Amos Burke is an L.A. cop who's inherited millions and usually arrives at crime scenes in a chauffeur-driven Rolls-Royce. Investigating the death of actress Julie Greer, he finds lots of suspects - but the killer's identity surprises him.
Sgt. Phil Maxon holds himself responsible for the accidental death of a recruit in his company.
Escaped convict Sid Williams shows up at the home of his brother Paul.
Having shorn himself of all trappings of respectability, John J. Diggs is cadging handouts from tourists in a Mexican town. One day Diggs approaches widow Margo Haley, who sees through his seedy veneer, and decides he needs more than a handout.
Blackjack dealer Eddie Doyle is good at his job, but his salary is a pittance compared to the sums that cross his table. Doyle needs five grand fast, for an operation for his young daughter, so he and a pal named Victor cook up a plan. Victor plays the game while Eddie deals losing hands for the house.
American flier Collin Shatner's plane is hit during a bombing mission near the end of World War 2.
A dim-witted sailor in search of friends finds two knife wielding thugs instead.
Two telephone linemen join a safe-cracker to pull of a daring bank robbery.
A police lieutenant undertakes the rehabilitation of Hannah Cole, a society woman who plummeted to skid row after her husband's suicide.
Toy tycoon Chandler Hanford decides that Jack Farmer, the firm's fair-haired boy, is just the person to handle the company's outside investments.
In Southeast Asia, two professional soldiers reflect on their encounters with their sergeant, a tough infantryman captured by the enemy.
Aboard a train three secret agents follow a scientist only who will get to him first.
When a quack psychiatrist is found murdered, the suspects are a widow, a lawyer and a refugee.
A crooked politician doesn't want his wife to get a Mexican divorce, because then she can testify against him.
The new priest in a Spanish village is reluctant to challenge the town boss, a ruthless bandit called El Valiente.
Mob boss Burton Stevens is seriously injured in a so-called car accident, and will die unless he picks someone to die in his place.
Story of a Greek tomato delivery truck driver whose schedule is interrupted when he picks up a pregnant hitchhiker.
Police chief Harry Sellers warns Officer Obie Roberts to break off his ""secret"" romance with Carol Manson before he ruins his career and his marriage.
A World War II bomber pilot plans a bold maneuver to rally a squadron plagued by low morale and high casualties.
In an island prison, a friendship develops between a carefree inmate and his pensive jailer.
Attorney Robert Thatcher tells the police that he was seeing the murder victim while his wife was in a mental hospital.
An alcoholic newspaperman uses a partially blind ex-prizefighter to expose a boxing-racket boss.
When underworld boss MacThane is released from prison, the California stakes turn even higher.
Inspector Boulanger of the Paris police is keeping a careful eye on the activities of Vincent Powers at the Orly Airport . So instead of picking up that highly valuable valise he came for, he has the porter place it among the luggage of Alice Wood, an American tourist.
A Federal investigator goes undercover to flush out the source of pep pills being sold illegally by truck drivers.
A woman is on the edge of madness when a doctor comes to her aid.
When World War I breaks out, a strange couple seeks to escape from German East Africa.
A con-artist develops the perfect scheme to help him reach his financial security.
A lawyer risks his position with a conservative law firm and his beautiful fiancée by defending an exotic dancer in court.
When a female Bible student is attacked by three hoods, two Manhattan reporters compete for the story.
A dying millionaire hires attorney Paul Martin to investigate his potential beneficiaries.
The father of an exceptional child desires that his son become the next president.
Stacy Palmer is on the run and tries to lose herself in a crowd at a Las Vegas casino. Young Jake Cobb, out on one last fling before his marriage, is attracted to Stacy. One of the distinctive features of The Dick Powell Theatre has long been its casting of star players in unexpected, offbeat roles—Charles Boyer as a prison convict, for example, and Robert Cummings as a dithering detective. This taste for the untypical is evident again tonight in "Run Till It's Dark", in which the young American pop singer Fabian makes a rare appearance in a dramatic part. He plays a Nevada farmhand, Jake Cobb, bent on a final fling before a marriage about which he is none too happy, who wanders into a Las Vegas gambling casino and meets the beautiful Stacy Palmer (Tuesday Weld). When she tells him she is on the run from a dubious character named Henderson, ordered by her stepfather to find her and take her home, Jake finds her story hard to believe—but he is greatly attracted to her, and agrees to help. They set oil toward the West Coast in his sports car, and Stacy's craving for excitement leads Jake into more trouble than he had bargained for.
The search for a missing nuclear scientist leads to magician Anatole Respighi, the last person to see the scientist alive.
A man living in past of his glorious days at war is destroying his family with his distance.
Alex Harper heads for Spain seeking his son, a sensitive young man whom Harper shut out of his life after his wife's death.
A test pilot is suffering the ill effects of flight simulation.
A loner and drifter sets out with his dog Brown to find a place to live.
A deaf mute overcomes his fear of learning sign language.
Two successful doctors', one who caters to the whims of Hollywood actresses' desperate need for plastic surgery and the other performs surgery for badly disfigured patients who are in need of corrective surgery.
Ten years as a prisoner of the Chinese Reds hasn't made the folks in John Reardon's home town feel any differently about him - they still remember when he was the town hellion. (Several well known stars made cameo appearances.)
In 1912, immigrants Eric Tegman and John Michael Reardon purchase some land in California's San Fernando Valley - infuriating native son Dan Corbett, who wanted the property for his ranch.
Night-club owner Charlie Harris is in love with singer Linda Baxter, but that means trouble for her --- gambling king Louis Samson is threatening her life as a way of cutting himself in on Charlie's business.
A small time detective is hired by millionaire Lane to track down a blackmailer.
