1x1 - The Long Beach Story (a.k.a. The Smuggling Story)

April 9, 1954

Sharing a taxicab with a ballet dancer leads Lanyard to smuggled rubies and a confrontation with hijackers.

1x2 - The Avalanche Story (a.k.a. The Reno Story)

April 16, 1954

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.

1x3 - The Chinese Story

April 23, 1954

In San Francisco's Chinatown, Mike helps an old friend stop a campaign of intimidation and murder.

1x4 - The Carnival Story

April 30, 1954

In London, Lanyard is investigating threats against the life of a world-famous ballet dancer when she apparently commits suicide.

1x5 - The Blue Lantern Story

May 14, 1954

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.

1x6 - The Ski Story

May 14, 1954

Mike's vacation at a Sun Valley ski lodge is interrupted by murder.

1x7 - Plantation Story

May 21, 1954

Mike is summoned to a sugar plantation in Manila to investigate illegal dumping by a competitor.

1x8 - Pursuit

May 28, 1954

In San Francisco, Mike follows a lead on the man who double-crossed him and murdered his business partner five years ago.

1x9 - The Malibu Story (a.k.a. Malibu-Laguna)

June 4, 1954

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.

1x10 - The Murder Story

June 11, 1954

Mike is asked by a psychiatrist to investigate a patient who claims to have committed a murder but can't remember the details.

1x11 - The Honolulu Story

June 18, 1954

Lanyard goes from New Orleans to Hawaii to discover how rubies and opium are being smuggled in from Hong Kong.

1x12 - Skid Row

July 2, 1954

Lanyard gets a request from Father Picard to make a last-ditch effort to save the life of a prisoner on death row with 36 hours to live.

1x13 - The Arena

July 9, 1954

Mike tries to help an estranged brother and sister, each of whom believes that the other caused the death of their father in a supposedly accidental cave-in.

1x14 - The Karachi Story

July 9, 1954

Mike finds a surprise waiting for him when he goes to Pakistan to protect a religious leader's son whose life has been threatened.

1x15 - The Las Vegas Story

July 16, 1954

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.

1x16 - The Italian Story

July 23, 1954

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.

1x17 - The Hunt

July 30, 1954

Lanyard leaves Mexico but once he arrives back the US he is immediately arrested by the police and put into hospital quarantine. To Lanyards shock he discovers he's been in contact with people who are dying of cholera.

1x18 - The Oil Story

August 6, 1954

Lanyard searches through the oil fields of Oklahoma for a boy kidnapped by his father from his mother's home.

1x19 - The Boy Story

August 13, 1954

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.

1x20 - The Emerald Ring

August 20, 1954

Mike searches the waterfront for Helen Calder, a missing heiress who can be identified by an emerald ring.

1x21 - The Department Store Story

August 27, 1954

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.

1x22 - The Planetarium Story

September 3, 1954

In Mexico, the death of an archaeologist sends Lanyard in search of a treasure in Aztec gold coins.

1x23 - The Art Story

September 10, 1954

Lanyard flies to Los Angeles to clear the name of an old friend, a journalist accused of stealing a priceless Van Gogh painting.

1x24 - The Carlsbad Big Lie Story

September 17, 1954

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.

1x25 - The Last Ballet Story

September 24, 1954

Michael Lanyard comes to the aid of a ballerina who is frightened of threatening letters. Instead of helping her he must solve her death...an apparent suicide.

1x26 - The Beverly Hills Story

October 1, 1954

Mike 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.

1x27 - The Jet Story

October 8, 1954

Mike challenges an aircraft designer plagued by accidents to pilot one of his own planes.

1x28 - The San Francisco Story

October 15, 1954

A woman asks Mike to find out if her husband and their daughter, supposedly killed in a boating accidnet, are still alive.

1x29 - The Savage

October 22, 1954

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.

1x30 - Deep Sea Diving

October 29, 1954

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.

1x31 - The Werewolf Story

November 5, 1954

A lawyer asks Lanyard to protect his client's interests at a castle in the Balkans that seems to be threatened by werewolves.

1x32 - The Stamp Story

November 12, 1954

Mike is hired to locate a stolen rare stamp and return it to its rightful owner.

1x33 - The Minister Story

November 19, 1954

Lanyard comes to the assistance of an old friend, a minister whose life has been threatened.

1x34 - The Robbery Story (a.k.a. Memo: Robbery)

November 26, 1954

A big heist prompts Lanyard to track down an infamous jewel thief.

1x35 - The Wife Story

December 3, 1954

A crazed husband holds Lanyard hostage in a country cottage.

1x36 - The Planetarium Story

January 8, 1955

Lanyard must recover top-secret microfilm that could sabotage a peace conference if it gets into the wrong hands.

1x37 - The San Pedro Story

January 15, 1955

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.

1x38 - The Runaway Story (a.k.a. Death of a Lawyer)

January 22, 1955

Lanyard suspects that a hit-and-run accident was murder.

1x39 - The Newhall Story (a.k.a. Phoenix-Newhall)

January 29, 1955

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.

1x40 - The San Francisco Story

April 30, 1954

When Mike's old friend, a carnival clown, is murdered, he hunts for the killer.

Louis Hayward

Michael Lanyard