Rogue's Gallery — 1946
38 episodes broadcast in 1946.
Stark McVeigh hires Rogue and is murdered for his trouble. The trail runs to a counterfeiter's hideout.
January 10, 1946
As the Twig Is Bent
Anson Leeds dies and leaves behind a will nobody can make sense of. A judge asks Rogue to find out why.
January 24, 1946
Murder Habit
Somebody wants a thoroughly unpleasant circus acrobat dead, and Rogue has to solve it under the big top.
February 7, 1946
A Girl, A Boy, and A Gun
February 14, 1946
The Case of the Eager Murderer
A newspaper's managing editor is murdered not long after tangling with the shady lawyer they call the Alibi Master.
February 28, 1946
Alias Harold Halloway
March 7, 1946
(untitled)
March 14, 1946
The Cat Dies Once
March 21, 1946
A Date with Tangerine
March 28, 1946
Callahan's Hat
A man half an hour from the electric chair asks to see Rogue, and will not say why. Rogue walks the death-house corridor with no idea what he has been summoned for.
April 11, 1946
A Little Piece of Paper
April 18, 1946
Stormy Knights
April 25, 1946
Headline Murder
May 2, 1946
The Case of the Forgetful Blonde
A woman Rogue meets on an unwanted mountain vacation, and the husband who suspects her, earn him a cracked skull, a shoulder wound and a trip off a cliff. Then the blizzard closes in.
Judge Colin Baker is threatened and hires Rogue to guard him for a single day. Rogue does not manage it -- Baker turns up strangled.
Somebody has tried twice in a fortnight to kill Patricia Flynn, and she cannot think of a single reason why anyone would want to.
Rogue stops by an old friend's place on a hot Sunday and finds him shot dead on the white living-room rug -- then gets knocked cold, and then gets accused of the killing by two people he thought were friends. He is unconscious barely two minutes into the program.
A man walks into Rogue's office with a bullet in him and dies there. The question is who shot Charles McDonald, and the answer is a very valuable diamond. It opened the 1946 NBC summer run, reworking a script the program had already used in June 1945.
Matt Webb picks a fight with Rogue in a nightclub; the next day Mrs. Webb tries to hire Rogue to investigate her husband. He turns her down, and then Webb's body turns up. Surviving as a rehearsal recording, complete with Powell fluffing a line and carrying on.
At a lakeside resort, a guest named Janice Cole turns up dead in her own room. Her body vanishes while Rogue sleeps off his weekly blow to the head -- and then the killing is pinned on him.
Told she had a weak heart, Angela Mullins made a will; her heart held out, and now the will is gone -- so if she dies today her money goes to the two relatives she cannot stand. She hires Rogue to find the thief, and is dead almost before he can start.
July 21, 1946
Murderer's Apprentice
July 28, 1946
Fight
August 4, 1946
Lovely Alibi
August 11, 1946
The Coin
August 18, 1946
Play with Fire
August 25, 1946
Vacation with Murder
September 1, 1946
Impatient Patricia
September 8, 1946
Lullaby with Blackjack
September 15, 1946
Ace in the Hole
September 22, 1946
The Restless Corpse
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