

M Squad
Lt. Frank Ballinger is a no-nonsense plain clothes cop in the elite M Squad Division. The Squad's task is to root out organised crime and corruption in America's Second City, Chicago.
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Seasons
- Ep 1
1.The Golden Look
20-09-195730mThe Squad is on the lookout for a bank robbery suspect with a unique feature, witnesses say he has gold teeth.
- Ep 2
2.The Watchdog
27-09-195730mBallinger and the Squad are out to catch a burglar who may have rabies.
- Ep 3
3.Neighborhood Killer
04-10-195730mThe squad hunts down a cop killer.
- Ep 4
4.Pete Loves Mary
11-10-195730mThe squad goes after a jail inmate who's just escaped.
- Ep 5
5.Face of Evil
18-10-195730mBallinger investigates the murders of four women. The victims were all connected to the same church and lived within two miles of each other.
- Ep 6
6.Street of Fear
01-11-195730mChicago 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 s...
- Ep 7
7.The Matinee Trade
08-11-195730mLt. 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 bec...
- Ep 8
8.The Hard Case
15-11-195730mA 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...
- Ep 9
9.Killer in Town
22-11-195730mFrank 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 k...
- Ep 10
10.Diamond Hard
29-11-195730mLt. 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 g...
- Ep 11
11.The Alibi Witness
06-12-195730mWhen 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. Bu...
- Ep 12
12.The Specialists
13-12-195730mWhen 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...
- Ep 13
13.Family Portrait
20-12-195730mWhen 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...
- Ep 14
14.The Palace Guard
27-12-195730mGangster 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 as...
- Ep 15
15.The Slow Trap
03-01-195830mBallinger investigates the case of a security courier who is charged with robbing himself of $75,000.
- Ep 16
16.The Cover Up
10-01-195830mDistrict Attorney Grover calls for Ballinger to help him sort out a potentially embarrassing situation involving the murder of a former business associate.
- Ep 17
17.Blue Indigo
17-01-195830mThe room mate of the third murder victim of the Blue Indigo serial killer may be the only link Ballinger has to catching him.
- Ep 18
18.The Long Ride
24-01-195830mWhen 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 ale...
- Ep 19
19.The Shakedown
31-01-195830mBallinger suspects an inside job when a dry cleaning company refuses to knuckle under to a shakedown mob.
- Ep 20
20.Dolly's Bear
07-02-195830mKathy Bane, an old flame of Ballinger's, needs his help when a blackmailer trying to extort money turns up dead-- in her apartment.
- Ep 21
21.Lover's Lane Killing
14-02-195830mBallinger investigates a murder with multiple motives.
- Ep 22
22.The Frightened Wife
21-02-195830mA man's aunt reports her nephew is missing. Ballinger investigates.
- Ep 23
23.The Black Mermaid
28-02-195830mBallinger goes undercover to capture a robbery suspect.
- Ep 24
24.The Man in Hiding
07-03-195830mBallinger investigates after a bank robber leaves a pencil at the scene.
- Ep 25
25.Chicago Bluebeard
14-03-195830mA woman dies. Ballinger investigates.
- Ep 26
26.Girl Lost
21-03-195830mA woman loses her memory. Bellinger investigates.
- Ep 27
27.Hideout
28-03-195830mBank robbers hide in a suburban house.
- Ep 28
28.Shot in the Dark
04-04-195830mA sniper is terrorizing Chicago. Ballinger joins the hunt.
- Ep 29
29.The Twenty-Six Girl
11-04-195830mA 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 unti...
- Ep 30
30.Fight
10.018-04-195830mA 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...
- Ep 31
31.Guilty Alibi
25-04-195830mA 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.
- Ep 32
32.The Healer
02-05-195830mLieutenant 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 a...
- Ep 33
33.Day of Terror
09-05-195830mFrank Ballinger investigates a illegal adoption racket.
- Ep 34
34.The $20 Plates
16-05-195830mBallinger investigates a rash of counterfeit $20 bills.
- Ep 35
35.The Double Face
23-05-195830mA 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". Ball...
- Ep 36
36.The System
30-05-195830mAn illegal roving casino eludes the police and cheats players with crooked games. When Ballinger investigates, he encounters additional, unforeseen threats.
- Ep 37
37.Woman from Paris
06-06-195830m - Ep 38
38.Accusation
13-06-195830mA 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 c...
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