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 - More Deadly
Release Date: 1958-09-192 innocent men are iced by a currency exchange bookkeeper, to disguise her embezzlement. The sultry femme fatale's yarn that it was a heist gone bad makes sense at first, because of a wave of such robberies on Chicago's Far East Side. But the murdered customer Halper checks out as a solid working stiff, plus the other stick-ups were solo jobs while this was supposedly a 2 hood hold-up, so M Squad's debonair Lt. Ballinger's sic-ed on the case to soften up hard boiled Ora Kane.
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Episode 2 - Dead or Alive
Release Date: 1958-09-26A pair of gun crazy kids are loose in Chicago-- and a young reporter is defending them in the press against Ballinger and "police brutality".
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Episode 3 - The Missing Claimant
Release Date: 1958-10-03A shady lawyer protects a false heir to a fortune-- by killing the real relative! Ballinger is called in to set everything straight.
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Episode 4 - The Refugee
Release Date: 1958-10-10Ballinger goes undercover as an immigrant worker to help break an extortion ring targeting foreigners.
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Episode 5 - The Trap
Release Date: 1958-10-24Danny Mitchell is trying to find an engagement ring for his girl when he mistaken for a thief by the store owner. A fight convinces him he has killed the old man-- as such Danny's on the run! Ballinger is called in to find the kid before he gets into real trouble.
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Episode 6 - Force of Habit
Release Date: 1958-10-31Val Mooney, hiding out from the cops, sees the perfect opportunity to evade them. When his wife's brother is killed in a massive warehouse fire, he forces her to identify the body as-- VAL MOONEY.
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Episode 7 - The Phantom Raiders
Release Date: 1958-11-07A pair of high-speed motorcycle thugs are robbing gas stations across Chicago. When one attendant gets shot, Ballinger goes undercover as a biker to crack the case.
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Episode 8 - The Merits of the Case
Release Date: 1958-11-14A famous defense attorney is gunned down in his house. Now Ballinger must piece together the clues to find the kille
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Episode 9 - The Big Kill
Release Date: 1958-11-21Larry Princeton is the master of bank heists-- he plans then sits back while his thugs pull off the job. Except for the last one-- which resulted in a bank teller's murder! Now Ballinger's after him.
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Episode 10 - The Sitters
Release Date: 1958-11-28Unsuspecting women allow bookmakers to use their telephones in return for payment of $50 per week, but they later learn that their lives will be in danger if they try to get out of the agreement.
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Episode 11 - The Executioner
Release Date: 1958-12-05 -
Episode 12 - The Widows
Release Date: 1958-12-12Widows have something in common. All their husbands were murdered, and all had life insurance policies with double indemnity. And the widows have the same crooked lawyer. Lt. Frank Ballinger suspects a murder for hire scheme.
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Episode 13 - Contraband
Release Date: 1958-12-19 -
Episode 14 - Prescription for Murder
Release Date: 1958-12-26The wife of a brain surgeon is abducted and threatened with death if the surgeon goes ahead with an emergency operation to save a critically injured police witness that can implicate a loan shark in two murders.
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Episode 15 - The Teacher (aka Trade School)
Release Date: 1959-01-02Young hoodlums use a trade school for criminal purposes.
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Episode 16 - The Third Shadow
Release Date: 1959-01-09 -
Episode 17 - One Man's Life
Release Date: 1959-01-23An innocent man will be executed in 48 hours unless Lieutenant Ballinger can convince a socially prominent woman to recant the false testimony that she gave as a result of a ruthless blackmailer's threats.
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Episode 18 - The Jumper
Release Date: 1959-01-30 -
Episode 19 - The Last Act
Release Date: 1959-02-06 -
Episode 20 - Mugger Murder
Release Date: 1959-02-13Frank must solve several connected homicides wherein convicted muggers are being strangled to death.
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Episode 21 - The Star Witness
Release Date: 1959-02-20 -
Episode 22 - The Take Over
Release Date: 1959-02-27Racketeers try to steal profits from a new entertainment establishment run by an old friend of Ballinger.
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Episode 23 - Voluntary Surrender
Release Date: 1959-03-06 -
Episode 24 - Death Threat
Release Date: 1959-03-13 -
Episode 25 - The Harpies
Release Date: 1959-03-20 -
Episode 26 - Ghost Town
Release Date: 1959-03-27Lieutenant Ballinger and the FBI have few leads and little time to find a kidnapped socialite with a predilection for visiting jazz clubs. Bound, unattended, and hidden in a condemned building during a cruel Chicago winter, the young woman is in grave danger of dying from injury or exposure before she can be rescued.
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Episode 27 - The Vanishing Lady
Release Date: 1959-04-03 -
Episode 28 - The Crush Out
Release Date: 1959-04-10 -
Episode 29 - The Fire Makers
Release Date: 1959-04-17Detective Ballinger helps investigate a series of arson crimes that are being used to cover up insurance scams.
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Episode 30 - The Terror on Dark Street
Release Date: 1959-04-24Lieutenant Ballinger investigates a possible link between a series of Dark Street purse snatchings and the disappearance of a successful but unhappily married architect.
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Episode 31 - Robber's Roost
Release Date: 1959-05-01 -
Episode 32 - The Baited Hook
Release Date: 1959-05-08A former convict and his daughter are being harassed by an old inmate.
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Episode 33 - Model in the Lake
Release Date: 1959-05-15A swimsuit model is found dead in Lake Michigan, but physical evidence indicates the she may not have drowned while swimming. Lieutenant Ballinger becomes convinced that she was murdered after he learns that she was a strong swimmer and an iniquitous individual with a large number of unexplained bank deposits.
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Episode 34 - The Outsider
Release Date: 1959-05-22 -
Episode 35 - High School Bride
Release Date: 1959-05-29 -
Episode 36 - The Dangerous Game
Release Date: 1959-06-05The M squad is called in after a brutal robbery at the Leslie Fur Salon leaves a man clinging to death. As the investigation progresses, the situation faced by M Squad becomes more and more complex.
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Episode 37 - Decoy in White
Release Date: 1959-06-12The M Squad become involved when a bank manager laundering illegal money is killed. The situation becomes tangled when a young lady accompanying the bank manager comes forward.
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Episode 38 - Mr. Grim's Rabbits
Release Date: 1959-06-19A seemingly random dockside shooting leads M Squad on a strange investigation involving fur skins and ancient Inca artifacts.
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Episode 39 - Platter Pirates
Release Date: 1959-06-26A D.J threatens to reveal the influence of racketeers in the music industry. Before he can go to air with the information he is gunned down. M squad are brought in to solve the mystery of the death as well as the validity of the information he was going to reveal.
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Episode 40 - Death Is a Clock
Release Date: 1959-07-03LT. Frank Ballinger takes a personal interest in a case when the wife of convicted murderer Paul Danzig approaches him for help. Danzig has only 20 hours to live and his wife talks openly of stopping the clock. Ballinger has to figure out what she means, and ensure the right man pays for the crime of murder.