21st Precinct — 1953
25 episodes broadcast in 1953.
Captain Kennelly's squad closes in after Carl Ross and the Nolan brothers pull a bank robbery and barricade themselves in an apartment.
A young mugger named George Hrostek slips out of custody, and the precinct has to run him down all over again.
When a tavern owner is murdered, suspicion falls first on his own bartender, Charley Burgess.
The precinct investigates after the infant Lucas twins die under circumstances that do not add up.
A sailor comes home to find his house burned and his family gone, and the squad works to trace what became of them.
Patrolman Beavan is found wounded, and the men must decide whether it was an attack or an attempt on his own life.
A Philadelphia socialite passing bad checks around the precinct turns out to have made a victim of Captain Kennelly himself.
Kennelly is not convinced by the account a robbed secretary, Bea Parazone, gives of the crime.
An ex-model is found murdered by her maid, and her married boyfriend becomes the prime suspect.
Thieves haul off a paint-store owner's heavy safe and demand a ransom to hand it back.
A judge's wife flatly refuses to surrender her dog for rabies observation, and the precinct is caught in the middle.
A hit-and-run driver kills a sergeant's soldier son, and the squad hunts the man responsible.
An addict pulls a false alarm on purpose, hoping a jail stretch will help him kick the habit.
Breaking into a gas-filled apartment, officers uncover evidence of a numbers racket.
Witnesses to a deadly luncheonette robbery each remember it differently, muddying the case.
A nine-month-old boy is left with a couple and then abandoned, and the precinct sets out to find his parents.
An arrested burglar claims a precinct officer took a payoff to look the other way.
A wounded gunman refuses to name the partner who got away.
November 10, 1953
The Case of the Key
A bitter feud between a man's mother and his wife draws the police into the household.
A little girl vanishes from a neighborhood launderette, and the squad races to find her.
A man's body turns up in a sewer ditch, and the precinct must decide whether it is murder or accident.
A retired officer working as a bank guard tries to get his pistol permit renewed.
December 11, 1953
The Meal
Patrolman Vaccaro breaks up a deli holdup and wounds one of the robbers.
December 18, 1953
The Party
A quarrel between a druggist and his landlord threatens to spoil the precinct's Christmas party for local children.
A young woman's date and his friend rob a bar and leave her behind to face the police.
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