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Starring Warner Anderson 
Season 6 (CBS) (1959-60) (60 min)
Episode Guide compiled by The Classic TV Archive
with contributions by:
Tom Alger, Rina Fox , Bob Manfredi , Jeannette Sloniowski, Bob Medina
references:
TV Guide /   Library of Congress (telnet://locis.loc.gov)
Internet Movie Database (https://us.imdb.com)
UCLA Film and Television Archive

 ################ The Line-Up #################
############# season 6 1959-60 ###############
############## (final season) ################
CBS Wednesdays 7:30 pm
18 episodes x 60 min
starring
Warner Anderson as Det. Lt. Ben Guthrie
With:
William Leslie as Inspector Dan Delaney
Tod Barton as Inspector Charlie Summers
Skip Ward as Officer Pete Larkin
Rachel Ames as Policewoman Sandy McAllister

 6.01 [184] The Line-Up: WAKE UP TO TERROR (60min)
Marjeff Production (Copyright Date 29Sep59)
30Sep59 CBS Wed
starring
Warner Anderson ....... Det. Lt. Ben Guthrie
Guest cast:
Jackie Coogan
Marguerite Chapman .... Cara
Dennis Hopper ......... Leighton
Hampton Fancher ....... Rivers
Cindy Robbins ......... Peggy
Synopsis:
A store manager terrorized by three psychopaths out for kicks.[RF]

6.02 [185] The Line-Up: THE STRANGE RETURN OF ARMY ARMITAGE (60min)
Marjeff Production (Copyright Date 06Oct59)
07Oct59 CBS Wed
starring
Warner Anderson ....... Det. Lt. Ben Guthrie
Guest cast:
Jack Lord ............. Army Armitage
Steven Hill ........... Joey
Kim Hunter ............ Sister Angelo
Whit Bissell .......... Maxwell
Synopsis:
Army Armitage just served a prison term for his brother. Now he may have to repeat the performance. [RF]
Synopsis 2:
Army (Jack Lord), released from prison after serving time for a crime committed by his brother Joey (Steve Hill),
becomes chief suspect in a murder he witnessed. He is disillusioned when he finds that his sweetheart
Angela (Kim Hunter) has become a nun. [TA / 08Jan1960 The Melbourne Age newspaper]

6.03 [186] The Line-Up: MY SON IS A STRANGER (60min)
Marjeff Production (Copyright Date 13Oct59)
14Oct59 CBS Wed 7:30pm (New York)
starring
Warner Anderson ....... Det. Lt. Ben Guthrie
Guest cast:
Frank Silvera ......... Papa Vanetti
Robert Morris ......... Vince Vanetti
Penny Santon .......... Mama Vanetti
Vic Morrow ............ Lucas
Synopsis:
During the robbery of their family grocery, Mama Vanetti is killed. Papa
Vanetti suspects that one of his son's friends is the killer, but the boy
insists that his friend could not be guilty. [RF]

6.04 [187] The Line-Up: THE DEATH OF A PUPPET (60min)
Marjeff Production (Copyright Date 20Oct59
21Oct1959 CBS Wed
starring
Warner Anderson ....... Det. Lt. Ben Guthrie
Guest Cast:
Paul Winchell
Jacques Aubuchon
Marilyn Erskine ....... Kathy
Ron Hayes ............. Big Phil
Walter Burke .......... Blinky
Daniele Aubry ......... Cigarette Girl
Synopsis:
Suspicion falls on a nightclub entertainer when his conniving agent is murdered.

6.05 [188] The Line-Up: EDGE OF DISASTER (a.k.a "Thrills") (60min)
Marjeff Production (Copyright Date 27Oct59)
28Oct1959 CBS Wed
starring
Warner Anderson ....... Det. Lt. Ben Guthrie
Guest Cast:
Peggy Ann Garner ...... Yvonne
Rick Jason ............ Clark
Diane Brewster ........ Mary Anne
Thomas B. Henry ....... Lupi
Barney Bird ........... Phil
Kathryn Card .......... Fannie
Synopsis 1:
Two San Francisco post-debs decide that society life is boring and set  out to find some "thrills". [RF]
Synopsis 2:
Boredom drives two society girls into trying something new: robbery followed by murder. [RF]

6.06 [189] The Line-Up: PRELUDE TO VIOLENCE (60min)
Marjeff Production (Copyright Date 03Nov59)
04Nov1959 CBS Wed
starring
Warner Anderson ....... Det. Lt. Ben Guthrie
Guest cast:
Robert Vaughn ......... Bart Wade
Beverly Tyler ......... Julie
Tom Tully ............. Greb
Robert Palmer ......... Quine
Ed Prentiss ........... Goode
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William Leslie ........ Inspector Dan Delaney (recurring)
Tod Barton ............ Inspector Charlie Summers (recurring)
Rachel Ames ........... Policewoman Sandy McCallister (recurring)
Skip Ward ............. Officer Pete Larkin (recurring)
Synopsis 1:
Bart Wade, a young bachelor, falls in love. His poverty hurts his chances
of winning the girl, so he turns to robbery. [RF]
Synopsis 2:
A man becomes a bank robber to impress the girl (Beverly Tyler) he loves. [RF]

6.07 [190] The Line-Up: RUN TO THE CITY (60min)
Marjeff Production (Copyright Date 10Nov59)
starring
Warner Anderson ....... Det. Lt. Ben Guthrie
Guest Cast:
Susan Oliver .......... Laurie
Jonathan Gilmore ...... Robert Simpson
K.T. Stevens .......... Ellie
Johnny Seven .......... Arnold
Tommy Cook ............ Jacques
Dean Stanton .......... Alfie
Michael Vandever
Synopsis:
Bad luck pursues teen-age newlyweds whose attempts to lead decent lives
are thwarted by dope pushers. [RF]

6.08 [191] The Line-Up: LONESOME AS MIDNIGHT (60min)
Marjeff Production (Copyright Date 17Nov59)
18Nov1959 CBS Wed
Written by Ken Kolb
Directed by Paul Henreid
starring
Warner Anderson ....... Det. Lt. Ben Guthrie
Guest Cast:
Fred Beir ............. Boyd Kincaid
Nita Talbot ........... Donna
James Best ............ Rhodes
George Breslin ........ Haller
Jud DeNaut ............ Voss
Robert Ellenstein ..... Hess
Henry Corden .......... Corvin
Synopsis:
Jazz musician Boyd Kincaid plots a fiendish fate for a rival in love. [RF]

6.09 [192] The Line-Up: THE COUNTERFEIT CITIZENS (60 min)
Marjeff Production (Copyright Date 02Dec59)
02Dec1959 CBS Wed
starring
Warner Anderson ....... Det. Lt. Ben Guthrie
Guest Cast:
Chana Eden ............ Tina
Fabrizio Mioni ........ Henry
Lawrence Dobkin ....... Tyler
George Wallace ........ Dickens
Vici Raaf ............. Madge
Synopsis:
Con men swindle two European ship workers who want to become U.S.
citizens and are willing to pay for the privilege. [RF]

6.10 [193] The Line-Up: CHINATOWN STORY (60min)
Marjeff Production (Copyright Date 08Dec59)
09Dec1959 CBS Wed
starring
Warner Anderson ....... Det. Lt. Ben Guthrie
Guest Cast:
Neva Aki
Mark Damon
Charles Horvath ....... Hanna
Clarence Lung ......... Willy
Peter Chong ........... George
Synopsis:
A Chinese girl (Neva Aki) is torn between love and a sense of justice
when her American boyfriend (Mark Damon) asks her to help him escape a murder charge. [RF]

6.11 [194] The Line-Up: THE VENGEFUL KNIFE (60min)
Marjeff Production (Copyright Date 15Dec59)
16Dec1959 CBS Wed
starring
Warner Anderson ....... Det. Lt. Ben Guthrie
Guest cast:
Vic Morrow ............ Hansen
John Darren ........... Vezey
Tom Tully ............. Greb
Gavin Muir ............ Bartlett
Jonathan Kidd ......... Linden
Robert H. Harris ...... Scofield
Jacqueline de Wit ..... Martha
Leigh Snowden ......... Helen
Synopsis 1:
Two boys are college students by day and burglars by night. When one of
the youths is found dead, police suspect the other of murder. [RF]
Synopsis 2:
A poison-coated dagger starts a chain of underworld deaths when it is
stolen from an art collector. [RF]

6.12 [195] The Line-Up: PEG LEG'S WIFE CASE (60min)
Marjeff Production (Copyright Date 29Dec59)
23Dec1959 CBS Wed
starring
Warner Anderson ....... Det. Lt. Ben Guthrie
Guest cast:
Phyllis Avery
Richard Ney ........... Dave
Jil Jarmyn ............ Julie
June Vincent .......... Linda
Larry Blake ........... Comstock
Nolan Leary ........... McCarrity
Victor Rodman ......... Pop
Billie Bird ........... Waitress
Jan Brooks ............ Scottie
Tom Tully ............. Greb
Robert Palmer ......... Quine
Synopsis:
A swindler's wife refuses to shield him when he murders one of his victims. [RF]

6.13 [196] The Line-Up: PRINCE OF PENMAN (60min)
Marjeff Production (Copyright Date 05Jan60)
30Dec1959 CBS Wed
Guest cast:
Paul Lambert .......... Mark Sherman
Nancy Gates ........... Irene Maynard
Marie Windsor ......... Myra Woodman
Josephine Hutchinson .. Mrs. Maynard
Synopsis:
Mark Sherman romances Irene Maynard, who is not aware that Mark is
the mastermind of a forgery plot and that he intends to involve her unwittingly in the scheme. [RF]

6.14 [197] The Line-Up: WOMAN ON THE LEDGE (60min)
Marjeff Production (Copyright Date 12Jan60)
13Jan1960 CBS Wed
starring
Warner Anderson ....... Det. Lt. Ben Guthrie
Guest cast:
Byron Russell
Virginia Vincent ...... Ruth
Joe Maross ............ The Reverend Mr. Thompson
Constance Moore ....... Eve
Harry Bartell ......... Danzig
Paul Bryan ............ Grover
Claude Stroud ......... Kranett
Synopsis:
Police search for a runaway boy (Byron Russell), the only person who
can stop his mother from jumping off a window ledge. [RF]

6.15 [198] The Line-Up: SEVEN SINNERS (60min)
Marjeff Production (Copyright Date 19Jan60)
20Jan1960 CBS Wed
starring
Warner Anderson ....... Det. Lt. Ben Guthrie
Guest cast:
Barbara Turner ........ Eleanor Larsen
Clu Gulager ........... Fleming
Richard Shannon ....... Broderick
J.M. Kerrigan ......... Rafferty
Alan Dexter ........... Pacelli
Synopsis:
Pregnant Eleanor Larsen, searching for her runaway husband, discovers that he is wanted for murder. [RF]

6.16 [199] The Line-Up: THE ROSARIC CASE (60min)
Marjeff Production (Copyright Date 05Apr60)
starring
Warner Anderson ....... Det. Lt. Ben Guthrie
Guest cast:
Robert McQueeney
Audrey Totter ......... Mary
Miriam Colon .......... Anna
Don Gordon ............ Joe
John C. Bleifer ....... Rosaric
Joseph Turkel ......... Losier
Mimi Simpson .......... Miss Harris
Synopsis:
Two students lure a married teacher into a vicious web of blackmail and murder. [RF]

6.17 [200] The Line-Up: THE DEADLY ROMEO CASE (60min)
Marjeff Production (Copyright Date 08Apr60)
starring
Warner Anderson ....... Det. Lt. Ben Guthrie
Guest cast:
Jan Brooks ............ Scottie
Tom Tully ............. Greb
Harry Townes .......... Hansen
Robert Palmer ......... Quine
Natalie Schafer ....... Amanda
Owen Bush ............. Delaney
Synopsis:
Policewoman Scottie poses as a widow to trap a murderer who preys on lonely women. [RF]

6.18 [201] The Line-Up: THE KING CON CASE (60min) (final episode)
Marjeff Production (Copyright Date 14Apr60)
starring
Warner Anderson ....... Det. Lt. Ben Guthrie
Guest cast:
Jeanette Nolan ........ Annie Dugan
John McIntire ......... Dugan
Tom Charlesworth ...... Jansen
Hal Smith ............. Loan Company Manager
James Nusser .......... Martin
Jewel Lain ............ Girl
Ted Stanhope .......... Victim
Tom Tully ............. Greb
Jan Brooks ............ Scottie
Robert Palmer ......... Quine
Synopsis:
Compulsive pickpocket Annie Dugan forces her timid husband into a life of crime. [RF]

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