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The Brothers Brannagan

  • 1960-1961
  • 1 season
  • CBS
  • Suspense, Drama

Brothers Mike and Bob Brannigan are private detectives who work out of a resort in Phoenix, Arizona. Bob is a serious, down-to-earth professional, while Mike is more of a free spirit, always getting in trouble with women. Together the brothers investigate cases ranging from insurance fraud to murder.

Season 1 Episode Guide

39 Episodes 1960 - 1961

Episode 1

Tune in for Murder

Sat, Sep 24, 1960

Episode 2

An Hour to Kill

Sat, Oct 1, 1960

Episode 3

Three

Sat, Oct 8, 1960

Connie Spencer, a young girl, turns on her father, ex-con Frank Lucas, and helps Mike Brannagan hand him over to the police.

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Episode 4

Delayed Payment

Sat, Oct 15, 1960

Episode 5

Duet

Sat, Oct 22, 1960

Episode 6

The Model Murder

Sat, Oct 29, 1960

Mike and Bob go after jewel thieves who killed their partner and then took off with the loot.

Episode 7

The Twisted Root

Sat, Nov 5, 1960

Disagreeing over a man's motive in fleeing the law, the Brannagans split up, one to chase the fugitive, the other to save him.

Episode 8

Love Me, Love My Dog

Sat, Nov 12, 1960 30 mins

Episode 9

Her Brother's Keeper

Sat, Nov 19, 1960 30 mins

When a friend threatens to kill a man for dating his sister and then the man is found bludgeoned to death, the Brannagans start their own murder investigation and discover clouds of potential killers who also hated the dead man.

Episode 10

The Baby Sitters

Sat, Nov 26, 1960

Episode 11

The Key of Jade

Sat, Dec 3, 1960 26 mins

Bob travels to San Francisco to help an old Chinese friend. His son, Joey, has been accused of swindling families by telling them he got sneak relatives out of Communist China and spending the money on his girlfriend instead. The families aren't above violence to regain their money and Bob needs to find Joey first to satisfy everyone's honor.

Episode 12

The Damaged Dolls

Sat, Dec 31, 1960

An extortionist operating in Las Vegas has a unique way of warning his victims - he sends them mangled dolls to show them what's in store for them if they don't pay up and carries out his threats if they don't

Episode 13

Tough Guy

Sat, Jan 7, 1961

Episode 14

Mantrap

Sat, Jan 14, 1961 26 mins

The getaway car for a pair of teenagers who have just stolen a mining companies payroll breaks own in the mountains outside Phoenix. They hijack Bob's car and force him into a deserted gold mine to kill him, but find an elderly, but still feisty female prospector working the diggings who proves to be a force that must be reckoned with.

Episode 15

A Friend to Man

Sat, Jan 21, 1961

Episode 16

The Grapefruit King

Sat, Jan 28, 1961

Episode 17

Overexposed

Sat, Feb 4, 1961 26 mins

Mike and Bob go the aid of a young woman who was tricked into posing for a photo with some gangsters at a nightclub.

Episode 18

Shot in the Dark

Sat, Feb 11, 1961 26 mins

The Brannagan's are hired to buy an ugly abstract painting from an eccentric artist, but discover that there are several other parties who wish to purchase the artwork and are willing to kill to obtain it.

Episode 19

A Very Special Woman

Sat, Feb 18, 1961 26 mins

A woman hires the Brannagans to protect her, she says, from a jealous boyfriend.

Episode 20

A Frame for Mike

Sat, Feb 25, 1961

Episode 21

The Deadly Love

Sat, Mar 4, 1961

Episode 22

Heart of Steel

Sat, Mar 11, 1961

Episode 23

Thunderbird

Sat, Mar 18, 1961

Episode 24

Wheel of Fortune

Sat, Mar 25, 1961 26 mins

A man from Guadalajara, Mexico swears that an American art dealer has stolen a valuable family heirloom, while the art dealer alleges that that the Mexican sold her over $5000 of worthless Japanese figurines as Mexican artifacts. Neither person will call the police or back off from their counter-claims. When the Mexican is found shot to death in the art dealer's shop, the police arrest the owner. The Brannigans are hire to sort out the claims and bring the murderer to justice.

Episode 25

Advantage: Death

Sat, Apr 1, 1961 30 mins

The Brannagans believe that a tennis pro shot and killed his wife on a tennis court, and set out to prove it.

Episode 26

The Green Gamblers

Sat, Apr 8, 1961 26 mins

Mike and Bob seek out a pilot who sprayed poison on a farmer's crops. The pilot claims he was hired by the farmer to do so and shows the Brannagans a check to prove it.

Episode 27

Sunday Jewels

Sat, Apr 15, 1961

Episode 28

Mistaken Identity

Sat, Apr 22, 1961 26 mins

When two girls exchange hotel rooms, hoodlums looking for a murder witness wind up with the wrong girl

Episode 29

Death Insurance

Sat, Apr 29, 1961

Episode 30

Terror in the Afternoon

Sat, May 6, 1961 26 mins

After her brother, mother and fiancé die in construction accidents at a dam construction site, Kathy Lombard asks the Brannigans to investigate whether the death's were truly accidents or were caused by the malevolent dam. Over the objections her father, the owner of the construction company, and the construction foreman's objections, the detectives press on and nearly become the victim of an industrial "accident" themselves.

Episode 31

Equinox

Sat, May 13, 1961 30 mins

Episode 32

Death Is not Deductible

Sat, May 20, 1961

Episode 33

Treasure Hunt

Sat, May 27, 1961

Episode 34

Murder Fits The Frame

Sat, Jun 3, 1961

Episode 35

A View of Murder

Sat, Jun 10, 1961

Episode 36

The Annabelle Case

Sat, Jun 17, 1961

A girl is kidnapped at her engagement party. Mike is convinced the kidnapper is a person close to the family.

Episode 37

Bordertown

Sat, Jun 24, 1961

Episode 38

A Matter of a Million

Sat, Jul 1, 1961 26 mins

A beautiful blonde with a syrupy Southern accent wants to hire the Brannigans to serve as bodyguards. When she refuses to reveal who is threatening her and the reasons for the threats, Bob is in favor of turning down her business, but Mike is smitten with the Dixie belle and agrees to provide 24/7 protection.

Episode 39

The Hunter and the Hunted

Sat, Jul 15, 1961 30 mins

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