About this season
Rocky King, Inside Detective is an American television series broadcast on the DuMont Television Network on Sundays at 9pm ET from January 15, 1950 to December 26, 1954. This series was one of DuMont's most popular programs, and was a live crime series set in New York City. The show not only kept Roscoe Karns from retirement, but cast him opposite his son, Todd Karns. The DuMont offices and corridors were used as sets. At the end of each program, King would exchange telephone small talk with his unseen wife Mabel and, after hanging up, say to no one in particular, "Great girl, that Mabel".
Episodes (52)
1. Murder Lays the Odds
Aired 7 September 1952
2. Model for Murder
Aired 14 September 1952
3. The Toy Dagger Murder
Aired 21 September 1952
4. One Minute for Murder
Aired 28 September 1952
There appears to be three prime suspects in the backstage of a theater where the murder of a blackmailing gossip columnist is committed. Sergeant Lane heads up the investigation when Detective Rocky King is ill with food poisoning.
5. Vagrant C-Note
Aired 5 October 1952
6. Personal Vendetta
Aired 12 October 1952
Rocky is called to a rooming house because of a mystery involving three of the lodgers.
7. Death has Dark Hands
Aired 19 October 1952
Famed chemist Dr. Sloan is found murdered and Rocky has three suspects to interview. Sloan's secretary Miss Merrick has been bequeathed the deceased man's estate and Rocky zeros in on the lady.
8. Murder, Ph.D.
Aired 26 October 1952
Three hours before Dayton Merrill is to be executed for murder, Inspector King receives a taunting phone call from a man who claims to have really committed the crime. Unable to get a stay of execution based on the man's confession, King and Detective Lane must re-investigate the crime and find sufficient evidence to save an innocent man's life.
9. Murder by Natural Death
Aired 2 November 1952
10. Cop Killer
Aired 9 November 1952
11. Sucker Bait
Aired 16 November 1952
12. Recoil
Aired 23 November 1952
13. Death Does a Double Take
Aired 30 November 1952
14. Prowler in the Night
Aired 7 December 1952
15. The Stain of Murder
Aired 14 December 1952
16. Double Jeopardy
Aired 21 December 1952
17. Docked for Murder
Aired 28 December 1952
18. Double Cross
Aired 4 January 1953
19. The Grapevine
Aired 11 January 1953
20. Checkmate
Aired 18 January 1953
21. Canceled Out
Aired 25 January 1953
22. The Pay Off
Aired 1 February 1953
23. The Gentle Murder
Aired 8 February 1953
24. The Needle's Eye
Aired 15 February 1953
25. Stranger's Doom
Aired 22 February 1953
26. King's Gambit
Aired 1 March 1953
27. The Abandoned House
Aired 8 March 1953
28. The Fatal Sign
Aired 15 March 1953
29. Arsenic for Two
Aired 22 March 1953
30. The Lethal Ratio
Aired 29 March 1953
31. Murder Goes to College
Aired 5 April 1953
32. Ordeal by Fire
Aired 12 April 1953
33. Caged
Aired 19 April 1953
34. Thy Will Be Done
Aired 26 April 1953
35. The Trunk
Aired 3 May 1953
36. The Old Mansion
Aired 10 May 1953
37. Win, Place and Murder
Aired 17 May 1953
38. Playback
Aired 24 May 1953
39. The Ledger
Aired 31 May 1953
40. Room Service
Aired 7 June 1953
A hotel guest is found murdered and Rocky is called to the scene to decipher to the case.
41. Door to Happiness
Aired 14 June 1953
A member of a dating club is found dead and Rocky gets the case. His suspicions are aroused when he learns the deceased man was recently engaged to the secretary of the lonely hearts organization.
42. Dead Weight
Aired 21 June 1953
One of three owners of a radioisotope factory is killed and Rocky must uncover the culprit plus the reason for the crime.
43. Deadly Target
Aired 28 June 1953
A bodyguard of a wealthy industrialist is murdered and the police are called. Rocky must determine who the actual intended victim was before the case can precede.
44. Hook, Line & Sinker
Aired 5 July 1953
A wealthy fisherman who was an expert is pulled from a boat and drowned. Rocky thinks it's murder with three possible suspects; the man's widow, the captain and the deckhand are all questioned.
45. Breakout
Aired 12 July 1953
46. The Silencer
Aired 19 July 1953
47. Jack of Diamonds
Aired 26 July 1953
48. Money & Murder
Aired 2 August 1953
49. The Best of References
Aired 9 August 1953
50. Murder on the Downbeat
Aired 15 August 1953
51. The Final Curtain
Aired 23 August 1953
52. Time Table
Aired 30 August 1953