Victor Reisel

Episode number: 1

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

State Scandal

Episode number: 2

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

Pickup

Episode number: 3

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

The Neon Touch

Episode number: 4

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

Extortion

Episode number: 5

Overview: A respected doctor becomes the victim of an extortionist.

The accusing finger

Episode number: 6

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

Mass Murder

Episode number: 7

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

The Case Of The Stranger

Episode number: 8

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

Charm Boy

Episode number: 9

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

Old Man Lost

Episode number: 10

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

The Human Storm

Episode number: 11

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

Hot Stuff

Episode number: 12

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

The Face of a Thief

Episode number: 13

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

Murderess

Episode number: 14

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

Chain Reaction

Episode number: 15

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

Clean Kill

Episode number: 16

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

Lonely Hearts Killer

Episode number: 17

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

Return to Murder

Episode number: 18

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

Scramble

Episode number: 19

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

Massacre

Episode number: 20

Overview: A berserk killer is on the loose in California.

The Blue Dahlia

Episode number: 21

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

Checkmate

Episode number: 22

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

Jailbreak

Episode number: 23

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

Mad Bomber

Episode number: 24

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

Character Witness

Episode number: 25

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

Dumb Kid

Episode number: 26

Overview: A cub reporter stumbles onto two bandits.

A Story for Christmas

Episode number: 27

Overview: William Key helps a despondent young girl on Christmas Eve.

Birthday Present

Episode number: 28

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

Suspicion of Murder

Episode number: 29

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

Thesis for Murder

Episode number: 30

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

Exposure

Episode number: 31

Overview: 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.

Pig Woman

Episode number: 32

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

To Move a Mountain

Episode number: 33

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

One Tall, One Short

Episode number: 34

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

The Cave

Episode number: 35

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

The Two Ounce Trap

Episode number: 36

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

The Last Knockout

Episode number: 37

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

Episode 38

Episode number: 38

Smoke Screen

Episode number: 39

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