M Squad
Crime • Series

M Squad

5.4/10 1957 3 Seasons 117 Episodes Ended

Lt. Frank Ballinger is a no-nonsense plain clothes cop in the elite M Squad Division. The Squad's task is to root out organised crime and corruption in America's Second City, Chicago.

Season: 1 2 3

Season 1 Episodes

E1
The Golden Look
30 min 1957

The Squad is on the lookout for a bank robbery suspect with a unique feature, witnesses say he has gold teeth.

E2
The Watchdog
30 min 1957

Ballinger and the Squad are out to catch a burglar who may have rabies.

E3
Neighborhood Killer
30 min 1957

The squad hunts down a cop killer.

E4
Pete Loves Mary
30 min 1957

The squad goes after a jail inmate who's just escaped.

E5
Face of Evil
30 min 1957

Ballinger investigates the murders of four women. The victims were all connected to the same church and lived within two…

E6
Street of Fear
30 min 1957

Chicago cop Frank Ballinger stages a rescue in order to gain the confidence of Alice, a young woman who works for suspec…

E7
The Matinee Trade
30 min 1957

Lt. Frank Ballinger investigates the case of a gambling ring and its connection to an unidentified police officer. The d…

E8
The Hard Case
30 min 1957

A jewelry store robbery sends the thief to prison, but his claim that the night watchman, a former big-league ballplayer…

E9
Killer in Town
30 min 1957

Frank Ballinger and his colleagues on the M Squad have to find a needle in a haystack: a cop killer somewhere in the cit…

E10
Diamond Hard
30 min 1957

Lt. Frank Ballinger keeps an eye on Hazel, a bar girl with a record who nonetheless wants to go straight. He discovers s…

E11
The Alibi Witness
30 min 1957

When perennial loser Wally Gardner is identified as the perpetrator of a robbery-murder, he tells police unique details …

E12
The Specialists
30 min 1957

When a hired gunman gets himself tossed in jail following a fistfight, Lt. Frank Ballinger takes his place undercover as…

E13
Family Portrait
30 min 1957

When his partner in an investigation is killed, Lt. Frank Ballinger makes it a personal business to pin the crime on nar…

E14
The Palace Guard
30 min 1957

Gangster Tommy Hatch is wanted for murder, but the police have to keep him safe from other gangsters who want him dead b…

E15
The Slow Trap
30 min 1958

Ballinger investigates the case of a security courier who is charged with robbing himself of $75,000.

E16
The Cover Up
30 min 1958

District Attorney Grover calls for Ballinger to help him sort out a potentially embarrassing situation involving the mur…

E17
Blue Indigo
30 min 1958

The room mate of the third murder victim of the Blue Indigo serial killer may be the only link Ballinger has to catching…

E18
The Long Ride
30 min 1958

When a convicted murderer gets the upper hand on Lieutenant Ballinger during a train ride back to Chicago, his last best…

E19
The Shakedown
30 min 1958

Ballinger suspects an inside job when a dry cleaning company refuses to knuckle under to a shakedown mob.

E20
Dolly's Bear
30 min 1958

Kathy Bane, an old flame of Ballinger's, needs his help when a blackmailer trying to extort money turns up dead-- in her…

E21
Lover's Lane Killing
30 min 1958

Ballinger investigates a murder with multiple motives.

E22
The Frightened Wife
30 min 1958

A man's aunt reports her nephew is missing. Ballinger investigates.

E23
The Black Mermaid
30 min 1958

Ballinger goes undercover to capture a robbery suspect.

E24
The Man in Hiding
30 min 1958

Ballinger investigates after a bank robber leaves a pencil at the scene.

E25
Chicago Bluebeard
30 min 1958

A woman dies. Ballinger investigates.

E26
Girl Lost
30 min 1958

A woman loses her memory. Bellinger investigates.

E27
Hideout
30 min 1958

Bank robbers hide in a suburban house.

E28
Shot in the Dark
30 min 1958

A sniper is terrorizing Chicago. Ballinger joins the hunt.

E29
The Twenty-Six Girl
30 min 1958

A young wife is shot by an unknown assailant when she drives with her ex-con husband to an isolated woods in search of t…

E30
Fight
30 min 1958

A boxer's (Lancaster) life is being threatened soon after another fighter dies after fighting with Lancaster. Suspicion …

E31
Guilty Alibi
30 min 1958

A man confesses to a crime he may not have committed. Meanwhile the president of the company where the man works has bee…

E32
The Healer
30 min 1958

Lieutenant Ballinger searches for a mentally ill young woman who shot a psychiatrist, hoping all the while that he can a…

E33
Day of Terror
30 min 1958

Frank Ballinger investigates a illegal adoption racket.

E34
The $20 Plates
30 min 1958

Ballinger investigates a rash of counterfeit $20 bills.

E35
The Double Face
30 min 1958

A professional man is identified as a jewelry-store robber, threatening his freedom, not to mention his wife's reputatio…

E36
The System
30 min 1958

An illegal roving casino eludes the police and cheats players with crooked games. When Ballinger investigates, he encoun…

E37
Woman from Paris
30 min 1958
E38
Accusation
30 min 1958

A millionaire is found dead in a locked room. His young pretty wife (Fay Spain), and the big hansom driver (Ken Clark), …

Cast

Lee Marvin
Lee Marvin
Detective Lt. Frank Ballinger
Paul Newlan
Paul Newlan
Police Capt. Grey

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