← Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator
Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator — 1954
49 episodes broadcast in 1954.
January 5, 1954
Out of the Past
January 12, 1954
The Wife Who Wasn't There
A chemical-plant owner hit by four suspicious fires and left underinsured suspects sabotage and calls in Craig.
January 26, 1954
Death Wins the Bet
February 9, 1954
The Love of Murder
February 16, 1954
Smokescreen for Murder
February 23, 1954
No Flowers for the Corpse
March 2, 1954
The Million Dollar Nickle
March 9, 1954
The Tearless Widow
March 16, 1954
Act of Mercy
March 23, 1954
The Laughing Corpse
April 13, 1954
The Man Who Wanted to Be Guilty
April 20, 1954
Man Trap
April 27, 1954
Exposes Poet's Plot to Win Fame
May 4, 1954
Hour of Decision
May 18, 1954
(untitled)
An attorney hires Craig to find the much-younger missing wife of his wealthy, elderly client -- though Craig would rather size up the client.
June 1, 1954
The Corpse Who Stayed for Breakfast
June 8, 1954
A Fortune in Diamonds
June 15, 1954
Murder Is a Private Affair
June 22, 1954
The Lunatic Heir
June 29, 1954
Kiss and Tell
Two childhood sweethearts reunite when the man is freed after five years for a payroll robbery -- and the stolen $28,000 is still unaccounted for.
A worried wife brings Craig in when she fears her husband is being blackmailed, and Craig watches him drop a parcel of cash off a bridge.
July 20, 1954
Death's Little Helper
Bound for a fishing vacation by train, Craig agrees to hold a stranger's envelope -- and it nearly gets him killed.
Craig bails a heartbroken, possibly murderous inmate out of jail and into the orbit of a shady talent promoter.
Death goes shopping in a department-store bargain basement, and Craig follows it downstairs.
A blonde hires Craig to vet her supposedly wealthy fiance, and the background check turns up the opposite of everything she was told.
A fellow investigator asks Craig's help finding a vanished rug dealer -- whom Craig finds murdered.
Vacationing in the country, Craig and an old friend hear a scream and stumble onto a body atop a haystack.
Summoned by midnight train to a brooding old tower house, Craig confronts a murder eighty years cold.
October 3, 1954
The Corpse That Couldn't Swim
Betty Lou Gerson plays a woman who has killed her husband -- a man mixed up with stolen jewels.
October 10, 1954
The Murder Man
A murder case told throughout in period hipster slang.
October 17, 1954
The Devil's Jest
International thieves chase a flawed but legendary diamond.
October 24, 1954
Murder in Grease Paint
An actor is killed on a television set in Craig's Halloween broadcast.
October 31, 1954
The Tearless Widow
A son who accidentally kills his father during the older man's suicide attempt then frames an ex-convict clerk.
A young man's girlfriend hires Craig to stop him from building an alibi for an armed robbery.
November 14, 1954
Complaint from a Corpse
A man frets over his newly remarried business partner -- flush with $30,000 from selling a motel and running with a strange crowd.
November 28, 1954
Sweet Goddess of Murder
Craig turns down a missing-husband case to chase a stolen prize manuscript lifted from a publisher's office.
December 12, 1954
The Fatal Punch
A boxer with a weak heart dies in a staged hit-and-run so his manager can collect on an insurance policy.
A nightclub musician's stolen bull fiddle sends Craig puzzling over who would want the thing -- and why.
December 26, 1954
Death Hires a Hurricane
A hurricane, a blonde named Nora, a pile of money and a murder.
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