X

Join or Sign In

Sign in to customize your TV listings

Continue with Facebook Continue with email

By joining TV Guide, you agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy.

The Dick Powell Theatre Season 1 Episodes

Season 1 Episode Guide

30 Episodes 1961 - 1962

Episode 1

Who Killed Julie Greer?

Tue, Sep 26, 196160 mins

Amos Burke is an L.A. cop who's inherited millions and usually arrives at crime scenes in a chauffeur-driven Rolls-Royce. Investigating the death of actress Julie Greer, he finds lots of suspects - but the killer's identity surprises him.

Where to Watch
The Dick Powell Theatre, Season 1 Episode 1 image

Episode 2

Ricochet

Tue, Oct 3, 196160 mins

An army sergeant blames himself for causing a rookie's death during training.

Where to Watch

Episode 3

Killer in the House

Tue, Oct 10, 196160 mins

A man on the run hides out at his brother's house - something the brother and his wife are most uneasy about.

Where to Watch

Episode 4

John J. Diggs

Tue, Oct 17, 196160 mins

John J. Diggs appears to be a derelict, scrounging from tourists in a Mexican town. But Margo Haley thinks there's more to him than that.

Where to Watch

Episode 5

Doyle Against the House

Tue, Oct 24, 196160 mins

Widower Doyle is a worn down dealer at a gambling dive run by a heartless, bullying gangster. He badly needs $5000 so his little girl might have an operation to mend her crippled legs. The only way he can get it is to set up a crooked game with an accomplice posing as a customer. It's been tried before, leaving that dealer mangled and brain damaged when the boss got through with him. Unfortunately, he has been tipped off this time as well.

Where to Watch

Episode 6

Out of the Night

Tue, Oct 31, 196160 mins

In 1944, a revenge-obsessed pilot bombs a village to kill one man - who escapes.

Where to Watch

Episode 7

Somebody's Waiting

Tue, Nov 7, 196160 mins

Augie, a sailor on shore leave, is just looking for his buddies. But there are two guys with knives who seem to want him hurt.

Where to Watch

Episode 8

The Geetas Box

Tue, Nov 14, 196160 mins

A couple of linemen from the telephone company plan a robbery with a safe-cracker.

Where to Watch

Episode 9

Goodbye, Hannah

Tue, Nov 21, 196160 mins

Tasked with finding Hannah Cole (missing for a year), Lt. Smith of the Missing Persons Bureau builds up an intriguing portrait of this woman he has never met.

Where to Watch

Episode 10

Up Jumped the Devil

Tue, Nov 28, 196160 mins

When ambitious executive Jack Farmer hits a winning streak with his compulsive gambling, he decides to use the money entrusted to him at work by his boss.

Where to Watch

Episode 11

Three Soldiers

Tue, Dec 5, 196160 mins

After the controversial Sgt. Marius is captured by the enemy in an Asian war zone, two very different soldiers share their memories of working with him.

Where to Watch

Episode 12

A Swiss Affair

Tue, Dec 12, 196160 mins

A scientist aboard a Swiss train is pursued by the spies of three nations, all anxious to learn the information inside his head. But who's who?

Where to Watch

Episode 13

The Fifth Caller

Tue, Dec 19, 196160 mins

A nurse, Anna Bardessy, is found with her wrists cut (but still alive) under a pier in an English coastal town. Her employer, the eccentric Dr. Whitehall, has been murdered in London and Inspector Marshall of Scotland Yard investigates.

Where to Watch

Episode 14

Open Season

Tue, Dec 26, 196160 mins

Devery Shay is most anxious to prevent his wife from getting a quickie Mexican divorce - and even more anxious that she doesn't subsequently testify in court about his crooked activities.

Where to Watch

Episode 15

Death in a Village

Tue, Jan 2, 196260 mins

An aged priest arrives at a Spanish village which is under constant threat from a bandit and his men.

Where to Watch

Episode 16

A Time to Die

Tue, Jan 9, 196260 mins

A bizarre black comedy in which Burton Stevens, injured in a bad car crash, is told by mysterious people that he can select someone to die in his place.

Where to Watch
The Dick Powell Theatre, Season 1 Episode 16 image

Episode 17

Price of Tomatoes

Tue, Jan 16, 196260 mins

A truck driver on a very tight schedule stops to give a lift to a pregnant hitch-hiker; and then his life gets very complicated.

Where to Watch

Episode 18

Obituary for Mr.X

Tue, Jan 23, 196260 mins

A cop's feelings of guilt over an affair leads to tragedy

Where to Watch

Episode 19

Squadron

Tue, Jan 30, 196260 mins

The actions of a US bomber crew in WWII endanger the rest of the squadron.

Where to Watch

Episode 20

The Prison

Tue, Feb 6, 196260 mins

A curious relationship develops between a political prisoner and his guard.

Where to Watch

Episode 21

Seeds of April

Tue, Feb 13, 196260 mins

Lawyer Robert Thatcher would rather his wife didn't find out he was seeing another woman while she was in hospital. But then his mistress is murdered.

Where to Watch

Episode 22

The Legend

Tue, Feb 20, 196260 mins

A reporter enlists the help of a one-eyed prizefighter to expose a boxing racket.

Where to Watch
The Dick Powell Theatre, Season 1 Episode 22 image

Episode 23

The Hook

Tue, Mar 6, 196260 mins

When McThane, a big-time gangster, gets out of prison, things get very dangerous for a lot of people.

Where to Watch

Episode 24

View from the Eiffel Tower

Tue, Mar 13, 196260 mins

An American girl visiting Paris for the first time gets unwittingly involved with gun-runners and other dubious types.

Where to Watch

Episode 25

330 Independence S.W.

Tue, Mar 20, 196260 mins

An investigator goes undercover, posing as a trucker to find out who's being smuggling illegal pep pills.

Where to Watch

Episode 26

The Clocks

Tue, Mar 27, 196260 mins

A widow planning to re-marry insists she is being haunted - by the ghost of her first husband.

Where to Watch

Episode 27

Safari

Tue, Mar 27, 196260 mins

The leading characters from "The African Queen", but in a new story-line.

Where to Watch

Episode 28

The Boston Terrier

Tue, Apr 10, 196260 mins

An upper-crust Boston sleuth uses the very latest in scientific gadgetry when investigating a big-time gangster.

Where to Watch

Episode 29

No Strings Attached

Tue, Apr 24, 196260 mins

On a point of principle, a top-flight attorney agrees to represent a stripper who works in a cheap club - something of which his boss does not approve.

Where to Watch

Episode 30

Savage Sunday

Tue, May 1, 196260 mins

In the newspaper business, Sunday is usually a rather easy day - but, this particular Sunday, junior reporter Nick has a very busy time of it.

Where to Watch