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Wire Service Season 1 Episodes

Season 1 Episode Guide

Season 1

39 Episodes 1956 - 1957

Episode 1

The Blood Rock Mine

Thu, Oct 4, 195660 mins

Trans-Globe press reporter Dan Miller. Desert drama of uranium hunters in which Miller covers and sometimes acts as referee. Struggle of two prospectors and a treacherous lawyer in the hunt for uranium.

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Episode 2

Campaign Trail

Thu, Oct 11, 195660 mins

Dean Evans is assigned to cover the campaign of a Presidential campaign who has been receiving death threats.

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Episode 3

Hideout

Thu, Oct 18, 195660 mins

While waiting for a flight at a California airport Katherine Wells takes up the investigation of the murder of a jockey.

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Episode 4

The Johnny Rath Story

Thu, Oct 25, 195660 mins

When two boys play around in a train yard, one is accidentally trapped in a refrigerator car that soon leaves, and the other boy can't recall details about the car. A huge search effort is mounted.

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Episode 5

The Night of August 7th

Thu, Nov 1, 195660 mins

Reporter Dean Evans is summoned to the state prison, discovering the prisoners have called him to witness a cell block takeover and hear the prisoner's grievances.

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Episode 6

Conspiracy

Thu, Nov 8, 195660 mins

A reporter assigned to write a human-interest story about a candidate for the office of Secretary of State hears rumors that he might be involved in an illegal shipment of arms, and she sets out to uncover the truth.

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Episode 7

The Tower

Thu, Nov 15, 195660 mins

Miller is assigned to follow the story of a psychopath who is holding a priest captive in a church tower.

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Episode 8

Deported

Thu, Nov 22, 195660 mins

Reporter Dean Evans goes to an Italian village to talk to a deported gangster and is unprepared for the violent reaction of the villagers.

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Episode 9

Until I Die

Thu, Nov 29, 195660 mins

Reporter Katherine Wells covers the story of a teenager condemned to die for a murder he supposedly committed, however she suspects otherwise and proceeds to look for the real killer.

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Episode 10

The Avengers

Thu, Dec 6, 195660 mins

Reporter Dan Miller interviews an American soldier who was released from a POW camp and uncovers that a former sergeant caused the death of another soldier that was imprisoned in the camp.

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Episode 11

The Deep End

Thu, Dec 13, 195660 mins

A reporter suspects that Johnny, the star football player at the local high school, is actually a cold-blooded killer. He soon finds himself being stalked by Johnny, and the souped-up hot rod Johnny's driving makes it even more dangerous.

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Episode 12

High Adventure

Thu, Dec 20, 195660 mins

Reporter Katherine Wells covers the story of the wife of a wealthy American tourist who has been abducted and held hostage in Italy. Wells becomes the go-between for the American and the leader of a bandit gang.

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Episode 13

Chicago Exclusive

Thu, Jan 3, 195760 mins

The police get a tip on a killer from Evans, but he refuses to reveal his source.

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Episode 14

World of the Lonely

Thu, Jan 10, 195760 mins

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Episode 15

The Third Inevitable

Thu, Jan 17, 195760 mins

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Episode 16

Flowers for the General

Thu, Jan 24, 195760 mins

A Central American dictator's trip to Mexico City might be spoiled: someone is planning to kill him.

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Episode 17

The Comeback

Thu, Jan 31, 195760 mins

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Episode 18

Atom at Spithead

Mon, Feb 11, 195760 mins

Attending the naval review in England, Miller meets an old Royal Navy officer friend and is let in on suspicions that one of an unfriendly nation's (implied that it's Russia)ships might be involved in a plot to set off a nuclear bomb during the opening ceremony.

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Episode 19

El Hombre

Mon, Feb 18, 195760 mins

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Episode 20

Profile of Ellen Gale

Mon, Feb 25, 195760 mins

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Episode 21

Dateline Las Vegas

Mon, Mar 4, 195760 mins

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Episode 22

Forbidden Ground

Mon, Mar 11, 195760 mins

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Episode 23

No Peace in Lo Dao

Mon, Mar 18, 195760 mins

Kate Wells is sent to an emerging far eastern nation where an old king has a rival for power in the form of a rebel warlord known simply as "The Young General". They seem equal in strength and the people's esteem, but can't agree on the country's needs or pace of reforms. Negotiations are soon soured when a figure trusted by both is assassinated.

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Episode 24

A Matter of Conscience

Mon, Mar 25, 195760 mins

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Episode 25

Misfire

Mon, Apr 1, 195760 mins

Dean Evans covers a frontier days event in a western town where a local born movie star participates in a recreated old time robbery. However, a sniper shoots another of the re-en-actors, is caught, and insists he was aiming for the film actor, but Evans is unconvinced.

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Episode 26

The Indictment

Mon, Apr 8, 195760 mins

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Episode 27

Ninety and Nine

Mon, Apr 15, 195760 mins

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Episode 28

The Oil Man

Mon, Apr 22, 195760 mins

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Episode 29

Run, Sheep, Run

Mon, Apr 29, 195760 mins

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Episode 30

The Death Merchant

Mon, May 6, 195760 mins

A small middle-European country has broken out in riots and unrest. Miller goes to interview the former Prime Minister, who retired after being succeeded by a longtime friend. It seems the new PM has come under the influence of an ex-Nazi industrialist who's trying to rig a revolution and end the nation's fragile democracy.

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Episode 31

Violence Preferred

Mon, May 13, 195760 mins

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Episode 32

The Last Laugh

Mon, May 20, 195760 mins

For an April Fool's day prank in Lisbon, Kate's fellow foreign correspondents work out an elaborate plot with men posing as spies, and a mysterious box that must reach an official in Tangiers. She's soon set wise to the plot, but goes through with it in the spirit of fun, but jewel thieves are also on to the plot, and switch the box with their own.

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Episode 33

Confirm or Deny

Mon, May 27, 195760 mins

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Episode 34

Four Minutes to Shoot

Mon, Jun 3, 195760 mins

As Evans and other reporters wait for a several times delayed atom bomb test in the Nevada desert, a pregnant Mexican girl stumbles into camp,looking desperately for her missing migrant worker husband. The pressmen look for him, but he's hiding out, obliviously in the restricted test area. She's sicker and sicker, and can only be saved if a rare blood type donor can be found.

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Episode 35

The Washington Stars

Mon, Jun 10, 195760 mins

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Episode 36

Death at Twin Pines

Mon, Jun 17, 195760 mins

After a local newspaper editor snaps a photo of a dead male, whose body was discovered on a deserted road, the corpse is recognized by reporter Dan Miller (Dane Clark) as a known gangster. Miller's employer (Trans World) dispatches him to the small town to continue the investigation to learn more details for another story.

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Episode 37

The Nameless

Mon, Sep 9, 195760 mins

After a boy is kidnapped, his anxious parents reveal to Evans that they adopted him through illegal means, and that a whole black market baby organization exists. He investigates and finds the boy's natural father is the culprit, and he's now working with the same gang in New Orleans.

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Episode 38

Rehearsal for Sabotage

Mon, Sep 16, 195760 mins

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Episode 39

Escape to Freedom

Mon, Sep 23, 195760 mins

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