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Season 1

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Season 1, Episode 1: Meridian

30 September 1958
Detective Halloran's first day as a detective brings him face-to-face with a cop killer and his accomplice who are holding hostages in an exhibit hall.

Season 1, Episode 2: Nickel Ride

7 October 1958
The detectives visit the aging captain of the Staten Island Ferry at the same time that armed robbers are executing a daring heist of an armored car traveling on the ferry.

Season 1, Episode 3: Line of Duty

14 October 1958
Det. Halloran easily kills a fleeing robber who's about to shoot him, but Halloran's lingering feelings of guilt make getting through the aftermath with the man's family anguish. Halloran's girlfriend and Lieutenant support him throughout his search for meaning.

Season 1, Episode 4: Sidewalk Fisherman

21 October 1958
Gio, who lives by fishing coins out of sidewalk grates, longs to adopt an orphaned boy who he who spins yarns for, as if Gio actually was a courageous deep-sea fisherman. By working 16 hours a day, old Gio saves money to adopt the boy, but in doing so violates the territorial rights of a local gang, who try to kill Gio.

Season 1, Episode 5: Violent Circle

28 October 1958
Detective Halloran goes undercover as a patient in a hospital mental ward in an attempt to identify the murderer of patient who was a witness in a gang killing.

Season 1, Episode 6: Stakeout

4 November 1958
A young detective works redeem himself after lying about the circumstances of his partner's shooting death during a stakeout.

Season 1, Episode 7: No More Rumbles

11 November 1958
A young gang member is assigned to perform a revenge shooting after a member of his own gang is killed.

Season 1, Episode 8: Belvedere Tower

18 November 1958
A thief assaults milkmen and steals their uniforms in order to gain access to and rob from wealthy people's apartment buildings.

Season 1, Episode 9: The Bird Guard

25 November 1958
After the murder of a gangster in a barber chair, the detectives track down the victim's fiancé who is holding papers incriminating to the killers.

Season 1, Episode 10: The Other Face of Goodness

2 December 1958
New York City detectives frantically hunt a killer who strangles married disabled women with a coat hanger, in their own homes. As the gumshoes wade through dozens of false confessions and bad leads, a young loner who made bizarre remarks at the funeral of the latest victim, comes forward. Is he just another attention seeker - or is he the real fiend ?

Season 1, Episode 11: Lady Bug, Lady Bug

9 December 1958
A wealthy industrialist refuses to give in to an extortionist's demands even after the extortionist brutally assaults a neighbor girl and threatens the life of the man's alienated son.

Season 1, Episode 12: Susquehanna 4-7568

16 December 1958
A naive young woman, Carol Thomas, fresh to New York, gets a mysterious phone call on her new line from a woman who sounds to be in the process of being murdered. Carol is unable to get prompt action from the police, so she ill-advisedly decides to play detective herself.

Season 1, Episode 13: And a Merry Christmas to the Force on Patrol

23 December 1958
The precinct investigates a brazen Christmas Eve robbery and shooting by the notorious Marco Butcher and his brother.

Season 1, Episode 14: The Explosive Heart

30 December 1958
The detectives fight against time to unravel a plan to murder a Commander aboard his yacht.

Season 1, Episode 15: The Manhole

6 January 1959

Season 1, Episode 16: Even Crows Sing Good

13 January 1959
In a vicious downpour, a killer prods a terrified man forward using a huge spear-gun. The man with the spear-gun is a meek New Yorker living with his mother, who disapproves of her son's fiancée. The poor couple need cash to remove their main barrier to marriage. Hilda tells fiancé Larry she's inherited money, but actually she won a bet with small-time local bookie Happy. The bookmaker sends her to his backer Dasher, who refuses to pay Hilda off.

Season 1, Episode 17: Burst of Passion

20 January 1959
Detective Halloran helps hunt down a man whom he knows, and who has always been a well-liked solid citizen before suddenly snapping and going on a killing spree throughout the city.

Season 1, Episode 18: Goodbye My Lady Love

27 January 1959
Matty, a down-and-out alcoholic in the Bowery, is accused of robbing and murdering a man, then using the stolen money to buy a horse-drawn cart.

Season 1, Episode 19: The Shield

3 February 1959
Lt. Muldoon counsels the son of a patrolman who is trying to join the force, despite his mother's wishes that he not follow in his father's footsteps.

Season 1, Episode 20: One to Get Lost

10 February 1959
George Blake regrets having strayed from his wife, and terminates the affair just moments before the woman is murdered by another jealous man. Blake is the prime suspect, and works to clear his name and find the killer.

Season 1, Episode 21: Hey, Teach!

17 February 1959
Halloran goes undercover as the home room teacher for a "modified-curriculum" high school class after their previous home room teacher fell out of the window to his death.

Season 1, Episode 22: Ticker Tape

24 February 1959
The detectives work to stymie a bomb threat during a ticker-tape parade for an Olympic champion.

Season 1, Episode 23: Fire Island

3 March 1959
The detectives hunt down bootleggers on Fire Island after they shoot a revenue agent.

Season 1, Episode 24: Ten Cent Dreams

10 March 1959
A young immigrant hits a big score playing the numbers racket, but runs into complications collecting his winnings.

Season 1, Episode 25: The Bumper

17 March 1959
After Lt. Muldoon is killed in a car wreck deliberately caused by a mob hit man, the detectives pull out all the stops in their search for the killer.

Season 1, Episode 26: A Running of Bulls

24 March 1959
The detectives are assigned to protect visiting Spaniards, including the adolescent son of the dictator and a famous bullfighter who is involved in a plot to kill the young man.

Season 1, Episode 27: Fallen Star

31 March 1959
A young hotel bellhop is mixed up with a gang of card sharps preying upon the convention crowd, and who are responsible for the killing of one of their victims.

Season 1, Episode 28: Beyond Truth

7 April 1959
A recurring nightmare haunts a murderer - that he's been framed. But when his loving wife begs the 65th Precinct's skeptical detectives to re-investigate, Arnold Fleischman refuses to co-operate with the police. Det. Halloran becomes intrigued, especially when he uncovers crucial evidence that the wrong man was actually convicted. But the released killer Fleischman strongly maintains that he's definitely guilty. Why ?

Season 1, Episode 29: Baker's Dozen

14 April 1959
A former top mob assassin is lured out of retirement by the opportunity to kill a kingpin for his 13th hit.

Season 1, Episode 30: The Rebirth

21 April 1959
A cleaning woman, tired of her hardscrabble life, robs a bank in an attempt to buy happiness.

Season 1, Episode 31: Four Sweet Corners

28 April 1959
A soldier returns home to find that his baby sister has become part of a shoplifting ring that has attracted the detectives' attention.

Season 1, Episode 32: The Sandman

5 May 1959
Halloran goes undercover at a construction yard to see if he can find a connection between a mob-hit victim and the mobster who likely ordered the hit. He discovers an odd relationship between a benevolent man and a punch-drunk ex-boxer.

Season 1, Episode 33: Turn of Events

12 May 1959
A sleazy private detective, well known to Detective Parker, is murdered while on a case to find a mysterious young lady who worked in a dance club.

Season 1, Episode 34: A Little Piece of the Action

19 May 1959
A payroll robbery gang hires a washed-up wheel man for a job that goes bad.

Season 1, Episode 35: The Bloodhounds

26 May 1959
The detectives babysit a couple of bloodhounds belonging to a man involved in an auto accident, putting the dogs to good use while searching for a missing girl.

Season 1, Episode 36: The Scorpion Sting

2 June 1959
The detectives investigate the source of numerous death threats that have been sent to a high-powered Madison Avenue agent having many real and perceived enemies.

Season 1, Episode 37: Saw My Baby There

9 June 1959
A pregnant woman's father is trying to kill her husband in order to cover up a stolen goods racket in which the two have been involved.

Season 1, Episode 38: The Canvas Bullet

16 June 1959
A washed-up boxer needs fast money and desperately wants to get back into the ring to earn it despite knowing his health is at risk.

Season 1, Episode 39: A Wood of Thorne

23 June 1959
To spare a condemned killer, Halloran forces his way into a kept woman's apartment the night of the execution. Ravishing Lois Heller is anesthetizing herself with expensive champagne and romantic music, while the idealistic young detective battles to shatter the redhead's mask of cynicism. Lois is protecting the real murderer, her lover Nicky who she alibied. As Halloran desperately struggles to convince her to call New York's governor, he learns why a woman could become so hardened.

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Season 2

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Season 2, Episode 1: A Death of Princes

12 October 1960
Detective walks from icing surrendering shooter Gimpy, so his commander asks Adam to volunteer to spy him. Adam struggles with taking the assignment on gun-happy comrade Bane, whose jacket includes 2 other recent kills, but many medals. Soon, the Shakespeare-quoting detective holds a clandestine meet with a playboy, a boxer, and a terrified woman: each fears Bane will reveal their separate crimes. Is Bane a rogue cop or is he pursuing bigger fish ?

Season 2, Episode 2: The Pedigree Sheet

19 October 1960
The investigation of a car wreck reveals two dead men (one killed by a bullet) and a survivor - a petulant, uncooperative young girl. Lt. Parker finds she holds the key to the NYPD proving jury tampering in a murder case. Her alcoholic father, once a prominent attorney, helps to unravel the girl's recent past to get to the truth.

Season 2, Episode 3: A Succession of Heartbeats

26 October 1960
A millionaire playboy is murdered in his luxury apartment-along with a married woman. A "black book" filled with ladies telephone numbers doesn't include all of his conquests, including a woman who later confesses to the murders. Adam finds holes in her story and eventually plays a hunch which causes a suspects alibi to fail.

Season 2, Episode 4: Down the Long Night

2 November 1960
Norman Garry is harassed by former neighbor Max Evar. Evar,an "expert on horror", lost his family due to a fire he holds Garry responsible for. Garry asks the NYPD for help and Det. Flint becomes interested in the case. The discovery that Evar was recently released from a mental hospital heightens the drama.

Season 2, Episode 5: To Walk in Silence

9 November 1960
A blue blood Wall Street investment manager witnesses a shooting. Afraid for his reputation,he stubbornly refuses to aid the NYPD in their investigation. After other possible witnesses have been killed and his daughter is kidnapped a difficult decision awaits him - shall he cooperate even with his daughter's life at risk?

Season 2, Episode 6: Killer with a Kiss

16 November 1960
A young man working at Bellevue Hospital, at the Mental Ward, has a neurosis himself. He harbors a deep seated hatred of his deceased military hero father, who he blames for his mother's death. This has culminated in a twisted pattern of revenge. He lures uniformed policemen by faking emergencies and then murders them.

Season 2, Episode 7: Debt of Honor

23 November 1960
Murder during a poker game heist, doesn't faze the second biggest loser at the table. It's just hours before his betrothed arrives from Sicily via arranged marriage, but slick gambler Mori is blasé about that too. Detective Flint takes his actress girlfriend Libby dancing in the streets at Mori's wedding party, to find out who the robbers are, before they get killed the old way.

Season 2, Episode 8: The Human Trap

30 November 1960
A wealthy playboy is dead from an icepick wound. He died in the upscale apartment of a woman who's ex-husband is a notorious gambling czar. The lady freely admits she killed the playboy - in defending her daughter from his advances. Lt. Parker and Det. Flint have the same feeling - "something about her story stinks".

Season 2, Episode 9: The Man Who Bit a Diamond in Half

14 December 1960
Dying crook Wicklow heists a museum's entire diamond exhibit. A gemologist sneers that the rocks are well-known to be plastic duplicates. Why pull an elaborate Rififi and kill a guard for such paste, the detectives wonder ? Simultaneously, a controlling, crass millionaire and his dim, beauty queen wife's comical war over her obsession for expensive baubles reaches crescendo.

Season 2, Episode 10: Bullets Cost Too Much

4 January 1961
A series of armed robberies made by four masked men eventually lead to a bar killing and public "second guessing" of Adam's handling of the situation. At the same time a resident doctor has his brother pressure him to help treat one of the hold-up men who has been shot. Adam and the NYPD doggedly pursue the case.

Season 2, Episode 11: Murder Is a Face I Know

4 January 1961
Hitman's arrest destroys his double life as a small businessman who earned his new community's respect. Hurting the most is his son, a university basketball ace who worships his father, and can't believe that he's such a stony, experienced assassin. How did the Russian Jewish refugee become an organized crime trigger-man ?

Season 2, Episode 12: Landscape with Dead Figures

18 January 1961
A talented artist who does not know his identity is a prisoner in a sanitarium. His long-term captivity ends due to the mention of an artist's name in the newspaper and a fluke opportunity to escape.He makes his way to Manhattan to see an auction of work by the man named in the paper-a man who died 20 years ago.

Season 2, Episode 13: A Hole in the City

1 February 1961
Armored car robbers vanish across from Yankee Stadium, so Lt. Busti dragnets the neighborhood, house-to-house. Brutal gang mastermind Nunda has much more to worry about, because he's barged into his aunt's flat, and she brings back all his hideous Bronx past which kept him away so long.

Season 2, Episode 14: The Well-Dressed Termite

8 February 1961
A shady businessman's junior partner takes it upon himself to order the death of a blackmailer. The junior partner has also schemed to reunite his boss and estranged wife. These "favors" lead to a fatal chain of events which no one, including the junior partner, could possibly have predicted.

Season 2, Episode 15: The Day It Rained Mink

15 February 1961
Four people, involved in the Manhattan fur trade, join together to steal fur coats valued at over $1,000,000 from a fashion show held at the Governor Clinton Hotel. The thieves have various motives for committing the crime. The ringleader's plan to leave his long-time wife for a tempestuous model complicates matters.

Season 2, Episode 16: Button in the Haystack

22 February 1961
Ex-con panics when his own loan shark gets killed at his gas station. He tosses his own gun onto a passing truck, doubting the police will buy his story. Idealistic young Det. Adam Flint believes he's chasing justice for a reformed businessman, but everyone one else in the bureau feels he's chasing a phantom. After all, how many thousands of trucks passed through the Naked City that day ?

Season 2, Episode 17: Shoes for Vinnie Winford

1 March 1961
A rich-kid,Mama's boy is ignored by the Board of Directors when made President of his deceased father's corporation. The young "Napoleon" however already has a business where he is paid strict attention to. He secretly owns a Burlesque house and physically abuses the women at his whim-until the NYPD seeks to find a missing "dancer".

Season 2, Episode 18: The Deadly Guinea Pig

8 March 1961
An investigation into the shooting deaths of an NYPD uniformed patrolman and a citizen leads to a tangled web of ex-Nazi's and concentration camp survivors. A deadly game of cat-and-mouse between the two groups is slowly uncovered by Lt. Parker, Sgt. Arcaro and Det. Flint as the body count climbs.

Season 2, Episode 19: Vengeance Is a Wheel

15 March 1961
Security guard's murder during a burglary mobilizes his huge, close-knit Sicilian family. One of the watchman's sons wants the 65th Precinct's detectives to track the dockside killers who stole a rare oil used for perfume, all other kin vote to take revenge by themselves. They start with the French perfumer, who lost his whole season's rose oil supply.

Season 2, Episode 20: The Fault in Our Stars

22 March 1961
An actor, down on his luck, resorts to murder in order to raise the cash needed to pay his rent.

Season 2, Episode 21: Tombstone for a Derelict

5 April 1961
Four young men decide to make known their concern about the problems of the world. They use a unique method to get everyone's attention - they randomly murder derelicts and leave clues that will lead back to themselves. The four believe strongly in their cause and will sacrifice their lives. Are they sane or hopelessly mad?

Season 2, Episode 22: A Memory of Crying

12 April 1961
A man bereft of any human emotions goes off the deep end when his young wife dies in childbirth.

Season 2, Episode 23: New York to L.A.

19 April 1961
Det. Flint and Lt. Busti head to Los Angeles to extradite two sociopath brothers to face robbery and murder charges back in New York.

Season 2, Episode 24: A Very Cautious Boy

26 April 1961
A gangland syndicate headed by lawyer Roy Baxter has been collecting protection money from Joe and Mama Ganoulian, owners of a local restaurant. The Ganoulians hire protection called Lee Staunton to free them from the extortionists.

Season 2, Episode 25: Economy of Death

3 May 1961
An old couple are swindled and lied to by a fellow Hungarian refugee who claimed to have contact with their granddaughter behind the Iron Curtain.After being exposed,the man names a community activist now living in NYC who committed a worse crime-a crime which led to the death of 100 families in 1956 Hungary.

Season 2, Episode 26: C3H5(NO3)3

10 May 1961
A high school Chemistry teacher has an argument with his wife, gets drunk, decides to "blow her up" and in the school lab makes a nitroglycerin "bomb". After he has been missing for two days and sobers up he realizes something-he doesn't remember where he left the nitro! With the NYPD's help a desperate search begins.

Season 2, Episode 27: Make-Believe Man

17 May 1961
Officer Gode informs the detectives that one of his homeless men, a Frank Manfred, has disappeared and that some of the other Bowery citizens say he was kidnapped. The detectives are skeptical but follow up. Manfred has become the pawn in a South American Revolution. He is being used by Carlos Ruldan to impersonate a revolutionary leader named Colonel Bryar whom the people loved. When men with South American ties begin turning up dead the detectives believe there may be something to this kidnapping story.

Season 2, Episode 28: To Dream Without Sleep

24 May 1961
A lonely woman falls in love with a man she meets through an escort service. Assuming they will marry,she becomes hysterical and accidentally stabs him upon finding out that he is already married.Desperate and in a panic,she tries to figure out what to do while at the same time the NYPD tracks her down.

Season 2, Episode 29: A Kettle of Precious Fish

31 May 1961
A well organized team of extortionists kidnap a group of businessmen on a chartered fishing boat. Ransom amounts and instructions are phoned to the victims' wives. The NYPD becomes involved in the case when the charter boat captain is found tied up and drugged-but alive. Meanwhile, the businessmen plan a revolt.

Season 2, Episode 30: Sweet Prince of Delancey Street

7 June 1961
A middle-aged man is fired from his job and vows to rob his former employer for revenge. After his son becomes involved they both become part of a muddled case involving the theft of diamonds-and a dead security guard. Who actually committed the robbery and how the security guard actually died is unknown.

Season 2, Episode 31: The Day the Island Almost Sank

14 June 1961
The NYPD is shorthanded,overworked and sleep deprived due to various conventions being held at the same time in Manhattan. When a visiting conventioneer is found brutally murdered Lt. Parker has no choice but to send an exhausted Sgt. Arcaro out to investigate.An unlikely person emerges as a prime suspect.

Season 2, Episode 32: Take and Put

21 June 1961
A once wealthy family is now penniless. To "keep up appearances" and somewhat live as they became accustomed to,they invent a rather novel solution. They rob their friends,pawn the items, use the cash to buy and sell stocks (that their unerring housekeeper selects), redeem the stolen items and return them to their owners.

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Season 3

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Season 3, Episode 1: Take Off Your Hat When a Funeral Passes

27 September 1961
After a military style armored car robbery has left six people dead, including two NYPD cops, the gang's leader is identified. Lt. Parker insists that a reluctant Det. Flint seek leads to the ringleader's whereabouts from a troubled ex-partner of the criminal. The ex-partner is consumed with guilt over having been an informant once before.

Season 3, Episode 2: Dead on the Field of Honor

4 October 1961
A 35 year old man, raised by his cultured Southern grandmother to be a "man of honor", has not had fortune shine upon him. He becomes unbalanced and begins to use a dueling pistol to right wrongs in his "field of honor" - Central Park. The bizarre shootings are thoroughly looked into by the NYPD as the man's mental state worsens.

Season 3, Episode 3: The Corpse Ran Down Mulberry Street

11 October 1961
After a car wreck between a truck and a hearse, a "corpse" gets up and walks away. The casket used was really a "submarine" - a means to smuggle an illegal immigrant into the U.S. The Undertaker tied to the incoming delivery did not know his "fixer" friend was also having something else illegally brought into the country.

Season 3, Episode 4: The Fingers of Henri Tourelle

18 October 1961
A business owner is killed by gunshot in his office. The person who fired the shot couldn't have left the premises before the police arrived to investigate, but the responsible gunman proves elusive.

Season 3, Episode 5: A Wednesday Night Story

1 November 1961
A pretty Swedish-born governess alerts the NYPD of her fear that there may be fatal consequences of the increasingly violent arguments between her employers.Det. Flint and Sgt. Arcaro investigate and find that there may be something to what she has reported.What they don't know is that the governess is not as innocent as she seems.

Season 3, Episode 6: The Tragic Success of Alfred Tiloff

8 November 1961
Kidnappers target a millionaire to pay the ransom for their victim, a young girl from a poor family. The criminals are a husband who's failed at everything he's tried and a still-ambitious wife who'll leave him if he won't go along with her scheme. The child's mother is afraid to go to the police, but a nosy neighbor pieces together the story for the detectives. The husband is torn about the crime, because he loves children, but his wife is bitter from having to parent her younger siblings.

Season 3, Episode 7: Which Is Joseph Creeley?

15 November 1961
A man sentenced to die for the coldblooded murder of another man, is given an operation to remove a tumor from his brain. When the tumor is removed, he becomes a docile individual with no memory of the murder he committed. He is retried. Will he be found not guilty this time?

Season 3, Episode 8: Show Me the Way to Go Home

22 November 1961
A young man with emotional problems becomes violent when his mother wants him to be mentally evaluated at Bellevue. After assaulting her boyfriend, the NYPD attempts to find him - and his missing knife. Meanwhile, he is attracted to a charitable girl who is trying to help a confused old woman to find her way home.

Season 3, Episode 9: The Hot Minerva

29 November 1961
The 65th Precinct's detectives take a crash course in the art underworld to recover an ancient statue of the goddess Athena. Who'd steal the hot Minerva, when they can never display it ? The gang of thieves are led by an odd couple who model themselves after Blackbeard and Captain Kidd, but look more like Wall Street CPAs. The museum's curator is not much help, because she's perfectly willing to pay a ransom for the statue she worships, no questions asked.

Season 3, Episode 10: Requiem for a Sunday Afternoon

6 November 1961
Shoemaker Anthony Scarzi, the much older husband of Josephine Ametto Scarzi, his wife of two years, struggles with her unfaithfulness and her desire to annul their marriage.

Season 3, Episode 11: Ooftus Goofus

13 December 1961
George Bick is a 40 year old who never grew up. Fed up with his anonymous life and his henpecking wife, he decides to make the world notice him. He becomes the prankster known as "Ooftus Doofus"

Season 3, Episode 12: Bridge Party

27 December 1961
A determined and utterly logical retiree wants an agreement to raise a drawbridge honored by a railroad - no matter what. When the railroad makes a series of trumped up charges against the man, Lt. Parker finds his tolerance of aggravation is at the breaking point. Det. Arcaro losing a prisoner on an elevator was bad enough.

Season 3, Episode 13: The Face of the Enemy

3 January 1962
Highly-decorated veteran, Cornelius 'Neil' Daggett (Jack Warden), has deteriorated from hero to alcoholic bum since the end of the war, having alienated his wife and family. He desperately wants to again become a hero to them, but his efforts turn into tragedy.

Season 3, Episode 14: Portrait of a Painter

10 January 1962
A mentally-disturbed young painter (William Shatner) confesses to murdering his wife, who was found on the floor of his studio. But the detectives seek to establish, with the help of the painter's psychiatrist, the full set of details that the painter cannot seem to recollect, which could prove either his guilt or innocence.

Season 3, Episode 15: The Night the Saints Lost Their Halos

17 January 1962
A middle-aged neighborhood doctor faces a moral dilemma after a young man, Joey (Peter Fonda), who is like a son to her, and his friend Phillip (Martin Sheen) break into a fire-damaged haberdashery, and Phillip gets shot and wounded.

Season 3, Episode 16: The Contract

24 January 1962
Both the fiance and the guardian of a beautiful dead young woman claim to have murdered her, and it's up to the detectives to discover who's telling the truth.

Season 3, Episode 17: One of the Most Important Men in the Whole World

31 January 1962
A widowed gangster is being challenged for custody of his son by his sister in-law. To show the court that he is a positive influence the gangster needs to convince his son's teacher to change a failing grade to an "A". The teacher is stubborn and the gangster offers the tempting bribe of a chorus girl.

Season 3, Episode 18: A Case Study of Two Savages

7 February 1962
Two newlyweds from Arkansas, honeymoon in New York City. Their happy time is interrupted by the husband's continual penchant for murder and robbery as a means of getting what he wants for himself and his bride.

Season 3, Episode 19: Let Me Die Before I Wake

14 February 1962
A psychologically-troubled moving company owner (Jack Klugman) discovers some troubling truths about his family after a young girl is injured by a hit-and-run truck driver who was really targeting him.

Season 3, Episode 20: To Walk Like a Lion

28 February 1962
An embezzler who stole to finance his mother's medical care runs into trouble while trying to end his scheme and return the leftover money.

Season 3, Episode 21: Today the Man Who Kills Ants Is Coming

7 March 1962
A mentally-stressed police officer suffers a debilitating breakdown over his family's poor financial condition, catalyzed by missing button on his uniform.

Season 3, Episode 22: A Run for the Money

14 March 1962
A middle aged hired killer,who committed his first murder for pay at age 14,is hunted both by organized crime which has put out a contract on his life and the police.Needing a bankroll for leaving the country,the killer hires an "arm".The expert craps player he has chosen to win him money is as unpredictable as the roll of the dice.

Season 3, Episode 23: The One Marked Hot Gives Cold

21 March 1962
A man steals records from the orphanage where he grew up, hoping to find his father. At the same time, the age of his young female companion gets him in trouble with the police.

Season 3, Episode 24: Without Stick or Sword

28 March 1962
A Burmese Buddhist sailor (William Shatner) seeks revenge upon a ship's captain (Martin Balsam) who refused to pick up the sailor's younger brothers at sea, leaving them to perish.

Season 3, Episode 25: Lament for a Dead Indian

11 April 1962
A man recently released from prison comes to NYC to get his friend to join him in running a farm. He is warned that his "partner" is bad news by Flint and Arcaro. The friend is not interested in leaving NYC and is heavily involved in the rackets-including murder. The man tragically tries to help his friend.

Season 3, Episode 26: The Sweetly Smiling Face of Truth

25 April 1962
A Broadway agent dies in an actress' apartment and the detectives must discern who among those present is telling the truth: the actress, the married actor with whom she is having an affair, or the actor's chauffeur.

Season 3, Episode 27: ..And If Any Are Frozen, Warm Them!..

9 May 1962
Detective Flint strives to stop his aging Romanian friend from using his big wedding party as cover for a bank robbery.

Season 3, Episode 28: Strike a Statue

16 May 1962
A renowned sculptor "immortalizing a moment in time" of a reviled European dictator is warned to stop working on the project. The men warning him, formerly supporters of the dictator but presently seeking his overthrow, are violent. The sculptor refuses to cease working as to him Art is not involved in politics.

Season 3, Episode 29: The Multiplicity of Herbert Konish

23 May 1962
Mild-mannered Herbert Konish is living multiple simultaneous and separate lives, stumping the detectives who are trying to figure out exactly who he is and what crimes he may have committed.

Season 3, Episode 30: The King of Venus Will Take Care of You

30 May 1962
A man wanted by the police for robbery and murder is trapped in a tenement neighborhood.He crosses from building to building via rooftops and eventually hides in a water tank enclosure.The "king" of the neighborhood,a young fatherless boy,may or may not help him to escape from the police dragnet.

Season 3, Episode 31: The Rydecker Case

6 June 1962
Adam and an inexperienced D.A. attempt to prosecute the well-connected fiancé of a wealthy New York scion. Adam wonders just who is on trial and gets an education in Justice.

Season 3, Episode 32: Memory of a Red Trolley Car

13 June 1962
A chemistry professor develops mental confusion symptoms after being exposed to a dangerous chemical spill, and the detectives race against the clock to find him before his condition deteriorates fatally.

Season 3, Episode 33: Goodbye Mama, Hello Auntie Maud

20 June 1962
Chauffeur snuffs his employer with roses, by forcing them in her face as the allergic dowager lies ill. Her agoraphobic daughter is ecstatic that now she'll never have to leave the mansion she loves, but torn over losing her harsh mother. Lt. Parker, a family friend, comforts the young heiress, but she immediately finds more succor in the arms of Harry, the handsome devil in the driver's seat. Flint pushes an objective view of the case on Lt. Parker.

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Season 4

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Season 4, Episode 1: Hold for Gloria Christmas

19 September 1962
The detectives investigate the murder of an alcoholic Greenwich Village poet, reconstructing his final hours in their search for the killer.

Season 4, Episode 2: Idylls of a Running Back

26 September 1962
Pro football star shot by younger woman when he opens his hotel room door. The press assumes Elvin "Colossus of" Rhodes was cheating on his wife, but Rhodes insists he doesn't even know the quiet, plain office worker. The paper trail fits the woman's claim they were lovers - separate hotel rooms as the player was on the road, gift receipts etc. check out, as Rhodes' life unravels.

Season 4, Episode 3: Daughter Am I in My Father's House

3 October 1962
A teenage girl is teased and handled a little roughly by four prankish teenage boys at a movie theater. The girl's father downplays the incident when the NYPD investigates. The father, a WWII combat veteran, has a plan to "save his daughter from any public embarrassment". He will hunt the boys down and mete out justice.

Season 4, Episode 4: And by the Sweat of Thy Brow...

10 October 1962
A young man with a disfigured face lives in the shadows of the city committing petty crimes until a young woman and Detective Flint show him how his self-worth is tied to his actions, not his looks.

Season 4, Episode 5: Kill Me While I'm Young So I Can Die Happy!

17 October 1962
A recently-retired policewoman who is facing her own mortality discovers, with the help of Detective Arcaro, how she has missed so many opportunities for happiness.

Season 4, Episode 6: Five Cranks for Winter... Ten Cranks for Spring

24 October 1962
Former contender Johnny Meigs, eking out a living after a brain injury, pleads to go back in the ring, to get money to send his unknowing wife Kathy to compete in a floral show in Baltimore. Crooked boxing manager Gus Slate lines up an elderly, alcoholic physician to give Meigs a passing physical.

Season 4, Episode 7: Go Fight City Hall

31 October 1962
A subway fare taker who tried to hide his drunken escapades by falsely reporting a crime, goes on a mini crime spree to try to make fools of the investigating detectives.

Season 4, Episode 8: Torment Him Much and Hold Him Long

7 November 1962
To remain straight, an ex-con informs on the would-be robbers of a bar where he works, instead of helping the stickup men, his former pals. But the hoods' connection to Link Toland, a seemingly respectable businessman with serious political juice, cranks the heat way up on the young informant, his family, the investigating detectives, and even the tavern owner.

Season 4, Episode 9: Make It Fifty Dollars and Add Love to Nona

14 November 1962
An old, but vibrant, man is shuffled off to an "Elderly Citizen's" home by his wealthy son. Both to get his son's attention and amuse himself, the man begins to make threatening crank telephone calls. A fellow resident, a retired cop, overhears him doing this and begins to blackmail his "friend".

Season 4, Episode 10: A Horse Has a Big Head - Let Him Worry!

21 November 1962
An almost-blind young man roams the streets of New York after separating from his class, while his teacher (Diahann Carroll) attempts to convince his parents that the boy can learn to ably use his limited sight and not become completely blind.

Season 4, Episode 11: Dust Devil on a Quiet Street

28 November 1962
An acting class prank gone tragically awry leads the detectives to look closely at a talented but emotionally-tortured student.

Season 4, Episode 12: The Virtues of Madame Douvay

5 December 1962
Dishwasher carved to death, while Adam & Libby slurp wine in a French bistro. The restaurateur accused the kitchen helper of amouring his wife, so Lt. Parker targets him, not knowing the Frenchwoman totally entrances the mysterious real killer. Libby's acting career bellies out faster than a soufflé, so she presses Adam to romp off to Paris together, instead of him pursuing other murder suspects.

Season 4, Episode 13: King Stanislaus and the Knights of the Round Stable

12 December 1962
Two longtime Polish friends in the meat business have some bad blood between them and fight to resolve their issues.

Season 4, Episode 14: Spectre of the Rose Street Gang

19 December 1962
Construction workers unearth the skeleton of a 14-year old boy, dead and buried for about 25 years. The only clue to his identity -- and fate -- is a cigarette lighter with the monogram JLY. Learning of this from the morning paper, perpetual ne'er-do-well Sam Langan recognizes both the dead boy and a chance to advance himself.

Season 4, Episode 15: Don't Knock It Till You've Tried It

26 December 1962

Season 4, Episode 16: Her Life in Moving Pictures

2 January 1963

Season 4, Episode 17: Robin Hood and Clarence Darrow, They Went Out with Bow and Arrow

9 January 1963
After a string of liquor store robberies and murders, a liquor store owner plans for retribution when his store is robbed and his friend, the clerk, is killed.

Season 4, Episode 18: The Apple Falls Not Far from the Tree

23 January 1963
A group of rich young men burglarize apartments in their own building, and to cover their tracks, escalate to violence.

Season 4, Episode 19: Beyond This Place There Be Dragons

30 January 1963
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.

Season 4, Episode 20: Man Without a Skin

6 February 1963
A hot dog, newspaper headline-grabbing detective has himself assigned to the 65th Precinct to find the killer of his partner. Both Lt. Parker and Det. Flint soon find that this brash and rash detective gets under their skin. He challenges their bravery and considers them to be safety first "parade cops".

Season 4, Episode 21: Prime of Life

13 February 1963
Flint is ordered to prison to witness the execution of a murderer he helped capture.

Season 4, Episode 22: Bringing Far Places Together

20 February 1963
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.

Season 4, Episode 23: The Highest of Prizes

27 February 1963
A jury that seems hopelessly deadlocked debates the case of a man who murdered his wife in order to be with another woman, but there might not be enough physical evidence to sway all of the jurors.

Season 4, Episode 24: Alive and Still a Second Lieutenant

6 March 1963
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.

Season 4, Episode 25: Stop the Parade! A Baby Is Crying!

20 April 1963
The reporting of a car theft by a good looking blonde seems odd for some reason to Detectives Flint and Arcaro. Later they and Lt. Parker are told she actually lent the car after a casual pickup.As more is learned about this woman her mental state becomes a concern. Is she a possible suicide case or a danger to others?

Season 4, Episode 26: On the Battle Front: Every Minute Is Important

27 March 1963

Season 4, Episode 27: Howard Running Bear Is a Turtle

3 April 1963
American Indians employed in NYC as "high floor construction workers" are a close knit group that follow tribal customs. A loveless arranged marriage that has not worked out eventually leads to a fatal fight between a husband and the tribesman she really loves.Rather than telling the NYPD the truth, the tribe "honors" the dead man by saying nothing.

Season 4, Episode 28: No Naked Ladies in Front of Giovanni's House!

17 April 1963

Season 4, Episode 29: Carrier

24 April 1963
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.

Season 4, Episode 30: Color Schemes Like Never Before

1 May 1963
A man with no "point of view" is strongly attracted to an opinionated woman. After he witnesses the accidental death of a "client" of his brother and his business associates he is told to leave NYC. He resists due to his newly found love and is a danger to them. Will he tell the NYPD the true story or be killed first?

Season 4, Episode 31: The S.S. American Dream

8 May 1963

Season 4, Episode 32: One, Two, Three, Rita Rakahowski

15 May 1963

Season 4, Episode 33: Golden Lads and Girls

22 May 1963
A pair of married couples from different social and economic backgrounds find they do have something in common. The couples both are involved in physically abusive relationships and must go through the same legal system. The realization that they have similar problems despite their different stations in life is quite an eye opener.

Season 4, Episode 34: Barefoot on a Bed of Coals

29 May 1963
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.