1.11 [--] Wire Service: THE DEEP END
12Dec56 ABC Thursday 9:00 pm
Tonight Starring: George Brent (as Dean Evans)
Guest Cast:
Margaret Hayes ....... Mary Carberry
Edd Byrnes
Gene Evans
Larry Pennell ........ Johnny
Synopsis 1:
A routine obituary leads Dean Evans to investigate the son of a prominent
businessman. [RF]
Synopsis 2:
A teenager in a sinister hot rod stalks victims on the road and murders
them! Boys will be boys!
Synopsis 3:
Dean Evans files what he thinks is a routine obituary concerning a football
player, then runs into an old friend who gives him a completely new and
puzzling slant on the story. [RF]
1.12 [--] Wire Service: HIGH ADVENTURE
20Dec56 ABC Thurs 9:00 pm
Tonight Starring: Mercedes McCambridge (as Kate Wells)
Guest Cast:
Michael Landon ....... Pietro
Scott Marlowe ........ Ricci
Howard McNear ........ Caldwell
John Beradino ........ Pallavicino
Sarah Selby .......... Mrs. Caldwell
Jan Arvan ............ Innkeeper
Julio Sebastian ...... D'Azeglio
Synopsis:
Kate Wells is on hand in Italy when a wealthy American's wife is abducted
and held for ransom. [TD]
Synopsis 2:
Kate (Mercedes McCambridge), vacationing in Italy, acts as go-between
for an American and the bandits who kidnapped his wife. [RF]
[--] 27Dec56 ABC Thur 9:00 pm Rerun of #1.1 "The
Blood Rock Mine (first aired 4Oct56)
1.13 [--] Wire Service: CHICAGO EXCLUSIVE
03Jan57 ABC Thurs 9:00 pm
Tonight Starring: George Brent (as Dean Evans)
Guest Cast:
Vaughn Taylor ........ Hugh Saxton
Ainslie Pryor ........ Leo Halliday
Fay Spain ............ Peggy
Craig Hill ........... Dave Elsmore
Phillip Terry ........ Phil Tennant
Ray Teal ............. Captain Gorman
H.M. Wynant .......... Johnny Dukes
Arthur Marshall
Synopsis:
The police get a tip on a killer from Evans (George Brent), but Evans
refuses to reveal his source. [RF]
1.14 [--] Wire Service: WORLD OF THE LONELY
10Jan57 ABC Thursday 9:00 pm
Tonight Starring: Mercedes McCambridge (as Kate Wells)
Guest Cast:
Robert Cornthwaite
Virginia Gregg
Carla Merey
Synopsis:
Reporter Kate Wells is sent to a Canadian hospital to test the effects of a
new drug which produces artificial schizophrenia. While under the influence
of the drug, Kate believes she sees a woman trying to commit suicide. [RF]
1.15 [--] Wire Serice: THE THIRD INEVITABLE
17Jan57 ABC Thursday 9:00 pm
Tonight Starring: Dane Clark (as Dan Miller)
Guest Cast:
Steve Terrell
Synopsis 1:
Dan Miller is assigned to accompany a group of Army draftees through
basic training. [RF]
Synopsis 2:
Working on a story, Dan Miller (Dane Clark) enters basic training with
a recruit (Steve Terrell) who then promptly goes AWOL. [RF]
(*Rebroadcasted in syndication as "Deadline for Action" 05Apr59.)
1.16 [--] Wire Service: FLOWERS FOR THE GENERAL
24Jan57 ABC Thur 9:00 pm
Tonight Starring: George Brent (as Dean Evans)
Guest Cast:
Reynaldo Rivera .......... Dictator
Julio Villarreal ......... Segura
Angelica Ortiz Hartman ... Angelica
Synopsis:
Someone is trying to kill a Central American dictator at a Mexico
City bullfight. [RF]
1.17 [--] Wire Service: THE COMEBACK
31Jan57 ABC Thurs 9:00 pm
Tonight Starring: Mercedes McCambridge (as Kate Wells)
Guest Cast:
Bart Burns ........... Paul
John Smith ........... Howie
Synopsis:
Kate (Mercedes McCambridge) tries to prevent an ailing boxer from being
pushed into a fight by his ambitious brother. [RF]
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"Wire Service" moves to ABC Mondays
7:30pm EST
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1.18
[--] Wire Service:
ATOM AT SPITHEAD (60 min) (filmed in the UK with
UK guest cast)
11Feb57 ABC Mon 7:30 pm
Screenplay by Frederic Brady
Directed by Lance Comfort
Tonight Starring:
Dane Clark (as Dan Miller)
guest cast:
Robert Beatty .......... John Templar
Veronica Hurst ......... Beth Templar
John Chandos ........... Captain of foreign ship
Richard Caldicot ....... Lord Belding
Russell Napier ......... Admiral Habberfield
Howard Marion-Crawford . MacKenna
Brian Oulton ........... Kenver
Clifford Evans ......... Air Marshal Fraylie
Seymour Green .......... Reception Clerk
George Pravda .......... The Visitor
Leslie Phillips ........ Keynes
David Aylmer ........... Ransley
Eric Lander ............ Radburn
Synopsis 1:
"Trans-Globe" reporter Dan Miller (Dane Clark) is alerted by his friend, John
Templar, who has reason to believe an atom bomb may be exploded during a Navy
review attended by government leaders and the Royal Family. Fearing that the
admiralty is not taking enough precautionary measures, Dan and his friend give
their close attention to the problem.
(UK airdates: 09Dec61 ITV ATV London/ ITV Tyne-Tees , Sat 8:30 pm)
Synopsis 2:
Miller (Dane Clark) covers a British Naval review that may be a bomb
target. [RF]
1.19 [--] Wire Service: EL HOMBRE
18Feb57 ABC Mon 7:30 pm (rerun 20Jul57)
Adapted by Frederic Brady
From a story by Richard Bluel & M.L. Lynn
Tonight Starring: George Brent (as Dean Evans)
Guest Cast:
Reinaldo Rivera .......... General Dadriz
Angelica Ortiz Hartman ... Angelica
Julio Villarreal ......... Segura
Eduardo Noriega .......... Murillo
Rafael Alcayde ........... El Hombre
Claude Brook ............. Tinsdale
Elvira Quintana .......... Mrs. Ortega
Synopsis 1:
Reporter Dean Evans gets a tip that the assassination of a Central American
dictator may take place during a bullfight in Mexico City. He flies to
Mexico City to cover the story and see whether there's any way of
stopping the murder. [RF]
Synopsis 2:
Reporter Dean Evans is sent to Mexico to cover the visit of the dictator
of a South American country. Instead of interviewing the general, he
gets involved with a little girl who is carrying flowers to the visitor. [RF]
Synopsis 3:
Evans' friend is behind a plot to overthrow a Latin-American governor---
and Dean Evans (George Brent) has to cover the story. [RF]
1.20 [--] Wire Service: PROFILE OF ELLEN GALE
25Feb57 ABC Mon 7:30 pm
Written by John Copeland
Tonight Starring: Mercedes McCambridge (as Kate Wells)
Guest Cast:
Beverly Garland ....... Ellen Gale
Michael Pate .......... Lansing
Synopsis:
While reporter Kate Wells (Mercedes McCambridge) is writing a series of stories
on an old time movie queen, she gets a frantic call from the actress. Kate
hurries
to the woman's apartment, but finds her dead. [RF]
Synopsis 2:
Kate (Mercedes McCambridge) tries to solve the murder of an ex-movie
star Ellen Gale. [RF]
1.21 [--] Wire Service: DATELINE LAS VEGAS
04Mar57 ABC Mon 7:30 pm
written by Al C. Ward
Tonight Starring Dane Clark (as Dan Miller)
Guest Cast:
Carolyn Jones ........ Eve
Douglas Spencer ...... Mason
Adam Williams ........ Wells
William Phipps
Synopsis:
A holdup gang successfully hijacks a construction payroll from a truck.
Later some of the stolen money turns up in Las Vegas, and reporter Dan
Miller is sent there to cover the story. [RF]
Synopsis 2:
A holdup gang hijacks a payroll from a truck---and some of the loot
later turns up in Las Vegas. [RF]
1.22 [--] Wire Service: FORBIDDEN GROUND
11Mar57 ABC Mon 7:30 pm
Tonight Starring:
George Brent (as Dean Evans)
Guest Cast:
Barton MacLane ....... General Bailey
Terry Becker ......... Logan Bailey
Synopsis 1:
Reporter Dean Evans is sent to a Georgia Army camp to cover the story
of a tragedy. A sergeant and his squad members took a shortcut across
an unused firing range. All of them were killed by a sudden volley
of shells. [RF]
Synopsis 2:
An entire squad at a Georgia Army camp is mysteriously shot down on an
unused firing range. [RF]
1.23 [--] Wire Service: NO PEACE IN LO DAO
18Mar57 ABC Mon 7:30 pm
Tonight
Starring: Mercedes McCambridge (as Kate Wells)
Guest Cast:
Robert Kino ........... Satsuma
Keye Luke ............. Young General
Morris Ankrum ......... Professor Fortner
Vladimir Sokoloff ..... Prime Minister
Synopsis:
Reporter Kate Wells is sent to a small Asiatic country to write a story
about the attempted assassination of the prime minister of Lo Dao.
Civil war seems imminent when a young general of the country comes to be
suspected of having a part in the plot. [RF]
1.24 [--] Wire Service: A MATTER OF CONSCIENCE
25Mar57 ABC Mon 7:30 pm
Starring: Dane Clark (as Dan Miller)
Guest Cast:
Albert Morin ......... Dino Bertoni
Stuart Randall ....... Lt. Patch
Oliver McGowan ........ Jack MacKellar
Synopsis 1:
Police Reporter Jack MacKellar, a good friend of Dan Miller's
is killed, and a tailor who saw the shooting identifies the gunman.
In court, however, he changes his mind about the identification,
and Miller begins attacking him in print. [RF]
Synopsis 2:
An eyewitness to a reporter's murder identifies the killer---but then
changes his mind in court. [RF]
1.25 [--] Wire Service: MISFIRE
01Apr57 ABC Mon 7:30 pm
Tonight Starring:
George Brent (as Dean Evans)
Guest Cast:
Roy Roberts .......... Sheriff Charles McMahon
Don Kelly ............ Mark Thomas
Rebecca Welles ....... Julia Thomas (Orson Welles' daughter)
Synopsis 1:
Reporter Dean Evans investigates the reason for a movie star's unpopularity in
his home town. Then a man is killed and the star is blamed for the murder. [RF]
Synopsis 2:
A movie star needs Dean Evans' help: he has been accused of murder. [RF]
1.26 [--] Wire Service: THE INDICTMENT
08Apr57 ABC Mon 7:30 pm
Tonight Starring: Mercedes McCambridge (as Kate Wells)
Guest Cast:
Rhodes Reason ........ Huntley
Whitney Blake ........ Geraldine
Harold J. Stone ...... Paulson
Synopsis:
Kate (Mercedes McCambridge) investigates a bank president charged with
embezzlement. [RF]
1.27 [--] Wire Service: NINETY AND NINE
15Apr57 ABC Mon 7:30 pm
Tonight Starring: Dane Clark (as Dan Miller)
Guest Cast:
Malcom Atterbury
Donald Randolph
Synopsis:
Shipwreck survivors are helped to safety by a man in black who then
mysteriously disappears. [RF]
1.28 [--] Wire Service: THE OIL MAN
22Apr57 ABC Mon 7:30 pm
Tonight Starring:
George Brent (as Dean Evans)
Guest Cast:
Harry Carey Jr. ...... Steve Ward
Emlen Davies ......... Edith Ames
Harry Shannon ........ Harris Ellerby
Synopsis:
A trio of bandits, wearing Halloween maskes, robs the oil refinery of
wildcatter tycoon Harris Ellerby. They make off with a huge payroll.
Dean Evans arrives to cover the story and finds that an old wartime
buddy is suspected of having a part in the robbery. [RF]
1.29 [--] Wire Service: RUN, SHEEP, RUN
29Apr57 ABC Mon 7:30 pm
Tonight Starring: Mercedes McCambridge (as Kate Wells)
Guest Cast:
Don Beddoe ........... Raisner
James Lydon .......... Harris
Parley Baer .......... Hogarth
Stevan Darrell ....... Spencer
Synopsis:
Kate (Mercedes McCambridge) aids a farmer duped by townspeople when
uranium is discovered on his land. [RF]
1.30 [--] Wire Service:
THE DEATH MERCHANT (filmed in the UK with UK
guest cast)
6May57 ABC Mon 7:30 pm
Tonight Starring:
Dane Clark (as Dan Miller)
guest cast:
Anton Diffring ........ Joseph Tezlik
Carle Jaffe ........... Premier Paul Eliscu
Jane Griffiths ........ Nadia Eliscu
Peter Illing .......... ???
Sandra Dorne ......... Francesca
Lilly Kahn ........... Drozshka
George Margo
Synopsis:
Premier Paul Eliscu retires after twenty-five years service and hands over
to a younger man Tezlik. A short time later, riots break out in the country
which for fifty years, had remained at peace. The "Trans-Globe" Wire Service
sends its ace reporter Dan Miller (Dane Clark), to find what has happened.
(UK Synd: 02Dec61 ITV Tyne-Tees, Sat 8:30pm)
Synopsis 2:
An ex-Nazi munitions manufacturer (Peter Illing) is behind a movement
to overthrow a Balkan government. [RF]
1.31 [--] Wire Service: VIOLENCE PREFERRED
13May57 ABC Mon 7:30 pm
Tonight Starring: George Brent (as Dean Evans)
Guest cast:
Royal Dano ........... Carl Strawn
Mary Young ........... Nellie
Raymond Greenleaf .... Clinton
William Challee ...... Dill
Louis Jean Heydt ..... Benton
Paul Fix ............. Thompson
Synopsis:
Arsonist Carl Strawn, recently released from prison, is accused of
murdering several members of the jury.[RF]
1.32 [--] Wire Service: THE LAST LAUGH
20May57 ABC Mon 7:30 pm
Tonight Starring: Mercedes McCambridge (as Kate Wells)
Guest cast:
Ann Codee ............ Cecile
Robert Hutton ........ Hannon
Rodolfo Hoyos ........ De Toledo
Lisa Montell ......... Luisa
Synopsis:
Reporters play a joke on Kate (Mercedes McCambridge) by asking her to
deliver a secret package. Then a smuggler joins the fun. [RF]
1.33 [--] Wire Service: CONFIRM OR DENY
27May57 ABC Mon 7:30 pm
Tonight Starring: Dane Clark (as Dan Miller)
Guest Cast:
Murray Hamilton ........ Frank Lunt
Andrew Duggan .......... Stowe
Barbara Bestar
Synopsis 1:
Dan Miller is summoned to the bedside of a Skid Row derelict who has
been hit by an automobile. [RF]
Synopsis 2:
Dan Miller (Dane Clark) discovers that someone is trying to murder an
ex-newspaperman who has become a skid-row derelict. [TD]
1.34 [--] Wire Service: FOUR MINUTES TO SHOT
03Jun57 ABC Mon 7:30 pm
Tonight Starring: George Brent (as Dean Evans)
Guest Cast:
Victor Millan ....... Peres
Virginia Core ....... Consuela
Synopsis:
Dean Evans (George Brent), covering an atom-bomb test, learns that a Mexican
national is hiding in the restricted area. [RF]
1.35 [--] Wire Service: THE WASHINGTON STARS aka THE WASHINGTON STORY
(copyright title)
10Jun57 ABC Mon 7:30 pm
Tonight Starring: Mercedes McCambridge (as Kate Wells)
Guest Cast:
Barry Atwater ........ Weare
Werner Klemperer ..... Krylov
Anthony Eustral ...... Condell
Eugene Borden ........ Charpentier
Synopsis:
Kate (Mercedes McCambridge) defends a man accused of being a traitor to
the United States. [RF]
1.36 [--] Wire Service: A DEATH AT TWIN PINES
17Jun57 ABC Mon 7:30 pm
Tonight Starring: Dane Clark (as Dan Miller)
Guest Cast:
Diane Brewster ...... Mary
James Bell .......... Jackson
Synopsis:
Miller tries to solve the murder of an ex-gangster whose body was found
on a lonely mountain road. [RF]
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Additional Titles on Library of Congress Copyright Notice
Possibly Unaired, or Aired at the start of a proposed
a second season cancelled early
1.37 [--] Wire Service: THE NAMELESS
09Sep57 US copyright date
starring George Brent as Dean Evans
Guest cast:
Philip Pine ......... Fielding
Dennis Holmes ....... David
Synopsis:
A kidnap case complicates Evans' attempts to smash a black-market
adoption racket. [RF]
1.38 [--] Wire Service: REHEARSAL FOR SABOTAGE
16Sep57 US copyright date
starring Dane Clark as Dan Miller
Guest cast:
Richard Shannon ..... Boden
Gloria Talbott ...... Sumiko
George Matusi ....... Toshi
Synopsis:
Miller (Dane Clark), in Japan for an Air Force maneuver, gets involved
with a Eurasian girl who has stolen important documents. [RF]
1.39 [--] Wire Service: ESCAPE TO FREEDOM
23Sep57 US copyright date
Guest cast:
Brian Keith ......... Mike Barnes
Narda Onyx .......... Maria
Shepard Menken ...... Bibi
Lawrence Green ...... Kalmar
Synopsis:
Reporter Mike Barnes (Brian Keith), in Budapest during the Hungarian
Revolution, tries to get his bureau chief out of Hungary. [RF]
[--] Wire Service: Unknown episode
starring Dane Clark as Dan Miller
Synopsis:
Shipwreck survivors are helped to safety by a man in black---who then
mysteriously disappears.
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