The Source
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Oct 10, 1959
Colonel Dawson's assignment: nab the leader of a powerful narcotics organization.
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Oct 10, 1959
Colonel Dawson's assignment: nab the leader of a powerful narcotics organization.
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Oct 17, 1959
A man wants Dawson fired---and Dawson's trying to save his life.
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Oct 24, 1959
A mobster's phony businesses are the key to finishing his crime syndicate.
Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Oct 31, 1959
A father and son play a dangerous game with the underworld.
Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Nov 7, 1959
Col. Dawson takes on a brutal ring of protection racketeers.
Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Nov 14, 1959
Col. Dawson employs a shrewd scheme to blast at a web of corruption and murder when underworld criminals kill a longshoreman.
Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Nov 21, 1959
A man possesses evidence which would strangle the operations of a local Mafia leader but refuses to give the information to the law.
Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Nov 28, 1959
A police veteran, demoted by Dawson, seeks revenge.
Episode: 1x09 | Airdate: Dec 5, 1959
A psychopathic killer with three murders in his past fears he may commit his fourth.
Episode: 1x10 | Airdate: Dec 12, 1959
Col. Dawson moves in on a cut-throat prizefight racket.
Episode: 1x11 | Airdate: Dec 19, 1959
A courageous woman speaks up when an insidious syndicate of wiretappers plagues influential citizens.
Episode: 1x12 | Airdate: Dec 26, 1959
A schizophrenic young man kills a woman then takes the dog.
Episode: 1x13 | Airdate: Jan 2, 1960
The daughter of a newspaper publisher is abducted. Dawson sets a trap for the kidnaper.
Episode: 1x14 | Airdate: Jan 9, 1960
Col. Dawson races against time to find a homicidal maniac terrorizing the city.
Episode: 1x15 | Airdate: Jan 16, 1960
Thieves are killed after a successful robbery, but where's the money?
Episode: 1x16 | Airdate: Jan 23, 1960
Col. Frank Dawson fights a 1920's-style crime wave.
Episode: 1x17 | Airdate: Jan 30, 1960
Col. Dawson sends an undercover agent into a rest home run by a suspicious ex-convict.
Episode: 1x18 | Airdate: Feb 6, 1960
Col. Dawson looks into the deaths of jurymen who convicted a spiritualist.
Episode: 1x19 | Airdate: Feb 13, 1960
Col. Dawson turns his police department inside out to uncover a treacherous informer.
Episode: 1x20 | Airdate: Feb 20, 1960
Dawson is falsely accused of murder---and the mayor demands his resignation.
Episode: 1x21 | Airdate: Feb 27, 1960
A gang of hoodlums buy a condemned apartment house for the sole purpose of starting trouble between its desperate tenants and Colonel Dawson's department.
Episode: 1x22 | Airdate: Mar 5, 1960
A large-scale arson operation is called to Col. Dawson's attention when a night watchman is killed in the sixth of a series of mysterious fires.
Episode: 1x23 | Airdate: Mar 12, 1960
Col. Dawson baits a trap for a gangster who killed a policeman.
Episode: 1x24 | Airdate: Mar 19, 1960
A lawyer forced to work with the mob is witness to a killing but is afraid to testify as to what he saw.
Episode: 1x25 | Airdate: Mar 26, 1960
Colonel Dawson realises that a veteran detective has become dangerously trigger-happy when the officer kills a youth in an attempted robbery.
Episode: 1x26 | Airdate: Apr 2, 1960
Col. Dawson (Keith Andes) attempts to protect the life of a man while trying to solve a murder.
Episode: 1x27 | Airdate: Apr 9, 1960
Kidnapped from an ambulance by two of his former partners in crime, "Jumpy" Hagen sets his captors a serious problem when his illness is diagnosed as bubonic plague.
Episode: 1x28 | Airdate: Apr 16, 1960
Col. Dawson fights authorities anxious to make an example of a young car thief.
Episode: 1x29 | Airdate: Apr 23, 1960
A man afraid to testify against the syndicate flees police and perches high on a window ledge.
Episode: 1x30 | Airdate: Apr 30, 1960
A man, obsessed by hatred for the police, plants home-made bombs at a police academy. His wife helps upset the plan.
Episode: 1x31 | Airdate: May 7, 1960
Infighting threatens to destroy a powerful syndicate.
Episode: 1x32 | Airdate: May 14, 1960
One of Col. Dawson's men plans his own crime to avenge his mother's death.
Episode: 1x33 | Airdate: May 21, 1960
Col. Dawson is confronted with the task of finding stolen money after finding the bodies of three bank robbers in three different sections of town.
Episode: 1x34 | Airdate: May 21, 1960
A marine sergeant on leave agrees to help Colonel Dawson set a trap to catch the murderer of his police officer brother.
Episode: 1x35 | Airdate: Jun 4, 1960
A small civil war almost engulfs Col Frank Dawson and his police force.
Episode: 1x36 | Airdate: Jun 11, 1960
An epidemic of food poisoning seems to stem from one source: artichokes.
Episode: 1x37 | Airdate: Jun 18, 1960
A smirking criminal tells Col. Dawson he's guilty of the murder for which he was acquitted.
Episode: 1x38 | Airdate: Jun 25, 1960
Dry-cleaning shop owners are forced to deal with a crooked supplier—or else.
Episode: 1x39 | Airdate: Jul 21, 1960
Col. Dawson investigates when charity serves as a front for thievery.