The Rogues
Cousins St. Clair and Fleming are con-men so successful they no longer need to con. They can be persuaded, however, to use their skills: in a just cause, where a mark deserves it very, very much.
- 1964-1965
- 1 season
- Me-TV
- Action & Adventure, Comedy, Suspense, Drama
Cousins St. Clair and Fleming are con-men so successful they no longer need to con. They can be persuaded, however, to use their skills: in a just cause, where a mark deserves it very, very much.
Season 1 Episode Guide
30 Episodes 1964 - 1965
Episode 1
The Personal Touch
Sun, Sep 13, 1964 60 mins
Alec masquerades as a wealthy Australian millionaire to extract a million dollars from ruthless shipping magnate Rodesko but the job is complicated when Alec's affection for Rodesko's fiancée grows.
Episode 2
The Day They Gave Diamonds Away
Sun, Sep 20, 1964 60 mins
Tony, Marcel and Timmy sell a worthless diamond making machine to a greedy mine owner who hopes to make his own diamonds, thus controlling the market.
Episode 3
The Stefanini Dowry
Sun, Sep 27, 1964 60 mins
The rogues get word the President of San Luco has arrived in the US to sell the Stefanini jewels. Miss Harkness explains how the jewels originally belonged to their family and decide to get them back.
Episode 4
Viva Diaz!
Sun, Oct 4, 1964 60 mins
Alexander Fleming decides to go after the fortune amassed by General Diaz during his despotic rule of his country. The rest of the clan see real value in stealing his 6 million dollar fortune.
Episode 5
House of Cards
Sun, Oct 11, 1964 60 mins
When Uncle Bertie is swindled out of his life savings at a posh, but crooked, gambling house, Tony is enlisted to break the bank.
Episode 6
Death of a Fleming
Sun, Oct 25, 1964 60 mins
Marcel finds a young Irishwoman hiding in the back of his car. He determines to save her from the attentions of a nefarious Arab potentate.
Episode 7
The Project Man
Sun, Nov 1, 1964 60 mins
Tony and Timmy learn that officials of a Texas town plan to unscrupulously influence the placement of a space launch site to profit from land they have bought so the two plot to replace the true government officials and collect the bribe.
Episode 8
Two of a Kind
Sun, Nov 8, 1964 60 mins
Marcel encounters Arlene, with whom he had partnered with in the French underground during WWII, and takes a special interest in her son Jamie while pursing a scam on a corrupt foreign official.
Episode 9
Take Me in Paris
Sun, Nov 15, 1964 60 mins
In Paris, Margaret, Timmy, and Tony come up against a swindler and his charming cohort who coax money out of unsuspecting, worried parents. They set up an elaborate scheme to try to expose them.
Episode 10
Fringe Benefits
Sun, Nov 22, 1964 60 mins
Alec agrees to go to Rio during Carnival to pick up a package for a couple of shady men and finds himself, in a plot twist, working for Scotland Yard.
Episode 11
Plavonia, Hail and Farewell
Sun, Nov 29, 1964 60 mins
Tony and Margaret scheme to separate a very wealthy Plavonian, known as Mr. Smith, from some of his money, gotten through ruthless, cut-throat tactics. On the way to do so, Tony, posing as a well known international financier, is kidnapped.
Episode 12
The Boston Money Party
Sun, Dec 6, 1964 60 mins
In Boston, a friend of Tony's loses his business to a wheeler-dealer named Mannix. Tony schemes to raise the money to buy it back for him by selling Mannix a company he doesn't own.
Episode 13
The Computer Goes West
Sun, Dec 13, 1964 60 mins
In Budapest, an old friend engages Marcel and Timmy to smuggle a intelligence computer. When the friend is murdered, corrupt official forces the pair to do his personal smuggling but the two plot to accomplish the original task.
Episode 14
Hugger-Mugger, by the Sea
Sun, Dec 20, 1964 60 mins
Tony buys an entire lot of 22 ships sold by the US Navy, then offers to sell them to a crooked shipping magnate by convincing the man that on one them, $2 million worth of gold bullion is hidden.
Episode 15
The Real Russian Caviar
Sun, Dec 27, 1964 60 mins
The family concocts a scheme in which Auntie Margaret pretends to be Anastasia so that the Russian government will believe that she knows where the Romanoff fortune is hidden in order to collect a fee for the fortune's surrender.
Episode 16
Money Is for Burning
Sun, Jan 3, 1965 60 mins
While salting an old castle with gems to entice a shady buyer, Tony and Timmy stumble across a den of thieves using the castle to stash stolen loot. They escape in a car containing a sack of the money. Complications ensue.
Episode 17
Gambit by the Golden Gate
Sun, Jan 10, 1965 60 mins
Marcel (Charles Boyer) is set to perpetrate an art swap on stingy businessman Amos Cavanaugh (Broderick Crawford). But Cavanaugh has put a twist to the con by unexpectedly donating his Rembrandt to the SF Art Museum. Fake copies cloud the investigation while they search for the real Rembrandt. The museum and Cavanaugh wish to work the dealings on their own, keeping the press and the police out of it; when several step forward claiming they have the original and asking for a ransom. Can Marcel and the Rouges make everything right by finding and delivering the real Rembrandt to the museum (as promised by Cavanaugh) and then seeing that cheaters don't prosper in this complex double and triple cross.
Episode 18
Bless You, G. Carter Huntington
Sun, Jan 17, 1965 60 mins
When the remains of great, great uncle Alexis St. Clair are threatened with removal due to a greedy land developer who wants the property, the entire family comes together to prevent that happening.
Episode 19
The Golden Ocean
Sun, Jan 24, 1965 60 mins
When ruthless and unusually wary tycoon Gregg Roberts tries to take advantage of Tony's friend Peter Stewart, Tony devises a scheme to have Roberts invest in a venture involving a new scientific method that produces gold.
Episode 20
The Diamond-Studded Pie
Sun, Jan 31, 1965 60 mins
Posing as an African safari guide, Tony takes the lead in teaching greedy and abrasive businessman Champion a lesson for cheating safari guide Rutledge by selling Champion a diamond mine that the family does not own.
Episode 21
Bow to a Master
Sun, Feb 7, 1965 60 mins
Tony is robbed of a valuable pearl necklace - that he has just stolen from a crooked jeweler - by The Cat. He plans to recoup his loss by getting involved in The Cat's next caper.
Episode 22
Run for the Money
Sun, Feb 14, 1965 60 mins
Tony and Timmy are enlisted by an old friend to smuggle gold that will support the underground from East Berlin and need to rescue the friend's daughter from the firing squad.
Episode 23
The Laughing Lady of Luxor
Sun, Feb 21, 1965 60 mins
Marcel and Timmy at Genoa to meet fellow con artist Armand who says a ship's cargo contains an unspecified item of value. After Armand is murdered, the two open shop with his widow to lure someone to identify the object.
Episode 24
The Bartered MacBride
Sun, Feb 28, 1965 60 mins
Tony as the son of an ostracized MacBride arrives after Amelia has murdered the father. Tony upon learning that his alter ego has been named sole heir renounces the inheritance but asks for swamp land which he later suggests holds oil.
Episode 25
The Pigeons of Paris
Sun, Mar 7, 1965 60 mins
When Timmy's old school friend is murdered in France, he learns that the old friend was just not a painter but an intelligence agent at which time Timmy and Marcel decide to go Paris to investigate what appears to be unfinished espionage.
Episode 26
Our Men in Marawat
Sun, Mar 14, 1965 60 mins
In exchange for overlooking Timmy's crime, Inspector Briscoe persuades Marcel and Timmy to undertake the dangerous mission of replacing a fake hand of a statue with the real one long ago stolen to prevent Mme. Ka using the theft to organize a coup.
Episode 27
Wherefore Art Thou, Harold?
Sun, Mar 21, 1965 60 mins
Girlie magazine tycoon Guy Gabriel wants to foreclose on Lady Brayford to acquire her rare book collection. The Rogues devise a scheme using an old Timmy forgery to save Lady Brayford from foreclosure.
Episode 28
Grave Doubts
Sun, Mar 28, 1965 60 mins
Albert Sorel is pushed from a Swiss ski lift by two men but daughter Madeleine, Tony's friend, is informed by police her father died 20 years ago. In France Sorel's old friend Duval confirms this as two 'German cousins' appear in town.
Episode 29
Mr. White's Christmas
Sun, Apr 4, 1965 60 mins
Horatio White is a modern-day Scrooge and, with the aid of a girl known as "Tiny Tim", the family conspires to make him see the error of his ways.
Episode 30
A Daring Step Backward
Sun, Apr 18, 1965 60 mins
When Marcel's old flame, Clothilde, has her entire new fashion design line pirated, the family comes together to make the pirate "walk the plank".