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#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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#2 - 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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Writer: N/A
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#3 - 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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#4 - 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.
Director: N/A
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#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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#6 - Extortion
Season 1 Episode 5
Aired 10/15/1959
A respected doctor becomes the victim of an extortionist.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#7 - 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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#8 - 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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#9 - 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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#10 - 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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#11 - 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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Writer: N/A
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#12 - 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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Writer: N/A
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#13 - 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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#14 - Mass Murder
Season 1 Episode 7
Aired 10/29/1959
A plane explodes in mid-flight, killing everyone on board.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#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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Writer: N/A
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#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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#17 - 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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#18 - 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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Writer: N/A
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#19 - Hot Stuff
Season 1 Episode 12
Aired 12/3/1959
To expose a shoplifting racket, fashion editor Trudy Prokop infiltrates the gang.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#20 - 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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#21 - 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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#22 - 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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Writer: N/A
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#23 - 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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#24 - Dumb Kid
Season 1 Episode 26
Aired 3/10/1960
A cub reporter stumbles onto two bandits.
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Writer: N/A
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#25 - Massacre
Season 1 Episode 20
Aired 1/28/1960
A berserk killer is on the loose in California.
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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
Episodes
39
Avg. Rating
7.6
S1
S2
S3
S4
E1
E2
E3
8.6
7.9
7.2
Best Episodes Summary
"Victor Reisel" is the best rated episode of "Deadline". It scored 8.6/10 based on 18 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/17/1959. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Jailbreak".