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.
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Episode 1
As labor reporter on the New York Daily Mirror, Riesel fights against racketeers by exposing them to the public.
Episode 2
Reporter George Thiem's dilemma: loyalty to a friend or respect for the law.
Episode 3
A persistent newsman tries to prove that a mild-mannered salesman is the murderer of two women.
Episode 4
Two teen-agers scheme to get rich quick by passing bad checks.
Episode 5
A respected doctor becomes the victim of an extortionist.
Episode 6
Reporter Ed Mowery, certain that a convicted murderer is innocent, tries to have the case reopened.
Episode 7
A plane explodes in mid-flight, killing everyone on board.
Episode 8
Newsman Harry Romanoff tries to unmask a phony hero: he believes that the man committed a double murder.
Episode 9
A sorority meeting and a missed bus spell death for a coed and her killer has an airtight alibi.
Episode 10
Don Hogan of the Boston Post tries to help an amnesic regain the will to live.
Episode 11
It takes a violent prison riot and a crusading reporter to alert the authorities to the inhuman conditions at a penal institution.
Episode 12
To expose a shoplifting racket, fashion editor Trudy Prokop infiltrates the gang.
Episode 13
A brilliant detective matches wits with a reporter trying to clear a man caught in a web of circumstantial evidence.
Episode 14
A beautiful murderer proves true her claim that no jail built could hold her.
Episode 15
A pilot becomes mentally ill after he takes part in the bombing of Hiroshima.
Episode 16
An unusual clue helps Gene Lindsey of the Phoenix (Ariz.) Gazette solve a murder.
Episode 17
Two newsmen track a lonely-hearts killer who has claimed three victims.
Episode 18
Two teen-age gangs are on the verge of declaring peace when a boy returns from prison and stirs up fury anew.
Episode 19
Reporter Matt Conklin tries to foster good feelings between a quiet Texas town and a new Air Force base.
Episode 20
A berserk killer is on the loose in California.
Episode 21
A soldier confesses to the murder of a beautiful girl but a stubborn reporter refuses to believe him.
Episode 22
Police and reporters try to break a man suspected of having murdered a 15-year-old girl.
Episode 23
Three convicts escape from a maximum-security prison by forging the warden's signature on pardons.
Episode 24
It's Christmas week in New York, and a mad bomber is stalking the city.
Episode 25
Reporter Leo Sheridan is called in as a character witness at the murder trial of his best friend.
Episode 26
A cub reporter stumbles onto two bandits.
Episode 27
William Key helps a despondent young girl on Christmas Eve.
Episode 28
A father and his son are hunting for a lost ball that rolled under their porch and discover a woman's body.
Episode 29
Bernice Freeman stands by her friend when he is accused of murder.
Episode 30
A brilliant, but deranged, college student tries to carry out the perfect crime
Episode 31
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.
Episode 32
A woman brutally murders a handy man after being named the beneficiary of his life-insurance policy.
Episode 33
A reporter, nursed by two Burmese women during the war, fights to keep them from being forced back to Burma and certain death.
Episode 34
A wild hunch helps reporter Clayton Darrah trap two phantom bandits. The only available description is "one short, one tall."
Episode 35
A car parked outside an uncharted cave convinces a reporter that someone is lost inside.
Episode 36
A rest home for alcoholics, scene of five deaths within a brief period, is investigated by newsman Paul Quick.
Episode 37
Reporter Ed Reid encounters an ex-fight manager, a singer and a boxer in his search for a missing sea captain.
Episode 38
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Episode 39
The Erie, Pa., fire department is looking for the arsonist terrorizing the town.
