M Squad
M Squad
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M Squad

5.2 / 10
1957
3 seasons
117 episodes
CrimeDramaMystery

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

    20-09-195730m

    The 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

    27-09-195730m

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

  • Ep 3

    3.Neighborhood Killer

    04-10-195730m

    The squad hunts down a cop killer.

  • Ep 4

    4.Pete Loves Mary

    11-10-195730m

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

  • Ep 5

    5.Face of Evil

    18-10-195730m

    Ballinger 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

    01-11-195730m

    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 s...

  • Ep 7

    7.The Matinee Trade

    08-11-195730m

    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 bec...

  • Ep 8

    8.The Hard Case

    15-11-195730m

    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...

  • Ep 9

    9.Killer in Town

    22-11-195730m

    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 k...

  • Ep 10

    10.Diamond Hard

    29-11-195730m

    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 g...

  • Ep 11

    11.The Alibi Witness

    06-12-195730m

    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. Bu...

  • Ep 12

    12.The Specialists

    13-12-195730m

    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...

  • Ep 13

    13.Family Portrait

    20-12-195730m

    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...

  • Ep 14

    14.The Palace Guard

    27-12-195730m

    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 as...

  • Ep 15

    15.The Slow Trap

    03-01-195830m

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

  • Ep 16

    16.The Cover Up

    10-01-195830m

    District 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

    17-01-195830m

    The 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

    24-01-195830m

    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 ale...

  • Ep 19

    19.The Shakedown

    31-01-195830m

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

  • Ep 20

    20.Dolly's Bear

    07-02-195830m

    Kathy 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

    14-02-195830m

    Ballinger investigates a murder with multiple motives.

  • Ep 22

    22.The Frightened Wife

    21-02-195830m

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

  • Ep 23

    23.The Black Mermaid

    28-02-195830m

    Ballinger goes undercover to capture a robbery suspect.

  • Ep 24

    24.The Man in Hiding

    07-03-195830m

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

  • Ep 25

    25.Chicago Bluebeard

    14-03-195830m

    A woman dies. Ballinger investigates.

  • Ep 26

    26.Girl Lost

    21-03-195830m

    A woman loses her memory. Bellinger investigates.

  • Ep 27

    27.Hideout

    28-03-195830m

    Bank robbers hide in a suburban house.

  • Ep 28

    28.Shot in the Dark

    04-04-195830m

    A sniper is terrorizing Chicago. Ballinger joins the hunt.

  • Ep 29

    29.The Twenty-Six Girl

    11-04-195830m

    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 unti...

  • Ep 30

    30.Fight

    10.0
    18-04-195830m

    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...

  • Ep 31

    31.Guilty Alibi

    25-04-195830m

    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.

  • Ep 32

    32.The Healer

    02-05-195830m

    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 a...

  • Ep 33

    33.Day of Terror

    09-05-195830m

    Frank Ballinger investigates a illegal adoption racket.

  • Ep 34

    34.The $20 Plates

    16-05-195830m

    Ballinger investigates a rash of counterfeit $20 bills.

  • Ep 35

    35.The Double Face

    23-05-195830m

    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". Ball...

  • Ep 36

    36.The System

    30-05-195830m

    An 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

    13-06-195830m

    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 c...

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