Season 1 (1954)

The Long Beach Story (a.k.a. The Smuggling Story)
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April 9, 1954 • 30m

Sharing a taxicab with a ballet dancer leads Lanyard to smuggled rubies and a confrontation with hijackers.

The Avalanche Story (a.k.a. The Reno Story)
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April 16, 1954 • 30m

Visiting Reno to find a woman who supposedly died during the war, Mike is implicated in the death of two government couriers and e...Read more

The Chinese Story
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April 23, 1954 • 30m

In San Francisco's Chinatown, Mike helps an old friend stop a campaign of intimidation and murder.

The Carnival Story
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April 30, 1954 • 30m

In London, Lanyard is investigating threats against the life of a world-famous ballet dancer when she apparently commits suicide.

The Blue Lantern Story
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May 14, 1954 • 30m

Lanyard is recruited by the Govt. to find out where all the top criminals have been disappearing to. He is to contact an agent nam...Read more

The Ski Story
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May 14, 1954 • 30m

Mike's vacation at a Sun Valley ski lodge is interrupted by murder.

Plantation Story
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May 21, 1954 • 30m

Mike is summoned to a sugar plantation in Manila to investigate illegal dumping by a competitor.

Pursuit
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May 28, 1954 • 30m

In San Francisco, Mike follows a lead on the man who double-crossed him and murdered his business partner five years ago.

The Malibu Story (a.k.a. Malibu-Laguna)
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June 4, 1954 • 30m

A weekend party in Malibu takes an ominous turn when the host's diamonds are stolen and the dead body of his wife washes up on the beach.

The Murder Story
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June 11, 1954 • 30m

Mike is asked by a psychiatrist to investigate a patient who claims to have committed a murder but can't remember the details.

The Honolulu Story
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June 18, 1954 • 30m

Lanyard goes from New Orleans to Hawaii to discover how rubies and opium are being smuggled in from Hong Kong.

Skid Row
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July 2, 1954 • 30m

Lanyard gets a request from Father Picard to make a last-ditch effort to save the life of a prisoner on death row with 36 hours to live.

The Arena
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July 9, 1954 • 30m

Mike tries to help an estranged brother and sister, each of whom believes that the other caused the death of their father in a sup...Read more

The Karachi Story
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July 9, 1954 • 30m

Mike finds a surprise waiting for him when he goes to Pakistan to protect a religious leader's son whose life has been threatened.

The Las Vegas Story
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July 16, 1954 • 30m

In this first episode of the series Lanyard arrives in Las Vegas on vacation, where he gets involved with a cop and his brother...Read more

The Italian Story
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July 23, 1954 • 30m

Lanyard travels to Chicago when he receives an urgent note from Joey Crocetti. A war time buddy who saved Lanyard in Italy during ...Read more

The Hunt
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July 30, 1954 • 30m

Lanyard leaves Mexico but once he arrives back the US he is immediately arrested by the police and put into hospital quarantine. T...Read more

The Oil Story
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August 6, 1954 • 30m

Lanyard searches through the oil fields of Oklahoma for a boy kidnapped by his father from his mother's home.

The Boy Story
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August 13, 1954 • 30m

Lanyard takes a vacation. While enjoying his boat a young boy tries to sell him a gun. Before he knows it he is in a life and deat...Read more

The Emerald Ring
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August 20, 1954 • 30m

Mike searches the waterfront for Helen Calder, a missing heiress who can be identified by an emerald ring.

The Department Store Story
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August 27, 1954 • 30m

Discovering that a recently deceased man's greedy children are looking for a fortune that he hid before he died, Mike decides to m...Read more

The Planetarium Story
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September 3, 1954 • 30m

In Mexico, the death of an archaeologist sends Lanyard in search of a treasure in Aztec gold coins.

The Art Story
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September 10, 1954 • 30m

Lanyard flies to Los Angeles to clear the name of an old friend, a journalist accused of stealing a priceless Van Gogh painting.

The Carlsbad Big Lie Story
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September 17, 1954 • 30m

In New Mexico, Lanyard is worried about an old friend who claims to have seen a flying saucer and that it's not just one of his tall tales.

The Last Ballet Story
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September 24, 1954

Michael Lanyard comes to the aid of a ballerina who is frightened of threatening letters. Instead of helping her he must solve her...Read more

The Beverly Hills Story
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October 1, 1954 • 30m

Mike registers at his favorite Beverly Hills hotel only to find that a con artist posing as his wife has already checked in, but g...Read more

The Jet Story
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October 8, 1954 • 30m

Mike challenges an aircraft designer plagued by accidents to pilot one of his own planes.

The San Francisco Story
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October 15, 1954 • 30m

A woman asks Mike to find out if her husband and their daughter, supposedly killed in a boating accidnet, are still alive.

The Savage
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October 22, 1954 • 30m

Mike visits a South Pacific island to find out why an old friend has apparently resurrected a barbaric native ritual involving fir...Read more

Deep Sea Diving
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October 29, 1954 • 30m

Mike is asked to help an old friend, a deep sea diver accused of helping pirates steal the silver that was about to be salvaged from a sunken wreck.

The Werewolf Story
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November 5, 1954 • 30m

A lawyer asks Lanyard to protect his client's interests at a castle in the Balkans that seems to be threatened by werewolves.

The Stamp Story
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November 12, 1954 • 30m

Mike is hired to locate a stolen rare stamp and return it to its rightful owner.

The Minister Story
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November 19, 1954 • 30m

Lanyard comes to the assistance of an old friend, a minister whose life has been threatened.

The Robbery Story (a.k.a. Memo: Robbery)
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November 26, 1954 • 30m

A big heist prompts Lanyard to track down an infamous jewel thief.

The Wife Story
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December 3, 1954 • 30m

A crazed husband holds Lanyard hostage in a country cottage.

The Planetarium Story
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January 8, 1955 • 30m

Lanyard must recover top-secret microfilm that could sabotage a peace conference if it gets into the wrong hands.

The San Pedro Story
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January 15, 1955 • 30m

Mike is given a ticket on a cruise ship returning from the Orient to determine the truth behind rumors that a playboy king is smug...Read more

The Runaway Story (a.k.a. Death of a Lawyer)
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January 22, 1955 • 30m

Lanyard suspects that a hit-and-run accident was murder.

The Newhall Story (a.k.a. Phoenix-Newhall)
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January 29, 1955 • 30m

When Mike's millionaire friend, a witness to a judge's murder, is killed right in front of him, Mike determines to find the culprits.

The San Francisco Story
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January 1, 1970 • 30m

When Mike's old friend, a carnival clown, is murdered, he hunts for the killer.