21st Precinct — 1956
42 episodes broadcast in 1956.
January 6, 1956
The Assault
A neighborhood mugging threatens to boil over into vigilante justice.
A wife suspects her husband is hiding his brother, a man wanted for killing his own wife.
January 20, 1956
The Penny
A jealous wife has her husband arrested, then posts bail -- only for him to refuse to leave his cell.
A pastry chef is murdered, and suspicion settles on the jealous husband of the chef's girlfriend.
February 2, 1956
The Drive
A woman loses her purse after her date abandons her, and the precinct untangles the story.
February 9, 1956
The Husband
A gravely ill woman makes her husband promise not to call a doctor.
February 16, 1956
The Cat
A young man stopped on suspicion turns out to be a far bigger criminal than the police expected.
February 23, 1956
The Charm
King and Cronin investigate the questionable suicide of a Mrs. Burges.
March 1, 1956
The Laundry
A missing laundry operator turns up somewhere no one expected.
March 8, 1956
The Stairs
An officer is accused of assaulting a man he had stopped for attacking a teenage girl.
March 15, 1956
The Toy
An armed addict takes a nurse and a doctor hostage.
March 22, 1956
The Jacket
A patrolman is shot foiling a burglary, and a suspect's Navy pea jacket is the lead.
An AWOL soldier's hit-and-run kills Sergeant Waters' soldier son, and the squad hunts the driver.
Burglars steal a paint-store safe, then phone the police to ask for the combination.
An elderly woman run down by a cab is found to be carrying more than nine thousand dollars in cash.
A woman reports a patrolman for drinking on duty.
The precinct's resident crank claims a gorilla was in her apartment -- and there is more truth to it than expected.
May 3, 1956
The LD 80 B
A retired officer seeks to have his pistol permit renewed.
A four-and-a-half-year-old girl disappears from a launderette.
A man is found dead in a borrowed car, and the squad works out how he got there.
A young socialite passing bad checks makes a victim of Captain Cronin himself.
A woman comes home to catch her own neighbor burglarizing her apartment.
June 7, 1956
The Substitute
A tavern owner is murdered, and his bartender, Charley, is the leading suspect.
A perennial patsy is mugged and robbed after leaving a bar.
Patrolman Ballard shoots a juvenile thief in return fire, and the thief's brother steps forward to confess.
A nine-month-old boy is left with a couple and then abandoned.
July 5, 1956
The Day
Captain Cronin recounts a typical precinct day, from a fingerprinted priest to a fatal crash and a promotion rumor.
An arrested burglar claims a precinct officer took a payoff, as Captain Keough takes command and Cronin moves up to the Chief Inspector's office.
July 19, 1956
The Manual
Captain Keough intervenes when a rookie guarding a hospitalized prisoner blocks the FBI from questioning him.
July 26, 1956
The Mover
Police are called when a superintendent will not let a woman move her furniture out of her apartment.
August 2, 1956
The Sailor
A returning sailor finds his home burned and his family missing.
The squad stakes out a liquor store hoping to nab a pair of robbers.
A woman is accidentally locked inside a drugstore, and no one can get her out.
A lonely widow sits on her high-rise ledge contemplating suicide, as officers try to reach her.
A teenager dies falling from a newspaper truck, with a club jacket the only clue to his name.
September 20, 1956
The Shooting Gallery
An addict turns in a false alarm hoping a jail stay will help him kick the habit.
September 27, 1956
The Dog Day
A judge's wife refuses to surrender her dog for rabies observation.
October 4, 1956
The Meal
A patrolman breaks up a deli holdup and wounds one of the robbers.
October 11, 1956
The Story
When a Chicago businessman is shot, his mistress becomes the prime suspect.
October 18, 1956
The Cabinet
A sergeant's son is suspected after the sergeant's missing gun is used in a robbery.
October 25, 1956
The Ring
A husband returns his wife's supposedly shoplifted ring to a jeweler, and the police grow suspicious.
November 1, 1956
The Package
An art gallery is threatened with a bombing unless a ransom is paid.
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