Let George Do It — 1949
52 episodes broadcast in 1949.
Hired to trace a forgotten silent-screen star, George finds her living on Skid Row -- and someone has already tried to kill her twice.
George reluctantly agrees to escort a college girl's body home to her wealthy Mexico City family; then the corpse is stolen, two thugs work him over, and the signing doctor is murdered.
A club fighter's wife doesn't want her husband to take a dive, so George rigs a disc recorder to talk the fixer out of his crooked bet.
A woman fears her scatterbrained older sister has married a ruthless charmer half her age who can only profit from her death, and hires George to dig into his past.
Answering an urgent plea from a terrified stranger, George walks into a birthday trap -- Lt. Riley and five mystery writers with a phony corpse.
A crusading newspaper editor asks George to help break the three-man ring that quietly runs the crooked town of Sharondale.
A humble mother fears her son is in danger, and she's right -- a private detective with no ethics has been selling combustible secrets to two rival racketeers.
Answering a plea relayed by her twin, a woman sends George on a long trip to an islet near Honolulu, where his instincts scream the whole errand is a setup.
George isn't surprised to find a hard case running a loan-shark racket -- what rocks him is that the wealthy, beautiful woman behind it all is the real kingpin.
A condemned man swears to George that he killed a woman but did not murder her, and stakes his one slim hope of proof on a bottle of poisoned liquor.
A killer mails George three hundred-dollar bills and a boast: his murders share a hidden theme, and he craves an intelligent man's appreciation of his art.
The only way to show that a death eight months back was really murder is for George to pose as a visiting Canadian novelist.
A crooked politician will finally return from Mexico to testify -- for a price -- and George arrives with the cash to find three other men bidding for the same man.
April 4, 1949
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April 11, 1949
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A nightclub owner fronts George fifteen thousand dollars to acquire a rare Etruscan vase and resell it at a hundred-grand markup -- then a car tails him home with the cash.
Sent chasing a client who turns out not to exist, George returns to find Brooksie has taken a case of her own -- and landed herself beside a dead man on a murder charge.
Two sisters bicker over their love for a fake mind-reader who has been dosed with poison yet stubbornly lives, while a second lethal bottle circulates through the house.
A glamorous client sends George to trade twenty thousand dollars for a painting, and the treachery over the canvas keeps compounding until her husband is stabbed to death.
A man hires George to prove that he himself is a murderer -- his perfect crime is so perfect that no one will believe his confession.
A famous novelist's jealous wife pays George to prove her husband has fallen for the heroine of his own bestseller.
Posing as a cruise ship's athletic director, George tries to keep three jittery smuggling musicians alive while someone aboard works to get him thrown off.
A dying old man hires George to see that the three heirs to his fortune reveal their strange secrets -- the last joke of a man who liked to play devil.
June 27, 1949
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July 4, 1949
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July 11, 1949
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July 18, 1949
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A doll-like house deep in the woods has a habit of killing anyone who tries to live there, including the nervous teacher who died of fright before she could reach George.
A letter reaches George from a woman married to the town's top gangster: she loathes him enough to kill, and thinks her chance is near.
A man just out of prison wants George to prove his wife's fatal accident, a week before his release, was really murder -- and slugs him for suggesting otherwise.
A South American firm wants to hand Joe Martin $10,000, but the reckless loner won't take it -- and the keeper who watched over him has just turned up dead.
George's fishing holiday lands a corpse -- a small man shot three times -- and a woman styling herself the Empress of Fish Falls whose grand circus history may be invented.
As summer fades toward autumn, George crosses paths with an artist named Frederick Gentle -- and a case of murder.
A worried father hires George to protect his red-headed daughter from unknown trouble; soon the girl is shot dead, and the same gun kills the father.
A fourteen-year-old girl on a vast, sun-baked farm begs George for help -- she's being held prisoner by a family whose love of the land is matched only by their hatred of one another.
A man branded a wartime coward for betraying thirty-seven refugees is found dead after a threatening telegram -- and the writer who told the tale is dead too.
An attempt on a harmless old boarder, a slain insurance man, and a forty-thousand-dollar payout thicken the puzzle in sleepy Little Mayfield.
October 3, 1949
(untitled)
October 10, 1949
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A man who never got on with his wife hires George to find her, but the clues are so plentiful -- and so convenient -- that George suspects the husband killed her himself.
A crippled man cared for by two spinster sisters is killed on the ornamental staircase built long ago for beauty and marriage, now a setting only for tragedy.
A screen cowboy asks George to stop a killing; George is too late, the victim drops to one flawless shot, and the likeliest suspect happens to be blind.
A widow pleads for George's help against her simple-minded neighbor, a huge man with a child's mind, and the theft of her mother's brooch.
A racketeer walks free from the grand jury, a witness against him dies, and the crusading prosecutor vanishes -- while a cautious stranger hires George for a small, urgent task.
A box of poisoned chocolates kills a cat, then a publisher's secretary, as it passes from hand to hand -- and George means to learn who sent it, and who was really meant to die.
A lonely roadside waitress hires George to look into the death of a shy truck driver who, she's sure, was murdered before his rig was ever wrecked.
Invited to a party in a dead man's thirty-second-floor penthouse full of weapons and death masks, George and Brooksie climb to find no party at all -- just a widow and her brother.
George carries $50,000 to a supposedly dead gangster in Panama who's now threatening to sue a studio over a film about his life -- and the guide sent to meet him is murdered first.
A doctor's wife, certain her husband is in danger from another woman at a mountain hotel, asks George to intervene before a ski trip turns deadly.
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