Burke's Law

The millionaire captain of the LAPD homicide division is driven to the crime scenes in his 1962 Rolls-Royce by his loyal chauffeur.

Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime

Cast:Gene Barry , Gary Conway , Regis Toomey , Leon Lontoc , Eileen O'Neill , Michael Fox , Carl Benton Reid , Robert Bice , Don Gazzaniga , Jonathan Hole , Monica Keating , Martha Hyer , Lisa Seagram , Lola Albright , Nick Adams , Joan Huntington , Cesar Romero , Francine York

1Season 1

S1.E1 ∙ Who Killed Holly Howard?

Thu, Sep 19, 1963

Model Holly Howard is found murdered, and the only clues seem to link a trio of wealthy Texans to her death.

2Season 1

S1.E2 ∙ Who Killed Mr.X?

Thu, Sep 26, 1963

A body turns up at a merry-go-round. There are no identifying papers on the body and the labels have been removed from the man's clothing. The few clues available point Burke toward an actress under exclusive contract to Flood, a rarely seen industrialist. Burke discovers a number of women are under such exclusive contracts. Then, the detective discovers the dead man was Flood himself. Burke must figure out who, among a number of suspects, committed the crime.

3Season 1

S1.E3 ∙ Who Killed Cable Roberts?

Thu, Oct 3, 1963

Cable Roberts, a legendary writer, documentary filmmaker, and hunter in the Hemingway mold, is found murdered in his study. There are three significant clues: he was killed with one of his own rifles, he was shot twice big game style, and his body was propped against a wall alongside his many hunting trophies.

4Season 1

S1.E4 ∙ Who Killed Harris Crown?

Thu, Oct 10, 1963

Burke's investigation of the murder of Harris Crown is complicated by the fact that Mrs. Crown is pregnant - and not by her husband.

5Season 1

S1.E5 ∙ Who Killed Julian Buck?

Thu, Oct 17, 1963

Julian Buck, one of America's most respected authors, is found strangled to death in his study. The manuscript for his latest novel is missing, but one curious item is found: what appears to be an extra rubber cap for the feet of his typewriter stand.

6Season 1

S1.E6 ∙ Who Killed Alex Debbs?

Thu, Oct 24, 1963

The publisher of a girlie magazine is murdered at one of his own key clubs.

7Season 1

S1.E7 ∙ Who Killed Sweet Betsy ?

Thu, Oct 31, 1963

One of a set of identical sisters with odd personalities is poisoned with cyanide at the residence of a beach bum and Burke and Tilson uncover a family history of suspicious deaths involving a cast of quirky characters.

8Season 1

S1.E8 ∙ Who Killed Billy Jo?

Thu, Nov 7, 1963

A recording star is murdered. Was the killer his agent, his sister, his music arranger, or someone else?

9Season 1

S1.E9 ∙ Who Killed Wade Walker?

Thu, Nov 14, 1963

Wealthy Wade Walker is killed when his plane blows up in mid-air. Burke's investigation concentrates on four women - a nurse, a singer, a beauty queen and an explosives expert.

10Season 1

S1.E10 ∙ Who Killed the Kind Doctor?

Thu, Nov 28, 1963

Dr. Eric Techman, a fashionable LA psychiatrist, telephones Burke to warn him of an impending murder by one of his patients -- his own. But Techman is gunned down before he can name the killer.

11Season 1

S1.E11 ∙ Who Killed Purity Mather?

Thu, Dec 5, 1963

Prior to her apparent murder, a practicing witch sends Amos a message predicting her murder with a list of five suspects from the occult arts.

12Season 1

S1.E12 ∙ Who Killed Cynthia Royal?

Thu, Dec 12, 1963

Burke has to search for a missing cat before he can find a killer.

13Season 1

S1.E13 ∙ Who Killed Eleanora Davis?

Thu, Dec 19, 1963

"Professor" Kingston runs a cheap sideshow in a traveling carnival; one of his exhibits is a supposedly genuine electric chair. The girl strapped to it is certainly dead.

14Season 1

S1.E14 ∙ Who Killed Beau Sparrow?

Thu, Dec 26, 1963

Burke is at a poolside party when he sees artist Beau Sparrow take a hard dive into a pool---a dive which kills him. Investigation shows the diving board's catapult was deliberately tampered with.

15Season 1

S1.E15 ∙ Who Killed Jason Shaw?

Thu, Jan 2, 1964

An extremely strange girl called Lucy Brewer finds a corpse in the shower. Burke's suspects include an old friend, a cultivator of unusual plants, a wine snob and the dead man's daughter - or is she?

16Season 1

S1.E16 ∙ Who Killed Snooky Martinelli?

Thu, Jan 9, 1964

Can it be that Amos Burke himself has been murdered?

17Season 1

S1.E17 ∙ Who Killed What's His Name?

Thu, Jan 16, 1964

The elaborate robbery of a bank ends with the unprovoked shooting death of its owner, financier Victor S. Barrows. The key to solving the mystery is locating one of perpetrators, a man so average in appearance that nobody can clearly describe him.

18Season 1

S1.E18 ∙ Who Killed Madison Cooper?

Thu, Jan 23, 1964

A shady attorney carrying a lot of money is murdered after making a telephone call.

19Season 1

S1.E19 ∙ Who Killed April?

Thu, Jan 30, 1964

Carhop waitress April Adams is found murdered in an automobile scrapyard. The discovery that she had over $40,000 in the bank indicates that she had a second income that was both lucrative and illicit.

20Season 1

S1.E20 ∙ Who Killed Carrie Cornell?

Thu, Feb 13, 1964

Carrie Cornell, singer and model, is found murdered on a beach. A photograph of her in Girlicue magazine links her to sleazy millionaire Martin Van Martin and he has disappeared.

21Season 1

S1.E21 ∙ Who Killed His Royal Highness?

Thu, Feb 20, 1964

A man claiming to be an exiled Russian prince - not that anyone ever believed that - is murdered.

22Season 1

S1.E22 ∙ Who Killed Marty Kelso?

Thu, Feb 27, 1964

Ruthless Hollywood agent Marty Kelso is murdered and leaves behind a plethora of suspects including a new wife and three ex-wives.

23Season 1

S1.E23 ∙ Who Killed Avery Lord?

Thu, Mar 5, 1964

Burke and his team investigate the murder of a wealthy industrial designer.

24Season 1

S1.E24 ∙ Who Killed Andy Zygmunt?

Thu, Mar 12, 1964

Pop artist Andy Zygmunt is fatally impaled on the spikes of one of his creations. The discovery that he blackmailed people into buying his works provides a motive and five suspects: his last four customers and the possessor of a missing fifth work.

25Season 1

S1.E25 ∙ Who Killed the Paper Dragon?

Thu, Mar 19, 1964

During Chinese New Year celebrations, a body is found concealed in a car.

26Season 1

S1.E26 ∙ Who Killed Molly?

Thu, Mar 26, 1964

Housewife Molly Baker, a brunette, is found dead in her shower, the apparent victim of a fall and drowning. But the autopsy shows that she was strangled and the discovery of blond wig hairs on four of her dresses is the first indication of her very busy secret life.

27Season 1

S1.E27 ∙ Who Killed WHO IV?

Thu, Apr 2, 1964

Socialite equestrian William Henry Otis IV, nicknamed WHO IV ("WHO Four"), is beaten to death in his stable with a horseshoe from a riding trophy. The suspects are the regulars in his weekly fox hunts, among them Burke's old flame Jennifer and her husband St. John ("Sinjin") Carlisle, and, of course, the butler.

28Season 1

S1.E28 ∙ Who Killed Annie Foran?

Thu, Apr 9, 1964

Party girl Annie Foran is found strangled in the back seat of a customer's car at the exclusive restaurant Club Nova. Suspicion falls on her ex-boyfriend, baseball sensation Eddie Dineen, who was there at the time in the company of his mentor, the acerbic columnist Whitman Saunders, and Saunder's assistant, Milo Morgan.

29Season 1

S1.E29 ∙ Who Killed My Girl?

Thu, Apr 16, 1964

Using a .38 revolver with a silencer, an assailant murders heiress Diana Mercer in her bedroom after she's been dropped off by her date--her old flame, Amos Burke. As he investigates her death, Burke discovers that the woman who was murdered was a far cry from the one he knew and loved years earlier.

30Season 1

S1.E30 ∙ Who Killed the Eleventh Best Dressed Woman in the World?

Thu, Apr 23, 1964

Nirvana is an upscale health spa for women only in the wooded hills near LA. The karma there is disrupted when socialite Celia Bannerman, a notorious husband stealer, is found murdered in the mud bath. Suspicion centers on the five women who shared her bungalow. Four had reasons to kill her and all received a free stay at Nirvana courtesy of an unknown party.

31Season 1

S1.E31 ∙ Who Killed Don Pablo?

Thu, Apr 30, 1964

A waxwork in a museum turns out not to be a waxwork at all - it's a corpse.

32Season 1

S1.E32 ∙ Who Killed 1/2 of Glory Lee?

Thu, May 7, 1964

The unpleasant Benjamin Glory, one half of the ownership of the Glory Lee fashion house, is found dead in an elevator after it crashes. But he was dead before he ever entered it, killed by "a sharp and blunt instrument".

1Season 2

S2.E1 ∙ Who Killed the Surf Broad?

Tue, Sep 15, 1964

Rising actress and beach queen Tina Romaine surfs a difficult wave, walks a few steps, and drops dead. A bullet grazed her right temple, but the wound was superficial and the autopsy finds that she was killed by an archaic poison. Posing as a beach bum, Tim goes undercover to infiltrate the surfing crowd.

2Season 2

S2.E2 ∙ Who Killed Vaudeville?

Tue, Sep 22, 1964

A number of vaudeville old-timers are among the suspects when Burke investigates the death of a comedian.

3Season 2

S2.E3 ∙ Who Killed Cassandra Cass?

Tue, Sep 29, 1964

While the water for her before dinner bath is being drawn, high society blackmailer Cassandra Cass is gunned down in her bedroom in her mansion. The prime suspects are her four victims, all of whom had been invited to dinner that evening. And, of course, there's the butler.

4Season 2

S2.E4 ∙ Who Killed the Horne of Plenty?

Tue, Oct 6, 1964

While hosting a garden party on a sunny Sunday afternoon, modeling mogul Charles Lee Horne telephones the homicide squad and asks for Burke. A single rifle shot ends both the phone call and Horne's life. The investigation takes an unexpected and disturbing twist when one of Horne's models, Felice Knight, files an internal affairs complaint alleging that Tim helped her to blackmail Horne into signing her.

5Season 2

S2.E5 ∙ Who Killed Everybody?

Tue, Oct 13, 1964

Four poker buddies celebrate the first anniversary of their weekly games with a private party at the Hillsdale Country Club. The festivities end when all four men are killed by a bottle of poisoned wine. There is no shortage of suspects. Besides having four unhappy wives, the men had incurred the ire of Butterfield, the club's historian, baseball coach, and busybody.

6Season 2

S2.E6 ∙ Who Killed Mr. Cartwheel?

Tue, Oct 20, 1964

When the wealthy Emory Cartwheel is murdered at a coin auction, Amos Burke finds himself in jail in the Wild West town of Epitaph Flats.

7Season 2

S2.E7 ∙ Who Killed Cornelius Gilbert?

Tue, Oct 27, 1964

The life of hotel magnate Cornelius Gilbert comes to an electrifying finish when somebody hot wires the metal ladder in his swimming pool. A torn piece of plaid cloth, a gold St. Christopher's medal, and Gilbert's annual round-the-world charter flight are the clues.

8Season 2

S2.E8 ∙ Who Killed Lenore Wingfield?

Tue, Nov 3, 1964

Murdered Lenore has left a note that she's changing her will with the heir as nephew Jay Boy who is involved with daughter of Jim Clover who needs Lenore's land to complete his development but Jay Boy's fiancée Effie Mae is in town.

9Season 2

S2.E9 ∙ Who Killed the Richest Man in the World?

Tue, Nov 10, 1964

When wealthy Amenor arrives in town to sell a lucrative oil lease, an apparent sniper attack on Amenor kills his bookkeeper and suspicion immediately suggests the culprit is one of three parties vying for deal.

10Season 2

S2.E10 ∙ Who Killed the Tall One in the Middle?

Tue, Nov 24, 1964

The De Armand Sisters are a trio of singing siblings. When Alicia - the tall one in the middle - gets murdered, Amos Burke is surprised at how little the other two seem to be upset.

11Season 2

S2.E11 ∙ Who Killed Merlin the Great?

Tue, Dec 1, 1964

Escape artist Jack Merlin at a convention of competitive magicians attempts his stock in trade trick of staying under water for five hours sealed in coffin with an hour air supply but he dies - from a gunshot wound.

12Season 2

S2.E12 ∙ Who Killed 711 ?

Tue, Dec 8, 1964

When a businessman, Buddy Jack Cook, with a very shady reputation is found slain in a hotel elevator, Harold Harold, his accountant, is the prime suspect.

13Season 2

S2.E13 ∙ Who Killed Supersleuth?

Tue, Dec 15, 1964

Four famous cops (from London, Paris, Tokyo and Budapest), plus an irascible American private eye, are all suspects when yet another famous sleuth is murdered.

14Season 2

S2.E14 ∙ Who Killed the Swinger on a Hook?

Tue, Dec 22, 1964

After a developer is found stabbed to death and on a meat hook, another man is found dead with the same letter of a list of six names discovered on the developer which includes Amos and then Amos receives such a letter.

15Season 2

S2.E15 ∙ Who Killed Davidian Jonas?

Tue, Dec 29, 1964

When the anchor of millionaire Davidian Jonas's yacht is raised, his corpse is found attached to it.

16Season 2

S2.E16 ∙ Who Killed the Strangler?

Tue, Jan 5, 1965

During a match a professional wrestler is killed by a poison dart that originated from a special section in which only five persons sat.

17Season 2

S2.E17 ∙ Who Killed Mother Goose?

Tue, Jan 12, 1965

The suspects are a prodigal son, a secretary and a number of people whose livelihood involves children when a writer of children's books is strangled with a typewriter ribbon.

18Season 2

S2.E18 ∙ Who Killed the Toy Soldier ?

Tue, Jan 19, 1965

The nasty boss of a toy firm is murdered.

19Season 2

S2.E19 ∙ Who Killed Rosie Sunset?

Tue, Jan 26, 1965

Who could have murdered the nice old lady who sold maps of the stars' homes? And why?

20Season 2

S2.E20 ∙ Who Killed Wimbledon Hastings?

Tue, Feb 2, 1965

A tennis star is murdered at a charity event - by an exploding tennis ball.

21Season 2

S2.E21 ∙ Who Killed the Fat Cat?

Tue, Feb 9, 1965

Suspicion falls on the figurehead presidents of his four corporations when shady conglomerate owner Monty Crippen dies chewing on a cyanide laced toothpick at a costume party.

22Season 2

S2.E22 ∙ Who Killed the Man on the White Horse?

Tue, Feb 16, 1965

Cowboy star Clayton Steele is murdered at the rodeo. The suspects are many but only one had the motive and opportunity.

23Season 2

S2.E23 ∙ Who Killed the 13th Clown?

Tue, Feb 23, 1965

Somehow or other, thirteen circus clowns always manage to squeeze into a tiny car - and get our of it again at the end of the act. But this time, the thirteenth clown is dead.

24Season 2

S2.E24 ∙ Who Killed Mr. Colby in Ladies' Lingerie?

Tue, Mar 2, 1965

With Burke in Chicago, the unit must solve the murder of a blackmailing department store maintenance man with unsavory connections past and present and who has a penchant for the horses.

25Season 2

S2.E25 ∙ Who Killed the Rest?

Tue, Mar 16, 1965

When a boat blows up, killing a notorious gossip columnist, Burke, who is holidaying in the area, finds himself the chief suspect.

26Season 2

S2.E26 ∙ Who Killed Cop Robin?

Tue, Mar 23, 1965

A list of interconnected suspects of people that escaped justice some time ago are left to Burke after Officer Danny Robin, Burke's sponsor for the police department, is shot to death.

27Season 2

S2.E27 ∙ Who Killed Nobody Somehow?

Tue, Mar 30, 1965

Novelist Graham Tree whose smeared characters are thinly disguised awakens on the autopsy table after a severe beating and attempted barbiturate poisoning so Amos believes the culprit must be caught before a successful second attempt.

28Season 2

S2.E28 ∙ Who Killed Hamlet?

Tue, Apr 6, 1965

A pretentious method actor is killed during a performance of "Hamlet".

29Season 2

S2.E29 ∙ Who Killed the Rabbit's Husband?

Tue, Apr 13, 1965

When a doctor is shot to death, suspicion falls on his young wife who due to an abusive childhood frequently runs away and from time to time falls into a dissociative trance.

30Season 2

S2.E30 ∙ Who Killed the Jackpot?

Tue, Apr 20, 1965

When a wealthy banker is found murdered atop a seedy hotel's neon sign, a race to find the murderer develops between Burke and the beautiful private detective who was working for the dead man.

31Season 2

S2.E31 ∙ Who Killed the Grand Piano?

Tue, Apr 27, 1965

An exploding piano kills off a famous musician.

32Season 2

S2.E32 ∙ Who Killed the Card?

Tue, May 4, 1965

The unpleasant head of a greetings-card company is murdered.

1Season 3

S3.E1 ∙ Balance of Terror

Tue, Sep 14, 1965

In his first mission as a secret agent, Burke replaces and pretends to be both pilot and deliveryman Schreiner to infiltrate a syndicate that smuggles Red Chinese gold into Latin America to finance rebels.

2Season 3

S3.E2 ∙ Operation Long Shadow

Tue, Sep 21, 1965

Burke is assigned to rescue the son of an Algerian diplomat apparently kidnapped for ransom but uncovers a more serious plot to overthrow the French government.

3Season 3

S3.E3 ∙ Steam Heat

Tue, Sep 28, 1965

Burke infiltrates the organization of a deported mobster who has employed the talents of a diabolical chemist and the funds of foreign governments to execute a fiendish plan to sack New York City and carry out political assassination.

4Season 3

S3.E4 ∙ Password to Death

Tue, Oct 5, 1965

When persons trying to contact British agents say a password are killed, Burke is directed to investigate and finds a plot to use a Soviet satellite launch and a phony atomic threat to lure British defenses to an underground gas trap.

5Season 3

S3.E5 ∙ The Man with the Power

Tue, Oct 12, 1965

Amos helps a scientist who has invented a new type bomb and his assistant defect but the scientist is kidnapped during the escape and help for a ransom of uncut diamond under threat of exploding the bomb in Vienna.

6Season 3

S3.E6 ∙ Nightmare in the Sun

Tue, Oct 19, 1965

Burke in Mexico to ensure the passage of a treaty gets embroiled in a conspiracy to derail the treaty between a Mexican labor leader and a Mexican industrialist who want it to appear that the United States wants to assassinate the leader.

7Season 3

S3.E7 ∙ The Prisoners of Mr. Sin

Tue, Oct 26, 1965

Burke is sent to a Pacific island run by a ruthless dwarf profiteer to extract a U.S. intelligence cryptographer with a photographic memory in order to prevent intelligence secrets from being compromised.

8Season 3

S3.E8 ∙ Peace, It's a Gasser

Tue, Nov 2, 1965

Burke must infiltrate an international criminal organization which plans to use a peace group's plan to use an LSD gas to render the Washington D.C. population ineffective as a cover to steal military secrets.

9Season 3

S3.E9 ∙ The Weapon

Tue, Nov 9, 1965

To gain business and political secrets, a Machiavellian mogul uses a newly developed drug which gains immediate truthful answers followed by the subjects drug induced unstoppable desire to commit suicide.

10Season 3

S3.E10 ∙ Deadlier Than the Male

Tue, Nov 16, 1965

Burke must thwart the plan of the ruthless wife of an exiled South American dictator to hide the terminal illness so the dictator can get revolutionary financing from the Chinese who want a foothold in South America.

11Season 3

S3.E11 ∙ Whatever Happened to Adriana and Why Won't She Stay Dead?

Tue, Nov 30, 1965

Burke must remove the blackmail threat from a Sicilian official while using this event to locate and stop the shipment of missiles by a ruthless arm dealers to Latin America.

12Season 3

S3.E12 ∙ The Man's Men

Tue, Dec 7, 1965

Burke must track downtown insiders responsible for theft of agency personnel record and prevent the sale of those records to agency adversaries.

13Season 3

S3.E13 ∙ Or No Tomorrow

Tue, Dec 14, 1965

When the government receives a note demanding the release of two spies under threat of the release of a virulent rice fungus on the Asian mainland, Burke is sent to investigate in Ceylon where the developer of the fungus resides.

14Season 3

S3.E14 ∙ A Little Gift for Cairo

Tue, Dec 21, 1965

Burke is assigned to stop Farid from retaking power by preventing him and his arsenal of weapons which includes napalm from reaching Cairo.

15Season 3

S3.E15 ∙ A Very Important Russian Is Missing

Tue, Dec 28, 1965

Burke must collaborate with Russian agents to recover an abducted top Russian intelligence officer feared to be targeted to acquire Russian and American military secrets for the Chinese.

16Season 3

S3.E16 ∙ Terror in a Tiny Town: Part 1

Tue, Jan 4, 1966

When Burke investigates the strange death of an atomic plant security officer, he finds a town in which the residents respond in robotic way with fear and hatred of strangers.

17Season 3

S3.E17 ∙ Terror in a Tiny Town

Tue, Jan 11, 1966

A mad right wing judge who wants to take over the country airs subliminal radio messages to control the minds of the locals to disguise the fact he used an area atomic plant to build a bomb he has sent hidden in statute to Washington, D.C.