The Lone Wolf

1954 - 1955

The Long Beach Story (a.k.a. The Smuggling Story)

9th April 1954

Episode 1

Sharing a taxicab with a ballet dancer leads Lanyard to smuggled rubies and a confrontation with hijackers.

The Avalanche Story (a.k.a. The Reno Story)

16th April 1954

Episode 2

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.

The Chinese Story

23rd April 1954

Episode 3

In San Francisco's Chinatown, Mike helps an old friend stop a campaign of intimidation and murder.

The Carnival Story

30th April 1954

Episode 4

In London, Lanyard is investigating threats against the life of a world-famous ballet dancer when she apparently commits suicide.

The Blue Lantern Story

14th May 1954

Episode 5

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.

The Ski Story

14th May 1954

Episode 6

Mike's vacation at a Sun Valley ski lodge is interrupted by murder.

Plantation Story

21st May 1954

Episode 7

Mike is summoned to a sugar plantation in Manila to investigate illegal dumping by a competitor.

Pursuit

28th May 1954

Episode 8

In San Francisco, Mike follows a lead on the man who double-crossed him and murdered his business partner five years ago.

The Malibu Story (a.k.a. Malibu-Laguna)

4th June 1954

Episode 9

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.

The Murder Story

11th June 1954

Episode 10

Mike is asked by a psychiatrist to investigate a patient who claims to have committed a murder but can't remember the details.

The Honolulu Story

18th June 1954

Episode 11

Lanyard goes from New Orleans to Hawaii to discover how rubies and opium are being smuggled in from Hong Kong.

Skid Row

2nd July 1954

Episode 12

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.

The Arena

9th July 1954

Episode 13

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.

The Karachi Story

9th July 1954

Episode 14

Mike finds a surprise waiting for him when he goes to Pakistan to protect a religious leader's son whose life has been threatened.

The Las Vegas Story

16th July 1954

Episode 15

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.

The Italian Story

23rd July 1954

Episode 16

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.

The Hunt

30th July 1954

Episode 17

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.

The Oil Story

6th August 1954

Episode 18

Lanyard searches through the oil fields of Oklahoma for a boy kidnapped by his father from his mother's home.

The Boy Story

13th August 1954

Episode 19

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.

The Emerald Ring

20th August 1954

Episode 20

Mike searches the waterfront for Helen Calder, a missing heiress who can be identified by an emerald ring.

The Department Store Story

27th August 1954

Episode 21

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.

The Planetarium Story

3rd September 1954

Episode 22

In Mexico, the death of an archaeologist sends Lanyard in search of a treasure in Aztec gold coins.

The Art Story

10th September 1954

Episode 23

Lanyard flies to Los Angeles to clear the name of an old friend, a journalist accused of stealing a priceless Van Gogh painting.

The Carlsbad Big Lie Story

17th September 1954

Episode 24

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.

The Last Ballet Story

24th September 1954

Episode 25

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.

The Beverly Hills Story

1st October 1954

Episode 26

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.

The Jet Story

8th October 1954

Episode 27

Mike challenges an aircraft designer plagued by accidents to pilot one of his own planes.

The San Francisco Story

15th October 1954

Episode 28

A woman asks Mike to find out if her husband and their daughter, supposedly killed in a boating accidnet, are still alive.

The Savage

22nd October 1954

Episode 29

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.

Deep Sea Diving

29th October 1954

Episode 30

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.

The Werewolf Story

5th November 1954

Episode 31

A lawyer asks Lanyard to protect his client's interests at a castle in the Balkans that seems to be threatened by werewolves.

The Stamp Story

12th November 1954

Episode 32

Mike is hired to locate a stolen rare stamp and return it to its rightful owner.

The Minister Story

19th November 1954

Episode 33

Lanyard comes to the assistance of an old friend, a minister whose life has been threatened.

The Robbery Story (a.k.a. Memo: Robbery)

26th November 1954

Episode 34

A big heist prompts Lanyard to track down an infamous jewel thief.

The Wife Story

3rd December 1954

Episode 35

A crazed husband holds Lanyard hostage in a country cottage.

The Planetarium Story

8th January 1955

Episode 36

Lanyard must recover top-secret microfilm that could sabotage a peace conference if it gets into the wrong hands.

The San Pedro Story

15th January 1955

Episode 37

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.

The Runaway Story (a.k.a. Death of a Lawyer)

22nd January 1955

Episode 38

Lanyard suspects that a hit-and-run accident was murder.

The Newhall Story (a.k.a. Phoenix-Newhall)

29th January 1955

Episode 39

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.

The San Francisco Story

Episode 40

When Mike's old friend, a carnival clown, is murdered, he hunts for the killer.

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Louis Hayward

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