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#1 - The Two Ounce Trap
Season 1 Episode 36
Aired 5/19/1960
A rest home for alcoholics, scene of five deaths within a brief period, is investigated by newsman Paul Quick.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#2 - The Last Knockout
Season 1 Episode 37
Aired 5/26/1960
Reporter Ed Reid encounters an ex-fight manager, a singer and a boxer in his search for a missing sea captain.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#3 - Scramble
Season 1 Episode 19
Aired 1/21/1960
Reporter Matt Conklin tries to foster good feelings between a quiet Texas town and a new Air Force base.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#4 - The Neon Touch
Season 1 Episode 4
Aired 10/8/1959
Two teen-agers scheme to get rich quick by passing bad checks.
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Writer: N/A
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#5 - Murderess
Season 1 Episode 14
Aired 12/17/1959
A beautiful murderer proves true her claim that no jail built could hold her.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#6 - Lonely Hearts Killer
Season 1 Episode 17
Aired 1/7/1960
Two newsmen track a lonely-hearts killer who has claimed three victims.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#7 - Birthday Present
Season 1 Episode 28
Aired 3/24/1960
A father and his son are hunting for a lost ball that rolled under their porch and discover a woman's body.
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#8 - Suspicion of Murder
Season 1 Episode 29
Aired 3/31/1960
Bernice Freeman stands by her friend when he is accused of murder.
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#9 - Mad Bomber
Season 1 Episode 24
Aired 2/25/1960
It's Christmas week in New York, and a mad bomber is stalking the city.
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#10 - Character Witness
Season 1 Episode 25
Aired 3/3/1960
Reporter Leo Sheridan is called in as a character witness at the murder trial of his best friend.
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Writer: N/A
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#11 - Pickup
Season 1 Episode 3
Aired 10/1/1959
A persistent newsman tries to prove that a mild-mannered salesman is the murderer of two women.
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#12 - Return to Murder
Season 1 Episode 18
Aired 1/14/1960
Two teen-age gangs are on the verge of declaring peace when a boy returns from prison and stirs up fury anew.
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Writer: N/A
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#13 - Smoke Screen
Season 1 Episode 39
Aired 2/4/1961
The Erie, Pa., fire department is looking for the arsonist terrorizing the town.
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#14 - Massacre
Season 1 Episode 20
Aired 1/28/1960
A berserk killer is on the loose in California.
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#15 - Episode 38
Season 1 Episode 38
Aired 2/1/1961
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#16 - 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
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#17 - 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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#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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#19 - 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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#20 - 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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#21 - 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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#22 - 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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#23 - Mass Murder
Season 1 Episode 7
Aired 10/29/1959
A plane explodes in mid-flight, killing everyone on board.
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Writer: N/A
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#24 - 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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#25 - 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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Worst Episodes of Deadline
Every episode of Deadline ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst 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
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S2
S3
S4
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E2
E3
8.6
7.9
7.2
Worst Episodes Summary
"The Two Ounce Trap" is the worst rated episode of "Deadline". It scored 6.5/10 based on 10 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 5/19/1960. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Last Knockout".