Original title
Deadline
Released
9/17/1959
Origin country
US
Genre
Drama
Production companies
UCLA Film and Television Archive
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
1
Number of episodes
39
Deadline is a 1959-1961 American television drama series that re-enacted famous newspaper stories from the past. Hosted and narrated by Paul Stewart, the syndicated series was produced by Arnold Perl. Guest stars included Peter Falk, Diane Ladd, Robert Lansing, and George Maharis. Thirty-nine 30-minute episodes were produced.
As labor reporter on the New York Daily Mirror, Riesel fights against racketeers by exposing them to the public.
Reporter George Thiem's dilemma: loyalty to a friend or respect for the law.
A persistent newsman tries to prove that a mild-mannered salesman is the murderer of two women.
Two teen-agers scheme to get rich quick by passing bad checks.
A respected doctor becomes the victim of an extortionist.
Reporter Ed Mowery, certain that a convicted murderer is innocent, tries to have the case reopened.
A plane explodes in mid-flight, killing everyone on board.
Newsman Harry Romanoff tries to unmask a phony hero: he believes that the man committed a double murder.
A sorority meeting and a missed bus spell death for a coed and her killer has an airtight alibi.
Don Hogan of the Boston Post tries to help an amnesic regain the will to live.
It takes a violent prison riot and a crusading reporter to alert the authorities to the inhuman conditions at a penal institution.
To expose a shoplifting racket, fashion editor Trudy Prokop infiltrates the gang.
A brilliant detective matches wits with a reporter trying to clear a man caught in a web of circumstantial evidence.
A beautiful murderer proves true her claim that no jail built could hold her.
A pilot becomes mentally ill after he takes part in the bombing of Hiroshima.
An unusual clue helps Gene Lindsey of the Phoenix (Ariz.) Gazette solve a murder.
Two newsmen track a lonely-hearts killer who has claimed three victims.
Two teen-age gangs are on the verge of declaring peace when a boy returns from prison and stirs up fury anew.
Reporter Matt Conklin tries to foster good feelings between a quiet Texas town and a new Air Force base.
A berserk killer is on the loose in California.
A soldier confesses to the murder of a beautiful girl but a stubborn reporter refuses to believe him.
Police and reporters try to break a man suspected of having murdered a 15-year-old girl.
Three convicts escape from a maximum-security prison by forging the warden's signature on pardons.
It's Christmas week in New York, and a mad bomber is stalking the city.
Reporter Leo Sheridan is called in as a character witness at the murder trial of his best friend.
A cub reporter stumbles onto two bandits.
William Key helps a despondent young girl on Christmas Eve.
A father and his son are hunting for a lost ball that rolled under their porch and discover a woman's body.
Bernice Freeman stands by her friend when he is accused of murder.
A brilliant, but deranged, college student tries to carry out the perfect crime
A photo studio is the cover for a racket swindling the citizens of Columbus, Ohio, to the tune of a quarter of a million dollars a year.
A woman brutally murders a handy man after being named the beneficiary of his life-insurance policy.
A reporter, nursed by two Burmese women during the war, fights to keep them from being forced back to Burma and certain death.
A wild hunch helps reporter Clayton Darrah trap two phantom bandits. The only available description is "one short, one tall."
A car parked outside an uncharted cave convinces a reporter that someone is lost inside.
A rest home for alcoholics, scene of five deaths within a brief period, is investigated by newsman Paul Quick.
Reporter Ed Reid encounters an ex-fight manager, a singer and a boxer in his search for a missing sea captain.
The Erie, Pa., fire department is looking for the arsonist terrorizing the town.
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