1951

S3.E1 ∙ Check and Double Check

Wed, Sep 03, 1952

A criminal gang uses kids to cash stolen checks in stores and swindle merchandise out of them. Capt. Braddock investigates.

7.5 /10

S3.E2 ∙ Heartbreak for Sale

Wed, Sep 10, 1952

A heartbroken mother whose son is in prison is approached by a con man who says he can pull some strings with the Parole Board to get an early release in return for money.

7.2 /10

S3.E3 ∙ Charge It, Please

Wed, Sep 17, 1952

Capt. Braddock looks into a credit-card fraud operation.

0 /10

S3.E4 ∙ A Letter from Tessie

Wed, Sep 24, 1952

The squad investigates a chain-letter scam.

0 /10

S3.E5 ∙ The Expensive Tumble

Wed, Oct 01, 1952

An insurance fraud case is referred to the squad for investigation.

7.9 /10

S3.E6 ∙ Beauty for Hire

Wed, Oct 08, 1952

A scam operation that involves the Lost & Found department of the bus station is investigated by Capt. Braddock and the squad.

7.1 /10

S3.E7 ∙ The Suit Club

Wed, Oct 22, 1952

Capt. Braddock sets out to bust up an illegal gambling operation.

6.2 /10

S3.E8 ∙ The Front Man

Wed, Oct 29, 1952

Capt. Braddock investigates what he believes is a front for a gambling operation run by the mob.

7.6 /10

S3.E9 ∙ At Your Service

Wed, Nov 05, 1952

A con artist passes himself off as a handyman in order to swindle people out of their money.

0 /10

S3.E10 ∙ The Label Switchers

Wed, Nov 12, 1952

Capt. Braddock investigates reports that a gang is putting labels from expensive stores on cheap merchandise and then passing them off as the real thing.

0 /10

S3.E11 ∙ Blessed Expense

Wed, Nov 19, 1952

A struggling service station owner who has recently learned his wife is pregnant is conned into buying cut-rate health insurance from a pair bunko artists.

6.3 /10

S3.E12 ∙ Strictly Legal

Wed, Nov 26, 1952

Capt. Braddock investigates a shady real-estate operation that obtains property through foreclosures.

0 /10

S3.E13 ∙ The Elephant in Stockings

Thu, Dec 11, 1952

Capt. Braddock goes after a mob boss.

6.2 /10

S3.E14 ∙ False Tape

Wed, Dec 17, 1952

Someone is blackmailing a man with tapes of phone calls he made to his mistress. Capt. Braddock investigates.

0 /10

S3.E15 ∙ The Christmas Caper

Wed, Dec 24, 1952

Braddock and his men investigate several con artists who use phony street corner Santa Clauses to collect money for poor children and distribute it among themselves.

8.1 /10

S3.E16 ∙ The System

Wed, Dec 31, 1952

Capt. Braddock investigates reports of a con artist selling a system "guaranteed" to pick winners at the race track.

7 /10

S3.E18 ∙ The Case of the Dancing Lady

Wed, Feb 11, 1953

A newlywed couple complains to Capt. Braddock that a dance studio has swindled them out of money. Braddock investigates.

7.4 /10

S3.E19 ∙ His Brother's Keeper

Wed, Feb 25, 1953

When Longshot, a likable panhandler and compulsive gambler, stumbles onto a bunco game and informs Captain Braddock, the racketeers take their revenge.

7.3 /10

S3.E21 ∙ Antique Racket

Wed, Mar 18, 1953

A con artist selling phony antiques comes to the attention of Capt. Braddock and the squad.

0 /10

S3.E22 ∙ Girl in the Mink Coat

Wed, Apr 08, 1953

Capt. Braddock goes after a female con artist known only as "The Girl in the Mink Coat".

0 /10

S3.E23 ∙ The Big Touch

Wed, Apr 22, 1953

Capt. Braddock goes undercover to investigate a con game that he believes has ties to an organized-crime ring.

0 /10

S3.E24 ∙ The White Carnation

Wed, Jun 17, 1953

Capt. Braddock gets complaints about a con man's activities, but the only description he has of the man is that he wears a white carnation in the lapel of his jacket.

0 /10

S3.E25 ∙ Take a Little, Leave a Little

Wed, Jul 01, 1953

A pleasant man moves to a small town. He gives himself out as being a famous geologist, an expert in locating oil-deposits by signs in the surface of the landscape. Soon he is introduced into the community of the local businessmen. He reveals to them that he has found signs of an oil-deposit just outside the town. He offers them shares in the oil-field on very good conditions, but as soon as the money is paid and the contracts are signed, he prepares to leave the town immediately.

6.5 /10

S3.E26 ∙ The Case of Lady Luck

Sun, Jul 05, 1953

Captain Braddock is asked to discreetly investigate when the new wife of an influential member becomes conspicuously and profitably successful in bridge games at an exclusive country club.

7.8 /10

S3.E27 ∙ The Gentler Sex

Sun, Jul 12, 1953

Capt. Braddock goes after a female con artist whose specialty is making men underestimate her, then taking them for everything they've got.

0 /10

S3.E28 ∙ Sale Value

Sun, Jul 19, 1953

A con man just released from prison sets his sights on a successful businessman and schemes to swindle him out of his company.

6.6 /10

S3.E29 ∙ Phony Photo Contest

Sun, Jul 26, 1953

Capt. Braddock uncovers information that leads to a prostitution ring.

0 /10

S3.E30 ∙ Fraudulent Nursery School

Sun, Aug 02, 1953

Capt. Braddock looks into a nursery school that may not be quite what it appears to be.

0 /10

S3.E31 ∙ Romance Unlimited

Sun, Aug 09, 1953

A woman victimizes men in overseas military service by marrying them for their allotments. One soldier returns unexpectedly and learns the truth and, filled with bitterness, holds her hostage with a plan to kill her. Captain John Braddock asks his mother to appeal to him to spare him from ruining his future.

7.9 /10

S3.E32 ∙ Impatient Heir

Sun, Aug 16, 1953

Capt. Braddock investigates the case of a man who is suspected of faking his own death to collect the life insurance money.

8.7 /10

S3.E33 ∙ Diamond Smugglers

Sun, Aug 23, 1953

Capt. Braddock receives information about a gang that's smuggling diamonds into the city.

0 /10

S3.E34 ∙ Sting of Fate

Sun, Aug 30, 1953

A man and woman team of confidence operators fake injuries in hotels in order to extort money. They use wasp stings to simulate the swelling of a real sprain, but a hotel employee helps Braddock expose the con and break the case.

7.8 /10