindle money intended for the heirs of the deceased's estates they administer. Following the publication in the newspapers of an air accident with judge Andrew Leroy, Paul Marino receives a letter from someone who believes her late husband's estate was taken from her when she was wrongly declared mentally incompetent by Leroy allowing her inheritance to be stolen by a special administrator appointed by that judge. The woman had since taken her life prompting Marino to open up an investigation.
Episode 29
Fri, Apr 27, 196260 mins
A young girl falls to her death through a window when a drunk party-goer plays a prank on her with lit matches. She was hired as a 'party girl' from the Shirley Germaine Model Agency. When the police investigate they find that the the girls on the agency's books are not only models and party girls for hire but are also used as agents in industrial espionage. Paul Marino investigates.
Episode 30
Fri, May 4, 196260 mins
The public who attend boxing matches expect to see an honest game but corruption exists at all levels from the match fixer all the way up to the state Boxing Commissioner. Marino and Flood suspect that being the state Commissioner is a licence to steal. A boxer dies in a fixed mismatched fight and following an inquest into his death Marino sets out to root out the game's corruptors.
Episode 31
Fri, May 11, 196260 mins
Since the end of the war the USA has paid billions of dollars in foreign aid to fight communism and eradicate diseases but in some of those countries there are dreadful abuses of human rights. Paul Marino and Jack Flood travel to a Latin American dictatorship to investigate why violence and hate are openly expressed against Americans and whether it deserves to continue to receive US foreign aid.
Episode 32
Fri, May 18, 196260 mins
Jerry Skala, president of an amalgamation of union workers in Chicago, is under investigation by a Senate heating committee on charges of bribery, corruption and fraud, and where one local union boss was murdered and rumoured to have been replaced by one of Skala's henchmen. Paul Marino confronts Skala and wants him to answer for the murder.
Episode 33
Fri, May 25, 196260 mins
The investigation into corruption within Chicago's unions continues as Vaclavic goes on public record to admit that there is dirt and corruption at the highest level in Skala's union amalgamation. He decides to remove his union from Skala's control and join a labour organisation worthy of his decent and honest men, but somehow Skala obtains a court injunction to prevent the change then uses lies and dirty tricks to discredit Vaclavic. Paul Marino decides to use the power of the press to discredit Skala.
Episode 34
Fri, Jun 1, 196260 mins
Each year billions of tax dollars are spent on school education and in most cases it is very well spent, but there are exceptions. In one of the major eastern cities that money was not reaching the education authorities resulting in poor conditions, overcrowded classrooms, underpaid instructors, a shortage of qualified teachers and juvenile delinquency. Paul Marino wants to know where the money going and who is the local bigwig responsible for misappropriation of funds meant for school projects. Jack Flood goes undercover as a school construction inspector to help Marino expose the corruption in the education system.
Episode 35
Fri, Jun 8, 196260 mins
Paul Marino was about to write a story about a hero cop, Officer Grauer, however before he can publish it transpires that Grauer is apparently one of a number of crooked cops accused of theft, burglary and corruption. Prior to Grauer's trial Marino interviews him at home to try and find out if he really is crooked, and discovers that from his first day on the job Grauer uncovered graft and corruption all the way up the chain of command, something that would change his life in a way he never thought possible.