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The Four Just Men

  • 1959-1960
  • 1 season
  • Drama

Four men: a British politician, an American journalist in Paris, a lawyer in the U.S., and a Roman hotelier, band together to fight injustice wherever they find it.

Season 1 Episode Guide

39 Episodes 1959 - 1960

Episode 1

The Battle of the Bridge

30 mins

When their old commander dies, four wartime comrades come together to fulfill his last wish.

The Four Just Men Season 1 The Battle of the Bridge

Episode 2

The Prime Minister

Collier attempts to save the life of a Mid-Eastern prime minister who is on the way to testify at the the U.N. and becomes an assassination target.

The Four Just Men Season 1 The Prime Minister

Episode 3

The Village of Shame

30 mins

Manfred investigates after an old World War II friend, formerly with the OSS and later a post war Nazi hunter, drowns.

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Episode 4

The Judge

A woman is convicted of poisoning her husband. Her attorney, asks Ryder for help in getting to the truth. The biggest problem is that she was convicted, based on the evidence, provided by a well-respected Doctor who performed the autopsy.

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Episode 5

The Crying Jester

Rico impulsively buys a painting and soon finds himself in a lot of trouble on a long train journey.

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Episode 6

The Beatniques

Collier, while in Cannes for the film festival, is asked by a famous actress to help her after she is blackmailed over some love letters

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Episode 7

The Deserter

30 mins

A British officer disappears for 6 weeks and then is court-martialed for desertion. He refuses to defend himself and Manfred wants to know why.

The Four Just Men Season 1 The Deserter

Episode 8

Dead Man's Switch

Prejudiced thugs attack a Puerto Rican teen at the neighborhood youth center, egged into action by the columns of a bigoted writer. As his son lies near death in the hospital, the boy's father pays the race-baiting writer a visit--armed with a hand grenade.

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Episode 9

The Night of the Precious Stones

Jewel thieves plan to steal the priceless "Empress Emeralds."

Episode 10

The Deadly Capsule

An atomic scientist dies and a radioactive pill that he was using in an experiment disappears. It may have fallen into the hands of children. Collier investigates.

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Episode 11

Their Man in London

30 mins

A young woman, an opponent to the dictatorship in Guatarica, is murdered in London. The killer may be hiding in the embassy protected by diplomatic immunity.

The Four Just Men Season 1 Their Man in London

Episode 12

Maya

A self-exiled Arab princess called Maya is living the high life in Rome with her boyfriend. Her villainous countryman Cathis, who lives in Rome, engineers the murder of Maya's brother, the king. Poccari, one of the Four Just Men, must persuade a reluctant Maya to return to her country before Cathis does. To do this, he has to protect Maya from Cathis' schemes and accompany her on a plane flight, in which Cathis has a surprise for them.

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Episode 13

National Treasure

30 mins

Manfred is called to the estate of Lord Eastleigh for a deathbed confession: the Rembrandt painting hanging in his home is an original. It had been stolen from the museum and replaced with a copy. The lord wants Manfred to return the painting as quietly as possible.

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Episode 14

Panic Button

Jeff Ryder agrees to help a family when the daughter is banned from school because she may be radioactive.

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Episode 15

The Man with the Golden Touch

A young boy, a former delinquent, is suspected of helping to steal a valuable urn that was to be auctioned to benefit a home for troubled boys. Poccari believes the boy is innocent.

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Episode 16

Marie

Tim saves a woman from jumping off a bridge into the Seine River. After coming to at his apartment, he and Nicole learn only her name, Marie, and that she's from Algeria before running off. Wanting to help, Tim tracks down the young woman's uncle who says she smuggled herself into France to escape the political horrors back home.

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Episode 17

The Survivor

30 mins

A list of former Nazis and Nazi sympathizers who, are obtaining high government positions in Germany, is turned over to Manfred. The list may be phony.

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Episode 18

The Discovery

An unlicensed doctor is accused of murdering a sick friend by using him as a Guinea pig, administering an experimental drug he devised.

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Episode 19

The Rietti Group

While at a reunion of former Italian partisans Poccari agrees to help two allied paratroopers identify the traitor from that group.

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Episode 20

The Man in the Road

The wife of an American ambassador is traveling from the French Alps to Paris when she strikes a cyclist with her car. Collier suspects an attempt to discredit her husband after she is contacted by blackmailers.

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Episode 21

Money to Burn

30 mins

When Sir Barling, a banknote printer, is tricked into printing 5 million pesos that will be used to destabilize a government, Manfred is called to help.

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Episode 22

Crack-Up

A plane which crashed five years earlier is spotted by a hunter in Canada. Jeff is visited by the late pilot's wife. She wants him to get to the wreckage first to see if a half-million dollars of embezzled gold was aboard the aircraft.

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Episode 23

The Miracle of St. Phillipe

Collier and Nicole arrive in a small French town filled with pilgrims seeking miracles from a holy relic. When it's stolen, a crazy man confesses, but he eagerly takes the blame for any and all crimes anyway.

The Four Just Men Season 1 The Miracle of St. Phillipe

Episode 24

The Slaver

Poccari investigates a slave market based in Rome after a friend of Ryder's, who was to testify at the UN, disappears.

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Episode 25

The Princess

Collier wants to interview a princess who is visiting Europe and discovers that she may be a target for murder.

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Episode 26

The Protector

30 mins

Janice Gorman thinks she may be going insane. Associates contact Ryder for help believing that she could be under the influence of Dr. Bannerman, who left England under a cloud of suspicion.

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Episode 27

The Man in the Royal Suite

30 mins

Rico must hide an American gangster in his hotel when the latter agrees to become an informer against his former colleagues in crime.

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Episode 28

The Grandmother

Thu, Apr 7, 1960

An old French military family has a shameful secret to hide about how a troop of soldiers lost their lives, and how the matriarchal grandmother's own grandson lost his sight in the Algerian war.

The Four Just Men Season 1 The Grandmother

Episode 29

The Man Who Wasn't There

30 mins

Manfred's investigation of a possibly kidnapped scientist takes him to a reactivated, but top secret Royal Navy station on a small island off Scotland. Though an MP, he's refused entry. He sneaks in, locating the missing man, in an old shed.

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Episode 30

The Bystanders

A 12 year old girl accuses a 20 year old, American, and a potential contender for a Wimbleton championship, of molesting her. Ryder seeks the truth.

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Episode 31

Rogue's Harvest

Poccari is asked by the girlfriend of a young man who is being released from prison to talk to him and convince him to return the money.

Episode 32

The Godfather

Collier's godson is kidnapped and held for a one million dollar ransom.

Episode 33

Riot

Ryder is taken hostage during a prison riot that takes place while he is visiting a client at the state prison.

Episode 34

The Heritage

30 mins

Manfred intercedes when an Irish Nationalist, who opposes violence, is arrested and then freed by his fellow conspirators who plan to try him for treason.

Episode 35

The Last Days of Nick Pompey

Ryder travels to Rome to locate the missing wife and daughter of gangster Nick Pompey in exchange for Pompey's account books. Poccari assists him.

Episode 36

The Moment of Truth

30 mins

A young man is preparing for his first bull fight. The man, whose father died in the ring, has a secret fear of facing the bull. His manager asks Collier, who knew the father, to speak to him.

Episode 37

Justice for Gino

Young, hot-blooded Arthur wants to avenge his gangster brother Gino's death, by finding and killing Gino's killer. Jeff Ryder tries to stop Arthur's vendetta, and find Gino's murderer, before Arthur does.

Episode 38

The Boy Without a Country

30 mins

A young boy with no home, who has worked aboard a tramp freighter, escapes the ship and it's vicious captain. He is arrested for theft. Manfred works to clear him and find a way for him to stay in England.

Episode 39

Treviso Dam

After a young man working on a new multimillion-Lira dam project tells Poccari of some of the dangerously inferior cement being used, he has a mysterious fatal accident. So Poccari goes to investigate.

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