• 1960
  • 1h
Checkmate

Summary Don Corey and Jed Sills operate Checkmate, Inc., a very high-priced detective agency in San Francisco. Helping them protect the lives of their clients is British criminologist (once an Oxford professor) Carl Hyatt. View more details

  • 1960
  • 1h

Checkmate

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Doug McClure Sebastian Cabot Ken Lynch Anthony George

All cast & crew

7.5

Details

Genres : Mystery Crime Drama

Release date : Sep 16, 1960

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Filming locations : Backlot, Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA

Production companies : Jamco Productions

Summary Don Corey and Jed Sills operate Checkmate, Inc., a very high-priced detective agency in San Francisco. Helping them protect the lives of their clients is British criminologist (once an Oxford professor) Carl Hyatt. View more details

Details

Genres : Mystery Crime Drama

Release date : Sep 16, 1960

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Filming locations : Backlot, Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA

Production companies : Jamco Productions

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Episodes

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Episode 1 • Sep 16, 1960
Death Runs Wild
When wealthy widow Beatrice Martin Kipp hires Checkmate, Jed and Dr. Hyatt must travel with her to her ranch to discover who is trying to kill her.
Episode 2 • Sep 23, 1960
Interrupted Honeymoon
A desperate criminal, intending to flee the country, kidnaps a newly-wed bridegroom and takes his place, but not before the bride calls in Checkmate for help.
Episode 3 • Sep 30, 1960
The Cyanide Touch
Dean Stockwell guest stars as a college student out to avenge the death of his fraternity brother who was killed by a car thief.
Episode 4 • Oct 14, 1960
Lady on the Brink
A witness set to testify in a murder trial seeks the help of Checkmate fearing someone is attempting to discredit her testimony by making it appear that she is mentally unstable.
Episode 5 • Oct 21, 1960
Face in the Window
A well respected archaeologist is about to murder a mysterious man, supposedly dead for many years. The doctor's fiancée hires the Checkmate team to stop the murder.
Episode 6 • Oct 28, 1960
Runaway
A girl shows up at Corey's apartment, claiming that she is running from someone who is trying to kill her. However, the detectives all find that nothing she has said checks out, including her numerous aliases, and that she's actually an heiress running from a controlling grandmother. But it does appear that the part about someone trying to kill her may be the truth.
Episode 7 • Nov 04, 1960
Target: Tycoon
A woman hired Checkmate to prevent the murder of her father, an oil magnate. He suspects his assailant is an ex-partner and wants a private showdown with his nemesis.
Episode 8 • Nov 11, 1960
Deadly Shadow
A young widow is attacked and the only photograph of her dead husband, a Marine private is stolen. Checkmate investigates to thwart a conspiracy against her and the private the military claims never existed.
Episode 9 • Nov 18, 1960
The Dark Divide
Barbara Rush plays a dual role as the inhibited Margaret Russell and the wild, heartless Nikki Garnett who feels no remorse for robbing a casino that results in the death of an accomplice. Checkmate is hired to prevent Nikki from destroying Margaret.
Episode 10 • Nov 25, 1960
Moment of Truth
While on vacation in Tijuana, Don and Jed become involved in a murder investigation when Jed becomes the principal suspect.
Episode 11 • Dec 02, 1960
The Mask of Vengeance
Checkmate is hired to protect an Ambassador's daughter receiving death threats from the Asian community after killing a Chinese child with her car. She has a history of speeding and is not being charged because of diplomatic immunity.
Episode 12 • Dec 16, 1960
The Murder Game
The detectives are shocked when one of their mentors, a highly respected attorney and legal scholar now terminally ill, summons them to his home, along with six other people whom he once successfully defended in murder trials. He announces that one of the six was actually guilty of the crime, though he doesn't say which one, and that he intends to make that person pay now for their crime.
Episode 13 • Dec 30, 1960
The Princess in the Tower
Corry and Sills's cleaning woman is killed in a fall just after warning Sills of a plot to kill a "princess"---a young woman who is planning a major renovation of some properties she owns.
Episode 14 • Jan 06, 1961
Terror from the East
A missionary arrives from the east and contacts Checkmate to warn them about a plot to kill Tom Lin, a Chinese patriot currently in hiding in San Francisco; he has apparently been shot in the arm while trying to find Lin and warn him of the danger he is in. It soon turns out, however, that the missionary is actually an assassin sent to kill the daughter of Win Lee, a former Chinese warlord also residing in San Francisco.
Episode 15 • Jan 13, 1961
The Human Touch
Alonzo Pace Graham, freed from prison after 15 years, seeks revenge on Dr. Carl Hyatt. Graham devises an elaborate plot intended not only to kill Hyatt but ruin his reputation as well. Hyatt is implicated in a murder - a murder that never occurred.
Episode 16 • Jan 20, 1961
Hour of Execution
When a judge and friend of Dr. Hyatt receives telephone calls and letters threatening his life if a man he sent to death row is e executed, Checkmate investigates the guilty man and the judge's character.
Episode 17 • Jan 27, 1961
Don't Believe a Word She Says
Checkmate has more than one mystery to solve when they are hired by an unknown client to protect an unknown victim from an unknown killer at Felicia Royden's remote estate. Jed and Dr. Hyatt, posing as servants for the family, are puzzled by Mrs. Royden's strange little girl, Carol, who apparently makes up wild stories for no reason, but they soon begin to think Carol may hold the key to the mystery.
Episode 18 • Feb 03, 1961
Laugh Till I Die
The Checkmate boys have their hands full in protecting their client Danny Whitman from racketeer Frank Marsdon when Danny starts a one-man crusade against the crime king-pin and his wife. Marsdon's drunken wife, Corinne, killed two people in a car accident, and Danny, determined not to see justice thwarted by Marsdon's threats and bribes, continues to publicize the accident and subsequent trial on his television show, gaining for him the animosity of Frank Marsdon. What Checkmate doesn't know is that Danny has now become a pawn in another person's scheme against Marsdon, doubling the danger for him.
Episode 19 • Feb 10, 1961
Between Two Guns
The Checkmate team has big trouble when Joe Farrell and his gang of hoods take them hostage at gunpoint. Farrell wants Don Corey to bring his estranged wife Jean and some stolen money he hid in her apartment to a boat where he intends skipping the country. If Don fails, both Jed and Dr. Hyatt, held hostage in their separate homes, will be killed. Farrell can't go for Jean himself, as rival gangsters are out after him; to complicate things even more, Farrell has a traitor in his gang trying to intercept Don and Jean who are desperately trying to bring the money to the appointed meeting in time to save Jed and Dr. Hyatt.
Episode 20 • Feb 17, 1961
A Matter of Conscience
A prisoner, played by Gary Merrill, is paroled after serving 20 years for a robbery and a gunshot victim. The son of the victim vows to make him pay once he comes back into the community. Others are also out to silence Merrill.
Episode 21 • Feb 24, 1961
Melody for Murder
Checkmate is hired by a pop singer's agent to investigate death threats. Jed goes undercover as an aide to the performer and travels with him to Hollywood where the threats escalate to gun shots.
Episode 22 • Mar 03, 1961
Phantom Lover
A woman believes her husband has killed her male friend, who can not be found. She hires Checkmate to investigate.
Episode 23 • Mar 10, 1961
The Gift
Lola Tuscany, a temperamental lady soprano, is having premonitions of her death. After her concert she is almost poisoned and Checkmate Inc. is hired to keep her safe. Don Corey is skeptical, believing it is a publicity stunt, until he is nearly killed when a bomb explodes in the car he and Lola are driving in.
Episode 24 • Mar 17, 1961
One for the Book
Audrey Meadows stars as a writer of a scandalous, best-selling novel based on an unsolved twenty-year old murder in her small town. She is writing a sequel that reveals the killer and hires Checkmate for protection when attempts are made to silence her.
Episode 25 • Mar 24, 1961
The Paper Killer
A successful cartoonist, played by Mickey Rooney, becomes tormented when he believes his star cartoon character, O'Hara, is alive and trying to kill him.
Episode 26 • Mar 31, 1961
Jungle Castle
After two attempts on his life, big game hunter Lee Tabor brings Dr. Hyatt and Carl to his home in the Malayan jungle. He asks for their help in finding out which of his three house guests is trying to kill him.
Episode 27 • Apr 07, 1961
The Deadly Silence
Gangsters chase a deaf schoolteacher who has read their lips and so learned of their plan to bring fellow mobster Antonio Lucas into the country from Cuba.
Episode 28 • Apr 14, 1961
Goodbye, Griff
Julie London plays a magazine editor, who is dealing with her hot headed husband just released from prison, and her publisher and partner, (Simon Oakland).When Oakland receives a threatening letter, London's husband is the main suspect.
Episode 29 • Apr 21, 1961
Dance of Death
Cyd Charisse plays a Prima ballerina, who is threatened by a lover. Checkmate get a retired cop to keep an eye on her, but he ends up dead, and later her lover is also murdered.
Episode 30 • May 05, 1961
Voyage Into Fear
Joan Fontaine plays a woman who claims her husband is trying to kill her. Corey accompanied her on a cruise ship to protect her but her odd behavior raises doubts. Also onboard watching her closely is a private detective who claims to be hired by her husband,
Episode 31 • May 12, 1961
Tight as a Drum
Checkmate are called in to investigate a military Academy for the suspected murder of the gym instructor .
Episode 32 • May 19, 1961
Death by Design
Eve Arden, plays a fashion designer, worried that someone is out to destroy her and her business. Checkmate have two main suspects.
Episode 33 • May 26, 1961
The Thrill Seeker
Susan Oliver plays a independent thrill seeking woman, who is accused by her husband's mother that she was responsible for his death from a parachute jump. The mother in law vows she will die, as a result.
Episode 34 • Jun 09, 1961
Hot Wind on a Cold Town
A Washed up Hollywood Movie Stuntman's life is being threatened by someone working on a movie he is in, Don from Checkmate steps in to try to figure out who is the one responsible for the threats & he also tries to stop him from actually murdering the stuntman who's life is hanging in the balance.
Episode 35 • Jun 16, 1961
A Slight Touch of Venom
Keenan Wynn plays a retired rich contractor, a rough diamond who craves social acceptance, but seems to create many enemies . Someone is out to kill him, with many suspects.
Episode 36 • Jun 23, 1961
State of Shock
A series of carefully planned "accidents" aimed at a wealthy heiress who is the wife of hospital's director is investigated by Checkmate. Don ends up as a patient after suffering an accident on the property.
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