Season 3 (1959)

Ten Minutes to Doomsday
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September 18, 1959 • 30m

M Squad hunts for a bomb before it blows up a hospital. Jonas Blecker, an embittered bank clerk who went to prison for dipping in ...Read more

The European Plan
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September 25, 1959 • 30m

Mrs Ashton is killed during a house robbery. The M squad are brought in to try and work out what happened. A very open and shut ca...Read more

Sunday Punch
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October 2, 1959 • 30m

When a well-liked retired couple is found brutally murdered, evidence points to their curmudgeonly neighbor. Lieutenant Ballinger ...Read more

Jeopardy by Fire
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October 9, 1959 • 30m

The M squad is called in after a series of factory fires occur in the Chicago area. The case become complex after the unusual chem...Read more

Murder in C-Sharp Minor
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October 16, 1959 • 30m

Detective Ballinger is brought in to investigate the murder of night club owner Joe Dalio. The case seems open and cut with a susp...Read more

The Human Bond
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October 23, 1959 • 30m

A bail bondsman's son is kidnapped to force his father to post an $80,000 bond for the release of a murderous extortionist. Lieute...Read more

Mama's Boy
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October 30, 1959 • 30m

Detective Ballinger is called in after what seems to be a professional hit on a desk clerk at a hotel. A witness identifies who ma...Read more

Shred of Doubt
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November 6, 1959 • 30m

Ballinger is called in to investigate when a burning car is found with the body of a young woman bound with wire inside. The chief...Read more

Death by Adoption
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November 20, 1959 • 30m

Used car salesman Larry Colman has argument with Art Brunswick, a man who claims to the be the father of Colman's daughter. Colman...Read more

Another Face, Another Life
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November 27, 1959 • 30m

Ballinger is part of an ongoing investigation into racketeering in the night club industry. After a fight breaks out in a club, Ba...Read more

Voice from the Grave
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December 4, 1959 • 30m

Harry Conklin is killed while on the way to a secret Senate hearing into stand over tactics in the trucking industry. Suspicion fa...Read more

The Upset
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December 11, 1959 • 30m

Danny Sutton is arrested. During the interview a rookie detective makes a mistake and Sutton gets access to a gun and Ballinger fi...Read more

One of Our Armored Cars Is Missing
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December 18, 1959 • 30m

An armored car is hijacked during a pickup at a government installation. There are surprisingly fews clues left behind by the crim...Read more

The Ivy League Bank Robbers
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December 25, 1959 • 30m

A woman and her baby are hospitalized after a group of bank robbers run them down during an escape. Ballinger wants the men for th...Read more

The Twisted Way
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January 1, 1960 • 30m

A witness fingers the gangster who cut a rival in half with a shotgun blast, but the killer's alibied by a beautiful actress. The ...Read more

The Man Who Went Straight
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January 8, 1960 • 30m

Ballinger gets a tip from John Clavell, that an old drug dealer Manny Franchette is coming back into town to re-establish his old ...Read more

The Second Best Killer
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January 15, 1960 • 30m

Herbie Ryder gains fame for stopping a bank robbery. After a media interview he is shot and killed. Ballinger is brought in in the...Read more

Pitched Battle at Bluebell Acres
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January 22, 1960 • 30m

Ballinger is brought in when a robbery and murder occurs at an armory. He is puzzled by the list of weapons stolen including a baz...Read more

The Man Who Lost His Brain
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January 26, 1960 • 30m

When an "electronic brain" worth $2,000,000 is stolen and held for ransom of $300,000, Captain Grey and Lieutenant Ballinger devis...Read more

Debt of Honor
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February 2, 1960 • 30m

During a crack down on Chicago crime, Bugsy Page makes threats against the Attorney General Russel Madison. Ballinger needs to dec...Read more

The Man with Frank's Face
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February 9, 1960 • 30m

A badly beaten man is admitted to hospital. He does not have long to live and the police need to work fast to solve the mystery. T...Read more

Burglar's Nightmare
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February 16, 1960 • 30m

A trio of bank robbers try to blow a safe. It all goes wrong and one of the criminals is killed in the explosion. Ballinger thinks...Read more

Needle in the Haystack
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February 23, 1960 • 30m

Lanny Cord escapes from a court room and disappears. Ballinger is interested in the case because he's originally arrested Cord and...Read more

Race to Death
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March 1, 1960 • 30m

British racing car driver Morrison is killed in a local race. The driver's chief mechanic presents evidence to M Squad that indica...Read more

The Velvet Stake-out
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March 8, 1960 • 30m

Conrad Brenner is found dead in an apparent suicide. As Ballinger continues the investigation it becomes evident that he's actuall...Read more

Anything for Joe
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March 15, 1960 • 30m

After a narcotics robbery, Ballinger makes an arrest, but is concerned the collar was too easy. Everything about the arrested pers...Read more

A Kid Up There
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March 22, 1960 • 30m

Frank Ballinger becomes involved in a tense hostage situation, he must restrain his instinct to simply shoot it out because of fea...Read more

Diary of a Bomber
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March 29, 1960 • 30m

Ballinger is on a case involving threats against a visiting prince to Chicago. Mo one is taking the situation too seriously until ...Read more

Let There Be Light
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April 5, 1960 • 30m

During a robbery one of the criminals is hit in the eye and blinded. Ballinger has a fair idea who is behind the crime. Urgency in...Read more

A Gun for Mother's Day
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April 12, 1960 • 30m

Lieutenant Ballinger works to solve a series of armed holdups as a means toward the capture of shotgun-wielding Ma Phelan, who mur...Read more

The Man with the Ice
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April 19, 1960 • 30m

Ballinger is working a jewelry theft when he becomes convinced one of thieves is a clean skin amateur. He realizes by putting pres...Read more

Dead Parrots Don't Talk
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May 3, 1960 • 30m

A penny arcade owner is robbed and murdered. Suspision falls on a local peddler. But Ballinger thinks there is more to this case t...Read more

Grenade for a Summer Evening
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May 10, 1960 • 30m

A man is killed while sleeping Ballinger begins to investigate and discovers very different opinions about the dead man's character exist.

Two Days for Willy
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May 17, 1960 • 30m

Willy Nichols is due to testify in a narcotics investigation, although under police protection he receives a threatening phone cal...Read more

Badge for a Coward
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May 24, 1960 • 30m

Accompanied by a female reporter, Lieutenant Ballinger investigates an elderly woman's charge that the man who robbed her store an...Read more

Closed Season
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May 31, 1960 • 30m

Sonny Bradley is charged with murder. Ballinger begins to investigate and quickly realizes something is not right about the statem...Read more

Fire in the Sky
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June 7, 1960 • 30m

A plane is blown up killing ten people. Evidence begins to indicate that it wasn't an accident. Ballinger begins to follow the tra...Read more

The Tiger's Cage
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June 14, 1960 • 30m

A bookkeeper is robbed and murdered at a circus. A clown named Laslo is identified as the killer. Ballinger and the rest of M squa...Read more

The Bad Apple
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June 21, 1960 • 30m

Ballinger and M squad are called in to investigate a diamond robbery. All the evidence points to an inside job. M squad have the t...Read more