21st Precinct — 1955
40 episodes broadcast in 1955.
A drug dealer accuses an officer of taking a seven-hundred-dollar bribe.
January 12, 1955
The Sitter
A babysitter reports that the baby in her care has gone missing.
Kennelly and the Secret Service move to break up a ring passing counterfeit twenties.
After beating his wife, a deranged man barricades himself inside their apartment.
When a deli is burglarized, the owner's runaway teenage daughter becomes a suspect.
A wealthy drunk jailed for disorderly conduct cannot reach anyone to post his bail.
The owner of a car used in an armed robbery has an alibi, but the case takes an unexpected turn.
A burglary suspect bargains for a lighter sentence by reporting a murder.
Barred from rewarding a patrolman directly, a wealthy woman finds a way around the rules.
March 9, 1955
The Squawker
A wiretap lets the squad learn what a gang of jewel thieves is planning.
A well-liked local merchant is charged with murdering his wife and another man.
March 23, 1955
The Victim
An unidentified pedestrian is killed by a car, and his identity surprises the police.
March 30, 1955
The Horn
A patrolman goes undercover as a musician to crack a narcotics ring.
April 6, 1955
The String
Tipped off by a neighbor, officers try to stop a man from taking his own life.
A routine traffic stop unexpectedly opens a far more serious case.
A six-year-old girl vanishes after a taxi drops her at her own home.
An officer is stabbed wrestling an armed drunk to save a teenage girl from a beating.
A man arrested for a run of subway-booth robberies insists, with his girlfriend, that he is innocent.
An officer must help a vindictive woman serve a summons on her own son-in-law.
A fleeing burglar scrambles up a tree, while the woman he robbed denies losing the cash from her purse.
August 20, 1955
The Checks
The Secret Service asks the precinct's help catching a man stealing and cashing government checks.
August 27, 1955
The Name
A superintendent who has not seen a tenant in days asks the police to check the apartment.
September 3, 1955
The Coffee Break
A fast police response turns a robbery attempt into a hostage standoff.
September 10, 1955
The Homecoming
Out-of-state visitors report their parked Cadillac stolen, and the squad chases the thieves.
September 17, 1955
The Plant
A young woman's date and his friend rob a bar and grill, then leave her behind to answer for it.
September 24, 1955
The Hunt
With Patrolman Dillon missing from his post, Lieutenant King collars three young toughs carrying stolen goods.
October 1, 1955
The Restraint
A man grows fearful that his mentally unstable brother is turning violent.
October 7, 1955
The Ditch
A body found in a sewer ditch forces the precinct to weigh murder against accident.
October 14, 1955
The Alarmist
Kennelly looks into a complaint that Sergeant Waters was rude to a woman seeking protection.
October 21, 1955
The Informant
Two officers work a good-cop, bad-cop routine to draw out information on a killer.
October 28, 1955
Molly
A mute six-year-old is found wandering alone, and the squad sets out to identify her.
Captain Kennelly is promoted to Deputy Inspector, and Captain Cronin takes over command of the 21st.
As Captain Cronin takes command, the squad works the murder of an ex-model found by her maid, with the victim's married boyfriend the suspect.
November 18, 1955
The Serpent
A woman's slick con game inadvertently steers the police toward an armed-robbery suspect.
A gun missing from a liquor store proves to be more than a simple theft.
December 2, 1955
Trouble
Captain Cronin has doubts about the story a robbery victim, Ben Corpen, tells.
December 9, 1955
The Names
Patrolmen Nelson and Mercado stop a robbery, and Nelson wounds one of the crooks.
A report of a knife-wielding burglar lady turns out to be a feud between two sisters-in-law.
A complaint about a drunk, unlicensed sidewalk Santa soliciting money lands at the precinct.
A young woman attempts suicide by gas, with her meddling mother possibly to blame.
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