Jeff Regan, Investigator — 1948
24 episodes broadcast in 1948.
July 10, 1948
Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief
A rich man sends Regan to New Orleans to bring back his runaway daughter -- and the girl he finds appears to be laid out for her own funeral.
Was John R. Renzo's tumble down the stairs just a bad heart, or murder? Untangling it earns Regan his first lumps of the case.
Someone wants a temperamental Hollywood makeup artist dead, and a mysterious hairy lady is somehow knotted into the plot.
An attorney hires Regan to find 'Big Ed' Kittredge, a thoroughly unsavory character missing three days -- though nobody much cares whether he turns up.
A simple errand returning a valuable necklace spirals into a double murder, complete with a suspect who is a shameless Sydney Greenstreet knockoff.
Murder, crooked politics, and a tidy frame-up all land in Regan's lap at once.
An architect who fears his bank is cheating him turns up murdered -- then is spotted alive and well, dragging Regan into a web of embezzlement.
A stage psychic begs Regan for protection after a red-haired movie actress phones in a death threat.
Regan is hired to recover a small silver ship that has been stolen.
September 18, 1948
The Gambler and the Lady
An amnesiac woman collapses dead in the agency office, launching Regan onto the trail of a counterfeiting ring and a supply of dum-dum bullets.
An ex-convict fresh out of a sanitarium hires Regan to wear his safe-deposit-box key around his neck until they can meet at the bank in the morning.
Sent down to La Jolla to guard a dead man and the star sapphire on his finger, Regan meets three women who each claim to be the widow Rogers -- one of them a murderer.
A woman hires Regan to find her missing sister, only for both leads to end at the same cemetery plot the sister has occupied for a year.
October 23, 1948
The Man with the Scar
October 30, 1948
The Kid from Cuba
A bodyguard job watching a man's daughter at finishing school runs headlong into murder, a drug racket, and a suspicious wig shop.
A man named Davy Crockett is killed the moment he makes bail, leaving Regan to link wounded horses to a roll of film.
During a holiday turkey shoot, the one who takes a bullet is a man costumed as Miles Standish, not the bird.
Hired as a weekend alibi witness for the LaFarges, Regan watches the wife shot dead and digs into a counterfeit-football-ticket racket.
A lawyer hires Regan and is promptly shot dead in his own office, as is his wife, while a 280-pound thug with brass knuckles flattens the detective.
A worried mother is murdered after her daughter marries gambler Louie Desmond, and the reek of cubeb hangs over the killings that follow.
In Jack Webb's final turn as Regan, a psychic's beautiful assistant hires him to keep 'Prince Nemo' alive.
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