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"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...
Genre:Drama
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Season 1

  • The Taste of Ashes
    8.0/1033 votes
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    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

  • The Mourning Cloak
    7.7/1019 votes
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    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

  • Torch Song for Trumpet
    8.2/1021 votes
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    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

  • Woman in the River
    8.5/1022 votes
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    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

  • Girl in Trouble
    7.8/1017 votes
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    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 Tiger Moth
    7.5/1015 votes
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    The Tiger Moth

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/9/1959

    The investigators look into the apparent suicide of a jazz musician.

    Director: James V. Kern

    Writer: N/A

  • Secret of Hyacinth Bayou
    7.9/1017 votes
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    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

  • Invitation to a Murder
    8.3/1017 votes
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    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

  • Mrs. Viner Vanishes
    8.0/1017 votes
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    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

  • Light Touch of Terror
    7.4/1015 votes
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    Light Touch of Terror

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/7/1959

    Kenny is convinced that a notorius New Orleans killer, the Axeman, has returned when a similar killing occurs.

    Director: William J. Hole Jr., Leslie H. Martinson

    Writer: N/A

  • The Golden Beetle
    7.7/1015 votes
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    The Golden Beetle

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/14/1959

    A missing man, a stolen talisman and some vanished letters are all connected as the detectives search for answers and find pirate treasure.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Black Magnolia
    8.2/1019 votes
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    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

  • Portrait of Lenore
    9.1/1016 votes
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    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

  • Kill with Kindness
    7.4/1011 votes
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    Kill with Kindness

    Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/4/1960

    Cal poses as a handyman at a mansion to discover who's trying to poison a humanitarian.

    Director: William J. Hole Jr.

    Writer: N/A

  • Inside Man
    7.9/1013 votes
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    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

  • Find My Face
    8.5/1016 votes
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    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

  • Knock on Any Tombstone
    7.5/1015 votes
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    Knock on Any Tombstone

    Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/25/1960

    Rex tangles with voodoo when he searches for the person using the New Orleans religion against a client's father.

    Director: William J. Hole Jr.

    Writer: N/A

  • Key to the City
    7.6/1011 votes
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    Key to the City

    Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/1/1960

    Cal and Kenny search for killers aboard a riverboat bound for New Orleans.

    Director: James V. Kern

    Writer: Robert C. Dennis, James Barnett

  • The 10% Blues
    8.7/1014 votes
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    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

  • Melody in Diamonds
    7.6/1011 votes
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    Melody in Diamonds

    Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/15/1960

    Melody is targeted by a con artist when she borrows a valuable necklace for Mardi Gras.

    Director: James V. Kern

    Writer: N/A

  • The House of Ledezan
    8.1/1012 votes
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    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

  • Target of Hate
    8.4/1017 votes
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    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

  • The Missing Queen
    8.2/1014 votes
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    The Missing Queen

    Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 3/14/1960

    Cal searches for a missing beauty contestant.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Neon Nightmare
    8.1/1014 votes
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    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

  • Wall of Silence
    8.4/1012 votes
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    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

  • Twice Betrayed
    7.2/1010 votes
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    Twice Betrayed

    Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 4/4/1960

    Set up by a crooked cop, Cal loses his investigator's license.

    Director: William J. Hole Jr.

    Writer: N/A

  • Swamp Fire
    7.5/1010 votes
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    Swamp Fire

    Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 4/11/1960

    Cal and Rex are hired by an oil company to find the truth behind eerie swamp fire images that are driving Cajun workmen to quit en masse.

    Director: Robert B. Sinclair

    Writer: Dean Riesner, Sig Herzig

  • If A Body
    7.5/1014 votes
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    If A Body

    Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 4/18/1960

    Cal uncovers a diamond-smuggling ring—but his sleuthing threatens to send him to the bottom of the Mississippi.

    Director: Leslie H. Martinson

    Writer: Charles Hoffman

  • Six Hours to Midnight
    8.4/1014 votes
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    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

  • Last Exit
    8.7/1015 votes
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    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

  • Deadly Persuasion
    7.1/1014 votes
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    Deadly Persuasion

    Season 1 Episode 31 - Aired 5/9/1960

    Cal is hired to help investigate a boys' reformatory and is taken hostage by three desperate youths during an uprising.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Suitable for Framing
    8.2/1015 votes
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    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

  • False Identity
    7.3/1010 votes
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    False Identity

    Season 1 Episode 33 - Aired 5/23/1960

    Cal is hired to find a missing husband and uncovers a strange murder plot.

    Director: William J. Hole Jr.

    Writer: N/A

  • Green Hell
    8.4/1012 votes
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    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

  • Ferry to Algiers
    8.1/1011 votes
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    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

  • Wagon Show
    7.2/109 votes
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    Wagon Show

    Season 1 Episode 36 - Aired 6/13/1960

    A circus owner hires Cal to recover an escaped chimp, but while he's searching for the beast he uncovers a tense love triangle that leads to murder.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Interrupted Wedding
    8.0/1011 votes
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    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

  • Reunion
    7.7/1010 votes
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    Reunion

    Season 1 Episode 38 - Aired 6/27/1960

    Cal races to locate a runaway teen before quarreling crimelords can get to her.

    Director: William J. Hole Jr.

    Writer: N/A

  • Teresa
    8.2/1010 votes
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    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