Treasury Men in Action: Season 5 - 39 Episode s
5x1 - The Case of the Lonely People
October 7, 1954
5x2 - The Case of the Still Waters
October 14, 1954
A young Federal agent infiltrates a gang of bootleggers whose still is on board a freighter ship.
5x3 - The Case of the Gentleman Cheat
October 21, 1954
As part of his settlement with the IRS, a tax cheat agrees to pay all the money he owes within ten days. However, a suspicious IRS agent believes that the man is going to pay his taxes with yet more money that he has illegally hidden from the government, and sets out to prove his case.
5x4 - The Case of the Tarnished Lady
October 28, 1954
5x5 - The Case of the Man Outside
November 4, 1954
Some ingenious convicts working in a prison's print shop have begun a counterfeiting operation. The shop's foreman is deliberately looking the other way because he's up for parole in two months and wants to stay "clean."
5x6 - The Case of the One Way Ride
November 11, 1954
5x7 - The Case of the Little Tin Box
November 18, 1954
Three people who own a nightclub, where much of the business is on a strictly cash basis, decide to avoid paying income taxes by skimming money from the club.
5x8 - The Case of the Green Feathers
November 25, 1954
Customs agents go after a ring of gangsters who are smuggling rare parrots into the U.S. from Mexico.
5x9 - The Case of the Dangerous Dollars
December 2, 1954
5x10 - The Case of the Escaped Convict
December 9, 1954
5x11 - The Case of the Losing Gamble
December 16, 1954
A racehorse owner proves too clever for his own good. His doctored tax returns are filled with phoney deductions, attracting the attention of the T-men.
5x12 - The Case of the Bad Bargain
December 23, 1954
A Treasury agent goes undercover at an East Coast port to break up an opium smuggling ring.
5x13 - The Case of the Broken Bond
December 30, 1954
Frank Shelby, ailing from heart disease, breaks into a hone at the insistence of his wife and steals government bonds that he signs the names of the recipient to and then cashes himself, thereby pocketing the stolen money.
5x14 - The Case of the Careless Murder
January 6, 1955
5x15 - The Case of the Chartered Chiseler
January 13, 1955
A bus-company owner decides to keep a little extra money for himself by falsely reporting charitable donations as tax deductions. In a case of "poetic justice", he is carried to a Federal penitentiary in one of his own vehicles.
5x16 - The Case of the Iron Curtain
January 20, 1955
A heartless American criminal sees an opportunity to take the troubles of a shaken Holocaust survivor and turn them to his own advantage. He violates the Neutrality Act and ships airplane parts to France for sale to a country behind the Iron Curtain.
5x17 - The Case of the Unfair Verdict
January 27, 1955
5x18 - The Case of the Fatal Error
February 3, 1955
Barney is an old-time gangster who's quickly losing his grip on reality. He leads his gang back into bootlegging, convinced that the prohibition days are still in effect.
5x19 - The Case of the Elder Brother
February 10, 1955
5x20 - The Case of the Princely Pauper
February 17, 1955
Although the feds know that an importer is smuggling expensive Swiss jewelry into the US, they can't discover how he's doing it, despite his being under constant surveillance. They begin an undercover operation, hoping to discover his methods.
5x21 - The Case of the Swindler's Gold
February 24, 1955
5x22 - The Case of the Perfect Crime
March 3, 1955
5x23 - The Case of the Lady in Hiding
March 10, 1955
5x24 - The Case of the Tight Squeeze
March 17, 1955
Customs agents discover large quantities of expensive--and undeclared--Cuban perfumes that are flooding the market. They soon discover a criminal ring that has a clever plan for smuggling the goods from Cuba into the US.
5x25 - The Case of the Deadly Dilemma
March 24, 1955
Undercover agent Frank Ames poses as a small-time hoodlum and gets himself hired by racketeer Herb Kerry. His mission is to uncover information on the criminal's counterfeiting operation. Kerry gets suspicious because of all the questions Ames asks and gives him a job to prove he's not a cop: to carry out a "hit".
5x26 - The Case of the Black Sheep
March 31, 1955
After becoming interested in mobster's girl, the son of a sugar distributor gets hooked up with a gang selling illegal liquor.
5x27 - The Case of the Buried Treasure
April 7, 1955
Paul Lacosta buries his profit from running a gambling den in the backyard to avoid paying taxes. After five years of incessant haranguing from his wife, he digs up the bills to find they've molded. Against his better judgement, they begin to spend the bills they salvaged which tips off authorities.
5x28 - The Case of the Smuggled Heroin
April 14, 1955
5x29 - The Case of the Steady Hand
April 21, 1955
5x30 - The Case of the Only Son
April 28, 1955
5x31 - The Case of the Man Next Door
May 5, 1955
A somewhat nosy landlady begins to suspect that one of her tenants may be a dangerous loan shark.
5x32 - The Case of the Stolen Watches
May 12, 1955
5x33 - The Case of the Man Trap
May 19, 1955
The Secret Service is onto counterfeiter Russ Bagley who's working for a major crime syndicate. The agency's anonymous tip comes from Russ' girlfriend who's carrying on an affair with Russ' right-hand man, Nick. They figure that if they get him out of the way, they'll be free to carry on their romance and Nick will be promoted by the mob.
5x34 - The Case of the Ready Guns
May 26, 1955
Ben Adams picks up his younger brother, Harry, from prison after a four year sentence and gives him a job in his metal shop. Harry, though, has no intention of "going straight." He hooks up with an old criminal buddy who's heisted five cases of semi-automatics and converts them into fully automatic rifles to sell to mobsters.
5x35 - The Case of the Perfect Gentleman
June 2, 1955
An enterprising crook, who wishes to improve his lot in life, lavishes jewelry on a French female opera singer.
5x36 - The Case of the Shot in the Dark
June 9, 1955
Dangerous criminal Vince Sanderson visits his estranged wife Laura who he abused leaving her with a scar. The treasury men set a trap to capture the low life but endangering the beleaguered spouse.
5x37 - The Case of the Betrayed Artist
June 17, 1955
5x38 - The Case of the Frightened Man
June 24, 1955
5x39 - The Case of the Slippery Eel
July 1, 1955