Murder Goes to College

Roscoe Karns

Ordeal by Fire

The Lethal Ratio

Murder Lays the Odds

Model for Murder

The Toy Dagger Murder

There appears to be three prime suspects in the backstage of a theater where the murder of a blackmailing gossip columnist is committed. Sergeant Lane heads up the investigation when Detective Rocky King is ill with food poisoning.

One Minute for Murder

Vagrant C-Note

Rocky is called to a rooming house because of a mystery involving three of the lodgers.

Personal Vendetta

Famed chemist Dr. Sloan is found murdered and Rocky has three suspects to interview. Sloan's secretary Miss Merrick has been bequeathed the deceased man's estate and Rocky zeros in on the lady.

Death has Dark Hands

Three hours before Dayton Merrill is to be executed for murder, Inspector King receives a taunting phone call from a man who claims to have really committed the crime. Unable to get a stay of execution based on the man's confession, King and Detective Lane must re-investigate the crime and find sufficient evidence to save an innocent man's life.

Murder, Ph.D.

Murder by Natural Death

Cop Killer

Sucker Bait

Recoil

Death Does a Double Take

Prowler in the Night

The Stain of Murder

Double Jeopardy

Docked for Murder

Double Cross

The Grapevine

Checkmate

Canceled Out

The Pay Off

The Gentle Murder

The Needle's Eye

Stranger's Doom

King's Gambit

The Abandoned House

The Fatal Sign

Arsenic for Two

Caged

Thy Will Be Done

The Trunk

The Old Mansion

Win, Place and Murder

Playback

The Ledger

A hotel guest is found murdered and Rocky is called to the scene to decipher to the case.

Room Service

A member of a dating club is found dead and Rocky gets the case. His suspicions are aroused when he learns the deceased man was recently engaged to the secretary of the lonely hearts organization.

Door to Happiness

One of three owners of a radioisotope factory is killed and Rocky must uncover the culprit plus the reason for the crime.

Dead Weight

A bodyguard of a wealthy industrialist is murdered and the police are called. Rocky must determine who the actual intended victim was before the case can precede.

Deadly Target

A wealthy fisherman who was an expert is pulled from a boat and drowned. Rocky thinks it's murder with three possible suspects; the man's widow, the captain and the deckhand are all questioned.

Hook, Line & Sinker

Breakout

The Silencer

Jack of Diamonds

Money & Murder

The Best of References

Murder on the Downbeat

The Final Curtain

Time Table

Rocky King, Inside Detective is an American television series broadcast on the DuMont Television Network on Sundays at 9pm ET from January 15, 1950 to December 26, 1954. This series was one of DuMont's most popular programs, and was a live crime series set in New York City.

The show not only kept Roscoe Karns from retirement, but cast him opposite his son, Todd Karns. The DuMont offices and corridors were used as sets. At the end of each program, King would exchange telephone small talk with his unseen wife Mabel and, after hanging up, say to no one in particular, "Great girl, that Mabel".

Rocky King, Detective Season 4 Episode 31: Murder Goes to College

Murder Goes to College

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