The Lone Wolf — Season 1

Aired 9 April 1954 • 30 min

Sharing a taxicab with a ballet dancer leads Lanyard to smuggled rubies and a confrontation with hijackers.

Aired 16 April 1954 • 30 min

Visiting Reno to find a woman who supposedly died during the war, Mike is implicated in the death of two government couriers and ends up on a stalled train looking for stolen explosives.

Aired 23 April 1954 • 30 min

In San Francisco's Chinatown, Mike helps an old friend stop a campaign of intimidation and murder.

Aired 30 April 1954 • 30 min

In London, Lanyard is investigating threats against the life of a world-famous ballet dancer when she apparently commits suicide.

Aired 14 May 1954 • 30 min

Lanyard is recruited by the Govt. to find out where all the top criminals have been disappearing to. He is to contact an agent named Anson is New York. Upon contact Anson is killed and the only lead he leaves Lanyard is key to the Blue Lantern dance hall. The attempt to infiltrate fails and his next gamble takes him to the Blue Lantern in New Orleans where he is more successful and the final key to the puzzle leads him to the Copper Mountain Lodge in Nevada.

Aired 14 May 1954 • 30 min

Mike's vacation at a Sun Valley ski lodge is interrupted by murder.

Aired 21 May 1954 • 30 min

Mike is summoned to a sugar plantation in Manila to investigate illegal dumping by a competitor.

Aired 28 May 1954 • 30 min

In San Francisco, Mike follows a lead on the man who double-crossed him and murdered his business partner five years ago.

Aired 4 June 1954 • 30 min

A weekend party in Malibu takes an ominous turn when the host's diamonds are stolen and the dead body of his wife washes up on the beach.

Aired 11 June 1954 • 30 min

Mike is asked by a psychiatrist to investigate a patient who claims to have committed a murder but can't remember the details.

Aired 18 June 1954 • 30 min

Lanyard goes from New Orleans to Hawaii to discover how rubies and opium are being smuggled in from Hong Kong.

Aired 2 July 1954 • 30 min

Lanyard gets a request from Father Picard to make a last-ditch effort to save the life of a prisoner on death row with 36 hours to live.

Aired 9 July 1954 • 30 min

Mike tries to help an estranged brother and sister, each of whom believes that the other caused the death of their father in a supposedly accidental cave-in.

Aired 9 July 1954 • 30 min

Mike finds a surprise waiting for him when he goes to Pakistan to protect a religious leader's son whose life has been threatened.

Aired 16 July 1954 • 30 min

In this first episode of the series Lanyard arrives in Las Vegas on vacation, where he gets involved with a cop and his brother who is wanted for murder.

Aired 23 July 1954 • 30 min

Lanyard travels to Chicago when he receives an urgent note from Joey Crocetti. A war time buddy who saved Lanyard in Italy during the war. Lanyard discovers Joey is on the run from the police, and he sets out to try to prove his friend innocent.

Aired 30 July 1954 • 30 min

Lanyard leaves Mexico but once he arrives back the US he is immediately arrested by the police and put into hospital quarantine. To Lanyards shock he discovers he's been in contact with people who are dying of cholera.

Aired 6 August 1954 • 30 min

Lanyard searches through the oil fields of Oklahoma for a boy kidnapped by his father from his mother's home.

Aired 13 August 1954 • 30 min

Lanyard takes a vacation. While enjoying his boat a young boy tries to sell him a gun. Before he knows it he is in a life and death struggle against forces he didn't even realize were active.

Aired 20 August 1954 • 30 min

Mike searches the waterfront for Helen Calder, a missing heiress who can be identified by an emerald ring.

Aired 27 August 1954 • 30 min

Discovering that a recently deceased man's greedy children are looking for a fortune that he hid before he died, Mike decides to make sure that the money goes to his beloved housekeeper instead.

Aired 3 September 1954 • 30 min

In Mexico, the death of an archaeologist sends Lanyard in search of a treasure in Aztec gold coins.

Aired 10 September 1954 • 30 min

Lanyard flies to Los Angeles to clear the name of an old friend, a journalist accused of stealing a priceless Van Gogh painting.

Aired 17 September 1954 • 30 min

In New Mexico, Lanyard is worried about an old friend who claims to have seen a flying saucer and that it's not just one of his tall tales.

Aired 24 September 1954

Michael Lanyard comes to the aid of a ballerina who is frightened of threatening letters. Instead of helping her he must solve her death...an apparent suicide.

Aired 1 October 1954 • 30 min

Mike registers at his favorite Beverly Hills hotel only to find that a con artist posing as his wife has already checked in, but goes along with the gag to find out what her game is.

Aired 8 October 1954 • 30 min

Mike challenges an aircraft designer plagued by accidents to pilot one of his own planes.

Aired 15 October 1954 • 30 min

A woman asks Mike to find out if her husband and their daughter, supposedly killed in a boating accidnet, are still alive.

Aired 22 October 1954 • 30 min

Mike visits a South Pacific island to find out why an old friend has apparently resurrected a barbaric native ritual involving fire-walking, shrunken heads, and murder.

Aired 29 October 1954 • 30 min

Mike is asked to help an old friend, a deep sea diver accused of helping pirates steal the silver that was about to be salvaged from a sunken wreck.

Aired 5 November 1954 • 30 min

A lawyer asks Lanyard to protect his client's interests at a castle in the Balkans that seems to be threatened by werewolves.

Aired 12 November 1954 • 30 min

Mike is hired to locate a stolen rare stamp and return it to its rightful owner.

Aired 19 November 1954 • 30 min

Lanyard comes to the assistance of an old friend, a minister whose life has been threatened.

Aired 26 November 1954 • 30 min

A big heist prompts Lanyard to track down an infamous jewel thief.

Aired 3 December 1954 • 30 min

A crazed husband holds Lanyard hostage in a country cottage.

Aired 8 January 1955 • 30 min

Lanyard must recover top-secret microfilm that could sabotage a peace conference if it gets into the wrong hands.

Aired 15 January 1955 • 30 min

Mike is given a ticket on a cruise ship returning from the Orient to determine the truth behind rumors that a playboy king is smuggling a fortune in jewels from his country into the U.S.

Aired 22 January 1955 • 30 min

Lanyard suspects that a hit-and-run accident was murder.

Aired 29 January 1955 • 30 min

When Mike's millionaire friend, a witness to a judge's murder, is killed right in front of him, Mike determines to find the culprits.

When Mike's old friend, a carnival clown, is murdered, he hunts for the killer.