Danger, Dr. Danfield — 1946
20 episodes broadcast in 1946.
Danfield sets a trap for a pair of bank robbers, Trixie and Nick Talbot, and studies the criminal minds behind the job.
Posing as a lawyer, Danfield digs into the death of Manuel Abello, an immigrant whose new wife married him only to bleed him and threatened to report his visa if he balked.
A blackmailing young actress who demanded a leading role from producer Oliver Norton turns up dead, in a killing confirmed as murder despite first appearances.
Ten thousand-dollar bills arrive in Danfield's mail with a warning to forget where he was, sent by whichever of three grasping relatives murdered Norman Miles.
Someone is shot in the summer house, and the wife who had wanted her husband dead can remember nothing about it.
An actress whose disfigured face can be healed by a miracle cream loses her only hope when the formula is stolen.
A senator's daughter finds a dead stranger on her bedroom floor, gun in hand and a suicide note beside him, and calls her father's friend Danfield to keep it out of the papers.
Red Jacoby breaks out of prison exactly as he vowed he would, and Danfield takes a beating going undercover as a reporter to run him down.
A soldier reported dead in the Pacific walks back into the life of the twin brother who buried him and married his wife; the confrontation leaves one of them dead.
Breaking a Death Valley drive at a hotel whose manager can talk of little but dying, Danfield and Rusty find every odd guest a suspect once a painter turns up dead.
An accidental death and a vanished Edgar Allan Poe manuscript prove to be the same case.
At a ski lodge where guests trade stories of the Windigo, a half-human beast said to howl in the forest, an instructor's girlfriend is murdered.
A famous diamond pendant vanishes, and the motive turns out to be romantic rather than mercenary.
Eve Shelton is dead, and the field narrows to two men: her poor husband and her rich lover.
Thirty million dollars in Beronian crown jewels vanish while a jeweller shows them to a couple he can describe but cannot explain, leaving him the prime suspect.
Three days of snow strand a mismatched group on an Arizona ranch, and after one guest breaks down over their cowboy songs about dying, a real death follows.
Howard Holbrook's body is dug out of a field, and the key to his hundred-thousand-dollar insurance claim turns out to be ornithological.
Lectured about his drinking over a card game, Sam Hardy bets his friend Bill Sayer a thousand dollars that he will outlive him; he is murdered the same night.
Danfield unknowingly pays for a book with a counterfeit ten and finds himself hunted as a passer of bad money, with a bookseller of detective ambitions on his heels.
Two football stars disappear before the big game, and the kidnapping may not be what it appears.
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Other seasons: 1947