← Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator
Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator — 1952
52 episodes broadcast in 1952.
A night watchman pays Craig to come along on a mysterious after-hours 'visit' -- and the man they were going to see turns up dead.
A burlesque dancer with a knack for stumbling over corpses, a crooked lawyer and a gun-waving client all pull Craig into one tangle.
A woman quietly hires Craig to shadow her husband, and soon a beautiful girl is found dead in a hotel room.
Craig is paid to win a boxing champion's diamond belt at auction -- a sentimental errand that turns very strange.
Craig is offered $200 simply to hand a puppet to a nightclub dancer, who takes one look at it and faints.
A small-town official asks Craig to solve the local doctor's murder, where the only thing stolen is an iron eagle paperweight.
Craig returns to his parked car to find a ticket and an unexpected passenger -- a woman fleeing a guardian scheming to marry her for her fortune.
An heir comes home from Portugal to collect a $40 million estate, and Craig is drawn into the maneuvering around the fortune.
February 27, 1952
Murder in Mink
A woman's mink coat has vanished, and Craig's hunt for it turns up others chasing the very same fur.
March 5, 1952
Key Witness
With her gangster husband marked for death, a frightened woman turns to Craig for protection.
March 12, 1952
Unknown Corpse
A woman is certain her informant stepbrother didn't jump to his death -- she says he was poisoned first, then thrown from the window.
March 18, 1952
The Masked Mermaid
March 25, 1952
Love That Kills
April 1, 1952
Cry for Help
April 8, 1952
Top Secret
April 15, 1952
The Drowned Ghost
April 22, 1952
The Hired Killer
April 29, 1952
Talent for Murder
May 6, 1952
A Night in Istanbul
May 13, 1952
The Fingerman
May 20, 1952
The Client Was a Corpse
May 27, 1952
Prize Captive
June 3, 1952
Husband for Hire
June 10, 1952
Corpse on a Carousel
June 17, 1952
Murder in Motion
A case reaching back into 1920s Hollywood gathers around a faded silent-screen star.
June 24, 1952
The Big Kill
July 1, 1952
Shroud for a Fugitive
A woman who walked out on her bank-robber husband hires Craig to watch her house when the killer follows her to New York.
July 15, 1952
Dead Reckoning
July 22, 1952
No Memory for Murder
July 29, 1952
Murder in Paradise
August 5, 1952
The Doublecross
August 12, 1952
Heat Wave
August 19, 1952
Happy Alibi
August 26, 1952
Murder Off-Stage
September 2, 1952
Blood on the Flowers
September 9, 1952
Perfect Suspect
September 24, 1952
Night Arlarm
October 1, 1952
Millionaires Widow
A weeping man who calls himself Julius Caesar begs Craig to save 'Cleo' -- a fortune-teller has read murder in the tea leaves.
A man whose wife has been quietly pricing tombstones pays Craig $500 to keep him alive until his divorce comes through.
October 19, 1952
The Big Grab
October 26, 1952
Hollow Homecoming
November 2, 1952
Three for the Kill
November 9, 1952
The Merry Corpse
November 16, 1952
The Unnecessary Blonde
November 23, 1952
Death Sweet Song
November 30, 1952
Cause for Murder
December 7, 1952
Marbles for a Murderer
December 14, 1952
Holiday for Murder
December 21, 1952
Polka-Dotted Noose
December 28, 1952
A Coffin to Spare
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