Sammy's Friend
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Jan 3, 1959
Shannon meets the DA for the first time and accepts an assignment to track a gangland killer.
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Jan 3, 1959
Shannon meets the DA for the first time and accepts an assignment to track a gangland killer.
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Jan 10, 1959
Shannon, posing as an ex-con tries to break up a gun-rental racket.
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Jan 17, 1959
Wanted: hijackers who specialize in stealing electronic equipment.
Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Jan 24, 1959
Assignment: smash a bogus union that preys on small businessmen.
Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Jan 31, 1959
The president of a produce firm is beaten and robbed by two thugs. The victim believes that the men are former employees of the firm. Shannon poses as an insurance investigator and attempts to find the criminals.
Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Feb 7, 1959
Shannon poses as an unemployed musician to get the dope on narcotics pushers.
Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Feb 14, 1959
Shannon poses as a Bowery drifter to investigate the deaths of two derelicts. Louis Kemplar, a saloon keeper, was the beneficiary of the insurance policies that Kemplar had something to do with their deaths.
Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Feb 21, 1959
Missing: a lawyer who represents the head of a bookmaking syndicate.
Episode: 1x09 | Airdate: Mar 7, 1959
Model Nancy Ward is Shannon's only link to a gang of jewel thieves.
Episode: 1x10 | Airdate: Mar 14, 1959
Shannon unwittingly jeopardizes a young boy's life.
Episode: 1x11 | Airdate: Mar 21, 1959
Shannon's investigation of a racket takes him to Greenwich Village.
Episode: 1x12 | Airdate: Mar 28, 1959
An explosion calls attention to a bootlegging operation in Manhattan, and Shannon sets out to find its operators.
Episode: 1x13 | Airdate: Apr 4, 1959
Shannon's after a thief and he has just one clue: the culprit is an Indian.
Episode: 1x14 | Airdate: Apr 11, 1959
Shannon mingles with a trio of murder suspects, hoping to get one of them to turn state's evidence.
Episode: 1x15 | Airdate: Apr 18, 1959
An extortion ring becomes Shannon's target as he zeroes in on their operation.
Episode: 1x16 | Airdate: Apr 25, 1959
Two youths kidnap a 7-year-old boy.
Episode: 1x17 | Airdate: May 2, 1959
Shannon tries to straighten out crooked prize fights.
Episode: 1x18 | Airdate: May 9, 1959
Shannon infiltrates a shoplifting racket by posing as a thief.
Episode: 1x19 | Airdate: May 16, 1959
A seemingly solid citizen, John Psaty, is suspected by assistant D.A. Bonacorsi of heading a complex numbers syndicate. Posing as the
brother of a murdered gangster, Shannon manages to meet Psaty.
Episode: 1x20 | Airdate: May 23, 1959
A gypsy con game brings Shannon closer to a mystic with ulterior motives.
Episode: 1x21 | Airdate: May 30, 1959
Shannon tries to nail a vice racket.
Episode: 1x22 | Airdate: Jun 6, 1959
Shannon befriends a narcotics addict hoping that she'll lead him to her supplier.
Episode: 1x23 | Airdate: Jun 13, 1959
Strange poetry readings give Shannon a lead to a robbery gang.
Episode: 1x24 | Airdate: Jun 20, 1959
Masquerading as a candy salesman, Shannon joins a murder investigation in upstate New York.
Episode: 1x25 | Airdate: Jun 27, 1959
Shannon infiltrates a ring of fur thieves.
Episode: 1x26 | Airdate: Jul 4, 1959
Flight 729 is bound for Chicago with a fortune in stolen jewels aboard.