Dick Powell Theatre Episode Guide

Episode Guide

Dick Powell Theatre: Season 2

• Season 2 Episode 30: The Last of the Private Eyes

  A private detective decides to use techniques of movie investigators to capture a blackmailer.

• Season 2 Episode 29: The Old Man and the City

  A young attorney searches for the reason behind a wealthy tycoon's takeover of a one-industry town.

• Season 2 Episode 28: The Last of the Big Spenders

  A writer with failing health and career tries to explain himself to his son. With Robert Redford.

• Season 2 Episode 27: Epilogue

  A former defender pursues a psychopath bent on murdering. With Lee Marvin, Ricardo Montalban.

• Season 2 Episode 26: The Third Side of a Coin

  A man doesn't know who to believe, his brother or an alleged blackmailer (June Allyson).

• Season 2 Episode 25: Charlie's Duet

  A handsome man almost allows an old love to lure him into a tight spot. With Anthony Franciosa, Julie London.

• Season 2 Episode 24: Colossus

  Two immigrants, a Swede and an Irishman, seek their fortunes in California. With Geraldine Brooks, William Shatner.

• Season 2 Episode 23: Thunder in a Forgotten Town

  Steve McQueen guest presents Thunder in Forgotten Town, an exciting murder mystery starring Pat O'Brien, Jackie Cooper, Susan Oliver and David Janssen

• Season 2 Episode 22: Tissue of Hate

  A wealthy plastic surgeon helps a scarred woman convict, then becomes involved with her.

• Season 2 Episode 21: Apples Don't Fall Far

  A parole officer unites a boy and his father, a convict who lacks purpose in life. With David Wayne.

• Season 2 Episode 20: Luxury Liner

  A woman smarting over a love affair takes it out on a young stowaway on her luxury liner. With Rory Calhoun.

• Season 2 Episode 19: The Judge

  A Supreme Court justice faces two difficult legal decisions. With John Anderson, Richard Basehart, Sandra Kerr.

• Season 2 Episode 18: The Rage of Silence

  A deaf man becomes violently jealous when the deaf girl he loves dates a hearing man. With Peter Falk.

• Season 2 Episode 17: Everybody Loves Sweeney

  A comic's career is on the line when he sues a television host for slander. With Jack Albertson.

• Season 2 Episode 16: The Losers

  Two swindlers on the run engineer romance for two lonely people; with Rosemary Clooney, Lee Marvin, Keenan Wynn.

• Season 2 Episode 15: Project X

  A former general oversees personal lives of aerospace engineers working on a top project.

• Season 2 Episode 14: The Honorable Albert Higgins

  An international incident brews when a congressman plays horseshoes with a foreign emissary.

• Season 2 Episode 13: The Big Day

  A 25-year employee of a department store gets a gold watch and a pink slip. With Joan Blondell, Jack Cassidy.

• Season 2 Episode 12: Crazy Sunday

  A neophyte screenwriter learns about life in Tinsel Town during a Hollywood party. With Dana Andrews, Ruta Lee.

• Season 2 Episode 11: The Court Martial of Captain Wycliff

  Startling facts emerge at the trial of a soldier accused of killing a German scientist.

• Season 2 Episode 10: Pericles on 31st Street

  In the 1930s a street vendor defies a tyrannical landlord. With Theodore Bikel, Arthur O'Connell.

• Season 2 Episode 9: Borderline

  In Tijuana a sometime bartender tries to involve his boss in a scheme to sell a stolen bracelet worth $200,000.

• Season 2 Episode 8: In Search of a Son

  A man visiting Europe to find his long-gone son meets people who change his life. With Sebastian Cabot.

• Season 2 Episode 7: Days of Glory

  An exiled revolutionary returns home to find many things are different. With Charles Boyer, Suzanne Pleshette.

• Season 2 Episode 6: The Great Anatole

  The trail of a missing nuclear scientist leads government agents to an illusionist. With Curt Jurgens.

• Season 2 Episode 5: The Sea Witch

  A woman (Carolyn Jones) who accidentally killed her husband seeks shelter on a tuna boat. With John Ericson.

• Season 2 Episode 4: The Doomsday Boys

  Three prison lifers agree to participate in a test to find a hepatitis serum. With Peter Falk, John Larch.

• Season 2 Episode 3: Run Till It's Dark

  A teen runaway enlists the aid of a young man to help her flee from a pursuer. With Fabian, Tuesday Weld.

• Season 2 Episode 2: Tomorrow the Man

  A Jewish boy, put in an orphanage by uncooperative siblings, wants to spend his bar mitzvah alone.

• Season 2 Episode 1: Special Assignment

  A dying man hires a lawyer to learn his heirs' intentions. With June Allyson, Lloyd Nolan, Mickey Rooney.

Dick Powell Theatre: Season 1

• Season 1 Episode 30: Savage Sunday

  A reporter's (Nick Adams) story causes a man to doubt his fiancee, a woman (Ann Blyth) who escaped abductors.

• Season 1 Episode 29: No Strings Attached

  A lawyer risks his career and his fiancee by defending a dancer. With Angie Dickinson, Mamie Van Doren.

• Season 1 Episode 28: The Boston Terrier

  A private detective searching for a stolen antique gun encounters a syndicate execution. With John McGiver.

• Season 1 Episode 27: Safari

  Safari, starring Ellen Corby, Oscar Beregi Jnr and James Coburn

• Season 1 Episode 26: The Clocks

  Weird events surround a widow's sale of the home she shared with her husband. With Joan Fontaine, Wayne Rogers.

• Season 1 Episode 25: Independence S.W.

  A federal investigator poses as a truck driver to trace illegal amphetamines. With David McLean.

• Season 1 Episode 24: View from the Eiffel Tower

  View from the Eiffel Tower, starring Emile Genest, Steven Geray, Bella Darvi and Jane Powell

• Season 1 Episode 23: The Hook

  A young investigator uses a newly released former gang leader in a plot to trap a drug dealer. With Robert Loggia.

• Season 1 Episode 22: The Legend

  The Legend, starring Sammy Davis Jnr, Robert F Simon, Walter Sande, Gloria Jean and Everett Sloane

• Season 1 Episode 21: Seeds of April

  A trial lawyer plans to get rid of his insane wife by convicting her of murder. With Gene Barry, Don Rickles.

• Season 1 Episode 20: The Prison

  A prisoner and guard, exiled to an island, defy the law and become friends. With Theodore Bikel, Charles Boyer.

• Season 1 Episode 19: Squadron

  A World War II squadron that broke a code about taking prisoners becomes the prime target of the Luftwaffe.

• Season 1 Episode 18: Obituary for Mr. X

  A deputy sheriff's one mistake threatens those around him. With Steve Cochran, Nancy Davis, Dina Merrill.

• Season 1 Episode 17: The Price of Tomatoes

  A man (Peter Falk) racing to get Mexican produce into the United States gives a pregnant illegal alien a lift.

• Season 1 Episode 16: A Time to Die

  A dead man will live again if he can find someone to take his place. With June Allyson, Edgar Bergen, John Saxon.

• Season 1 Episode 15: Death in a Village

  An American crashes his car in a Spanish village and becomes the prisoner of a band of local gangsters.

• Season 1 Episode 14: Open Season

  A woman heads to Mexico to get a divorce so she can testify against her husband, a mob-owned district attorney.

• Season 1 Episode 13: The Fifth Caller

  An investigator gathers patients of a slain quack therapist to job his nurse's memory about the murder.

• Season 1 Episode 12: A Swiss Affair

  A U.S. spy vies with a British operative, also a double agent, for the services of a defecting scientist.

• Season 1 Episode 11: Three Soldiers

  Wartime drama depicting the brutality of military conflict, starring James Donald, Telly Savalas and Robert Webber

• Season 1 Episode 10: Up Jumped the Devil

  A gambling-addict embezzler tries to kill his boss, but the man survives -- with amnesia.

• Season 1 Episode 9: Goodbye, Hannah

  A police lieutenant takes pity on the drunken relic of a woman (Carolyn Jones) he has been searching for.

• Season 1 Episode 8: The Geetas Box

  Two repairmen enlist the aid of a ex-safecracker to rob a bank vault. With Cliff Robertson, Dean Stockwell.

• Season 1 Episode 7: Somebody's Waiting

  A sympathetic young woman (Susan Oliver) befriends a lonely sailor (Mickey Rooney) visiting next door.

• Season 1 Episode 6: Out of the Night

  A former bomber pilot returns to Italy to kill a collaborator responsible for the slaughter of partisans.

• Season 1 Episode 5: Doyle Against the House

  A former card shark reverts to old ways to win money for his daughter's surgery. With Milton Berle.

• Season 1 Episode 4: John J Diggs

  A man with a mysterious past travels to Mexico where he tries to win the favour of a local hotel owner. Rhonda Fleming stars

• Season 1 Episode 3: Killer in the House

  A murderous escaped convict descends on his parolee brother, a family man trying to live within the law.

• Season 1 Episode 2: Ricochet

  An Army sergeant (Van Heflin) goes easy on a recruit whose partner was killed, only to have his kindness backfire.

• Season 1 Episode 1: Who Killed Julie Greer?

  A murder mystery that become the pilot episode for the series Burke's Law, starring Mickey Rooney and Ronald Reagan