Bold Venture — 1951
42 episodes broadcast in 1951.
A revolution's gun shipment goes missing, and because Slate never picked it up in Key West, the bodies start dropping around him -- the pilot episode, drawn from the couple's own To Have and Have Not.
Hired to escort a smuggled idol and the young woman carrying it, Slate is beaten for a statue he doesn't have and left chasing a vanished girl for answers.
A quiet night at Shannon's Place turns when a pair of opium runners lean on a frightened girl, and Slate steps in to even the odds.
A charter to Key West turns deadly when Slate's cash-flush passenger is gunned down before they cast off, dropping Slate into the sights of the ruthless Johnny Rice.
A coin toss sends Slate and Sailor hunting Spanish gold on a Caribbean cay with a crew he doesn't trust an inch.
A comic's partner is murdered and Slate is framed for it, tangled in a convict's hidden money and a double-crossing act.
A wrecked print shop and a beaten printer lead Slate and Sailor into a counterfeit-passport racket -- and the man who wanted it kept quiet.
Someone is scattering Sailor's belongings around Guantanamo to pin a murder on her, and Slate races to unframe his own partner.
A plantation owner begs Slate to pry his daughter loose from the gambler who runs the offshore casino ship Blue Moon -- and the hold he has on her.
An old friend leaves a silk-wrapped bundle in Slate's safe and is shot dead for it; the fabled star sapphires inside turn out to be fakes.
A sugar heiress with two killers on her trail walks into Shannon's Place out of a storm -- carrying a gun of her own.
A poisoning at a wedding party Slate is hosting, and a dead detective on the beach, expose a pair of newlyweds who are anything but innocent.
A twelve-year-old handshake pays off when an old partner strikes oil and hands Slate half -- to the fury of a wife who wants it stopped.
A murderess hunting for Tommy Reed lures Slate and Sailor into the Zapata swamps, where she turns poisoned darts and voodoo on them as Sailor slowly fades.
Slate and Sailor are drawn into a deadly hunt for Tommy Reed, snared by a killer who works with poisoned darts and voodoo (a retelling of the Voodoo Vendetta story).
Adrift with a bad fuel line, Slate and Sailor board a beautiful ketch, the Golden Swan, and find her deserted -- and are warned off before they learn why.
Slate's old flame resurfaces claiming her husband means to kill her, angling to have Slate do the killing and win him back -- and Sailor is shown the door.
A safe combination tucked in the pocket of a rented tuxedo pulls Slate and Sailor into trouble at a shipboard formal they never wanted to attend.
Summoned to find a man's missing wife, Slate realizes too late that the husband and his lover have already murdered her.
A friend's kid brother, fresh off a cruise ship with two card sharks and a detective in tow, plays Slate for a sucker to slip out of Havana.
A lonely widow proposes marriage after spotting Slate's photo in a lonely-hearts club file -- then turns up dead with his picture beside her, and Slate is the prime suspect.
A fishing trip turns dangerous when Slate and Sailor pull aboard two castaways who are really dope-running mutineers ready to kill to stay free.
The Bold Venture is stolen for a refinery heist getaway, and Slate is blackmailed by two men demanding a cut -- until the boat comes back with a corpse aboard.
Hired to deliver a yacht and a letter to Batabano, Slate and Sailor find a silk shipment worth two murders waiting at the other end.
A pretty young guest doing cartwheels on the beach suddenly collapses and dies calling for her father, drawing Slate into the mystery she carried.
Slate is asked to help return escaped murderer Paul Brewer to jail -- the Paul Brewer story.
Convinced his brother means to kill him, old Carlo Ruiz sells everything and starts giving the money away, pulling Slate into a family's fatal feud.
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Other seasons: 1952