← Nick Carter, Master Detective
Nick Carter, Master Detective — 1948
52 episodes broadcast in 1948.
A suave gambling-house boss who always collects his debts becomes tangled up with a genuine 'evil eye' said to kill.
A jewel thief Nick jailed three years back escapes, and Nick walks into his ransacked office to find a corpse on the floor and the man's file missing.
A sudden run on a perfume called 'Heavenly Sin,' with a gang scrambling to buy every last bottle, makes Nick wonder what is really inside.
A wealthy recluse who plays only classical music is murdered, and a caller's claim to have heard a novelty tune on the radio tells Nick exactly when -- and by whom.
February 8, 1948
The Case of the 22 Papers
A seventeen-year-old hoodlum is accused of killing a policeman -- but did he do it, and where has the body gone?
February 22, 1948
The Case of the Kwong-Le Dagger
A sixteen-year-old named Billy lands square in the middle of a robbery and a murder, and it only gets worse from there.
A racketeer kidnaps the one witness who can prove he murdered her husband.
A tip about a body in a hillside cottage's basement turns personal when Nick finds the victim is his own old friend Waldo McGlinn.
A world-famous magician is stabbed to death on the eve of a competition, his celebrated rope trick missing.
Nick and Patsy stop to help a bleeding man on the highway and are pulled into a pair of $30,000 truck hijackings and a murder.
A 'Maharajah' holed up on two floors of a hotel with a priceless diamond proves to be as phony as his jewel.
A mild professor says he has cracked roulette, backs it up with a $90,000 win, and is dead soon after.
April 18, 1948
The Case of the Black-Magic Murder
May 2, 1948
The Case of the Super-Charged Corpse
A blonde is found poisoned in Nick's own office, and someone is willing to kill again to keep her name a secret.
A frightened woman begs Nick's help after a temple's high priest warns that someone means to pray her to death.
A body pulled from the East River, marked by a cobra tattoo, was a 'lost heir' to a $3 million fortune -- and not the only claimant murder is stalking.
A twelve-year-old who still chews bubble gum leaves a very grown-up corpse behind him.
June 6, 1948
The Case of the Saltwater Fence
Down in Texas, Nick unmasks a killer who 'hanged himself' with nothing but a scrap of adhesive tape.
A young millionaire's suicide, complete with an eloquent farewell note, simply does not smell right to Nick.
A dying man seems to phone Nick after being strangled -- but a broken neck means he died instantly, so who really made the call?
July 4, 1948
The Case of the Frightened Fingers
July 11, 1948
The Case of the Doctor's Last Call
July 18, 1948
The Case of the Blackbeard's Map
July 25, 1948
The Case of the Deadly Passer
An escaped convict, a corpse on a roller coaster, and an enraged ape.
August 8, 1948
The Case of the Curtained Corpse
A boy who witnessed a machine-gun murder is marked for death, and a stray begging letter sets Nick on the trail.
A locked-room killing echoes a murder in the same room back in 1815, with every clue pointing to an Indian chief dead a century and a half.
A pair of con artists work an old 'cataract' swindle so ruthless it has already killed three, the only lead a sudden run on new eyeglasses.
A woman who claims to know who is stealing a department store's fashion designs is murdered in her own bedroom before she can tell Nick.
Trailing a gangster in another city, Nick and Patsy are met by a welcoming party with machine guns -- and a cabdriver's phone call saves Patsy's life.
A plain young woman who finally lands a husband promptly shoots him, and Nick, feeling sorry for her, sets out to find the real killer.
A politician finds an exotic dancer dead in his bathtub, and it is her uneven suntan that unravels the whole case.
A man kidnaps his wife to commit her to an asylum and keep her money, and a peroxide blonde plus a discarded cigarette pack give Nick the truth.
A young man freshly out of prison after being framed finds himself set up all over again -- but his one ambition now is to kill.
Nick traces five dollars of toy money to prove a man never committed the murder he's blamed for -- and to find who did.
A wheelchair-bound old lady flatly refuses to be murdered, and helps Nick decide which of two brothers spiked her chocolates.
A man plagued by memory blackouts is alibied by his best friend after the blackmailer who was bleeding him turns up dead.
An ex-convict Nick once helped -- and stood up for at his wedding -- is charged with killing a jewelry salesman and making off with an odd diamond ring.
November 21, 1948
The Case of the Red Thumb
November 28, 1948
The Case of the Frightened Grandfather
December 5, 1948
The Case of the Bloodstained Alibi
December 12, 1948
The Case of the Counterfeit Corpse
December 19, 1948
The Case of the 500 Witnesses
December 26, 1948
The Case of the Disappearing Bandit
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