Deadline (1959)
Deadline is a 1959-1961 American television drama series that re-enacted famous newspaper stories from the past. Hosted and narrated by Paul Stewart, the syndicated series was produced by Arnold Perl. Guest stars included Peter Falk, Diane Ladd, Robert Lansing, and George Maharis. Thirty-nine 30-minute episodes were produced.
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Episode 1 - Victor Reisel
Release Date: 1959-09-17As labor reporter on the New York Daily Mirror, Riesel fights against racketeers by exposing them to the public.
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Episode 2 - State Scandal
Release Date: 1959-09-24Reporter George Thiem's dilemma: loyalty to a friend or respect for the law.
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Episode 3 - Pickup
Release Date: 1959-10-01A persistent newsman tries to prove that a mild-mannered salesman is the murderer of two women.
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Episode 4 - The Neon Touch
Release Date: 1959-10-08Two teen-agers scheme to get rich quick by passing bad checks.
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Episode 5 - Extortion
Release Date: 1959-10-15A respected doctor becomes the victim of an extortionist.
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Episode 6 - The accusing finger
Release Date: 1959-10-22Reporter Ed Mowery, certain that a convicted murderer is innocent, tries to have the case reopened.
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Episode 7 - Mass Murder
Release Date: 1959-10-29A plane explodes in mid-flight, killing everyone on board.
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Episode 8 - The Case Of The Stranger
Release Date: 1959-11-05Newsman Harry Romanoff tries to unmask a phony hero: he believes that the man committed a double murder.
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Episode 9 - Charm Boy
Release Date: 1959-11-12A sorority meeting and a missed bus spell death for a coed and her killer has an airtight alibi.
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Episode 10 - Old Man Lost
Release Date: 1959-11-19Don Hogan of the Boston Post tries to help an amnesic regain the will to live.
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Episode 11 - The Human Storm
Release Date: 1959-11-26It takes a violent prison riot and a crusading reporter to alert the authorities to the inhuman conditions at a penal institution.
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Episode 12 - Hot Stuff
Release Date: 1959-12-03To expose a shoplifting racket, fashion editor Trudy Prokop infiltrates the gang.
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Episode 13 - The Face of a Thief
Release Date: 1959-12-10A brilliant detective matches wits with a reporter trying to clear a man caught in a web of circumstantial evidence.
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Episode 14 - Murderess
Release Date: 1959-12-17A beautiful murderer proves true her claim that no jail built could hold her.
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Episode 15 - Chain Reaction
Release Date: 1959-12-24A pilot becomes mentally ill after he takes part in the bombing of Hiroshima.
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Episode 16 - Clean Kill
Release Date: 1959-12-31An unusual clue helps Gene Lindsey of the Phoenix (Ariz.) Gazette solve a murder.
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Episode 17 - Lonely Hearts Killer
Release Date: 1960-01-07Two newsmen track a lonely-hearts killer who has claimed three victims.
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Episode 18 - Return to Murder
Release Date: 1960-01-14Two teen-age gangs are on the verge of declaring peace when a boy returns from prison and stirs up fury anew.
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Episode 19 - Scramble
Release Date: 1960-01-21Reporter Matt Conklin tries to foster good feelings between a quiet Texas town and a new Air Force base.
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Episode 20 - Massacre
Release Date: 1960-01-28A berserk killer is on the loose in California.
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Episode 21 - The Blue Dahlia
Release Date: 1960-02-04A soldier confesses to the murder of a beautiful girl but a stubborn reporter refuses to believe him.
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Episode 22 - Checkmate
Release Date: 1960-02-11Police and reporters try to break a man suspected of having murdered a 15-year-old girl.
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Episode 23 - Jailbreak
Release Date: 1960-02-18Three convicts escape from a maximum-security prison by forging the warden's signature on pardons.
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Episode 24 - Mad Bomber
Release Date: 1960-02-25It's Christmas week in New York, and a mad bomber is stalking the city.
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Episode 25 - Character Witness
Release Date: 1960-03-03Reporter Leo Sheridan is called in as a character witness at the murder trial of his best friend.
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Episode 26 - Dumb Kid
Release Date: 1960-03-10A cub reporter stumbles onto two bandits.
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Episode 27 - A Story for Christmas
Release Date: 1960-03-17William Key helps a despondent young girl on Christmas Eve.
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Episode 28 - Birthday Present
Release Date: 1960-03-24A father and his son are hunting for a lost ball that rolled under their porch and discover a woman's body.
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Episode 29 - Suspicion of Murder
Release Date: 1960-03-31Bernice Freeman stands by her friend when he is accused of murder.
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Episode 30 - Thesis for Murder
Release Date: 1960-04-07A brilliant, but deranged, college student tries to carry out the perfect crime
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Episode 31 - Exposure
Release Date: 1960-04-14A photo studio is the cover for a racket swindling the citizens of Columbus, Ohio, to the tune of a quarter of a million dollars a year.
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Episode 32 - Pig Woman
Release Date: 1960-04-21A woman brutally murders a handy man after being named the beneficiary of his life-insurance policy.
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Episode 33 - To Move a Mountain
Release Date: 1960-04-28A reporter, nursed by two Burmese women during the war, fights to keep them from being forced back to Burma and certain death.
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Episode 34 - One Tall, One Short
Release Date: 1960-05-05A wild hunch helps reporter Clayton Darrah trap two phantom bandits. The only available description is "one short, one tall."
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Episode 35 - The Cave
Release Date: 1960-05-12A car parked outside an uncharted cave convinces a reporter that someone is lost inside.
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Episode 36 - The Two Ounce Trap
Release Date: 1960-05-19A rest home for alcoholics, scene of five deaths within a brief period, is investigated by newsman Paul Quick.
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Episode 37 - The Last Knockout
Release Date: 1960-05-26Reporter Ed Reid encounters an ex-fight manager, a singer and a boxer in his search for a missing sea captain.
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Episode 38 - Episode 38
Release Date: 1961-02-01 -
Episode 39 - Smoke Screen
Release Date: 1961-02-04The Erie, Pa., fire department is looking for the arsonist terrorizing the town.