Let George Do It — 1951
53 episodes broadcast in 1951.
January 1, 1951
(untitled)
A visiting businessman asks George to clear a young employee jailed for the murder of a woman the young man says he only just met -- a woman it turns out the businessman knew.
A press agent dupes George into a rooftop-rescue publicity stunt with a trapeze star, and he can't back out because the aerialist's jealous strongman husband is holding George's gun.
The proud manager of a luxury apartment building sees his luck curdle when one tenant is poisoned and, minutes later, another is electrocuted fifteen floors up.
A gossip columnist who celebrates Christmas out of season for the presents is murdered under his own tree by one of the many hangers-on who aren't nearly as loyal as they seem.
Is a 'tongalani' the title of a book, the name of a woman, or both? George has to untangle it before an unhappy client is hurt any worse.
A smitten young man asks George's help with a girl named Lucy, and can't say who threatened to kill him for seeing her -- especially once it turns out there are two Lucys.
Protecting a politician's reputation goes badly wrong: the blackmailer is found dead, George is accused of murder and arson, and a fugitive George tries a little blackmail of his own.
A friend of George's is shoved under a train, and the trail of the elusive robber-killer the papers call the Prairie Dog leads to a pawn shop.
The police think a man murdered his wife, but George can't see how he managed it in the brief window with no alibi -- and the suspected accomplice next door is already dead.
A Rangoon rubber chemist pays George to trace a vanished partner, and a counterfeit black-pearl necklace and a bogus traveler knot into a very tangled corpse.
Three men want George to expose their town as a racket clearing-house before a grand jury moves in, but he's stuck behind the eight ball -- wanted for murdering himself.
When Uncle Harry's bones finally surface, the search only begins, for the five-year-old murder makes a suspect of everyone in a town that liked him least of all George's client.
Two reclusive brothers whose friend hanged himself years ago start seeing nooses knotted around the house -- and then George comes to with a rope around his own neck.
Sent to stop sabotage at a company's Bolivian tin mine, George and Brooksie are shot out of the sky over a wrecked ore train before they ever reach the diggings.
A man is murdered in a room sealed by barred windows and a burglar alarm, amid a cuckoo clock that keeps terrible time, a cleaning woman who reads psychology, and a talkative thief.
An uncle who swears by the maxim 'once a crook, always a crook' feels vindicated when his paroled nephew robs him and bolts -- but a shady investigator's role makes George doubt the tidy case.
A foolproof gambling system that enriched no one has left two men dead, and the case drags George thousands of miles to a strange little town where a bullet may be next.
An old college crush asks George to deliver four priceless miniatures; his car is run off the road, the paintings vanish, and a $20,000 check he never earned turns up in his pocket.
A killing at a lonely beach house spreads suspicion in widening circles -- an alibi-armed widow with a motive, the young man who came between the couple, and the dead man's enigmatic lawyer.
Beneath a giant tower clock, a daughter claims she killed her father, and George sends Brooksie to try where he failed to reach the girl he's sure needs help.
A dashing man-about-town proves to be a fiction cooked up by a publicity man to build his business -- a phantom that comes back to haunt him as a very real body.
Everyone insists a millionaire couple's fatal crash was just an accident, but when the man who photographed the scene is murdered, George stops arguing and starts digging.
At Millie's Wharf, a shot-at parrot, a woman chasing sunken galleons, and a ship's captain who knocked George cold all lead back to a body in a diving helmet.
A generous man known as Lorenzo the Great is shot dead as a stranger confesses that a year ago he drew the high card and killed Dorothy Fullman -- a case George knows was never solved.
A convicted killer is gunned down while handcuffed to a policeman, and his murderer surrenders on the spot, willing to die in the chair for a crime he simply wanted to do.
July 30, 1951
(untitled)
August 6, 1951
(untitled)
September 10, 1951
(untitled)
September 17, 1951
(untitled)
A stolen payroll, a nervous replacement watchman, and a dead 'prowler' leave even George stumped -- but he can't believe the shooting was anything but murder.
A badly frightened young man caught up in a racket begs George's help, and just as George learns how rough the game is, the young man is jailed for a shooting.
October 8, 1951
(untitled)
October 15, 1951
(untitled)
A hired killer dumps a body, is shot by the Coast Guard, and dies with his secrets, leaving a crime so simple George hasn't a single clue -- so he sets out to make his own.
A faded crystal-ball showman is dragged out of twenty years' obscurity by a hard-boiled publicity woman who now fears what she's revived, and hires George to find out what he's up to.
November 5, 1951
(untitled)
November 12, 1951
(untitled)
A mysterious client sends George and Brooksie to Panama on a hazy errand, and after a drugged flight and a nightclub shooting, George is inclined to believe the warnings of danger.
A frightened teenager drags George into an aging matinee idol's staged suicide, and when the girl's mother dies in a convenient car accident, a silly suicide starts to look like a perfect murder.
A fearless radio commentator hires George over threatening letters, then is shot dead on the air just as he's about to break a scandal -- with a show-recording hobbyist among the suspects.
A paroled man striving to reform hires George after his room is torn apart, and the job knots up with an unidentified body and a pillar of the community as chief suspect.
Someone tucks a twenty-thousand-dollar necklace into Brooksie's parcel from a department store; the gambler who did it turns up dead, and Brooksie herself vanishes.
Brooksie had hoped to share Christmas Eve with George, until a lonely soldier in Japan mails him twenty dollars and a single request: escort the loveliest girl alive.
December 31, 1951
(untitled)
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