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Season 1

  • S01E01 The Burl Case

    • March 20, 1952
    • NBC

    Special Agents Sheldon and Randall of the F.B.I. pursue notorious jewel thief Arthur Bennett Burl. Burl funds his expensive life style by robbing the homes of wealthy acquaintances whom he meets socially through the beautiful women in his life who are unaware of the criminal activities and who unwittingly provide him alibis for his late-night burglar forays.

  • S01E02 The Dennis Case

    • March 27, 1952
    • NBC

    A Canadian-born cat burglar tries to maintain his blissful domestic life while stealing guests jewelry at parties on both coasts and selling them to unwitting gem merchants in other major cities. Police begin to close in when one of the merchants recognizes the man from a wanted poster he accidentally saw while applying for a gun license.

  • S01E03 The Charles Mendoro Case

    • April 3, 1952
    • NBC

    Charles Mendoro, an erstwhile family man, and his partner use poison gas to rob currency exchanges in Chicago.

  • S01E04 The Suma Case

    • April 10, 1952
    • NBC

    A criminal gang preying on bars and liquor stores in Manhattan and the Bronx has stayed one step ahead of the New York City Police Department. The first break the police get is when a patrolman stumbles across a pair of eyeglasses in the alley behind one of the robbery scenes. Using the frames, detectives create a composite sketch of one of the gang members and trace the owner due to the unusual lens prescription.

  • S01E05 Duke Lukini

    • April 17, 1952
    • NBC

    A police officer is sent to prison undercover to find information on Duke Lukini, an especially crafty hoodlum who has planned a series of bank robberies, with several deaths resulting.

  • S01E06 The Boilat-Fiaschetti Case

    • April 24, 1952
    • NBC

    Detectives set out to track down a gang of international jewel thieves who have just stolen more than a million dollars worth of valuables from an estate in New York.

  • S01E07 The Red Dress

    • May 1, 1952
    • NBC

    An ex-con just released from prison is reunited with his old criminal cronies with one change - his girl friend, a beautiful blonde with a sharp mind and a heart of stone, demands to call the shots for the gang. Things go well at for the crooks at first, until the woman decides she must have a beautiful, French-made red dress, but refuses to pay for it and a night watchman is slain during the botched robbery.

  • S01E08 The Rocco-Trapani Case

    • May 8, 1952
    • NBC

    Al Rocco, a handsome, hot-headed hoodlum, is enraged when his wife decides to leave him because of his criminal activities. He plots to kill her with a camera-like apparatus that houses a deadly weapon and is instrument is a young woman who thinks she's taking a picture of a woman for a private detective.

  • S01E09 The Scissors Gang

    • March 15, 1952
    • NBC

    State police attempt to apprehend the brutal Scissors Gang, who have committed over 50 armed robberies across Connecticut.

  • S01E10 The Three Kid Chase

    • May 22, 1952
    • NBC

    A cross-dressing mob in Connecticut escalates their crimes from robbery to extortion!

  • S01E11 The Blonde Tigress

    • May 29, 1952
    • NBC

    A policewoman is sent undercover to infiltrate and break up a gang led by a nasty blonde damsel.

  • S01E12 The Bloody Barrow Gang

    • June 5, 1952
    • NBC

    Captain Stewart struggles with ideas to overcome the Barrow's gang use of state borders to avoid prosecution and thus bring Clyde Barrow, Bonnie Parker, and gang to justice.

  • S01E13 John Dillinger

    • June 12, 1952
    • NBC

    John Dillinger, a notorious 1930s bank robber, escapes from the state penitentiary using a wooden gun, but makes a critical error when he crosses the state line in a stolen car. That act violated a U.S. law, causing the FBI to take up the hunt. Although Dillinger manages to escape from several traps set by the G-men, he's finally cornered by agents leaving a Chicago movie theater with "The Lady in Red".

  • S01E14 The Durable Mike Malloy Case

    • June 19, 1952
    • NBC

    A beat patrolman doesn't believe that a neighborhood woman died of alcohol poisoning as the police detectives suspect. He continues his own investigation and, after discovering a drunk dead under similar suspicious circumstances, probes the connection between the two deaths.

  • S01E15 The Duchess Spinelli Case

    • June 26, 1952
    • NBC

    Old crone Duchess Spinelli trains three young thugs to pull stickups on random pedestrians. They pull in about $65 a week. Then an old chum of the duchess shows up and they graduate to holding up a diner. But one of the thugs gets trigger happy during the robbery and things go downhill from there.

  • S01E16 The Herbert Noble Case

    • July 3, 1952
    • NBC

    Herbert Noble survives many attempts on his life made as a result of his failure to pay protection money to the syndicate for his gambling enterprises.

  • S01E17 The Alvin Karpis Case

    • July 10, 1952
    • NBC

    FBI special agents are called in to capture the notorious bank robber and kidnapper Alvin Karpis, the machine gun blasting thug who provides the muscle for the infamous Karpis-Barker gang. Federal heat forces Karpis from hideout to hideout but Karpis always stays one step of the FBI. The G-men play their trump card and, knowing that the gangster loves fishing, manage to track their quarry to popular pier.

  • S01E18 The Quirley Gang

    • July 17, 1952
    • NBC

    Federal agents set off on the trail of a family of bank robbers who have stolen more than $50,000 from an Oregon bank.

  • S01E19 The O'Dell-Griffin Case

    • June 12, 1952
    • NBC

    Police in Buffalo, NY, mount a search for a ring of deadly jewel thieves believed to be hiding across the border in Canada.

  • S01E20 The Phantom

    • June 26, 1952
    • NBC

    A masked phantom and his gang commit a series of payroll robberies, and the police can't seem to find a trace of them.

  • S01E21 The Bayless Case

    • July 3, 1952
    • NBC

    The work of an observant bank president, a creative flight attendant and state of the art forensics for the time result in the quick apprehension of a bank robber.

  • S01E22 The Old Trapper

    • NBC

    George Dunkin lives out in the woods alone and knows every inch of the countryside. He is occasionally visited by his nephew. One day he goes crazy and starts shooting at everybody. The police are called in and fail to catch him. Dunkin kills one of the officers. That officer said he knew Dunkin and was a friend. Now fearing he will kill others when the hunting season opens, the police call in professional tracker Slim Maw. Maw goes into the territory alone with a small dog. Maw and Dunkin enter into a game of cat and mouse with Dunkin trying to escape Maw or kill him and Maw trying to track him down and catch him before it is too late and some hunter is killed.

Season 2

  • S02E01 The Case of Willie Sutton

    • September 18, 1952
    • NBC

    Disguised as a Western Union messenger, Willie Sutton and an accomplice rob a Broadway jewelry store, taking $130,000 in jewels and leaving six hostages. Detectives O’Reilly and Burlin link the job to a previous bank robbery by Sutton and escaped convict Marcus G. Bassett . Knowing Bassett’s girlfriend, the detectives use her to reach Sutton. During a bank robbery planning, a dispute between Bassett and his girlfriend Helen makes Bassett wary of Sutton, who previously had a partner killed over a woman. Helen cooperates with the detectives, revealing the escapees carry poison vials. Following leads through Sutton’s girlfriend Violet Fairchild , the Gang Busters surprise Sutton, seize his poison, and arrest him. Bassett is caught a few days later.

  • S02E02 The Unholy Three

    • October 2, 1952
    • NBC

    Three vicious hoods on a crime rampage take over a church mission as their headquarters, figuring the cops would never look for them there.

  • S02E03 Homer Van Meter

    • October 16, 1952
    • NBC

    Police pursue John Dillinger and his henchman, Homer Van Meter across the Midwest. On the run, Van Meter digs up loot hidden in glass jars, but is double-crossed by one of his underlings.

  • S02E04 John Dillinger (Re-Cut)

    • October 23, 1952
    • NBC

    John Dillinger, a notorious 1930s bank robber, escapes from the state penitentiary using a wooden gun, but makes a critical error when he crosses the state line in a stolen car. That act violated a U.S. law, causing the FBI to take up the hunt. Although Dillinger manages to escape from several traps set by the G-men, he's finally cornered by agents leaving a Chicago movie theater with "The Lady in Red".

  • S02E05 Durable Mike & Herbert Noble Case

    • NBC

    Double Episode repackaged for syndication

  • S02E06 Blonde Tigress & Bloody Barrow Gang

    • NBC

    Double Episode Packaged for Syndication

  • S02E07 The Pinson Gang, pt. 1

    • NBC

    Hardened criminal John Pinson escapes from the Oregon State Prison and goes on the run. While avoiding capture he murders a police officer.

  • S02E08 Burl Case & Dennis Case

    • NBC

    Double Episode Repackaged for Syndication

  • S02E09 Dillinger & Duchess Spinelli Case

    • NBC

    Double Episode Recut for Syndication