Bourbon Street Beat - Season 1

Bourbon Street Beat - Season 1

First aired: 10/5/1959 39 episodes
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Episodes

Episode 1

1. The Taste of Ashes

Aired: 10/5/1959

A New Orleans private eye searches for the killers of his partner and turns to a local police officer for help bringing the murderers to justice.

2. The Mourning Cloak

Aired: 10/12/1959

Rex and Melody Lee go to the decrepit Cavanagh plantation to investigate ghostly appearances that are driving a woman insane.

3. Torch Song for Trumpet

Aired: 10/19/1959

Cal takes on a murder case to prove a hot-tempered ex-con didn't beat his boss to death with a trumpet.

4. Woman in the River

Aired: 10/26/1959

Rex and Cal investigate a disappearance in a wealthy New Orleans family.

5. Girl in Trouble

Aired: 11/2/1959

Cal sets out to prove a friend is innocent of murder and investigates a gangland killing.

6. The Tiger Moth

Aired: 11/9/1959

The investigators look into the apparent suicide of a jazz musician.

7. Secret of Hyacinth Bayou

Aired: 11/16/1959

Cal becomes entangled in a blackmail/murder plot when he is savagely beaten and framed for murder by an old swamp-dweller hiding a secret.

8. Invitation to a Murder

Aired: 11/23/1959

Rex is invited to witness a murder by an enigmatic killer who switches victims and leaves the detectives trying to sort out a houseful of straying wives, night club operators, newsmen, and other New Orleans characters, each with a motive for the murder.

9. Mrs. Viner Vanishes

Aired: 11/30/1959

Hired to find a missing wife, Cal soon becomes caught up in a deadly game of hide-and-seek.

10. Light Touch of Terror

Aired: 12/7/1959

Kenny is convinced that a notorius New Orleans killer, the Axeman, has returned when a similar killing occurs.

11. The Golden Beetle

Aired: 12/14/1959

A missing man, a stolen talisman and some vanished letters are all connected as the detectives search for answers and find pirate treasure.

12. The Black Magnolia

Aired: 12/21/1959

Cal uncovers a family's skeletons when he searches for a missing fortune and a secret killer.

13. Portrait of Lenore

Aired: 12/28/1959

Rex searches for a stolen painting, becoming involved in a missing persons case and a murder.

14. Kill with Kindness

Aired: 1/4/1960

Cal poses as a handyman at a mansion to discover who's trying to poison a humanitarian.

15. Inside Man

Aired: 1/11/1960

Rex goes undercover in a prison gang and joins a prison break.

16. Find My Face

Aired: 1/18/1960

Rex and Cal try to identify an accident victim, who refuses to accept his wife and doctor's assurances that he's a wealthy executive and instead claims to be someone else entirely.

17. Knock on Any Tombstone

Aired: 1/25/1960

Rex tangles with voodoo when he searches for the person using the New Orleans religion against a client's father.

18. Key to the City

Aired: 2/1/1960

Cal and Kenny search for killers aboard a riverboat bound for New Orleans.

19. The 10% Blues

Aired: 2/8/1960

Cal and Rex go up against imported killers to find the elusive power behind a talent agency using gangster tactics to get clients.

20. Melody in Diamonds

Aired: 2/15/1960

Melody is targeted by a con artist when she borrows a valuable necklace for Mardi Gras.

21. The House of Ledezan

Aired: 2/22/1960

Rex is hired to prove an heiress innocent of her father's murder.

22. Target of Hate

Aired: 3/7/1960

An assassin uses Rex and Cal's office to set up a political killing. Trapped, the detectives try to goad the killer into a confession that could turn his crony against him.

23. The Missing Queen

Aired: 3/14/1960

Cal searches for a missing beauty contestant.

24. Neon Nightmare

Aired: 3/21/1960

Cal is hired to break up a political gang with a stranglehold on a small town, but must end his partnership with Rex to avoid suspicion.

25. Wall of Silence

Aired: 3/28/1960

Investigating a client's suspicious suicide leads Rex to a strange island under the sway of a mysterious blackmailer.

26. Twice Betrayed

Aired: 4/4/1960

Set up by a crooked cop, Cal loses his investigator's license.

27. Swamp Fire

Aired: 4/11/1960

Cal and Rex are hired by an oil company to find the truth behind eerie swamp fire images that are driving Cajun workmen to quit en masse.

28. If A Body

Aired: 4/18/1960

Cal uncovers a diamond-smuggling ring—but his sleuthing threatens to send him to the bottom of the Mississippi.

29. Six Hours to Midnight

Aired: 4/25/1960

Cal has six hours to uncover evidence that a condemned man is innocent of murder.

30. Last Exit

Aired: 5/2/1960

Rex flies to the Caribbean to find a client's missing daughter and the man he believes killed his son.

31. Deadly Persuasion

Aired: 5/9/1960

Cal is hired to help investigate a boys' reformatory and is taken hostage by three desperate youths during an uprising.

32. Suitable for Framing

Aired: 5/16/1960

A beautiful woman hires Rex when she suspects her husband of trying to kill her, but when he goes to check out her mansion he finds himself at the wrong end of a murder investigation.

33. False Identity

Aired: 5/23/1960

Cal is hired to find a missing husband and uncovers a strange murder plot.

34. Green Hell

Aired: 5/30/1960

Rex gets caught between two power-mongering revolutionaries when a tropical nation hires him to recover vital information.

35. Ferry to Algiers

Aired: 6/6/1960

Rex and Cal go off on a fishing trip, leaving Kenny Madison in charge of the office. Kenny's first assignment is to guard an elderly shopkeeper.

36. Wagon Show

Aired: 6/13/1960

A circus owner hires Cal to recover an escaped chimp, but while he's searching for the beast he uncovers a tense love triangle that leads to murder.

37. Interrupted Wedding

Aired: 6/20/1960

Rex helps a lovely young private eye investigate a bomb discovered at a society wedding and ends up in the clutches of a pair of siblings intent on avenging their parents' long-ago deaths at the hands of a trucking magnate.

38. Reunion

Aired: 6/27/1960

Cal races to locate a runaway teen before quarreling crimelords can get to her.

39. Teresa

Aired: 7/4/1960

Rex runs into gangsters and a hurricane while searching for a missing playboy at an island casino.