M Squad

The Squad is on the lookout for a bank robbery suspect with a unique feature, witnesses say he has gold teeth.

Première diffusion : 20 septembre 1957

Ballinger and the Squad are out to catch a burglar who may have rabies.

Première diffusion : 27 septembre 1957

The squad hunts down a cop killer.

Première diffusion : 4 octobre 1957

The squad goes after a jail inmate who's just escaped.

Première diffusion : 11 octobre 1957

Ballinger investigates the murders of four women. The victims were all connected to the same church and lived within two miles of each other.

Première diffusion : 18 octobre 1957

Chicago cop Frank Ballinger stages a rescue in order to gain the confidence of Alice, a young woman who works for suspected jewelry fence Louis Prince. Pretending to be furniture salesman Bob Steele, Ballinger romances Alice and gets friendly with her boss. But Alice falls for "Bob" and Ballinger must weigh her feelings and safety against his duty as a police officer.

Première diffusion : 1 novembre 1957

Lt. Frank Ballinger investigates the case of a gambling ring and its connection to an unidentified police officer. The deeper into the investigation he gets, the more Ballinger becomes concerned that the crooked cop may be an old friend.

Première diffusion : 8 novembre 1957

A jewelry store robbery sends the thief to prison, but his claim that the night watchman, a former big-league ballplayer named Lightnin' Joe Adams, was in on the heist costs Adams his job. Lt. Frank Ballinger goes undercover in prison to find out from the robber whether Adams was involved in the crime and what happened to the loot.

Première diffusion : 15 novembre 1957

Frank Ballinger and his colleagues on the M Squad have to find a needle in a haystack: a cop killer somewhere in the city of Chicago. Their only clues are an old magazine and the killer's habit of saying "You bet."

Première diffusion : 22 novembre 1957

Lt. Frank Ballinger keeps an eye on Hazel, a bar girl with a record who nonetheless wants to go straight. He discovers she is involved with Joe Mazzerin, a safecracker. Ballinger goes undercover to get the goods on Mazzerin and to learn who his mysterious partner is.

Première diffusion : 29 novembre 1957

When perennial loser Wally Gardner is identified as the perpetrator of a robbery-murder, he tells police unique details of a stranger he met miles away at the time of the crime. But when that stranger is found, he says he can prove that HE was miles from where Gardner says they met at the time of the crime. Lt. Frank Ballinger must determine who's lying.

Première diffusion : 6 décembre 1957

When a hired gunman gets himself tossed in jail following a fistfight, Lt. Frank Ballinger takes his place undercover as protection for a group of three businessmen who meet once a year to commit a specialized crime.

Première diffusion : 13 décembre 1957

When his partner in an investigation is killed, Lt. Frank Ballinger makes it a personal business to pin the crime on narcotics lord Sam Hinder. But, as Ballinger discovers, Hinder has an unusual reason for wanting to keep the police out of his own personal business.

Première diffusion : 20 décembre 1957

Gangster Tommy Hatch is wanted for murder, but the police have to keep him safe from other gangsters who want him dead before he can testify against them. Lt. Frank Ballinger is assigned to protect Hatch even though he despises him.

Première diffusion : 27 décembre 1957

Ballinger investigates the case of a security courier who is charged with robbing himself of $75,000.

Première diffusion : 3 janvier 1958

District Attorney Grover calls for Ballinger to help him sort out a potentially embarrassing situation involving the murder of a former business associate.

Première diffusion : 10 janvier 1958

The room mate of the third murder victim of the Blue Indigo serial killer may be the only link Ballinger has to catching him.

Première diffusion : 17 janvier 1958

When a convicted murderer gets the upper hand on Lieutenant Ballinger during a train ride back to Chicago, his last best hope for recapturing the felon is the persistence of an alert young boy.

Première diffusion : 24 janvier 1958

Ballinger suspects an inside job when a dry cleaning company refuses to knuckle under to a shakedown mob.

Première diffusion : 31 janvier 1958

Kathy Bane, an old flame of Ballinger's, needs his help when a blackmailer trying to extort money turns up dead-- in her apartment.

Première diffusion : 7 février 1958

Ballinger investigates a murder with multiple motives.

Première diffusion : 14 février 1958

A man's aunt reports her nephew is missing. Ballinger investigates.

Première diffusion : 21 février 1958

Ballinger goes undercover to capture a robbery suspect.

Première diffusion : 28 février 1958

Ballinger investigates after a bank robber leaves a pencil at the scene.

Première diffusion : 7 mars 1958

A woman dies. Ballinger investigates.

Première diffusion : 14 mars 1958

A woman loses her memory. Bellinger investigates.

Première diffusion : 21 mars 1958

Bank robbers hide in a suburban house.

Première diffusion : 28 mars 1958

A sniper is terrorizing Chicago. Ballinger joins the hunt.

Première diffusion : 4 avril 1958

A young wife is shot by an unknown assailant when she drives with her ex-con husband to an isolated woods in search of their dream home. No one even reports the couple missing until after the police find them dead in the snow. The wife's sister is a wealthy spinster, who takes her time even coming to Chicago, claiming her brother-in-law was threatened with death by a blackmailer. Det. Ballinger suspects the sister knows more than she reveals.

Première diffusion : 11 avril 1958

A boxer's (Lancaster) life is being threatened soon after another fighter dies after fighting with Lancaster. Suspicion falls on the other fighter's trainer who feels Lancaster is responsible for the death of the other fighter.

Première diffusion : 18 avril 1958

A man confesses to a crime he may not have committed. Meanwhile the president of the company where the man works has been shot to death.

Première diffusion : 25 avril 1958

Lieutenant Ballinger searches for a mentally ill young woman who shot a psychiatrist, hoping all the while that he can also find sufficient evidence to obtain a felony conviction against the charlatan who was "treating" her.

Première diffusion : 2 mai 1958

Frank Ballinger investigates a illegal adoption racket.

Première diffusion : 9 mai 1958

Ballinger investigates a rash of counterfeit $20 bills.

Première diffusion : 16 mai 1958

A professional man is identified as a jewelry-store robber, threatening his freedom, not to mention his wife's reputation "from being married unknowingly to such a character". Ballinger investigates.

Première diffusion : 23 mai 1958

An illegal roving casino eludes the police and cheats players with crooked games. When Ballinger investigates, he encounters additional, unforeseen threats.

Première diffusion : 30 mai 1958

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Première diffusion : 6 juin 1958

A millionaire is found dead in a locked room. His young pretty wife (Fay Spain), and the big hansom driver (Ken Clark), are suspected of the crime. Lee Marvin figures out how the crime was committed.

Première diffusion : 13 juin 1958

2 innocent men are iced by a currency exchange bookkeeper, to disguise her embezzlement. The sultry femme fatale's yarn that it was a heist gone bad makes sense at first, because of a wave of such robberies on Chicago's Far East Side. But the murdered customer Halper checks out as a solid working stiff, plus the other stick-ups were solo jobs while this was supposedly a 2 hood hold-up, so M Squad's debonair Lt. Ballinger's sic-ed on the case to soften up hard boiled Ora Kane.

Première diffusion : 19 septembre 1958

A pair of gun crazy kids are loose in Chicago-- and a young reporter is defending them in the press against Ballinger and "police brutality".

Première diffusion : 26 septembre 1958

A shady lawyer protects a false heir to a fortune-- by killing the real relative! Ballinger is called in to set everything straight.

Première diffusion : 3 octobre 1958

Ballinger goes undercover as an immigrant worker to help break an extortion ring targeting foreigners.

Première diffusion : 10 octobre 1958

Danny Mitchell is trying to find an engagement ring for his girl when he mistaken for a thief by the store owner. A fight convinces him he has killed the old man-- as such Danny's on the run! Ballinger is called in to find the kid before he gets into real trouble.

Première diffusion : 24 octobre 1958

Val Mooney, hiding out from the cops, sees the perfect opportunity to evade them. When his wife's brother is killed in a massive warehouse fire, he forces her to identify the body as-- VAL MOONEY.

Première diffusion : 31 octobre 1958

A pair of high-speed motorcycle thugs are robbing gas stations across Chicago. When one attendant gets shot, Ballinger goes undercover as a biker to crack the case.

Première diffusion : 7 novembre 1958

A famous defense attorney is gunned down in his house. Now Ballinger must piece together the clues to find the kille

Première diffusion : 14 novembre 1958

Larry Princeton is the master of bank heists-- he plans then sits back while his thugs pull off the job. Except for the last one-- which resulted in a bank teller's murder! Now Ballinger's after him.

Première diffusion : 21 novembre 1958

Unsuspecting women allow bookmakers to use their telephones in return for payment of $50 per week, but they later learn that their lives will be in danger if they try to get out of the agreement.

Première diffusion : 28 novembre 1958

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Première diffusion : 5 décembre 1958

Widows have something in common. All their husbands were murdered, and all had life insurance policies with double indemnity. And the widows have the same crooked lawyer. Lt. Frank Ballinger suspects a murder for hire scheme.

Première diffusion : 12 décembre 1958

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Première diffusion : 19 décembre 1958

The wife of a brain surgeon is abducted and threatened with death if the surgeon goes ahead with an emergency operation to save a critically injured police witness that can implicate a loan shark in two murders.

Première diffusion : 26 décembre 1958

Young hoodlums use a trade school for criminal purposes.

Première diffusion : 2 janvier 1959

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Première diffusion : 9 janvier 1959

An innocent man will be executed in 48 hours unless Lieutenant Ballinger can convince a socially prominent woman to recant the false testimony that she gave as a result of a ruthless blackmailer's threats.

Première diffusion : 23 janvier 1959

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Première diffusion : 30 janvier 1959

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Première diffusion : 6 février 1959

Frank must solve several connected homicides wherein convicted muggers are being strangled to death.

Première diffusion : 13 février 1959

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Première diffusion : 20 février 1959

Racketeers try to steal profits from a new entertainment establishment run by an old friend of Ballinger.

Première diffusion : 27 février 1959

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Première diffusion : 6 mars 1959

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Première diffusion : 13 mars 1959

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Première diffusion : 20 mars 1959

Lieutenant Ballinger and the FBI have few leads and little time to find a kidnapped socialite with a predilection for visiting jazz clubs. Bound, unattended, and hidden in a condemned building during a cruel Chicago winter, the young woman is in grave danger of dying from injury or exposure before she can be rescued.

Première diffusion : 27 mars 1959

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Première diffusion : 3 avril 1959

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Première diffusion : 10 avril 1959

Detective Ballinger helps investigate a series of arson crimes that are being used to cover up insurance scams.

Première diffusion : 17 avril 1959

Lieutenant Ballinger investigates a possible link between a series of Dark Street purse snatchings and the disappearance of a successful but unhappily married architect.

Première diffusion : 24 avril 1959

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Première diffusion : 1 mai 1959

A former convict and his daughter are being harassed by an old inmate.

Première diffusion : 8 mai 1959

A swimsuit model is found dead in Lake Michigan, but physical evidence indicates the she may not have drowned while swimming. Lieutenant Ballinger becomes convinced that she was murdered after he learns that she was a strong swimmer and an iniquitous individual with a large number of unexplained bank deposits.

Première diffusion : 15 mai 1959

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Première diffusion : 22 mai 1959

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Première diffusion : 29 mai 1959

The M squad is called in after a brutal robbery at the Leslie Fur Salon leaves a man clinging to death. As the investigation progresses, the situation faced by M Squad becomes more and more complex.

Première diffusion : 5 juin 1959

The M Squad become involved when a bank manager laundering illegal money is killed. The situation becomes tangled when a young lady accompanying the bank manager comes forward.

Première diffusion : 12 juin 1959

A seemingly random dockside shooting leads M Squad on a strange investigation involving fur skins and ancient Inca artifacts.

Première diffusion : 19 juin 1959

A D.J threatens to reveal the influence of racketeers in the music industry. Before he can go to air with the information he is gunned down. M squad are brought in to solve the mystery of the death as well as the validity of the information he was going to reveal.

Première diffusion : 26 juin 1959

LT. Frank Ballinger takes a personal interest in a case when the wife of convicted murderer Paul Danzig approaches him for help. Danzig has only 20 hours to live and his wife talks openly of stopping the clock. Ballinger has to figure out what she means, and ensure the right man pays for the crime of murder.

Première diffusion : 3 juillet 1959

M Squad hunts for a bomb before it blows up a hospital. Jonas Blecker, an embittered bank clerk who went to prison for dipping in the till to loan money to depositors down on their luck, wants to commemorate his 1st anniversary as a free man by killing the judge who gave him the maximum sentence. The judge is in Columbus Hospital for a delicate operation and he can't be moved.

Première diffusion : 18 septembre 1959

Mrs Ashton is killed during a house robbery. The M squad are brought in to try and work out what happened. A very open and shut case suddenly becomes exceedingly complex.

Première diffusion : 25 septembre 1959

When a well-liked retired couple is found brutally murdered, evidence points to their curmudgeonly neighbor. Lieutenant Ballinger is initially skeptical of his story, but thorough investigation reveals that things are not always as they seem.

Première diffusion : 2 octobre 1959

The M squad is called in after a series of factory fires occur in the Chicago area. The case become complex after the unusual chemical signature of the fire accelerants is identified.

Première diffusion : 9 octobre 1959

Detective Ballinger is brought in to investigate the murder of night club owner Joe Dalio. The case seems open and cut with a suspect in custody, however Ballinger has just enough doubt to continue the investigation.

Première diffusion : 16 octobre 1959

A bail bondsman's son is kidnapped to force his father to post an $80,000 bond for the release of a murderous extortionist. Lieutenant Ballinger finds himself on a dangerous high-speed boat chase when the culprit attempts to avoid trial (and a likely death sentence) by escaping to Canada.

Première diffusion : 23 octobre 1959

Detective Ballinger is called in after what seems to be a professional hit on a desk clerk at a hotel. A witness identifies who may have done the killing, but Ballinger is concerned he can not find any connection for why the clerk should have been shot.

Première diffusion : 30 octobre 1959

Ballinger is called in to investigate when a burning car is found with the body of a young woman bound with wire inside. The chief suspect, playboy lawyer Paul Crater, seems to have an air tight alibi. Ballinger needs to cast his net wider to solve this mystery.

Première diffusion : 6 novembre 1959

Used car salesman Larry Colman has argument with Art Brunswick, a man who claims to the be the father of Colman's daughter. Colman unearths evidence Brunswick is not who he claims to be leading to a deadly altercation.

Première diffusion : 20 novembre 1959

Ballinger is part of an ongoing investigation into racketeering in the night club industry. After a fight breaks out in a club, Ballinger thinks he might have the break he has been looking for.

Première diffusion : 27 novembre 1959

Harry Conklin is killed while on the way to a secret Senate hearing into stand over tactics in the trucking industry. Suspicion falls heavily on a rival Martin Bodie. It is up to Ballinger to fight through the silence and uncover the truth.

Première diffusion : 4 décembre 1959

Danny Sutton is arrested. During the interview a rookie detective makes a mistake and Sutton gets access to a gun and Ballinger finds himself caught in a tense hostage situation.

Première diffusion : 11 décembre 1959

An armored car is hijacked during a pickup at a government installation. There are surprisingly fews clues left behind by the criminals and Ballinger needs to try and unravel the mystery.

Première diffusion : 18 décembre 1959

A woman and her baby are hospitalized after a group of bank robbers run them down during an escape. Ballinger wants the men for the robbery but more importantly he wants them to pay for what happened to the woman and her baby

Première diffusion : 25 décembre 1959

A witness fingers the gangster who cut a rival in half with a shotgun blast, but the killer's alibied by a beautiful actress. The thesp is beloved in ChiTown and has a sterling rep that'll guarantee acquittal. Lt. Ballinger must discredit her story and find out why Tammy's lying for smarmy hood Sandy, who now controls the Loop liquor racket.

Première diffusion : 1 janvier 1960

Ballinger gets a tip from John Clavell, that an old drug dealer Manny Franchette is coming back into town to re-establish his old network. Clavell wants no part of it having decided to got straight.

Première diffusion : 8 janvier 1960

Herbie Ryder gains fame for stopping a bank robbery. After a media interview he is shot and killed. Ballinger is brought in in the belief that organized crime has ordered the hit.

Première diffusion : 15 janvier 1960

Ballinger is brought in when a robbery and murder occurs at an armory. He is puzzled by the list of weapons stolen including a bazooka and other heavy weapons. He knows they cant sell the weapons, so what is their plan?

Première diffusion : 22 janvier 1960

When an "electronic brain" worth $2,000,000 is stolen and held for ransom of $300,000, Captain Grey and Lieutenant Ballinger devise an elaborate ruse that they hope will lead them to the computer and the thieves.

Première diffusion : 26 janvier 1960

During a crack down on Chicago crime, Bugsy Page makes threats against the Attorney General Russel Madison. Ballinger needs to decide if the threats are real or simply an attempt to throw the man off.

Première diffusion : 2 février 1960

A badly beaten man is admitted to hospital. He does not have long to live and the police need to work fast to solve the mystery. The man appears unremarkable other than being an identical twin of Ballinger.

Première diffusion : 9 février 1960

A trio of bank robbers try to blow a safe. It all goes wrong and one of the criminals is killed in the explosion. Ballinger thinks there is a connection between other bank vault jobs in the area.

Première diffusion : 16 février 1960

Lanny Cord escapes from a court room and disappears. Ballinger is interested in the case because he's originally arrested Cord and had always sworn to kill Ballinger if he had the opportunity.

Première diffusion : 23 février 1960

British racing car driver Morrison is killed in a local race. The driver's chief mechanic presents evidence to M Squad that indicated the car may have been tampered with before the accident.

Première diffusion : 1 mars 1960

Conrad Brenner is found dead in an apparent suicide. As Ballinger continues the investigation it becomes evident that he's actually been murdered, when a personal diary can't be found, Ballinger realizes the truth of the case.

Première diffusion : 8 mars 1960

After a narcotics robbery, Ballinger makes an arrest, but is concerned the collar was too easy. Everything about the arrested person does not seem to add up and Ballinger pushes hard for answers.

Première diffusion : 15 mars 1960

Frank Ballinger becomes involved in a tense hostage situation, he must restrain his instinct to simply shoot it out because of fears their may be a young child involved.

Première diffusion : 22 mars 1960

Ballinger is on a case involving threats against a visiting prince to Chicago. Mo one is taking the situation too seriously until a little girl accidentally finds the detonating device for a home made bomb.

Première diffusion : 29 mars 1960

During a robbery one of the criminals is hit in the eye and blinded. Ballinger has a fair idea who is behind the crime. Urgency increases when news comes through an eye specialist has been kidnapped.

Première diffusion : 5 avril 1960

Lieutenant Ballinger works to solve a series of armed holdups as a means toward the capture of shotgun-wielding Ma Phelan, who murdered a detective while helping her son Pete escape from police custody.

Première diffusion : 12 avril 1960

Ballinger is working a jewelry theft when he becomes convinced one of thieves is a clean skin amateur. He realizes by putting pressure on this individual he has a chance to crack the entire racket open.

Première diffusion : 19 avril 1960

A penny arcade owner is robbed and murdered. Suspision falls on a local peddler. But Ballinger thinks there is more to this case than anyone is admitting.

Première diffusion : 3 mai 1960

A man is killed while sleeping Ballinger begins to investigate and discovers very different opinions about the dead man's character exist.

Première diffusion : 10 mai 1960

Willy Nichols is due to testify in a narcotics investigation, although under police protection he receives a threatening phone call and suddenly disappears. Ballinger must find Nichols to save the case.

Première diffusion : 17 mai 1960

Accompanied by a female reporter, Lieutenant Ballinger investigates an elderly woman's charge that the man who robbed her store and killed a police officer was able to escape as a direct result of Officer George Maxwell's cowardice.

Première diffusion : 24 mai 1960

Sonny Bradley is charged with murder. Ballinger begins to investigate and quickly realizes something is not right about the statements from the witnesses, and starts see a much bigger game being played.

Première diffusion : 31 mai 1960

A plane is blown up killing ten people. Evidence begins to indicate that it wasn't an accident. Ballinger begins to follow the trail and starts to discover a complicated insurance scam in action.

Première diffusion : 7 juin 1960

A bookkeeper is robbed and murdered at a circus. A clown named Laslo is identified as the killer. Ballinger and the rest of M squad have to deal with how Laslo could have committed the crime while performing in front of 5000 people in the main tent.

Première diffusion : 14 juin 1960

Ballinger and M squad are called in to investigate a diamond robbery. All the evidence points to an inside job. M squad have the tough task of working out who was the inside connection.

Première diffusion : 21 juin 1960