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- John and Mary meet in a singles bar, sleep together, and spend the next day getting to know each other.
- Late one night, two young toughs hold hostage the passengers in one car of a New York subway train.
- The Prestons defend a drama critic in a libel case.
- An aging construction worker becomes resentful when he's forced into retirement before he's ready.
- Brock writes a long series of articles about the plight of the urban poor, but no newspaper or magazine will publish them.
- Neil tries to help a wheelchair-bound man who focuses all of his dreams on walking again.
- A killer in a teenage street gang is arrested and starts on his way through the juvenile justice system.
- Neil considers quitting when Congressman Hanson doesn't follow through on promises made during a television show.
- Two homeless people have a falling out one of them begins binge drinking wood alcohol.
- Neil must decide whether he can help more people performing community service work or as a legislative consultant to a U.S. Congressman.
- A woman who's on welfare can't support her family with the money she gets, so she takes a job to earn more money. When the welfare department finds out about it, she's thrown in jail.
- Brock comes to the aid of a group of "beatniks" in Greenwich Village who are trying to fight a crooked political boss and find themselves at odds with their Italian neighbors.
- Brock and Hanson lobby for their proposed legislation which would stiffen penalties for contracting fraud, but their efforts are opposed by well-placed manufacturers with plenty of cash.
- An old-time union leader is eager to go against a corporate executive he has battled in the past, but it seems that he'd rather fight than come to a compromise that would benefit all sides.
- Neil comes into conflict with a numbers runner who preys on his neighborhoods poor gamblers.
- After her mother's boyfriend abuses her, a teenager runs away from home and tries to survive on the streets.
- In this weekly drama show, George C. Scott plays a dedicated social worker trying to solve the problems of his clients in the fascinating mix of cultures that makes up New York City.
- 1961–196326mTV-PG7.6 (66)TV EpisodeBenny's up for parole yet again, and the boys are sure he's going straight now. They set him up w/a candy store, and when he gets "in trouble" and tries mightily to get back in jail, the 53rd won't hear of it.
- The boys of the 53rd Precinct attempt to help rehabilitate chronically drunk Charlie by finding him a job where he won't be tempted to drink, but the officers'regular visits to check up on Charlie have an unnerving effect on his teetotalist coworkers. A Larry Storch tour de force!
- Muldoon's father, Patrick was a police captain and a hero -- or was he?
- A criminal gang bases its heists on the plots of the television program "Crimebusters," which program is also one of Officer Toody's favorite shows.
- 1961–196326mTV-PG6.5 (219)TV EpisodeWhen a septuagenarian delicatessen owner reports he will be marrying Joan Crawford, the boys of the 53rd are sent out to bust the phony matrimonial service that promises to pair its clients with Hollywood movie stars.
- Lucille is upset over turning 40, so Gunther decides to surprise her by buying her a wig for a birthday gift, a deceptively simple endeavor fraught with misunderstanding and melodrama when nosy Sylvia Schnauser stumbles upon the scheme.
- At the begging and pleading of a girl (Shari Lewis) at a local beauty parlor, Toody and Muldoon enlist the help of champion boxer, (Sugar Ray Robinson) in a scheme to discourage a local male hair dresser at the same parlor from continuing his amateur boxing career.
- 1961–196326mTV-PG7.7 (78)TV EpisodeWhen the boys find out that no one is going to the Bar Mitzvah of one boy on their basketball team because of his hated father, they spring into action.
- 1961–196326mTV-PG8.6 (77)TV EpisodeAfter Tooday tells Muldoon that "today's a very important day",Muldoon,the men & high ranking officials,try to figure out why it is.
- 1961–196326mTV-PG8.2 (72)TV EpisodeA jinx arrives at the 53rd and continues his streak of bringing bad luck wherever he goes.
- 1961–196326mTV-PG7.7 (68)TV EpisodeSylvia Schnauser helps the police dept. to set a trap for con artists posing as book publishers.
- An unexpected challenger vies to unseat Muldoon in his bid to be reelected as president of the policeman's Brotherhood Club.
- Gunther and Lucille Toody are trying to make some extra money. They decide to rent a room,taking in a preacher as a paying boarder. He seems as honest as the day is long but is he actually who he says he is?
- A gang buys the cursed eatery next to the bank to drill through the common wall into the vault -- but the boys of the 53rd stop by to see how they're doing, and help them establish a luncheonette instead.
- 1961–196326mTV-PG8.1 (77)TV EpisodeThe boys chaperon two Russian ambassadors, and turn them into American capitalists.
- Brock tries to help a young man when his girlfriend's father tries to break up their relationship by dragging the youngster into court.
- Neil's office tries to help a lonely old woman whose house is scheduled to be demolished by the city.
- Brock and a committed teacher try to convince young Puerto Rican dropouts to go back to school by coming up with a progressive education program.
- Social workers help family of autistic little girl get the institutional help she needs by enrolling her in special school for autistic children.
- An upwardly mobile black family moves into a previously all-white neighborhood in suburban Long Island, New York. Chuck and Anne Severson, who are Neil's friends, at first welcome them to the neighborhood, even though some of their friends and neighbors don't want the black family there. However, when local real estate agents start "blockbusting"--the practice of scaring white homeowners into selling their homes for less than they're worth by raising the prospect of more blacks moving into the neighborhood and lowering property values, then selling the homes at vastly inflated prices to those same black families--Chuck and Anne must decide whether their stand against racism is worth losing the investment they have in their home.
- The struggles of a couple trying to cope with an adult son who is mentally retarded.
- Brock is asked by the wife of a cab driver to intervene- he's an irresponsible gambling addict who found and kept some money left in his taxi by a fare. He's persuaded to return it but is suspended. Facing bills and a loan shark, he immediately goes out to find a fast buck game to make up for the loss.
- A wealthy young socialite, sentenced to community service due to a string of unpaid parking tickets, is assigned to do paperwork in Neil's office. She starts to lose some of her "superior" attitude when some of the neighborhood girls start coming to her for tips on how to keep their boyfriends.
- A prostitute battles the parents of her baby's father--a derelict--for custody of the child.
- A Jewish businessman who can't put up with the vapid suburban life anymore goes back to the city tenement he grew up in, only to find that it's now occupied by a young black family.
- A young African-American couple battle economic and social woes. Joe can only find menial jobs and to make ends meet Ruth works in a cheap bar. Then tragedy strikes their child.
- Brock tries to help a Korean War veteran suffering from post-traumatic distress.
- A corporate man who accidentally killed a man in a fight over a parking space mentally and physically tortures himself while the detectives search for the killer.
- A man who failed to qualify for the NYPD takes to impersonating a uniformed patrolman.His motives have to do with wanting to serve the public and also wanting to attract more desirable women. When he becomes involved in stopping a robbery and uses his non-regulation firearm the real NYPD searches him out.
- An ex-con, hustling a living by being part fence, sports bettor and police informant among other things,has a contract out on his life. He scrambles to get enough money together to leave for Oklahoma and a reunion with his wife and son. Lt. Parker is sympathetic and tries to help his "stoolie" friend safely leave NYC.
- An immigrant from Puerto Rico finds that things are not better and in many ways worse since moving to NYC. The inability to speak English has lead to confusion, not being able to find a job,contempt for being an alien and misunderstanding by the police. Betrayal by one of his own people only makes it even worse.
- A young woman, a carrier of a deadly infectious disease, leaves a self-imposed exile of 14 years on Welfare Island (now called Roosevelt Island) for Manhattan and a "normal" life. The NYPD is notified and seeks to find her before the "Van Nortons Sawyers Fever" infects the populace and causes multiple deaths.