

The Investigators
1961 · CBS · 60 min · 1 season
S01E13 · The Dead End Men
Fri, 29 Dec, 12:00 pm
A presumed-dead man requests an insurance company to update his beneficiary.
About
B/W crime drama series that narrated the adventures of five insurance investigators, Russ Andrews, Bill Davis, Danny Clayton, Steve Banks and female investigator Maggie Peters. Polly Walters was the office secretary. These operators ran an agency which dealt with fraud and scam cases that involved insurance premiums.
Episodes
- E01
Murder on Order
Fri, 6 Oct· 60 minSix dance lessons from Madame Lucia Varrancourt could be dangerous; at least, it would appear that way, when suspicion regarding supposed accidental deaths leads to a dance studio.
- E02
The Oracle
Fri, 13 Oct· 60 minA religious tabernacle and its robed prophet, Nostradamus, The Oracle, fall under the scrutiny of insurance investigator Russ Andrews and Steve Banks when members of his fanatical following begin liquidating their endowment and annuity policies to turn the funds over to the Nostradamus Foundation.
- E03
New Sound for the Blues
Fri, 20 Oct· 60 minKitty Harper is a nightclub pianist. Her son, Ted Harper, is shot to death in an office building, and Kitty accuses Andrews (James Franciscus) of killing her son.
- E04
I Thee Kill
Fri, 27 Oct· 60 minA struggling artist, whose wealthy fiancée has jilted him, is the prime suspect after a sniper kills the girl's bridegroom. Wanting to take a last glimpse at the gal that got away, Jack Daley's in the crowd when the groom is killed, thereby making him a prime suspect. Insurance investigator Russ Andrews gets on the case, learning that his former service pal is wanted for murder.
- E05
Quite a Woman
Fri, 3 Nov· 60 minMinna Carter, a once-famous beauty of the silent screen, is indignant at investigator Russ Andrews' suggestion that her insurance claim may not be a valid one.
- E06
Style of Living
Fri, 10 Nov· 60 minValerie Corbin, a socialite, tells the investigators her husband has gambled himself into debt and she is afraid that the man who holds the lOU's will kill him.
- E07
In a Mirror, Darkly
Fri, 17 Nov· 60 minWhen Manon Cuchet, a female fashion designer, reports the loss of her exclusive fall line in a fire, the Investigators get an anonymous tip which touches off an inquiry into the activities of the couturiere.
- E08
De Luca
Fri, 24 Nov· 60 minBanks suspects fisherman John De Luca deliberately set fire to his own home. Investigation of the fire in a cannery community brings Steve Banks into close contact with the life and family of an angler, who tries to interest him in his headstrong daughter.
- E09
Death Leaves a Tip
Fri, 1 Dec· 60 minThe investigators track down a mysterious killer who preys on waitresses but not in time to prevent the death of a young girl employed by a woman restaurant owner (Jane Wyman.)
- E10
Panic Wagon
Fri, 8 Dec· 60 minA wealthy horse breeder dies in an avalanche set off by a construction company's dynamite charge and The Investigators suspect it was not accidental.
- E11
The Mind's Own Fire
Fri, 15 Dec· 60 minMaggie Peters becomes romantically drawn to the insecure young heir of a factory fortune as she investigates a mysterious series of fires in a New England industrial town. Female investigator Mary Murphy discovers that it's difficult to remain impersonal when she becomes acquainted with an insecure young heir to a factory fortune. In her attempt to unravel the mystery behind a series of fires, the pretty detective runs into some pitfalls.
- E12
Something for Charity
Fri, 22 Dec· 60 minBecause she needs the money, Charirty Kittridge reluctantly poses as a pigeon to trap a murder-for-insurance ring. She refuses a strong man (Cal Bolder) as her pigeon "bridegroom," so investigator Steve Banks (James Philbrook) takes the role for the faked marriage. This sets the trap for the murder ring to expose themselves. Co-investigator Russ Andrews keeps the plan from backfiring when Charity comes close to really being killed.
- E13
The Dead End Men
Fri, 29 Dec· 60 minA presumed-dead man requests an insurance company to update his beneficiary.
Cast

James Franciscus
Russ Andrews

Alan Austin
Bill Davis

James Philbrook
Steve Banks

Mary Murphy
Maggie Peters

Asher Dann
Danny Clayton

June Kenny
Polly Walters



