List of Burke's Law episodes (1963 series)

This is a list of episodes for the 1963–66 television series Burke's Law, as opposed to the 1994–95 revival series. For the third season, the show was revamped and renamed Amos Burke, Secret Agent.

Series overview

Season		Episodes	Originally aired		On-screen title
Season		Episodes	First aired	Last aired	On-screen title
	1	32	September 20, 1963	May 8, 1964	Burke's Law
	2	32	September 16, 1964	May 5, 1965	Burke's Law
	3	17	September 15, 1965	January 12, 1966	Amos Burke, Secret Agent

Episodes

Season 1: 1963–64

No. in series	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date
1	1	"Who Killed Holly Howard?"	Hy Averback	Albert Beich & William H. Wright	September 20, 1963 (1963-09-20)
Model Holly Howard is found murdered, and the only clues seem to link a trio of wealthy Texans to her death.
2	2	"Who Killed Mr. X?"	Don Weis	Lewis Reed	September 27, 1963 (1963-09-27)
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.
3	3	"Who Killed Cable Roberts?"	Jeffrey Hayden	Gwen Bagni	October 4, 1963 (1963-10-04)
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.
4	4	"Who Killed Harris Crown?"	Don Weis	John Meredyth Lucas	October 11, 1963 (1963-10-11)
Burke's investigation of the murder of Harris Crown is complicated by the fact that Mrs. Crown is pregnant... and not by her husband.
5	5	"Who Killed Julian Buck?"	Don Weis	Albert Beich & William H. Wright	October 18, 1963 (1963-10-18)
Julian Buck, one of America's most respected authors, is found stabbed 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.
6	6	"Who Killed Alex Debbs?"	Don Weis	Harlan Ellison	October 25, 1963 (1963-10-25)
The publisher of a girlie magazine is murdered at one of his own key clubs.
7	7	"Who Killed Sweet Betsy?"	Hy Averback	Edith R. Sommer	November 1, 1963 (1963-11-01)
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.
8	8	"Who Killed Billy Jo?"	Hy Averback	Tony Barrett	November 8, 1963 (1963-11-08)
A recording star is murdered. Was the killer his agent, his sister, his music arranger, or someone else?
9	9	"Who Killed Wade Walker?"	Stanley Z. Cherry	Robert O'Brien	November 15, 1963 (1963-11-15)
Wealthy Wade Walker is found dead after his plane blows up in mid-air.
10	10	"Who Killed the Kind Doctor?"	Don Taylor	Edith R. Sommer	November 29, 1963 (1963-11-29)
Dr. Eric Techman, a fashionable LA psychiatrist, telephones Burke to warn him of an impending murder — his own — by one of his patients. But Techman is gunned down before he can name the killer.
11	11	"Who Killed Purity Mather?"	Walter Grauman	Harlan Ellison	December 6, 1963 (1963-12-06)
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.
12	12	"Who Killed Cynthia Royal?"	Charles F. Haas	Jameson Brewer & Day Keene	December 13, 1963 (1963-12-13)
A missing Siamese cat named Deborah is Burke's prime clue to the killing of Cynthia Royal. The murder victim had just arrived in town from Chicago trying to reunite with her estranged husband. The husband had been wooing a nightclub singer, which leads Burke also to suspect the nightclub's owner/comic and his attorney. When Burke and an elderly acquaintance stumble across another body, the trail eventually leads to two beatniks, the return of Deborah and the solution of the case.
13	13	"Who Killed Eleanora Davis?"	Herman Hoffman	Don Taylor	December 20, 1963 (1963-12-20)
"Professor" Kingston runs a cheap sideshow in a traveling carnival; one of his exhibits is a supposedly genuine electric chair.
14	14	"Who Killed Beau Sparrow?"	David Orrick McDearmon	John Meredyth Lucas	December 27, 1963 (1963-12-27)
Burke is attending a pool party at tycoon Victor Haggerty's mansion when dashing Beau Sparrow is thrown into the pool by a faulty diving apparatus and dies. The apparatus doesn't seem to have been tampered with and George McLeod can't determine the cause of death. Was it murder? If so, who's the killer: the tycoon, his spoiled pampered wife, her paid companion, the countess who was Beau's current flame, the tough-as-nails secretary, or the blowhard businessman? As soon as Burke figures out who the culprit is, he has to rush to prevent another death.
15	15	"Who Killed Jason Shaw?"	Stanley Z. Cherry	Lewis Reed	January 3, 1964 (1964-01-03)
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? (This episode originally was scheduled to air Nov. 22, 1963, but was postponed after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.)
16	16	"Who Killed Snookie Martinelli?"	Robert Ellis Miller	Gwen Bagni & Paul Dubov	January 10, 1964 (1964-01-10)
Can it be that Amos Burke himself has been murdered?
17	17	"Who Killed What's His Name?"	Don Taylor	Tony Barrett	January 17, 1964 (1964-01-17)
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.
18	18	"Who Killed Madison Cooper?"	Jeffrey Hayden	Lewis Reed	January 24, 1964 (1964-01-24)
A shady attorney carrying a lot of money is murdered after making a telephone call.
19	19	"Who Killed April?"	Lewis Allen	Albert Beich	January 31, 1964 (1964-01-31)
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.
20	20	"Who Killed Carrie Cornell?"	Byron Paul	Jay Dratler	February 14, 1964 (1964-02-14)
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.
21	21	"Who Killed His Royal Highness?"	Don Weis	Gwen Bagni & Paul Dubov	February 21, 1964 (1964-02-21)
A man claiming to be an exiled Russian prince — not that anyone ever believed that — is murdered.
22	22	"Who Killed Marty Kelso?"	Don Taylor	Tony Barrett	February 28, 1964 (1964-02-28)
Ruthless Hollywood agent Marty Kelso is murdered and leaves behind a plethora of suspects, including a new wife and three ex-wives.
23	23	"Who Killed Avery Lord?"	Richard Kinon	Lewis Reed	March 6, 1964 (1964-03-06)
Burke and his team investigate the murder of a wealthy industrial designer.
24	24	"Who Killed Andy Zygmunt?"	Don Taylor	Harlan Ellison	March 13, 1964 (1964-03-13)
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.
25	25	"Who Killed the Paper Dragon?"	Marc Daniels	Jameson Brewer & Day Keene	March 20, 1964 (1964-03-20)
During Chinese New Year celebrations, a body is found concealed in a car.
26	26	"Who Killed Molly?"	Don Weis	Albert Beich	March 27, 1964 (1964-03-27)
Brunette housewife Molly Brown 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.
27	27	"Who Killed WHO IV?"	Don Weis	Gwen Bagni & Paul Dubov	April 3, 1964 (1964-04-03)
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.
28	28	"Who Killed Annie Foran?"	Lewis Allen	Tony Barrett	April 10, 1964 (1964-04-10)
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.
29	29	"Who Killed My Girl?"	Don Taylor	Tony Barrett	April 17, 1964 (1964-04-17)
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 that night — 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.
30	30	"Who Killed the Eleventh Best Dressed Woman in the World?"	Don Weis	Edith R. Sommer	April 24, 1964 (1964-04-24)
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.
31	31	"Who Killed Don Pablo?"	Richard Kinon	Gwen Bagni & Paul Dubov	May 1, 1964 (1964-05-01)
A waxwork in a museum turns out not to be a waxwork at all; it's a corpse.
32	32	"Who Killed 1/2 of Glory Lee?"	Don Weis	Harlan Ellison	May 8, 1964 (1964-05-08)
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."

Season 2: 1964–65

No. in series	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date
33	1	"Who Killed the Surf Broad?"	Don Taylor	Tony Barrett	September 16, 1964 (1964-09-16)
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.
34	2	"Who Killed Vaudeville?"	Gene Nelson	Gwen Bagni & Paul Dubov	September 23, 1964 (1964-09-23)
The burlesque comedy team of Witt, Watt and Who (now an accountant, a desk clerk and a bartender with a dark secret), a professor of the striptease, a tap dancer, the manager of a hotel for showfolk, a unicyclist — any one of them may have "killed vaudeville," but one of them certainly poisoned baggy pants clown Rags McGuire, who was about to be featured in an event at the Hollywood Bowl. But why was Rags killed? He only left a few small bequests and an old battered trunk that no one seems to want. But was that really all? Burke corners the killer at the Hollywood Bowl and almost brings the house down.
35	3	"Who Killed Cassandra Cass?"	Jerry Hopper	Lorenzo Semple, Jr.	September 30, 1964 (1964-09-30)
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.
36	4	"Who Killed the Horne of Plenty?"	Richard Kinon	Tony Barrett	October 7, 1964 (1964-10-07)
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.
37	5	"Who Killed Everybody?"	Richard Kinon	Richard Levinson & William Link	October 14, 1964 (1964-10-14)
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.
38	6	"Who Killed Mr. Cartwheel?"	Don Weis	Gwen Bagni & Paul Dubov	October 21, 1964 (1964-10-21)
Burke goes cowboy at a tourist-style Old West town, after the hanging of Emerson Cartwheel at a coin auction. The clue is a valuable rare coin used to kill the victim, but before Burke can investigate, he's tossed in the hoosegow by the local honorary (and very lovely) female sheriff of Epitaph Flats. After a dramatic jailbreak, with an assist from Henry, Burke and his crew question the town drunk, one of the "gunslingers" in the Wild West tourist show, the victim's business rival, the lady blacksmith and a very Brooklynese "Native American." Soon real bullets start flying and the whole case ends in a barroom free-for-all.
39	7	"Who Killed Cornelius Gilbert?"	Don Taylor	Lewis Reed	October 28, 1964 (1964-10-28)
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.
40	8	"Who Killed Lenore Wingfield?"	Don Weis	Leigh Chapman	November 4, 1964 (1964-11-04)
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.
41	9	"Who Killed the Richest Man in the World?"	Gene Nelson	Stephen Kandel	November 11, 1964 (1964-11-11)
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.
42	10	"Who Killed the Tall One in the Middle?"	Don Weis	Tony Barrett	November 25, 1964 (1964-11-25)
The lead singer in a sister trio act is poisoned. Both the surviving sisters hated the victim, but others had motive as well: the nightclub owner, the trio's former arranger, the girls' agent, their stepfather, and a real estate agent who had been involved with two of the sisters. After one of the suspects is attacked and brutally beaten, Tim is nearly run down by a speeding car and another suspect is murdered. Burke finally discovers the solution to the crime at a sanitorium.
43	11	"Who Killed Merlin the Great?"	Richard Kinon	Richard Levinson & William Link	December 2, 1964 (1964-12-02)
Escape artist Jack Merlin, at a convention of competitive magicians, attempts his stock-in-trade trick of staying underwater for five hours sealed in coffin with an hour air supply, but he dies — from a gunshot wound.
44	12	"Who Killed 711?"	Sidney Lanfield	Gwen Bagni & Paul Dubov	December 9, 1964 (1964-12-09)
When Buddy Jack Cook, a businessman with a very shady reputation, is found slain in a hotel elevator, his accountant Harold Harold is the prime suspect.
45	13	"Who Killed Supersleuth?"	Lawrence Dobkin	Lorenzo Semple, Jr.	December 16, 1964 (1964-12-16)
Three famous private detectives, plus two famous cops from London and Moscow, are all suspects when yet another famous sleuth is murdered.
46	14	"Who Killed the Swinger on a Hook?"	Lewis Allen	Tony Barrett	December 23, 1964 (1964-12-23)
After a developer is found stabbed to death and on a meat hook, another man is found dead with the same letter as the one discovered on the developer: a list of six names, which includes Amos. And then Amos receives such a letter.
47	15	"Who Killed Davidian Jonas?"	Sam Freedle	Gwen Bagni & Paul Dubov	December 30, 1964 (1964-12-30)
A shipping tycoon's corpse is discovered draped over his yacht's anchor when it is hoisted out of the water. The tycoon's intended merger would ruin several of the guests on his current cruise. A large earring is a major clue — did it belong to the victim's brother (a gypsy king), or the maharanee, or perhaps to the ship's sexy radio operator? Or was the killer the rival shipping magnate, the boozy hanger-on, or his ever-so-pleasant PR man? When Burke finally realizes the importance of whose stateroom was where and how much alcohol was drunk on the night of the fatal party, he knows who the killer is.
48	16	"Who Killed the Strangler?"	Sam Freedle	Larry Gordon	January 6, 1965 (1965-01-06)
During a match a professional wrestler is killed by a poison dart that originated from a special section in which only five persons sat.
49	17	"Who Killed Mother Goose?"	Sam Freedle	Richard Levinson & William Link	January 13, 1965 (1965-01-13)
When a writer of children's books is strangled with a typewriter ribbon, the suspects are a prodigal son, a secretary, and a number of people whose livelihood involves children.
50	18	"Who Killed the Toy Soldier?"	Jerry Hopper	Lorenzo Semple, Jr.	January 20, 1965 (1965-01-20)
Granny Grabber, the not-so-nice male head of a toy firm, is blown sky high by a bomb placed in his giant toy soldier cigar lighter. The killer had to be one of five people who were photographed coming into his office that day (Granny was paranoid about industrial espionage). The victim's sultry secretary, the company's military adviser on all war toys, an aeronautical scientist, a "James Bond" wannabe, and the head of a school for juvenile delinquents all come under suspicion. When one of the suspects discovers a vital clue and is murdered, Burke discovers that Granny had plans to make millions by not producing a toy!
51	19	"Who Killed Rosie Sunset?"	Paul Wendkos	Tony Barrett	January 27, 1965 (1965-01-27)
Why would anyone kill sweet old Rosie Sunset, who sold maps to the movie stars' homes? An heiress who was seen giving Rosie a ride; Rosie's neighbor, a Russian sculptor with a sexy sister, whose work mysteriously has appeared in Rosie's apartment; a neurotic, workaholic printer on the ground floor of Rosie's building; an accordion player who suddenly disappears after being questioned; and Rosie's estranged step-son who needed Rosie's money for his florist business — all fall under suspicion. The solution lies in Rosie's past hospitalization and her late husband's "hobby."
52	20	"Who Killed Wimbledon Hastings?"	Jerry Hopper	Leigh Chapman	February 3, 1965 (1965-02-03)
An ace shot by a tennis star blows up in his face at a charity event, after one of his tennis balls had been loaded with explosives. Burke scours the local country club for clues while trying to avoid the "help" of an eager ball boy, who claims he can solve the case for Burke. The victim's pessimistic manager, his fiancee and her jealous sister (a dentist), his ex-wife, and a tennis rival all had access to the club room and could have tampered with the equipment. Finally, a nightclub singer who knew the victim well gives Tim some valuable information. When Burke figures out the relevance of a casual bit of trivia, he corners the killer, who still has a few "bomb balls" to spare. The case comes to an explosive finish.
53	21	"Who Killed the Fat Cat?"	Jerry Hopper	Gwen Bagni & Paul Dubov	February 10, 1965 (1965-02-10)
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.
54	22	"Who Killed the Man on the White Horse?"	Allen Reisner	Berne Giler & David Giler	February 17, 1965 (1965-02-17)
Cowboy star Clayton Steele is murdered at the rodeo. The suspects are many, but only one had the motive and opportunity.
55	23	"Who Killed the Thirteenth Clown?"	Jerry Hopper	Charles Hoffman	February 24, 1965 (1965-02-24)
Somehow or other, thirteen circus clowns always manage to squeeze into a tiny car, and get out of it again at the end of the act. But this time, the thirteenth clown is dead.
56	24	"Who Killed Mr. Colby in Ladies' Lingerie?"	Jerry Hopper	Tony Barrett	March 3, 1965 (1965-03-03)
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.
57	25	"Who Killed the Rest?"	Sam Freedle	Lorenzo Semple, Jr.	March 17, 1965 (1965-03-17)
Burke's vacation south of the border is anything but restful when he is jailed for the murder of a gossip columnist and a popular local fisherman. With the help of his vacation date and the ever-faithful Henry, Burke escapes from prison, but can he outwit the local police chief after all his ID has been stolen? He needs to find out whether the killer is the Nazi, the anthropologist turned voodoo priestess, the novelist, or the sexy sailor gal, before the angry mob catches up with him. When one of the locals is poisoned, Burke knows who the killer is.
58	26	"Who Killed Cop Robin?"	Murray Golden	David P. Harmon	March 24, 1965 (1965-03-24)
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.
59	27	"Who Killed Nobody Somehow?"	Jerry Hopper	Gwen Bagni & Paul Dubov	March 31, 1965 (1965-03-31)
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.
60	28	"Who Killed Hamlet?"	Don Weis	Albert Beich & Lewis Reed	April 7, 1965 (1965-04-07)
A pretentious method actor is killed during a performance of Hamlet.
61	29	"Who Killed the Rabbit's Husband?"	Jerry Hopper	Tony Barrett	April 14, 1965 (1965-04-14)
When a wealthy physician is shot, his wife disappears. It seems she has a habit of running away when things get tough. Is she the murderer or another victim? Burke finds out more about her unhappy history from her sister at an amusement park, and tracks the missing woman's past through a gambling casino, a lonely hearts club, and a waterfront dive. The other men in her life (also possible suspects in the case) include a ship's cook, a con artist "hypnotist" and an ex-jockey. An anonymous note proves to be the clue that reveals who the real murderer is. Burke arrives just in time to prevent another murder.
62	30	"Who Killed the Jackpot?"	Richard Kinon	Gwen Bagni & Paul Dubov	April 21, 1965 (1965-04-21)
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.
63	31	"Who Killed the Grand Piano?"	Frederick de Cordova	Larry Gordon	April 28, 1965 (1965-04-28)
Pianist Artur Bachner's concert ends with a bang when his piano explodes, killing him. Anyone could have tampered with it during the backstage party before the concert — his abused ex-wife, a rival concert pianist, his personal manager, his horror movie star brother, or the woman he had been pursuing (now a "Bunny Mother" at a local Playboy-like club). Les, Tim and Sgt. Ames each have their own favorite suspect, but Burke's feisty Uncle Patrick, over from Ireland for a visit, helps solve the case (while getting cozy with Burke's date). The secret to solving the case is in the fact that the piece the victim was playing had been written so he was literally the only one in the world who could play it.
64	32	"Who Killed the Card?"	Jerry Hopper	Gwen Bagni & Paul Dubov	May 5, 1965 (1965-05-05)
The head of a greeting card firm was killed, but not by the arrow protruding from his body. It was slow, methodical arsenic poisoning. His flirtatious teenage assistant takes a shine to Burke, but he's afraid she may be the prime suspect. If not, there are several others to choose from: the victim's ambitious successor, the mousy psychologist and his domineering wife, or the jingle writer. Burke's intentions are misunderstood and he comes close to being a second victim. The season ends with the whole cast of regulars involved in a big musical production number (of dubious artistic merit).

Season 3: 1965–66

No. in series	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date
65	1	"Balance of Terror"	Murray Golden	Robert Buckner	September 15, 1965 (1965-09-15)
Burke turns in his police badge to work as a secret agent for the federal government. In his first assignment, he travels to Switzerland to work with the local police to crack an international ring of gold smugglers; Red Chinese gold is being smuggled from Switzerland into Latin America. The leader of the smugglers is General Edrego Barata, once a Latin American dictator who stripped his country of its wealth. Burke poses as syndicate hit man Paul Schreiner, whom Barata has never met. The plan goes awry when the real Schreiner is released from jail and exposes Burke.
66	2	"Operation Long Shadow"	Don Taylor	Albert Beich & William H. Wright	September 22, 1965 (1965-09-22)
In a combination of The Day of the Jackal and The Man Who Knew Too Much, Burke is sent to Paris to locate the missing son of an American diplomat. The boy disappeared shortly after someone murdered his father's girlfriend by pushing her off the Eiffel Tower. When Burke arrives, he finds himself involved in a bizarre plot to assassinate Charles de Gaulle that takes him across the French countryside.
67	3	"Steam Heat"	Virgil W. Vogel	Marc Brandell	September 29, 1965 (1965-09-29)
Burke poses as a jewel thief and infiltrates a criminal syndicate planning to put New York City to sleep with gas introduced into all the steam mains. The crooks — Albert Indigo, Tucson the Cowboy, Charlie "The Arm" Segal, and Ziggy White — then plan to loot the entire city. With the finances for the plan supplied by foreign interests, the syndicate also intends to kill a few important, connected people. While planning takes place at the Villa Ruposa, "Mr. I" undergoes a senate hearing, after which he vows vengeance on Senator Burrows. With the aid of co-spy Ursula Prince, Burke learns about the entire operation, but a beautiful crook named Silkie kills Ursula so she can have Burke all to herself.
68	4	"Password to Death"	*	Marc Brandell	October 6, 1965 (1965-10-06)
In London, Burke investigates two murders. The victims, a German electronics expert and a Yugoslavian engineer, had one thing in common: they both died after telephoning a certain number. Burke uncovers an intricate plot involving a password that means instant death, tin mines that have poison gas in the ventilating system, and a new, deadly Soviet satellite. Behind it all is megalomaniac who plans to destroy all the top people in England and take over the nation.
69	5	"The Man with the Power"	Murray Golden	Stuart Jerome	October 13, 1965 (1965-10-13)
Burke is sent behind the Iron Curtain and must smuggle out a famous scientist who has developed an ultra-powerful nuclear device. Another agent, Tony Scott, is assigned to assist Burke, but is actually in a conspiracy to steal the new weapon and sell it. Once they get Dr. Crystal into Austria, Scott kidnaps him and hooks him up to his bomb, which will destroy Vienna within 22 hours if two million dollars in uncut diamonds aren't paid. Burke gets the diamonds released to an Austrian official. However, he too is in on the plot. Claiming the diamonds are fake, the official accuses Burke of stealing the real gems, planning to blame the inevitable disaster on Burke and then kill him.
70	6	"Nightmare in the Sun"	James Goldstone	Tony Barrett	October 20, 1965 (1965-10-20)
Burke is in Mexico City to try to learn who is behind an assassination attempt against Pablo Vasquez, the Mexican Government's Labor Leader, who very pro-U.S. He discovers that a proposed peace treaty is the reason behind the attempt on Vasquez while he was watching the renowned female matador, La Tigra. Burke gets himself thrown in jail in order to question a suspected conspirator, but learns nothing. La Tigra distracts Burke while he is guarding Vasquez and Vasquez is kidnapped. Failing to kill Burke, La Tigra confesses that she was only in on the plot because she was being blackmailed by Darvas, the leader of the plot.
71	7	"The Prisoners of Mr. Sin"	John Peyser	Marc Brandell & Gilbert Ralston	October 27, 1965 (1965-10-27)
Special Installation MX-3 in Washington, D.C., is protecting a renowned cryptographer and head clerk of a U.S. intelligence installation, Dr. Waldo E. Bannister, responsible for breaking the Manchurian Code. With his knowledge, expertise, and photographic memory, he is highly sought after. Deep in his brain are the files of twenty-one of the country's best agents, including Burke. In retirement, Bannister travels to the Isle of Tio Moro, a thieves' market where the most unusual items regularly change hands and the home of the notorious Mr. Sin. Planning on selling his information, Bannister is instead captured by Mr. Sin, who plans to auction off Bannister's facts to the highest bidder, keeping the money for himself. Burke is sent to either retrieve Bannister off the island or kill him before he talks. Posing as a playboy who operates on the fringes of the law, Burke gains the confidence of Mr. Sin and plans to bid on Bannister.
72	8	"Peace, It's a Gasser"	James Goldstone	Palmer Thompson	November 3, 1965 (1965-11-03)
Union Seecorps, a fanatical revolutionary group led by Harrison Quentin Filmore, has a dream. Filmore wants to bring peace to the world through Operation Euphoria. He plans to dose Washington, D.C., with LSD gas for three days. First they must steal H09, a gasoline additive, from Narvoo Air Base, in order to drug the troops. Burke is sent to the base and poses as a member of the military police in order to guard the H09. Filmore, however, manages to drug the entire base and steal the additive. Other members of the Union plan to take advantage of Filmore's "high" ideas of peace and take over the United States Government. Burke poses as a traitor in order to infiltrate the Union, but Filmore decides to test his "disloyalty" by ordering him to kill a CIA agent.
73	9	"The Weapon"	*	Tony Barrett	November 10, 1965 (1965-11-10)
Burke heads to London to battle power-crazed tycoon Alexander Szabo, a maniac who possesses a deadly truth serum. Szabo uses the serum on top government officials who, after revealing secret information, are then caused to commit suicide by the drug's effects.
74	10	"Deadlier Than the Male"	John Peyser	Albert Beich & William H. Wright	November 17, 1965 (1965-11-17)
Exiled South American dictator Pedro Cabrial is living in a Spanish castle, but aspires to return to power with the help of foreign financial aid. Carla, his wife, conceals from him the fact that he has contracted a fatal illness and will be dead in thirty days; in this way, she figures he will go through with a planned coup, and then she will be able to gain control of the country. Jeff Smith (an undercover agent who happens to be son of Burke's boss), Dr. Torres, and anyone else who gets in the way of the military takeover are killed. Burke is sent to infiltrate Cabrial's stronghold. He succeeds in getting inside the castle, only to be captured and put on a rack left over from the Inquisition.
75	11	"Whatever Happened to Adriana, and Why Won't She Stay Dead?"	Seymour Robbie	Warren B. Duff	December 1, 1965 (1965-12-01)
A warehouse explosion destroys evidence needed to convict international narcotics king James Gunnar Ketterbach. His new line of business is smuggling missiles into South America; Burke's mission is to capture one of the missiles and bring it back to be used in evidence at the United Nations inquest. Ketterbach has disposed of a woman for a top Sicilian official and put her in a coffin marked "Adriana Montavi." Since then, he has been blackmailing the official into helping him with his operation. Adriana, however, is very much alive...
76	12	"The Man's Men"	Jerry Hopper	Albert Beich & William H. Wright	December 8, 1965 (1965-12-08)
The title refers to the operatives of Burke's boss, "The Man." The Man has devised an ambitious project entitled Operation Eyeball, a plan to bug every foreign embassy in the world. Shortly before the plan is to be put into effect, a microfilm containing a list of American agents assigned to the operation is stolen, along with a photograph of each one. The list is being offered in trade for seven million in diamonds for international bidding on future targets. Even though the ransom is paid, The Man knows the list has been copied and so orders Burke and female agent Sylvia Kellogg to kill everyone connected with the theft. As they carry out the mission, Burke begins to suspect that Sylvia is working for the other side.
77	13	"Or No Tomorrow"	Virgil W. Vogel	John Hawkins & Ward Hawkins	December 15, 1965 (1965-12-15)
The Man sends Burke to Ceylon to investigate a ransom note that the U.S. government has received. The note threatened to unleash a deadly new fungus called Blast on the Asian continent unless a pair of convicted spies were released to the extortionist. After the fungus is released on the small island of Perzan in the Indian Ocean, the rice crops become diseased and have to be burned and destroyed after only 48 hours. Unless Burke can find a way to stop whoever is behind the plan, the entire world may be faced with a great famine. Burke learns that the person behind the plot is the mad Prince Ransputa, and he poses as a wealthy American in search of rare emeralds in order to get to the prince. Once inside the palace, he discovers that the fungus was unwittingly created by a beautiful scientist, Tashu Anil, who is in love with the prince and is being used by him.
78	14	"A Little Gift for Cairo"	Jerry Hopper	Tony Barrett & Ben Starr	December 22, 1965 (1965-12-22)
Sheik Farid, deposed King of Egypt, is collecting a secret arsenal of weapons to take over what he has lost. The Man assigns Burke to foil Farid's takeover plans. To help him, he has an elderly but effective British agent named Agatha Carruthers. Burke plans to romance Farid's mistress, Yasmin, and plant a bug in a fake diamond pendant he plans to give her.
79	15	"A Very Important Russian Is Missing"	Virgil W. Vogel	Tony Barrett & Samuel A. Peeples	December 29, 1965 (1965-12-29)
The United States and Russia collaborate on finding a Soviet agent, Borodin, feared kidnapped by China. Both the U.S. and U.S.S.R. worry that the Red Chinese will extract the many military secrets he carries in his head. A top Soviet agent, Pavlov, is sent to assist Burke in locating the missing Borodin. They learn that Borodin has been smuggled into Switzerland in the carcass of a dead ox, and is being held in a state of suspended animation. Deceptions lead Burke to finally discover that Russians are actually holding Borodin for a ransom of four million dollars.
80	16	"Terror in a Tiny Town: Part 1"	Murray Golden	Marc Brandell	January 5, 1966 (1966-01-05)
Harlan O'Brien, Chief Security Officer at the nuclear power plant in the small town of Sorrel, is shot by a policeman after going berserk in a restaurant. After his death, Burke goes to investigate the death of his old war buddy and finds the townspeople all seem to be under some form of mass hypnosis. Expressionless, they refuse to discuss anything but their great loyalty to their town. Burke tries to uncover the truth about an orgnanization known as The Friends of Progress. The town leader, ex-Congressman Jed Hawkes, seems sane enough until he suddenly orders the citizens to kill Burke. A mob forms and they finally corner Burke in a laundromat. Five of the seemingly "normal" people enter with shotguns and come after Burke... To be continued...
81	17	"Terror in a Tiny Town: Part 2"	Murray Golden	Marc Brandell	January 12, 1966 (1966-01-12)
Escaping, Amos goes to see The Man and learns that he is wanted for murder. He returns to Sorrel and finds the secret that Harlan O'Brien knew: the town has been brainwashed by subliminal tapes broadcast from station KJHS. Hawkes is behind the entire scheme — he has stolen an atom bomb from the plant, piece by piece, and hidden it inside a statue in Washington, D.C. Burke allows himself to be arrested, then manages to get the zombie-like citizens to turn on Hawkes. The bomb squad finds the stolen atom bomb and successfully defuses it.

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Home releases

At present, the following DVD sets have been released by VCI Entertainment.^[1]

DVD set		Episodes	Release date
	Burke's Law: Season 1, Volume 1	16	April 28, 2008 (2008-04-28)
	Burke's Law: Season 1, Volume 2	16	November 18, 2008 (2008-11-18)

External links

↑ DVD release info at TVShowsOnDVD.com

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