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The Vise

Season 5 1957

  • 1957-09-13T04:00:00Z on NBC
  • 25m
  • 5h 5m (12 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Drama, Crime
This British production featured less known actors in filmed plays showing people caught in "the vise" of fate created by their own deeds.

39 episodes

Season Premiere

1957-09-13T04:00:00Z

5x01 The Captain and His Killers

Season Premiere

5x01 The Captain and His Killers

  • 1957-09-13T04:00:00Z25m

Captain Edge reports, to the police, two men disposing a body on the sea bank. When the body can't be found his granddaughter asks Mark Saber for help. Saber and assistant Paul Paulson find the body and believe the suspects are locals.

1957-09-20T04:00:00Z

5x02 Hands Across the Sea

5x02 Hands Across the Sea

  • 1957-09-20T04:00:00Z25m

5x03 Deep in the Heart of Chelsea

  • 1957-09-27T04:00:00Z25m

Texan Mr. Dugan, asks Mark Saber for help, when he is cheated out of £4,000, when he bought a fake painting by Ambroise Martin. To prove art dealer Guthrie is selling fakes Pete Paulson goes under cover as a rich American.

1957-10-04T04:00:00Z

5x04 Death by Delayed Payment

5x04 Death by Delayed Payment

  • 1957-10-04T04:00:00Z25m

Ray Prentice has a shadow on the lung and has just three months to live. With an insurance policy about run out without a medical, he decides get a hit-man to kill him. When he learns the doctor made an error he needs Mark Saber's help.

1957-10-11T04:00:00Z

5x05 The Missing Hours

5x05 The Missing Hours

  • 1957-10-11T04:00:00Z25m

1957-10-18T04:00:00Z

5x06 The Penny Black

5x06 The Penny Black

  • 1957-10-18T04:00:00Z30m

An argument over a priceless stamp turns to murder when a stamp dealer is found dead in his office. A rival collector is accused of the crime and the theft of the rare stamp. But when he arrives at Saber's office asking for help to clear his name, Saber must determine if he is helping an innocent man being played for a fool.

1957-10-25T04:00:00Z

5x07 Girls and Diamonds

5x07 Girls and Diamonds

  • 1957-10-25T04:00:00Z25m

1957-11-01T05:00:00Z

5x08 Murder Shall Speak

5x08 Murder Shall Speak

  • 1957-11-01T05:00:00Z25m

1957-11-08T05:00:00Z

5x09 The Baby-Sitter

5x09 The Baby-Sitter

  • 1957-11-08T05:00:00Z25m

1957-11-15T05:00:00Z

5x10 Hour of Decision

5x10 Hour of Decision

  • 1957-11-15T05:00:00Z25m

1957-11-22T05:00:00Z

5x11 Luger for Chesser

5x11 Luger for Chesser

  • 1957-11-22T05:00:00Z25m

1957-11-29T05:00:00Z

5x12 The Law and the Lawless

5x12 The Law and the Lawless

  • 1957-11-29T05:00:00Z25m

5x14 Fast Cars and Girls

  • no air date25m

Colonel March asks Mark Saber for help. His friend Major Beanie is wheelchair bound and not been seen four days. His niece Marsha has vanished. Saber learns Marsha is a big spender and soon caught trying to forge her uncle's cheque.

5x17 Saber at Sea

  • no air date25m

Following a car crash, that killed three friends, Julie Forbes' father sends her on a sea voyage to Naples. During the trip, Julie appears to be going mad when she claims to see a man murdered. Nobody believes her except for Mark Saber.

5x22 The Case of Mr Shore

  • no air date25m

Accountant Roger Shore asks Mark Saber for help when his 8-year-old son Peter has been kidnapped. He is told to pay £1,000 but misses his contact. Saber stands in but discovers it is Shore making the calls and there is no kidnapping.

5x23 The Maid Was Curious

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George Peters leaves a trunk in an exclusive London hotel. When the maid opens the trunk she finds a dead body. Fearing bad publicity the hotel asks Mark Saber for help. He learns Harry Quinn has gone missing and his bank account emptied.

5x26 Strong Man Out

  • no air date30m

In an audacious daylight robbery an £8000 payroll is stolen from the Diamond Manufacturing Company. When notes taken from the heist begin to appear in circulation and two of the alleged robbers turn up dead, Saber must act quickly before anyone else is murdered.

5x27 Power of Suggestion

  • no air date25m

John Bellville rings Mark Saber but falls unconscious. Saber finds Kitty Bellville dead and John fighting for his life following arsenic poisoning. Harrison Kane comes forward to say he give them the wine. Saber must find the truth.

5x28 The Man Who Was Twice

  • no air date25m

Wells is accused by Mr. Rodney of fiddling the books. He has to the owner Mr. Westcott returns to get the money. Later that day he finds John Brading dying in the street and decides to take his identity unaware he is a wanted murderer.

5x30 Diamond Follies

  • no air date25m

Kathy Lansing dies in a car crash. She had a large diamond set in a cheap jewelry. The police think she may part of a smuggling ring alongside fiancee Tom Weeks. Saber knows her sister Jean so he speaks to Weeks but he is also murdered.

5x31 A Diplomatic Affair

  • no air date25m

Petra Tomulkin is set for a secret meeting with her father but he is kidnapped in an Uranium embassy car. Mark Saber needs save Professor Franz Tomulkin but has to find a way inside the embassy before they torture him to death.

5x36 Don't Lose Your Shirt

  • no air date25m

Tim Shute loans his flat to his friend Fred Bassett, who is using it for an all night poker game. When Shute returns home he finds Bassett has been stabbed to death. Instead of going to the police his asks Mark Saber to find the murderer.

5x37 Weakness Doesn't Pay

  • no air date25m

Mr. Poole asks Mark Saber to help his wife while he is on a trip to Paris. She has been diagnosed with a terminal illness and he fears she make commit suicide. When Saber arrives at their flat she is dead but it soon looks very suspicious.

5x38 Field Goal

  • no air date25m

5x39 Corpse Cried Murder

  • no air date25m

Two thugs badly beat up Mark Saber and warn him off the Pickard Case. Saber has never heard the name. The police tell him Amy Pickard has committed suicide. Next day, Jean Pickard visits Saber and asks him to solve her sister murder.

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