← Richard Diamond, Private Detective
Richard Diamond, Private Detective — 1950
40 episodes broadcast in 1950.
An immigrant butcher asks Diamond to help break a neighborhood protection racket, and it comes down to fists and gunfire.
A powerful publisher sets out to expose the numbers racket, and his headstrong daughter complicates Diamond's assignment.
A college student swears a soldier he watched die in the war is alive and sitting in his classes, and hires Diamond to find the 'dead' man.
A comic turn: Diamond signs on to bodyguard Timothy -- a performing seal.
The search for the missing Elaine Tanner turns up murder, mayhem, and a valuable item nobody can find.
A $100,000 jewel theft and a killing lead to an odd assignment for Diamond -- romancing the widow.
After a policeman is gunned down, a blind man and a narcotics ring hold the key to the killer.
An escaped convict marches into the police station with a bomb and a demand that an official leap from a City Hall window.
A famous actress is shot at -- then menaced by a snake -- and hires Diamond while desperate to avoid bad publicity.
Sitting his license-renewal exam at the precinct, Diamond stumbles over the body of a fellow detective.
A street photographer snaps Diamond's picture on the sidewalk, and the negative proves worth killing for.
A dying man presses a newspaper-wrapped statue of Kali into Diamond's hands, in a case that plays like 'The Maltese Falcon.'
A hired messenger is shot dead on Diamond's doorstep before he can hand over an envelope whose contents are the whole mystery.
A woman's body is fished from the water off Pier 14, and an escaped convict's jailbreak appears to be behind it.
June 21, 1950
A lawyer says his client is terrified for her life; Diamond comes to from a blow on the head lying beside her corpse.
A truck driver is killed in a hit-and-run, and his wrestler friend is certain the 'accident' had a helping hand.
A man collapses in Diamond's office, an icepick between his shoulders, and gasps one dying clue: 'Juice Bar.'
A wealthy woman is kidnapped and then murdered, with Diamond and a squad of police powerless to save her.
A promoter friend's boxer takes a suspicious dive, and the next day the promoter takes one of his own -- off a bridge.
A wife hires Diamond to dig up divorce evidence on her husband, and he lands squarely in a murder frame.
A night at the carnival with Helen turns into a midway killing, with a clown, a hula dancer, and a strongman all in the frame.
A doctor offers Diamond $1,200 to solve a mysterious death, then plunges from a high window himself.
'Big Foot' Grafton is pulled from the river as the second baseman of a women's softball team goes missing.
A mix-up over a bundle of laundry flushes a hiding killer into the open.
A man is found both shot and stabbed, with a woman standing over him holding a smoking gun.
A blackmailer is murdered mid-treatment at a men's hair salon run by an old friend of Diamond's.
Diamond saddles up to solve a wild-west killing for a man hunting his brother's murderer.
An escaped killer vows to murder Diamond, so the man's own mother hires the detective to put her son back behind bars.
A blackmailer's threat to expose a man's bigamy turns on an unlikely witness -- a homing pigeon.
Lt. Levinson is kidnapped by a man whose brother is set to be executed that very night.
October 25, 1950
Rifle Case - German Gun Maker
November 1, 1950
Traffic Ticket Case
A vicious gang tears the city apart hunting for a single envelope.
A famous art collector needs help with a divorce, and a certain smiling lady may be hiding thoughts of murder.
A madman calmly telephones the police to announce each murder before he commits it.
November 29, 1950
The Calypso
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