26 episodes

Craig Kennedy, Criminologist - Season 1

First aired Mar 10, 1951Season 1

Browse all 26 episodes in this season, including available images, air dates, runtimes, ratings and episode summaries from TMDB.

Episodes

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Episode 1

Fugitive Money

NR
Mar 10, 195130 min

A blonde walks into Craig Kennedy's office, plunks down $50,000 in cash on his desk, and offers him the whole amount if he will find her fiancé. But the money is hot and sought by the police along with the missing boy friend.

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Episode 2

Murder Preferred

NR
Mar 10, 195130 min

Craig Kennedy hears the murder shots as a gambler makes a phone appeal for help that is too late. Kennedy use his training in psychology to translate some apparently illegible doodlings on a page of a phone book into the thoughts which occupied the mind of the murdered man during his last living moments.

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Episode 3

Murder on Stage 9

NR
Mar 10, 195130 min

Murder is performed before the eyes of dozens of witnesses on a Hollywood motion picture set when a killer switches a real gun for a prop gun.

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Episode 4

The Big Shakedown

NR
Mar 10, 195130 min

Murder enters a shakedown racket when Craig Kennedy trails a gambling combine.

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Episode 5

The False Claimant

NR
Mar 10, 195130 min

An amnesia victim, a gardener who hates flowers and green grass, and a million-dollar art collection are involved in this episode of "Craig Kennedy Criminologist."

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Episode 6

The Golden Dagger

NR
Mar 10, 195130 min

Strange hieroglyphics on a golden dagger provide a motive for murder. Crag Kennedy, called upon to translate the markings on the evil-omened knife, is drawn into a bizarre mystery when a collector of antiques is shot to death.

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Episode 7

The Indian Giver

NR
Mar 10, 195130 min

Craig Kennedy, Inspector Burke and reporter Walter Jameson uncover a plot to smuggle a revolutionary steel formula out of the country.

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Episode 8

The Mummy's Secret

NR
Mar 10, 195130 min

In a holiday mood, Craig Kenney, Inspector Burke and Walt Jameson visit a carnival and find mystery, danger and suspense involving a group of weird sideshow mummies.

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Episode 9

The Secret Will

NR
Mar 10, 195130 min

A would-be-murderer demands payment for killing a victim, but the victim is still very much alive. Craig Kennedy unravels the mystery of a criminal who hunts his victims with a bow-and-arrow.

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Episode 10

The Vanisher

NR
Mar 10, 195130 min

When a notorious gangster is killed by a rival hoodlum, Craig Kennedy assumes the murdered man's identity to trap the killer.

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Episode 11

There's Money in It

NR
Mar 10, 195130 min

Craig Kennedy, Inspector Burke and reporter Walt Jameson match wits with a clever gang that attempts to pass off some glass beads as the famous Von Anton Diamond Necklace.

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Episode 12

Strange Destiny

NR
Mar 10, 195130 min

A phony doctor, a notorious smuggler, and a sultry secretary combine their talents to outwit U. S. Customs officials by the use of a plaster cast.

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Episode 13

The Case of Fleming Lewis

NR
Mar 10, 195130 min

A planned fishing trip turns into a murder mystery when a wealthy chemist, Fleming Lewis, who is host to Craig Kennedy, Evening Star reporter Walter Jameson and police Inspector J. J. Burke, is killed.

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Episode 14

Late Corpse

NR
Mar 10, 195130 min

Craig Kennedy's knowledge of minerals and precious stones uncovers a cruel hoax, which takes Kennedy from a desert in Mexico to a lavish penthouse in an American city.

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Episode 15

File 1313

NR
Mar 10, 195130 min

Craig Kennedy is slugged as he interrupts two intruders who are rifling the files in his office. Kennedy's File 1313, dealing with his investigation of an involved electronic device, disappears.

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Episode 16

Formula For Murder

NR
Oct 5, 195130 min

A blond actress and a glamorous brunette both claim the love of a murdered research dietician, but Craig Kennedy brews his own formula for justice when he proves that professed love can be greed and jealousy, and that avarice not only leads to crime, but to poison as well.

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Episode 17

The Lonely Hearts Club

NR
Nov 8, 195130 min

Kennedy and his friend, reporter Walter Jameson, pose as a couple of seafaring men to save an old man from murder, as Kennedy's skills pay off as he unravels the mystery of a hoodlum who forces the operator of a Lonely Hearts Club to furnish him with a groom for a brunette beauty.

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Episode 18

The Amateur Ghost

NR
Nov 8, 195130 min

A photograph of a crusading councilman with two hoodlums threatens his career until Craig Kennedy conducts some experiments in trick photography.

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Episode 19

Dead Right

NR
Jan 29, 195330 min

The weakling nephew of a Texas cattleman attempts to kill Craig Kennedy when he is framed for an attempted murder and a consummated robbery.

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Episode 20

Tall, Dark and Dead

NR
Feb 17, 1953

Craig Kennedy investigates the murder of a well-known stage actor, and it gets bizarre when the same actor is later shot at the door of Kennedy's laboratory.

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Episode 21

The Mystery Bullet

NR
Feb 17, 195330 min

An ingenious murder device baffles Inspector Burke when a racketeering plumber is shot to death as there are no rifling marks on the death bullet. Time to call Craig Kennedy.

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Episode 22

I Hate Money

NR
Mar 10, 195330 min

Craig Kennedy assumes the role of a tramp to probe the mystery of why an old man prefers to live in a hobo's shack rather than accept a half-million dollar inheritance.

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Episode 23

Kid Brother

NR
Mar 10, 195330 min

The cooperation of a youngster and Craig Kennedy's examination of an apparently innocent letter bring an incipient crime career to a sudden end.

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Episode 24

Murder on a Million

NR
Mar 10, 195330 min

An elderly inventor falls wounded at the door of Craig Kennedy's crime laboratory and a short time later, Inspector Burke finds the wounded man's partner shot to death in his palatial home.

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Episode 25

The Trap

NR
Mar 10, 195330 min

Craig Kennedy poses as a tramp to solve a mystery that centers on a jewel theft and the character weakness of a two-timing wife.

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Episode 26

1616 Hidden Lane Road

NR
Mar 10, 195330 min

Craig Kennedy finds himself in an uncomfortable position between a gullible matron (Liz Slifer) with a guilt complex, and a racketeering combine with a yen for $200,000 in cash. With Coulter Irwin.