Deadline - Season 1
1 - Victor Reisel
Air Date: September 17, 1959
As labor reporter on the New York Daily Mirror, Riesel fights against racketeers by exposing them to the public.
2 - State Scandal
Air Date: September 24, 1959
Reporter George Thiem's dilemma: loyalty to a friend or respect for the law.
3 - Pickup
Air Date: October 1, 1959
A persistent newsman tries to prove that a mild-mannered salesman is the murderer of two women.
4 - The Neon Touch
Air Date: October 8, 1959
Two teen-agers scheme to get rich quick by passing bad checks.
5 - Extortion
Air Date: October 15, 1959
A respected doctor becomes the victim of an extortionist.
6 - The accusing finger
Air Date: October 22, 1959
Reporter Ed Mowery, certain that a convicted murderer is innocent, tries to have the case reopened.
7 - Mass Murder
Air Date: October 29, 1959
A plane explodes in mid-flight, killing everyone on board.
8 - The Case Of The Stranger
Air Date: November 5, 1959
Newsman Harry Romanoff tries to unmask a phony hero: he believes that the man committed a double murder.
9 - Charm Boy
Air Date: November 12, 1959
A sorority meeting and a missed bus spell death for a coed and her killer has an airtight alibi.
10 - Old Man Lost
Air Date: November 19, 1959
Don Hogan of the Boston Post tries to help an amnesic regain the will to live.
11 - The Human Storm
Air Date: November 26, 1959
It takes a violent prison riot and a crusading reporter to alert the authorities to the inhuman conditions at a penal institution.
12 - Hot Stuff
Air Date: December 3, 1959
To expose a shoplifting racket, fashion editor Trudy Prokop infiltrates the gang.
13 - The Face of a Thief
Air Date: December 10, 1959
A brilliant detective matches wits with a reporter trying to clear a man caught in a web of circumstantial evidence.
14 - Murderess
Air Date: December 17, 1959
A beautiful murderer proves true her claim that no jail built could hold her.
15 - Chain Reaction
Air Date: December 24, 1959
A pilot becomes mentally ill after he takes part in the bombing of Hiroshima.
16 - Clean Kill
Air Date: December 31, 1959
An unusual clue helps Gene Lindsey of the Phoenix (Ariz.) Gazette solve a murder.
17 - Lonely Hearts Killer
Air Date: January 7, 1960
Two newsmen track a lonely-hearts killer who has claimed three victims.
18 - Return to Murder
Air Date: January 14, 1960
Two teen-age gangs are on the verge of declaring peace when a boy returns from prison and stirs up fury anew.
19 - Scramble
Air Date: January 21, 1960
Reporter Matt Conklin tries to foster good feelings between a quiet Texas town and a new Air Force base.
20 - Massacre
Air Date: January 28, 1960
A berserk killer is on the loose in California.
21 - The Blue Dahlia
Air Date: February 4, 1960
A soldier confesses to the murder of a beautiful girl but a stubborn reporter refuses to believe him.
22 - Checkmate
Air Date: February 11, 1960
Police and reporters try to break a man suspected of having murdered a 15-year-old girl.
23 - Jailbreak
Air Date: February 18, 1960
Three convicts escape from a maximum-security prison by forging the warden's signature on pardons.
24 - Mad Bomber
Air Date: February 25, 1960
It's Christmas week in New York, and a mad bomber is stalking the city.
25 - Character Witness
Air Date: March 3, 1960
Reporter Leo Sheridan is called in as a character witness at the murder trial of his best friend.
26 - Dumb Kid
Air Date: March 10, 1960
A cub reporter stumbles onto two bandits.
27 - A Story for Christmas
Air Date: March 17, 1960
William Key helps a despondent young girl on Christmas Eve.
28 - Birthday Present
Air Date: March 24, 1960
A father and his son are hunting for a lost ball that rolled under their porch and discover a woman's body.
29 - Suspicion of Murder
Air Date: March 31, 1960
Bernice Freeman stands by her friend when he is accused of murder.
30 - Thesis for Murder
Air Date: April 7, 1960
A brilliant, but deranged, college student tries to carry out the perfect crime
31 - Exposure
Air Date: April 14, 1960
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.
32 - Pig Woman
Air Date: April 21, 1960
A woman brutally murders a handy man after being named the beneficiary of his life-insurance policy.
33 - To Move a Mountain
Air Date: April 28, 1960
A reporter, nursed by two Burmese women during the war, fights to keep them from being forced back to Burma and certain death.
34 - One Tall, One Short
Air Date: May 5, 1960
A wild hunch helps reporter Clayton Darrah trap two phantom bandits. The only available description is "one short, one tall."
35 - The Cave
Air Date: May 12, 1960
A car parked outside an uncharted cave convinces a reporter that someone is lost inside.
36 - The Two Ounce Trap
Air Date: May 19, 1960
A rest home for alcoholics, scene of five deaths within a brief period, is investigated by newsman Paul Quick.
37 - The Last Knockout
Air Date: May 26, 1960
Reporter Ed Reid encounters an ex-fight manager, a singer and a boxer in his search for a missing sea captain.
38 - Episode 38
Air Date: February 1, 1961
39 - Smoke Screen
Air Date: February 4, 1961
The Erie, Pa., fire department is looking for the arsonist terrorizing the town.