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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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Season 1

  • The Golden Look
    7.7/1042 votes
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    The Golden Look

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/20/1957

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

    Director: Bernard Girard

    Writer: Joel Murcott

  • The Watchdog
    7.2/1038 votes
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    The Watchdog

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/27/1957

    Ballinger and the Squad are out to catch a burglar who may have rabies.

    Director: Robert Florey

    Writer: Douglas Heyes

  • Neighborhood Killer
    6.6/1031 votes
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    Neighborhood Killer

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/4/1957

    The squad hunts down a cop killer.

    Director: Bernard Girard

    Writer: Stirling Silliphant, William Holder

  • Pete Loves Mary
    7.4/1040 votes
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    Pete Loves Mary

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/11/1957

    The squad goes after a jail inmate who's just escaped.

    Director: Bernard Girard

    Writer: Harold Jack Bloom

  • Face of Evil
    7.5/1033 votes
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    Face of Evil

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/18/1957

    Ballinger investigates the murders of four women. The victims were all connected to the same church and lived within two miles of each other.

    Director: Don Weis

    Writer: David Alexander, Bernard C. Schoenfeld

  • Street of Fear
    7.7/1032 votes
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    Street of Fear

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/1/1957

    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.

    Director: Don Weis

    Writer: N/A

  • The Matinee Trade
    7.6/1028 votes
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    The Matinee Trade

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/8/1957

    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.

    Director: Bernard Girard

    Writer: N/A

  • The Hard Case
    7.2/1021 votes
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    The Hard Case

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/15/1957

    A jewelry store robbery sends the thief to prison, but his claim that the night watchman, a former big-league ballplayer named Lightnin' Joe Adams, was in on the heist costs Adams his job. Lt. Frank Ballinger goes undercover in prison to find out from the robber whether Adams was involved in the crime and what happened to the loot.

    Director: Bernard Girard

    Writer: N/A

  • Killer in Town
    7.8/1024 votes
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    Killer in Town

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/22/1957

    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."

    Director: Bernard Girard

    Writer: N/A

  • Diamond Hard
    7.8/1030 votes
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    Diamond Hard

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/29/1957

    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.

    Director: Bernard Girard

    Writer: N/A

  • The Alibi Witness
    7.7/1023 votes
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    The Alibi Witness

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/6/1957

    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.

    Director: John Brahm

    Writer: N/A

  • The Specialists
    7.2/1023 votes
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    The Specialists

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/13/1957

    When a hired gunman gets himself tossed in jail following a fistfight, Lt. Frank Ballinger takes his place undercover as protection for a group of three businessmen who meet once a year to commit a specialized crime.

    Director: Earl Bellamy

    Writer: N/A

  • Family Portrait
    7.7/1028 votes
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    Family Portrait

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/20/1957

    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.

    Director: John Peyser

    Writer: N/A

  • The Palace Guard
    7.4/1023 votes
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    The Palace Guard

    Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 12/27/1957

    Gangster Tommy Hatch is wanted for murder, but the police have to keep him safe from other gangsters who want him dead before he can testify against them. Lt. Frank Ballinger is assigned to protect Hatch even though he despises him.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Slow Trap
    7.0/1025 votes
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    The Slow Trap

    Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/3/1958

    Ballinger investigates the case of a security courier who is charged with robbing himself of $75,000.

    Director: Earl Bellamy

    Writer: N/A

  • The Cover Up
    7.1/1022 votes
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    The Cover Up

    Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/10/1958

    District Attorney Grover calls for Ballinger to help him sort out a potentially embarrassing situation involving the murder of a former business associate.

    Director: Edward Ludwig

    Writer: N/A

  • Blue Indigo
    7.5/1023 votes
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    Blue Indigo

    Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/17/1958

    The room mate of the third murder victim of the Blue Indigo serial killer may be the only link Ballinger has to catching him.

    Director: John Brahm

    Writer: N/A

  • The Long Ride
    7.8/1019 votes
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    The Long Ride

    Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/24/1958

    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.

    Director: David Lowell Rich

    Writer: N/A

  • The Shakedown
    7.7/1020 votes
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    The Shakedown

    Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 1/31/1958

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Dolly's Bear
    7.6/1019 votes
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    Dolly's Bear

    Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/7/1958

    Kathy Bane, an old flame of Ballinger's, needs his help when a blackmailer trying to extort money turns up dead-- in her apartment.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Lover's Lane Killing
    7.9/1027 votes
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    Lover's Lane Killing

    Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/14/1958

    Ballinger investigates a murder with multiple motives.

    Director: Robert Altman

    Writer: N/A

  • The Frightened Wife
    7.9/1020 votes
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    The Frightened Wife

    Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 2/21/1958

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

    Director: Don Taylor

    Writer: N/A

  • The Black Mermaid
    7.8/1021 votes
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    The Black Mermaid

    Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 2/28/1958

    Ballinger goes undercover to capture a robbery suspect.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Man in Hiding
    8.1/1021 votes
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    The Man in Hiding

    Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/7/1958

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

    Director: Don Taylor

    Writer: N/A

  • Chicago Bluebeard
    7.8/1024 votes
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    Chicago Bluebeard

    Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/14/1958

    A woman dies. Ballinger investigates.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Girl Lost
    7.6/1020 votes
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    Girl Lost

    Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 3/21/1958

    A woman loses her memory. Bellinger investigates.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Hideout
    7.9/1019 votes
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    Hideout

    Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 3/28/1958

    Bank robbers hide in a suburban house.

    Director: John Brahm

    Writer: N/A

  • Shot in the Dark
    8.1/1018 votes
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    Shot in the Dark

    Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 4/4/1958

    A sniper is terrorizing Chicago. Ballinger joins the hunt.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Twenty-Six Girl
    7.8/1020 votes
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    The Twenty-Six Girl

    Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 4/11/1958

    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.

    Director: Don Taylor

    Writer: N/A

  • Fight
    8.2/1031 votes
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    Fight

    Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 4/18/1958

    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.

    Director: Don Taylor

    Writer: N/A

  • Guilty Alibi
    7.6/1015 votes
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    Guilty Alibi

    Season 1 Episode 31 - Aired 4/25/1958

    A man confesses to a crime he may not have committed. Meanwhile the president of the company where the man works has been shot to death.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Healer
    7.7/1016 votes
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    The Healer

    Season 1 Episode 32 - Aired 5/2/1958

    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.

    Director: Sidney Lanfield

    Writer: N/A

  • Day of Terror
    7.1/1015 votes
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    Day of Terror

    Season 1 Episode 33 - Aired 5/9/1958

    Frank Ballinger investigates a illegal adoption racket.

    Director: Sidney Lanfield

    Writer: N/A

  • The $20 Plates
    7.1/1012 votes
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    The $20 Plates

    Season 1 Episode 34 - Aired 5/16/1958

    Ballinger investigates a rash of counterfeit $20 bills.

    Director: Allen H. Miner

    Writer: N/A

  • The Double Face
    7.6/1016 votes
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    The Double Face

    Season 1 Episode 35 - Aired 5/23/1958

    A professional man is identified as a jewelry-store robber, threatening his freedom, not to mention his wife's reputation "from being married unknowingly to such a character". Ballinger investigates.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The System
    7.5/1015 votes
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    The System

    Season 1 Episode 36 - Aired 5/30/1958

    An illegal roving casino eludes the police and cheats players with crooked games. When Ballinger investigates, he encounters additional, unforeseen threats.

    Director: David Lowell Rich

    Writer: N/A

  • Woman from Paris
    6.8/1016 votes
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    Woman from Paris

    Season 1 Episode 37 - Aired 6/6/1958

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    Director: John Brahm

    Writer: N/A

  • Accusation
    7.8/1018 votes
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    Accusation

    Season 1 Episode 38 - Aired 6/13/1958

    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.

    Director: Don Taylor

    Writer: N/A