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SEASON 1
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| Balance of
Terror |
9/15/65 |
Burke turns in his police
badge to work as a secret agent for the
Federal Government. In his first assignment, he travels to Switzerland
to work with the local Swiss police to crack an international ring of
gold smugglers. Red Chinese gold is being smuggled from Switzerland
into Latin America. The leader of the smugglers is General Edrego
Barata, once a Latin American dictator who stripped his country of its
wealth. Burke poses as syndicate hit man Paul Schreiner, whom Barata
has never met. The plan goes awry when the real Schreiner is released
from jail and exposes Burke. Burke manages to ultimately kill Barata. |
| Operation Long Shadow |
9/22/65 |
Burke is sent to Paris to
lacate the missing son of an American
diplomat. The boy disappeared shortly after someone murdered his
father's girlfriend by pushing her off the Eiffel Tower. When Burke
arrives, he finds himself involved in a bizarre plot to assassinate
Charles de Gaulle that takes him across the French countryside. |
| Steam Heat |
9/29/65 |
Burke poses as a jewel
thief and infiltrates a criminal syndicate
planning to put New York City to sleep with gas introduced into all the
steam mains. The crooks, Albert Indigo, Tucson the Cowboy, Charlie "The
Arm" Segal, and Ziggy White, then plan to loot the entire city. With
the finances for the plan suppied by foreign interests, the syndicate
also intends to kill a few important, connected people. While planning
takes place at the Villa Ruposa, "Mr. I" undergoes a senate hearing,
after which he vows vengeance on Senator Burrows. With the aid of
co-spy Ursula Prince, Burke learns about the entire operation, but a
beautiful crook named Silkie kills Ursula so she can have Burke all to
herself. Burke ultimately triumphs and gets word to the police, who
wear gas masks to round up the gang. |
| Password to Death |
10/6/65 |
A madman's plan
to destroy all the top people in England
and take over the country. A password that means instant death. The
Soviet's
conspire to take Amos Burke to the brink of disaster, before he
ultimately
saves England. |
| The Man with the Power |
10/13/65 |
Burke is sent behind the
Iron Curtain and must smuggle
out a famous
scientist who has developed an ultra-powerful nuclear device. Another
agent, Tony Scott, is assigned to assist Burke, but is actually in a
conspiracy to steal the new weapon and sell it. Once they get Dr.
Crystal into Austria, Scott kidnaps him and hooks him up to his bomb,
which will destroy Vienna withing 22 hours if 2 million dollars in
uncut diamonds aren't paid. Burke gets the diamonds released to an
Austrian official. However, he too is in on the plot. Claiming the
diamonds are fake, the official accuses Burke of stealing the real
gems, planning to blame the inevitable disaster on Burke and then kill
him. Burke finally discovers a special code consisting of 12 numbers
that must be given in order to defuse the bomb. 1937 is one known
sequence of numbers in the code. The remaining 8 are discovered at the
last minute....8523....6472. |
| Nightmare in the Sun |
10/20/65 |
Burke is in Mexico City
to try and learn who is behind
an assassination
attempt against Pablo Vasquez, the Mexican Government's Labor Leader,
who very pro-U.S. He discovers that a proposed peace treaty is the
reason behind the attempt on Vasquez while he was watching the renowned
female matador, La Tigra. Burke gets himself thrown in jail in order to
question a suspected conspirator, but learns nothing. La Tigra
distracts Burke while he is guarding Vasquez and Vasquez is kidnapped.
Failing to kill Burke, La Tigra confesses that she was only in on the
plot because she was being blackmailed by the leader of the plot,
Darvas. Together, Burke and La Tigra rush to her ranch where Vasquez is
being held captive by Darvas. |
| The Prisoners of Mr. Sin |
10/27/65 |
Special Installation MX-3
in Washington, D. C. is
protecting a renowned
cryptographer and head clerk of a U.S. intelligence installation, Dr.
Waldo E. Bannister, responsible for breaking the Manchurian Code. With
his knowledge, expertise, and photographic memory, he is highly sought
after. Deep in his brain are the files of twenty-one of the country's
best agents, including Burke. In retirement, Bannister travels to the
Isle of Tio Moro, a thieves market where the most unusual items
regularly change hands and the home of the notorious Mr. Sin. Planning
on selling his information, Bannister is instead captured by Mr. Sin,
who plans to auction off Bannister's facts to the highest bidder,
keeping the money for himself. Burke is sent to either retrieve
Bannister off the island or kill him before he talks. Posing as a
playboy who operates on the fringes of the law, Burke gains the
confidence of Mr. Sin and plans to bid on Bannister. |
| Peace, It's a Gasser |
11/3/65 |
Union Seecorps, a
fanatical revolutionary group led by
Harrison Quentin
Filmore, has a dream. Filmore wants to bring peace to the world through
Operation Euphoria. He plans to to dose Washington, D.C., with LSD gas
for three days. First they must steal H09, a gasoline additive, from
Narvoo Air Base, in order to drug the troops. Burke is sent to the base
and poses as a member of the military police in order to guard the
additive. Filmore, however, manages to drug the entire base and steal
the additive. Other members of the Union plan to take advantage of
Filmore's "high" ideas of peace and take over the United States
Government. Burke now has to pose as a traitor in order to infiltrate
the Union. He does, but Filmore decides to test his "disloyalty" by
ordering him to kill a CIA agent. |
| Weapon, The |
11/10/65 |
Burke heads to London to
battle power-crazed tycoon
Alexander Szabo, a
maniac who possesses a deadly truth serum. Szabo uses the serum on top
government officials who, after revealing secret information, are then
caused to commit suicide by the drug's effects. |
| Deadlier than the Male |
11/17/65 |
Exiled South American
dictator Pedro Cabrial is living
in a Spanish
castle but aspires to return to power with the help of foreign
financial aid. Carla, his wife, conceals from him the fact that he has
contracted a fatal illness and will be dead in thirty days. In this
way, she figures so he will go through with a planned coup and then she
will be able to gain control of the country. Jeff Smith (an undercover
agent who happens to be The Man's son), Dr. Torres, and anyone else who
gets in the way of the military takeover are killed. Pepe, Sra.
Cabrial's loyal servant, watches as she recalls the splendor of her
life as Viva Evita on film, over and over again. Burke is sent to
infiltrate Cabrial's stronghold. He succeeds in getting inside the
castle, only to be captured and put on a rack left over from the
Inquisition. Django, responsible for Agent Smith's demise under the
instructions of Capt. Luzardo, is killed in turn by Burke. |
| Whatever Happened to
Adriana, and Why Won't She Stay Dead? |
12/1/65 |
A warehouse explosion
destroys evidence needed to
convict international
narcotics king, James Gunnar Ketterbach. His new line of business is
smuggling missiles into South America. Burke's mission is to capture
one of the missiles and bring it back to be used in evidence at the
United Nations inquest. Ketterbach has disposed of a woman for a top
Sicilian official and put her in a coffin marked "Adriana Montavi".
Since then, he has been blackmailing the official into helping him with
his operation. Adriana, however, is very much alive and helps Burke
defeat Ketterbach. |
| The Man's Man |
12/8/65 |
The title refers to the
operatives of Burke's boss,
"The Man". The Man
has devised an ambitious project entitled Operation Eyeball. It is a
plan to bug every foreign embassy in the world. Shortly before the plan
is to be put into effect, a microfilm containing a list of American
agents assigned to the operation is stolen, along with a photograph of
each one. The list is being offered in trade for seven million in
diamonds for international bidding on future targets. Even though the
ransom is paid, The Man knows the list has been copied and so orders
Burke and female agent Sylvia Kellogg to kill everyone connected with
the theft. As they carry out the mission, Burke begins to suspect that
Sylvia is working for the other side. |
| Or No Tomorrow |
12/15/65 |
The Man sends Burke to
Ceylon to investigate a ransom
note that the
U.S. government has received. The note threatened to unleash a deadly
new fungus called Blast on the Asian continent unless a pair of
convicted spies were released to the extortionist. After the fungus is
released on the small island of Perzan in the Indian Ocean, the rice
crops become diseased and have to be burned and destroyed after only
forty-eight hours. Unless Burke can find a way to stop whoever is
behind the plan, the entire world may be faced with a great famine.
Burke learns that the person behind the plot is the mad Prince
Ransputa, and he poses as a wealthy American in search of rare emeralds
in order to get to the prince. Once inside the palace, he discovers
that the fungus was unwittingly created by a beautiful scientist, Tashu
Anil. She is in love with the prince and is being used by him. |
| A Little Gift from Cairo |
12/22/65 |
Sheik Farid, deposed King
of Egypt, is collecting a
secret aresenal of
weapons to take over what he has lost. The Man assigns Burke to foil
Farid's takeover plans. To help him, he has an elderly but effective
British agent named Agatha Carruthers. Burke plans to romance Farid's
mistress, Yasmin, and plant a bug in a fake diamond pendant he plans to
give her. |
| A Very Important Russian
is Missing |
12/29/65 |
The United States and
Russia collaborate on finding a
Soviet agent,
Borodin, feared kidnapped by China. Both the U. S. and U.S.S.R. worry
that the Red Chinese will extract the many military secrets he carries
in his head. A top Soviet agent, Pavlov, is sent to assist Burke in
locating the missing Borodin. They learn that Borodin has been smuggled
into Switzerland in the carcass of a dead ox and is being held in a
state of suspended animation. Deceptions lead Burke to finally discover
that Russians are actually holding Borodin for a ransom of 4 million
dollars. |
| Terror in a Tiny Town
(Part 1) |
1/5/66 |
Harlan O'Brien, Chief
Security Officer at the nuclear
power plant in
the small town of Sorrel, is shot by a policeman after going berserk in
a restaurant. After his death, Burke goes to investigate the death of
his old war buddy and finds the townspeople all seem to be under some
form of mass hypnosis. Expressionless, they refuse to discuss anything
but their great loyalty to their town. Burke tries to uncover the truth
about an orgnanization known as The Friends of Progress. The town
leader, ex-Congressman Jed Hawkes, seems sane enough until he suddenly
orders the citizens to kill Burke. A mob forms and they finally corner
Burke in a laundromat. Five of the seemingly "normal" people enter with
shotguns and come after Burke as the episode ends. |
| Terror in a Tiny Town
(Part 2) |
1/12/66 |
This episode continues
the plot of Part 1.
Escaping, Amos goes to
see The Man and learns that he is wanted for murder. He returns to
Sorrel and finds the secret that Harlan O'Brien knew: the town has been
brainwashed by subliminal tapes broadcast from station KJHS. Hawkes is
behind the entire scheme - he has stolen an atom bomb from the plant,
piece by piece, and hidden it inside a statue in Washington, D. C.
Burke allows himself to be arrested, then manages to get the
zombie-like citizens to turn on Hawkes. The bomb squad finds the stolen
atom bomb and successfully defuses it. |
