CHECKMATE CLASSIC TV SERIES

The series was produced by bJamco Productions in association with Revue Studios / MCA tv exclusive distributors. it aired on

CBS (Saturdays 8.30 pm, season 1)

CBS (Wednesdays 8.30 pm, season 2)

the series was Created by Eric Ambler

Produced by Herbert Coleman (season 1, 1960-61 - most eps) and

Joseph T. Naar (ep #10) and by

Dick Berg (season 2, 1961-62)

This is a US Detective series 1960-62

70 episodes x 60 min bw

Don Corey and Jed Sills operate Checkmate, Inc., a very high priced

detective agency in San Francisco, who specialize in preventing crimes

before they happen. Helping them protect the lives of their clients is

British criminologist (once an Oxford professor) Carl Hyatt played by

Sebastian Cabot. Doug McClure, for comedy effect, plays Jed Sills, a

recent-college-graduate criminologist

EPiSODES in set 1 in broadcast order:

Disc 1: Death runs wild; Interrupted Honeymoon; The Cyanide Touch; Lady on the Brink; Face on the Window

Disc 2: Runaway; Target: Tycoon; The Deadly Shadow; The Dark Divide; Moment of Truth

Disc 3: Mark of Vengeance; The Murder Game; Princess in the Tower; The Terror from the East; The Human Touch

Disc 4: Hour of Execution; Don't Believe a Word She Says; Laugh 'til I Die; Between Two Guns; A Matter of Conscience

Disc 5: Melody for Murder; Phantom Lover; The Gift; One for the Book; The Paper Killer

Disc 6: Jungle Castle; The Deadly Silence; Goodbye Griff; Dance of Death; Voyage into Fear

Disc 7: Tight as a Drum; Death by Design; The Thrill Seeker; Hot Wind in a Cold Town; A Slight Touch of Venom

EPiSODES in set 2 in broadcast order:

Disc 8: State of Shock; Portrait of a Man Running; The Button Down Break; The Heat of Passion; Waiting for Jocko

Disc 9: Through a Dark Glass: Juan Moreno's Body; Kill the Sound; The Crimson Tool; the Two of Us

Disc 10: Nice Guys Finish Last; To the Best of my Recollection; A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Game; The Star System; The Renaissance of Gussie Hill

Disc 11: A Very Rough Sketch; The Yacht Club Gang; Death Beyond Recall; Sound of Nervous Laughter; An Assassin Arrives, Andante

Disc 12: Rembrance of Crimes Past: The Heart is a Handout; A Brooding Fixation, A Chant of Silence; Trial by Midnight

Disc 13: Ride a Wild Horse; So Beats my Plastic Heart; In a Foreign Quarter; Referendum on Murder; The Someday Man

Disc 14: Rendezvous in Washington; The Bold & the Tough; Will the Real Killer Please Stand Up; Down the Gardenia Path; Side by Side