Bold Venture

- Season 1

(1959)

When a guest at Slate's hotel reports that her husband is missing while carrying a large sum of money, Slate investigates and nearly suffers the same fate.

Slate and Shannon are involved in intrigue over a priceless Chinese figurine after Slate transports a Chinese girl from a tramp steamer to the Trinidad mainland.

Three Latin dancers toss paper camellias to the audience. Shannon grabs one of the flowers and finds himself in a a pearl-smuggling racket .

After a famous matador collapses during a mock bullfight with Sailor, his associates discover that he'd been stabbed earlier in the day and accuse Slate of killing him out of jealousy. Slate launches his own investigation and discovers that the lusty bullfighter was a married man who left a string of beautiful conquests in his wake - and an equally angry spouse.

Ginny, a former girlfriend of Slate Shannon's, comes to Trinidad to haunt him - with a murder rap.

A beautiful girl boards a gambling ship against her father's wishes. Slate and Sailor go to the ship to bring her home. A wealthy plantation owner asks Shannon to get his daughter off a gambling ship.

The portrait of a sea-captain believed dead presents a gruesome picture to Slate Shannon. He must thwart a blackmailer and overtake a killer.

When Slate and Sailor find four dead men in a drifting lifeboat, they learn that the boat is from a ship believed lost in the Far East.

An avenging widower plans to murder Slate but kills the wrong man in Slate's Trinidad hotel.

Slate Shannon needs a series of valuable maps to clear Sailor of a theft charge. When he gets them, he finds that he has battles of his own.

Mike Elliot claims that his partner drowned during a sponge-fishing expedition - but Slate Shannon smells trouble when he sees the man, dry and alive.

Shannon receives a note telling him that he is to be killed and then finds one of his guests murdered. Was it a mistake? Death writes an obituary for the wrong man.

Trying to protect her sister, Amy, who has committed a murder in Florida, Liz Fonda hires a private detective to get the incriminating murder weapon.

Two killers trail a man to Shannon's hotel, and shoot him because they think he is carrying diamonds- the Tears of Siva. When they discover he has not got them - Shannon is in trouble again

When Mark Duncan dies of poisoning at his wedding, Shannon investigates and finds himself fighting desperately for his own life.

Johnny Sung, a Chinese boy, wins lottery after leaving prison. Later Johnny Sung is murdered and suspicion falls on his lawyer.

When Slate warns Konno, a gang boss, that a hired killer will murder him, he endangers his own and Sailor's life and unwittingly gives a wrong picture of the situation.

A tourist from Iowa goes on a spree in Trinidad. Slate blunders around and gets kidnapped.

Slate Shannon aids Jamie Kent, a wounded gangster, and hides him from his double-crossing pals.

Slate Shannon outwits a criminal who covets the rich feathered capes of the princes of Montezuma. The art addict steals a priceless antique, then frames another man for the theft.

A beautiful woman poses as a plantation owner's widow to pocket the inheritance. Shannon attempts to catch the widow and her murdering partner.

An ambitious general tries to frame Slate for the murder of a visiting prince, whose wife was a Miami showgirl. Shannon had flouted the visiting prince and now in return faces a murder rap.

Slate Shannon is hired by Aubrey Forrest, a rich man, who makes a $55,000 gamble with death. Then Slate finds the millionaire has been murdered by one of three people.

Slate Shannon matches wits with a vengeful extortionist who has kidnapped a multimillionaire's son.

A Trinidad fisherman makes a strange catch - smuggled morphine hidden in tuna cans. Then Shannon sets out to solve the murder of the fisherman.

The police chase Shannon when they find his photo in the cold grasp of a murdered widow, member of the Lonely Hearts Club. Working fast to prove his innocence, Shannon uncovers a grim plot.

Shannon baits a trap when an island merchant dies while protecting his million-dollar possession, his jewel covered skull of Tezcula, ancient Aztec emperor.

Slate Shannon heads for Maracaibo where an oil well he owns in partnership with two other men reportedly strikes oil. There he finds a life and death rivalry taking place between his partners

Shannon must deal with a blonde Hollywood starlet, her no-good husband, and a murder where the body kept disappearing. Fake jewels spell trouble for the starlet who confesses to the accidental killing of her husband.

Shannon finds a trail of jealousy and murder when he searches for Alan Price's missing fiancee. Price is an international playboy.

Slate tangles with insurance swindlers when Sailor learns she is beneficiary of husband's $50,000 policy.

A convict just sprung from jail fears that his former partner prefers murder to sharing the loot. He forces Shannon to impersonate him and test the partner's sense of fair play.

Whit Bonomo, an ex-prisoner of war comes to Trinidad on a mission of revenge for the years he spent in a Korean war camp. Bonomo believes that Shannon was responsible for his capture.

Slate is hired by Roberta London, a wealthy woman, to locate and return her errant husband. while Slate is away from Trinidad, Roberta's murdered, and Shannon learns she has been the victim of a crafty impersonation plot.

Niko Kazantos, a notorious crook tricks Ines de Baca, a frightened woman, into believing that she is a murderer. Slate Shannon outsmarts the gangster at his own crooked game.

Slate Shannon comes to grips with a triple murderer who nearly escapes being convicted for his crimes. The girlfriend of the wife-killer provides an alibi for him in court and two murders are committed when the man is acquitted.

Slate acts, quickly and heroically, to clear Pepe Gomez, a prize fighter who has been framed for murder, by his wife and his manager, after Pepe returns to his native Trinidad, determined to retire.

Slate tries to help Ernie Dorso, an old friend, and his companion, Elena Juarez, daughter of an overthrown island leader, to escape to Venezuela.

Shannon and Sailor are shanghaied into sailing the Bold Venture to pick up loot when crooks nab a helicopter carrying a payload.