List of episodes of the series «Deadline»

Victor Reisel

• Episode number: 1
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  As labor reporter on the New York Daily Mirror, Riesel fights against racketeers by exposing them to the public.

State Scandal

• Episode number: 2
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  Reporter George Thiem's dilemma: loyalty to a friend or respect for the law.

Pickup

• Episode number: 3
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  A persistent newsman tries to prove that a mild-mannered salesman is the murderer of two women.

The Neon Touch

• Episode number: 4
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  Two teen-agers scheme to get rich quick by passing bad checks.

Extortion

• Episode number: 5
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  A respected doctor becomes the victim of an extortionist.

The accusing finger

• Episode number: 6
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  Reporter Ed Mowery, certain that a convicted murderer is innocent, tries to have the case reopened.

Mass Murder

• Episode number: 7
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  A plane explodes in mid-flight, killing everyone on board.

The Case Of The Stranger

• Episode number: 8
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  Newsman Harry Romanoff tries to unmask a phony hero: he believes that the man committed a double murder.

Charm Boy

• Episode number: 9
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  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
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  Don Hogan of the Boston Post tries to help an amnesic regain the will to live.

The Human Storm

• Episode number: 11
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  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
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  To expose a shoplifting racket, fashion editor Trudy Prokop infiltrates the gang.

The Face of a Thief

• Episode number: 13
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  A brilliant detective matches wits with a reporter trying to clear a man caught in a web of circumstantial evidence.

Murderess

• User score: 6
• Episode number: 14
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  A beautiful murderer proves true her claim that no jail built could hold her.

Chain Reaction

• Episode number: 15
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  A pilot becomes mentally ill after he takes part in the bombing of Hiroshima.

Clean Kill

• Episode number: 16
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  An unusual clue helps Gene Lindsey of the Phoenix (Ariz.) Gazette solve a murder.

Lonely Hearts Killer

• Episode number: 17
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  Two newsmen track a lonely-hearts killer who has claimed three victims.

Return to Murder

• Episode number: 18
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  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
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  Reporter Matt Conklin tries to foster good feelings between a quiet Texas town and a new Air Force base.

Massacre

• Episode number: 20
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  A berserk killer is on the loose in California.

The Blue Dahlia

• Episode number: 21
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  A soldier confesses to the murder of a beautiful girl but a stubborn reporter refuses to believe him.

Checkmate

• Episode number: 22
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  Police and reporters try to break a man suspected of having murdered a 15-year-old girl.

Jailbreak

• Episode number: 23
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  Three convicts escape from a maximum-security prison by forging the warden's signature on pardons.

Mad Bomber

• Episode number: 24
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  It's Christmas week in New York, and a mad bomber is stalking the city.

Character Witness

• Episode number: 25
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  Reporter Leo Sheridan is called in as a character witness at the murder trial of his best friend.

Dumb Kid

• Episode number: 26
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  A cub reporter stumbles onto two bandits.

A Story for Christmas

• Episode number: 27
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  William Key helps a despondent young girl on Christmas Eve.

Birthday Present

• Episode number: 28
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  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
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  Bernice Freeman stands by her friend when he is accused of murder.

Thesis for Murder

• Episode number: 30
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  A brilliant, but deranged, college student tries to carry out the perfect crime

Exposure

• Episode number: 31
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  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
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  A woman brutally murders a handy man after being named the beneficiary of his life-insurance policy.

To Move a Mountain

• Episode number: 33
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  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
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  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
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  A car parked outside an uncharted cave convinces a reporter that someone is lost inside.

The Two Ounce Trap

• Episode number: 36
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  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
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  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
• Episode duration: 30 min.

Smoke Screen

• Episode number: 39
• Episode duration: 30 min.
• Episode description:
  The Erie, Pa., fire department is looking for the arsonist terrorizing the town.