Foreign Intrigue

All Episodes 1951 - 1953

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  • 1951-10-18T05:00:00Z
  • 25m
  • 1d 7h 40m (76 episodes)
  • Sheldon Reynolds
  • United States
  • English
  • Sheldon Reynolds Productions
  • Drama
The experiences of Robert Cannon and Helen Davis, foreign correspondents for "Consolidated News". Stories relate to their attempts to infiltrate and expose espionage rings.

76 episodes

Series Premiere

1951-10-18T05:00:00Z

1x01 The Trial of Mr. Kessel

Series Premiere

1x01 The Trial of Mr. Kessel

  • 1951-10-18T05:00:00Z25m

After Robert Cannon has his interview with the former president of an occupied European country, a chain of unscheduled events follow.

1951-10-25T05:00:00Z

1x02 The Cigarette Lighter

1x02 The Cigarette Lighter

  • 1951-10-25T05:00:00Z25m

Robert Cannon finds his life threatened by agents of two border nations until he discovers a way to write the truth to his news service.

1951-11-01T05:00:00Z

1x03 Concert Selection

1x03 Concert Selection

  • 1951-11-01T05:00:00Z25m

The mysterious transporting of a piano from one country to another brings a horrifying murder. Robert Cannon meets an old friend, an attractive young girl, who is now a famous pianist in Europe and finds a case of murder. He's suspicious of the girls manager whom she seems to fear.

1951-11-08T05:00:00Z

1x04 Paris Train

1x04 Paris Train

  • 1951-11-08T05:00:00Z25m

Two U.S. correspondents discover a dead man's body on a train and trace a murderer.

1951-11-15T05:00:00Z

1x05 Language School

1x05 Language School

  • 1951-11-15T05:00:00Z25m

When the police refuse to believe foreign correspondent, Helen Davis (Synda Scott), she takes on the search for a group of dangerouse men in Hamburg, Germany. They threaten a plot to blackmail the world through the use of biological warfare.

1951-11-22T05:00:00Z

1x06 Search for a Telephone

1x06 Search for a Telephone

  • 1951-11-22T05:00:00Z25m

Robert Cannon's assignment to cover an ordinary convention in Brussels winds up with two corpses. While there, he is mistaken by a black marketeer for a contact man to receive some stolen diamonds.

1951-11-29T05:00:00Z

1x07 At the Airport

1x07 At the Airport

  • 1951-11-29T05:00:00Z25m

Robert Cannon decides to recreate the final actions of a fellow reporter who was murdered in Switzerland, while gathering material on Europe's black markets.

1x08 International Counterfeiters

  • 1951-12-06T05:00:00Z25m

Foreign correspendents Robert Cannon and Helen Davis, trap a band of international counterfeiters operating in Paris.

1951-12-13T05:00:00Z

1x09 Flea Market

1x09 Flea Market

  • 1951-12-13T05:00:00Z25m

Foreign correspondent Robert Cannon checks into a fashionable Parisian hotel and finds and unexpected letter with a $10 bill enclosed waiting for him.

1951-12-20T05:00:00Z

1x10 Twins on a Ship

1x10 Twins on a Ship

  • 1951-12-20T05:00:00Z25m

Robert Cannon is returning to Europe from a trip to Iceland, aboard a ship on the Baltic Sea bound for Oslo, Sweden. He believes it to be a quiet ship, when he suddenly hears a scream and becomes involved in case of murder, seeking a man who murdered his twin brother.

1951-12-27T05:00:00Z

1x11 Return to Freedom

1x11 Return to Freedom

  • 1951-12-27T05:00:00Z25m

Robert Cannon is invited to an occupied country for an interview with a fellow reporter who has been convicted as a spy. He learns that the scribe has been forced to confess his guilt and is protecting a girl.

1952-01-03T05:00:00Z

1x12 Berlin to Frankfurt

1x12 Berlin to Frankfurt

  • 1952-01-03T05:00:00Z25m

Robert Cannon takes a plane trip with two convicted black marketeers and gets an exclusive interview with death. The two pilots are killed while the plane is in automatic pilot. Cannon realizes he should have headed the advice a passenger, when her "woman's intuition" predicted what was to happen.

1952-01-10T05:00:00Z

1x13 The Letter

1x13 The Letter

  • 1952-01-10T05:00:00Z25m

Robert Cannon is assigned to cover the murder of a prime minister's secretary. She is killed when she discovers an attempted robbery of a sealed envelope from a high ranking official. He discovers the drastic measures used to sway an unstable country's political affiliations, and outwits leaders in the opposition party. The criminals with the document threaten to use it to alienate the present form of government ties with Atlantic Pact Nations.

1952-01-17T05:00:00Z

1x14 Underground

1x14 Underground

  • 1952-01-17T05:00:00Z25m

Helen Davis is invited by the security police to expose war criminals living in Lausanne, Switzerland.

1952-01-24T05:00:00Z

1x15 The Radio Message

1x15 The Radio Message

  • 1952-01-24T05:00:00Z25m

Robert Cannon finds himself and an entire country held to ransom by two spies who have a secret message to get out of the country.

1952-01-31T05:00:00Z

1x16 The Political Murder

1x16 The Political Murder

  • 1952-01-31T05:00:00Z25m

Robert Cannon discovers how an aggressor nation is attempting start a revolt in a border country. Subversive elements try to overthrow the government using fear and hysteria of the people as a political weapon.

1952-02-07T05:00:00Z

1x17 Food Hijacking

1x17 Food Hijacking

  • 1952-02-07T05:00:00Z25m

A former newspaperman discovers that racketeers have confiscated U.S. relief supplies destined for East Berlin. Robert Cannon learns of this discovery and hastens to warn the man when he fears his life may be in danger. An unknown brother, a hostage, and a phone call reverses the entire situation.

1952-02-14T05:00:00Z

1x18 Sun Lamp

1x18 Sun Lamp

  • 1952-02-14T05:00:00Z25m

A chance meeting between Robert Cannon and a friend on a train leads to the theft of valuable secrets. Robert Cannon is suspected of the theft and ends up in jail.

1952-02-21T05:00:00Z

1x19 The Living Corpse

1x19 The Living Corpse

  • 1952-02-21T05:00:00Z25m

A convicted man condemned to death seeks an interview with Robert Cannon and asks his help in retrieving a certain envelope that will prove his innocence.

1952-02-28T05:00:00Z

1x20 The Steel Baron

1x20 The Steel Baron

  • 1952-02-28T05:00:00Z25m

When an Ex-Nazi steel magnate hears that Robert Cannon is writing a series of damaging articles regarding the disposition of several steel mills, he invites the reporter to his castle on the Rhine.

1952-03-07T05:00:00Z

1x21 The Roulette Wheel

1x21 The Roulette Wheel

  • 1952-03-07T05:00:00Z25m

After accepting a mysterious suggestion to play a stranger's 10,000 franc note on "red five" at a French Riviera casino, Robert Cannon meets a doctor and a beautiful girl, and discovers that a roulette table can spin both fortune and murder.

1952-03-14T05:00:00Z

1x22 Counterfeit Passports

1x22 Counterfeit Passports

  • 1952-03-14T05:00:00Z25m

The Associated News Service is informed that Europe's black market chief is in Hamburg. They send their top foreign correspondent to get an interview. He stumbles upon a counterfeit passport racket.

1952-03-21T05:00:00Z

1x23 The Mustache

1x23 The Mustache

  • 1952-03-21T05:00:00Z25m

Robert Cannon attends the convention of the "International Society of Amateur Magicians", in Paris. French secret police request his aid in breaking up a secret meeting of international spies posing as magicians Disguised as one of them and learns there is a lot more to a successful impersonation than wearing a mustache. He is expected to pull atomic secrets instead of rabbits out of his hat.

1952-03-28T05:00:00Z

1x24 The Railroad Boxcar

1x24 The Railroad Boxcar

  • 1952-03-28T05:00:00Z25m

Robert Cannon covers a chemical explosion and gets suspicious when the chemical plant is shut down without investigation. He learns that a scientist conducting experiments of international value was killed, and becomes suspicious when and an abandoned railroad track, near to the isolated plant, shows signs of use.

1952-04-04T05:00:00Z

1x25 The Sleeper's Village

1x25 The Sleeper's Village

  • 1952-04-04T05:00:00Z25m

Robert Cannon is summond to an isolated village in Europe by two former circus performers, a clown and a midget. Cannon is led to the bedside of a dying man by the midget, but when he returns he finds another family occupying the shack.

1952-04-11T05:00:00Z

1x26 The Ski Chase

1x26 The Ski Chase

  • 1952-04-11T05:00:00Z25m

Robert Cannon helps a woman attaché from an occupied country escape across the Italian border to freedom.

1952-04-18T05:00:00Z

1x27 The Minor Election

1x27 The Minor Election

  • 1952-04-18T05:00:00Z25m

When covering a German election, Robert Cannon is tricked into staying at the home of a Nazi candidate and held incommunicado.

1952-04-25T05:00:00Z

1x28 The Ghost in the Valley

1x28 The Ghost in the Valley

  • 1952-04-25T05:00:00Z25m

Robert Cannon encounters a legend of a ghost in a small village, and sets out to disprove it.

1952-05-01T04:00:00Z

1x29 The Noose

1x29 The Noose

  • 1952-05-01T04:00:00Z25m

Robert Cannon, covering a routine news story in Stockholm, is thwarted at every turn when he tries to check out the re-appearance of a German colonel, supposedly hung for war crimes in 1947.

1952-05-08T04:00:00Z

1x30 The Perfect Plan

1x30 The Perfect Plan

  • 1952-05-08T04:00:00Z25m

The government uses Helen Davis to procure a list of names, and a poker party provides an exciting crisis to her problem.

1952-05-15T04:00:00Z

1x31 Committed to Memory

1x31 Committed to Memory

  • 1952-05-15T04:00:00Z25m

In order to keep a secret formula out of the wrong hands, Robert Cannon memorizes it and is forced to join a night club act in trying to escape.

1952-05-22T04:00:00Z

1x32 Isotopes

1x32 Isotopes

  • 1952-05-22T04:00:00Z25m

Armed with a geiger counter, Robert Cannon and the police attempt to find the murderer of a professor by discovering the stolen radioactive isotopes which render death to the possessor.

1952-05-29T04:00:00Z

1x33 The Sawmill

1x33 The Sawmill

  • 1952-05-29T04:00:00Z25m

Robert Cannon seeks an interview with a beleagered Polish scientist.

1952-06-05T04:00:00Z

1x34 The Treaty

1x34 The Treaty

  • 1952-06-05T04:00:00Z25m

Robert Cannon becomes involved in a question of whether a small European nation should join an allied mutual aid pact. Small nations are the pawns of the larger ones and in this case a request from a small nation is to be voted on, but the Prime Minister's vote leads to murder.

1952-06-12T04:00:00Z

1x35 The Blind Man

1x35 The Blind Man

  • 1952-06-12T04:00:00Z25m

Robert Cannon is involved with a former concentration camp inmate who takes it upon himself to settle the score with the remaining Nazis who persecuted him during the war.

1952-06-19T04:00:00Z

1x36 The Art Treasures

1x36 The Art Treasures

  • 1952-06-19T04:00:00Z25m

Helen Davis investigates the dilettantes who ruthlessly pilfered Europe's art treasures for a selfish Fascist leader.

1952-06-26T04:00:00Z

1x37 The Iron Curtain

1x37 The Iron Curtain

  • 1952-06-26T04:00:00Z25m

Robert Cannon and a fellow correspondent are permitted to travel behind the Iron Curtain. While there, they are asked for proof of innocence of an important Eastern European to the West.

Season Finale

1952-07-03T04:00:00Z

1x38 The Traitor

Season Finale

1x38 The Traitor

  • 1952-07-03T04:00:00Z25m

Robert Cannon investigates a man who is hunted by the police and hated by everyone.

Season Premiere

1952-10-04T05:00:00Z

2x01 Heidelberg

Season Premiere

2x01 Heidelberg

  • 1952-10-04T05:00:00Z25m

Robert Cannon uses his wits and fists as he writes a story of saber scars and neo fascism in Germany's famous Heidelberg University.

1952-10-11T05:00:00Z

2x02 Gautier Castle

2x02 Gautier Castle

  • 1952-10-11T05:00:00Z25m

The key to this mystery is a 13th century key, which alone can open a parliament and save a people's liberty.

1952-10-18T05:00:00Z

2x03 The Embassy

2x03 The Embassy

  • 1952-10-18T05:00:00Z25m

Robert Cannon attempts to save the life of a ruling prince who owns Near Eastern Oil.

1952-10-25T05:00:00Z

2x04 Montmorency

2x04 Montmorency

  • 1952-10-25T05:00:00Z25m

Steve Godfrey, Paris correspondent (Bernard Farrell), is asked to act as bait for the chief of a spy ring. He accepts the dangerous assignment with the understanding that if he is recognized as an imposter, rescue may come too late.

1952-11-01T05:00:00Z

2x05 Occupied Country

2x05 Occupied Country

  • 1952-11-01T05:00:00Z25m

Robert Cannon is determined that the reward for courage will not be death, and employs both Cupid and the "power of the press" to fight the avenging police.

1952-11-08T05:00:00Z

2x06 Geneva

2x06 Geneva

  • 1952-11-08T05:00:00Z25m

Robert Cannon finds the attention to routine pays off with the lead to a front page story of hi-jacked anti-Nazi funds. He finds that guns seem more necessary than typewriters in trying to save the pretty girl and get the story.

1952-11-15T05:00:00Z

2x07 The New Order

2x07 The New Order

  • 1952-11-15T05:00:00Z25m

Robert Cannon takes a hand in the double cross when a fellow journalist is murdered by the henchman of a would-be Fuehrer.

1952-11-22T05:00:00Z

2x08 Diamonds

2x08 Diamonds

  • 1952-11-22T05:00:00Z25m

Robert Cannon's reputation for honesty puts him on the spot when Amsterdam's chief of police trust him to uncover and trap an international smuggling ring. He is saved from death by a sneak thief.

1952-11-29T05:00:00Z

2x09 Paris

2x09 Paris

  • 1952-11-29T05:00:00Z25m

Robert Cannon receives the key to the lawless activities of former Nazis when he receives a letter from a female admirer.

1952-12-06T05:00:00Z

2x10 Free Germany

2x10 Free Germany

  • 1952-12-06T05:00:00Z25m

Robert Cannon is given 24 hours to prove his innocence when a man impersonating him murders two members of a free thinking organization

1952-12-13T05:00:00Z

2x11 The Uranium Mine

2x11 The Uranium Mine

  • 1952-12-13T05:00:00Z25m

An "accidental" mine disaster starts correspondent Helen Davis on the trail of a story based on a series of Uranium hi-jackings.

1952-12-20T05:00:00Z

2x12 Gold

2x12 Gold

  • 1952-12-20T05:00:00Z25m

"United International News" news correspondent Steve Godfre starts to write a story abour a financial known as the "Man with the Midas Touch", but learns from a garrulous barber, that there's more to his wealth than meets the eye.

1952-12-27T05:00:00Z

2x13 The Mediterranean

2x13 The Mediterranean

  • 1952-12-27T05:00:00Z25m

Robert Cannon finds that shipboard friends made en route to North Africa are actually "finger men" for an international sabotage ring. When they put the finger on him hue uses both hands in a free-for-all fight.

1953-01-10T05:00:00Z

2x14 Five Cigarettes

2x14 Five Cigarettes

  • 1953-01-10T05:00:00Z25m

Robert Cannon is enjoying a night out in his favorite Parisian bistro, when a beautiful blonde spy spoils hgis evening by slipping a gold cigarette case in his pocket by mistake.

1953-01-24T05:00:00Z

2x15 Passports

2x15 Passports

  • 1953-01-24T05:00:00Z25m

Steve Godfrey tries to help a fellow American regain his passport in Paris and discovers the existence of an international ring of passport thieves.

1953-01-31T05:00:00Z

2x16 The New Democracy

2x16 The New Democracy

  • 1953-01-31T05:00:00Z25m

Helen Scott seeks out to see the sights in a new democracy, but instead witnesses a prime minister's assassination. When she reports the assassin's identity she nominates herself as the next target for death.

1953-03-14T05:00:00Z

2x17 The Code Room

2x17 The Code Room

  • 1953-03-14T05:00:00Z25m

Robert Cannon displays a newsman's characteristic impatience official's red tape and finds himself the chief suspect when officials lose a top secret code book as a result of unofficial haste.

1953-04-11T05:00:00Z

2x18 The French Zone

2x18 The French Zone

  • 1953-04-11T05:00:00Z25m

Robert Cannon is called to uncover the hiding place of an escaped Nazi storm trooper who starts a reign of terror by preying on French officials.

1953-01-17T05:00:00Z

2x19 Border Zone

2x19 Border Zone

  • 1953-01-17T05:00:00Z25m

Robert Cannon and Helen Davis are enjoying a day off in Stockholm when they see a famous General and his brother holding a furtive meeting on the waterfront. Curiosity about the man's escape from behind the Iron Curtain entangles them all in the deadly tentacles of the secret police of an Iron Curtain country, and their investigations point to a kidnap-blackmail scheme.

1953-02-14T05:00:00Z

2x20 Bohemian Glass

2x20 Bohemian Glass

  • 1953-02-14T05:00:00Z25m

Sound waves and an unstable glass vase protect Robert Cannon when he slips behind the Iron Curtain to bring out the formula for a super explosive bequethed to the Western democracies by a great scientist.

2x21 The Linetski Forest Massacre

  • 1953-01-03T05:00:00Z25m

Robert Cannon is about to report on an International tribunal's deliberations of a reported massacre of prisoners. They fail to uncover any evidence, but a nurse gives Robert Cannon a clue to hidden evidence.

1953-02-28T05:00:00Z

2x22 Reunion in Berlin

2x22 Reunion in Berlin

  • 1953-02-28T05:00:00Z25m

The chance of rescue of a West Berlin waif leads Robert Cannon behind the Iron Curtain to win a father for the boy and a rocket scientist for the West.

1953-04-04T05:00:00Z

2x23 The Fall of Troy

2x23 The Fall of Troy

  • 1953-04-04T05:00:00Z25m

Robert Cannon is in the midst of a conflict concerning the guilt of a former underground leader charged with murder and robbery of an American agent.

1953-02-21T05:00:00Z

2x24 Monteville

2x24 Monteville

  • 1953-02-21T05:00:00Z25m

Robert Cannon develops an unhealthy curiosity about the career of a counterfeit Robin Hood and becomes the pawn in the outlaws games with the police.

1953-02-07T05:00:00Z

2x25 Guided Missiles

2x25 Guided Missiles

  • 1953-02-07T05:00:00Z25m

Robert Cannon uses scissors and paste to help the regular police of a democratic nation uncover the kidnappers of a top defense scientist.

1953-03-07T05:00:00Z

2x26 The Science Conference

2x26 The Science Conference

  • 1953-03-07T05:00:00Z25m

An Iron Curtain country's top spy on the trail of scientific secrets, involves correspondent Helen Davis in an exciting game of cat and mouse as he wangles his way into the secret conference. He claims he is an escapee who can identify Europe's top spy and steals the secrets of the best scientists in the West, while leading a spy hunt himself.

1953-04-18T05:00:00Z

2x27 The Alps

2x27 The Alps

  • 1953-04-18T05:00:00Z25m

Robert Cannon discovers a front page story in a snowbound French chalet when he links a missing plan with the disappearance of Mediterranean defense plans and a plane crash.

1953-03-28T05:00:00Z

2x28 Valladon

2x28 Valladon

  • 1953-03-28T05:00:00Z25m

Robert Cannon's search for a missing war hero search for a missing war hero reveals a seven year-old fraud and culminates in the release of the man wrongly accused of murder.

1953-04-18T05:00:00Z

2x29 Major von Webber

2x29 Major von Webber

  • 1953-04-18T05:00:00Z25m

1953-03-28T05:00:00Z

2x30 Revenge

2x30 Revenge

  • 1953-03-28T05:00:00Z25m

A former prisoner of war is determined to carry out a private execution, and a traitor is the intended victim. He uses Helen Davis as a foil .

1953-04-25T05:00:00Z

2x31 Spy-Plane Story

2x31 Spy-Plane Story

  • 1953-04-25T05:00:00Z25m

Robert Cannon changes his travel plans when at a chance meeting at Frankfurt Airport he encounters an ambitious West German agitator.

1953-05-09T04:00:00Z

2x32 The Bell Tower

2x32 The Bell Tower

  • 1953-05-09T04:00:00Z25m

The potential terrors of a super germ, powerful enough to destroy an entire city, become real when the germs are stolen and used to threaten an entire government.

1953-05-02T04:00:00Z

2x33 The Villardo Legend

2x33 The Villardo Legend

  • 1953-05-02T04:00:00Z25m

Robert Cannon accepts an invitation to a Spanish nobleman's guest house to get a political story, but finds his headlines written in poison when an ancient evil strikes home.

1953-05-23T04:00:00Z

2x35 The Stolen Bid

2x35 The Stolen Bid

  • 1953-05-23T04:00:00Z25m

Shocked by the brutal attack on a construction company executive, Helen Davis investigates retarded defense projects and sets out to learn the whys and wherefores of stolen construction bids.

1953-05-30T04:00:00Z

2x36 The Coffin

2x36 The Coffin

  • 1953-05-30T04:00:00Z25m

Robert Cannon is given the job of escorting the body of a disinterred journalist from behind the Iron Curtain and starts a grim game of hide and seek.

1953-06-06T04:00:00Z

2x37 The Bomb

2x37 The Bomb

  • 1953-06-06T04:00:00Z25m

Robert Cannon's press pass to a meeting of high government officials nearly becomes his death warrant when a neo-fascist group plans a coup with Cannon as the go-between.

1953-06-13T04:00:00Z

2x38 The Golden Bait

2x38 The Golden Bait

  • 1953-06-13T04:00:00Z25m

Robert Cannon baits a hook with gold when he responds to a pretty girl's call for help, but almost ends up a victim of his own wiles.

Season Finale

1953-06-27T04:00:00Z

2x39 The Operating Room

Season Finale

2x39 The Operating Room

  • 1953-06-27T04:00:00Z25m

A famous surgeon must make the choice between his own life and that of the man who is his country's sole defense against dictatorship.

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