1963

S1.E1 ∙ Who Killed Holly Howard?

Thu, Sep 19, 1963

Model Holly Howard is found murdered, and the only clues seem to link a trio of wealthy Texans to her death.

8.6 /10

S1.E2 ∙ Who Killed Mr.X?

Thu, Sep 26, 1963

A body turns up at a merry-go-round. There are no identifying papers on the body and the labels have been removed from the man's clothing. The few clues available point Burke toward an actress under exclusive contract to Flood, a rarely seen industrialist. Burke discovers a number of women are under such exclusive contracts. Then, the detective discovers the dead man was Flood himself. Burke must figure out who, among a number of suspects, committed the crime.

8.2 /10

S1.E3 ∙ Who Killed Cable Roberts?

Thu, Oct 03, 1963

Cable Roberts, a legendary writer, documentary filmmaker, and hunter in the Hemingway mold, is found murdered in his study. There are three significant clues: he was killed with one of his own rifles, he was shot twice big game style, and his body was propped against a wall alongside his many hunting trophies.

7.8 /10

S1.E4 ∙ Who Killed Harris Crown?

Thu, Oct 10, 1963

Burke's investigation of the murder of Harris Crown is complicated by the fact that Mrs. Crown is pregnant - and not by her husband.

8.2 /10

S1.E5 ∙ Who Killed Julian Buck?

Thu, Oct 17, 1963

Julian Buck, one of America's most respected authors, is found strangled to death in his study. The manuscript for his latest novel is missing, but one curious item is found: what appears to be an extra rubber cap for the feet of his typewriter stand.

7.7 /10

S1.E6 ∙ Who Killed Alex Debbs?

Thu, Oct 24, 1963

The publisher of a girlie magazine is murdered at one of his own key clubs.

7.6 /10

S1.E7 ∙ Who Killed Sweet Betsy ?

Thu, Oct 31, 1963

One of a set of identical sisters with odd personalities is poisoned with cyanide at the residence of a beach bum and Burke and Tilson uncover a family history of suspicious deaths involving a cast of quirky characters.

8.1 /10

S1.E8 ∙ Who Killed Billy Jo?

Thu, Nov 07, 1963

A recording star is murdered. Was the killer his agent, his sister, his music arranger, or someone else?

7.5 /10

S1.E9 ∙ Who Killed Wade Walker?

Thu, Nov 14, 1963

Wealthy Wade Walker is killed when his plane blows up in mid-air. Burke's investigation concentrates on four women - a nurse, a singer, a beauty queen and an explosives expert.

7.8 /10

S1.E10 ∙ Who Killed the Kind Doctor?

Thu, Nov 28, 1963

Dr. Eric Techman, a fashionable LA psychiatrist, telephones Burke to warn him of an impending murder by one of his patients -- his own. But Techman is gunned down before he can name the killer.

7.6 /10

S1.E11 ∙ Who Killed Purity Mather?

Thu, Dec 05, 1963

Prior to her apparent murder, a practicing witch sends Amos a message predicting her murder with a list of five suspects from the occult arts.

8 /10

S1.E12 ∙ Who Killed Cynthia Royal?

Thu, Dec 12, 1963

Burke has to search for a missing cat before he can find a killer.

7.7 /10

S1.E13 ∙ Who Killed Eleanora Davis?

Thu, Dec 19, 1963

"Professor" Kingston runs a cheap sideshow in a traveling carnival; one of his exhibits is a supposedly genuine electric chair. The girl strapped to it is certainly dead.

8 /10

S1.E14 ∙ Who Killed Beau Sparrow?

Thu, Dec 26, 1963

Burke is at a poolside party when he sees artist Beau Sparrow take a hard dive into a pool---a dive which kills him. Investigation shows the diving board's catapult was deliberately tampered with.

7.7 /10

S1.E15 ∙ Who Killed Jason Shaw?

Thu, Jan 02, 1964

An extremely strange girl called Lucy Brewer finds a corpse in the shower. Burke's suspects include an old friend, a cultivator of unusual plants, a wine snob and the dead man's daughter - or is she?

7.4 /10

S1.E16 ∙ Who Killed Snooky Martinelli?

Thu, Jan 09, 1964

Can it be that Amos Burke himself has been murdered?

7.6 /10

S1.E17 ∙ Who Killed What's His Name?

Thu, Jan 16, 1964

The elaborate robbery of a bank ends with the unprovoked shooting death of its owner, financier Victor S. Barrows. The key to solving the mystery is locating one of perpetrators, a man so average in appearance that nobody can clearly describe him.

7.7 /10

S1.E18 ∙ Who Killed Madison Cooper?

Thu, Jan 23, 1964

A shady attorney carrying a lot of money is murdered after making a telephone call.

7.3 /10

S1.E19 ∙ Who Killed April?

Thu, Jan 30, 1964

Carhop waitress April Adams is found murdered in an automobile scrapyard. The discovery that she had over $40,000 in the bank indicates that she had a second income that was both lucrative and illicit.

7.8 /10

S1.E20 ∙ Who Killed Carrie Cornell?

Thu, Feb 13, 1964

Carrie Cornell, singer and model, is found murdered on a beach. A photograph of her in Girlicue magazine links her to sleazy millionaire Martin Van Martin and he has disappeared.

7.3 /10

S1.E21 ∙ Who Killed His Royal Highness?

Thu, Feb 20, 1964

A man claiming to be an exiled Russian prince - not that anyone ever believed that - is murdered.

8.4 /10

S1.E22 ∙ Who Killed Marty Kelso?

Thu, Feb 27, 1964

Ruthless Hollywood agent Marty Kelso is murdered and leaves behind a plethora of suspects including a new wife and three ex-wives.

7.8 /10

S1.E23 ∙ Who Killed Avery Lord?

Thu, Mar 05, 1964

Burke and his team investigate the murder of a wealthy industrial designer.

7.1 /10

S1.E24 ∙ Who Killed Andy Zygmunt?

Thu, Mar 12, 1964

Pop artist Andy Zygmunt is fatally impaled on the spikes of one of his creations. The discovery that he blackmailed people into buying his works provides a motive and five suspects: his last four customers and the possessor of a missing fifth work.

7.6 /10

S1.E25 ∙ Who Killed the Paper Dragon?

Thu, Mar 19, 1964

During Chinese New Year celebrations, a body is found concealed in a car.

8 /10

S1.E26 ∙ Who Killed Molly?

Thu, Mar 26, 1964

Housewife Molly Baker, a brunette, is found dead in her shower, the apparent victim of a fall and drowning. But the autopsy shows that she was strangled and the discovery of blond wig hairs on four of her dresses is the first indication of her very busy secret life.

8 /10

S1.E27 ∙ Who Killed WHO IV?

Thu, Apr 02, 1964

Socialite equestrian William Henry Otis IV, nicknamed WHO IV ("WHO Four"), is beaten to death in his stable with a horseshoe from a riding trophy. The suspects are the regulars in his weekly fox hunts, among them Burke's old flame Jennifer and her husband St. John ("Sinjin") Carlisle, and, of course, the butler.

7.6 /10

S1.E28 ∙ Who Killed Annie Foran?

Thu, Apr 09, 1964

Party girl Annie Foran is found strangled in the back seat of a customer's car at the exclusive restaurant Club Nova. Suspicion falls on her ex-boyfriend, baseball sensation Eddie Dineen, who was there at the time in the company of his mentor, the acerbic columnist Whitman Saunders, and Saunder's assistant, Milo Morgan.

7.4 /10

S1.E29 ∙ Who Killed My Girl?

Thu, Apr 16, 1964

Using a .38 revolver with a silencer, an assailant murders heiress Diana Mercer in her bedroom after she's been dropped off by her date--her old flame, Amos Burke. As he investigates her death, Burke discovers that the woman who was murdered was a far cry from the one he knew and loved years earlier.

7.9 /10

S1.E30 ∙ Who Killed the Eleventh Best Dressed Woman in the World?

Thu, Apr 23, 1964

Nirvana is an upscale health spa for women only in the wooded hills near LA. The karma there is disrupted when socialite Celia Bannerman, a notorious husband stealer, is found murdered in the mud bath. Suspicion centers on the five women who shared her bungalow. Four had reasons to kill her and all received a free stay at Nirvana courtesy of an unknown party.

7.9 /10

S1.E31 ∙ Who Killed Don Pablo?

Thu, Apr 30, 1964

A waxwork in a museum turns out not to be a waxwork at all - it's a corpse.

6.7 /10

S1.E32 ∙ Who Killed 1/2 of Glory Lee?

Thu, May 07, 1964

The unpleasant Benjamin Glory, one half of the ownership of the Glory Lee fashion house, is found dead in an elevator after it crashes. But he was dead before he ever entered it, killed by "a sharp and blunt instrument".

7.5 /10