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Season 1

  • S01E01 The Victor Riesel Story

    • September 17, 1959

    As labor reporter on the New York Daily Mirror, Riesel fights against racketeers by exposing them to the public.

  • S01E02 State Scandal

    • September 24, 1959

    Reporter George Thiem's dilemma: loyalty to a friend or respect for the law.

  • S01E03 Pickup

    • October 1, 1959

    A persistent newsman tries to prove that a mild-mannered salesman is the murderer of two women.

  • S01E04 The Neon Touch

    • October 8, 1959

    Two teen-agers scheme to get rich quick by passing bad checks.

  • S01E05 Extortion

    • October 15, 1959

    A respected doctor becomes the victim of an extortionist.

  • S01E06 The Accusing Finger

    • October 22, 1959

    Reporter Ed Mowery, certain that a convicted murderer is innocent, tries to have the case reopened.

  • S01E07 Mass Murder (Flight 169)

    • October 29, 1959

    A plane explodes in mid-flight, killing everyone on board.

  • S01E08 The Case of the Stranger

    • November 5, 1959

    Newsman Harry Romanoff tries to unmask a phony hero: he believes that the man committed a double murder.

  • S01E09 Charm Boy

    • November 12, 1959

    A sorority meeting and a missed bus spell death for a coed and her killer has an airtight alibi.

  • S01E10 Old Man Lost

    • November 19, 1959

    Don Hogan of the Boston Post tries to help an amnesic regain the will to live.

  • S01E11 The Human Storm

    • November 26, 1959

    It takes a violent prison riot and a crusading reporter to alert the authorities to the inhuman conditions at a penal institution.

  • S01E12 Hot Stuff

    • December 3, 1959

    To expose a shoplifting racket, fashion editor Trudy Prokop infiltrates the gang.

  • S01E13 The Face of a Thief

    • December 10, 1959

    A brilliant detective matches wits with a reporter trying to clear a man caught in a web of circumstantial evidence.

  • S01E14 Murderess

    • December 17, 1959

    A beautiful murderer proves true her claim that no jail built could hold her.

  • S01E15 Chain Reaction

    • December 24, 1959

    A pilot becomes mentally ill after he takes part in the bombing of Hiroshima.

  • S01E16 Clean Kill

    • December 31, 1959

    An unusual clue helps Gene Lindsey of the Phoenix (Ariz.) Gazette solve a murder.

  • S01E17 Lonely Hearts Killer

    • January 7, 1960

    Two newsmen track a lonely-hearts killer who has claimed three victims.

  • S01E18 Return to Murder

    Two teen-age gangs are on the verge of declaring peace when a boy returns from prison and stirs up fury anew.

  • S01E19 Scramble

    Reporter Matt Conklin tries to foster good feelings between a quiet Texas town and a new Air Force base.

  • S01E20 Massacre

    A berserk killer is on the loose in California.

  • S01E21 The Blue Dahlia

    A soldier confesses to the murder of a beautiful girl but a stubborn reporter refuses to believe him.

  • S01E22 Checkmate

    Police and reporters try to break a man suspected of having murdered a 15-year-old girl.

  • S01E23 Jailbreak

    Three convicts escape from a maximum-security prison by forging the warden's signature on pardons.

  • S01E24 Mad Bomber

    It's Christmas week in New York, and a mad bomber is stalking the city.

  • S01E25 Character Witness

    Reporter Leo Sheridan is called in as a character witness at the murder trial of his best friend.

  • S01E26 Dumb Kid

    A cub reporter stumbles onto two bandits.

  • S01E27 A Story for Christmas

    • March 17, 1960

    William Key helps a despondent young girl on Christmas Eve.

  • S01E28 Birthday Present

    A father and his son are hunting for a lost ball that rolled under their porch and discover a woman's body.

  • S01E29 Suspicion of a Murder

    Bernice Freeman stands by her friend when he is accused of murder.

  • S01E30 Thesis for Murder

    A brilliant, but deranged, college student tries to carry out the perfect crime.

  • S01E31 Exposure

    • April 14, 1960

    A photo studio is the cover for a racket swindling the citizens of Columbus, Ohio, to the tune of a quarter of a million dollars a year.

  • S01E32 Pig Woman

    • April 21, 1960

    A woman brutally murders a handy man after being named the beneficiary of his life-insurance policy.

  • S01E33 To Move a Mountain

    • April 28, 1960

    A reporter, nursed by two Burmese women during the war, fights to keep them from being forced back to Burma and certain death.

  • S01E34 One Tall, One Short

    • May 5, 1960

    A wild hunch helps reporter Clayton Darrah trap two phantom bandits. The only available description is "one short, one tall."

  • S01E35 The Cave

    • May 12, 1960

    A car parked outside an uncharted cave convinces a reporter that someone is lost inside.

  • S01E36 The Two Ounce Trap

    A rest home for alcoholics, scene of five deaths within a brief period, is investigated by newsman Paul Quick.

  • S01E37 The Last Knockout

    • May 26, 1960

    Reporter Ed Reid encounters an ex-fight manager, a singer and a boxer in his search for a missing sea captain.

  • S01E38 Wetback

    • January 8, 1961

    A journalist goes undercover to witness the operations of smuggling "coyotes" in Mexico.

  • S01E39 Smoke Screen

    • February 4, 1961

    The Erie, Pa., fire department is looking for the arsonist terrorizing the town.