Treasury Men in Action — Season 5

Aired 7 October 1954

Aired 14 October 1954

A young Federal agent infiltrates a gang of bootleggers whose still is on board a freighter ship.

Aired 21 October 1954

As part of his settlement with the IRS, a tax cheat agrees to pay all the money he owes within ten days. However, a suspicious IRS agent believes that the man is going to pay his taxes with yet more money that he has illegally hidden from the government, and sets out to prove his case.

Aired 28 October 1954

Aired 4 November 1954

Some ingenious convicts working in a prison's print shop have begun a counterfeiting operation. The shop's foreman is deliberately looking the other way because he's up for parole in two months and wants to stay "clean."

Aired 11 November 1954

Aired 18 November 1954

Three people who own a nightclub, where much of the business is on a strictly cash basis, decide to avoid paying income taxes by skimming money from the club.

Aired 25 November 1954

Customs agents go after a ring of gangsters who are smuggling rare parrots into the U.S. from Mexico.

Aired 2 December 1954

Aired 9 December 1954

Aired 16 December 1954

A racehorse owner proves too clever for his own good. His doctored tax returns are filled with phoney deductions, attracting the attention of the T-men.

Aired 23 December 1954

A Treasury agent goes undercover at an East Coast port to break up an opium smuggling ring.

Aired 30 December 1954

Frank Shelby, ailing from heart disease, breaks into a hone at the insistence of his wife and steals government bonds that he signs the names of the recipient to and then cashes himself, thereby pocketing the stolen money.

Aired 6 January 1955

Aired 13 January 1955

A bus-company owner decides to keep a little extra money for himself by falsely reporting charitable donations as tax deductions. In a case of "poetic justice", he is carried to a Federal penitentiary in one of his own vehicles.

Aired 20 January 1955

A heartless American criminal sees an opportunity to take the troubles of a shaken Holocaust survivor and turn them to his own advantage. He violates the Neutrality Act and ships airplane parts to France for sale to a country behind the Iron Curtain.

Aired 27 January 1955

Aired 3 February 1955

Barney is an old-time gangster who's quickly losing his grip on reality. He leads his gang back into bootlegging, convinced that the prohibition days are still in effect.

Aired 10 February 1955

Aired 17 February 1955

Although the feds know that an importer is smuggling expensive Swiss jewelry into the US, they can't discover how he's doing it, despite his being under constant surveillance. They begin an undercover operation, hoping to discover his methods.

Aired 24 February 1955

Aired 3 March 1955

Aired 10 March 1955

Aired 17 March 1955

Customs agents discover large quantities of expensive--and undeclared--Cuban perfumes that are flooding the market. They soon discover a criminal ring that has a clever plan for smuggling the goods from Cuba into the US.

Aired 24 March 1955

Undercover agent Frank Ames poses as a small-time hoodlum and gets himself hired by racketeer Herb Kerry. His mission is to uncover information on the criminal's counterfeiting operation. Kerry gets suspicious because of all the questions Ames asks and gives him a job to prove he's not a cop: to carry out a "hit".

Aired 31 March 1955

After becoming interested in mobster's girl, the son of a sugar distributor gets hooked up with a gang selling illegal liquor.

Aired 7 April 1955

Paul Lacosta buries his profit from running a gambling den in the backyard to avoid paying taxes. After five years of incessant haranguing from his wife, he digs up the bills to find they've molded. Against his better judgement, they begin to spend the bills they salvaged which tips off authorities.

Aired 14 April 1955

Aired 21 April 1955

Aired 28 April 1955

Aired 5 May 1955

A somewhat nosy landlady begins to suspect that one of her tenants may be a dangerous loan shark.

Aired 12 May 1955

Aired 19 May 1955

The Secret Service is onto counterfeiter Russ Bagley who's working for a major crime syndicate. The agency's anonymous tip comes from Russ' girlfriend who's carrying on an affair with Russ' right-hand man, Nick. They figure that if they get him out of the way, they'll be free to carry on their romance and Nick will be promoted by the mob.

Aired 26 May 1955

Ben Adams picks up his younger brother, Harry, from prison after a four year sentence and gives him a job in his metal shop. Harry, though, has no intention of "going straight." He hooks up with an old criminal buddy who's heisted five cases of semi-automatics and converts them into fully automatic rifles to sell to mobsters.

Aired 2 June 1955

An enterprising crook, who wishes to improve his lot in life, lavishes jewelry on a French female opera singer.

Aired 9 June 1955

Dangerous criminal Vince Sanderson visits his estranged wife Laura who he abused leaving her with a scar. The treasury men set a trap to capture the low life but endangering the beleaguered spouse.

Aired 17 June 1955

Aired 24 June 1955

Aired 1 July 1955