87th Precinct
NBC (ended 1962)
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Season 1
4/30/62Detective Havilland becomes attracted to a stenographer whose life is being threatened by a person or persons unknown.
4/23/62Mike Power is an embittered detective demoted to the 87th Precinct shortly before his scheduled retirement. He then proceeds to drive the rest of the squad bonkers.
4/16/62Detective Cotton Hawes faces a period of adjustment when he's transferred from the relatively sedate 30th Precinct to the rough and tumble 87th.
4/9/62Detective Havilland befriends a young man named Ramon Morales unaware that the lad's father is involved in a plot to assassinate a visiting South American dignitary.
4/2/62Baseball star Larry Brooks puts his career and life on the line to shield his fugitive brother from the police.
3/26/62To earn extra money for his family, Detective Carella begins moonlighting as a bank security officer.
3/12/62Veteran patrolman Otto Forman, who is due to retire in a few days, is out on the beat showing the ropes to his replacement, Eddie Haines, when a burglar alarm sends them running to a supermarket where Eddie is gunned down by a fleeing thief. The thief happens to be Forman's son.moreless
3/5/62The detectives have to weave their way through a maze of conflicting clues to apprehend the murderer of a pretty young woman.
2/26/62Detective Meyer, who's battling with health problems, goes after a burglar who shot and killed a grocery store owner.
2/19/62Two kidnappers plot to snatch the son of millionaire Douglas King but they grab the son of King's chauffeur by mistake.
2/12/62A ten year old boy might hold the key to the shooting of the new bride of police officer Bill Miller who thinks the shooter is an ex-con named Gantry who once threatened him.
1/29/62Smalltime hood Greg Brovane has delusions of grandeur and thus is easy pickings for three murderers looking for a fall guy.
1/22/62The 87th Precinct detectives investigate a rash of telephone booth bombings.
1/15/62A severed hand found in a dumpster leads the detectives to conclude that a murder has been committed and that the killer might be preparing to strike again.
1/8/62Cleve Thompson is arrested for murder but then engineers a series of clever legal maneuvers in hopes of beating the rap.
1/1/62The detectives investigate threats against the life of boxer Sonny Fitzgerald.
12/25/61About to be executed, former underworld czar Doug Quinn announces that when he goes the men who helped convict him will die too. This is bad news for Toots Brendan--he was the state's key witness against Quinn.
12/18/61A wily crook named Sordo spreads a series of false alarms to keep the police busy while he tunnels into a bank vault.
12/11/61Detectives Carella and Kling investigate when an about-to-be married couple begin receiving threatening letters in the mail.
12/4/61Used-car salesman Glenn Cornell takes one of the cars off the lot and drives out to see a prospective buyer named Barrow. Then the car is found with Cornell slumped over the wheel. Is it suicide or did a dissatisfied customer off the used car man?
11/27/61A young man with a domineering mother is the prime suspect in the murder of a pretty coed.
11/20/61Josie Thompson hopes to benefit financially by assuming the identity of her deceased friend. She's unaware that she's placing herself in deadly danger. It appears as though there's a hit man on the friend's trail.
11/13/61Detective Meyer arrests an old friend on a robbery charge but the man escapes--and is bitten by a rabid dog.
11/6/61When a slimy blackmailer is murdered, the detectives have to sort through an entire army of suspects including the dead man's mistress, a horse trainer, the wife of a wealthy man, a bottling plant owner, and an ex-convict mechanic.
10/30/61Fearing for the health of his pregnant wife, an immigrant locksmith refuses to co-operate with the police in identifying two robbers who beat a man to death on orders of a crime boss.
10/23/61Detective Kling is forced to shoot and kill a holdup man and is emotionally devastated by the event.
10/16/61A disgruntled former detective who quit the police force out of frustration begins committing robberies using the modus operandi of known thieves. The 87th Precinct detectives are completely baffled--at first.
10/9/61The detectives follow up on an anonymous note that says only "I will kill the lady tonight at 8." Slim clues indeed.
10/2/61Virginia Colt, whose late husband was sent to prison on Detective Carella's testimony, barges into the 87th precinct house carrying a gun and wanting to use it on the detective.
9/25/61Carella gets on the trail of Curt Donaldson, a sadistic con man who preys on lonely women.
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