Gang Busters - Season 1

1. Alvin Karpis

Aired: 3/20/1952

Detectives set out to track down a gang of international jewel thieves who have just stolen more than a million dollars worth of valuables from an estate in New York.

2. The Phantom

Charles Mendoro, an erstwhile family man, and his partner use poison gas to rob currency exchanges in Chicago.

3. The Unholy Three

FBI special agents are called in to capture the notorious bank robber and kidnapper Alvin Karpis, the machine gun blasting thug who provides the muscle for the infamous Karpis-Barker gang. Federal heat forces Karpis from hideout to hideout but Karpis always stays one step of the FBI. The G-men play their trump card and, knowing that the gangster loves fishing, manage to track their quarry to popular pier.

4. Dillinger

Federal agents set off on the trail of a family of bank robbers who have stolen more than $50,000 from an Oregon bank.

5. Bailat-Fiaschetti

A Canadian-born cat burglar tries to maintain his blissful domestic life while stealing guests jewelry at parties on both coasts and selling them to unwitting gem merchants in other major cities. Police begin to close in when one of the merchants recognizes the man from a wanted poster he accidentally saw while applying for a gun license.

6. Charles Mendoro

Police in Buffalo, NY, mount a search for a ring of deadly jewel thieves believed to be hiding across the border in Canada.

7. Homer Van Meter

A masked phantom and his gang commit a series of payroll robberies, and the police can't seem to find a trace of them.

8. O'Dell-Griffin

9. The Barrow Gang

10. The Bayless Case

The story of bank robber/forger John Richard Bayless who was nabbed after being recognized on an airplane by an alert flight attendant.

11. The Blonde Tigress

A policewoman is sent undercover to infiltrate and break up a gang led by a nasty blonde damsel.

12. The Case of Willie Sutton

13. The Dennis Case

14. The Durable Mike Malloy Case

A Depression Era gang devises a plot to take out life insurance policies on derelicts then kill them and collect the proceeds. Unfortunately, one of their intended victims proves hard to kill.

15. The Quirley Gang

16. The Red Dress

17. The Scissors Case

Connecticut State Police are desperate to apprehend the Scissors Gang who have committed over 50 robberies all across the Nutmeg State.

18. The Suma Case

19. Ma Barker

20. Norma Breighle

21. Ricco-Trapani Case

22. Teenage Trouble

23. Herbert Nole Case

24. Lawrence Case

25. Schaffer-Staley

26. The Old Trapper

27. Duchess Spinelli