21st Precinct — 1954
52 episodes broadcast in 1954.
An officer is accused of roughing up a man he had stopped for assaulting a teenage girl.
A woman fears her husband is sheltering his unstable brother, a man wanted for killing his wife.
Out-of-state visitors have their parked Cadillac stolen, and the squad goes after the thieves.
The younger brother of a friend of the captain falls under suspicion of burglary.
A pastry chef is murdered, and the jealous husband of the chef's girlfriend becomes the suspect.
A woman loses her purse after being abandoned by her date, and the precinct sorts out what really happened.
February 17, 1954
The Charm
King and Kennelly dig into the questionable suicide of a Mrs. Burges.
A Skid Row drunk is found passed out in a woman's apartment, raising awkward questions.
The precinct teams with a safe-and-loft detective to figure out which business a crew of safecrackers will hit next.
March 10, 1954
Diplomat
A Hungarian diplomat's runaway daughter lands the captain in a delicate situation.
March 17, 1954
The Tree
A cornered burglar climbs a tree to escape, while his supposed victim insists nothing was stolen.
An art gallery is threatened with a bombing unless a ransom is paid.
March 31, 1954
Molly
A silent six-year-old is found wandering the streets, and the squad tries to learn who she is.
A domestic dispute turns dangerous when a husband pulls a gun on a responding patrolman.
Patrolman Brennan shoots a young thief in a return of fire, but the thief's missing gun casts doubt on his account.
April 21, 1954
The Ring
A husband returns his wife's supposedly shoplifted ring to a jeweler, but the police are not buying the kleptomania story.
When a Chicago businessman is shot, his mistress, June Nayland, becomes the leading suspect.
Sergeant Waters' own son becomes a suspect after the sergeant's missing gun turns up in a robbery.
Kennelly uses a clever ruse to coax a drunk who stabbed his wife out of a barroom.
Kennelly walks through a typical precinct day, from a fingerprinted priest to a fatal car crash and a rumored promotion.
Captain Kennelly recounts an ordinary shift at the precinct, taking in a fingerprinted priest, a deadly accident, and talk of a promotion.
A woman steals a hypodermic syringe to treat her wounded thief husband.
Kennelly steps in when a rookie guarding a hospitalized prisoner will not let the FBI question the man.
Tailing a burglary suspect, the police let him lead them straight to his accomplices.
A seemingly penniless old man dies and proves to have been far from poor.
A teenage boy dies falling from a newspaper truck, and a club jacket is the only clue to who he was.
A building superintendent will not let a tenant move her furniture out, and the police are called in.
A woman tells Sergeant Waters she has just shot her husband.
A lonely widow perches on the ledge of her high-rise, and the squad tries to talk her back inside.
An elderly man's body is found under a loading dock, and his own son is the prime suspect.
A luncheonette owner suddenly clears his debts right after a big robbery, drawing the precinct's attention.
August 11, 1954
The Standstill
A fourteen-year veteran is set to quit the force until events give him second thoughts.
A man returns home to find his wife beaten unconscious and quickly becomes the leading suspect himself.
Captain Kennelly and an officer are struck by a car while answering a call.
The search for a missing man becomes a hunt for a poisonous snake as well.
An office manager reports the company payroll stolen, but the police doubt his story.
September 15, 1954
The Expert
A soldier spends his honeymoon money to bail a friend out of jail.
After a man is killed in a bar, an unexpected phone call hands the squad a crucial lead.
A narcotics dealer tries to hide out inside the 21st Precinct station house itself.
A woman attempts suicide by gas, leaving her baffled husband searching for a reason.
Police lean on the parolee friend of an escaped murderer for information.
A valuable Guarnerius cello is stolen from a parked car.
A couple are lined up as the marks in a pigeon-drop confidence scheme.
A woman is accidentally locked inside a drugstore overnight, and no one can get her out.
Dynamite and blasting caps stolen from a construction site lead to tragedy.
The precinct stakes out a liquor store hoping to catch a pair of holdup men.
Three angry women descend on the station when a furrier will not return their coats.
A woman with amnesia and no identification is brought in, and the squad works to learn who she is.
Officers break up a mugging, then one of their own patrolmen disappears chasing a suspect.
A suspect is hauled in for questioning about a shooting and a holdup.
A suspicious neighbor reports an old man she believes is selling goods out of his apartment, and the truth proves touching.
A burglar shoots a patrolman and is wounded himself, while his wife behaves strangely.
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