Counterspy — 1949
24 episodes broadcast in 1949.
Reports of a uranium strike draw shady characters and foreign agents to a Mexican town, and Harding heads south to sort them out.
A strange-laughing underworld boss, a painted shop window, and a torn jacket lead Harding toward murder and a boy pulled into a hate gang.
After a truckload of government explosives is hijacked and a driver killed, the one witness who can name the killer is blackmailed into silence.
A quiet seashore meeting between two men sets in motion a scheme that will alter the lives of thousands of women.
Two atomic-plant workers smuggle a uranium compound out of the country hidden in the neck of a statue bound for Acapulco.
Harding sets out to catch a ruthless espionage broker who marches his enemies into the Mexican desert to murder them.
A boarding-house strangling that points to a submariner collides with an armed bank hold-up in the most frantic six hours of Harding's career.
A fast-talking man poses as himself to impersonate someone else -- a con that turns deadly inside a spy ring.
Part one of a two-part case built around the cold-blooded professor.
Professor Horne breaks out of an 'escape-proof' prison using lemon-juice-bleached trousers and a face faked from stolen watch crystals.
Chasing a professional arsonist, the counterspies find a trail that reaches back to the 1933 Reichstag fire.
A woman good at being bad, a promoter who thinks the sword beats the pen, and a brave 'half-man' -- with a closing word from Vice President Barkley on hiring disabled veterans.
A pack of teenaged 'terrors' who idolize a small-time heel, and stolen loot paid off with a wet handkerchief and hard cash.
From a hideout high above New York, a criminal mastermind moves people and stolen cars like pawns in a deadly chess game.
Part one of a parcel-post theft case, marked by a black box that snatches a revolver from mid-air and a one-fingered typist who punctuates with bullets.
Coordinated raids nearly end the parcel-post case -- until one small mistake turns an apparent suicide into murder and points to the boss.
The counterspies follow big-time bootleggers from a backwoods Mississippi tavern all the way to the Chicago lakefront.
Closing in on a criminal so dangerous it costs a prison guard a beating, Harding's partner a hail of bullets, and a woman her life.
Near the Mexican border, a witness is murdered in a rooming house before he can tell a reporter about a sweepstakes racket.
In a small European country a diplomat's secretary dies in a staged gas 'accident' -- the first move in a plot around $3 million in new bonds.
High above Manhattan, a smooth operator watches his alarm wristwatch and runs a phony 'World Refugee Fund' charity racket.
In Tennessee a trailer-truck is relieved of its cargo by 'Fatso' and his partner in a slick, dangerous operation.
Two crooks steal a $60,000 fur shipment from a New York pier by motorboat -- and a candid camera becomes the key to the case.
American atomic scientist Dr. Brewster is kidnapped in Switzerland and offered for sale to the highest-bidding nation.
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