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- A young man of inherited wealth hangs out a shingle advertising his services. A beautiful blonde is missing her Great Dane and Van Brunt finds bodies while exposing a smuggling ring.
- Legs Diamond guns down three men in a nightclub. None of the others who saw the shooting will testify against him. Soon afterward, no less than five men who might have been able to talk turn up dead.
- Susie McNamara has been instrumental in getting a new playwright together with a Broadway producer through her bosses' agency. But when both the playwright and the producer become smitten with her, it threatens to wreck the whole deal so her boss instructs her to "stop flirting with the customers" and fix the deal he was ready to close.
- Artie Moon is a paid killer who hopes to work his way up in the underworld independent of the big time mobsters. His own wife, an old family friend of Ruditsky, is not aware of how far Artie's gone, but she begs Ruditsky to help stop him before it's too late.
- Gambler wanred to leave town, but he gets into rigged card game.
- In an effort to nail associates of Dutch Schultz, Ruditsky is ordered by Captain McCloskey to take a bribe from one of them. To set this up, Ruditsky gets close to Schultz' former girlfriend.
- Lepke Buchalter hires a novelty expert to find a new method of controlling labor disputes. The man soon comes up with an ingeniously odious (or rather odorous) method and sells Dutch Schultz on it as well.
- Little Augie Orgen begins a major racket 'protecting' businesses against strikes. Ruditsky believes he finally has him nailed, due to a witness who can swear against him in court. But a crafty move by Augie and his attorney gets him off. Now Augie has bigger problems, with his fellow mobsters Gurrah and Lepke.
- Louy Kassoff sees his sister abducted from the streets by hoodlums. (Although not explicitly stated due to the TV code at the time, the implication is that she was sexually assaulted). He is plagued by guilt because he was unable to protect her, and as a result he casts aside his rabbinical studies and decides to join a mob. Within a year ha has taken over as its leader.
- After being sent to Sing Sing for an armored car robbery in which several were killed, Louy Kassoff decides to organize the prisoners, including such future underworld figures as Dutch Schultz, Lepke Buchalter, Lucky Luciano, and Legs Diamond, by forming a "Mutual Welfare League".
- 1959–196126mTV Episode
- After the death of his sister, Louy Kassoff decides to resign from the organization he started. But his associates, worried about what he may do next, are not so willing to let him just go.
- Underworld bribes police detective to hide info.
- A hit man working for Murder, Inc. is ordered to kill a woman who witnessed a hit. Instead, he winds up falling in love with the witness.
- Crook gets into politics to protect crime interests.
- Jane Cooper may be on parole, but she intends to improve her status by ditching her nobody boyfriend for a wealthier gangster. As she moves up the food chain, she plays one man off another. Strangely, each of her ex-beaus meets a tragic end. This doesn't go unnoticed by Ruditsky or the mob. She picks up the nickname "Jane the Jinx."
- Gangster Jacob Koster, a.k.a. Kid Dropper, humiliates and scars "Little Augie" Orgen, leading to a bloody feud which gets innocent people caught in the crossfires. The district attorney puts the heat on the police department and Ruditsky in particular to put an end to it. Ruditsky gets help from an unlikely source, the Kid's own mother and brother.
- A gangster kills a rival crime boss for his employer and has plans that will gets his double crossing killed.
- Miles Miller is a crooked attorney who acts as middleman between jewel thieves and insurance companies trying to make a profit. Unfortunately for Miller, a policeman and an accomplice to the crime were both killed in the latest robbery in which his client was involved.
- Muddy rents cars for racketeers and also tips off the police.
- Girlfriend is murdered when she dumps bootlegger.
- Racketeer accused of killing young girl during wild party.
- Sonny Rosen's wealthy parents receive a ransom note demanding money in exchange for his return. But as Ruditzky investigates, it begins to appear that the "kidnapping" is not what it seems.
- Crooked lawyer plans to control rackets with former czar.
- To nail the leaders of a murderous mob attempting to take over the labor unions, Ruditsky puts the screws to one of the gang's top enforcers, by convincing him that he'll be the next one to be hit.
- Millie Grayson offers to help Ruditsky get evidence on her former boyfriend, mobster Jurgie Jorgenson. Millie is an old girlfriend of Ruditsky's as well. Ruditsky is skeptical, but learns he is not immune to misled by a woman's charms.
- Mr. Sands thinks he has the perfect part for the reclusive former star Inga Kovar. After being scared away the office Susie makes it a quest to connect with the shy actress and accept the part, reigniting her career.
- Cagey Calhoun's client wants a contract just like one drawn up by Peter Sands negotiated for one of the actors he represents. Rather than just ask for a copy, Cagey attempts various forms of subterfuge to get a peek at it.
- Susie receives a letter that her tax returns will be audited by the IRS. Meanwhile, Peter can't find the appropriate actor to provide the voice for a new cartoon character.
- When the Comanche Kid kills a childhood friend, Marshal Donovan convince their captain to send them out to capture the outlaw. Donovan believes that the Kid is operating in a small town called Sonora because it's the only place in Central Texas that he has committed a robbery or murder, so he and Rusty go undercover as saddle tramps to try to smoke the outlaw into the open.
- Steve and Rusty are sent to the town of Tall Rock, where a bandit gang has been ambushing and robbing wagons carrying settlers on their way west. The gang is headed by a mysterious Frenchman called The Eagle, and it turns out that his plans for the4 area include more than just robbing settlers.
- A local banker is blackmailed by two former confederates who aware of a crime he committed over twenty years ago and was never apprehended.
- When Penny discovers a wounded carrier pigeon carrying a valuable ruby attached to its leg, Sky suspects a gang of jewel smugglers is operating in the area. With the help of a Mexican police detective, Sky sets up to break up the criminal operation.
- A rancher disinherits his nephew in favor of his young son. When the rancher is murdered the young man is blamed. Sky hopes that by faking a jailbreak, the real murderer will be forced into the open, but the plan backfires when Clipper and the young man are kidnapped.
- While helping a friend run his freight airline after an accident, Sky stumbles across a gold-smuggling operation.
- Sky becomes suspicious when a Eastern woman shows up in Grover claiming to be the long-lost niece and heir of a dead rancher.
- Sky King picks up a young hitchhiker who refuses to divulge his identity, or where he's been or going. Determined to fill in the blank spaces on the young man's resume, Sky learns that he is an escapee from a boy's reformatory who was involved in a recent bank robbery.
- Sky teams up with a military intelligence officer to track down a foreign agent who blew up a secret government project.
- Penny sees a man escape from a doctor's office, and is informed that the man is a dangerous mental patient. Sky looks into the incident, and soon finds himself mixed up in foreign spies and poison gas.
- Sky's efforts to prove corruption in the county clerk's office nearly result in disaster, when Sky's foreman, a non-pilot, must land the Songbird when Clipper becomes too ill to fly the plane.
- Penny picks up the wrong suitcase at the airport and discovers it's full of counterfeit money. Sky suspects that a young former engraver might be involved.
- During a fierce thunderstorm, Sky picks up a mayday call from a Air Force courier plane which is about to run out of gas. The Air Force request Sky's assistance in locating the downed aircraft because the pilot is transporting secret documents that are of interest to foreign governments. Sky locates the plane wreck, but the pilot is nowhere to be found. When he discovers that the navigational instruments have been tampered with, Sky fears that enemy agents may have located and stolen the secret plans and are headed for the nearby Mexican border.
- The drug Sky delivers to a critically ill man does more than save his life; the medicine causes the man to confess that he's a former criminal who has attempted to go straight.
- A crooked express agent fakes a hold-up to steal gold from his company's vault. He uses an old stagecoach to get the stolen loot out of town.
- Sky investigates a series of mysterious payroll robberies, where the police chase the robbers only to see their getaway car mysteriously disappear.
- A young rancher disappears after the man attempting to foreclose on his mortgage is murdered. Sky is convinced that the man is innocent and that there's another explanation for the man's apparent flight.
- Sky stumbles across a dead pilot and suspicious looking plane wreck and discovers that the man was murdered and the crash never happened. He learns that the plane was carrying a number of valuable pieces of ancient Chinese art, all of which are missing from the plane's cargo hold.