The Man Behind the Badge

- Season 2

(1955)

A special investigator exposes two clever racketeers who counterfeit circus tickets and sell them to unsuspecting storekeepers.

Detective Lashley of the Columbus, Ohio police realizes a heroin epidemic is happening in his jurisdiction. Lashley is determined to find the drug suppliers and end the suffering of so many.

Grady Norton, a Florida weatherman, predicts a forceful hurricane about to hit the area. Local businessmen who are dependent on the tourist trade want him to retract his forecast but he refuses.

Policewoman Ruby Barrett of Atlanta, Georgia, comes to the assistance of a girl and prevents her from becoming a murderess.

A detective tries to catch a killer before he murders his "best friend."

An attorney in Vermont hunts the killer of a leathermaker who still used the old, traditional methods.

A state's attorney in Vermont clears a woman of murder charge and finds the real killer.

Two U.S. Immigration agents are sent undercover to Acapulco, Mexico to find the source of forged passports being provided to undesirables seeking to enter the United States.

A series of safe robberies bears the mark of a master safe-cracker known to be in prison.

Portland, Oregon police detectives investigate a series of vicious armed robberies that are perpetrated by a pair of gunmen wearing Halloween masks who hold up small shop owners just before closing time and viciously pistol-whip their victims after rifling the cash register. The police develop a lead that points to denizens of church mission in a rundown portion of town.

A part-time Waterton, Mass., cop takes us around his beat, as he handles stranded cats, noisy parties and a hit-and-run killer.

A cardsharp attempts to ply his trade on a U.S. luxury liner and runs into a plainclothes cop.

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A Food and Drug Administration inspector is after a man carrying a cake that's spiced with arsenic.

The Salt Lake City, Utah, police department are attempting to break up a chain of illegal gambling establishments run by the Syndicate. Although the police manage to knock off most of the dens, they still haven't identified the leader of the gambling ring. Similarly, the crooks haven't found the undercover cop who's supplying the information to the Vice Squad. The cops and crook engage in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse to see who can identify the others' key personnel first.

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Police detectives in Washington D.C. investigate the murder of a pair of security guards working in a downtown department store. Although they quickly identify a suspect, finding him in a large city with plenty of places to hide proves much more difficult.

An arson investigator looking into a series of supposedly accidental fires uncovers evidence that points to a convicted pyromaniac as the culprit--but he's confined to a hospital for the criminally insane.

A small town in the far west is being taken over by a gang of crooks who are trying to pressure the residents into voting them into office. The local sheriff tries old west tactics to fight them.

A warden who doesn't want to see any of his convicts get hurt faces down two inmates who are planning a prison revolt.

While teaching volunteer firemen the latest methods of combating fire, a deputy state fire marshal discovers a case of arson.

The captain of security for a railroad company sends a modern day "Jesse James" to jail.

The female warden of a womans prison struggles to rehabilitate imates but wonders if they are creating career criminals.

Boston's police force investigates a well-organized policy and numbers racket.

A securities investigator goes after a swindler who's selling unregistered stock.

U.S. Post Office investigators pursue gangsters who are using first-class mail for illegal purposes.

Charles Wade led two lives in his effort to combat crime.

Capt. Harold Smith of Nebraska's Highway Patrol has only one clue to a criminal's identity: he's a fashionable dresser.

Warden Supervisor H.N. Taylor went hunting for dangerous game and found that the hunter can become the hunted.

Jacob H. Gomborow of the Philadelphia Forgery Squad found out that there was nothing busier than a counterfeiter.

Burglary detectives in Manchester, NH, search for a burglar who seems to be able to get through every locked door in town.

Sgt. Nick Van Cina of the Los Angeles Police tackles one of his most unusual cases.

The Chicago police investigate a series of armed robberies perpetrated upon couples parked in lovers lanes with the same modus operandi - the thief steals the boy's wallet and then pistol whips his girlfriend. Since the victims agree that the thug was dressed as a hobo, a vaudevillian turned police officer agrees to go undercover and to see if the thief can be found one of the area's hobo jungles.

A country prosecutor convinces a syndicate of gamblers that the weaker sex can also be the deadlier of the species.

Insurance investigator Frederick P. Schmid finds himself gambling in a game where a man bets $2000 against two years of his life.

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Capt. Osborn, Aircraft Commander of a B-47 Strategic Air Command, found that loyalty was the key to a dangerous mission.

The police chief at a Maryland Naval base must expose a traitor before U.S. security is sabotaged.