Danger, Dr. Danfield — 1947
6 episodes broadcast in 1947.
With the evidence conclusive and the gallows waiting, Danfield has hours to prove that James Smith did not shoot his partner.
A soloist is murdered during a live broadcast, and every suspect's alibi holds up until Danfield times their movements -- so one of them is lying.
To reach a crooked physician, Danfield gets himself locked up as a patient in the man's own asylum.
A tunnel collapse leaves seventy dead, and Danfield follows the case into municipal corruption at the risk of his own life.
A vaudevillian called Tiny is found dead in a gas-filled room during a snowstorm, testing Danfield's own lecture on frustrated ambition as a motive for murder.
Missing pearls, lights moving over a swamp at night, and a murder to connect them.
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Other seasons: 1946 ·