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Richard Diamond, Private Detective — 1953
16 episodes broadcast in 1953.
Sent to Bolivia to trace the vanished William Holland, Diamond and Lt. Levinson instead uncover a Russian agent mining pitchblende.
A rerun of the Cover-Up case: a madman calmly telephones the police to announce each murder before he commits it.
A jewelry firm is robbed of $50,000 in gems and its night watchman vanishes, later found dead -- the clue hidden inside a Buddha.
Gustav Heiden, a German immigrant gunmaker, hires Diamond to guard his newly invented rifle.
July 5, 1953
Buried Treasure
July 12, 1953
Pete Rocco Case
A rerun of the Pete Rocco case: an escaped killer vows to murder Diamond, so the man's own mother hires the detective to return her son to prison.
July 19, 1953
Chapel Hill Police Officer Symposium Speech
A police convention in North Carolina turns deadly, and the killing yields an unexpected answer.
A rerun of the Mona Lisa Murder: a wealthy art collector needs help with a divorce, and a certain smiling lady may be hiding thoughts of murder.
A rerun of the Kidnapped Policeman: Lt. Levinson is seized by a man whose brother is set to be executed that very night.
A rerun of the Oklahoma Cowboy case: Diamond saddles up to solve a wild-west killing for a man hunting his brother's murderer.
'Big Foot' Grafton is pulled from the river as the second baseman of a women's softball team goes missing.
September 6, 1953
George Lexington Fears for His Life
A rerun of the George Lexington case: a man is found both shot and stabbed, with a woman standing over him holding a smoking gun.
September 13, 1953
Charles Johnson Matter
The series finale, a rerun of the Edna Wolf case: a wife hiring Diamond for divorce evidence lands him squarely in a murder frame.
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