About this season
Gang Busters is a 30 minute television series, hosted by Chester Morris, that aired on NBC from March 20 to Oct. 23, 1952. The series dramatized FBI cases.
Episodes (27)
1. Alvin Karpis
Aired 20 March 1952 • 30 min
Detectives set out to track down a gang of international jewel thieves who have just stolen more than a million dollars worth of valuables from an estate in New York.
2. The Phantom
Charles Mendoro, an erstwhile family man, and his partner use poison gas to rob currency exchanges in Chicago.
3. The Unholy Three
5.0FBI special agents are called in to capture the notorious bank robber and kidnapper Alvin Karpis, the machine gun blasting thug who provides the muscle for the infamous Karpis-Barker gang. Federal heat forces Karpis from hideout to hideout but Karpis always stays one step of the FBI. The G-men play their trump card and, knowing that the gangster loves fishing, manage to track their quarry to popular pier.
4. Dillinger
Federal agents set off on the trail of a family of bank robbers who have stolen more than $50,000 from an Oregon bank.
5. Bailat-Fiaschetti
A Canadian-born cat burglar tries to maintain his blissful domestic life while stealing guests jewelry at parties on both coasts and selling them to unwitting gem merchants in other major cities. Police begin to close in when one of the merchants recognizes the man from a wanted poster he accidentally saw while applying for a gun license.
6. Charles Mendoro
Police in Buffalo, NY, mount a search for a ring of deadly jewel thieves believed to be hiding across the border in Canada.
7. Homer Van Meter
A masked phantom and his gang commit a series of payroll robberies, and the police can't seem to find a trace of them.
8. O'Dell-Griffin
9. The Barrow Gang
5.010. The Bayless Case
The story of bank robber/forger John Richard Bayless who was nabbed after being recognized on an airplane by an alert flight attendant.
11. The Blonde Tigress
A policewoman is sent undercover to infiltrate and break up a gang led by a nasty blonde damsel.
12. The Case of Willie Sutton
13. The Dennis Case
14. The Durable Mike Malloy Case
A Depression Era gang devises a plot to take out life insurance policies on derelicts then kill them and collect the proceeds. Unfortunately, one of their intended victims proves hard to kill.
15. The Quirley Gang
16. Herbert Noble Case
Herbert Noble starts an illegal casino despite his wife's objections that it will attract criminal elements. He survives many attempts on his life made as a result of his failure to pay protection money to the syndicate for his gambling enterprises.
17. The Scissors Case
Connecticut State Police are desperate to apprehend the Scissors Gang who have committed over 50 robberies all across the Nutmeg State.