Philo Vance — 1948
25 episodes broadcast in 1948.
Murder inside a moving ambulance opens the ZIV run's first case for Jackson Beck's Vance and his new secretary, Ellen Deering.
One dead man, three shooters, three guns and three bullets -- a killing so overdetermined it leaves even Vance baffled.
July 27, 1948
(untitled)
August 3, 1948
(untitled)
August 10, 1948
(untitled)
August 17, 1948
(untitled)
Drama critics keep turning up dead with scraps of verse pinned to their chests, and the only 'suspect' the poems point to is Longfellow.
A millionaire fly-fisherman is found floating in his own swimming pool with a fishing knife in his heart.
A theatrical manager is shot with a tiny pistol, and Vance's suspects run to a midget, a giant, a trapeze artist and a magician.
A striking woman who dresses only in a single color muscles her way into running the city's rackets, and trouble follows her in.
After a theatre is robbed, its leading lady receives a death threat -- and it is her understudy who ends up murdered.
A compulsive gambler vanishes aboard an offshore gambling ship, radioing a frantic plea for help before she is found dead.
A reporter sent to interview Vance is murdered, and so is the cab driver who discovered her body.
A glamorous photographer's model is strangled with a strand of wire the detective thinks was once a costume-jewelry bracelet.
October 19, 1948
(untitled)
October 26, 1948
(untitled)
November 2, 1948
The Best Seller Murder Case
November 9, 1948
The President Murder Case
A prizefighter keels over in the ring, and Vance finds he was doped and poisoned rather than simply outboxed.
Vacationing in a small town, Vance and Markham find a man crushed beneath the trunk of a freshly felled tree.
A woman begs Vance to drop the case of a murdered sanitarium guard, which only guarantees he takes it; three black hairs are his sole clue.
An astronomer honored for discovering a new planet is threatened, and his assistant is soon found murdered at the observatory.
A stable trainer is killed and an exercise boy follows, as Vance races to keep a quiz-show jockey from getting away with murder.
A soda jerk is found dead beside a syrup pump marked vanilla, drawing Vance into a tangle of loan sharks and threats.
A Latin dance instructor is found knifed in her studio, leaving Vance a jealous dancer, a rival teacher and a blackmailed woodcarver to sort out.
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