6.3/109 votesLoading...#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.
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- 6.6/1012 votesLoading...
#2 - 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.
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- 6.6/109 votesLoading...
#3 - 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.
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- 6.9/1013 votesLoading...
#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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- 6.9/1011 votesLoading...
#5 - Murderess
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 12/17/1959
A beautiful murderer proves true her claim that no jail built could hold her.
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- 6.9/1011 votesLoading...
#6 - Lonely Hearts Killer
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/7/1960
Two newsmen track a lonely-hearts killer who has claimed three victims.
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- 6.9/109 votesLoading...
#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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- 6.9/109 votesLoading...
#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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- 7.0/108 votesLoading...
#9 - Massacre
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 1/28/1960
A berserk killer is on the loose in California.
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- 7.0/108 votesLoading...
#10 - 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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- 7.0/109 votesLoading...
#11 - 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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- 7.1/109 votesLoading...
#12 - 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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- 7.2/1013 votesLoading...
#13 - 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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- 7.2/1011 votesLoading...
#14 - 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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- 7.3/108 votesLoading...
#15 - Episode 38
Season 1 Episode 38 - Aired 2/1/1961
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- 7.4/1011 votesLoading...
#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.
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- 7.4/109 votesLoading...
#17 - 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...
#18 - 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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- 7.5/108 votesLoading...
#19 - 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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- 7.6/1011 votesLoading...
#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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- 7.6/1011 votesLoading...
#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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- 7.6/1010 votesLoading...
#22 - 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...
#23 - 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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- 7.7/1011 votesLoading...
#24 - 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...
#25 - 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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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
Worst Episodes Summary
"The Two Ounce Trap" is the worst rated episode of "Deadline". It scored 6.3/10 based on 9 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 5/19/1960. This episode scored 0.3 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Scramble".