S3 E1 • Take Off Your Hat When a Funeral Passes

After escaping prison by informing on his wife’s brother, who’s sent up for the robbery they committed, Paul Delito’s wife leaves him, vowing to teach their son to curse his father for snitching. The only thing sustaining Delito is the hope of winning forgiveness, and when his brother-in-law is later released and in hiding after committing murder, he seeks out the man to plead for his pardon.

Première diffusion : 27 septembre 1961

S3 E2 • Dead on the Field of Honor

A young man, whose soul has been sickened by his grandmother’s tales of chivalry, uses an old dueling pistol to shoot a man who has been fighting with his girlfriend in Central Park. While detectives search for the unknown sniper, he wounds another man and attacks his sister’s boyfriend.

Première diffusion : 4 octobre 1961

S3 E3 • The Corpse Ran Down Mulberry Street

A gang leader arranged for an elderly man to be smuggled into the country in a coffin, and he’s carrying a candy jar full of heroin. The hearse collides with another car and the old man wanders off into a strange new world, unaware that the gang is out to kill him before he talks to police.

Première diffusion : 11 octobre 1961

S3 E4 • The Fingers of Henri Tourelle

After six months in a sanitarium, a garment tycoon returns to his firm and decides to destroy the lives of his associates. After announcing that he’s closing the place, he’s found shot to death, and police can’t find a clue to determine whether it was murder or suicide.

Première diffusion : 18 octobre 1961

S3 E5 • A Wednesday Night Story

A small boy’s governess tells Parker of severe marital discord in the home where she works, and that during the couple’s last fight, she heard gunshots. Laying suspicion on the wife, the governess then runs into the husband’s arms, and he persuades her to help him kill his wife so they can be together.

Première diffusion : 1 novembre 1961

S3 E6 • The Tragic Success of Alfred Tiloff

A continual loser, whose wife has given up on him, begs for another chance. She plans the kidnapping of a small girl, demanding ransom from a wealthy stranger who tips police off to the crime.

Première diffusion : 8 novembre 1961

S3 E7 • Which Is Joseph Creeley?

A man sentenced to die for murdering a shopkeeper undergoes surgery for removal of a brain tumor. Upon recovery, he recalls nothing of his crime, and a retrial is ordered to determine his responsibility for the murder.

Première diffusion : 15 novembre 1961

S3 E8 • Show Me the Way to Go Home

A young man who has frequent sadistic outbursts overhears his mother and her fiance discuss plans to take him to Bellevue for observation. In a rage he attacks the man, then disappears into the street, where he tags along with a young woman who angers him by befriending an elderly lady.

Première diffusion : 22 novembre 1961

S3 E9 • The Hot Minerva

A wealthy man hires two men to filch a valuable statue from a museum, and they enlist the aid of three underworld men. After they steal it, the man dies before paying them, and they try to ransom it back to the museum.

Première diffusion : 29 novembre 1961

S3 E10 • Requiem for a Sunday Afternoon

A middle-aged man who’s fed up with his young wife’s infidelity pushes her lover out a window in a rage. Later when two women see him with a knife, unaware that he grabbed it when breaking up a street fight, they warn his wife that he’s going to kill her, and they call the police.

Première diffusion : 6 décembre 1961

S3 E11 • Ooftus Goofus

A forty-year-old nobody who wants to make himself known to the world causes a riot in the supermarket where he works by lowering prices to almost nothing. Threatening letters from cranks in the police file give Parker a lead toward identifying the man, who by now is at a fight arena threatening to detonate a huge explosive after a fight with his wife.

Première diffusion : 13 décembre 1961

S3 E12 • Bridge Party

An old contract allows a retired postman to sail his sloop through an inlet near his home, and he decides to exercise that right -- but the old railroad bridge barring his way must come down, and the railroad company refuses to accommodate him, initiating a warrant for his arrest.

Première diffusion : 27 décembre 1961

S3 E13 • The Face of the Enemy

A former war hero, now a skid-row bum, is desperate to give his daughter a wedding gift, and robs a jewelry store. Flint tries to help him, but the man goes mad and embarks on a mass shooting spree in a hotel lobby.

Première diffusion : 3 janvier 1962

S3 E14 • Portrait of a Painter

Awakening to find his wife murdered, an artist runs to the psychiatrist who, two years ago, begged him to commit himself, fearing he’d someday kill her. Though the painter claims his innocence, the doctor tells the police, who then learn that a drunk may be responsible.

Première diffusion : 10 janvier 1962

S3 E15 • The Night the Saints Lost Their Halos

A lady doctor who helped raise a pharmacist’s son in a poor Manhattan neighborhood helps the boy and his wounded friend after they’ve robbed a store, and asks Parker to allow them time to turn themselves in.

Première diffusion : 17 janvier 1962

S3 E16 • The Contract

Both the boyfriend and the foster father of a Chinese girl confess to murdering her, and police find they were both in love with her and involved in an arbitration with their community as to who could marry her.

Première diffusion : 24 janvier 1962

S3 E17 • One of the Most Important Men in the Whole World

Afraid of losing his son, who’s failing in school, a gangster introduces the boy’s teacher to a beautiful woman, and after he falls in love with her, threatens to take her away from him if he doesn’t pass his son.

Première diffusion : 31 janvier 1962

S3 E18 • A Case Study of Two Savages

When two young hillbillies stop their jalopy for a traffic light, Arcaro calls their attention to a loose license plate, and one of them pulls a gun and shoots him. They then embark on a robbing and killing spree.

Première diffusion : 7 février 1962

S3 E19 • Let Me Die Before I Wake

Trying to keep his wife’s affair a secret from his neighbors, a well-liked trucking company owner protects her lover’s identity after the man injures a young girl while trying to run him down.

Première diffusion : 14 février 1962

S3 E20 • To Walk Like a Lion

After stealing from his job to pay his mother’s medical bills, a man is convinced by the woman who loves him to spend all the remaining money on himself before turning himself in the next day.

Première diffusion : 28 février 1962

S3 E21 • Today the Man Who Kills Ants Is Coming

A patrolman, crushed by his inability to curtail his wife’s spending habits, is in an ugly mood at the station, and is feared to have lost control when he’s absent from his beat and his son hasn’t returned home from school. Orders are given to take away his gun.

Première diffusion : 7 mars 1962

S3 E22 • A Run for the Money

A professional killer, being hunted by both police and mobsters, forces a compulsive gambler to help him raise enough money to flee the country. The gambler’s girlfriend alerts police to what’s going on.

Première diffusion : 14 mars 1962

S3 E23 • The One Marked Hot Gives Cold

A man who grew up in an orphanage meets a twelve-year-old girl, whose wealthy parents have no time for her, each day in the park to share their lost dreams. A woman whom he’s spurned tells detectives that he’s been molesting the girl.

Première diffusion : 21 mars 1962

S3 E24 • Without Stick or Sword

A Burmese sailor, brother of four boys who drowned when a man refused to steer his freighter off course to save them, comes to New York to kill the captain, but mistakenly kills his wife in a dark hallway.

Première diffusion : 28 mars 1962

S3 E25 • Lament for a Dead Indian

After serving a five-year term for killing a man to save his old Army buddy’s life, an Indian comes to New York to fulfill a pact they made to buy some land and live on a ranch, but finds his friend is a mob hitman.

Première diffusion : 11 avril 1962

S3 E26 • The Sweetly Smiling Face of Truth

The agent of a successful, married actor goes to an ambitious actress to beg her to stop seeing his client, and gets so infuriated that his heart gives out and he falls to his death down a flight of stairs.

Première diffusion : 25 avril 1962

S3 E27 • ...And If Any Are Frozen, Warm Them...

To avenge an old betrayal, three elderly Rumanians stage a mock robbery as rehearsal for a bank theft, but police are alerted to their activities when the real theft is about to take place.

Première diffusion : 9 mai 1962

S3 E28 • Strike a Statue

A sculptor alerts police when he’s threatened by a foreign patriot for refusing to destroy his unfinished statue of a hero who’s now a vicious tyrant.

Première diffusion : 16 mai 1962

S3 E29 • The Multiplicity of Herbert Konish

Police are puzzled by the apparent relationship between three elusive men -- an exemplary employee of a brokerage firm, a Bohemian poet, and the head of a local mission.

Première diffusion : 23 mai 1962

S3 E30 • The King of Venus Will Take Care of You

Première diffusion : 20 mai 1962

S3 E31 • The Rydecker Case

Première diffusion : 6 juin 1962

S3 E32 • Memory of a Red Trolley Car

Première diffusion : 13 juin 1962

S3 E33 • Goodbye Mama, Hello Auntie Maud

Première diffusion : 20 juin 1962