Season 2 (1961)

Portrait of a Man Running
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October 4, 1961 • 1h

A fictional state governor running for re-election stages a phony assassination attempt to boost his chances for victory, and hire...Read more

The Button Down Break
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October 11, 1961 • 1h

Luther Gage, an egomaniacal, methodical killer whom Dr. Hyatt helped send to prison, vows revenge and conducts a plot planned to t...Read more

The Heat of Passion
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October 18, 1961 • 1h

At Corey's urging, a reluctant Dr. Hyatt is staying at a lodge for some much needed rest and recreation. The lodge's handyman is p...Read more

Waiting for Jocko
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October 25, 1961 • 1h

Jocko, a man whom Dr. Hyatt recommended be remanded to a psychiatric facility for treatment at his parole hearing five years earli...Read more

Through a Dark Glass
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November 1, 1961 • 1h

Gina Burton is a photo-journalist who has pictures that prove sensitive to a prominent men's club. In an effort to fend off an int...Read more

Juan Moreno's Body
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November 8, 1961 • 1h

The son of a prominent businessman has been murdered in San Felipe. The town suspects Juan Moreno, a migrant worker, but the men a...Read more

Kill the Sound
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November 15, 1961 • 1h

Sid Caesar appears as Johnny Wilder, a highly popular but guilt-ridden, somewhat neurotic San Francisco disk jockey who believes t...Read more

The Crimson Pool
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November 22, 1961 • 1h

Zoe Kamens is an artist who just wants to paint honestly by copying masterpieces, but her husband, a man of questionable ethics, h...Read more

The Two of Us
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November 29, 1961 • 1h

Highly successful construction engineer Howard Gentry calls on Checkmate after an apparent attempt on his life. Checkmate suspects...Read more

Nice Guys Finish Last
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December 13, 1961 • 1h

Police Lieutenant Dave Harker, a friend of Don's, is bitter after being denied a promotion to Captain, and decides to frame nightc...Read more

To the Best of My Recollection
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December 27, 1961 • 1h

An amnesiac woman is taken home from the hospital by a man claiming to be her husband, but the woman doesn't believe that she coul...Read more

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Game
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January 3, 1962 • 1h

In a mostly comedic episode, Jack Benny guest stars as Jack Bowen, a beloved TV comedian much like Benny himself, who is serving a...Read more

The Star System
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January 10, 1962 • 1h

Jed poses as a publicity man on a movie set to keep a close watch on suicidal actress Vicky Page, accused of trying to kill anothe...Read more

The Renaissance of Gussie Hill
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January 17, 1962 • 1h

Checkmate is called to investigate the disappearance of an employee at Venus West, a beauty farm for women. Don finds himself fall...Read more

A Very Rough Sketch
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January 24, 1962 • 1h

Eddie Phillips is a gifted but troubled young art student with an anger management problem. After being informed of his father's a...Read more

The Yacht Club Gang
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January 31, 1962 • 1h

A widow who runs a yacht club hires the Checkmate agency to investigate an apparent attempt on the life of a married man she is ha...Read more

Death Beyond Recall
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February 7, 1962 • 1h

John Baker, a lawyer friend of Dr. Hyatt's with a mysterious past, is threatened with disbarment. He decides he wants to die, and ...Read more

The Sound of Nervous Laughter
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February 14, 1962 • 1h

Aging theater star Richard Gilmore is nearly killed in an apparent accident during a rehearsal. His wife, actress Beatrice Lawlor,...Read more

An Assassin Arrives, Andante
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February 21, 1962 • 1h

Victor Ragar, a cellist at a music conservatory that fronts for an Eastern Bloc freedom movement of which he is the leader, is in ...Read more

Remembrance of Crimes Past
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February 28, 1962 • 1h

Karen Vale, who served five years for acting as a courier for enemy agents, is staying at a halfway house for women run by a senat...Read more

Heart Is a Handout
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March 7, 1962 • 1h

Jed and Dr. Hyatt go undercover as members of a hobo community to protect a man known as Doc, acknowledged leader of the community...Read more

A Brooding Fixation
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March 14, 1962 • 1h

The death of powerful business magnate Arnold Brack from an apparent gun accident, and his widow's and brother's apparent lack of ...Read more

A Chant of Silence
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March 21, 1962 • 1h

Two convicts, both former Catholic schoolboys, escape by shooting a policeman, then hole up in a monastery while Dr. Hyatt is visi...Read more

Trial by Midnight
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March 28, 1962 • 1h

Checkmate is hired to protect the life of Judge Leland McIntyre, who is conducting a series of lectures concerning a trial over wh...Read more

Ride a Wild Horse
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April 4, 1962 • 1h

Checkmate is hired to protect rodeo star Len Kobalsky from his girlfriend Marcy Lowell's brother, who disapproves of their relatio...Read more

So Beats My Plastic Heart
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April 11, 1962 • 1h

A woman who runs a home for struggling artists has been receiving death threats, and suspicion falls on her boarders, including a ...Read more

In a Foreign Quarter
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April 18, 1962 • 1h

The Checkmate team is in Chinatown on behalf of a colleague of Dr. Hyatt's, a Dr. James Low, who claims his Chinese wife may try t...Read more

Referendum on Murder
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April 25, 1962 • 1h

Checkmate is hired by a woman to protect her husband, Stephen Jordan, who publishes a newspaper opposed to a referendum on legaliz...Read more

The Someday Man
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May 2, 1962 • 1h

In a tour-de-force performance, Don Taylor guest stars as an ex-pro football player, now fronting a cheap health club and always o...Read more

Rendezvous in Washington
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May 9, 1962 • 1h

Wealthy industrialist Frederick Haley, who has been appointed to an important position at a humanitarian foundation, asks Checkmat...Read more

The Bold and the Tough
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May 16, 1962 • 1h

After an attempt is made on the life of bankrupt ranch owner Harl Stoner, the Checkmate agency goes undercover at the ranch's stoc...Read more

Will the Real Killer Please Stand Up?
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May 23, 1962 • 1h

When a powerful millionaire dies, his three sons suddenly start to suspect everyone as potential threats to stealing the old man's...Read more

Down the Gardenia Path
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June 6, 1962 • 1h

A young hotel convention hostess is being used to escort businessmen attending the convention to their rooms, and then have her pi...Read more

Side by Side
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June 20, 1962 • 1h

The personal relationship between entertainer Johnny Kay and his singing partner Pete O'Mara has hit a sour note. Corey (Anthony ...Read more