Seasons
The Erie, Pa., fire department is looking for the arsonist terrorizing the town.
Reporter Ed Reid encounters an ex-fight manager, a singer and a boxer in his search for a missing sea captain.
A rest home for alcoholics, scene of five deaths within a brief period, is investigated by newsman Paul Quick.
A car parked outside an uncharted cave convinces a reporter that someone is lost inside.
A wild hunch helps reporter Clayton Darrah trap two phantom bandits. The only available description is "one short, one tall."
A reporter, nursed by two Burmese women during the war, fights to keep them from being forced back to Burma and certain death.
A woman brutally murders a handy man after being named the beneficiary of his life-insurance policy.
A photo studio is the cover for a racket swindling the citizens of Columbus, Ohio, to the tune of a quarter of a million dollars a year.
A brilliant, but deranged, college student tries to carry out the perfect crime
Bernice Freeman stands by her friend when he is accused of murder.
A father and his son are hunting for a lost ball that rolled under their porch and discover a woman's body.
William Key helps a despondent young girl on Christmas Eve.
Reporter Leo Sheridan is called in as a character witness at the murder trial of his best friend.
It's Christmas week in New York, and a mad bomber is stalking the city.
Three convicts escape from a maximum-security prison by forging the warden's signature on pardons.
Police and reporters try to break a man suspected of having murdered a 15-year-old girl.
A soldier confesses to the murder of a beautiful girl but a stubborn reporter refuses to believe him.
Reporter Matt Conklin tries to foster good feelings between a quiet Texas town and a new Air Force base.
Two teen-age gangs are on the verge of declaring peace when a boy returns from prison and stirs up fury anew.
Two newsmen track a lonely-hearts killer who has claimed three victims.
An unusual clue helps Gene Lindsey of the Phoenix (Ariz.) Gazette solve a murder.
A pilot becomes mentally ill after he takes part in the bombing of Hiroshima.
A beautiful murderer proves true her claim that no jail built could hold her.
A brilliant detective matches wits with a reporter trying to clear a man caught in a web of circumstantial evidence.
To expose a shoplifting racket, fashion editor Trudy Prokop infiltrates the gang.
It takes a violent prison riot and a crusading reporter to alert the authorities to the inhuman conditions at a penal institution.
Don Hogan of the Boston Post tries to help an amnesic regain the will to live.
A sorority meeting and a missed bus spell death for a coed and her killer has an airtight alibi.
Newsman Harry Romanoff tries to unmask a phony hero: he believes that the man committed a double murder.
Reporter Ed Mowery, certain that a convicted murderer is innocent, tries to have the case reopened.
A persistent newsman tries to prove that a mild-mannered salesman is the murderer of two women.
Reporter George Thiem's dilemma: loyalty to a friend or respect for the law.
Description
Deadline is a 1959-1961 American television drama series that re-enacted famous newspaper stories from the past. Hosted and narrated by Paul Stewart, the syndicated series was produced by Arnold Perl. Guest stars included Peter Falk, Diane Ladd, Robert Lansing, and George Maharis. Thirty-nine 30-minute episodes were produced.
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Genres
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CastPaul Stewart
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Channel
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Premiere DateSeptember 17, 1959
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Rating6 (2)
