• 1961
  • 1h
87th Precinct

Summary Manhattan's 87th precinct forms the backdrop for this grim and gritty police drama based on the long-running series of novels by Ed McBain. Storylines focus on neighborhood crime, and the lives of the officers of the 87th and their families: Steve Carella and his deaf/mute wife, Teddy; rookie Bert Kling; long-time veteran Roger Havilland and the wryly philosophical Meyer Meyer. View more details

  • 1961
  • 1h

87th Precinct

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Gregory Walcott Norman Fell Robert Lansing Ron Harper

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Genres : Crime Drama

Release date : Sep 24, 1961

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Filming locations : Revue Studios, 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA

Production companies : Hubbell Robinson Productions

Summary Manhattan's 87th precinct forms the backdrop for this grim and gritty police drama based on the long-running series of novels by Ed McBain. Storylines focus on neighborhood crime, and the lives of the officers of the 87th and their families: Steve Carella and his deaf/mute wife, Teddy; rookie Bert Kling; long-time veteran Roger Havilland and the wryly philosophical Meyer Meyer. View more details

Details

Genres : Crime Drama

Release date : Sep 24, 1961

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Filming locations : Revue Studios, 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA

Production companies : Hubbell Robinson Productions

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Episodes

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Episode 1 • Sep 24, 1961
The Floater
The body of a young woman is found by a boy diving from a pier. The coroner finds that she died, not by drowning, but due to arsenic poisoning. The main clue in the detectives' investigation is a small heart-shaped tattoo on her hand with the letters "MAC" inside of it. Detective Steve Carrella takes his wife Teddy along with him to a tattoo parlor as he questions the owner. Later, Teddy decides to get a tattoo herself. In doing so, however, she has put herself in grave danger as the killer has come to the same tattoo parlor with his intended next victim.
Episode 2 • Oct 01, 1961
Lady in Waiting
A woman enters the 87th precinct headquarters and holds Detectives Kling and Meyer at gunpoint, announcing that she plans to kill Lt. Carrella as soon as he arrives. She blames Carrella for the death of her husband, who just died in prison. Carrella was the arresting officer. She is armed not only with a gun but a bottle of liquid which she claims is nitroglycerin. Soon both Detective Havilland and Teddy arrive there as well, along with a female suspect Havilland has brought in to book, and they are also held hostage as they tensely wait for Carrella to arrive.
Episode 3 • Oct 08, 1961
Lady Killer
A boy delivers a letter to 87th Precinct headquarters. The writer of the letter claims that he will kill "the lady" at 8 PM that night if he is not stopped.
Episode 4 • Oct 15, 1961
The Modus Man
The detectives investigate a recent series of burglaries. The crimes have identical MOs to those of several known burglars. However, when these suspects are checked out, it turns out one was dead when the crimes occurred, one was in prison, and another has an alibi that checks out completely. It appears that a copycat is at work, and the detectives come to suspect that a respected retired cop may be the one they're looking for.
Episode 5 • Oct 22, 1961
Line of Duty
Detective Bert Kling is deeply troubled after he is forced to shoot and kill an 18-year-old who was firing at him after attempting to rob a theater box office. Everyone who knew the youth describes him as a good kid. Now Kling and the other detectives try to discover the identity of the boy's accomplice who escaped.
Episode 6 • Oct 29, 1961
Occupation, Citizen
A Hungarian immigrant locksmith realizes that two thugs used the key he made for them to enter their victim's home and beat him. He goes to the police to tell them, but his pregnant wife, fearful for his safety, begs him not to identify the men in a lineup. When another two men are killed the locksmith realizes he has to cooperate with the police after all, but things are not so simple as the killers are now free and the detectives don't know their whereabouts.
Episode 7 • Nov 05, 1961
Killer's Payoff
A blackmailer has been murdered, and the detectives focus their attention on three people whom he was known to have been blackmailing. Havilland also looks into a woman friend of the murder victim. Another friend of the victim seems overly interested in the police investigation.
Episode 8 • Nov 12, 1961
The Guilt
Detective Meyer feels responsible after a mistake in judgment enables a small-time hood to escape from his custody, particularly after the man is bitten during a holdup by a watchdog---who then is discovered to be infected with rabies.
Episode 9 • Nov 19, 1961
Empty Hours
A man causes a young woman, Claudia Davis, to fall into a lake by shooting holes into the canoe she was in. Her friend Josie Thompson tries to save her but is too late, and Claudia drowns. Afterward Josie decides to dye her hair and impersonate her dead friend as Claudia had much more money and Josie, who was poor, would like to live the high life. Josie is unaware that Claudia's death was not an accidental drowning and that the killer and the man he was working for still want Claudia dead.
Episode 10 • Nov 26, 1961
My Friend, My Enemy
A girl is found murdered in a park after she left a party. The main suspect is a troubled young man who is regarded as a social outcast by most of his fellow students.
Episode 11 • Dec 03, 1961
The Very Hard Sell
A car salesman is found dead in his car, shot with his own gun. The coroner believes it's a clear case of suicide, but the man's wife insists he would not have taken his own life. Lt. Carella searches for the man's last customer. His main clue is two strands of picture wire he finds tied around plumbing in locations where the customer and the victim were supposed to have met.
Episode 12 • Dec 10, 1961
Til Death
A Sunday afternoon backyard wedding has a pall cast over it by ominous threats to the bride and groom. Carella enlists Kling's help in keeping a killer at bay.
Episode 13 • Dec 17, 1961
The Heckler
The detectives investigate a rash of bomb threats against businesses. Then a night watchman is found murdered. The watchman was part of a gang that is planning a bank robbery. The mastermind of the gang, Sordo, has made the threats against other businesses in order to distract the police from his real plan, and killed the watchman because he was seeing a woman and fears he might have leaked the plan to her. When Kling finds the woman at the house of the murdered man, Sordo arrives and shoots Kling and takes the woman hostage.
Episode 14 • Dec 24, 1961
Run, Rabbit, Run
On the eve of his execution, a mobster vows to the press that three men who testified against him will be dead not long after he is. Very soon two of the men are killed. The third returns to the 87th precinct, where an attempt is made on his life as well. Carella decides to make it appear that the attempt was successful in order to smoke out the perpetrators.
Episode 15 • Dec 31, 1961
Main Event
A boxer's punching bagged is rigged, injuring one of his assistants. The detectives try to discover who is trying to send a message to the fighter---or to his trainer. Is it a mobster who has tried to control the fighters in the past, or someone who the trainer and fighter trust?
Episode 16 • Jan 07, 1962
Man in a Jam
After returning drunk to his bachelor party the night before his wedding, Cleve Tompson remembers finding his fiancee's body in her apartment. He calls police and tells them that he had to have killed her. But after checking out the evidence in her room, the detectives don't believe he could have done it. They find that the girl had recently paid large amounts of money to several other men. Meanwhile, Tompson, still believing he had to have done it, calls the newspaper and they print his confession to them on the front page.
Episode 17 • Jan 14, 1962
Give the Boys a Great Big Hand
A human hand is found in a flight bag that was thrown in a trash can. The detectives try to match it to a recent missing person. Their main focus is on a man who was reported missing by his wife after she kicked him out because she thought he was having a fling with a model. When they investigate the model, they find that she too has been reported missing.
Episode 18 • Jan 21, 1962
Out of Order
The detectives investigate a series of phone booth bombings. One suspect, feeling persecuted about being accused due to his past record, decides to copy the bombings and take advantage of them to commit robbery as well.
Episode 19 • Jan 28, 1962
The Pigeon
Acting on an anonymous tip, the detectives pick up Greg Brovane in connection with a robbery in which two men were killed. On interrogation, Brovane names three accomplices. However, the detectives can not find any information on any of the three accomplices. What they don't know is that Brovane is a patsy who was hypnotized and subjected to intense brainwashing by the actual perpetrators, and that the three accomplices he has named do not exist.
Episode 20 • Feb 11, 1962
A Bullet for Katie
Right after returning from her honeymoon, a policeman's wife is shot in the back and seriously wounded by a sniper. The only apparent witness is a young boy who strangely claims to have seen a suspicious person but not to have heard the shot, even though he was right across the street. The detectives focus their investigation on several men who threatened the policeman because they blamed him for their imprisonment.
Episode 21 • Feb 18, 1962
King's Ransom
Two ex-convicts kidnap a young man, believing him to be the son of shoe manufacturer Douglas King. Actually, the boy is the son of the manufacturer's chauffeur. When the kidnappers discover this, they still demand that King pay $250,000 for the boy's safe return. However, King, believing this will ruin him financially, tells the police he is not going to pay the ransom.
Episode 22 • Feb 25, 1962
Feel of the Trigger
The detectives investigate a burglary, which escalates when the burglars later return and shoot the owner. Meanwhile, Meyer becomes concerned about his recurring chest pains. He sees his doctor at the insistence of his wife, but does not tell his fellow officers.
Episode 23 • Mar 04, 1962
Killer's Choice
A young woman is found murdered in the liquor store she was working in as a clerk. Though it at first looks like a burglary, the detectives soon discount that theory and look into the girl's acquaintances, particularly as she was engaged in a custody battle with her ex-husband, and was romantically involved with her employer and hoping to marry him when he divorced his wife.
Episode 24 • Mar 11, 1962
Square Cop
Veteran beat cop Otto Forman is plagued with guilt after his partner is shot and killed during a robbery. The detectives also have questions about Forman, particularly after they learn that the gun used in the robbery and murder was stolen from him five years ago, and that the likely killer is his estranged son.
Episode 25 • Mar 25, 1962
Step Forward
Tired of being unable to pay his bills, Detective Carella tries out a new and better paying job as head of security for a bank.
Episode 26 • Apr 01, 1962
Idol in the Dust
In response to an incident of vandalism at a store, Kling tries to persuade baseball player Larry Brooks to start a ball club for young kids in the neighborhood he grew up in. Larry finally agrees, after learning that his parolee older brother has become involved in a numbers racket. Unfortunately, Larry's attempts to keep his brother out of further trouble just wind up digging a deeper hole for both of them.
Episode 27 • Apr 08, 1962
Ramon
Havilland's usually cold and cynical heart is warmed by a boy who stole a wreath for his mother's grave, so he helps out the youth by buying him a wreath. The boy, Ramon, wants to somehow repay the detective by helping him out. What's unknown to the police is that Ramon's father, along with a janitor at the precinct, is part of a group planning to assassinate the prime minister of a Latin nation whom the precinct officers have been asked to help protect. When the group draws straws, Ramon's father is the one picked to do the killing.
Episode 28 • Apr 15, 1962
New Man in the Precinct
The detectives are on the hunt for a wounded boxer who, after being shot by the owner of the store he was trying to rob, later killed an off-duty cop by slugging him through a glass window. Working with the 87th Precinct detectives is an officer from a much less crime-ridden precinct. As they are about to arrest the boxer, the new officer makes an unwise move which in the process almost gets himself and Carella killed.
Episode 29 • Apr 22, 1962
The Last Stop
Veteran officer Mike Power, only months away from retirement, is transferred to the 87th from Central Station after he is shot and a prisoner he was assigned to protect killed. While working at his new precinct Power starts giving sensational scoops to the press about the police cases he is investigating, something which does not please the other officers - and could put him in danger as well.
Episode 30 • Apr 29, 1962
Girl in the Case
After a public stenographer takes the dictation of a millionaire's last will and testament, three apparent attempts are made her life, and she is approached by a man offering $100,000 if she claims the millionaire was not of sound mind at the time the will was dictated. Havilland develops a close relation with the girl while trying to protect her.
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