Checkmate

2 Seasons 1960 - 1962 TV-PG 1h 00m 7.6

Don Corey and Jed Sills operate Checkmate, Inc., a very high-priced detective agency in San Francisco. Helping them protect the lives of their clients is British criminologist (once an Oxford professor) Carl Hyatt.

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Episodes:

Episode 1 Death Runs Wild

1. Death Runs Wild

Aired: Sep 17, 1960

When wealthy widow Beatrice Martin Kipp hires Checkmate, Jed and Dr. Hyatt mu...

Episode 2 Interrupted Honeymoon

2. Interrupted Honeymoon

Aired: Sep 24, 1960

A desperate criminal, intending to flee the country, kidnaps a newly-wed brid...

Episode 3 The Cyanide Touch

3. The Cyanide Touch

Aired: Oct 1, 1960

Dean Stockwell guest stars as a college student out to avenge the death of hi...

Episode 4 Lady on the Brink

4. Lady on the Brink

Aired: Oct 15, 1960

A witness set to testify in a murder trial seeks the help of Checkmate fearin...

Episode 5 Face in the Window

5. Face in the Window

Aired: Oct 22, 1960

A well respected archaeologist is about to murder a mysterious man, supposedl...

Episode 6 Runaway

6. Runaway

Aired: Oct 29, 1960

A girl shows up at Corey's apartment, claiming that she is running from someo...

Episode 7 Target: Tycoon

7. Target: Tycoon

Aired: Nov 5, 1960

A woman hired Checkmate to prevent the murder of her father, an oil magnate. ...

Episode 8 Deadly Shadow

8. Deadly Shadow

Aired: Nov 12, 1960

A young widow is attacked and the only photograph of her dead husband, a Mari...

Episode 9 The Dark Divide

9. The Dark Divide

Aired: Nov 19, 1960

Barbara Rush plays a dual role as the inhibited Margaret Russell and the wild...

Episode 10 Moment of Truth

10. Moment of Truth

Aired: Nov 26, 1960

While on vacation in Tijuana, Don and Jed become involved in a murder investi...

Episode 12 The Murder Game

12. The Murder Game

Aired: Dec 17, 1960

The detectives are shocked when one of their mentors, a highly respected atto...

Episode 14 Terror from the East

14. Terror from the East

Aired: Jan 7, 1961

A missionary arrives from the east and contacts Checkmate to warn them about ...

Episode 15 The Human Touch

15. The Human Touch

Aired: Jan 14, 1961

Alonzo Pace Graham, freed from prison after 15 years, seeks revenge on Dr. Ca...

Episode 16 Hour of Execution

16. Hour of Execution

Aired: Jan 21, 1961

When a judge and friend of Dr. Hyatt receives telephone calls and letters thr...

Episode 18 Laugh Till I Die

18. Laugh Till I Die

Aired: Feb 4, 1961

The Checkmate boys have their hands full in protecting their client Danny Whi...

Episode 19 Between Two Guns

19. Between Two Guns

Aired: Feb 11, 1961

The Checkmate team has big trouble when Joe Farrell and his gang of hoods tak...

Episode 21 Melody for Murder

21. Melody for Murder

Aired: Feb 25, 1961

Checkmate is hired by a pop singer's agent to investigate death threats. Jed ...

Episode 23 The Gift

23. The Gift

Aired: Mar 11, 1961

Lola Tuscany, a temperamental lady soprano, is having premonitions of her dea...

Episode 24 One for the Book

24. One for the Book

Aired: Mar 18, 1961

Audrey Meadows stars as a writer of a scandalous, best-selling novel based on...

Episode 26 Jungle Castle

26. Jungle Castle

Aired: Apr 1, 1961

After two attempts on his life, big game hunter Lee Tabor brings Dr. Hyatt an...

Episode 27 The Deadly Silence

27. The Deadly Silence

Aired: Apr 8, 1961

Gangsters chase a deaf schoolteacher who has read their lips and so learned o...

Episode 28 Goodbye, Griff

28. Goodbye, Griff

Aired: Apr 15, 1961

""Ex-convict Griff Nolan is jealous because his wife Libby earns more as a ma...

Episode 30 Voyage Into Fear

30. Voyage Into Fear

Aired: May 6, 1961

Joan Fontaine plays a woman who claims her husband is trying to kill her. Cor...

Episode 36 State of Shock

36. State of Shock

Aired: Jun 24, 1961

A series of carefully planned "accidents" aimed at a wealthy heiress who is t...


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Network: CBS

Genres: Drama, Crime, Mystery