A crime drama that focused on the lives of the detectives of New York's 65th Precinct. The emphasis in the stories was mostly on real-life crime and the human element...
Cast: Harry Bellaver, Horace McMahon, Paul Burke, Lawrence Dobkin, Kristen Harner, Micah Bradshaw, Jarod Carey, Darla Derly, Gabriella Hall, Stacy Howell, Jacklyn Lick, Shauna O'Brien, Danny Pape, Alina Thompson, Mia Zottoli
To spare a condemned killer, Halloran forces his way into a kept woman's apartment the night of the execution. Ravishing Lois Heller is anesthetizing herself with expensive champagne and romantic music, while the idealistic young detective battles to shatter the redhead's mask of cynicism.
A washed-up boxer needs fast money and desperately wants to get back into the ring to earn it despite knowing his health is at risk.
A pregnant woman's father is trying to kill her husband in order to cover up a stolen goods racket in which the two have been involved.
The detectives investigate the source of numerous death threats that have been sent to a high-powered Madison Avenue agent having many real and perceived enemies.
The detectives babysit a couple of bloodhounds belonging to a man involved in an auto accident, putting the dogs to good use while searching for a missing girl.
A payroll robbery gang hires a washed-up wheel man for a job that goes bad.
A sleazy private detective, well known to Detective Parker, is murdered while on a case to find a mysterious young lady who worked in a dance club.
Halloran goes undercover at a construction yard to see if he can find a connection between a mob-hit victim and the mobster who likely ordered the hit. He discovers an odd relationship between a benevolent man and a punch-drunk ex-boxer.
A soldier returns home to find that his baby sister has become part of a shoplifting ring that has attracted the detectives' attention.
A cleaning woman, tired of her hardscrabble life, robs a bank in an attempt to buy happiness.
A former top mob assassin is lured out of retirement by the opportunity to kill a kingpin for his 13th hit.
A recurring nightmare haunts a murderer - that he's been framed. But when his loving wife begs the 65th Precinct's skeptical detectives to re-investigate, Arnold Fleischman refuses to ...
A young hotel bellhop is mixed up with a gang of card sharps preying upon the convention crowd, and who are responsible for the killing of one of their victims.
The detectives are assigned to protect visiting Latin Americans dignitaries, including the adolescent son of a dictator and his bodyguard, a former bullfighter who is involved in a plot to kill the young man.
After Lt. Muldoon is killed in a car wreck deliberately caused by a mob hit man, the detectives pull out all the stops in their search for the killer.
A young immigrant hits a big score playing the numbers racket, but runs into complications collecting his winnings.
The detectives hunt down bootleggers on Fire Island after they shoot a revenue agent.
The detectives work to stymie a bomb threat during a ticker-tape parade for an Olympic champion.
Halloran goes undercover as the home room teacher for a "modified-curriculum" high school class after their previous home room teacher fell out of the window to his death.
George Blake regrets having strayed from his wife, and terminates the affair just moments before the woman is murdered by another jealous man. Blake is the prime suspect, and works to clear his name and find the killer.
Lt. Muldoon counsels the son of a patrolman who is trying to join the force, despite his mother's wishes that he not follow in his father's footsteps.
Matty, a down-and-out alcoholic in the Bowery, is accused of robbing and murdering a man, then using the stolen money to buy a horse-drawn cart.
Detective Halloran helps hunt down a man whom he knows, and who has always been a well-liked solid citizen before suddenly snapping and going on a killing spree throughout the city.
In a vicious downpour, a killer prods a terrified man forward using a huge spear-gun. The man with the spear-gun is a meek New Yorker living with his mother, who disapproves of her son's ...
When an elderly sewer worker learns that his son is the leader of a street gang, he begs him vainly to reform, and then tells police about his association. When the gang uses the sewers to ...
The detectives fight against time to unravel a plan to murder a Commander aboard his yacht.
The precinct investigates a brazen Christmas Eve robbery and shooting by the notorious Marco Butcher and his brother.
A naive young woman, Carol Thomas, fresh to New York, gets a mysterious phone call on her new line from a woman who sounds to be in the process of being murdered. Carol is unable to get ...
A wealthy industrialist refuses to give in to an extortionist's demands even after the extortionist brutally assaults a neighbor girl and threatens the life of the man's alienated son.
New York City detectives frantically hunt a killer who strangles married disabled women with a coat hanger, in their own homes. As the gumshoes wade through dozens of false confessions and ...
After the murder of a gangster in a barber chair, the detectives track down the victim's fiancé who is holding papers incriminating to the killers.
A thief assaults milkmen and steals their uniforms in order to gain access to and rob from wealthy people's apartment buildings.
A young gang member is assigned to perform a revenge shooting after a member of his own gang is killed.
A young detective works to redeem himself after lying about the circumstances of his partner's shooting death during a stakeout.
Detective Halloran goes undercover as a patient in a hospital mental ward in an attempt to identify the murderer of patient who was a witness in a gang killing.
Gio, who lives by fishing coins out of sidewalk grates, longs to adopt an orphaned boy who he spins yarns for, as if Gio actually was a courageous deep-sea fisherman. By working 16 hours a ...
Det. Halloran easily kills a fleeing robber who's about to shoot him, but Halloran's lingering feelings of guilt make getting through the aftermath with the man's family anguish. Halloran's...
The detectives visit the aging captain of the Staten Island Ferry at the same time that armed robbers are executing a daring heist of an armored car traveling on the ferry.
Detective Halloran's first day as a detective brings him face-to-face with a cop killer and his accomplice who're holding hostages at the New York Coliseum..