Season 1
7.3/1026 votesThe Long Beach Story (a.k.a. The Smuggling Story)
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 4/9/1954
Sharing a taxicab with a ballet dancer leads Lanyard to smuggled rubies and a confrontation with hijackers.
Director: Bernard Girard
Writer: Unknown
- 7.6/1026 votes
The Avalanche Story (a.k.a. The Reno Story)
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/16/1954
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.
Director: Bernard Girard
Writer: Unknown
- 7.6/1020 votes
The Chinese Story
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 4/23/1954
In San Francisco's Chinatown, Mike helps an old friend stop a campaign of intimidation and murder.
Director: Bernard Girard
Writer: Unknown
- 7.3/1020 votes
The Carnival Story
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 4/30/1954
In London, Lanyard is investigating threats against the life of a world-famous ballet dancer when she apparently commits suicide.
Director: George Waggner
Writer: Unknown
- 7.0/1026 votes
The Blue Lantern Story
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 5/14/1954
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.
Director: Bernard Girard
Writer: Unknown
- 7.0/1015 votes
The Malibu Story (a.k.a. Malibu-Laguna)
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 6/4/1954
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.
Director: Bernard Girard
Writer: Unknown
- 6.9/1021 votes
The Murder Story
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 6/11/1954
Mike is asked by a psychiatrist to investigate a patient who claims to have committed a murder but can't remember the details.
Director: Bernard Girard, George Waggner
Writer: Unknown
- 7.2/1013 votes
The Honolulu Story
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 6/18/1954
Lanyard goes from New Orleans to Hawaii to discover how rubies and opium are being smuggled in from Hong Kong.
Director: Christian Nyby, George Waggner
Writer: Unknown
- 6.9/1018 votes
Skid Row
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 7/2/1954
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.
Director: George Waggner, Rod Amateau
Writer: Unknown
- 7.1/1017 votes
The Arena
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 7/9/1954
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.
Director: Alfred E. Green
Writer: Unknown
- 6.1/1021 votes
The Karachi Story
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 7/9/1954
Mike finds a surprise waiting for him when he goes to Pakistan to protect a religious leader's son whose life has been threatened.
Director: Alfred E. Green
Writer: Unknown
- 6.8/1036 votes
The Las Vegas Story
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 7/16/1954
In this first episode of the series Lanyard arrives in Las Vegas on vacation, where he gets involved with a cop and his brother who is wanted for murder.
Director: Bernard Girard
Writer: Robert C. Dennis
- 7.1/1010 votes
The Italian Story
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 7/23/1954
Lanyard travels to Chicago when he receives an urgent note from Joey Crocetti. A war time buddy who saved Lanyard in Italy during the war. Lanyard discovers Joey is on the run from the police, and he sets out to try to prove his friend innocent.
Director: George Waggner
Writer: Unknown
- 6.3/108 votes
- 7.0/107 votes
The Boy Story
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 8/13/1954
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.
Director: Christian Nyby
Writer: Unknown
- 7.4/1017 votes
The Emerald Ring
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 8/20/1954
Mike searches the waterfront for Helen Calder, a missing heiress who can be identified by an emerald ring.
Director: Bernard Girard, Christian Nyby
Writer: Unknown
- 7.0/107 votes
The Department Store Story
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 8/27/1954
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.
Director: Bernard Girard, Christian Nyby
Writer: Unknown
- 7.0/107 votes
The Planetarium Story
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 9/3/1954
In Mexico, the death of an archaeologist sends Lanyard in search of a treasure in Aztec gold coins.
Director: Christian Nyby
Writer: Unknown
- 7.3/1015 votes
The Art Story
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 9/10/1954
Lanyard flies to Los Angeles to clear the name of an old friend, a journalist accused of stealing a priceless Van Gogh painting.
Director: Bernard Girard, George Waggner
Writer: Unknown
- 6.9/1017 votes
The Carlsbad Big Lie Story
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 9/17/1954
In New Mexico, Lanyard is worried about an old friend who claims to have seen a flying saucer and that it's not just one of his tall tales.
Director: Christian Nyby
Writer: Unknown
- 6.8/107 votes
The Jet Story
Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 10/8/1954
Mike challenges an aircraft designer plagued by accidents to pilot one of his own planes.
Director: Christian Nyby
Writer: Unknown
- 7.2/107 votes
The San Francisco Story
Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 10/15/1954
A woman asks Mike to find out if her husband and their daughter, supposedly killed in a boating accidnet, are still alive.
Director: Bernard Girard
Writer: Unknown
- 7.8/1013 votes
The Minister Story
Season 1 Episode 33 - Aired 11/19/1954
Lanyard comes to the assistance of an old friend, a minister whose life has been threatened.
Director: Bernard Girard
Writer: Unknown
- 7.2/108 votes
The Robbery Story (a.k.a. Memo: Robbery)
Season 1 Episode 34 - Aired 11/26/1954
A big heist prompts Lanyard to track down an infamous jewel thief.
Director: Alfred E. Green
Writer: Unknown
- 7.2/1012 votes
The Planetarium Story
Season 1 Episode 36 - Aired 1/8/1955
Lanyard must recover top-secret microfilm that could sabotage a peace conference if it gets into the wrong hands.
Director: Christian Nyby, Alfred E. Green
Writer: Unknown
- 6.9/109 votes
The Runaway Story (a.k.a. Death of a Lawyer)
Season 1 Episode 38 - Aired 1/22/1955
Lanyard suspects that a hit-and-run accident was murder.
Director: George Waggner, Rod Amateau
Writer: Unknown
- 6.5/108 votes
The Newhall Story (a.k.a. Phoenix-Newhall)
Season 1 Episode 39 - Aired 1/29/1955
When Mike's millionaire friend, a witness to a judge's murder, is killed right in front of him, Mike determines to find the culprits.
Director: Bernard Girard
Writer: Unknown