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Season 1
N/A/100 votesThe 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
N/A/100 votesThe 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
- N/A/100 votes
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
- N/A/100 votes
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: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
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: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
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: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
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
- N/A/100 votes
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: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
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: Leslie H. Martinson, William J. Hole Jr.
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
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
- N/A/100 votes
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: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
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: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
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
- N/A/100 votes
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: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
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
- N/A/100 votes
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
- N/A/100 votes
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: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
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: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
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
- N/A/100 votes
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: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
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: Sig Herzig, Dean Riesner
- N/A/100 votes
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
- N/A/100 votes
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
- N/A/100 votes
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: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
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
- N/A/100 votes
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: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
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: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
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: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
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: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
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: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
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: Unknown