1. The Long Beach Story (a.k.a. The Smuggling Story)
Sharing a taxicab with a ballet dancer leads Lanyard to smuggled rubies and a confrontation with hijackers.
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30min
April 9, 1954
2. The Avalanche Story (a.k.a. The Reno Story)
Visiting Reno to find a woman who supposedly died during the war, Mike is implicated in the death of two government couriers and ends up on a stalled train looking for stolen explosives.
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30min
April 16, 1954
3. The Chinese Story
In San Francisco's Chinatown, Mike helps an old friend stop a campaign of intimidation and murder.
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30min
April 23, 1954
4. The Carnival Story
In London, Lanyard is investigating threats against the life of a world-famous ballet dancer when she apparently commits suicide.
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30min
April 30, 1954
5. The Blue Lantern Story
Lanyard is recruited by the Govt. to find out where all the top criminals have been disappearing to. He is to contact an agent named Anson is New York. Upon contact Anson is killed and the only lead he leaves Lanyard is key to the Blue Lantern dance hall. The attempt to infiltrate fails and his next gamble takes him to the Blue Lantern in New Orleans where he is more successful and the final key to the puzzle leads him to the Copper Mountain Lodge in Nevada.
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30min
May 14, 1954
6. The Ski Story
Mike's vacation at a Sun Valley ski lodge is interrupted by murder.
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30min
May 14, 1954
7. Plantation Story
Mike is summoned to a sugar plantation in Manila to investigate illegal dumping by a competitor.
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30min
May 21, 1954
8. Pursuit
In San Francisco, Mike follows a lead on the man who double-crossed him and murdered his business partner five years ago.
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30min
May 28, 1954
9. The Malibu Story (a.k.a. Malibu-Laguna)
A weekend party in Malibu takes an ominous turn when the host's diamonds are stolen and the dead body of his wife washes up on the beach.
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30min
June 4, 1954
10. The Murder Story
Mike is asked by a psychiatrist to investigate a patient who claims to have committed a murder but can't remember the details.
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30min
June 11, 1954
11. The Honolulu Story
Lanyard goes from New Orleans to Hawaii to discover how rubies and opium are being smuggled in from Hong Kong.
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30min
June 18, 1954
12. Skid Row
Lanyard gets a request from Father Picard to make a last-ditch effort to save the life of a prisoner on death row with 36 hours to live.
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30min
July 2, 1954
13. The Arena
Mike tries to help an estranged brother and sister, each of whom believes that the other caused the death of their father in a supposedly accidental cave-in.
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30min
July 9, 1954
14. The Karachi Story
Mike finds a surprise waiting for him when he goes to Pakistan to protect a religious leader's son whose life has been threatened.
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30min
July 9, 1954
15. The Las Vegas Story
In this first episode of the series Lanyard arrives in Las Vegas on vacation, where he gets involved with a cop and his brother who is wanted for murder.
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30min
July 16, 1954
16. The Italian Story
Lanyard travels to Chicago when he receives an urgent note from Joey Crocetti. A war time buddy who saved Lanyard in Italy during the war. Lanyard discovers Joey is on the run from the police, and he sets out to try to prove his friend innocent.
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30min
July 23, 1954
17. The Hunt
Lanyard leaves Mexico but once he arrives back the US he is immediately arrested by the police and put into hospital quarantine. To Lanyards shock he discovers he's been in contact with people who are dying of cholera.
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30min
July 30, 1954
18. The Oil Story
Lanyard searches through the oil fields of Oklahoma for a boy kidnapped by his father from his mother's home.
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30min
August 6, 1954
19. The Boy Story
Lanyard takes a vacation. While enjoying his boat a young boy tries to sell him a gun. Before he knows it he is in a life and death struggle against forces he didn't even realize were active.
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30min
August 13, 1954
20. The Emerald Ring
Mike searches the waterfront for Helen Calder, a missing heiress who can be identified by an emerald ring.
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30min
August 20, 1954
21. The Department Store Story
Discovering that a recently deceased man's greedy children are looking for a fortune that he hid before he died, Mike decides to make sure that the money goes to his beloved housekeeper instead.
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30min
August 27, 1954
22. The Planetarium Story
In Mexico, the death of an archaeologist sends Lanyard in search of a treasure in Aztec gold coins.
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30min
September 3, 1954
23. The Art Story
Lanyard flies to Los Angeles to clear the name of an old friend, a journalist accused of stealing a priceless Van Gogh painting.
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30min
September 10, 1954
24. The Carlsbad Big Lie Story
In New Mexico, Lanyard is worried about an old friend who claims to have seen a flying saucer and that it's not just one of his tall tales.
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30min
September 17, 1954
25. The Last Ballet Story
Michael Lanyard comes to the aid of a ballerina who is frightened of threatening letters. Instead of helping her he must solve her death...an apparent suicide.
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September 24, 1954
26. The Beverly Hills Story
Mike registers at his favorite Beverly Hills hotel only to find that a con artist posing as his wife has already checked in, but goes along with the gag to find out what her game is.
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30min
October 1, 1954
27. The Jet Story
Mike challenges an aircraft designer plagued by accidents to pilot one of his own planes.
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30min
October 8, 1954
28. The San Francisco Story
A woman asks Mike to find out if her husband and their daughter, supposedly killed in a boating accidnet, are still alive.
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30min
October 15, 1954
29. The Savage
Mike visits a South Pacific island to find out why an old friend has apparently resurrected a barbaric native ritual involving fire-walking, shrunken heads, and murder.
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30min
October 22, 1954
30. Deep Sea Diving
Mike is asked to help an old friend, a deep sea diver accused of helping pirates steal the silver that was about to be salvaged from a sunken wreck.
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30min
October 29, 1954
31. The Werewolf Story
A lawyer asks Lanyard to protect his client's interests at a castle in the Balkans that seems to be threatened by werewolves.
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30min
November 5, 1954
32. The Stamp Story
Mike is hired to locate a stolen rare stamp and return it to its rightful owner.
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30min
November 12, 1954
33. The Minister Story
Lanyard comes to the assistance of an old friend, a minister whose life has been threatened.
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30min
November 19, 1954
34. The Robbery Story (a.k.a. Memo: Robbery)
A big heist prompts Lanyard to track down an infamous jewel thief.
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30min
November 26, 1954
35. The Wife Story
A crazed husband holds Lanyard hostage in a country cottage.
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30min
December 3, 1954
36. The Planetarium Story
Lanyard must recover top-secret microfilm that could sabotage a peace conference if it gets into the wrong hands.
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30min
January 8, 1955
37. The San Pedro Story
Mike is given a ticket on a cruise ship returning from the Orient to determine the truth behind rumors that a playboy king is smuggling a fortune in jewels from his country into the U.S.
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30min
January 15, 1955
38. The Runaway Story (a.k.a. Death of a Lawyer)
Lanyard suspects that a hit-and-run accident was murder.
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30min
January 22, 1955
39. The Newhall Story (a.k.a. Phoenix-Newhall)
When Mike's millionaire friend, a witness to a judge's murder, is killed right in front of him, Mike determines to find the culprits.
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30min
January 29, 1955
40. The San Francisco Story
When Mike's old friend, a carnival clown, is murdered, he hunts for the killer.