This Is Your FBI — 1946
52 episodes broadcast in 1946.
The story follows a First World War delinquent's rise into a seasoned gangster of the roaring twenties.
From the Bureau's Alaska files, a woman alone in a remote trading post during a blizzard faces a threatening stranger.
A family of modest means is targeted in a small-ransom kidnapping the FBI pursues as fiercely as any headline case.
Ordinary middle-class life along the Hudson River is upended when crime intrudes on a quiet household.
Nick Corona, fleeing deportation, is pulled from the sea by a fishing trawler and hunted by federal agents.
Investigator Bill Renton exposes a scam selling shares in a nonexistent chain of airports and flying schools.
The Bureau tracks a coldly professional killer who murders simply as a tool of his trade.
A kidnapping case draws agents deep into the reptile-infested Florida Everglades.
A husband-and-wife team makes its living as smiling professional murderers.
A phony Army officer and his girlfriend try to unload two hundred stolen military radios on a shady store owner.
A blackmail plot against a dead businessman's wealthy family turns deadly when the private detective on the case is murdered.
A double-crossed hijacker is left for dead in a burning truck, and a Puerto Rican banana plantation becomes a murder scene.
Two young delinquents use a stolen pair of walkie-talkies to launch a crime spree, until a brother informs on them.
A witness to a hit-and-run blackmails a mayoral candidate to buy his silence.
Two women and a baby rob a grocery store and flee across a state line into federal jurisdiction.
A little old lady breaks her son out of prison with a book of matches and a red Packard ambulance.
A hitchhiker in a sailor suit robs the jewelry salesman who gives him a ride, and the robber's accomplice is later found dead.
An amateur trumpeter and a partner kidnap a famous musician and hold him for a $25,000 ransom.
Aging gangster King Brown, paroled from a life sentence, is offered a chance to start over.
A case of modern cattle rustling in the West escalates into murder.
A bogus doctor's deadly 'treatments' to keep young men out of the Army bring in the FBI.
A vicious young man murders his stepfather, robs an amnesiac of his jewels, and betrays his own mother to the Bureau.
Two vacationing working girls are swept into a night of gangsters, murder, and a high-speed chase.
An escaped German POW uses an Indian-head penny to signal old friends in the Bund.
A con man's sugar-rationing swindle falls apart when a recipe-collecting wife grows suspicious.
An extortionist recruits an admiring ex-convict to blackmail a politician, then disposes of him.
An elderly bank embezzler goes on the run, traveling with a threadbare carnival.
A crooked builder turns to arson and kidnapping after an honest inspector refuses to overlook his shoddy bridge.
Two boys flee a hit-and-run across a state line and become interstate fugitives, in the show's first broadcast before a live studio audience.
A seemingly kindly old farm couple prove to be hardened criminals.
Escaped convict Thompson flees toward Cleveland with a double-crossing girlfriend.
When a prospective juror refuses a $5,000 bribe to sway a verdict, his daughter is kidnapped.
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