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The Best Episodes of The Lone Wolf

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The Best Episodes of The Lone Wolf

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  1. Background image for The Minister Story
    7.9/10(13 votes)

    #1 - The Minister Story

    S1:E33

    Lanyard comes to the assistance of an old friend, a minister whose life has been threatened.

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    Writer:Unknown
  2. Background image for The Avalanche Story (a.k.a. The Reno Story)
    7.7/10(26 votes)

    #2 - The Avalanche Story (a.k.a. The Reno Story)

    S1:E2

    Visiting Reno to find a woman who supposedly died during the war, Mike is implicated in the death of two government couriers and ends up on a stalled train looking for stolen explosives.

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    Writer:Unknown
  3. Background image for The San Francisco Story
    7.7/10(7 votes)

    #3 - The San Francisco Story

    S1:E28

    A woman asks Mike to find out if her husband and their daughter, supposedly killed in a boating accidnet, are still alive.

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    Writer:Unknown
  4. Background image for The Chinese Story
    7.6/10(20 votes)

    #4 - The Chinese Story

    S1:E3

    In San Francisco's Chinatown, Mike helps an old friend stop a campaign of intimidation and murder.

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    Writer:Unknown
  5. Background image for The Robbery Story (a.k.a. Memo: Robbery)
    7.6/10(8 votes)

    #5 - The Robbery Story (a.k.a. Memo: Robbery)

    S1:E34

    A big heist prompts Lanyard to track down an infamous jewel thief.

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    Writer:Unknown
  6. Background image for The Emerald Ring
    7.5/10(17 votes)

    #6 - The Emerald Ring

    S1:E20

    Mike searches the waterfront for Helen Calder, a missing heiress who can be identified by an emerald ring.

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  8. Background image for The Art Story
    7.5/10(15 votes)

    #7 - The Art Story

    S1:E23

    Lanyard flies to Los Angeles to clear the name of an old friend, a journalist accused of stealing a priceless Van Gogh painting.

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  9. Background image for The Last Ballet Story
    7.5/10(13 votes)

    #8 - The Last Ballet Story

    S1:E25

    Michael Lanyard comes to the aid of a ballerina who is frightened of threatening letters. Instead of helping her he must solve her death...an apparent suicide.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  10. Background image for The Long Beach Story (a.k.a. The Smuggling Story)
    7.4/10(26 votes)

    #9 - The Long Beach Story (a.k.a. The Smuggling Story)

    S1:E1

    Sharing a taxicab with a ballet dancer leads Lanyard to smuggled rubies and a confrontation with hijackers.

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    Writer:Unknown
  11. Background image for The Carnival Story
    7.4/10(20 votes)

    #10 - The Carnival Story

    S1:E4

    In London, Lanyard is investigating threats against the life of a world-famous ballet dancer when she apparently commits suicide.

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    Writer:Unknown
  12. Background image for Pursuit
    7.4/10(19 votes)

    #11 - Pursuit

    S1:E8

    In San Francisco, Mike follows a lead on the man who double-crossed him and murdered his business partner five years ago.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  13. Background image for Deep Sea Diving
    7.4/10(17 votes)

    #12 - Deep Sea Diving

    S1:E30

    Mike is asked to help an old friend, a deep sea diver accused of helping pirates steal the silver that was about to be salvaged from a sunken wreck.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  14. Background image for The Honolulu Story
    7.3/10(13 votes)

    #13 - The Honolulu Story

    S1:E11

    Lanyard goes from New Orleans to Hawaii to discover how rubies and opium are being smuggled in from Hong Kong.

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  15. Background image for The Arena
    7.3/10(17 votes)

    #14 - The Arena

    S1:E13

    Mike tries to help an estranged brother and sister, each of whom believes that the other caused the death of their father in a supposedly accidental cave-in.

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    Writer:Unknown
  16. Background image for The Boy Story
    7.3/10(7 votes)

    #15 - The Boy Story

    S1:E19

    Lanyard takes a vacation. While enjoying his boat a young boy tries to sell him a gun. Before he knows it he is in a life and death struggle against forces he didn't even realize were active.

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    Writer:Unknown
  17. Background image for The Department Store Story
    7.3/10(7 votes)

    #16 - The Department Store Story

    S1:E21

    Discovering that a recently deceased man's greedy children are looking for a fortune that he hid before he died, Mike decides to make sure that the money goes to his beloved housekeeper instead.

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  18. Background image for The Planetarium Story
    7.3/10(12 votes)

    #17 - The Planetarium Story

    S1:E36

    Lanyard must recover top-secret microfilm that could sabotage a peace conference if it gets into the wrong hands.

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  19. Background image for Plantation Story
    7.2/10(16 votes)

    #18 - Plantation Story

    S1:E7

    Mike is summoned to a sugar plantation in Manila to investigate illegal dumping by a competitor.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  20. Background image for The Planetarium Story
    7.2/10(7 votes)

    #19 - The Planetarium Story

    S1:E22

    In Mexico, the death of an archaeologist sends Lanyard in search of a treasure in Aztec gold coins.

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    Writer:Unknown
  21. Background image for The Werewolf Story
    7.2/10(17 votes)

    #20 - The Werewolf Story

    S1:E31

    A lawyer asks Lanyard to protect his client's interests at a castle in the Balkans that seems to be threatened by werewolves.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  22. Background image for The Wife Story
    7.2/10(14 votes)

    #21 - The Wife Story

    S1:E35

    A crazed husband holds Lanyard hostage in a country cottage.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  23. Background image for The Runaway Story (a.k.a. Death of a Lawyer)
    7.2/10(9 votes)

    #22 - The Runaway Story (a.k.a. Death of a Lawyer)

    S1:E38

    Lanyard suspects that a hit-and-run accident was murder.

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  24. Background image for The Blue Lantern Story
    7.1/10(26 votes)

    #23 - The Blue Lantern Story

    S1:E5

    Lanyard is recruited by the Govt. to find out where all the top criminals have been disappearing to. He is to contact an agent named Anson is New York. Upon contact Anson is killed and the only lead he leaves Lanyard is key to the Blue Lantern dance hall. The attempt to infiltrate fails and his next gamble takes him to the Blue Lantern in New Orleans where he is more successful and the final key to the puzzle leads him to the Copper Mountain Lodge in Nevada.

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    Writer:Unknown
  25. Background image for The Malibu Story (a.k.a. Malibu-Laguna)
    7.1/10(15 votes)

    #24 - The Malibu Story (a.k.a. Malibu-Laguna)

    S1:E9

    A weekend party in Malibu takes an ominous turn when the host's diamonds are stolen and the dead body of his wife washes up on the beach.

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    Writer:Unknown
  26. Background image for Skid Row
    7.1/10(18 votes)

    #25 - Skid Row

    S1:E12

    Lanyard gets a request from Father Picard to make a last-ditch effort to save the life of a prisoner on death row with 36 hours to live.

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Best Episodes Summary

"The Minister Story" is the best rated episode of "The Lone Wolf". It scored 7.9/10 based on 13 votes. Directed by Bernard Girard and written by Unknown, it aired on 11/19/1954. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Avalanche Story (a.k.a. The Reno Story)".