The Squad is on the lookout for a bank robbery suspect with a unique feature, witnesses say he has gold teeth.
Guest Stars:
Peter Brocco, John Mitchum, Bruce Gordon, Henry Brandon, Tyler McVey
Ballinger and the Squad are out to catch a burglar who may have rabies.
Guest Stars:
Olan Soule, Harlan Warde
The squad hunts down a cop killer.
Guest Stars:
Wally Brown, Stafford Repp, Don Kennedy, Vici Raaf
The squad goes after a jail inmate who's just escaped.
Guest Stars:
Bobby Driscoll, Mike Connors, Paul Birch, Don Rickles, DeForest Kelley
Ballinger investigates the murders of four women. The victims were all connected to the same church and lived within two miles of each other.
Guest Stars:
Werner Klemperer, Barney Phillips, Barbara Pepper, Kevin Hagen, Joseph Mell
Chicago cop Frank Ballinger stages a rescue in order to gain the confidence of Alice, a young woman who works for suspected jewelry fence Louis Prince. Pretending to be furniture salesman Bob Steele, Ballinger romances Alice and gets friendly with her boss. But Alice falls for "Bob" and Ballinger must weigh her feelings and safety against his duty as a police officer.
Guest Stars:
Robert McQueeney, Pamela Duncan, Lawrence Dobkin, Dick Crockett
Lt. Frank Ballinger investigates the case of a gambling ring and its connection to an unidentified police officer. The deeper into the investigation he gets, the more Ballinger becomes concerned that the crooked cop may be an old friend.
Guest Stars:
William Boyett, Jimmy Cross
A jewelry store robbery sends the thief to prison, but his claim that the night watchman, a former big-league ballplayer named Lightnin' Joe Adams, was in on the heist costs Adams his job. Lt. Frank Ballinger goes undercover in prison to find out from the robber whether Adams was involved in the crime and what happened to the loot.
Guest Stars:
Walter Reed, George Mathews
Frank Ballinger and his colleagues on the M Squad have to find a needle in a haystack: a cop killer somewhere in the city of Chicago. Their only clues are an old magazine and the killer's habit of saying "You bet."
Guest Stars:
Russ Conway
Lt. Frank Ballinger keeps an eye on Hazel, a bar girl with a record who nonetheless wants to go straight. He discovers she is involved with Joe Mazzerin, a safecracker. Ballinger goes undercover to get the goods on Mazzerin and to learn who his mysterious partner is.
Guest Stars:
Angie Dickinson, William Phipps, DeForest Kelley
When perennial loser Wally Gardner is identified as the perpetrator of a robbery-murder, he tells police unique details of a stranger he met miles away at the time of the crime. But when that stranger is found, he says he can prove that HE was miles from where Gardner says they met at the time of the crime. Lt. Frank Ballinger must determine who's lying.
Guest Stars:
Jean Carson, Kathryn Minner, Linda Watkins, Edward Binns
When a hired gunman gets himself tossed in jail following a fistfight, Lt. Frank Ballinger takes his place undercover as protection for a group of three businessmen who meet once a year to commit a specialized crime.
Guest Stars:
Peg La Centra, Kem Dibbs, Dave Barry
When his partner in an investigation is killed, Lt. Frank Ballinger makes it a personal business to pin the crime on narcotics lord Sam Hinder. But, as Ballinger discovers, Hinder has an unusual reason for wanting to keep the police out of his own personal business.
Guest Stars:
Ron Hayes, Sid Melton, Raymond Bailey, Laurie Carroll, Morris Ankrum
Gangster Tommy Hatch is wanted for murder, but the police have to keep him safe from other gangsters who want him dead before he can testify against them. Lt. Frank Ballinger is assigned to protect Hatch even though he despises him.
Guest Stars:
Whit Bissell, Alix Talton
Ballinger investigates the case of a security courier who is charged with robbing himself of $75,000.
Guest Stars:
George E. Stone, Lyle Talbot, Jean Willes, Michael Masters
District Attorney Grover calls for Ballinger to help him sort out a potentially embarrassing situation involving the murder of a former business associate.
Guest Stars:
Willard Parker, William Bakewell, Dan Tobin, Jeanne Cooper, Paul Langton
The room mate of the third murder victim of the Blue Indigo serial killer may be the only link Ballinger has to catching him.
Guest Stars:
Nico Minardos, Bethel Leslie, S. John Launer, James Griffith, Rick Vallin
When a convicted murderer gets the upper hand on Lieutenant Ballinger during a train ride back to Chicago, his last best hope for recapturing the felon is the persistence of an alert young boy.
Guest Stars:
Tiger Fafara, Joe Maross, Frank Sully
Ballinger suspects an inside job when a dry cleaning company refuses to knuckle under to a shakedown mob.
Guest Stars:
Katharine Bard, Dean Harens, June Dayton, Duncan McLeod, H.M. Wynant
Kathy Bane, an old flame of Ballinger's, needs his help when a blackmailer trying to extort money turns up dead-- in her apartment.
Ballinger investigates a murder with multiple motives.
Guest Stars:
Angela Greene, John Doucette, Kent Smith, Ruta Lee
A man's aunt reports her nephew is missing. Ballinger investigates.
Guest Stars:
Herbert Rudley, Esther Dale, Whitney Blake, Marian Seldes, David Lewis
Ballinger goes undercover to capture a robbery suspect.
Guest Stars:
Elizabeth Harrower, Harry Bartell, Stanley Adams
Ballinger investigates after a bank robber leaves a pencil at the scene.
Guest Stars:
John Hoyt, Alan Baxter
A woman dies. Ballinger investigates.
Guest Stars:
Amzie Strickland
A woman loses her memory. Bellinger investigates.
Guest Stars:
Bill Williams, Myron Healey, Margaret Field
Bank robbers hide in a suburban house.
Guest Stars:
Paul Comi, William Hudson, Jack Elam, Dick Miller, Ferris Taylor
A sniper is terrorizing Chicago. Ballinger joins the hunt.
Guest Stars:
John Beradino, John Zaremba, Bartlett Robinson, Jeanne Baird
A young wife is shot by an unknown assailant when she drives with her ex-con husband to an isolated woods in search of their dream home. No one even reports the couple missing until after the police find them dead in the snow. The wife's sister is a wealthy spinster, who takes her time even coming to Chicago, claiming her brother-in-law was threatened with death by a blackmailer. Det. Ballinger suspects the sister knows more than she reveals.
Guest Stars:
Diane Brewster
A boxer's (Lancaster) life is being threatened soon after another fighter dies after fighting with Lancaster. Suspicion falls on the other fighter's trainer who feels Lancaster is responsible for the death of the other fighter.
Guest Stars:
Charles Bronson, Rachel Ames, John Harmon, Rusty Lane
A man confesses to a crime he may not have committed. Meanwhile the president of the company where the man works has been shot to death.
Guest Stars:
Meg Wyllie, Ross Elliott
Lieutenant Ballinger searches for a mentally ill young woman who shot a psychiatrist, hoping all the while that he can also find sufficient evidence to obtain a felony conviction against the charlatan who was "treating" her.
Guest Stars:
Dayton Lummis, Gloria Talbott
Frank Ballinger investigates a illegal adoption racket.
Guest Stars:
Doris Packer
Ballinger investigates a rash of counterfeit $20 bills.
Guest Stars:
Jeanne Dante, Theodore Newton
A professional man is identified as a jewelry-store robber, threatening his freedom, not to mention his wife's reputation "from being married unknowingly to such a character". Ballinger investigates.
An illegal roving casino eludes the police and cheats players with crooked games. When Ballinger investigates, he encounters additional, unforeseen threats.
Guest Stars:
Rose Marie, Tol Avery, Howard Wendell