Man with a Camera

Former combat cameraman Mike Kovac is now a freelance photographer in New York City, specializing in difficult and dangerous assignments where he can get the kinds of pictures that other photographers can't, or won't take. He sometimes gets help, often reluctantly, from his contact in the police department, Lt. Donovan, and advice from his immigrant father Anton.

Genre: Crime, Drama

Cast:Charles Bronson , James Flavin , Ludwig StÃ¶ssel , Michael Harris , Paul Bryar , Rusty Lane , Norma Crane , Audrey Dalton , Tom Laughlin , Frank Faylen , Phyllis Avery , Tom Pittman , Virginia Field , Lawrence Dobkin , Jimmy Lydon , Steve Brodie , Phillip Pine , Patricia Donahue

1Season 1

S1.E1 ∙ Second Avenue Assassin

Fri, Oct 10, 1958

Mike grew up with a moody boxer who, now a big time professional, is more vulnerable than it seems, and he needs Mike's help.

2Season 1

S1.E2 ∙ The Warning

Fri, Oct 17, 1958

Mike is forced by two masked men to take a photo of a man just as he is being killed. The police ask Mike to let them spread the word that he can identify the killers. His father convinces him to do this, but this puts both father and son in danger.

3Season 1

S1.E3 ∙ Profile of a Killer

Fri, Oct 24, 1958

Mike is taken hostage after a bank holdup in which the owner is killed. The egotistical young robber and killer falls for Mike's suggestion that he take photos of him and send them to the newspapers to build up his image. Mike tries to provide clues to the robbers' plans in the photos.

4Season 1

S1.E4 ∙ Closeup on Violence

Fri, Oct 31, 1958

Kovac takes a crowd shot at a fire scene, inadvertently recording the daughter of an aged mobster, hiding out in a tough neighborhood. The old man is being protected by a gang of young hoods, or so he thinks.

5Season 1

S1.E5 ∙ Turntable

Fri, Nov 7, 1958

Mike takes pictures of a crooked gambler. Later he also takes pictures of the gubernatorial candidate who vows to put the gambler out of business if elected. But then his negatives are stolen and used to create a composite to make the candidate look like he is working for the gambling syndicate.

6Season 1

S1.E6 ∙ Double Negative

Fri, Nov 21, 1958

On a tip from a free-lance reporter, Mike takes a picture of a woman, and finds that she very strongly resembles a woman whose murder a man has been arrested for. But a boxer friend of Mike's says the woman is his girlfriend and not the allegedly murdered woman. Mike tries to find out the truth.

7Season 1

S1.E7 ∙ Another Barrier

Fri, Nov 28, 1958

Mike takes an assignment doing a story on a U.S. Air Force jet pilot. When the pilot doesn't return on schedule from a test flight, his fiancé is convinced he's died, and that it's her fault, so attempts suicide.

8Season 1

S1.E8 ∙ Blind Spot

Fri, Dec 5, 1958

Mike travels to Lisbon in Europe to investigate the murder of an old war buddy photographer.

9Season 1

S1.E9 ∙ Two Strings of Pearls

Fri, Dec 12, 1958

Mike agrees to cover a garden party in Rome and meets a woman who is using a different name than when first encountered each other on a trans-Atlantic flight four years earlier. Mike learns she is connected with a notorious American con artist who is trying to steal an expensive string of yellow pearls.

10Season 1

S1.E10 ∙ Six Faces of Satan

Fri, Dec 19, 1958

During a heat wave, a mob forms to go after a local hoodlum when a girl claims that a man attacked her. But Mike, who was in the vicinity just before it happened, saw the girl go into the alley with a woman, not a man.

11Season 1

S1.E11 ∙ Lady on the Loose

Fri, Dec 26, 1958

The overprotected daughter of a European millionaire feels stifled by her chaperones and asks Mike for help in eluding them so she can see the town.

12Season 1

S1.E12 ∙ The Last Portrait

Fri, Jan 2, 1959

Mike sneaks into the guarded apartment of a visiting Arab dignitary, only to find him dead, after which he is hit over the head and accused of his murder. He escapes and tries to clear his name, with the help of the past-her-prime film star who occupies the apartment next door.

13Season 1

S1.E13 ∙ Face of Murder

Fri, Jan 9, 1959

Curious about what made a ruthless killer who's been convicted of five murders, Mike enters the state prison to get a photograph and interview with the man before his execution. But during the interview, the killer puts his escape plan in motion, and takes Mike and a priest hostage.

14Season 1

S1.E14 ∙ Mute Evidence

Fri, Jan 16, 1959

Mike is invited out to a retired doctor's farm, but when he gets there he discovers that the doctor is missing, and the only person who knows anything about it is the doctor's deaf-mute ward.

15Season 1

S1.E15 ∙ The Big Squeeze

Fri, Jan 23, 1959

After a mobster,an old schoolmate of Mike's, is gunned down in front of Anton's shop, Mike finds out about a secret meeting of the heads of various organized-crime outfits and sets out to get some photos of it.

1Season 2

S2.E1 ∙ The Killer

Mon, Oct 19, 1959

While Mike is at an airport in a small town, a man tries to kill him. However, when he reports the incident to the local police, they dismiss it as a publicity stunt.

2Season 2

S2.E2 ∙ Eye Witness

Mon, Oct 26, 1959

A man is photographed right in the act of robbing a restaurant and killing a waitress. All the witnesses believe they recognize the killer as an older man with no previous record. But Mike begins to suspect that the case is too pat.

3Season 2

S2.E3 ∙ The Man Below

Mon, Nov 2, 1959

Mike suspects the body recently pushed into a well belongs to the man he was hired to prove is still alive. Before he can prove the two men are the same, Mike must convince miners he is still alive, since no one will risk their own lives to bring up a corpse.

4Season 2

S2.E4 ∙ Black Light

Mon, Nov 9, 1959

A police detective asks Mike's help in documenting payoffs he believes are being made to police officers in a particular precinct.

5Season 2

S2.E5 ∙ The Positive Negative

Mon, Nov 16, 1959

A friend of Mike's who's a nightclub photographer asks his help when she is threatened by gangsters who are looking to get the negative of a picture she took of a wealthy Texan.

6Season 2

S2.E6 ∙ Missing

Mon, Nov 23, 1959

When a police officer's wife goes missing, Mike believes the woman was abducted when she accidentally became involved with smugglers at the Mexican border.

7Season 2

S2.E7 ∙ Live Target

Mon, Dec 7, 1959

Mike is hired by the District Attorney to help protect the life of an important witness against a gang of racketeers.

8Season 2

S2.E8 ∙ Girl in the Dark

Mon, Dec 14, 1959

Mike investigates a blackmailing operation that preys on adopted children.

9Season 2

S2.E9 ∙ The Bride

Mon, Dec 21, 1959

Mike sets out to break up a marriage racket that preys on recent immigrants.

10Season 2

S2.E10 ∙ The Picture War

Mon, Jan 4, 1960

Several witnesses to a murder meet with strange "accidents". Mike doesn't believe they're accidents at all, and sets out to use his camera to catch the killer.

11Season 2

S2.E11 ∙ Touch-Off

Mon, Jan 11, 1960

To gather evidence against a ring of arsonists, Mike poses as a firebug himself to try to get in their gang.

12Season 2

S2.E12 ∙ Hot Ice Cream

Mon, Jan 25, 1960

A young amateur photographer helps Kovac investigate a murder that occurred at an amusement park owned by her father.

13Season 2

S2.E13 ∙ Fragment of a Murder

Mon, Feb 1, 1960

Mike is talked into helping a con man prove a man shot in a burglary was actually innocent. The only clue that might help is a small, burnt piece of a photograph the victim himself tried to destroy.

14Season 2

S2.E14 ∙ Kangaroo Court

Mon, Feb 8, 1960

Mike winds up being the bodyguard to an egotistical, arrogant movie star at the annual Cannes Film Festival.