
This Man Dawson
1959–1960 · Syndication · 30 min · 1 season
S01E39 · Sweet Charity
Fri, 22 July, 9:00 am
Col. Dawson investigates when charity serves as a front for thievery.
About
Keith Andes plays a super-duper police chief in a hypothetical city who uses every cop on his beat to solve cases. Watching them all at work provides moments of tension, but Keith Andes' determined, brainy chief claims the day.
Episodes
- E01
The Source
Sun, 11 Oct· 30 minColonel Dawson's assignment: nab the leader of a powerful narcotics organization.
- E02
The Assassin
Sun, 18 Oct· 30 minA man wants Dawson fired---and Dawson's trying to save his life.
- E03
The End of Kalmine
Sun, 25 Oct· 30 minA mobster's phony businesses are the key to finishing his crime syndicate.
- E04
The Hard Way
Sun, 1 Nov· 30 minA father and son play a dangerous game with the underworld.
- E05
Intimidation
Sun, 8 Nov· 30 minCol. Dawson takes on a brutal ring of protection racketeers.
- E06
Anonymous Pursued
Sun, 15 Nov· 30 minCol. Dawson employs a shrewd scheme to blast at a web of corruption and murder when underworld criminals kill a longshoreman.
- E07
The Silent Man
Sun, 22 Nov· 30 minA man possesses evidence which would strangle the operations of a local Mafia leader but refuses to give the information to the law.
- E08
Copkiller
Sun, 29 Nov· 30 minA police veteran, demoted by Dawson, seeks revenge.
- E09
Omerta
Sun, 6 Dec· 30 minA psychopathic killer with three murders in his past fears he may commit his fourth.
- E10
Fight Game
Sun, 13 Dec· 30 minCol. Dawson moves in on a cut-throat prizefight racket.
- E11
Master Plan
Sun, 20 Dec· 30 minA courageous woman speaks up when an insidious syndicate of wiretappers plagues influential citizens.
- E12
The Deadly Young Man
Sun, 27 Dec· 30 minA schizophrenic young man kills a woman then takes the dog.
- E13
Human Predator
Sun, 3 Jan· 30 minThe daughter of a newspaper publisher is abducted. Dawson sets a trap for the kidnaper.
- E14
Three X
Sun, 10 Jan· 30 minCol. Dawson races against time to find a homicidal maniac terrorizing the city.
- E15
Short Circuit
Sun, 17 Jan· 30 minThieves are killed after a successful robbery, but where's the money?
- E16
The Big Shot
Sun, 24 Jan· 30 minCol. Frank Dawson fights a 1920's-style crime wave.
- E17
Safe Haven
Sun, 31 Jan· 30 minCol. Dawson sends an undercover agent into a rest home run by a suspicious ex-convict.
- E18
One by One
Sun, 7 Feb· 30 minCol. Dawson looks into the deaths of jurymen who convicted a spiritualist.
- E19
The Informer
Sun, 14 Feb· 30 minCol. Dawson turns his police department inside out to uncover a treacherous informer.
- E20
Get Dawson
Sun, 21 Feb· 30 minDawson is falsely accused of murder---and the mayor demands his resignation.
- E21
Thief of the City
Sun, 28 Feb· 30 minA gang of hoodlums buy a condemned apartment house for the sole purpose of starting trouble between its desperate tenants and Colonel Dawson's department.
- E22
Arson Ring
Sun, 6 Mar· 30 minA 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.
- E23
Hired to Kill a Cop
Sun, 13 Mar· 30 minCol. Dawson baits a trap for a gangster who killed a policeman.
- E24
Accessory to Murder
Sun, 20 Mar· 30 minA lawyer forced to work with the mob is witness to a killing but is afraid to testify as to what he saw.
- E25
Loose Cannon
Sun, 27 Mar· 30 minColonel Dawson realises that a veteran detective has become dangerously trigger-happy when the officer kills a youth in an attempted robbery.
- E26
Doubt of Evidence
Sun, 3 Apr· 30 minCol. Dawson (Keith Andes) attempts to protect the life of a man while trying to solve a murder.
- E27
Plague
Sun, 10 Apr· 30 minKidnapped 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.
- E28
Juvenile Delinquent
Sun, 17 Apr· 30 minCol. Dawson fights authorities anxious to make an example of a young car thief.
- E29
Out on a Ledge
Sun, 24 Apr· 30 minA man afraid to testify against the syndicate flees police and perches high on a window ledge.
- E30
The Bomber
Sun, 1 May· 30 minA man, obsessed by hatred for the police, plants home-made bombs at a police academy. His wife helps upset the plan.
- E31
Lucky Dawson
Sun, 8 May· 30 minInfighting threatens to destroy a powerful syndicate.
- E32
A Matter of Justice
Sun, 15 May· 30 minOne of Col. Dawson's men plans his own crime to avenge his mother's death.
- E33
The Bank Robbers
Sun, 22 May· 30 minCol. Dawson is confronted with the task of finding stolen money after finding the bodies of three bank robbers in three different sections of town.
- E34
Badge and Gun
Sun, 22 May· 30 minA marine sergeant on leave agrees to help Colonel Dawson set a trap to catch the murderer of his police officer brother.
- E35
Cold Civil War
Sun, 5 June· 30 minA small civil war almost engulfs Col Frank Dawson and his police force.
- E36
Arsenic and Tontine
Sun, 12 June· 30 minAn epidemic of food poisoning seems to stem from one source: artichokes.
- E37
Innocent Killer
Sun, 19 June· 30 minA smirking criminal tells Col. Dawson he's guilty of the murder for which he was acquitted.
- E38
Shopsy's Tiger
Sun, 26 June· 30 minDry-cleaning shop owners are forced to deal with a crooked supplier—or else.
- E39
Sweet Charity
Fri, 22 July· 30 minCol. Dawson investigates when charity serves as a front for thievery.
Cast

Keith Andes
Frank Dawson

William Woodson
Sgt.Ed Blankey

William Conrad
Narrator