Decoy

📊 Series Specifications

Network Syndication
Episode Runtime ~30 min
Total Seasons 1
Total Episodes 39
Original Language EN

Decoy (1957)

⭐ 3.3 / 5 (8 votes) 🎬 1 Seasons 📼 39 Episodes 🏷️ Drama, Crime, Action & Adventure, Mystery 📡 Ended
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Series Status:

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Synopsis

New York City policewoman Casey Jones' assignment to fight crime often entails her going undercover in some of the seediest and most dangerous parts of the city. Decoy is a groundbreaking American crime drama television series created for syndication and initially broadcast from October 14, 1957, to July 7, 1958, with thirty-nine 30-minute black-and-white episodes. It was the first American police series with a female protagonist. Many Decoy episodes are in the public domain.

Seasons & Episodes

E1 Stranglehold

Casey moves into a rooming house to solve the murder of a sailor.

E2 The Red Clown

Casey searches for a Greenwich Village artist who has abandoned his family.

E3 The Phoner

Casey investigates a series of threatening phone calls made to a woman.

E4 To Trap a Thief

A policeman is accused of stealing $10,000.

E5 Dream Fix

A teenage drug addict is the key to busting a narcotics ring.

E6 The Savage Payoff

The bankbook of a dead college basketball player indicates a possible involvement with racketeers.

E7 Deadly Corridor

A woman dies while in custody.

E8 Escape into Danger

Casey searches for a woman who thinks she has killed her husband.

E9 The Glass Necklace

Casey goes undercover as a wealthy socialite to investigate a series of jewel robberies.

E10 The Scapegoat

A woman, who's in jail for embezzling money to care for her mentally disabled son, escapes.

E11 Two Days to Kill

Casey must protect a teenage girl - the only witness to a murder committed by her ex-boyfriend.

E12 Queen of Diamonds

Casey goes undercover as a nightclub photographer.

E13 My Brother's Killer

Casey goes after an escaped convict responsible for a string of murders and holdups.

E14 Bullet of Hate

A teenage girl is accused of murder.

E15 Death Watch

A shoplifting investigation uncovers a "murder for hire" outfit.

E16 Odds Against the Jockey

Casey goes undercover at the racetrack after a gambler is murdered.

E17 Dressed for the Kill

A model is murdered in New York's garment district.

E18 An Eye for an Eye

Casey poses as a drug addict.

E19 The Challenger

Casey suspects that a boxer was drugged before his big fight.

E20 Across the World

A shipping executive is murdered and Casey goes undercover as the dead woman's niece.

E21 The Showplace

Casey poses as a nightclub entertainer.

E22 Reasonable Doubt

A man is falsely accused of robbery.

E23 Night of Fire

A warehouse fire may be arson.

E24 Saturday Was Lost

A young girl is found in a state of shock, and Casey wants to find out why.

E25 High Swing

Casey acts as bait in order to catch a mugger.

E26 Earthbound Satellite

Casey investigates a high-society gambling syndicate.

E27 The Sound of Tears

Casey is suspicious when a woman is accused of killing her fiancee.

E28 Ladies' Man

Casey travels to a resort hotel to catch a murderer.

E29 Cry Revenge

Casey becomes involved with the personal problems of the mother and daughter she is assigned to protect.

E30 The Gentle Gunman

Casey investigates an illegal-weapons racket.

E31 Night Light

A movie star's chauffeur is suspected of stealing a necklace.

E32 Fiesta at Midnight

Casey must find the witness who can prove a Puerto Rican man is innocent of robbery and murder.

E33 The Lieutenant Had a Son

An Army officer is driven to violence by his ex-wife.

E34 Shadow of Van Gogh

Casey investigates art swindlers.

E35 Tin Pan Payoff

A philandering songwriter is murdered.

E36 Blind Date

Casey poses as an accident victim who was carrying stolen money.

E37 The Comeback

Casey attempts to expose the leader of a counterfeiting ring.

E38 First Arrest

Casey recalls her first case - looking for stolen gems at Coney Island's amusement park.

E39 The Lost Ones

Casey is suspicious when a teenager confesses to her own father's murder.