Season 1 (1954)
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Episodes 39
The Long Beach Story (a.k.a. The Smuggling Story)
Sharing a taxicab with a ballet dancer leads Lanyard to smuggled rubies and a confrontation with hijackers.
Read MoreThe Avalanche Story (a.k.a. The Reno Story)
Visiting Reno to find a woman who supposedly died during the war, Mike is implicated in the death of two government couriers and ends up on a stalled train looking for stolen explosives.
Read MoreThe Chinese Story
In San Francisco's Chinatown, Mike helps an old friend stop a campaign of intimidation and murder.
Read MoreThe Carnival Story
In London, Lanyard is investigating threats against the life of a world-famous ballet dancer when she apparently commits suicide.
Read MoreThe Blue Lantern Story
Lanyard is recruited by the Govt. to find out where all the top criminals have been disappearing to. He is to contact an agent named Anson is New York. Upon contact Anson is killed and the only lead he leaves Lanyard is key to the Blue Lantern dance hall. The attempt to infiltrate fails and his next gamble takes him to the Blue Lantern in New Orleans where he is more successful and the final key to the puzzle leads him to the Copper Mountain Lodge in Nevada.
Read MoreThe Ski Story
Mike's vacation at a Sun Valley ski lodge is interrupted by murder.
Read MorePlantation Story
Mike is summoned to a sugar plantation in Manila to investigate illegal dumping by a competitor.
Read MoreThe Malibu Story (a.k.a. Malibu-Laguna)
A weekend party in Malibu takes an ominous turn when the host's diamonds are stolen and the dead body of his wife washes up on the beach.
Read MoreThe Murder Story
Mike is asked by a psychiatrist to investigate a patient who claims to have committed a murder but can't remember the details.
Read MoreThe Honolulu Story
Lanyard goes from New Orleans to Hawaii to discover how rubies and opium are being smuggled in from Hong Kong.
Read MoreThe Karachi Story
Mike finds a surprise waiting for him when he goes to Pakistan to protect a religious leader's son whose life has been threatened.
Read MoreThe Las Vegas Story
In this first episode of the series Lanyard arrives in Las Vegas on vacation, where he gets involved with a cop and his brother who is wanted for murder.
Read MoreThe Italian Story
Lanyard travels to Chicago when he receives an urgent note from Joey Crocetti. A war time buddy who saved Lanyard in Italy during the war. Lanyard discovers Joey is on the run from the police, and he sets out to try to prove his friend innocent.
Read MoreThe Oil Story
Lanyard searches through the oil fields of Oklahoma for a boy kidnapped by his father from his mother's home.
Read MoreThe Boy Story
Lanyard takes a vacation. While enjoying his boat a young boy tries to sell him a gun. Before he knows it he is in a life and death struggle against forces he didn't even realize were active.
Read MoreThe Emerald Ring
Mike searches the waterfront for Helen Calder, a missing heiress who can be identified by an emerald ring.
Read MoreThe Department Store Story
Discovering that a recently deceased man's greedy children are looking for a fortune that he hid before he died, Mike decides to make sure that the money goes to his beloved housekeeper instead.
Read MoreThe Planetarium Story
In Mexico, the death of an archaeologist sends Lanyard in search of a treasure in Aztec gold coins.
Read MoreThe Runaway Story
Lanyard flies to Los Angeles to clear the name of an old friend, a journalist accused of stealing a priceless Van Gogh painting.
Read MoreThe Honolulu Story
In New Mexico, Lanyard is worried about an old friend who claims to have seen a flying saucer and that it's not just one of his tall tales.
Read MoreMike registers at his favorite Beverly Hills hotel only to find that a con artist posing as his wife has already checked in, but goes along with the gag to find out what her game is.
Read MoreThe Stamp Story
Mike challenges an aircraft designer plagued by accidents to pilot one of his own planes.
Read MoreThe Plantation Story
A woman asks Mike to find out if her husband and their daughter, supposedly killed in a boating accidnet, are still alive.
Read MoreThe Stock Story
Mike visits a South Pacific island to find out why an old friend has apparently resurrected a barbaric native ritual involving fire-walking, shrunken heads, and murder.
Read MoreDeep Sea Diving
Mike is asked to help an old friend, a deep sea diver accused of helping pirates steal the silver that was about to be salvaged from a sunken wreck.
Read MoreThe Werewolf Story
Mike is hired to locate a stolen rare stamp and return it to its rightful owner.
Read MoreThe Oil Story
Lanyard comes to the assistance of an old friend, a minister whose life has been threatened.
Read MoreA big heist prompts Lanyard to track down an infamous jewel thief.
Read MoreThe Ski Story
A crazed husband holds Lanyard hostage in a country cottage.
Read MoreThe Juarez-Karachi Story
Lanyard must recover top-secret microfilm that could sabotage a peace conference if it gets into the wrong hands.
Read MoreThe San Pedro Story
Mike is given a ticket on a cruise ship returning from the Orient to determine the truth behind rumors that a playboy king is smuggling a fortune in jewels from his country into the U.S.
Read MoreThe Beverly Hills Story
Lanyard suspects that a hit-and-run accident was murder.
Read MoreThe Newhall Story (a.k.a. Phoenix-Newhall)
When Mike's millionaire friend, a witness to a judge's murder, is killed right in front of him, Mike determines to find the culprits.
Read MoreThe San Francisco Story
When Mike's old friend, a carnival clown, is murdered, he hunts for the killer.
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