8.0/1027 votes#1 - More Deadly
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/19/1958
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.
Director: Don Medford
Writer: Sidney Marshall
- 7.3/1019 votes
#2 - Dead or Alive
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/26/1958
A pair of gun crazy kids are loose in Chicago-- and a young reporter is defending them in the press against Ballinger and "police brutality".
Director: Don Taylor
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/1016 votes
#3 - The Missing Claimant
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/3/1958
A shady lawyer protects a false heir to a fortune-- by killing the real relative! Ballinger is called in to set everything straight.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1016 votes
#4 - The Refugee
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/10/1958
Ballinger goes undercover as an immigrant worker to help break an extortion ring targeting foreigners.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1016 votes
#5 - The Trap
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/24/1958
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.
Director: Don Medford
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1015 votes
#6 - Force of Habit
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/31/1958
Val Mooney, hiding out from the cops, sees the perfect opportunity to evade them. When his wife's brother is killed in a massive warehouse fire, he forces her to identify the body as-- VAL MOONEY.
Director: Bernard L. Kowalski
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1015 votes
#7 - The Phantom Raiders
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/7/1958
A pair of high-speed motorcycle thugs are robbing gas stations across Chicago. When one attendant gets shot, Ballinger goes undercover as a biker to crack the case.
Director: Bernard L. Kowalski
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1015 votes
#8 - The Merits of the Case
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/14/1958
A famous defense attorney is gunned down in his house. Now Ballinger must piece together the clues to find the kille
Director: Don Medford
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1015 votes
#9 - The Big Kill
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/21/1958
Larry Princeton is the master of bank heists-- he plans then sits back while his thugs pull off the job. Except for the last one-- which resulted in a bank teller's murder! Now Ballinger's after him.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/1014 votes
#10 - The Sitters
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/28/1958
Unsuspecting women allow bookmakers to use their telephones in return for payment of $50 per week, but they later learn that their lives will be in danger if they try to get out of the agreement.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1013 votes
#11 - The Executioner
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/5/1958
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Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1013 votes
#12 - The Widows
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 12/12/1958
Widows have something in common. All their husbands were murdered, and all had life insurance policies with double indemnity. And the widows have the same crooked lawyer. Lt. Frank Ballinger suspects a murder for hire scheme.
Director: Bernard L. Kowalski
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1013 votes
#13 - Contraband
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 12/19/1958
No description available
Director: Don Medford
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/1010 votes
#14 - Prescription for Murder
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 12/26/1958
The wife of a brain surgeon is abducted and threatened with death if the surgeon goes ahead with an emergency operation to save a critically injured police witness that can implicate a loan shark in two murders.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/1031 votes
#15 - The Teacher (aka Trade School)
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 1/2/1959
Young hoodlums use a trade school for criminal purposes.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1015 votes
#16 - The Third Shadow
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 1/9/1959
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1013 votes
#17 - One Man's Life
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 1/23/1959
An innocent man will be executed in 48 hours unless Lieutenant Ballinger can convince a socially prominent woman to recant the false testimony that she gave as a result of a ruthless blackmailer's threats.
Director: Don Medford
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1021 votes
#18 - The Jumper
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 1/30/1959
No description available
Director: Allen H. Miner
Writer: N/A
- 6.9/1013 votes
#19 - The Last Act
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 2/6/1959
No description available
Director: David Lowell Rich
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1013 votes
#20 - Mugger Murder
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 2/13/1959
Frank must solve several connected homicides wherein convicted muggers are being strangled to death.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/1011 votes
#21 - The Star Witness
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 2/20/1959
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Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1014 votes
#22 - The Take Over
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 2/27/1959
Racketeers try to steal profits from a new entertainment establishment run by an old friend of Ballinger.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/1014 votes
#23 - Voluntary Surrender
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 3/6/1959
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.6/1014 votes
#24 - Death Threat
Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 3/13/1959
No description available
Director: John Brahm
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1012 votes
#25 - The Harpies
Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 3/20/1959
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of M Squad Season 2
Every episode of M Squad Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of M Squad Season 2!
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...
Genres:CrimeDramaMystery
Network:NBC
Season 2 Ratings Summary
"More Deadly" is the best rated episode of "M Squad" season 2. It scored 8/10 based on 27 votes. Directed by Don Medford and written by Sidney Marshall, it aired on 9/19/1958. This episode is rated 0.7 points higher than the second-best, "Dead or Alive".