The Line Up — 1950
27 episodes broadcast in 1950.
July 6, 1950
Three Young Girls Murdered
July 13, 1950
The Abeyant Abnegated Alibi
Fingered in the line-up for shooting a gangster, Eddie swears he was framed -- he only found the body -- and Guthrie must weigh the janitor's earwitness account against his story.
What first reads as a hit-and-run that killed two young girls proves, under closer investigation, to have been deliberate murder.
A suspect collapses and dies in the middle of his own interrogation, and the detectives have to trace how poison reached him.
August 17, 1950
Death In the Bleachers
August 24, 1950
Arson Murder Case
An arson fire turns into a murder case when an unidentified victim is found in the burned-out building.
September 2, 1950
Cherchez la Femme
The squad's search for a missing woman -- the key witness to a crime -- drives the case.
September 9, 1950
Woman Murdered by Convict
September 16, 1950
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September 30, 1950
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October 7, 1950
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October 14, 1950
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October 21, 1950
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October 28, 1950
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November 4, 1950
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November 9, 1950
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Witnesses name John Walker as the gunman who fled a fatal candy-store hold-up in his own station wagon; the getaway car becomes the loose thread.
A cabbie's line-up pick places an angry woman at the victim's door the afternoon he died; she owns the fury -- over his affair -- but denies the killing.
A policeman's killing cracks open when a Bowery drifter recalls seeing the corpse tipped into a dry creek bed.
The detectives corner a deranged gunman holed up inside an apartment house.
December 14, 1950
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Five men rob a bank of nearly a hundred thousand dollars; two are identified as the Oklahoma Hostetter brothers, in far over their heads on their biggest job.
An elderly woman is found strangled in the park, and an unusual key on her body is the only lead once the first line-up suspect clears.
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