7.5/1013 votes#1 - The Machine Calls It Murder
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 5/29/1960
An insurance man, fiddling with his computer, discovers a pattern between the murders of five models, as well as the identity of the next victim.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#2 - Thunder of Silence
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 6/5/1960
Flames break out in a state school for deaf children, and only quick action by firemen saves the terrified youngsters. The school superintendent swears he was at his post when the fire occurred but an anonymous woman phones the attorney general with a drastically different account of his activities.
Director: N/A
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- NaN/100 votes
#3 - Summer Hero
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 6/12/1960
Seventeen-year-old Dotty Halsey, who lives in a resort town, falls prey to suave actor Damian Shea. Shea appears every year in the town's summer stock theater and is idolized for his supposed act of bravery the previous summer during a local fire. However, Shea is neither brave nor heroic. He schemes to eliminate Dotty, the only person who can expose his secret.
Director: N/A
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- NaN/100 votes
#4 - Dark Possession
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 6/19/1960
For the past year Charlotte Bell Wheeler has been the victim of a series of poison-pen letters. But the latest is the most incriminating - it accuses Charlotte of murdering her husband.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#5 - Fear Is the Parent
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 6/26/1960
Simon Dow is a neurotic man constantly living in fear. After his wife Avery notes his increased agitation when the topic of murder is discussed, Simon is compelled to share one of his fears with his wife. His confession and subsequent bizarre behavior lead Avery to her own cycle of fear.
Director: N/A
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- NaN/100 votes
#6 - Murder Me Nicely
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 7/3/1960
Diagnosed with a terminal illness, embittered schoolteacher Alfred Emerson decides to end life on his terms. He subsequently devises a monstrous plan to blackmail Peter Montopolis, a popular student he jealously loathes, into killing him. However, the scheme might not go as planned.
Director: N/A
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- NaN/100 votes
#7 - Dead Man's Walk
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 7/10/1960
A man wakes up in a hospital emergency ward to learn he's been fished out of the river. He's got no idea how he got there or who he is, but police suspect he's the victim of foul play and may be involved with the racketeers who control the city.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#8 - The Last Six Blocks
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 7/17/1960
Joseph Teague is an American doctor who lives in Guatemala and has a somewhat tarnished reputation. Then U.S. consul Greyson gives Teague an important job - find Andrew Glenn, an American youth who's on a bender somewhere in the city.
Director: N/A
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- NaN/100 votes
#9 - I Know What I'd Have Done
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 7/24/1960
A distraught woman appears at the Girards' front door at a very late hour, pleading piteously to be allowed inside. She babbles that she's fleeing two hoodlums who have threatened to kill her. Before Fred Girard can fully grasp the situation, his caller has lurched off again into the night.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/1039 votes#10 - Enough Rope
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 7/31/1960
Dr. Flemming has a secret life, his shrew of a wife leads him into the arms of Susan a vulnerable and easily manipulated young woman. Together the plot is staged for the demise of Mrs. Flemming.
Director: Don Richardson
Writer: Richard Levinson, William Link
- NaN/100 votes
#11 - Trial by Fury
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 8/7/1960
Attorney Jim Powell becomes his own client following a false accusation of murder. After he is tried and acquitted of the crime, the widow of the victim, Elizabeth Marshall, convenes her own personal trial in order to get justice for her late husband's premature death, but is Powell really guilty?
Director: N/A
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- NaN/100 votes
#12 - Run-Around
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 8/14/1960
Actor and former box office gold Francis Rushmore finds his career in sharp decline. While drowning his sorrows in a tavern he eavesdrops on two men who are plotting the murder of influential but much loathed agent Michael Semmes. Rushmore then launches a valiant effort to warn Semmes of the unfolding plot, unaware that he has ordered everyone to give Rushmore the "run around" to prevent him from begging for acting work.
Director: N/A
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- NaN/100 votes
#13 - The Inspector Vanishes
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 8/21/1960
The Paris Bureau of Missing Persons is tasked with looking for one of its own as its Chief Inspector suddenly vanishes.
Director: N/A
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- NaN/100 votes
#14 - Femme Fatale
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 8/28/1960
There have been a lot of men in the life of Lisa Townsend, a former movie actress. Boyfriends and husbands alike had something in common, they all met with violent deaths. When husband No. 3 has a near-fatal accident, it's another unusual coincidence. Or is it?
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#15 - Murder by the Book
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 9/4/1960
When popular mystery novelist John Clayton's career begins to wane, he steals a clever plot written by an amateur writer who has since passed away. However, Clayton's scheme unexpectedly goes awry when his plagiarized story is discovered to be the blueprint for a real life unsolved murder for which he is now considered to be the number one suspect.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#16 - Blind Man's Bluff
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 9/11/1960
Ray, a young war veteran, participates in a bank robbery which is accidentally captured on television cameras recording a man-on-the-street series. With his face broadcast across the country, he decides to hide inside a place where no one can recognize him, a home for the blind. Meanwhile, as he contemplates surrendering, both the police and his angry accomplices desperately attempt to locate him.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 5.9/1015 votes
#17 - The Suicide Club
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 9/18/1960
A club president has no intention of dying, the club dues give him much too nice a living. A game of cards decides who will die and who will do the killing, making each deal an exciting game.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#18 - A Perfect Alibi
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 9/25/1960
Two prisoners given life by an English judge in Kenya vow to murder the judge if they ever get out. When the judge is found sitting at his desk, dead the search is on for the culprits.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of The Chevy Mystery Show Season 1
Every episode of The Chevy Mystery Show Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Chevy Mystery Show Season 1!
The Chevy Mystery Show is an American television anthology series featuring a different mystery each week that aired on NBC in 1960 as a summer...
Genre:Mystery
Network:NBC
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"The Machine Calls It Murder" is the best rated episode of "The Chevy Mystery Show" season 1. It scored 7.5/10 based on 13 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 5/29/1960. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "Thunder of Silence".