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The Best Episodes of Bourbon Street Beat

Every episode of Bourbon Street Beat ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Bourbon Street Beat!

"Bourbon Street Beat" is a private detective series produced by Warner Brothers Television which aired on the ABC network from October 5, 1959, to July 4, 1960. It featured Richard Long as Rex Randolph, Andrew Duggan as Cal Calhoun, Van Williams as Kenny Madison, and Arlene Howell as Melody Lee Mercer, the secretary at the New Orleans detective agency in which they worked. The show is set in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA and revolves around the lives of Rex Randolph (Long) and Cal Calhoun (Duggan), who run a detective agency called Randolph and Calhoun — Special Services. The agency is based in the Absinthe House, a French Quarter nightclub on Bourbon Street.

Genre:Drama
Network:ABC

Top Episode Ratings Summary

The best episode of "Bourbon Street Beat" is "Portrait of Lenore", rated 9.1/10 from 16 user votes. It was directed by Robert Gordon and written by N/A. "Portrait of Lenore" aired on 12/28/1959 and is rated 0.4 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "The 10% Blues".

  • Portrait of Lenore
    9.1/10 16 votes

    #1 - Portrait of Lenore

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/28/1959

    Rex searches for a stolen painting, becoming involved in a missing persons case and a murder.

    Director: Robert Gordon

    Writer: N/A

  • The 10% Blues
    8.7/10 14 votes

    #2 - The 10% Blues

    Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/8/1960

    Cal and Rex go up against imported killers to find the elusive power behind a talent agency using gangster tactics to get clients.

    Director: William J. Hole Jr.

    Writer: Dick Nelson

  • Last Exit
    8.7/10 15 votes

    #3 - Last Exit

    Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 5/2/1960

    Rex flies to the Caribbean to find a client's missing daughter and the man he believes killed his son.

    Director: Leslie H. Martinson

    Writer: N/A

  • Woman in the River
    8.5/10 22 votes

    #4 - Woman in the River

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/26/1959

    Rex and Cal investigate a disappearance in a wealthy New Orleans family.

    Director: William J. Hole Jr.

    Writer: N/A

  • Find My Face
    8.5/10 16 votes

    #5 - Find My Face

    Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/18/1960

    Rex and Cal try to identify an accident victim, who refuses to accept his wife and doctor's assurances that he's a wealthy executive and instead claims to be someone else entirely.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Target of Hate
    8.4/10 17 votes

    #6 - Target of Hate

    Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 3/7/1960

    An assassin uses Rex and Cal's office to set up a political killing. Trapped, the detectives try to goad the killer into a confession that could turn his crony against him.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Wall of Silence
    8.4/10 12 votes

    #7 - Wall of Silence

    Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/28/1960

    Investigating a client's suspicious suicide leads Rex to a strange island under the sway of a mysterious blackmailer.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Six Hours to Midnight
    8.4/10 14 votes

    #8 - Six Hours to Midnight

    Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 4/25/1960

    Cal has six hours to uncover evidence that a condemned man is innocent of murder.

    Director: Charles R. Rondeau, Arthur Hiller

    Writer: Lee Loeb

  • Green Hell
    8.4/10 12 votes

    #9 - Green Hell

    Season 1 Episode 34 - Aired 5/30/1960

    Rex gets caught between two power-mongering revolutionaries when a tropical nation hires him to recover vital information.

    Director: Charles R. Rondeau

    Writer: N/A

  • Invitation to a Murder
    8.3/10 17 votes

    #10 - Invitation to a Murder

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/23/1959

    Rex is invited to witness a murder by an enigmatic killer who switches victims and leaves the detectives trying to sort out a houseful of straying wives, night club operators, newsmen, and other New Orleans characters, each with a motive for the murder.

    Director: Reginald Le Borg

    Writer: Stephen Lord

  • Suitable for Framing
    8.3/10 14 votes

    #11 - Suitable for Framing

    Season 1 Episode 32 - Aired 5/16/1960

    A beautiful woman hires Rex when she suspects her husband of trying to kill her, but when he goes to check out her mansion he finds himself at the wrong end of a murder investigation.

    Director: Leslie H. Martinson

    Writer: Gerald Drayson Adams, Charles Hoffman

  • Torch Song for Trumpet
    8.2/10 21 votes

    #12 - Torch Song for Trumpet

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/19/1959

    Cal takes on a murder case to prove a hot-tempered ex-con didn't beat his boss to death with a trumpet.

    Director: Leslie H. Martinson

    Writer: James Barnett

  • The Black Magnolia
    8.2/10 19 votes

    #13 - The Black Magnolia

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/21/1959

    Cal uncovers a family's skeletons when he searches for a missing fortune and a secret killer.

    Director: Reginald Le Borg

    Writer: Earl Baldwin

  • The Missing Queen
    8.2/10 14 votes

    #14 - The Missing Queen

    Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 3/14/1960

    Cal searches for a missing beauty contestant.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Teresa
    8.2/10 10 votes

    #15 - Teresa

    Season 1 Episode 39 - Aired 7/4/1960

    Rex runs into gangsters and a hurricane while searching for a missing playboy at an island casino.

    Director: William J. Hole Jr.

    Writer: N/A

  • The House of Ledezan
    8.1/10 12 votes

    #16 - The House of Ledezan

    Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/22/1960

    Rex is hired to prove an heiress innocent of her father's murder.

    Director: William J. Hole Jr.

    Writer: N/A

  • Neon Nightmare
    8.1/10 14 votes

    #17 - Neon Nightmare

    Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/21/1960

    Cal is hired to break up a political gang with a stranglehold on a small town, but must end his partnership with Rex to avoid suspicion.

    Director: William J. Hole Jr.

    Writer: Dean Riesner

  • Ferry to Algiers
    8.1/10 11 votes

    #18 - Ferry to Algiers

    Season 1 Episode 35 - Aired 6/6/1960

    Rex and Cal go off on a fishing trip, leaving Kenny Madison in charge of the office. Kenny's first assignment is to guard an elderly shopkeeper.

    Director: William J. Hole Jr.

    Writer: N/A

  • The Taste of Ashes
    8.0/10 33 votes

    #19 - The Taste of Ashes

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/5/1959

    A New Orleans private eye searches for the killers of his partner and turns to a local police officer for help bringing the murderers to justice.

    Director: Leslie H. Martinson

    Writer: Charles Hoffman

  • Mrs. Viner Vanishes
    8.0/10 17 votes

    #20 - Mrs. Viner Vanishes

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/30/1959

    Hired to find a missing wife, Cal soon becomes caught up in a deadly game of hide-and-seek.

    Director: Paul Henreid

    Writer: N/A

  • Interrupted Wedding
    8.0/10 11 votes

    #21 - Interrupted Wedding

    Season 1 Episode 37 - Aired 6/20/1960

    Rex helps a lovely young private eye investigate a bomb discovered at a society wedding and ends up in the clutches of a pair of siblings intent on avenging their parents' long-ago deaths at the hands of a trucking magnate.

    Director: William J. Hole Jr.

    Writer: N/A

  • Secret of Hyacinth Bayou
    7.9/10 17 votes

    #22 - Secret of Hyacinth Bayou

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/16/1959

    Cal becomes entangled in a blackmail/murder plot when he is savagely beaten and framed for murder by an old swamp-dweller hiding a secret.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Inside Man
    7.9/10 13 votes

    #23 - Inside Man

    Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/11/1960

    Rex goes undercover in a prison gang and joins a prison break.

    Director: Leslie H. Martinson

    Writer: Howard Browne

  • Girl in Trouble
    7.8/10 17 votes

    #24 - Girl in Trouble

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/2/1959

    Cal sets out to prove a friend is innocent of murder and investigates a gangland killing.

    Director: Reginald Le Borg

    Writer: N/A

  • The Mourning Cloak
    7.7/10 19 votes

    #25 - The Mourning Cloak

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/12/1959

    Rex and Melody Lee go to the decrepit Cavanagh plantation to investigate ghostly appearances that are driving a woman insane.

    Director: James V. Kern

    Writer: Sig Herzig