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The Worst Episodes of Bourbon Street Beat

Every episode of Bourbon Street Beat ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst 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...
Genre:Drama
Network:ABC

Worst Episodes Summary

"Deadly Persuasion" is the worst rated episode of "Bourbon Street Beat". It scored 7.1/10 based on 14 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 5/9/1960. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Twice Betrayed".

  • Deadly Persuasion
    7.1/1014 votes
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    #1 - 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

  • Twice Betrayed
    7.2/1010 votes
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    #2 - 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

  • Wagon Show
    7.2/109 votes
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    #3 - 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

  • False Identity
    7.3/1010 votes
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    #4 - 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

  • Light Touch of Terror
    7.4/1015 votes
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    #5 - 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

  • Kill with Kindness
    7.4/1011 votes
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    #6 - 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

  • The Tiger Moth
    7.5/1015 votes
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    #7 - 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

  • Knock on Any Tombstone
    7.5/1015 votes
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    #8 - 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

  • Swamp Fire
    7.5/1010 votes
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    #9 - 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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    #10 - 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

  • Key to the City
    7.6/1011 votes
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    #11 - 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

  • Melody in Diamonds
    7.6/1011 votes
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    #12 - 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 Mourning Cloak
    7.7/1019 votes
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    #13 - 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

  • The Golden Beetle
    7.7/1015 votes
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    #14 - 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

  • Reunion
    7.7/1010 votes
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    #15 - 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

  • Girl in Trouble
    7.8/1017 votes
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    #16 - 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

  • Secret of Hyacinth Bayou
    7.9/1017 votes
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    #17 - 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
    7.9/1013 votes
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    #18 - 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

  • The Taste of Ashes
    8.0/1033 votes
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    #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
    8.0/1017 votes
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    #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
    8.0/1011 votes
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    #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

  • The House of Ledezan
    8.1/1012 votes
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    #22 - 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
    8.1/1014 votes
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    #23 - 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
    8.1/1011 votes
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    #24 - 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

  • Torch Song for Trumpet
    8.2/1021 votes
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    #25 - 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