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- Don Corey and Jed Sills operate Checkmate, Inc., a very high-priced detective agency in San Francisco. Helping them protect the lives of their clients is British criminologist (once an Oxford professor) Carl Hyatt.
- The son of a wealthy industrialist killed in a gun accident believes that it may have been murder.
- Carl Hyatt gets held up at a Monastery where he has an encounter with two hoodlums who threaten to kill a few of the priests that work at the Monastery he is held up at.
- 1960–196248m7.1 (17)TV EpisodeJack Bowen (basically Jack Benny playing himself) is Grand Marshal of the Pioneer Bowl. After he finds a time bomb in his briefcase, he calls Checkmate to help him. *SPOILER ALERT* Midwest wins the Pioneer Bowl 42-0.
- A young man who has just won an art contest learns that his father has been arrested for embezzling from his company. Now Checkmate must find a good influence who can stop him from turning violent.
- Checkmate is hired by the director of a music conservatory that fronts for an Eastern Bloc freedom movement to protect his cello instructor who has been targeted for assassination.
- The Checkmate team has big trouble when Joe Farrell and his gang of hoods take them hostage at gunpoint. Farrell wants Don Corey to bring his estranged wife Jean and some stolen money he hid in her apartment to a boat where he intends skipping the country. If Don fails, both Jed and Dr. Hyatt, held hostage in their separate homes, will be killed. Farrell can't go for Jean himself, as rival gangsters are out after him; to complicate things even more, Farrell has a traitor in his gang trying to intercept Don and Jean who are desperately trying to bring the money to the appointed meeting in time to save Jed and Dr. Hyatt.
- Famous defense attorney John Baker arranges for his own assassination after receiving notice that he is about to be investigated by the bar association, but then changes his mind.
- When wealthy widow Beatrice Martin Kipp hires Checkmate, Jed and Dr. Hyatt must travel with her to her ranch to discover who is trying to kill her.
- Checkmate has more than one mystery to solve when they are hired by an unknown client to protect an unknown victim from an unknown killer at Felicia Royden's remote estate. Jed and Dr. Hyatt, posing as servants for the family, are puzzled by Mrs. Royden's strange little girl, Carol, who apparently makes up wild stories for no reason, but they soon begin to think Carol may hold the key to the mystery.
- Checkmate is called in by a convention manager when one of her guest speakers vanishes and it appears he may have been a victim of blackmail.
- A well respected archaeologist is about to murder a mysterious man, supposedly dead for many years. The doctor's fiancée hires the Checkmate team to stop the murder.
- Jed goes undercover at a hobo camp to prevent the leader from being murdered.
- A Washed up Hollywood Movie Stuntman's life is being threatened by someone working on a movie he is in, Don from Checkmate steps in to try to figure out who is the one responsible for the threats & he also tries to stop him from actually murdering the stuntman who's life is hanging in the balance.
- When a judge and friend of Dr. Hyatt receives telephone calls and letters threatening his life if a man he sent to death row is e executed, Checkmate investigates the guilty man and the judge's character.
- A university-affiliated psychiatrist hires Checkmate to prevent his wife from killing a man who is allegedly blackmailing her.
- A desperate criminal, intending to flee the country, kidnaps a newly-wed bridegroom and takes his place, but not before the bride calls in Checkmate for help.
- After two attempts on his life, big game hunter Lee Tabor brings Dr. Hyatt and Carl to his home in the Malayan jungle. He asks for their help in finding out which of his three house guests is trying to kill him.
- A witness set to testify in a murder trial seeks the help of Checkmate fearing someone is attempting to discredit her testimony by making it appear that she is mentally unstable.
- The Checkmate boys have their hands full in protecting their client Danny Whitman from racketeer Frank Marsdon when Danny starts a one-man crusade against the crime king-pin and his wife. Marsdon's drunken wife, Corinne, killed two people in a car accident, and Danny, determined not to see justice thwarted by Marsdon's threats and bribes, continues to publicize the accident and subsequent trial on his television show, gaining for him the animosity of Frank Marsdon. What Checkmate doesn't know is that Danny has now become a pawn in another person's scheme against Marsdon, doubling the danger for him.
- Checkmate is hired by a pop singer's agent to investigate death threats. Jed goes undercover as an aide to the performer and travels with him to Hollywood where the threats escalate to gun shots.
- While on vacation in Tijuana, Don and Jed become involved in a murder investigation when Jed becomes the principal suspect.
- Audrey Meadows stars as a writer of a scandalous, best-selling novel based on an unsolved twenty-year old murder in her small town. She is writing a sequel that reveals the killer and hires Checkmate for protection when attempts are made to silence her.
- Checkmate is hired by the wife of a newspaper editor whose life is threatened because he opposes a local referendum that would legalize gambling.
- Checkmate tries to prevent a woman who was convicted and jailed for treason from returning to her former crimes.
- A married wealthy industrialist being considered for the position of Overseas Director at a large philanthropic organization calls Checkmate after threats are made against the woman with whom he is having an affair.
- The girlfriend of a rodeo rider calls in Checkmate because she is worried her social-climbing brother will try to harm him.
- A girl shows up at Corey's apartment, claiming that she is running from someone who is trying to kill her. However, the detectives all find that nothing she has said checks out, including her numerous aliases, and that she's actually an heiress running from a controlling grandmother. But it does appear that the part about someone trying to kill her may be the truth.
- Record label A&R man Chuck Palmer calls in Checkmate after the arrogant younger half of his hit vocal duo starts receiving threats for his escapades with married women.
- A wealthy art patroness who runs s home for struggling artists asks Checkmste to investigate when she receives death threats. Suspicion falls upon her three boarders.
- Movie star Vicky Page is accused of trying to murder an actress who's having an affair with her boyfriend. Jed Sills is hired by the studio for public relations and to keep an eye on the suicidal actress.
- A series of carefully planned "accidents" aimed at a wealthy heiress who is the wife of hospital's director is investigated by Checkmate. Don ends up as a patient after suffering an accident on the property.
- A woman hired Checkmate to prevent the murder of her father, an oil magnate. He suspects his assailant is an ex-partner and wants a private showdown with his nemesis.
- A missionary arrives from the east and contacts Checkmate to warn them about a plot to kill Tom Lin, a Chinese patriot currently in hiding in San Francisco; he has apparently been shot in the arm while trying to find Lin and warn him of the danger he is in. It soon turns out, however, that the missionary is actually an assassin sent to kill the daughter of Win Lee, a former Chinese warlord also residing in San Francisco.
- A cut-throat investor hires Checkmate to protect an incorporated ranch owner after someone takes a shot at him just before a crucial board meeting.
- Dean Stockwell guest stars as a college student out to avenge the death of his fraternity brother who was killed by a car thief.
- Barbara Rush plays a dual role as the inhibited Margaret Russell and the wild, heartless Nikki Garnett who feels no remorse for robbing a casino that results in the death of an accomplice. Checkmate is hired to prevent Nikki from destroying Margaret.
- A young widow is attacked and the only photograph of her dead husband, a Marine private is stolen. Checkmate investigates to thwart a conspiracy against her and the private the military claims never existed.