Overview of 'The Lone Wolf' Season 1

Episode 1 - The Long Beach Story (a.k.a. The Smuggling Story)

Release Date: 1954-04-09

Sharing a taxicab with a ballet dancer leads Lanyard to smuggled rubies and a confrontation with hijackers.

Episode 2 - The Avalanche Story (a.k.a. The Reno Story)

Release Date: 1954-04-16

Visiting Reno to find a woman who supposedly died during the war, Mike is implicated in the death of two government couriers and ends up on a stalled train looking for stolen explosives.

Episode 3 - The Chinese Story

Release Date: 1954-04-23

In San Francisco's Chinatown, Mike helps an old friend stop a campaign of intimidation and murder.

Episode 4 - The Carnival Story

Release Date: 1954-04-30

In London, Lanyard is investigating threats against the life of a world-famous ballet dancer when she apparently commits suicide.

Episode 5 - The Blue Lantern Story

Release Date: 1954-05-14

Lanyard is recruited by the Govt. to find out where all the top criminals have been disappearing to. He is to contact an agent named Anson is New York. Upon contact Anson is killed and the only lead he leaves Lanyard is key to the Blue Lantern dance hall. The attempt to infiltrate fails and his next gamble takes him to the Blue Lantern in New Orleans where he is more successful and the final key to the puzzle leads him to the Copper Mountain Lodge in Nevada.

Episode 6 - The Ski Story

Release Date: 1954-05-14

Mike's vacation at a Sun Valley ski lodge is interrupted by murder.

Episode 7 - Plantation Story

Release Date: 1954-05-21

Mike is summoned to a sugar plantation in Manila to investigate illegal dumping by a competitor.

Episode 8 - Pursuit

Release Date: 1954-05-28

In San Francisco, Mike follows a lead on the man who double-crossed him and murdered his business partner five years ago.

Episode 9 - The Malibu Story (a.k.a. Malibu-Laguna)

Release Date: 1954-06-04

A weekend party in Malibu takes an ominous turn when the host's diamonds are stolen and the dead body of his wife washes up on the beach.

Episode 10 - The Murder Story

Release Date: 1954-06-11

Mike is asked by a psychiatrist to investigate a patient who claims to have committed a murder but can't remember the details.

Episode 11 - The Honolulu Story

Release Date: 1954-06-18

Lanyard goes from New Orleans to Hawaii to discover how rubies and opium are being smuggled in from Hong Kong.

Episode 12 - Skid Row

Release Date: 1954-07-02

Lanyard gets a request from Father Picard to make a last-ditch effort to save the life of a prisoner on death row with 36 hours to live.

Episode 13 - The Arena

Release Date: 1954-07-09

Mike tries to help an estranged brother and sister, each of whom believes that the other caused the death of their father in a supposedly accidental cave-in.

Episode 14 - The Karachi Story

Release Date: 1954-07-09

Mike finds a surprise waiting for him when he goes to Pakistan to protect a religious leader's son whose life has been threatened.

Episode 15 - The Las Vegas Story

Release Date: 1954-07-16

In this first episode of the series Lanyard arrives in Las Vegas on vacation, where he gets involved with a cop and his brother who is wanted for murder.

Episode 16 - The Italian Story

Release Date: 1954-07-23

Lanyard travels to Chicago when he receives an urgent note from Joey Crocetti. A war time buddy who saved Lanyard in Italy during the war. Lanyard discovers Joey is on the run from the police, and he sets out to try to prove his friend innocent.

Episode 17 - The Hunt

Release Date: 1954-07-30

Lanyard leaves Mexico but once he arrives back the US he is immediately arrested by the police and put into hospital quarantine. To Lanyards shock he discovers he's been in contact with people who are dying of cholera.

Episode 18 - The Oil Story

Release Date: 1954-08-06

Lanyard searches through the oil fields of Oklahoma for a boy kidnapped by his father from his mother's home.

Episode 19 - The Boy Story

Release Date: 1954-08-13

Lanyard takes a vacation. While enjoying his boat a young boy tries to sell him a gun. Before he knows it he is in a life and death struggle against forces he didn't even realize were active.

Episode 20 - The Emerald Ring

Release Date: 1954-08-20

Mike searches the waterfront for Helen Calder, a missing heiress who can be identified by an emerald ring.

Episode 21 - The Department Store Story

Release Date: 1954-08-27

Discovering that a recently deceased man's greedy children are looking for a fortune that he hid before he died, Mike decides to make sure that the money goes to his beloved housekeeper instead.

Episode 22 - The Planetarium Story

Release Date: 1954-09-03

In Mexico, the death of an archaeologist sends Lanyard in search of a treasure in Aztec gold coins.

Episode 23 - The Art Story

Release Date: 1954-09-10

Lanyard flies to Los Angeles to clear the name of an old friend, a journalist accused of stealing a priceless Van Gogh painting.

Episode 24 - The Carlsbad Big Lie Story

Release Date: 1954-09-17

In New Mexico, Lanyard is worried about an old friend who claims to have seen a flying saucer and that it's not just one of his tall tales.

Episode 25 - The Last Ballet Story

Release Date: 1954-09-24

Michael Lanyard comes to the aid of a ballerina who is frightened of threatening letters. Instead of helping her he must solve her death...an apparent suicide.

Episode 26 - The Beverly Hills Story

Release Date: 1954-10-01

Mike registers at his favorite Beverly Hills hotel only to find that a con artist posing as his wife has already checked in, but goes along with the gag to find out what her game is.

Episode 27 - The Jet Story

Release Date: 1954-10-08

Mike challenges an aircraft designer plagued by accidents to pilot one of his own planes.

Episode 28 - The San Francisco Story

Release Date: 1954-10-15

A woman asks Mike to find out if her husband and their daughter, supposedly killed in a boating accidnet, are still alive.

Episode 29 - The Savage

Release Date: 1954-10-22

Mike visits a South Pacific island to find out why an old friend has apparently resurrected a barbaric native ritual involving fire-walking, shrunken heads, and murder.

Episode 30 - Deep Sea Diving

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Mike is asked to help an old friend, a deep sea diver accused of helping pirates steal the silver that was about to be salvaged from a sunken wreck.

Episode 31 - The Hunt

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A lawyer asks Lanyard to protect his client's interests at a castle in the Balkans that seems to be threatened by werewolves.

Episode 32 - The Werewolf Story

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Mike is hired to locate a stolen rare stamp and return it to its rightful owner.

Episode 33 - The Oil Story

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Lanyard comes to the assistance of an old friend, a minister whose life has been threatened.

Episode 34 - The Robbery Story (a.k.a. Memo: Robbery)

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A big heist prompts Lanyard to track down an infamous jewel thief.

Episode 35 - The Ski Story

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A crazed husband holds Lanyard hostage in a country cottage.

Episode 36 - The Juarez-Karachi Story

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Lanyard must recover top-secret microfilm that could sabotage a peace conference if it gets into the wrong hands.

Episode 37 - The San Pedro Story

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Mike is given a ticket on a cruise ship returning from the Orient to determine the truth behind rumors that a playboy king is smuggling a fortune in jewels from his country into the U.S.

Episode 38 - The Beverly Hills Story

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Lanyard suspects that a hit-and-run accident was murder.

Episode 39 - The Newhall Story (a.k.a. Phoenix-Newhall)

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When Mike's millionaire friend, a witness to a judge's murder, is killed right in front of him, Mike determines to find the culprits.

Episode 40 - The San Francisco Story

Release Date: 1954-04-30

When Mike's old friend, a carnival clown, is murdered, he hunts for the killer.