← Nick Carter, Master Detective
Nick Carter, Master Detective — 1944
129 episodes broadcast in 1944.
January 1, 1944
Newsreel Crime
A down-on-his-luck newlywed clumsily tries to rob Nick with a fake gun; instead of turning him in, Nick goes home with him and uncovers a kidnapped-heiress scheme.
Hours from his midnight execution, a condemned man begs Nick to keep working after his death to prove he never committed the Fielding jewel murder.
A man buys a box of unclaimed baggage at auction and finds phonograph records on which a murdered woman speaks her own last words -- but where, and when, was she killed?
A society safecracker mocks the police by note after a $75,000 haul, and a brick hurled through the window pulls Nick into the game.
A cab driver realizes too late that the fare he was told to deliver to the police station is already dead.
When the son of one of the city's oldest wealthy families is kidnapped, his frightened mother turns to Nick.
A young woman goes back alone at dusk for a forgotten tennis racquet and never returns -- the first in a run of killings by the park gate.
Nick witnesses a gangster's body dumped from a moving car, but the lone witness willing to name the scar-faced killer dies in an 'accident' before he can testify.
A trucking line's best driver recognizes a hijacker's voice and is shot dead for it, sending Nick after the gang.
March 11, 1944
Horoscope Murders
March 18, 1944
Tiger Death
A terrified woman begs Nick to protect her from her own physician, whom she is convinced is a practicing witch doctor.
A gang breaks into a laboratory and steals a professor's experimental healing-ray machine to save a wounded member.
Scubby brushes off a rude airport 'mystic,' dozes off, and wakes in Chicago as a wanted gangster whose face is all over the papers for murder -- and phones Nick for help.
A wealthy woman storms the police station over her stolen Persian cat, a theft that turns out to be tangled up with a string of jewel robberies.
April 20, 1944
Babies for Sale Part 4
May 1, 1944
Murder by Magic Part 1
May 2, 1944
Murder by Magic Part 2
May 3, 1944
Murder by Magic Part 3
May 4, 1944
Murder by Magic Part 4
May 5, 1944
Murder by Magic Part 5
May 9, 1944
House of Death Part 2
May 10, 1944
House of Death Part 3
May 11, 1944
House of Death Part 4
May 12, 1944
House of Death Part 5
May 15, 1944
House of Death Part 6
May 16, 1944
House of Death Part 7
May 17, 1944
House of Death Part 8
May 18, 1944
Eye of Death Part 1
May 19, 1944
Eye of Death Part 2
May 22, 1944
Eye of Death Part 3
May 23, 1944
Eye of Death Part 4
May 24, 1944
Eye of Death Part 5
May 25, 1944
Eye of Death Part 6
May 26, 1944
Eye of Death Part 7
May 29, 1944
Eye of Death Part 8
May 30, 1944
Eye of Death Part 9
May 31, 1944
Test Tube Murders Part 1
June 1, 1944
Test Tube Murders Part 2
June 2, 1944
Test Tube Murders Part 3
June 5, 1944
Test Tube Murders Part 4
June 6, 1944
Test Tube Murders Part 5
June 7, 1944
Test Tube Murders Part 6
June 8, 1944
Test Tube Murders Part 7
June 9, 1944
Test Tube Murders Part 8
June 15, 1944
Accidental Bullet Part 3
June 16, 1944
Accidental Bullet Part 4
June 20, 1944
Accidental Bullet Part 6
June 21, 1944
Frightened Corpse Part 1
June 22, 1944
Frightened Corpse Part 2
June 23, 1944
Frightened Corpse Part 3
June 26, 1944
Frightened Corpse Part 4
June 27, 1944
Frightened Corpse Part 5
June 28, 1944
Frightened Corpse Part 6
June 29, 1944
Frightened Corpse Part 7
June 30, 1944
Frightened Corpse Part 8
July 3, 1944
Frightened Corpse Part 9
July 4, 1944
Frightened Corpse Part 10
July 5, 1944
Murder to Music Part 1
July 6, 1944
Murder to Music Part 2
July 7, 1944
Murder to Music Part 3
July 10, 1944
Murder to Music Part 4
July 11, 1944
Murder to Music Part 5
July 12, 1944
Murder to Music Part 6
July 13, 1944
Murder to Music Part 7
July 14, 1944
Murder to Music Part 8
July 17, 1944
Gate to Heaven Part 1
July 18, 1944
Gate to Heaven Part 2
July 19, 1944
Gate to Heaven Part 3
July 20, 1944
Gate to Heaven Part 4
July 21, 1944
Gate to Heaven Part 5
July 24, 1944
Gate to Heaven Part 6
July 25, 1944
Gate to Heaven Part 7
July 26, 1944
Gate to Heaven Part 8
July 27, 1944
Gate to Heaven Part 9
July 31, 1944
Castle of Chaos Part 1
August 1, 1944
Castle of Chaos Part 2
August 2, 1944
Castle of Chaos Part 3
August 3, 1944
Castle of Chaos Part 4
August 4, 1944
Castle of Chaos Part 5
August 7, 1944
Castle of Chaos Part 6
August 8, 1944
Castle of Chaos Part 7
August 9, 1944
Picture of Death Part 1
August 10, 1944
Picture of Death Part 2
August 11, 1944
Picture of Death Part 3
August 14, 1944
Picture of Death Part 4
August 15, 1944
Picture of Death Part 5
August 16, 1944
Picture of Death Part 6
August 17, 1944
Picture of Death Part 7
August 18, 1944
Picture of Death Part 8
August 21, 1944
Twilight Terror Part 1
August 22, 1944
Twilight Terror Part 2
August 23, 1944
Twilight Terror Part 3
August 24, 1944
Twilight Terror Part 4
August 25, 1944
Twilight Terror Part 5
August 29, 1944
Drums of Death Part 2
August 30, 1944
Drums of Death Part 3
August 31, 1944
Drums of Death Part 4
September 1, 1944
Drums of Death Part 5
After three years faithfully playing the same numbers, a man finally hits for $50,000 -- then talks about it too freely and turns up murdered.
The clue to an opera singer's murder may rest with her little dog, stranded on a canyon ledge.
A funeral wreath of rare white verbenas hands Nick the key to a cold-blooded murder.
A man is found floating with a knife in his back in an apartment courtyard's lily pool, and a costly mink coat leads Nick across town to the killer.
Nick and Patsy's quiet vacation with an upstate sheriff is shattered by the news of a murder.
November 19, 1944
Unexpected Death
November 26, 1944
Black Rose Murders
A stray clue leads Nick to crack a murder on an Army base and roll up the spy ring behind it.
December 10, 1944
Murder by Suicide
A dean asks Nick to find out why a student apparently took her own life, fearing scandal will empty the school.
Nick turns up at a party honoring a celebrity who never arrives -- a wasted evening that yields three killings, nearly a fourth, and a decanter of not-quite-whiskey.
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