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The Best Episodes of M Squad

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The Best Episodes of M Squad

Lt. Frank Ballinger is a no-nonsense plain clothes cop in the elite M Squad Division. The Squad's task is to root out organised crime and...

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  1. 8.1/10(21 votes)

    #1 - The Man in Hiding

    S1:E24

    Ballinger investigates after a bank robber leaves a pencil at the scene.

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    Director:Don Taylor
    Writer:N/A
  2. 8.1/10(18 votes)

    #2 - Shot in the Dark

    S1:E28

    A sniper is terrorizing Chicago. Ballinger joins the hunt.

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    Director:N/A
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  3. 8.1/10(32 votes)

    #3 - Fight

    S1:E30

    A boxer's (Lancaster) life is being threatened soon after another fighter dies after fighting with Lancaster. Suspicion falls on the other fighter's trainer who feels Lancaster is responsible for the death of the other fighter.

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    Director:Don Taylor
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  4. 8.1/10(14 votes)

    #4 - The Executioner

    S2:E11

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  5. 8.0/10(27 votes)

    #5 - More Deadly

    S2:E1

    2 innocent men are iced by a currency exchange bookkeeper, to disguise her embezzlement. The sultry femme fatale's yarn that it was a heist gone bad makes sense at first, because of a wave of such robberies on Chicago's Far East Side. But the murdered customer Halper checks out as a solid working stiff, plus the other stick-ups were solo jobs while this was supposedly a 2 hood hold-up, so M Squad's debonair Lt. Ballinger's sic-ed on the case to soften up hard boiled Ora Kane.

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  6. 7.9/10(27 votes)

    #6 - Lover's Lane Killing

    S1:E21

    Ballinger investigates a murder with multiple motives.

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    Director:Robert Altman
    Writer:N/A
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  8. 7.9/10(20 votes)

    #7 - The Frightened Wife

    S1:E22

    A man's aunt reports her nephew is missing. Ballinger investigates.

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    Director:Don Taylor
    Writer:N/A
  9. 7.9/10(19 votes)

    #8 - Hideout

    S1:E27

    Bank robbers hide in a suburban house.

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    Director:John Brahm
    Writer:N/A
  10. 7.8/10(24 votes)

    #9 - Killer in Town

    S1:E9

    Frank Ballinger and his colleagues on the M Squad have to find a needle in a haystack: a cop killer somewhere in the city of Chicago. Their only clues are an old magazine and the killer's habit of saying "You bet."

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  11. 7.8/10(30 votes)

    #10 - Diamond Hard

    S1:E10

    Lt. Frank Ballinger keeps an eye on Hazel, a bar girl with a record who nonetheless wants to go straight. He discovers she is involved with Joe Mazzerin, a safecracker. Ballinger goes undercover to get the goods on Mazzerin and to learn who his mysterious partner is.

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  12. 7.8/10(19 votes)

    #11 - The Long Ride

    S1:E18

    When a convicted murderer gets the upper hand on Lieutenant Ballinger during a train ride back to Chicago, his last best hope for recapturing the felon is the persistence of an alert young boy.

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  13. 7.8/10(21 votes)

    #12 - The Black Mermaid

    S1:E23

    Ballinger goes undercover to capture a robbery suspect.

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  14. 7.8/10(24 votes)

    #13 - Chicago Bluebeard

    S1:E25

    A woman dies. Ballinger investigates.

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  15. 7.8/10(20 votes)

    #14 - The Twenty-Six Girl

    S1:E29

    A young wife is shot by an unknown assailant when she drives with her ex-con husband to an isolated woods in search of their dream home. No one even reports the couple missing until after the police find them dead in the snow. The wife's sister is a wealthy spinster, who takes her time even coming to Chicago, claiming her brother-in-law was threatened with death by a blackmailer. Det. Ballinger suspects the sister knows more than she reveals.

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    Director:Don Taylor
    Writer:N/A
  16. 7.8/10(18 votes)

    #15 - Accusation

    S1:E38

    A millionaire is found dead in a locked room. His young pretty wife (Fay Spain), and the big hansom driver (Ken Clark), are suspected of the crime. Lee Marvin figures out how the crime was committed.

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    Director:Don Taylor
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  17. 7.8/10(15 votes)

    #16 - Murder in C-Sharp Minor

    S3:E5

    Detective Ballinger is brought in to investigate the murder of night club owner Joe Dalio. The case seems open and cut with a suspect in custody, however Ballinger has just enough doubt to continue the investigation.

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  18. 7.7/10(43 votes)

    #17 - The Golden Look

    S1:E1

    The Squad is on the lookout for a bank robbery suspect with a unique feature, witnesses say he has gold teeth.

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  19. 7.7/10(32 votes)

    #18 - Street of Fear

    S1:E6

    Chicago cop Frank Ballinger stages a rescue in order to gain the confidence of Alice, a young woman who works for suspected jewelry fence Louis Prince. Pretending to be furniture salesman Bob Steele, Ballinger romances Alice and gets friendly with her boss. But Alice falls for "Bob" and Ballinger must weigh her feelings and safety against his duty as a police officer.

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    Director:Don Weis
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  20. 7.7/10(23 votes)

    #19 - The Alibi Witness

    S1:E11

    When perennial loser Wally Gardner is identified as the perpetrator of a robbery-murder, he tells police unique details of a stranger he met miles away at the time of the crime. But when that stranger is found, he says he can prove that HE was miles from where Gardner says they met at the time of the crime. Lt. Frank Ballinger must determine who's lying.

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    Director:John Brahm
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  21. 7.7/10(28 votes)

    #20 - Family Portrait

    S1:E13

    When his partner in an investigation is killed, Lt. Frank Ballinger makes it a personal business to pin the crime on narcotics lord Sam Hinder. But, as Ballinger discovers, Hinder has an unusual reason for wanting to keep the police out of his own personal business.

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    Director:John Peyser
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  22. 7.7/10(20 votes)

    #21 - The Shakedown

    S1:E19

    Ballinger suspects an inside job when a dry cleaning company refuses to knuckle under to a shakedown mob.

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  23. 7.7/10(16 votes)

    #22 - The Healer

    S1:E32

    Lieutenant Ballinger searches for a mentally ill young woman who shot a psychiatrist, hoping all the while that he can also find sufficient evidence to obtain a felony conviction against the charlatan who was "treating" her.

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  24. 7.7/10(16 votes)

    #23 - The Trap

    S2:E5

    Danny Mitchell is trying to find an engagement ring for his girl when he mistaken for a thief by the store owner. A fight convinces him he has killed the old man-- as such Danny's on the run! Ballinger is called in to find the kid before he gets into real trouble.

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    Director:Don Medford
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  25. 7.7/10(14 votes)

    #24 - Needle in the Haystack

    S3:E23

    Lanny Cord escapes from a court room and disappears. Ballinger is interested in the case because he's originally arrested Cord and had always sworn to kill Ballinger if he had the opportunity.

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  26. 7.6/10(28 votes)

    #25 - The Matinee Trade

    S1:E7

    Lt. Frank Ballinger investigates the case of a gambling ring and its connection to an unidentified police officer. The deeper into the investigation he gets, the more Ballinger becomes concerned that the crooked cop may be an old friend.

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Best Episodes Summary

"The Man in Hiding" is the best rated episode of "M Squad". It scored 8.1/10 based on 21 votes. Directed by Don Taylor and written by N/A, it aired on 3/7/1958. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Shot in the Dark".