6.4/1027 votesLoading...#1 - Whatever Happend to Adriana, and Why Won't She Stay Dead?
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 12/1/1965
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Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.6/1045 votesLoading...
#2 - Who Killed Don Pablo?
Season 1 Episode 31 - Aired 5/1/1964
Don Pablo Ortega's skewered corpse replaces the wax figure in a museum during a Spanish festival. The historic plaza is in danger of being demolished for ""progress"" and suspects (pro and con in the matter) include the guide at the museum, a fiery female matador, the head of the rival clan, Don Pablo's old-world mother (who reveals many secrets to Les but hides many others) and Don Pablo's aggressive business partner. With the help of a flirtatious librarian and an elderly monk, Burke uncovers centuries-old secrets (not to mention a secret passage) that lead him to the killer.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.7/1026 votesLoading...
#3 - Or No Tomorrow
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 12/15/1965
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Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.8/1046 votesLoading...
#4 - Balance of Terror
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/15/1965
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.8/1021 votesLoading...
#5 - A Very Important Russian is Missing
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 12/29/1965
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.9/1017 votesLoading...
#6 - The Man with the Power
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/13/1965
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/1025 votesLoading...
#7 - Who Killed the Toy Soldier?
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 1/20/1965
Granny Grabber, the not-so-nice head of a toy firm, is blown sky high by a bomb placed in his giant toy soldier cigar lighter. The killer had to be one of five people who were photographed coming into his office that day (Granny was paranoid about industrial espionage). The victim's sultry secretary, the company's military adviser on all war toys, an aeronautical scientist, a ""James Bond"" wannabe, and the head of a school for juvenile delinquents all come under suspicion. When one of the suspects discovers a vital clue and is murdered, Burke discovers that Granny had plans to make millions by NOT producing a toy!
Director: Jerry Hopper
Writer: Lorenzo Semple Jr.
- 7.1/1043 votesLoading...
#8 - Who Killed Avery Lord?
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 3/6/1964
Burke follows a mournful song, an odd-looking key and an elusive young girl in white, after industrial designer Avery Lord is stabbed to death. The suspects are all his current clients: a playgirl whose compact is found at the crime scene, a hot-headed health food producer, a dishonest building contractor, and an auto manufacturer who dotes on his ""ferocious"" pet. Burke is knocked unconscious while chasing the girl in white through the fog one night outside Lord's mansion, or did he just imagine her? A distinctive piece of jewelry helps solve the case.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/1023 votesLoading...
#9 - Password to Death
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/6/1965
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Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/1025 votesLoading...
#10 - Deadlier Than the Male
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 11/17/1965
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/1020 votesLoading...
#11 - A Little Gift for Cairo
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 12/22/1965
No description available
Director: Jerry Hopper
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/1047 votesLoading...
#12 - Who Killed Madison Cooper?
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/24/1964
Hotshot lawyer Madison Cooper calls Burke as he dies in a seedy part of town of stab wounds inflicted elsewhere. He had just put a large amount of cash into a newspaper vending booth and Burke finds that Cooper was dying and had been trying to contact former clients whom he had wronged in the past. With the help of Cooper's executive secretary, Burke investigates the old cases, including a murder trial, an prison sentence that resulted in death, embezzlement, and a paternity scandal.
Director: Jeffrey Hayden
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/1053 votesLoading...
#13 - Who Killed Carrie Cornell?
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/14/1964
A group of ""junior cadets"" discover the body of a bikini-clad girl wrapped in chains, lying in the surf. The victim, a singer and sometime ""model"", has been linked to a oil tycoon, who is away on business, according to his alcoholic wife. While the tycoon is busy with young girls, his wife is supporting male artists. One of these, a sculptor, comes under suspicion, along with his studio mate, a health freak. Other suspects include the owner of a beachfront club, a guitar maker and a folk singer. Two more bodies turn up before Burke can solve the case.
Director: N/A
Writer: Jay Dratler
- 7.3/1039 votesLoading...
#14 - Operation Long Shadow
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 9/22/1965
No description available
Director: Don Taylor
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1073 votesLoading...
#15 - Who Killed Jason Shaw?
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/3/1964
When a shady businessman is found dead, fully clothed, in a hotel shower, surrounded by burned thousand dollar bills, Burke is confronted with a group of men who seem to have absolutely nothing in common - a shipbuilder with a musical hobby, a haughty wine connoisseur, a loud-mouthed used-car salesman, and a man who breeds carnivorous plants. The dizzy blonde who discovered the body (and who seems to always be hungry) may or may not be just a pawn in a scheme. While Tim becomes interested in the dead man's secretary, Burke has his eye on a lovely sculptor, who may be trying to steer him away from her father, one of the suspects.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1051 votesLoading...
#16 - Who Killed Cassandra Cass?
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 9/30/1964
After Cassandra Cass is shot in her bed (by a mysterious hooded figure) while her butler draws her bath, it is revealed that she has been blackmailing subscribers to her society Blue Book. One after another of the suspects (a deposed Balkan King, a banker, a drugged out socialite and the head of a ""psychodrama"" society) more or less confesses to the crime, but each of their descriptions of the event varies slightly from the known facts. Meanwhile, Les keeps insisting that ""the butler did it"". With the help of Cassandra's sexy secretary and a health fanatic, Burke concocts a plan to trap the real killer.
Director: Jerry Hopper
Writer: Lorenzo Semple Jr.
- 7.4/1026 votesLoading...
#17 - Who Killed Mr. Cartwheel?
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/21/1964
Burke goes cowboy at a tourist-style Old West town, after the hanging of Emerson Cartwheel at a coin auction. The clue is a valuable rare coin used to kill the victim, but before Burke can investigate, he's tossed in the hoosegow by the local honorary (and very lovely) female sheriff of Epitaph Flats. After a dramatic jail break, with an assist from Henry, Burke and his crew question the town drunk, one of the ""gunslingers"" in the Wild West tourist show, the victim's business rival, the lady blacksmith and a very Brooklynese ""Native American"". Soon real bullets start flying and the whole case ends in a barroom free-for-all.
Director: Don Weis
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1023 votesLoading...
#18 - Who Killed the Tall One in the Middle?
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/25/1964
The lead singer in a sister trio act is poisoned. Both the surviving sisters hated the victim, but others had motive as well: the nightclub owner, the trio's former arranger, the girls' agent, their stepfather, and a real estate agent who had been involved with two of the sisters. After one of the suspects is attacked and brutally beaten, Tim is nearly run down by a speeding car and another suspect is murdered. Burke finally discovers the solution to the crime at a sanitorium.
Director: Don Weis
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1061 votesLoading...
#19 - Who Killed Billy Jo?
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/8/1963
Pop recording star Billy Jo Tate is slain in front of all his guests at a party celebrating his latest hit. A ""good-ol' boy"", Billy Jo is surrounded by users and people he used - his agent, his ""best buddy"", a smarmy astrologer, a jive arranger, Tate's showgirl sister, the woman who discovered him, and a female (and married) admirer. When Tim spots a shady character at Billy Jo's funeral, Burke confronts the man and learns what prompted the singer's murder.
Director: Hy Averback
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1055 votesLoading...
#20 - Who Killed Annie Foran?
Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 4/10/1964
When Annie Foran's body is discovered in the back seat of a car parked at a fashionable night spot, suspicion falls on baseball star Eddie Dineen. As evidence mounts against the man, Burke wonders if Eddie is really guilty. Perhaps he should pay more attention to the slimy gossip columnist and his assistant, the wealthy socialite who has more than a passing interest in Eddie, the ball club manager, or the shifty hotel clerk. One thing is for sure, the nervous owner of the car in which the body was found is not the killer.
Director: Lewis Allen
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1043 votesLoading...
#21 - Who Killed 1/2 of Glory Lee?
Season 1 Episode 32 - Aired 5/8/1964
The co-owner of a fashion house is killed in an elevator collapse that may not have been an accident. Les is convinced that it is the work of a madman, since no one could have determined who would be in the elevator. In the midst of battles between the other owner and the company's chief designer, the tantrums of the designer's spoiled daughter, the problems of an elderly seamstress, the divorce plans of the victim's less-than grieving widow, the industrial espionage of a rival, and one real fancy ""floating crap game"", Burke thinks he has the case solved, until it is determined that the victim was dead before the elevator crashed, struck down by a strangely shaped blunt instrument. A military insignia provides the final clue to the case.
Director: Don Weis
Writer: Harlan Ellison
- 7.5/1031 votesLoading...
#22 - Who Killed The Strangler?
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 1/6/1965
A famous wrestler is slain during a charity match and the killer is one of five people seated in the ""Gold Row"": the victim's sister (who has a split personality), his wrestling rival, a fashionable socialite, a ""method"" sportswriter, and a very wealthy old lady with a strong affinity for wrestling violence. The weapon? - a poisoned dart. How was the murder committed without the killer being seen? After watching a tape of the event, over and over, he's not sure if he hasn't seen footage of the actual killing. Burke ultimately traps the killer into confessing by claiming to have found the murderer's ""lip prints"" on the murder ""weapon"".
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1028 votesLoading...
#23 - Who Killed Wimbledon Hastings?
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 2/3/1965
An ace shot by a tennis star blows up in his face at a charity event, after one of his tennis balls has been loaded with explosives. Burke scours the local country club for clues while trying to avoid the ""help"" of an eager ball boy, who claims he can solve the case for Burke. The victim's pessimistic manager, his fiancee and her jealous sister (a dentist), his ex-wife, and a tennis rival all had access to the club room and could have tampered with the equipment. Finally, a nightclub singer who knew the victim well gives Tim some valuable information. When Burke figures out the relevance of a casual bit of trivia, he corners the killer, who still has a few ""bomb balls"" to spare. The case comes to an explosive finish.
Director: Jerry Hopper
Writer: Leigh Chapman
- 7.5/1020 votesLoading...
#24 - Who Killed the Rest?
Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 3/17/1965
Burke's vacation south of the border is anything but restful when he is jailed for the murder of a gossip columnist and a popular local fisherman. With the help of his vacation date and the ever-faithful Henry, Burke escapes from prison, but can he outwit the local police chief after all his ID has been stolen? He needs to find out whether the killer is the Nazi, the anthropologist turned voodoo priestess, the novelist, or the sexy sailor gal, before the angry mob catches up with him. When one of the locals is poisoned, Burke knows who the killer is.
Director: N/A
Writer: Lorenzo Semple Jr.
- 7.5/1027 votesLoading...
#25 - The Weapon
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/10/1965
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Worst Episodes of Burke's Law
Every episode of Burke's Law ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Burke's Law!
Burke's Law is an American detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on CBS in the 1990s. The show...
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Network:ABC
Worst Episodes Summary
"Whatever Happend to Adriana, and Why Won't She Stay Dead?" is the worst rated episode of "Burke's Law". It scored 6.4/10 based on 27 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 12/1/1965. This episode scored 0.2 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Who Killed Don Pablo?".