Deadline

📊 Series Specifications

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

Deadline (1959)

⭐ 3.6 / 5 (3 votes) 🎬 1 Seasons 📼 39 Episodes 🏷️ Drama 📡 Ended
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Synopsis

Deadline is a 1959-1961 American television drama series that re-enacted famous newspaper stories from the past. Hosted and narrated by Paul Stewart, the syndicated series was produced by Arnold Perl. Guest stars included Peter Falk, Diane Ladd, Robert Lansing, and George Maharis. Thirty-nine 30-minute episodes were produced.

Seasons & Episodes

E1 Victor Reisel

As labor reporter on the New York Daily Mirror, Riesel fights against racketeers by exposing them to the public.

E2 State Scandal

Reporter George Thiem's dilemma: loyalty to a friend or respect for the law.

E3 Pickup

A persistent newsman tries to prove that a mild-mannered salesman is the murderer of two women.

E4 The Neon Touch

Two teen-agers scheme to get rich quick by passing bad checks.

E5 Extortion

A respected doctor becomes the victim of an extortionist.

E6 The accusing finger

Reporter Ed Mowery, certain that a convicted murderer is innocent, tries to have the case reopened.

E7 Mass Murder

A plane explodes in mid-flight, killing everyone on board.

E8 The Case Of The Stranger

Newsman Harry Romanoff tries to unmask a phony hero: he believes that the man committed a double murder.

E9 Charm Boy

A sorority meeting and a missed bus spell death for a coed and her killer has an airtight alibi.

E10 Old Man Lost

Don Hogan of the Boston Post tries to help an amnesic regain the will to live.

E11 The Human Storm

It takes a violent prison riot and a crusading reporter to alert the authorities to the inhuman conditions at a penal institution.

E12 Hot Stuff

To expose a shoplifting racket, fashion editor Trudy Prokop infiltrates the gang.

E13 The Face of a Thief

A brilliant detective matches wits with a reporter trying to clear a man caught in a web of circumstantial evidence.

E14 Murderess

A beautiful murderer proves true her claim that no jail built could hold her.

E15 Chain Reaction

A pilot becomes mentally ill after he takes part in the bombing of Hiroshima.

E16 Clean Kill

An unusual clue helps Gene Lindsey of the Phoenix (Ariz.) Gazette solve a murder.

E17 Lonely Hearts Killer

Two newsmen track a lonely-hearts killer who has claimed three victims.

E18 Return to Murder

Two teen-age gangs are on the verge of declaring peace when a boy returns from prison and stirs up fury anew.

E19 Scramble

Reporter Matt Conklin tries to foster good feelings between a quiet Texas town and a new Air Force base.

E20 Massacre

A berserk killer is on the loose in California.

E21 The Blue Dahlia

A soldier confesses to the murder of a beautiful girl but a stubborn reporter refuses to believe him.

E22 Checkmate

Police and reporters try to break a man suspected of having murdered a 15-year-old girl.

E23 Jailbreak

Three convicts escape from a maximum-security prison by forging the warden's signature on pardons.

E24 Mad Bomber

It's Christmas week in New York, and a mad bomber is stalking the city.

E25 Character Witness

Reporter Leo Sheridan is called in as a character witness at the murder trial of his best friend.

E26 Dumb Kid

A cub reporter stumbles onto two bandits.

E27 A Story for Christmas

William Key helps a despondent young girl on Christmas Eve.

E28 Birthday Present

A father and his son are hunting for a lost ball that rolled under their porch and discover a woman's body.

E29 Suspicion of Murder

Bernice Freeman stands by her friend when he is accused of murder.

E30 Thesis for Murder

A brilliant, but deranged, college student tries to carry out the perfect crime

E31 Exposure

A photo studio is the cover for a racket swindling the citizens of Columbus, Ohio, to the tune of a quarter of a million dollars a year.

E32 Pig Woman

A woman brutally murders a handy man after being named the beneficiary of his life-insurance policy.

E33 To Move a Mountain

A reporter, nursed by two Burmese women during the war, fights to keep them from being forced back to Burma and certain death.

E34 One Tall, One Short

A wild hunch helps reporter Clayton Darrah trap two phantom bandits. The only available description is "one short, one tall."

E35 The Cave

A car parked outside an uncharted cave convinces a reporter that someone is lost inside.

E36 The Two Ounce Trap

A rest home for alcoholics, scene of five deaths within a brief period, is investigated by newsman Paul Quick.

E37 The Last Knockout

Reporter Ed Reid encounters an ex-fight manager, a singer and a boxer in his search for a missing sea captain.

E39 Smoke Screen

The Erie, Pa., fire department is looking for the arsonist terrorizing the town.