Deadline

9/24/1959

Reporter George Thiem's dilemma: loyalty to a friend or respect for the law.

10/1/1959

A persistent newsman tries to prove that a mild-mannered salesman is the murderer of two women.

10/8/1959

Two teen-agers scheme to get rich quick by passing bad checks.

10/15/1959

A respected doctor becomes the victim of an extortionist.

10/22/1959

Reporter Ed Mowery, certain that a convicted murderer is innocent, tries to have the case reopened.

10/29/1959

A plane explodes in mid-flight, killing everyone on board.

11/5/1959

Newsman Harry Romanoff tries to unmask a phony hero: he believes that the man committed a double murder.

11/12/1959

A sorority meeting and a missed bus spell death for a coed and her killer has an airtight alibi.

11/19/1959

Don Hogan of the Boston Post tries to help an amnesic regain the will to live.

11/26/1959

It takes a violent prison riot and a crusading reporter to alert the authorities to the inhuman conditions at a penal institution.

12/3/1959

To expose a shoplifting racket, fashion editor Trudy Prokop infiltrates the gang.

12/10/1959

A brilliant detective matches wits with a reporter trying to clear a man caught in a web of circumstantial evidence.

12/17/1959

A beautiful murderer proves true her claim that no jail built could hold her.

12/24/1959

A pilot becomes mentally ill after he takes part in the bombing of Hiroshima.

12/31/1959

An unusual clue helps Gene Lindsey of the Phoenix (Ariz.) Gazette solve a murder.

1/7/1960

Two newsmen track a lonely-hearts killer who has claimed three victims.

1/14/1960

Two teen-age gangs are on the verge of declaring peace when a boy returns from prison and stirs up fury anew.

1/21/1960

Reporter Matt Conklin tries to foster good feelings between a quiet Texas town and a new Air Force base.

1/28/1960

A berserk killer is on the loose in California.

2/4/1960

A soldier confesses to the murder of a beautiful girl but a stubborn reporter refuses to believe him.

2/11/1960

Police and reporters try to break a man suspected of having murdered a 15-year-old girl.

2/18/1960

Three convicts escape from a maximum-security prison by forging the warden's signature on pardons.

2/25/1960

It's Christmas week in New York, and a mad bomber is stalking the city.

3/3/1960

Reporter Leo Sheridan is called in as a character witness at the murder trial of his best friend.

3/10/1960

A cub reporter stumbles onto two bandits.

3/17/1960

William Key helps a despondent young girl on Christmas Eve.

3/24/1960

A father and his son are hunting for a lost ball that rolled under their porch and discover a woman's body.

3/31/1960

Bernice Freeman stands by her friend when he is accused of murder.

4/7/1960

A brilliant, but deranged, college student tries to carry out the perfect crime

4/14/1960

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.

4/21/1960

A woman brutally murders a handy man after being named the beneficiary of his life-insurance policy.

4/28/1960

A reporter, nursed by two Burmese women during the war, fights to keep them from being forced back to Burma and certain death.

5/5/1960

A wild hunch helps reporter Clayton Darrah trap two phantom bandits. The only available description is "one short, one tall."

5/12/1960

A car parked outside an uncharted cave convinces a reporter that someone is lost inside.

5/19/1960

A rest home for alcoholics, scene of five deaths within a brief period, is investigated by newsman Paul Quick.

5/26/1960

Reporter Ed Reid encounters an ex-fight manager, a singer and a boxer in his search for a missing sea captain.

2/1/1961

2/4/1961

The Erie, Pa., fire department is looking for the arsonist terrorizing the town.