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Bourbon Street Beat
1959 - 1960 5.0 (1 votes) 1 Seasons
Genres
Drama
Networks
ABC
Created By
Charles Hoffman

Bourbon Street Beat

Overview

"Bourbon Street Beat" is a private detective series produced by Warner Brothers Television which aired on the ABC network from October 5, 1959, to July 4, 1960. It featured Richard Long as Rex Randolph, Andrew Duggan as Cal Calhoun, Van Williams as Kenny Madison, and Arlene Howell as Melody Lee Mercer, the secretary at the New Orleans detective agency in which they worked. The show is set in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA and revolves around the lives of Rex Randolph (Long) and Cal Calhoun (Duggan), who run a detective agency called Randolph and Calhoun — Special Services. The agency is based in the Absinthe House, a French Quarter nightclub on Bourbon Street.

Key Crew

Producer: William T. Orr

Top Cast

Seasons

Season 1 poster
Season 1 (1959)

No overview available.

39 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: The Taste of Ashes
1959-10-05

A New Orleans private eye searches for the killers of his partner and turns to a local police officer for help bringing the murderers to justice.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 2: The Mourning Cloak
1959-10-12

Rex and Melody Lee go to the decrepit Cavanagh plantation to investigate ghostly appearances that are driving a woman insane.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 3: Torch Song for Trumpet
1959-10-19

Cal takes on a murder case to prove a hot-tempered ex-con didn't beat his boss to death with a trumpet.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 4: Woman in the River
1959-10-26

Rex and Cal investigate a disappearance in a wealthy New Orleans family.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 5: Girl in Trouble
1959-11-02

Cal sets out to prove a friend is innocent of murder and investigates a gangland killing.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 6: The Tiger Moth
1959-11-09

The investigators look into the apparent suicide of a jazz musician.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 7: Secret of Hyacinth Bayou
1959-11-16

Cal becomes entangled in a blackmail/murder plot when he is savagely beaten and framed for murder by an old swamp-dweller hiding a secret.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 8: Invitation to a Murder
1959-11-23

Rex is invited to witness a murder by an enigmatic killer who switches victims and leaves the detectives trying to sort out a houseful of straying wives, night club operators, newsmen, and other New Orleans characters, each with a motive for the murder.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 9: Mrs. Viner Vanishes
1959-11-30

Hired to find a missing wife, Cal soon becomes caught up in a deadly game of hide-and-seek.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 10: Light Touch of Terror
1959-12-07

Kenny is convinced that a notorius New Orleans killer, the Axeman, has returned when a similar killing occurs.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 11: The Golden Beetle
1959-12-14

A missing man, a stolen talisman and some vanished letters are all connected as the detectives search for answers and find pirate treasure.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 12: The Black Magnolia
1959-12-21

Cal uncovers a family's skeletons when he searches for a missing fortune and a secret killer.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 13: Portrait of Lenore
1959-12-28

Rex searches for a stolen painting, becoming involved in a missing persons case and a murder.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 14: Kill with Kindness
1960-01-04

Cal poses as a handyman at a mansion to discover who's trying to poison a humanitarian.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 15: Inside Man
1960-01-11

Rex goes undercover in a prison gang and joins a prison break.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 16: Find My Face
1960-01-18

Rex and Cal try to identify an accident victim, who refuses to accept his wife and doctor's assurances that he's a wealthy executive and instead claims to be someone else entirely.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 17: Knock on Any Tombstone
1960-01-25

Rex tangles with voodoo when he searches for the person using the New Orleans religion against a client's father.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 18: Key to the City
1960-02-01

Cal and Kenny search for killers aboard a riverboat bound for New Orleans.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 19: The 10% Blues
1960-02-08

Cal and Rex go up against imported killers to find the elusive power behind a talent agency using gangster tactics to get clients.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 20: Melody in Diamonds
1960-02-15

Melody is targeted by a con artist when she borrows a valuable necklace for Mardi Gras.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 21: The House of Ledezan
1960-02-22

Rex is hired to prove an heiress innocent of her father's murder.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 22: Target of Hate
1960-03-07

An assassin uses Rex and Cal's office to set up a political killing. Trapped, the detectives try to goad the killer into a confession that could turn his crony against him.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 23: The Missing Queen
1960-03-14

Cal searches for a missing beauty contestant.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 24: Neon Nightmare
1960-03-21

Cal is hired to break up a political gang with a stranglehold on a small town, but must end his partnership with Rex to avoid suspicion.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 25: Wall of Silence
1960-03-28

Investigating a client's suspicious suicide leads Rex to a strange island under the sway of a mysterious blackmailer.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 26: Twice Betrayed
1960-04-04

Set up by a crooked cop, Cal loses his investigator's license.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 27: Swamp Fire
1960-04-11

Cal and Rex are hired by an oil company to find the truth behind eerie swamp fire images that are driving Cajun workmen to quit en masse.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 28: If A Body
1960-04-18

Cal uncovers a diamond-smuggling ring—but his sleuthing threatens to send him to the bottom of the Mississippi.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 29: Six Hours to Midnight
1960-04-25

Cal has six hours to uncover evidence that a condemned man is innocent of murder.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 30: Last Exit
1960-05-02

Rex flies to the Caribbean to find a client's missing daughter and the man he believes killed his son.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 31: Deadly Persuasion
1960-05-09

Cal is hired to help investigate a boys' reformatory and is taken hostage by three desperate youths during an uprising.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 32: Suitable for Framing
1960-05-16

A beautiful woman hires Rex when she suspects her husband of trying to kill her, but when he goes to check out her mansion he finds himself at the wrong end of a murder investigation.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 33: False Identity
1960-05-23

Cal is hired to find a missing husband and uncovers a strange murder plot.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 34: Green Hell
1960-05-30

Rex gets caught between two power-mongering revolutionaries when a tropical nation hires him to recover vital information.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 35: Ferry to Algiers
1960-06-06

Rex and Cal go off on a fishing trip, leaving Kenny Madison in charge of the office. Kenny's first assignment is to guard an elderly shopkeeper.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 36: Wagon Show
1960-06-13

A circus owner hires Cal to recover an escaped chimp, but while he's searching for the beast he uncovers a tense love triangle that leads to murder.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 37: Interrupted Wedding
1960-06-20

Rex helps a lovely young private eye investigate a bomb discovered at a society wedding and ends up in the clutches of a pair of siblings intent on avenging their parents' long-ago deaths at the hands of a trucking magnate.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 38: Reunion
1960-06-27

Cal races to locate a runaway teen before quarreling crimelords can get to her.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 39: Teresa
1960-07-04

Rex runs into gangsters and a hurricane while searching for a missing playboy at an island casino.

Runtime: 60 min

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