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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 4, 1960. It featured Richard Long as Rex Randolph, Andrew

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Bourbon Street Beat Season 1 Episode 36 - Wagon Show
    6.2/10(10 votes)

    #1 - Wagon Show

    S1:E36

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Bourbon Street Beat Season 1 Episode 10 - Light Touch of Terror
    7.2/10(15 votes)

    #2 - Light Touch of Terror

    S1:E10

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

    Directors:Leslie H. Martinson, William J. Hole Jr.
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Bourbon Street Beat Season 1 Episode 26 - Twice Betrayed
    7.2/10(10 votes)

    #3 - Twice Betrayed

    S1:E26

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

    Director:William J. Hole Jr.
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Bourbon Street Beat Season 1 Episode 31 - Deadly Persuasion
    7.2/10(14 votes)

    #4 - Deadly Persuasion

    S1:E31

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Bourbon Street Beat Season 1 Episode 33 - False Identity
    7.3/10(11 votes)

    #5 - False Identity

    S1:E33

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

    Director:William J. Hole Jr.
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Bourbon Street Beat Season 1 Episode 34 - Green Hell
    7.3/10(14 votes)

    #6 - Green Hell

    S1:E34

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

    Director:Charles R. Rondeau
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Bourbon Street Beat Season 1 Episode 38 - Reunion
    7.3/10(11 votes)

    #7 - Reunion

    S1:E38

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

    Director:William J. Hole Jr.
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Bourbon Street Beat Season 1 Episode 14 - Kill with Kindness
    7.4/10(11 votes)

    #8 - Kill with Kindness

    S1:E14

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

    Director:William J. Hole Jr.
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Bourbon Street Beat Season 1 Episode 2 - The Mourning Cloak
    7.5/10(20 votes)

    #9 - The Mourning Cloak

    S1:E2

    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

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  10. Bourbon Street Beat Season 1 Episode 6 - The Tiger Moth
    7.5/10(15 votes)

    #10 - The Tiger Moth

    S1:E6

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

    Director:James V. Kern
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Bourbon Street Beat Season 1 Episode 17 - Knock on Any Tombstone
    7.5/10(15 votes)

    #11 - Knock on Any Tombstone

    S1:E17

    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

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  12. Bourbon Street Beat Season 1 Episode 27 - Swamp Fire
    7.5/10(10 votes)

    #12 - Swamp Fire

    S1:E27

    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
    Writers:Sig Herzig, Dean Riesner

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  13. Bourbon Street Beat Season 1 Episode 18 - Key to the City
    7.6/10(11 votes)

    #13 - Key to the City

    S1:E18

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

    Director:James V. Kern
    Writers:Robert C. Dennis, James Barnett

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  14. Bourbon Street Beat Season 1 Episode 20 - Melody in Diamonds
    7.6/10(11 votes)

    #14 - Melody in Diamonds

    S1:E20

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

    Director:James V. Kern
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Bourbon Street Beat Season 1 Episode 28 - If A Body
    7.6/10(14 votes)

    #15 - If A Body

    S1:E28

    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

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  16. Bourbon Street Beat Season 1 Episode 35 - Ferry to Algiers
    7.6/10(12 votes)

    #16 - Ferry to Algiers

    S1:E35

    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

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  17. Bourbon Street Beat Season 1 Episode 5 - Girl in Trouble
    7.7/10(17 votes)

    #17 - Girl in Trouble

    S1:E5

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

    Director:Reginald Le Borg
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Bourbon Street Beat Season 1 Episode 11 - The Golden Beetle
    7.7/10(15 votes)

    #18 - The Golden Beetle

    S1:E11

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Bourbon Street Beat Season 1 Episode 39 - Teresa
    7.7/10(11 votes)

    #19 - Teresa

    S1:E39

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

    Director:William J. Hole Jr.
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Bourbon Street Beat Season 1 Episode 7 - Secret of Hyacinth Bayou
    7.8/10(17 votes)

    #20 - Secret of Hyacinth Bayou

    S1:E7

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Bourbon Street Beat Season 1 Episode 9 - Mrs. Viner Vanishes
    7.8/10(17 votes)

    #21 - Mrs. Viner Vanishes

    S1:E9

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

    Director:Paul Henreid
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Bourbon Street Beat Season 1 Episode 12 - The Black Magnolia
    7.8/10(20 votes)

    #22 - The Black Magnolia

    S1:E12

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

    Director:Reginald Le Borg
    Writer:Earl Baldwin

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  23. Bourbon Street Beat Season 1 Episode 37 - Interrupted Wedding
    7.8/10(12 votes)

    #23 - Interrupted Wedding

    S1:E37

    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

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  24. Bourbon Street Beat Season 1 Episode 15 - Inside Man
    7.9/10(13 votes)

    #24 - Inside Man

    S1:E15

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

    Director:Leslie H. Martinson
    Writer:Howard Browne

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  25. Bourbon Street Beat Season 1 Episode 23 - The Missing Queen
    8.0/10(14 votes)

    #25 - The Missing Queen

    S1:E23

    Cal searches for a missing beauty contestant.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Wagon Show" is the worst rated episode of "Bourbon Street Beat". It scored 6.2/10 based on 10 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 6/13/1960. This episode scored 1.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Light Touch of Terror".