Original title
Racket Squad
Released
6/7/1951
Origin country
US
Genre
Action & Adventure, Crime, Drama
Production companies
Hal Roach Studios
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
3
Number of episodes
98
Racket Squad is an American TV crime drama series starring Reed Hadley as Captain John Braddock, a fictional detective working for the San Francisco, California Police Department. The show aired in syndication for a season before being picked up by CBS for three seasons. The series was filmed at Hal Roach Studios in Culver City, California, and was sponsored by cigarette manufacturer Philip Morris, hence there was a pack of the sponsor's brand on Braddock's desk at the beginning and end of the episode, as well as occasional scenes of him or other characters "lighting up".
A private Las Vegas casino operator alters his customers' checks before they are deposited.
A young couple who own a gas station get taken in by an escrow scam that resells their station and leaves them with nothing.
Captain Braddock investigates a ruthless loanshark harassing an immigrant tailor.
Capt. Braddock tries to locate a pair of swindlers who are trying to fleece a recently widowed lady out of three thousand dollars for a worthless portrait of her late husband.
A phony lawyer takes advantage of bickering couples by encouraging divorce and then charging exorbitant fees to arrange things.
A small time crook squeals on a gangster who runs a gambling ring.
A phony scientist who invents a "machine" bilks a greedy investor.
Using his smokin' hot daughter as bait, a con man sells a system for betting on horses to a man who has the hots for the daughter.
Braddock starts a crackdown on an organized begging racket.
Several businessmen get conned into participating in a phony oil deal.
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