Pursuit

Season

1958

7.6

A short-lived anthology series, with a running theme. Each episode focused on a person or group that was being pursued. Charles Russell and Eva Wolas shared the role of the producer, while several well-known actors performed. At least one of the episodes was scripted by Rod Serling, who had recently moved to California.

Episode List

S1 • E1

The Vengeance

Just out of the army, Richie is hounded by the police detective father of a boy he pushed down the stairs a few years earlier, crippling him.

S1 • E2

Free Ride

Detective Sergeant Long has been assigned to pick up Leo Maxwell from a Texas sheriff and escort him safely to San Francisco to stand trial for manslaughter. But as soon as Long picks up his prisoner, it becomes apparent that someone is trying to kill either the prisoner or the detective.

S1 • E3

Ticket to Tangier

Henry Savage, former FBI agent who is now special investigator for an airline, spots a suspicious looking couple in an airport. He thinks he recognizes the man from his days with the FBI so he checks with the bureau, then follows him.

S1 • E4

Tiger on a Bicycle

An armored car robbery results in the death of a policeman, and the pursuit of the victim's killers by his partner, Matt Shaw, who concludes that the young son of an ex-convict is his best lead to the identity of the slayer.

S1 • E5

Kiss Me Again, Stranger

In a small town near an Air Force base, a young airman is found stabbed to death. Lt. Gibbs, a friend of the murdered man, is given permission by the head of the Air Force to help the local sheriff track down the murderer.

S1 • E6

Eagle in a Cage

An insurance claims adjuster who sits as a juror in a homicide trial subsequently finds himself the target of a killer.

S1 • E7

Epitaph for a Golden Girl

An investigation by a private detective into the mysterious disappearance of an apparently happily married young movie actress, daughter of a prominent studio executive.

S1 • E8

Calculated Risk

The story concerns the battle of wits and figures between two executives of a large corporation and two tax agents, and the love of one of the agents for the daughter of one of the executives.

S1 • E9

The Last Night in August

Story concerns a father and his two sons, and ties two nights in August years apart, to the shattering of the gentle father's hope for one of his sons and to the bitter duty faced by the other son, a cop.

S1 • E10

The Silent Night

A brilliant engineer, recovering from a mental breakdown, escapes from the hospital in a Santa Clause suit and goes home for Christmas. On the same night, two years earlier, he had attempted to kill himself and his wife

S1 • E11

The Dark Cloud

A detective is suspended from the police force after he is found at the scene of the murder of an important witness in the trial of an underworld leader.