The Best Episodes of M Squad Season 1

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

Director: Don Taylor

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A sniper is terrorizing Chicago. Ballinger joins the hunt.

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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

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Ballinger investigates a murder with multiple motives.

Director: Robert Altman

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

Director: Don Taylor

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Bank robbers hide in a suburban house.

Director: John Brahm

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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

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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

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

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Ballinger goes undercover to capture a robbery suspect.

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A woman dies. Ballinger investigates.

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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

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

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

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

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

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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

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

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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

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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

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

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A woman loses her memory. Bellinger investigates.

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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.

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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.

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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