Episode list

A husband flees from home to escape his mother-in-law. While in Vegas, he falls for a check kiting scheme.

Jim Edwards' supposedly crippled leg heals after he begins soaking it in a mineral spring located on a run-down property that he bought for a bargain price.

A recently released convict demands money from a man he has tricked into believing he has accidentally shot another man while hunting raccoons.

Captain Braddock's former girlfriend Mary comes to ask him to assist her husband Pat, an insurance investigator. A Mr. Xavier has had a 5 warehouse fires in 3 years without finding arson. Braddock decides to lend a hand in the latest case.

A trio of con artists con a jeweler into buying back a Marie Antoinette emerald for twice the retail price.

Believing he has purchased counterfeit currency, a businessman turns himself in to Braddock. Of course, Braddock will explain to him how he has actually been snookered.

A shyster lawyer preys upon both frightened natural mothers and couples eager to adopt.

An old mining engineer swindles a mining company by lacing its samples with gold chloride. Just how he pulled it off is a mystery. The police set up a sting and the friendly old guy takes the bait.

A woman, who feels that her husband is losing interest in her, goes to a man who claims he can make her look young again. He is a phony and the result is tragic.

There are odd and surprising loopholes in many trusted transactions and the unscrupulous can learn to profitably exploit this simple fact.

Con-man poses as a rancher trying to save his cattle which have been condemned by the Mexican government.

A wealthy band leader is pulled into an elaborate confidence scheme involving a supposed boxer on the take and a heavily wagered prize fight.

A young couple buys a used car from a slick salesman, but soon afterwards the car's brakes fail, and the resulting accident nearly causes their death. Capt. Braddock begins to suspect that this "accident" was more the result of criminal negligence than happenstance, and sets out to prove it.

In immigrant tailor is severely beaten by a brutal loan shark. His terrified family turns to Capt. Braddock for help.

Woman cons her way into babysitting a couple's baby and home for 2 weeks. Her primary angle is to use the baby to extort an aging adulterer. This would have been successful had she not also used the couple's furniture in a secondary angle.

An actor departing for a European vacation gets taken in by a father-daughter duo running a foreign currency con.

Forced to return to work following her husband's untimely death, a struggling young mother's custody of her 3-year old daughter is challenged after the child suffers injuries while left at a substandard day care facility.

An ex-convict's sudden interest in the details of a deceased man's life arouses the interest of Capt. Braddock, who believes that the man's former cellmate, an artist who is now a washed-up alcoholic, may know the motive for the ex-con's suspicious actions.

Fake divorce lawyer bilks couple while they are going through a rough time in their marriage.

A wealthy young widow begins to date a suave European man. A mutual friend tells her that the European has trouble clearing his fortune with customs, so he needs a certain amount of money. She makes a large loan to the European man, keeping his valuable stamp collection as collateral. Eventually, the European and his collaborators disappear, leaving the young widow to discover that her boyfriend was a fraud, and the stamp collection is almost worthless.

The Racket Squad aids farmers who were swindled.

A cohort of thieves robs homes in wealthy neighborhoods when the owners are on vacation.

Johnny is studying engineering in college. But what he really wants to do with his life is be a songwriter. He sends out his songs to hundreds of publishing companies. All of which turn him down. Except for one that asks him for a $50 fee.

Capt. Braddock recalls what happened when multiple con artists targeted each other while stuck in a hotel lobby.

Local businessmen take instantly to John Riley, a geologist who's moving to town from Cleveland. They do their research and find he's a geologist who's made a fortune in locating oil deposits. Simply by acting like a low-key businessman, Riley has the town's leaders happily forking over $100,000 to start drilling on his next well. The investors find out too late that their man is only passing himself off as a real geologist named John Riley.

Braddock recounts the story of a legendary ponzi scheme artist from a generation earlier.

Feeling she's always in the way living with her son's family, an old widow moves into a seemingly warm and welcoming boarding home, but when the landlady swindles her out of her money, the atmosphere changes fast.

A playwright who has been bummed by Broadway decides to use his script as part of a scam in which he poses as the producer of a new play that he intends to stage on 42nd Street. To do this, he assembles a cast and sells off more than 100% of the phony show. Once the cast is assembled, he begins rehearsals and has the cast learn their dialogue, which is campy and pseudo-dramatic. He then has them perform the play in a theater in front of a live audience. Unfortunately for him and his lady friend, the play turns out to be a roaring success, and the review brings Inspector James Braddock into the case. Acting swiftly, Braddock apprehends the scoundrel and sees to it that the money is returned to his investors.

An elderly gambler has finally hit the big time - she holds a winning lottery ticket. However, a stranger suddenly inserts himself into the woman's life, and when the winning ticket turns up missing, the Racket Squad is called in to investigate.

In order to prevent a murder, small-time crook Smiley Gibbons squeals on a major gangster who's running a gambling ring, thereby putting his own life in danger.

Two con artists hit upon an ingenious scheme: they pose as city Fire Marshals and conduct phony inspections of local businesses, fining the owners for nonexistent "violations" and pocketing the money.

A lowly clerk is forced to participate in a phony numbers racket by submitting fake stock quotes.

A husband thinks his wife is being taken by a genealogical professional but is really being set up as the mark of a con game.

The con artist Stitch discovers two weak spots in the character of the eccentric millionaire Titus Meely: a greed for earning lots of money with small investments and a passion for clairvoyance. Stitch gives himself out as being a famous expert in clairvoyance, who has invented an apparatus for projecting the inner visions of clairvoyants on a film screen. He persuades Meely to invest a huge sum of money in a project, where a clairvoyant will project information for new, epoch-making inventions on a screen.