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- An exoanthropologist from the planet Mars, stranded on Earth, is rescued by Tim O'Hara, a newspaper reporter who introduces the Martian to his friends and the authorities as his uncle Martin.
- Fly plane... Bust bad guys... Fuss with niece and nephew... Eat Peter Pan Peanut Butter... Dat's it!
- A psychiatrist is given care of Rhoda Miller "real name 'AF 709'", a lifelike sophisticated but naïve android that eventually learns how human society works and begins showing "or at least emulating" rudimentary emotions.
- Barney Ruditsky is a New York City police officer in the Roaring '20s who fights organized crime. The show was loosely based on the real life Rudisky who was a New York police officer during the period.
- Susie is secretary to handsome talent agent Peter Sands and keeps getting messed up in (and messing up) his private life. She's assisted (usually) by receptionist Vi and semi-rival Sylvia. Cagey is Peter's business rival. The show alternated Sunday nights with "The Jack Benny Show."
- Martin and his nephew Andromeda return to Earth to cause havoc for Tim O'Hara.
- Steve Donovan is the law in Wyoming with Rusty Lee as his deputy in this syndicated series.
- A young man of inherited wealth hangs out a shingle advertising his services. A beautiful blonde is missing her Great Dane and Van Brunt finds bodies while exposing a smuggling ring.
- This was a pilot for a TV series that didn't make it to the series level. The man in the square suit is a 37-year-old writer who ends up being forced into the position of becoming the main writer for the TEEN BEAT tv show, where everyone else is (comparatively) a child, even the executive producer, all 22 or under. As the show begins, we see that our hero is someone who hates change. In a gimmick straight out of the old Dick van Dyke, we see him falling over furniture that his wife moved, and plunging his hand into a fish tank that used to be a bowl of peanuts before his wife rearranged his desk. At the beginning, he doesn't want anything to do with the idea of this new show. He is asked to write up a presentation for the network, but agrees only if he will not be involved with anything else. He does not want to be involved with the week-to-week running of the show. He suffers Writer's Block, unable to write anything worthwhile, even playing a tape recording of typewriter sounds so he can putt some golf balls in his den. When his wife forces him to write, he starts typing but refuses to show his daughter what he is writing. Before he can prevent it, his wife grabs the paper from the typewriter and reads it to us, all words like ZXVW and other garbage. Meanwhile, their red head daughter banters on about what is happening in her world. After the wife and daughter leave the room, he continues to try to write, but nothing comes to him, but then we hear the words that his daughter was bantering about, as something that he is hearing in his mind, and he starts writing down her words. We don't see the actual presentation, but we join them three weeks later at breakfast, where her daughter finds an article on the front page of the paper that says he is writer for a new TV show, Teen Beat. He goes down to the office to tell them that he never agreed to be the writer. The production office is full of young guys and gals all acting like those young dancers on Rowan and Martin's Laugh In. He leaves, thinking he is not the writer. The producer wanted a young writer with experience, not an old fogie with experience. Later, the young producer shows up at the man's home. Between him and the wife, they convince him (manipulate him) into becoming the writer anyway, admitting that sometimes, you have to accept an older person with experience when there are no younger ones with experience. During the rest of the show, we see our hero try to fit in at the disco, but wearing himself out, and the wife tries dancing with the produce later at their home to the new beat, but ends up dancing with her husband to some old music. I saw it as an extra item on the Season Three "My Favorite Martian" DVD set.
- Artie Moon is a paid killer who hopes to work his way up in the underworld independent of the big time mobsters. His own wife, an old family friend of Ruditsky, is not aware of how far Artie's gone, but she begs Ruditsky to help stop him before it's too late.
- Vince Matteo and Tommy Ryan have been raised together and are like brothers. When they are ordered by the mob to kill Vince's godfather, Vince balks, but helps Tommy with the hit. After Ruditsky puts the pressure on Vince and Vince is observed coming into his office, the mob orders Tommy to kill Vince.
- Gambler wanred to leave town, but he gets into rigged card game.
- When Ruditsky won't take a bribe, gang tries to frame him.
- In an effort to nail associates of Dutch Schultz, Ruditsky is ordered by Captain McCloskey to take a bribe from one of them. To set this up, Ruditsky gets close to Schultz' former girlfriend.
- Lepke Buchalter hires a novelty expert to find a new method of controlling labor disputes. The man soon comes up with an ingeniously odious (or rather odorous) method and sells Dutch Schultz on it as well.
- Little Augie Orgen begins a major racket 'protecting' businesses against strikes. Ruditsky believes he finally has him nailed, due to a witness who can swear against him in court. But a crafty move by Augie and his attorney gets him off. Now Augie has bigger problems, with his fellow mobsters Gurrah and Lepke.
- Louy Kassoff sees his sister abducted from the streets by hoodlums. (Although not explicitly stated due to the TV code at the time, the implication is that she was sexually assaulted). He is plagued by guilt because he was unable to protect her, and as a result he casts aside his rabbinical studies and decides to join a mob. Within a year ha has taken over as its leader.
- After being sent to Sing Sing for an armored car robbery in which several were killed, Louy Kassoff decides to organize the prisoners, including such future underworld figures as Dutch Schultz, Lepke Buchalter, Lucky Luciano, and Legs Diamond, by forming a "Mutual Welfare League".
- 1959–196126mTV Episode
- After the death of his sister, Louy Kassoff decides to resign from the organization he started. But his associates, worried about what he may do next, are not so willing to let him just go.
- Small-time hood Rico Silva, dubbed 'Lucky' by Barney Ruditsky after he survived having his handsome face slashed to ribbons by Legs Diamond's mob, attracts attention by promoting an ambitious plan to unite all the mobs.
- Underworld bribes police detective to hide info.
- A hit man working for Murder, Inc. is ordered to kill a woman who witnessed a hit. Instead, he winds up falling in love with the witness.
- The early days in the career of the notorious Al Capone before he left New York for Chicago.
- Crook gets into politics to protect crime interests.
- The story of the brutal crime boss Louis "Lepke" Burchalter.
- A botched hit leads to a child's death.
- A bootlegger gets in trouble when he begins to hijack shipments.
- When New York Special Prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey declares war on Dutch Schultz, describing the gangster as an "evil force that has to be destroyed," the Dutchman plots a hit on Dewey.
- Ruditzky helps an immigrant working with the mob to get rid of an illegal gun.
- Legs Diamond guns down three men in a nightclub. None of the others who saw the shooting will testify against him. Soon afterward, no less than five men who might have been able to talk turn up dead.
- Jane Cooper may be on parole, but she intends to improve her status by ditching her nobody boyfriend for a wealthier gangster. As she moves up the food chain, she plays one man off another. Strangely, each of her ex-beaus meets a tragic end. This doesn't go unnoticed by Ruditsky or the mob. She picks up the nickname "Jane the Jinx."
- Gangster Jacob Koster, a.k.a. Kid Dropper, humiliates and scars "Little Augie" Orgen, leading to a bloody feud which gets innocent people caught in the crossfires. The district attorney puts the heat on the police department and Ruditsky in particular to put an end to it. Ruditsky gets help from an unlikely source, the Kid's own mother and brother.
- After surviving a beating by crime boss Johnny Lucky, small time hood Eddie Safranik starts his own shakedown racket using Lucky's name and calling card--a lead pipe.
- A gangster kills a rival crime boss for his employer and has plans that will gets his double crossing killed.
- Two men join forces to get into the bootlegging business. As the money rolls in, one of the men decides he doesn't want to split the profits anymore.
- Miles Miller is a crooked attorney who acts as middleman between jewel thieves and insurance companies trying to make a profit. Unfortunately for Miller, a policeman and an accomplice to the crime were both killed in the latest robbery in which his client was involved.
- Ruditsky investigates a crooked judge.
- Muddy rents cars for racketeers and also tips off the police.
- Story of an ex con who makes a deal with police for a reduced sentence for a crime he committed.
- Girlfriend is murdered when she dumps bootlegger.
- In Brooklyn, the Poison Ivy Gang is robbing drugstores. Barney Ruditsky is determined to stop them.