Total Seasons :1Total 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.
Air Date : 1959-09-17
Reporter George Thiem's dilemma: loyalty to a friend or respect for the law.
Air Date : 1959-09-24
A persistent newsman tries to prove that a mild-mannered salesman is the murderer of two women.
Air Date : 1959-10-01
Two teen-agers scheme to get rich quick by passing bad checks.
Air Date : 1959-10-08
A respected doctor becomes the victim of an extortionist.
Air Date : 1959-10-15
Reporter Ed Mowery, certain that a convicted murderer is innocent, tries to have the case reopened.
Air Date : 1959-10-22
A plane explodes in mid-flight, killing everyone on board.
Air Date : 1959-10-29
Newsman Harry Romanoff tries to unmask a phony hero: he believes that the man committed a double murder.
Air Date : 1959-11-05
A sorority meeting and a missed bus spell death for a coed and her killer has an airtight alibi.
Air Date : 1959-11-12
Don Hogan of the Boston Post tries to help an amnesic regain the will to live.
Air Date : 1959-11-19
It takes a violent prison riot and a crusading reporter to alert the authorities to the inhuman conditions at a penal institution.
Air Date : 1959-11-26
To expose a shoplifting racket, fashion editor Trudy Prokop infiltrates the gang.
Air Date : 1959-12-03
A brilliant detective matches wits with a reporter trying to clear a man caught in a web of circumstantial evidence.
Air Date : 1959-12-10
A beautiful murderer proves true her claim that no jail built could hold her.
Air Date : 1959-12-17
A pilot becomes mentally ill after he takes part in the bombing of Hiroshima.
Air Date : 1959-12-24
An unusual clue helps Gene Lindsey of the Phoenix (Ariz.) Gazette solve a murder.
Air Date : 1959-12-31
Two newsmen track a lonely-hearts killer who has claimed three victims.
Air Date : 1960-01-07
Two teen-age gangs are on the verge of declaring peace when a boy returns from prison and stirs up fury anew.
Air Date : 1960-01-14
Reporter Matt Conklin tries to foster good feelings between a quiet Texas town and a new Air Force base.
Air Date : 1960-01-21
A berserk killer is on the loose in California.
Air Date : 1960-01-28
A soldier confesses to the murder of a beautiful girl but a stubborn reporter refuses to believe him.
Air Date : 1960-02-04
Police and reporters try to break a man suspected of having murdered a 15-year-old girl.
Air Date : 1960-02-11
Three convicts escape from a maximum-security prison by forging the warden's signature on pardons.
Air Date : 1960-02-18
It's Christmas week in New York, and a mad bomber is stalking the city.
Air Date : 1960-02-25
Reporter Leo Sheridan is called in as a character witness at the murder trial of his best friend.
Air Date : 1960-03-03
A cub reporter stumbles onto two bandits.
Air Date : 1960-03-10
William Key helps a despondent young girl on Christmas Eve.
Air Date : 1960-03-17
A father and his son are hunting for a lost ball that rolled under their porch and discover a woman's body.
Air Date : 1960-03-24
Bernice Freeman stands by her friend when he is accused of murder.
Air Date : 1960-03-31
A brilliant, but deranged, college student tries to carry out the perfect crime
Air Date : 1960-04-07
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.
Air Date : 1960-04-14
A woman brutally murders a handy man after being named the beneficiary of his life-insurance policy.
Air Date : 1960-04-21
A reporter, nursed by two Burmese women during the war, fights to keep them from being forced back to Burma and certain death.
Air Date : 1960-04-28
A wild hunch helps reporter Clayton Darrah trap two phantom bandits. The only available description is "one short, one tall."
Air Date : 1960-05-05
A car parked outside an uncharted cave convinces a reporter that someone is lost inside.
Air Date : 1960-05-12
A rest home for alcoholics, scene of five deaths within a brief period, is investigated by newsman Paul Quick.
Air Date : 1960-05-19
Reporter Ed Reid encounters an ex-fight manager, a singer and a boxer in his search for a missing sea captain.
Air Date : 1960-05-26
Air Date : 1961-02-01
The Erie, Pa., fire department is looking for the arsonist terrorizing the town.
Air Date : 1961-02-04