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Junk Man

Chicago, 1931. On the Southside, on a dead end street, there is a junkyard-- but it's really a front for a narcotics empire, run by gangster Victor Salazar. Ness and his men are on the case; they keep intercepting his trucks, carrying shipments of narcotics. Barney Howe tells his boss Salazar that his problem is the operation's too spread out; but one big shipment will give him the Northside, too-- Barney says he will ""put Chicago in his pocket."" Late at night, they get a call from a hood named Kierson who has info in his briefcase: the time and route of a $2-million commercial shipment of morphine crystals to a medical research center; he's to meet them at the corner of Mohawk and 23rd in 10 minutes. But rival hood Steve Ballard takes out his silencer, and pumps Kierson full of lead, and makes off with the briefcase. Around midnight, Salazar orders all his boys to find Kierson; ironically, one of Salazar's ""Enforcers"" is Steve Ballard, the guy who bumped Kierson off! But it seem

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  • Originally Aired January 26, 1963
  • Runtime 50 minutes
  • Network ABC (US)
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Name Type Role
Herman Groves Writer
Michael Constantine Guest Star
Lou Krugman Guest Star
Joan Chambers Guest Star
Pat Hingle Guest Star
Joe De Santis Guest Star
Jerry Oddo Guest Star
Edward Binns Guest Star
Than Wyenn Guest Star
Paul Wendkos Director