The Lineup

Episode 1

Wake Up to Terror

Wed, Sep 30, 1959 60 mins

Three beatniks terrorize the middle-aged manager of a supermarket.

Episode 2

The Strange Return of Army Armitage

Wed, Nov 25, 1959 60 mins

Army Armitage is released from prison. where he served time for a crime his brother committed.

Episode 3

My Son Is a Stranger

Wed, Oct 14, 1959 60 mins

During the robbery of their family grocery, Mama Va-netti is killed. Papa Vanetti suspects that one of his son's friends is the killer, but the boy insists that his friend could not be guilty.

Episode 4

Death of a Puppet

Wed, Oct 21, 1959 60 mins

Ventriloquist Paul Winchell plays a dramatic role as a nightclub entertainer headed for success, but his every move is directed by his agent. His girl friend wants him to leave the agent and strike out on his own. Then the agent is murdered.

Episode 5

Thrills

Wed, Oct 28, 1959 60 mins

Two San Francisco post-debutantes, Garner and Brewster, bored with society and bent on finding excitement, turn to a life of crime, specifically burglary.

Episode 6

Prelude to Violence

Wed, Nov 4, 1959 60 mins

Tom Tully returns as Insp. Matt Greb for tonight's story. Bart Wade, a young bachelor, falls in love, but his poverty hurts his chances of winning the girl.

Episode 7

Run to the City

Wed, Nov 11, 1959 60 mins

A delinquent teenage girl discovers that the boy she loves has run away from home to take up a life of crime for her sake. The boy gets mixed up with drug peddlers.

Episode 8

Lonesome as Midnight

Wed, Nov 18, 1959 60 mins

The wife of a jazz musician begins to show renewed interest in an old boy friend who is a member of the combo. The jealous husband then finds that he is being blackmailed.

Episode 9

The Counterfeit Citizens

Wed, Dec 2, 1959 60 mins

Henry and Tina Rettig are on the staff of a foreign ocean liner which has docked in San Francisco. They acidentally miss the ship when it leaves and are told about an easy way to beome American citizens.

Episode 10

The Chinatown Story

Wed, Dec 9, 1959 60 mins

Two boys are college students by day and burglars by night. When one of the youths is found dead, police suspect the other of murder. They question his Chinese girl friend.

Episode 11

Vengeful Knife

Wed, Dec 16, 1959 60 mins

Thieves take an ancient dagger from a San Francisco curio shop. The criminals are unaware that the dagger is impregnated with a poison deadly to the touch.

Episode 12

Peg Leg's Wife Case

Wed, Dec 23, 1959

Episode 13

Prince of Penmen

Wed, Dec 30, 1959 60 mins

Mark Sherman romances Irene Maynard, who is not aware that Mark is the mastermind of a forgery plot and that he intends to involve her unwittingly in the scheme.

Episode 14

Woman on the Ledge

Wed, Jan 13, 1960 60 mins

When a woman loses custody of her son after a court battle, the distraught woman threatens to jump from the ledge of a hotel.

Episode 15

Seven Sinners

Wed, Jan 20, 1960 60 mins

A lonely woman goes in search of her husband, who has abandoned her. She then discovers that he is a wanted criminal.

Episode 16

The Rosaric Case

Wed, Jan 27, 1960

Episode 17

The Deadly Romeo Case

Wed, Feb 3, 1960