8.7/1017 votesLoading...#1 - Victor Reisel
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/17/1959
As labor reporter on the New York Daily Mirror, Riesel fights against racketeers by exposing them to the public.
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- 8.3/109 votesLoading...
#2 - Checkmate
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 2/11/1960
Police and reporters try to break a man suspected of having murdered a 15-year-old girl.
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- 8.3/109 votesLoading...
#3 - Jailbreak
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 2/18/1960
Three convicts escape from a maximum-security prison by forging the warden's signature on pardons.
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- 8.3/1012 votesLoading...
#4 - Thesis for Murder
Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 4/7/1960
A brilliant, but deranged, college student tries to carry out the perfect crime
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- 8.1/1010 votesLoading...
#5 - Clean Kill
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 12/31/1959
An unusual clue helps Gene Lindsey of the Phoenix (Ariz.) Gazette solve a murder.
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- 8.0/1011 votesLoading...
#6 - Chain Reaction
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 12/24/1959
A pilot becomes mentally ill after he takes part in the bombing of Hiroshima.
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#7 - One Tall, One Short
Season 1 Episode 34 - Aired 5/5/1960
A wild hunch helps reporter Clayton Darrah trap two phantom bandits. The only available description is "one short, one tall."
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- 7.9/1013 votesLoading...
#8 - State Scandal
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/24/1959
Reporter George Thiem's dilemma: loyalty to a friend or respect for the law.
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#9 - Extortion
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/15/1959
A respected doctor becomes the victim of an extortionist.
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#10 - The Case Of The Stranger
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/5/1959
Newsman Harry Romanoff tries to unmask a phony hero: he believes that the man committed a double murder.
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- 7.9/1010 votesLoading...
#11 - Exposure
Season 1 Episode 31 - Aired 4/14/1960
A photo studio is the cover for a racket swindling the citizens of Columbus, Ohio, to the tune of a quarter of a million dollars a year.
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#12 - Pig Woman
Season 1 Episode 32 - Aired 4/21/1960
A woman brutally murders a handy man after being named the beneficiary of his life-insurance policy.
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#13 - The Face of a Thief
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/10/1959
A brilliant detective matches wits with a reporter trying to clear a man caught in a web of circumstantial evidence.
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#14 - Mass Murder
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/29/1959
A plane explodes in mid-flight, killing everyone on board.
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- 7.7/109 votesLoading...
#15 - Old Man Lost
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/19/1959
Don Hogan of the Boston Post tries to help an amnesic regain the will to live.
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- 7.7/109 votesLoading...
#16 - The Blue Dahlia
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/4/1960
A soldier confesses to the murder of a beautiful girl but a stubborn reporter refuses to believe him.
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- 7.6/1011 votesLoading...
#17 - The accusing finger
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/22/1959
Reporter Ed Mowery, certain that a convicted murderer is innocent, tries to have the case reopened.
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- 7.6/1011 votesLoading...
#18 - Charm Boy
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/12/1959
A sorority meeting and a missed bus spell death for a coed and her killer has an airtight alibi.
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- 7.6/1010 votesLoading...
#19 - Hot Stuff
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/3/1959
To expose a shoplifting racket, fashion editor Trudy Prokop infiltrates the gang.
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- 7.6/1010 votesLoading...
#20 - The Cave
Season 1 Episode 35 - Aired 5/12/1960
A car parked outside an uncharted cave convinces a reporter that someone is lost inside.
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- 7.5/108 votesLoading...
#21 - To Move a Mountain
Season 1 Episode 33 - Aired 4/28/1960
A reporter, nursed by two Burmese women during the war, fights to keep them from being forced back to Burma and certain death.
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- 7.4/1011 votesLoading...
#22 - The Human Storm
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 11/26/1959
It takes a violent prison riot and a crusading reporter to alert the authorities to the inhuman conditions at a penal institution.
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- 7.4/109 votesLoading...
#23 - Dumb Kid
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 3/10/1960
A cub reporter stumbles onto two bandits.
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- 7.4/1011 votesLoading...
#24 - A Story for Christmas
Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 3/17/1960
William Key helps a despondent young girl on Christmas Eve.
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- 7.3/108 votesLoading...
#25 - Episode 38
Season 1 Episode 38 - Aired 2/1/1961
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The Best Episodes of Deadline
Every episode of Deadline ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Deadline!
Deadline is a 1959-1961 American television drama series that re-enacted famous newspaper stories from the past. Hosted and narrated by Paul Stewart, the syndicated series...
Genre:Drama
Network:WPIX
Best Episodes Summary
"Victor Reisel" is the best rated episode of "Deadline". It scored 8.7/10 based on 17 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/17/1959. This episode scored 0.4 points higher than the second highest rated, "Checkmate".