Mr. and Mrs. North — 1953
52 episodes broadcast in 1953.
January 6, 1953
Death Mask
January 13, 1953
Cash from a Corpse
January 20, 1953
The Innocent Killer
January 27, 1953
The Good Die Young
A teenage hitchhiker becomes the prime suspect in a murder.
February 3, 1953
The Lively Spirit
February 10, 1953
Three Weeks to Live
February 17, 1953
Make Mine Murder
February 24, 1953
Death Calls the Tune
After buying an antique Swiss musical jewel, the Norths are offered thirty times what they paid.
March 3, 1953
Park the Body
March 10, 1953
Spotlight on Murder
March 17, 1953
Time to Kill
March 24, 1953
It Takes a Thief
March 31, 1953
The April Fool
April 7, 1953
Revenge
April 14, 1953
Three Blind Mice
April 21, 1953
You Only Die Once
April 28, 1953
Looking for Trouble
May 5, 1953
Date with a Corpse
May 12, 1953
The Patsy
May 19, 1953
Play Dead
May 26, 1953
Pocket Edition Pickpocket
June 2, 1953
Kiss of Death
Back from a Mexican vacation, Pam and Jerry unknowingly carry home microfilm hidden in a hubcap -- and a gunman who wants it.
June 16, 1953
License to Kill
June 23, 1953
(untitled)
Barbara Britton and Richard Denning debut as the Norths in a case built around a family coat of arms.
A gambler who owes $5,000, a friend scheming for his wife, and a bookie all circle a man soon found dead.
A wealthy widower plans to wed a young beauty; his daughter would sooner see him dead -- and then he is.
August 11, 1953
The Gone Goose
August 18, 1953
Shanghaied
A prizefighter planning to quit the ring is caught up in a hit-and-run as murder wins by a knockout.
Vacationing at a remote lake, the Norths investigate the murder of a wealthy young bachelor.
September 15, 1953
Good-Bye, Eddie
September 22, 1953
No Vacation from Murder
A wealthy old woman dies from a fall and her domineering son -- who keeps his wife a prisoner -- soon turns up dead as well.
October 13, 1953
(untitled)
Pam is certain a restaurant diner is a college friend who has been dead four years, and then he is thrown from a tenth-floor window.
A man drowning in debt and fed up with greedy relatives contemplates suicide -- setting the stage for murder.
A criminal tries to work a hostage ruse on the Norths.
A reformed ex-convict is dragged back into crime and the murder of an antique dealer.
A doctor's wife asks him to let her lover die on the operating table.
A radio commentator keeps urging a hunted man to surrender while a Chicago gunman comes to kill him.
A missing authoress expects Jerry to publish her book -- though he has no idea who she is.
On the show's eleventh-anniversary broadcast, violence in a grocery store sends the Norths out into a cold night.
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