1. The Long Beach Story (a.k.a. The Smuggling Story)  

Production Code: 16

Sharing a taxicab with a ballet dancer leads Lanyard to smuggled rubies and a confrontation with hijackers.

2. The Avalanche Story (a.k.a. The Reno Story)  

Production Code: 6

Visiting Reno to find a woman who supposedly died during the war, Mike is implicated in the death of two government couriers and ends up on a stalled train looking for stolen explosives.

3. The Chinese Story  

In San Francisco's Chinatown, Mike helps an old friend stop a campaign of intimidation and murder.

4. The Carnival Story  

Production Code: 25

When Mike's old friend, a carnival clown, is murdered, he hunts for the killer.

5. The Blue Lantern Story  

Production Code: 2

Lanyard visits the Blue Lantern Tavern to investigate the continued disappearance of world-famous criminals.

6. The Ski Story  

Production Code: 35

Mike's vacation at a Sun Valley ski lodge is interrupted by murder.

7. The Plantation Story  

Production Code: 28

Mike is summoned to a sugar plantation in Manila to investigate illegal dumping by a competitor.

8. Pursuit  

In San Francisco, Mike follows a lead on the man who double-crossed him and murdered his business partner five years ago.

9. The Malibu Story (a.k.a. Malibu-Laguna)  

Production Code: 15

A weekend party in Malibu takes an ominous turn when the host's diamonds are stolen and the dead body of his wife washes up on the beach.

10. The Murder Story  

Production Code: 17

Mike is asked by a psychiatrist to investigate a patient who claims to have committed a murder but can't remember the details.

11. The Honolulu Story  

Production Code: 24

Lanyard goes from New Orleans to Hawaii to discover how rubies and opium are being smuggled in from Hong Kong.

12. Skid Row  

Production Code: 10

Lanyard gets a request from Father Picard to make a last-ditch effort to save the life of a prisoner on death row with 36 hours to live.

13. The Arena  

Production Code: 39

Mike tries to help an estranged brother and sister, each of whom believes that the other caused the death of their father in a supposedly accidental cave-in.

14. The Karachi Story  

Production Code: 36

Mike finds a surprise waiting for him when he goes to Pakistan to protect a religious leader's son whose life has been threatened.

15. The Las Vegas Story  

First aired: 5/14/1955    Production Code: 1

In this first episode of the series Lanyard arrives in Las Vegas on vacation, where he gets involved with a cop and his brother who is wanted for murder.

16. The Italian Story  

Mike helps an Italian family in Chicago get rid of an impostor.

17. The Hunt  

Production Code: 31

Lanyard helps the authorities track down a cholera-infected criminal whose secret entry into the country threatens to let loose an epidemic.

18. The Oil Story  

Production Code: 33

Lanyard searches through the oil fields of Oklahoma for a boy kidnapped by his father from his mother's home.

19. The Boy Story  

Production Code: 34

Mike suspects that the gun offered for sale by a homeless boy was used in a murder the night before.

20. The Emerald Ring  

Production Code: 5

Mike searches the waterfront for Helen Calder, a missing heiress who can be identified by an emerald ring.

21. The Department Store Story  

Production Code: 18

Discovering that a recently deceased man's greedy children are looking for a fortune that he hid before he died, Mike decides to make sure that the money goes to his beloved housekeeper instead.

22. The Mexico Story  

Production Code: 37

In Mexico, the death of an archaeologist sends Lanyard in search of a treasure in Aztec gold coins.

23. The Art Story  

Production Code: 3

Lanyard flies to Los Angeles to clear the name of an old friend, a journalist accused of stealing a priceless Van Gogh painting.

24. The Carlsbad Big Lie Story  

Production Code: 30

In New Mexico, Lanyard is worried about an old friend who claims to have seen a flying saucer and that it's not just one of his tall tales.

25. The Last Ballet Story  

Production Code: 13

In London, Lanyard is investigating threats against the life of a world-famous ballet dancer when she apparently commits suicide.

26. The Beverly Hills Story  

Mike registers at his favorite Beverly Hills hotel only to find that a con artist posing as his wife has already checked in, but goes along with the gag to find out what her game is.

27. The Jet Story  

Production Code: 21

Mike challenges an aircraft designer plagued by accidents to pilot one of his own planes.

28. The San Francisco Story  

Production Code: 4

A woman asks Mike to find out if her husband and their daughter, supposedly killed in a boating accidnet, are still alive.

29. The Savage  

Production Code: 12

Mike visits a South Pacific island to find out why an old friend has apparently resurrected a barbaric native ritual involving fire-walking, shrunken heads, and murder.

30. Deep Sea Diving  

Mike is asked to help an old friend, a deep sea diver accused of helping pirates steal the silver that was about to be salvaged from a sunken wreck.

31. The Werewolf Story  

Production Code: 32

A lawyer asks Lanyard to protect his client's interests at a castle in the Balkans that seems to be threatened by werewolves.

32. The Stamp Story  

Production Code: 27

Mike is hired to locate a stolen rare stamp and return it to its rightful owner.

33. The Minister Story  

Production Code: 8

Lanyard comes to the assistance of an old friend, a minister whose life has been threatened.

34. The Robbery Story (a.k.a. Memo: Robbery)  

Production Code: 19

A big heist prompts Lanyard to track down an infamous jewel thief.

35. The Wife Story  

Production Code: 20

A crazed husband holds Lanyard hostage in a country cottage.

36. The Planetarium Story  

Production Code: 22

Lanyard must recover top-secret microfilm that could sabotage a peace conference if it gets into the wrong hands.

37. The San Pedro Story  

Production Code: 26

Mike is given a ticket on a cruise ship returning from the Orient to determine the truth behind rumors that a playboy king is smuggling a fortune in jewels from his country into the U.S.

38. The Runaway Story  

Production Code: 23

Lanyard suspects that a hit-and-run accident was murder.

39. The Newhall Story (a.k.a. Phoenix-Newhall)  

Production Code: 9

When Mike's millionaire friend, a witness to a judge's murder, is killed right in front of him, Mike determines to find the culprits.