S1 • E1
After Stan Trenor offers a full confession, police believe a murder to be a simple open and shut case; however, the incident becomes unexpectedly complex when a trio of unrelated witnesses come forward to exonerate Trenor of the crime. It seems that they all saw him in a completely different location while the murder was being committed.
S1 • E2
Unable to bear her husband Paul's pathological possessiveness, Helen Lawson decides to bump him off. She finds Daniel Nichols, a man desperately in need of money, to help her carry out the murder; however, she secretly contrives to frame Nichols as the sole perpetrator of the crime.
S1 • E3
John Emmett, an inveterate and unlucky gambler, collapses in a Saratoga casino after losing his last chip in a poker game. When he awakens he's told by a doctor that he's suffering from a brain tumor and only be saved by a risky, expensive surgery. Emmett turns to crime to pay for the delicate surgery but finds himself only deeper in trouble.
S1 • E4
Thieves infiltrate a mild-mannered bank clerk's home in an attempt to gain his cooperation with a planned bank robbery. When he steadfastly refuses to assist them, the criminals hold his wife as a hostage until he agrees to comply with their demands.
S1 • E5
While taking in a movie with his girlfriend, a police detective recognizes a fellow patron in the theater as being a dangerous criminal who is a fugitive from justice. After he leaves to phone the authorities and returns, the policeman finds that the killer has gone and also taken his girlfriend as a hostage.
S1 • E6
Young Tony Roberts appropriates a convertible to take his girlfriend on a joy ride, an impulsive move that lands him in serious trouble after the daughter of the town's police chief becomes the victim of a hit-and-run. Tony finds himself the primary suspect, but there could be more to the crime than meets the eye.
S1 • E7
A controlling theater director who enjoys pulling people's strings like a Mephistophelian puppeteer learns that one of his actors is searching for the man he believes is responsible for his daughter's death. The director deliberately plants clues that will lead the actor to his prey, but the situation backfires when a scuffle culminates in homicide.
S1 • E8
Max Behring, a violently possessive art dealer who considers his wife one of his most precious objects discovers that she's seeing another man and concocts a deadly scheme to murder her and frame innocent Frank Nelson for the crime. However, Behring's scheme doesn't go exactly as planned.
S1 • E9
Thief Pete Boran steals $100,00 and arranges an escape by boat to South America. Waiting for safe passage, he seeks shelter in a strange boarding house operating as a temporary hideout for criminals. There he meets and falls in love with the owner's beautiful sister who sets him on a different course.
S1 • E10
Ezra, the janitor in a multi-level building, eavesdrops through an air duct that leads to the office of psychiatrist Dr. Ellis. After listening in on confidential sessions between the doctor and patient Harry Stocker, Ezra reveals what he's heard to others and Stocker soon finds himself being blackmailed.
S1 • E11
A discarded sweepstakes ticket creates chaos when jewelry store owner Eddie learns that the ticket he accidentally threw away was actually worth a fortune. However, his regret quickly dissipates into homicidal anger after he discovers that his partner Midge found the ticket and collected the payout for himself.
S1 • E12
Chris, a deaf-mute migrant worker, tries to help barmaid Sadie after she gets into an altercation with Chris' abusive boss George Humboldt. During the scuffle, Humboldt is accidentally killed, and Chris charged with his murder. While Sadie remains dead silent about the events that led to Humboldt's death, attorney Lee Bancroft desperately searches for a way to save Chris.
S1 • E13
About to be exposed, a swindler runs out on his partner, leaving him to face the law. However, he's headed off by his betrayed partner-in-crime, and shot in a struggle before he can escape with a pile of ill-gotten cash.
S1 • E14
A newspaperman named Jefferson Drum walks into a mining camp carrying his young son. The men at the camp live in fear of Doc Jubilee, a gunfighter dying of consumption. An old newspaperman is shot for trying to publish an article critical of Jubilee. Drum decides to take over the paper but must also contend with his father-in-law, a senator who wants to take his grandson from Drum. A sudden gold strike deprives Jubilee of his hold over the men and Drum decides to stay on with his son and run the newspaper in what is about to become a boom town.
Self - Narrator
Pocker
Jefferson Drum
Clinton Queally
Christopher D'Aguilar
Doc Jubilee
Sadie
Benjamin Corby
Janet Wiley
Lee Bancroft