Best of TV Detectives 150 Television Classics

Dr. Fu Manchu has poisoned the renowned Dr. Hu Yan, who is to appear at a conference of the nations of the world, and replaced him with an impostor who will disrupt the conference's goal--a plan for world peace.

Dr. Fu Manchu has stolen a deadly collection of germ cultures from a laboratory in San Francisco, and plans to smuggle them through the port of Hong Kong.

Ellery becomes involved in a murder investigation when he stops at a small, rural carnival.

When Lyle Endicott is fired from his job at an art museum, he comes up with a plan to take advantage of a trusting invalid whom he befriended at the museum.

A magician takes a simple-minded runaway under his wing. But the magician's wife has a sinister idea for the easily manipulated young man.

Bulldog Drummond is contacted by a Mrs Harriet Ludlow, wife of an old friend; her husband has invented a new antibiotic formula potentially worth a fortune, but he has been kidnapped and held for ransom. Drummond sets out to prevent the formula from reaching the hands of the villains -- with or without his client's co-operation!

An extremely strange girl called Lucy Brewer finds a corpse in the shower. Burke's suspects include an old friend, a cultivator of unusual plants, a wine snob and the dead man's daughter - or is she?

A beautiful socialite hires Drake to recover a diamond studded watch that was stolen during a casino robbery.

A Czech immigrant who worked in the underground has to get used to the way things are done in Los Angeles sheriff department.

A sniper has been targeting and shooting women in the Los Angeles area, and so far has racked up seven victims. When the police investigate the sniper's latest shooting, they begin to suspect that it may not be the sniper at all, but a copycat.

The dying daughter of a clerk wants to go to Honolulu before she dies. The clerk, knowing he'd never be able to afford it but wanting to give her what is her dying wish, begins forging checks to get the money for the trip.

A female cop goes undercover in a women's jail, and her life is in danger when a hardened killer finds out that there's an undercover cop among the inmates and sets out to find out who she is.

In order to free Clarence Redding, a drifter accused of killing a teenage girl, the Court of Last resort must track down a man who has been killing a number of girls at another location - and who pawned the red jacket he'd been wearing shortly after the murder.

John Smith, an orphan turned transient, was accused of the murder of a friend who was also a bum and sent to prison for life. He is set free when it is discovered that his arresting officer beat a confession out of him. Eventually the man John was with at the time of the crime is found and his name is finally cleared for good.

Juan Morales walked into a bar after seeing his wife Mary, with another man. But it was his wife who was sent to prison for life. After 6 years, can a new lawyer find her innocent?

Upon returning from two weeks of investigative reporting in Washington, David Chase discovers his room ransacked and a dead body lying in his closet. Before he can investigate, two thugs try to force Chase to reveal the location of a mysterious 'little black book' that Chase had no previous knowledge of. With the help of his intrepid secretary, Dorabelle, and a timely assist from Lieutenant Andrews, Chase manages to bring the killers to justice.

When a notorious gangster is subpoenaed to testify before a Congressional committee, reporter David Chase takes the same train to get an exclusive interview and discovers that other criminals don't want the crook to appear

While researching a human interest story on the waterfront, David Chase stumbles upon a smuggling operation and is shot for his troubles.

Tracy and Catchem investigate the murder of a counterfeiter and trace the engraving plates to the lair of a hoodlum known only as 'The Mole'.

While the Mole hires a crook to run his counterfeiter operation, Dick Tracy draws his net around the gangster's operation. The Mole orders two of gunsels to capture and kill the detective.

Tracy is kidnapped from his home by Flattop, who in turn tells Namgib he will kill Tracy if he is paid $50,000. Tracy escapes however, and takes Flattop out.

Tracy and Catchem investigate a series of car thefts and discover a gang who specialize in changing the appearance and serial numbers of the vehicles they've stolen.

Two jewel thieves hire out as furniture movers to gain access to the homes of the rich.

A criminal recently released from prison searches for the loot he hid before being incarcerated with Dick Tracy watching his every step.