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The Roaring 20's Season 1 Episodes

Season 1 Episode Guide

31 Episodes 1960 - 1961

Episode 1

Burnett's Woman

Sat, Oct 15, 196060 mins

A mobster is murdered, and the main suspect is Julie Fiore, the girlfriend of Big Lou Burnett--the dead man's rival.

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Episode 2

Champagne Lady

Sat, Oct 22, 196060 mins

Scott is worried that his old friend Mike Callahan may be the frontman for the illegal rackets of gangster Lucky Marlowe.

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Episode 3

The Velvet Frame

Sat, Oct 29, 196060 mins

Pat finally exposes how Otto Bauer, a respected figure in the community, is tied in with racketeers, but Bauer adamantly insists that he is being framed.

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Episode 4

Vendetta on Bleecker Street

Sat, Nov 5, 196060 mins

A man in jail for murder refuses to divorce his proxy wife. Not only that, he breaks out of prison and goes after both his wife and her lover, intending to kill them both.

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Episode 5

The Prairie Flower

Sat, Nov 12, 196060 mins

A young girl arrives in New York from the Midwest determined to be a star on the stage, and she'll do whatever it takes to get there--including murder.

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Episode 6

Brother's Keeper

Sat, Nov 19, 196060 mins

Pat investigates the disappearance of over a million dollars in securities from Lawrence and Co., a leading banking institution known for its conservative business practices.

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Episode 7

Judge Seward's Secret

Sat, Nov 26, 196060 mins

A judge is determined to preside over the trial of members of the violent Rossi gang, in spite of the death threats made against him and his family.

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Episode 8

White Carnation

Sat, Dec 3, 196060 mins

"Dandy" Dan Brady has been released from jail after being framed, and sets out to track down the man who was responsible--his former business partner, Ben Dorschel. Pinky, who's an old friend of Brady's, tries to stop him from getting in any more trouble and winds up getting caught in the middle of a dangerous situation.

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Episode 9

Bold Edition

Sat, Dec 10, 196060 mins

Although Scott suspects that Eugene Jarech is the one who shot a newspaperman, he also believes that more people will be killed before Jarech can be put away.

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Episode 10

Layoff Charley

Sat, Dec 17, 196060 mins

Scott looks into a story that a man named Charley has an unerring ability to pick winners at the race track. He finds out that Charley isn't just some racetrack tout, but a respected insurance agent.

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Episode 11

The Maestro

Sat, Jan 7, 196160 mins

Initernational opera star Paolo Scarpi comes to New York City, but instead of adoring crowds, Pat has a tip that there's a hitman waiting to knock him off.

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Episode 12

Dance Marathon

Sat, Jan 14, 196160 mins

Scott plans to use the help of marathon dancer Libby Norton to expose a crooked police captain who's the head of a blackmail ring.

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Episode 13

Big Town Blues

Sat, Jan 21, 196160 mins

Pat and Pinky check out a roadhouse outside of town that has a trumpet player named Joe Peabody whom everyone is talking about. Pat notices that Peabody plays the trumpet in the same style as a musician named Buddy Benedict, who was supposed to have been killed by the Chicago mob.

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Episode 14

Coney Red Hots

Sat, Jan 28, 196160 mins

Weber's, a famous Coney Island hot-dog restaurant, is being pressured by gangster Lou Brazil to buy mustard from him at $100 a gallon. Scott decides to help the owners stand up to Brazil.

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Episode 15

Two a Day

Sat, Feb 4, 196160 mins

Pinky scores a major coup by getting booked into the Palace Theater. Pat goes backstage to watch her perform, and notices that escape artist Alonzo the Great is putting the moves on one of the chorus girls. Given the fact that Alonzo's wife is known to be insanely jealous and that she's also backstage someplace, Pat knows that some major trouble could be brewing.

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Episode 16

Black Saturday

Sat, Feb 11, 196160 mins

Pat begins to suspect that Archie Stone, a notorious gambler, is somehow putting pressure on Harwood University football star Johnny Martin to deliberately throw the big game.

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Episode 17

Lucky Charm

Sat, Feb 18, 196160 mins

When Pinky is swept off her feet by the handsome and suave King Cole, a professional gambler who claims she brings him good luck, Pat thinks something is fishy, and starts digging around to find out more about Cole and confirm his suspicions.

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Episode 18

Pie in the Sky

Sat, Feb 25, 196160 mins

A young man is desperate to get his girl to marry him--and decides to try to talk her into it from atop a flagpole.

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Episode 19

The Vamp

Sat, Mar 4, 196160 mins

Studio press agent Harry Shayne is skewered by studio boss Max Felix because of some bad publicity that the studio's star, Zelda Valmy, has been getting lately. Furious and angry at Zelda for causing him to lose his job, Harry comes up with a scheme that will permanently ruin her career.

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Episode 20

War with the Nighthawkers

Sat, Mar 11, 196160 mins

Mobsters begin trying to take control of the taxicab business, and any drivers who resist find themselves out of business, injured or worse. Copy boy Chris Higbee decides to try to cover the story from the inside by getting a job as a cab driver.

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Episode 21

The Twelfth Hour

Sat, Mar 18, 196160 mins

Young Gerald North III set out to party hard one night and accomplished his goal, with wild women and too much to drink. A hangover isn't the only consequence of his night on the town, though. He finds himself being accused of blackmail and murder.

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Episode 22

The Salvation of Killer McFadden

Sat, Apr 1, 196160 mins

Hard-nosed gangster Killer McFadden falls in love with a beautiful mission worker and vows to turn over a new leaf and get out of the rackets. Pat decides to give him a hand.

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Episode 23

The Fifth Pin

Sat, Apr 8, 196160 mins

A dead cop is found in the car of gangster Frankie Delain, but someone else takes the fall for the murder. Afterward, voodoo devil dolls--with pins sticking out of them--start turning up wherever Frankie goes.

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Episode 24

The Red Carpet

Sat, Apr 15, 196160 mins

Anthony Dormer, a passionate young poet, has threatened to assassinate the Queen of Romania, who is in the US on a state visit. Scott wants to find out what's behind Dormer's zeal to kill the woman, and sets up an interview.

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Episode 25

Scandal Sheet

Sat, Apr 22, 196160 mins

Pinky discovers the body of rich playboy Jay Jameson in his apartment. It turns out that the prime suspect in his murder is the daughter of Pinky's wardrobe mistress.

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Episode 26

Mademoiselle from Armentieres

Sat, Apr 29, 196160 mins

Scott's old war buddy, Alvin Jones, claims to be the real-life version of a popular character in a hit song. Scott, trying to help his buddy, winds up getting involved in Alvin's many "misadventures".

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Episode 27

Among the Missing

Sat, May 6, 196160 mins

Jim Everly, a young cadet at West Point, has just been jilted by his girlfriend Nancy. He breaks curfew in order to go to the Charleston Club to see Nancy and find out why she dumped him. Things go from bad to worse for Jim when he becomes the witness to a mob murder.

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Episode 28

Right Off the Boat: Part 1

Sat, May 13, 196160 mins

Pinky falls for a roguish adventurer and bootlegger called "14 Carat John". Scott and Pat don't approve of this situation at all, and set out to break it up.

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Episode 29

Right Off the Boat: Part 2

Sat, May 20, 196160 mins

Hoping to expose Pinky's new love, "14 Karat" Jones, for the cad he suspects him to be, Scott ships out as a seaman on a rum-runner.

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Episode 30

Million Dollar Suit

Sat, May 27, 196160 mins

When a worker on a tunnel project tells Pat that shoddy materials are being used because of graft and corruption, Pat investigates. When the paper runs the story, it winds up getting sued for libel.

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Episode 31

Royal Tour

Sat, Jun 3, 196160 mins

Pat runs into a visiting European prince who wants to find out how Americans really live, but he can't get away from all his hangers-on. Pat helps him escape them, and takes him on a tour of Brooklyn. Trouble starts when he falls for a Brooklyn girl named Susie Morris, who already has a boyfriend--who is one of Brooklyn's most notorious gangsters.

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