M Squad (1957)
Lt. Frank Ballinger is a no-nonsense plain clothes cop in the elite M Squad Division. The Squad's task is to root out organised crime and corruption in America's Second City, Chicago.
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Episode 1 - The Golden Look
Release Date: 1957-09-20The Squad is on the lookout for a bank robbery suspect with a unique feature, witnesses say he has gold teeth.
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Episode 2 - The Watchdog
Release Date: 1957-09-27Ballinger and the Squad are out to catch a burglar who may have rabies.
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Episode 3 - Neighborhood Killer
Release Date: 1957-10-04The squad hunts down a cop killer.
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Episode 4 - Pete Loves Mary
Release Date: 1957-10-11The squad goes after a jail inmate who's just escaped.
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Episode 5 - Face of Evil
Release Date: 1957-10-18Ballinger investigates the murders of four women. The victims were all connected to the same church and lived within two miles of each other.
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Episode 6 - Street of Fear
Release Date: 1957-11-01Chicago cop Frank Ballinger stages a rescue in order to gain the confidence of Alice, a young woman who works for suspected jewelry fence Louis Prince. Pretending to be furniture salesman Bob Steele, Ballinger romances Alice and gets friendly with her boss. But Alice falls for "Bob" and Ballinger must weigh her feelings and safety against his duty as a police officer.
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Episode 7 - The Matinee Trade
Release Date: 1957-11-08Lt. Frank Ballinger investigates the case of a gambling ring and its connection to an unidentified police officer. The deeper into the investigation he gets, the more Ballinger becomes concerned that the crooked cop may be an old friend.
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Episode 8 - The Hard Case
Release Date: 1957-11-15A jewelry store robbery sends the thief to prison, but his claim that the night watchman, a former big-league ballplayer named Lightnin' Joe Adams, was in on the heist costs Adams his job. Lt. Frank Ballinger goes undercover in prison to find out from the robber whether Adams was involved in the crime and what happened to the loot.
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Episode 9 - Killer in Town
Release Date: 1957-11-22Frank Ballinger and his colleagues on the M Squad have to find a needle in a haystack: a cop killer somewhere in the city of Chicago. Their only clues are an old magazine and the killer's habit of saying "You bet."
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Episode 10 - Diamond Hard
Release Date: 1957-11-29Lt. Frank Ballinger keeps an eye on Hazel, a bar girl with a record who nonetheless wants to go straight. He discovers she is involved with Joe Mazzerin, a safecracker. Ballinger goes undercover to get the goods on Mazzerin and to learn who his mysterious partner is.
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Episode 11 - The Alibi Witness
Release Date: 1957-12-06When perennial loser Wally Gardner is identified as the perpetrator of a robbery-murder, he tells police unique details of a stranger he met miles away at the time of the crime. But when that stranger is found, he says he can prove that HE was miles from where Gardner says they met at the time of the crime. Lt. Frank Ballinger must determine who's lying.
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Episode 12 - The Specialists
Release Date: 1957-12-13When a hired gunman gets himself tossed in jail following a fistfight, Lt. Frank Ballinger takes his place undercover as protection for a group of three businessmen who meet once a year to commit a specialized crime.
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Episode 13 - Family Portrait
Release Date: 1957-12-20When his partner in an investigation is killed, Lt. Frank Ballinger makes it a personal business to pin the crime on narcotics lord Sam Hinder. But, as Ballinger discovers, Hinder has an unusual reason for wanting to keep the police out of his own personal business.
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Episode 14 - The Palace Guard
Release Date: 1957-12-27Gangster Tommy Hatch is wanted for murder, but the police have to keep him safe from other gangsters who want him dead before he can testify against them. Lt. Frank Ballinger is assigned to protect Hatch even though he despises him.
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Episode 15 - The Slow Trap
Release Date: 1958-01-03Ballinger investigates the case of a security courier who is charged with robbing himself of $75,000.
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Episode 16 - The Cover Up
Release Date: 1958-01-10District Attorney Grover calls for Ballinger to help him sort out a potentially embarrassing situation involving the murder of a former business associate.
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Episode 17 - Blue Indigo
Release Date: 1958-01-17The room mate of the third murder victim of the Blue Indigo serial killer may be the only link Ballinger has to catching him.
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Episode 18 - The Long Ride
Release Date: 1958-01-24When a convicted murderer gets the upper hand on Lieutenant Ballinger during a train ride back to Chicago, his last best hope for recapturing the felon is the persistence of an alert young boy.
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Episode 19 - The Shakedown
Release Date: 1958-01-31Ballinger suspects an inside job when a dry cleaning company refuses to knuckle under to a shakedown mob.
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Episode 20 - Dolly's Bear
Release Date: 1958-02-07Kathy Bane, an old flame of Ballinger's, needs his help when a blackmailer trying to extort money turns up dead-- in her apartment.
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Episode 21 - Lover's Lane Killing
Release Date: 1958-02-14Ballinger investigates a murder with multiple motives.
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Episode 22 - The Frightened Wife
Release Date: 1958-02-21A man's aunt reports her nephew is missing. Ballinger investigates.
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Episode 23 - The Black Mermaid
Release Date: 1958-02-28Ballinger goes undercover to capture a robbery suspect.
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Episode 24 - The Man in Hiding
Release Date: 1958-03-07Ballinger investigates after a bank robber leaves a pencil at the scene.
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Episode 25 - Chicago Bluebeard
Release Date: 1958-03-14A woman dies. Ballinger investigates.
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Episode 26 - Girl Lost
Release Date: 1958-03-21A woman loses her memory. Bellinger investigates.
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Episode 27 - Hideout
Release Date: 1958-03-28Bank robbers hide in a suburban house.
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Episode 28 - Shot in the Dark
Release Date: 1958-04-04A sniper is terrorizing Chicago. Ballinger joins the hunt.
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Episode 29 - The Twenty-Six Girl
Release Date: 1958-04-11A young wife is shot by an unknown assailant when she drives with her ex-con husband to an isolated woods in search of their dream home. No one even reports the couple missing until after the police find them dead in the snow. The wife's sister is a wealthy spinster, who takes her time even coming to Chicago, claiming her brother-in-law was threatened with death by a blackmailer. Det. Ballinger suspects the sister knows more than she reveals.
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Episode 30 - Fight
Release Date: 1958-04-18A boxer's (Lancaster) life is being threatened soon after another fighter dies after fighting with Lancaster. Suspicion falls on the other fighter's trainer who feels Lancaster is responsible for the death of the other fighter.
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Episode 31 - Guilty Alibi
Release Date: 1958-04-25A man confesses to a crime he may not have committed. Meanwhile the president of the company where the man works has been shot to death.
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Episode 32 - The Healer
Release Date: 1958-05-02Lieutenant Ballinger searches for a mentally ill young woman who shot a psychiatrist, hoping all the while that he can also find sufficient evidence to obtain a felony conviction against the charlatan who was "treating" her.
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Episode 33 - Day of Terror
Release Date: 1958-05-09Frank Ballinger investigates a illegal adoption racket.
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Episode 34 - The $20 Plates
Release Date: 1958-05-16Ballinger investigates a rash of counterfeit $20 bills.
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Episode 35 - The Double Face
Release Date: 1958-05-23A professional man is identified as a jewelry-store robber, threatening his freedom, not to mention his wife's reputation "from being married unknowingly to such a character". Ballinger investigates.
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Episode 36 - The System
Release Date: 1958-05-30An illegal roving casino eludes the police and cheats players with crooked games. When Ballinger investigates, he encounters additional, unforeseen threats.
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Episode 37 - Woman from Paris
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Episode 38 - Accusation
Release Date: 1958-06-13A millionaire is found dead in a locked room. His young pretty wife (Fay Spain), and the big hansom driver (Ken Clark), are suspected of the crime. Lee Marvin figures out how the crime was committed.