

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.
As labor reporter on the New York Daily Mirror, Riesel fights against racketeers by exposing them to the public.
Aired: 9/17/1959Reporter George Thiem's dilemma: loyalty to a friend or respect for the law.
Aired: 9/24/1959A persistent newsman tries to prove that a mild-mannered salesman is the murderer of two women.
Aired: 10/1/1959Two teen-agers scheme to get rich quick by passing bad checks.
Aired: 10/8/1959A respected doctor becomes the victim of an extortionist.
Aired: 10/15/1959Reporter Ed Mowery, certain that a convicted murderer is innocent, tries to have the case reopened.
Aired: 10/22/1959A plane explodes in mid-flight, killing everyone on board.
Aired: 10/29/1959Newsman Harry Romanoff tries to unmask a phony hero: he believes that the man committed a double murder.
Aired: 11/5/1959A sorority meeting and a missed bus spell death for a coed and her killer has an airtight alibi.
Aired: 11/12/1959Don Hogan of the Boston Post tries to help an amnesic regain the will to live.
Aired: 11/19/1959It takes a violent prison riot and a crusading reporter to alert the authorities to the inhuman conditions at a penal institution.
Aired: 11/26/1959To expose a shoplifting racket, fashion editor Trudy Prokop infiltrates the gang.
Aired: 12/3/1959A brilliant detective matches wits with a reporter trying to clear a man caught in a web of circumstantial evidence.
Aired: 12/10/1959A beautiful murderer proves true her claim that no jail built could hold her.
Aired: 12/17/1959A pilot becomes mentally ill after he takes part in the bombing of Hiroshima.
Aired: 12/24/1959An unusual clue helps Gene Lindsey of the Phoenix (Ariz.) Gazette solve a murder.
Aired: 12/31/1959Two newsmen track a lonely-hearts killer who has claimed three victims.
Aired: 1/7/1960Two teen-age gangs are on the verge of declaring peace when a boy returns from prison and stirs up fury anew.
Aired: 1/14/1960Reporter Matt Conklin tries to foster good feelings between a quiet Texas town and a new Air Force base.
Aired: 1/21/1960A berserk killer is on the loose in California.
Aired: 1/28/1960A soldier confesses to the murder of a beautiful girl but a stubborn reporter refuses to believe him.
Aired: 2/4/1960Police and reporters try to break a man suspected of having murdered a 15-year-old girl.
Aired: 2/11/1960Three convicts escape from a maximum-security prison by forging the warden's signature on pardons.
Aired: 2/18/1960It's Christmas week in New York, and a mad bomber is stalking the city.
Aired: 2/25/1960Reporter Leo Sheridan is called in as a character witness at the murder trial of his best friend.
Aired: 3/3/1960A cub reporter stumbles onto two bandits.
Aired: 3/10/1960William Key helps a despondent young girl on Christmas Eve.
Aired: 3/17/1960A father and his son are hunting for a lost ball that rolled under their porch and discover a woman's body.
Aired: 3/24/1960Bernice Freeman stands by her friend when he is accused of murder.
Aired: 3/31/1960A brilliant, but deranged, college student tries to carry out the perfect crime
Aired: 4/7/1960A 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.
Aired: 4/14/1960A woman brutally murders a handy man after being named the beneficiary of his life-insurance policy.
Aired: 4/21/1960A reporter, nursed by two Burmese women during the war, fights to keep them from being forced back to Burma and certain death.
Aired: 4/28/1960A wild hunch helps reporter Clayton Darrah trap two phantom bandits. The only available description is "one short, one tall."
Aired: 5/5/1960A car parked outside an uncharted cave convinces a reporter that someone is lost inside.
Aired: 5/12/1960A rest home for alcoholics, scene of five deaths within a brief period, is investigated by newsman Paul Quick.
Aired: 5/19/1960Reporter Ed Reid encounters an ex-fight manager, a singer and a boxer in his search for a missing sea captain.
Aired: 5/26/1960No overview available.
Aired: 2/1/1961The Erie, Pa., fire department is looking for the arsonist terrorizing the town.
Aired: 2/4/1961Sign in to share your thoughts with the community.