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- In his first mission as a secret agent, Burke replaces and pretends to be both pilot and deliveryman Schreiner to infiltrate a syndicate that smuggles Red Chinese gold into Latin America to finance rebels.
- Burke is assigned to rescue the son of an Algerian diplomat apparently kidnapped for ransom but uncovers a more serious plot to overthrow the French government.
- When persons trying to contact British agents say a password are killed, Burke is directed to investigate and finds a plot to use a Soviet satellite launch and a phony atomic threat to lure British defenses to an underground gas trap.
- Burke infiltrates the organization of a deported mobster who has employed the talents of a diabolical chemist and the funds of foreign governments to execute a fiendish plan to sack New York City and carry out political assassination.
- When a businessman, Buddy Jack Cook, with a very shady reputation is found slain in a hotel elevator, Harold Harold, his accountant, is the prime suspect.
- The publisher of a girlie magazine is murdered at one of his own key clubs.
- Party girl Annie Foran is found strangled in the back seat of a customer's car at the exclusive restaurant Club Nova. Suspicion falls on her ex-boyfriend, baseball sensation Eddie Dineen, who was there at the time in the company of his mentor, the acerbic columnist Whitman Saunders, and Saunder's assistant, Milo Morgan.
- Carhop waitress April Adams is found murdered in an automobile scrapyard. The discovery that she had over $40,000 in the bank indicates that she had a second income that was both lucrative and illicit.
- Burke and his team investigate the murder of a wealthy industrial designer.
- Burke is at a poolside party when he sees artist Beau Sparrow take a hard dive into a pool---a dive which kills him. Investigation shows the diving board's catapult was deliberately tampered with.
- A recording star is murdered. Was the killer his agent, his sister, his music arranger, or someone else?
- Carrie Cornell, singer and model, is found murdered on a beach. A photograph of her in Girlicue magazine links her to sleazy millionaire Martin Van Martin and he has disappeared.
- While the water for her before dinner bath is being drawn, high society blackmailer Cassandra Cass is gunned down in her bedroom in her mansion. The prime suspects are her four victims, all of whom had been invited to dinner that evening. And, of course, there's the butler.
- The life of hotel magnate Cornelius Gilbert comes to an electrifying finish when somebody hot wires the metal ladder in his swimming pool. A torn piece of plaid cloth, a gold St. Christopher's medal, and Gilbert's annual round-the-world charter flight are the clues.
- Burke has to search for a missing cat before he can find a killer.
- When the anchor of millionaire Davidian Jonas's yacht is raised, his corpse is found attached to it.
- Four poker buddies celebrate the first anniversary of their weekly games with a private party at the Hillsdale Country Club. The festivities end when all four men are killed by a bottle of poisoned wine. There is no shortage of suspects. Besides having four unhappy wives, the men had incurred the ire of Butterfield, the club's historian, baseball coach, and busybody.
- A pretentious method actor is killed during a performance of "Hamlet".
- Burke's investigation of the murder of Harris Crown is complicated by the fact that Mrs. Crown is pregnant - and not by her husband.
- A man claiming to be an exiled Russian prince - not that anyone ever believed that - is murdered.
- Model Holly Howard is found murdered, and the only clues seem to link a trio of wealthy Texans to her death.
- An extremely strange girl called Lucy Brewer finds a corpse in the shower. Burke's suspects include an old friend, a cultivator of unusual plants, a wine snob and the dead man's daughter - or is she?
- Julian Buck, one of America's most respected authors, is found strangled to death in his study. The manuscript for his latest novel is missing, but one curious item is found: what appears to be an extra rubber cap for the feet of his typewriter stand.
- Murdered Lenore has left a note that she's changing her will with the heir as nephew Jay Boy who is involved with daughter of Jim Clover who needs Lenore's land to complete his development but Jay Boy's fiancée Effie Mae is in town.
- A shady attorney carrying a lot of money is murdered after making a telephone call.
- Ruthless Hollywood agent Marty Kelso is murdered and leaves behind a plethora of suspects including a new wife and three ex-wives.
- The suspects are a prodigal son, a secretary and a number of people whose livelihood involves children when a writer of children's books is strangled with a typewriter ribbon.
- 1963–196630m7.6 (30)TV EpisodeWith Burke in Chicago, the unit must solve the murder of a blackmailing department store maintenance man with unsavory connections past and present and who has a penchant for the horses.
- A body turns up at a merry-go-round. There are no identifying papers on the body and the labels have been removed from the man's clothing. The few clues available point Burke toward an actress under exclusive contract to Flood, a rarely seen industrialist. Burke discovers a number of women are under such exclusive contracts. Then, the detective discovers the dead man was Flood himself. Burke must figure out who, among a number of suspects, committed the crime.
- Using a .38 revolver with a silencer, an assailant murders heiress Diana Mercer in her bedroom after she's been dropped off by her date--her old flame, Amos Burke. As he investigates her death, Burke discovers that the woman who was murdered was a far cry from the one he knew and loved years earlier.
- Novelist Graham Tree whose smeared characters are thinly disguised awakens on the autopsy table after a severe beating and attempted barbiturate poisoning so Amos believes the culprit must be caught before a successful second attempt.
- Prior to her apparent murder, a practicing witch sends Amos a message predicting her murder with a list of five suspects from the occult arts.
- Who could have murdered the nice old lady who sold maps of the stars' homes? And why?
- Can it be that Amos Burke himself has been murdered?
- Four famous cops (from London, Paris, Tokyo and Budapest), plus an irascible American private eye, are all suspects when yet another famous sleuth is murdered.
- One of a set of identical sisters with odd personalities is poisoned with cyanide at the residence of a beach bum and Burke and Tilson uncover a family history of suspicious deaths involving a cast of quirky characters.
- Wealthy Wade Walker is killed when his plane blows up in mid-air. Burke's investigation concentrates on four women - a nurse, a singer, a beauty queen and an explosives expert.
- The elaborate robbery of a bank ends with the unprovoked shooting death of its owner, financier Victor S. Barrows. The key to solving the mystery is locating one of perpetrators, a man so average in appearance that nobody can clearly describe him.
- A tennis star is murdered at a charity event - by an exploding tennis ball.
- The unpleasant head of a greetings-card company is murdered.
- Suspicion falls on the figurehead presidents of his four corporations when shady conglomerate owner Monty Crippen dies chewing on a cyanide laced toothpick at a costume party.
- An exploding piano kills off a famous musician.
- When a wealthy banker is found murdered atop a seedy hotel's neon sign, a race to find the murderer develops between Burke and the beautiful private detective who was working for the dead man.
- Dr. Eric Techman, a fashionable LA psychiatrist, telephones Burke to warn him of an impending murder by one of his patients -- his own. But Techman is gunned down before he can name the killer.
- Cowboy star Clayton Steele is murdered at the rodeo. The suspects are many but only one had the motive and opportunity.
- When a doctor is shot to death, suspicion falls on his young wife who due to an abusive childhood frequently runs away and from time to time falls into a dissociative trance.
- After a developer is found stabbed to death and on a meat hook, another man is found dead with the same letter of a list of six names discovered on the developer which includes Amos and then Amos receives such a letter.
- Somehow or other, thirteen circus clowns always manage to squeeze into a tiny car - and get our of it again at the end of the act. But this time, the thirteenth clown is dead.
- The nasty boss of a toy firm is murdered.
- 1970–197730mTV-PG7.9 (177)TV EpisodeNot without reason, Ted is worried that his mandatory vacation might become a permanent one.