← Richard Diamond, Private Detective
Richard Diamond, Private Detective — 1951
39 episodes broadcast in 1951.
January 5, 1951
Nathan Beeker Case
A bride wants Diamond's protection once her new husband makes parole -- yet it is the husband who ends up shot in the head.
A scarred man is murdered, and the son of a parole-board member becomes the prime suspect -- or is meant to.
A wealthy man sends his secretary to hire Diamond to find his brother, an embezzler fresh out of prison and hungry for revenge.
A gambler's wife is murdered moments after retaining Diamond to guard her -- or so the scene is staged.
A fashionable haberdasher is baffled when a vandal steals nothing but a single blue serge suit -- and then another.
An ashen-faced man in a grey overcoat pays Diamond $5,000 to find someone within five hours, then dies.
A mink-coated woman steps into Diamond's office, retains him, and collapses dead where she stands.
A man who paid to have himself killed loses his nerve and turns to Diamond for protection from the assassin, marked by a red rose.
Diamond throws his weight into a protection racket that is squeezing the city's independent butchers.
Sent to collect a sample of face cream from Monsieur Bouchon, Diamond discovers the sample is a bomb.
In Haiti, Diamond squares off against a voodoo racket and the powerful Englishman running it, with a giant called Little Chiva at his side.
A carnival's self-styled 'thinnest man in the world' hires Diamond and draws him into murder on the midway.
April 6, 1951
The Dead Heiress
April 13, 1951
The Right Fix
April 20, 1951
Tug
April 27, 1951
The Barrio Case
May 4, 1951
The Boy Who Made Bad
May 11, 1951
Danny Denver
May 18, 1951
Lonely Hearts
May 25, 1951
Longest Short-Cut in the World
June 1, 1951
The Montelli Case
June 8, 1951
The Darby Affair
June 15, 1951
The Poise Magazine Story
June 22, 1951
The Masteron Case
June 29, 1951
The Monkey Man
October 5, 1951
Pete Rocco Case
October 12, 1951
Lou Turner Case
October 19, 1951
Jackson Case
October 26, 1951
Registered Letter
Levinson brings Diamond a grim case: small-timer Smiley Brill has shot a veteran cop during a pawnshop break-in.
November 9, 1951
Buried Treasure
November 16, 1951
Hollywood Story - G.l. Harvey Case
November 23, 1951
Mickey Farmer Case
November 30, 1951
Goodnight to Nocturne
A fender-bender and a stray brown envelope set Diamond chasing a $600,000 robbery's stolen haul -- and cost him his trousers.
December 14, 1951
Night Club Case
A bail-jumper in a plaid overcoat keeps knocking Diamond cold, and the detective is determined to learn why.
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