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Season 1

  • S01E01 One Just Man

    • October 1, 1954

  • S01E02 Set A Murderer

    • October 8, 1954

  • S01E03 Let Murder Be Done

    • October 15, 1954

  • S01E04 Dr. Damon's Experiment

    • October 22, 1954

    Dr. Damon is heading to Paris to lecture on psychology where he illustrates the powers of hypnosis. Returning early discovers his wife with another man, painter Charles Dyson. He decides to hypnotise him and get his wife to kill him.

  • S01E05 Death Pays No Dividends

    • October 29, 1954

    Tommy Carter and girlfriend Julia Benton consider themselves part of the jet set. Money, however, is in short supply. Julia suggests Tommy fake his death in a car crash. When Julia gets the insurance Tommy finds himself out in the cold.

  • S01E06 Gabriel's Choice

    • November 5, 1954

  • S01E07 The Diamond Expert

    • November 12, 1954

  • S01E08 The Secret Place

    • November 19, 1954

  • S01E09 The Fair And The Fallen

    • November 26, 1954

  • S01E10 The Eavesdropper

    • December 3, 1954

  • S01E11 The Very Silent Traveler

    • December 10, 1954

    In Manchester, recently released convict Dickie Miller murders Arnold Brockley in an act of revenge. Brockley's pals Rusty and Dylan decide to take the body, on the overnight train, to London and fit up Miller unaware he is watching them.

  • S01E12 Yellow Robe

    • December 17, 1954

  • S01E13 Lucky Man

    • December 24, 1954

  • S01E14 The Gamblers

    • December 31, 1954

    While in Monte Carlo, June Belmont is invited by Carlos Rodrigues to join him at the roulette table. June brings Carlos luck and they become partners. When Bob Carter arrives he attempts to get June away from her addiction.

  • S01E15 Count Of Twelve

    • January 7, 1955

    Simon Graves is privy to a gold strike in Welcome Stranger Mine, in South Africa and makes a killing. Harry Bancroft invest but loses a fortune. A newspaper article exposes Graves insider trading and he starts getting threatening letters.

  • S01E16 The Final Column

    • January 14, 1955

    Newspaper editor Albert Lake sacks his assistant Larry Spence after passing a story to the Courier. Spence blackmails Lake's mistress Marie Dickson but strangles her. When Lake plays down the murder in the Sentinal, Spence blackmails him.

  • S01E17 The Benevolent Burglar

    • January 21, 1955

    Street artist Socrates Smith and Detective Mark Tower are unlikely friends. Tower is on the trail of burglar Longhair. During one robbery, Tower falls for Lady Carol. When she receives his love letters there can be only one suspect.

  • S01E18 Blind Man's Bluff

    • January 28, 1955

  • S01E19 The Eight Window

    • February 4, 1955

  • S01E20 Broken Honeymoon

    • February 11, 1955

    Helen and Clive Parker's honeymoon in the jungle turns into a nightmare when she is attacked by a jaguar. Fearing she will be scarred forever he disappears from her life. Two years on Helen is determined to track him down.

  • S01E21 Death On The Boards

    • February 18, 1955

    Promoter Robert Parker and his choreographer wife Audrey are offered the chance to take displaced person; Maria Beleska. They groom her for stardom but as Robert falls for her a jealous Audrey schemes to kill her.

  • S01E22 Behind The Mask

    • February 25, 1955

    John Philmore is married to Laura and lavishes her with expensive gifts. A sudden short fall of cash leaves him needing to use her jewelry as collateral but they are now paste. Laura is being blackmailed but it's for murder.

  • S01E23 Dress Rehersal

    • March 4, 1955

  • S01E24 Cruel Test

    • March 11, 1955

    District Commissioner Clive Hastings sentences Tuah Ohe to ten years in jail. He promises revenge. Later that day Hastings and his son are left paralised by a poison. His wife has to make a choice over which one she gives the antidote to.

  • S01E25 The Deception

    • March 18, 1955

    The three Hadley sisters live with their grandfather. Dorothy and Bess are attractive and have many suitors. Older sister Gwen is plain and so decides to make up a romance. When Paul finds her secret he decides to blackmail her.

  • S01E26 Week-End Guest

    • March 25, 1955

    A reporter is sent by a London newspaper to interview the sister of a celebrated author.

  • S01E27 The Fame And The Fury

    • April 1, 1955

  • S01E28 Ring Of Greed

    • April 8, 1955

  • S01E29 The Gentlemen

    • April 15, 1955

  • S01E30 The Schemer

    • April 22, 1955

  • S01E31 Double Pay-Off

    • April 29, 1955

  • S01E32 Account Closed

    • May 6, 1955

    Top newspaperman Harry Brandon gambles on get rich quick schemes that are constantly failing. One night he sees two men hiding loot stolen. Lord Leighton tells him that his wife is thief and the jewelry is stolen and offers a finders fee.

  • S01E33 The Serpent Beneath

    • May 13, 1955

  • S01E34 The Price Of Vanity

    • May 20, 1955

  • S01E35 Man In Demand

    • May 27, 1955

    A car crash, that killed her husband, left Mrs. Steel paralysed. The only thing she has left to live for is her son John. When he marries Carol, she works to break up their marriage. Finally snapping, Carol decides expose her as a fraud.

  • S01E36 The Homing Chinaman

    • June 3, 1955

  • S01E37 Rattan Trunk

    • June 10, 1955

  • S01E38 Murder Of A Ham

    • June 17, 1955

    A ham radio operator picks up a voice transmitting in code some unauthorized information. Later, at a party, he hears the same voice.

  • S01E39 The Better Chance

    • June 24, 1955

Season 2

  • S02E01 Diplomatic Error

    • July 1, 1955

  • S02E02 Strangle Hold

    • July 8, 1955

  • S02E03 The Corpse In Room Thirteen

    • July 15, 1955

  • S02E04 Death Walks By Night

    • July 22, 1955

  • S02E05 The Verdict

    • July 29, 1955

    A gunman bursts into the home of Julia Benton, the widow of a judge. He is waiting for Harry Christie. When Christie arrives he has just received a pardon from prison and blames her for his wife's death. He now intends to retry the case.

  • S02E06 The Bargain

    • August 5, 1955

  • S02E07 Death In White

    • August 19, 1955

    Geraldine Munsen is a nasty person who wants to have the perfect wedding to Peter Granger. The night before he is sent a bunch of old love letters but she threatens to expose his secrets if he doesn't show. Geraldine is later found dead.

  • S02E08 The Broken Link

    • August 26, 1955

  • S02E09 Never Let Me Down

    • September 2, 1955

    Crime boss Vince Menotti has never been convicted of a crime and thought he was invincible. When Tom Duggan escapes jail, during thick fog, Menotti is unable to flee the country. Still recovering from a broken leg he is now a sitting duck.

  • S02E10 Bond Of Hate

    • September 9, 1955

    An ever- quarreling, long married couple take a holiday in the mountains, where the wife seeks to take revenge on her husband, whom she believes cut short her concert career.

  • S02E11 Death Mask

    • September 16, 1955

  • S02E12 Side Entrance

    • September 23, 1955

    Businessman Tom Walker is angry his young wife Claire is friendly with Barney Todd rather than new contact. Tom wants a divorce. So he pretends to go to Paris but instead sneaks back to murder Claire and makes it look like it was Barney.

  • S02E13 The Search For Martha Harris

    • September 30, 1955

    Fred Harris is distraught when his wife Martha fails to return from an outing. When the church roof money is stolen it looks like Martha has taken it. Next Mabel Scott is found murdered. The common denominator appears to be Fred Harris.

  • S02E14 Money To Burn

    • October 7, 1955

  • S02E15 Two Of A Kind

    • October 14, 1955

  • S02E16 Cross Channel

    • October 21, 1955

    Ellen Colman finds herself alone in Paris. Charles Kleber offers to show her the sights. When Kleber visits. the pair they plan to murder her husband and marry. Back in Paris she learns she is his next victim so needs to kill him first.

  • S02E17 Death Takes No Holiday

    • October 28, 1955

  • S02E18 Dead Man's Evidence

    • November 4, 1955

  • S02E19 Stranger In Town

    • November 11, 1955

  • S02E20 By Persons Unknown

    • November 18, 1955

  • S02E21 Killer At Large

    • November 25, 1955

  • S02E22 Wrong Time Murder

    • December 2, 1955

  • S02E23 Gift From Heaven

    • December 9, 1955

    Bill Kent stumbles on a package of diamonds from an air wreckage and tries to sell them illegally through his wife's lover.

  • S02E24 Second Sight

    • December 16, 1955

  • S02E25 Code Name: Murder

    • December 23, 1955

  • S02E26 Snapshot

    • December 30, 1955

Season 3

Season 4

Season 5

  • S05E01 The Captain and His Killers

    • September 13, 1957
    • ABC (US)

    Captain Edge reports, to the police, two men disposing a body on the sea bank. When the body can't be found his granddaughter asks Mark Saber for help. Saber and assistant Paul Paulson find the body and believe the suspects are locals.

  • S05E02 Hands Across the Sea

    • September 20, 1957
    • ABC (US)

  • S05E03 Deep in the Heart of Chelsea

    • September 27, 1957
    • ABC (US)

    Texan Mr. Dugan, asks Mark Saber for help, when he is cheated out of £4,000, when he bought a fake painting by Ambroise Martin. To prove art dealer Guthrie is selling fakes Pete Paulson goes under cover as a rich American.

  • S05E04 Death by Delayed Payment

    • October 4, 1957
    • ABC (US)

    Ray Prentice has a shadow on the lung and has just three months to live. With an insurance policy about run out without a medical, he decides get a hit-man to kill him. When he learns the doctor made an error he needs Mark Saber's help.

  • S05E05 The Missing Hours

    • October 11, 1957
    • ABC (US)

  • S05E06 The Penny Black

    • October 18, 1957
    • ABC (US)

    An argument over a priceless stamp turns to murder when a stamp dealer is found dead in his office. A rival collector is accused of the crime and the theft of the rare stamp. But when he arrives at Saber's office asking for help to clear his name, Saber must determine if he is helping an innocent man being played for a fool.

  • S05E07 Girls and Diamonds

    • October 25, 1957
    • ABC (US)

  • S05E08 Murder Shall Speak

    • November 1, 1957
    • ABC (US)

  • S05E09 The Baby-Sitter

    • November 8, 1957
    • ABC (US)

  • S05E10 Hour of Decision

    • November 15, 1957
    • ABC (US)

  • S05E11 Luger for Chesser

    • November 22, 1957
    • ABC (US)

  • S05E12 The Law and the Lawless

    • November 29, 1957
    • ABC (US)

  • S05E13 Hidden Money

    • ABC (US)

  • S05E14 Fast Cars and Girls

    • ABC (US)

    Colonel March asks Mark Saber for help. His friend Major Beanie is wheelchair bound and not been seen four days. His niece Marsha has vanished. Saber learns Marsha is a big spender and soon caught trying to forge her uncle's cheque.

  • S05E15 Saber's Bow and Arrow

    • ABC (US)

  • S05E16 Man About to Die

    • ABC (US)

  • S05E17 Saber at Sea

    • ABC (US)

    Following a car crash, that killed three friends, Julie Forbes' father sends her on a sea voyage to Naples. During the trip, Julie appears to be going mad when she claims to see a man murdered. Nobody believes her except for Mark Saber.

  • S05E18 Cheating Cheaters

    • ABC (US)

  • S05E19 Six Months to Talk

    • ABC (US)

  • S05E20 Four Against Three

    • ABC (US)

  • S05E21 Code to Murder

    • ABC (US)

  • S05E22 The Case of Mr Shore

    • ABC (US)

    Accountant Roger Shore asks Mark Saber for help when his 8-year-old son Peter has been kidnapped. He is told to pay £1,000 but misses his contact. Saber stands in but discovers it is Shore making the calls and there is no kidnapping.

  • S05E23 The Maid Was Curious

    • ABC (US)

    George Peters leaves a trunk in an exclusive London hotel. When the maid opens the trunk she finds a dead body. Fearing bad publicity the hotel asks Mark Saber for help. He learns Harry Quinn has gone missing and his bank account emptied.

  • S05E24 Calling Charley: Emergency

    • ABC (US)

  • S05E25 The Visitor

    • ABC (US)

  • S05E26 Strong Man Out

    • ABC (US)

    In an audacious daylight robbery an £8000 payroll is stolen from the Diamond Manufacturing Company. When notes taken from the heist begin to appear in circulation and two of the alleged robbers turn up dead, Saber must act quickly before anyone else is murdered.

  • S05E27 Power of Suggestion

    • ABC (US)

    John Bellville rings Mark Saber but falls unconscious. Saber finds Kitty Bellville dead and John fighting for his life following arsenic poisoning. Harrison Kane comes forward to say he give them the wine. Saber must find the truth.

  • S05E28 The Man Who Was Twice

    • ABC (US)

    Wells is accused by Mr. Rodney of fiddling the books. He has to the owner Mr. Westcott returns to get the money. Later that day he finds John Brading dying in the street and decides to take his identity unaware he is a wanted murderer.

  • S05E29 Dead Man's Hands

    • ABC (US)

  • S05E30 Diamond Follies

    • ABC (US)

    Kathy Lansing dies in a car crash. She had a large diamond set in a cheap jewelry. The police think she may part of a smuggling ring alongside fiancee Tom Weeks. Saber knows her sister Jean so he speaks to Weeks but he is also murdered.

  • S05E31 A Diplomatic Affair

    • ABC (US)

    Petra Tomulkin is set for a secret meeting with her father but he is kidnapped in an Uranium embassy car. Mark Saber needs save Professor Franz Tomulkin but has to find a way inside the embassy before they torture him to death.

  • S05E32 Black Pawn, White Pawn

    • ABC (US)

  • S05E33 Lillies for Lucas

    • ABC (US)

  • S05E34 The White Cane

    • ABC (US)

  • S05E35 Beyond Fear

    • ABC (US)

  • S05E36 Don't Lose Your Shirt

    • ABC (US)

    Tim Shute loans his flat to his friend Fred Bassett, who is using it for an all night poker game. When Shute returns home he finds Bassett has been stabbed to death. Instead of going to the police his asks Mark Saber to find the murderer.

  • S05E37 Weakness Doesn't Pay

    • ABC (US)

    Mr. Poole asks Mark Saber to help his wife while he is on a trip to Paris. She has been diagnosed with a terminal illness and he fears she make commit suicide. When Saber arrives at their flat she is dead but it soon looks very suspicious.

  • S05E38 Field Goal

    • ABC (US)

  • S05E39 Corpse Cried Murder

    • ABC (US)

    Two thugs badly beat up Mark Saber and warn him off the Pickard Case. Saber has never heard the name. The police tell him Amy Pickard has committed suicide. Next day, Jean Pickard visits Saber and asks him to solve her sister murder.

Season 6

  • S06E01 Curse of Death

    • October 12, 1958
    • ABC (US)

  • S06E02 The Killer and the Kid

    • October 19, 1958
    • ABC (US)

  • S06E03 Paid Off

    • October 26, 1958
    • ABC (US)

    Freddy Benson steals diamonds smuggled in from Amsterdam and leaves the courier for dead. The courier reaches former Sir George Royston but dies. Royston has been in prison so decides to ask Mark Saber for help rather than the police.

  • S06E04 Trap for Murder

    • November 2, 1958
    • ABC (US)

  • S06E05 Night on the Town

    • November 9, 1958
    • ABC (US)

  • S06E06 Background for Murder

    • November 16, 1958
    • ABC (US)

    John Perry is arrested for the murder of Howard Armstrong. He is engaged to his niece Julia, who asks Mark Saber for help. Housekeeper Mrs. Frost worships Armstrong and wants Perry to hang. She later admits Armstrong committed suicide.

  • S06E07 Where There's a Will

    • November 23, 1958
    • ABC (US)

    Mrs. Kraft finds the body of Mrs Ridley, the companion to neighbour Mrs. Verity. Mark Saber learns Mrs. Verity has just died and Mrs. Ridley was set to be the main beneficiary. Mrs. Verity's family are now jockeying over who benefits most.

  • S06E08 A Toast to Death

    • November 30, 1958
    • ABC (US)

  • S06E09 It Walks at Night

    • December 7, 1958
    • ABC (US)

    Sir Thomas Winters begs Mark Saber for help. He says he is haunted by the Curse of Eye Halwara and claim he has actually seen it. His family believe he's going out of his mind. Saber learns that the family will all benefit from his death.

  • S06E10 The Lady Doesn't Scare

    • December 14, 1958
    • ABC (US)

  • S06E11 Uncle William

    • December 28, 1958
    • ABC (US)

    Joe Kelly meets Kathleen Grant to ask about his fiancee Jane's suicide. He believes that Jane's father, Uncle William is lying and asks Mark Saber to get to the truth. He learns that Kathleen has now inherited Jane's money worth £100,000.

  • S06E12 The Black Widow

    • ABC (US)

  • S06E13 Hour of Reckoning

    • ABC (US)

  • S06E14 Double Take

    • April 5, 1959
    • ABC (US)

  • S06E15 Cooked-Up Murder

    • April 12, 1959
    • ABC (US)

  • S06E16 Dark Moments

    • April 19, 1959
    • ABC (US)

  • S06E17 Platinum Murder

    • April 26, 1959
    • ABC (US)

    A caretaker, Dumphy throws a brick at a thief running away. The thief is dead but only has a lighting fixture on him. The dead man's is Albert Taff, a bank guard who suddenly quit. Mark Saber learns lighting fixture is made of platinum.

  • S06E18 Silent Accusation

    • May 3, 1959
    • ABC (US)

    Fred Winchell has just been released from prison. Tom Brent offers him the chance earn £50,000. All he has to do is give Tom and his wife an alibi when he leaves to murders his aunt. The local inspector is foxed and asks Mark Saber help.

  • S06E19 Under Suspicion

    • ABC (US)

  • S06E20 Dangerous Meeting

    • ABC (US)

  • S06E21 Dilemma for Harry

    • ABC (US)

  • S06E22 Operation Arson

    • ABC (US)

    Mr. Shaw is an house builder who has been hit by a string of arson's. He fell out with the fire service and asks Mark Saber to find the culprit. Mrs. Walston was sacked from Shaw's and she told her son Chester, who set fires in revenge.

  • S06E23 Come Out Fighting

    • ABC (US)

  • S06E24 Time Alibi for Murder

    • ABC (US)

  • S06E25 Out of the Past

    • ABC (US)

    Amy Kubrick visits London to see the editor of the Daily Echo. They printed a picture of a man she recognised. He is Mason Crowder and later confronts him. Next day she is found strangled. The editor recognises her and tells Mark Saber.

  • S06E26 Incident in Soho

    • ABC (US)

  • S06E27 Jockey Missing

    • ABC (US)

  • S06E28 Death Hides Out

    • ABC (US)

  • S06E29 Switch to Murder

    • ABC (US)

  • S06E30 Silence for Sale

    • ABC (US)

  • S06E31 Arena for Fraud

    • ABC (US)

  • S06E32 1000 Alibis

    • ABC (US)

  • S06E33 The Opportunists

    • ABC (US)

  • S06E34 A Date with Trouble

    • ABC (US)

  • S06E35 Death at His Fingertips

    • ABC (US)

  • S06E36 Murder for Revenge

    • ABC (US)

    Businessman John Adams wife Stella has weaponised her heart attack to be spiteful. Adams is meeting actress Betsy Linton. His designer Lynch, wants him to let him out of of his royalties deal. When Adams is shot, Betsy needs Mark Saber.

  • S06E37 Dead Before Arrival

    • ABC (US)

  • S06E38 Fire!

    • ABC (US)

Season 7