Mon, Jan 8, 1962
After returning drunk to his bachelor party the night before his wedding, Cleve Tompson remembers finding his fiancee's body in her apartment. He calls police and tells them that he had to have killed her. But after checking out the evidence in her room, the detectives don't believe he could have done it. They find that the girl had recently paid large amounts of money to several other men. Meanwhile, Tompson, still believing he had to have done it, calls the newspaper and they print his confession to them on the front page.
Mon, Jan 15, 1962
A human hand is found in a flight bag that was thrown in a trash can. The detectives try to match it to a recent missing person. Their main focus is on a man who was reported missing by his wife after she kicked him out because she thought he was having a fling with a model. When they investigate the model, they find that she too has been reported missing.
Mon, Jan 29, 1962
Acting on an anonymous tip, the detectives pick up Greg Brovane in connection with a robbery in which two men were killed. On interrogation, Brovane names three accomplices. However, the detectives can not find any information on any of the three accomplices. What they don't know is that Brovane is a patsy who was hypnotized and subjected to intense brainwashing by the actual perpetrators, and that the three accomplices he has named do not exist.
Mon, Feb 12, 1962
Right after returning from her honeymoon, a policeman's wife is shot in the back and seriously wounded by a sniper. The only apparent witness is a young boy who strangely claims to have seen a suspicious person but not to have heard the shot, even though he was right across the street. The detectives focus their investigation on several men who threatened the policeman because they blamed him for their imprisonment.
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Mon, Feb 19, 1962
Two ex-convicts kidnap a young man, believing him to be the son of shoe manufacturer Douglas King. Actually, the boy is the son of the manufacturer's chauffeur. When the kidnappers discover this, they still demand that King pay $250,000 for the boy's safe return. However, King, believing this will ruin him financially, tells the police he is not going to pay the ransom.
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Mon, Mar 5, 1962
A young woman is found murdered in the liquor store she was working in as a clerk. Though it at first looks like a burglary, the detectives soon discount that theory and look into the girl's acquaintances, particularly as she was engaged in a custody battle with her ex-husband, and was romantically involved with her employer and hoping to marry him when he divorced his wife.
Mon, Mar 12, 1962
Veteran beat cop Otto Forman is plagued with guilt after his partner is shot and killed during a robbery. The detectives also have questions about Forman, particularly after they learn that the gun used in the robbery and murder was stolen from him five years ago, and that the likely killer is his estranged son.
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Mon, Apr 2, 1962
In response to an incident of vandalism at a store, Kling tries to persuade baseball player Larry Brooks to start a ball club for young kids in the neighborhood he grew up in. Larry finally agrees, after learning that his parolee older brother has become involved in a numbers racket. Unfortunately, Larry's attempts to keep his brother out of further trouble just wind up digging a deeper hole for both of them.
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Mon, Apr 9, 1962
Havilland's usually cold and cynical heart is warmed by a boy who stole a wreath for his mother's grave, so he helps out the youth by buying him a wreath. The boy, Ramon, wants to somehow repay the detective by helping him out. What's unknown to the police is that Ramon's father, along with a janitor at the precinct, is part of a group planning to assassinate the prime minister of a Latin nation whom the precinct officers have been asked to help protect. When the group draws straws, Ramon's father is the one picked to do the killing.
Mon, Apr 16, 1962
The detectives are on the hunt for a wounded boxer who, after being shot by the owner of the store he was trying to rob, later killed an off-duty cop by slugging him through a glass window. Working with the 87th Precinct detectives is an officer from a much less crime-ridden precinct. As they are about to arrest the boxer, the new officer makes an unwise move which in the process almost gets himself and Carella killed.
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Mon, Apr 23, 1962
Veteran officer Mike Power, only months away from retirement, is transferred to the 87th from Central Station after he is shot and a prisoner he was assigned to protect killed. While working at his new precinct Power starts giving sensational scoops to the press about the police cases he is investigating, something which does not please the other officers - and could put him in danger as well.
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Mon, Apr 30, 1962
After a public stenographer takes the dictation of a millionaire's last will and testament, three apparent attempts are made her life, and she is approached by a man offering $100,000 if she claims the millionaire was not of sound mind at the time the will was dictated. Havilland develops a close relation with the girl while trying to protect her.