Racket Squad

- Season 3

(1952)

A criminal gang uses kids to cash stolen checks in stores and swindle merchandise out of them. Capt. Braddock investigates.

A self-proclaimed "medium" sees a chance to take advantage of a man's grief over the death of his daughter.

Capt. Braddock looks into a credit-card fraud operation.

The squad investigates a chain-letter scam.

An insurance fraud case is referred to the squad for investigation.

A scam operation that involves the Lost & Found department of the bus station is investigated by Capt. Braddock and the squad.

Capt. Braddock sets out to bust up an illegal gambling operation.

Capt. Braddock investigates what he believes is a front for a gambling operation run by the mob.

A con artist passes himself off as a handyman in order to swindle people out of their money.

Capt. Braddock investigates reports that a gang is putting labels from expensive stores on cheap merchandise and then passing them off as the real thing.

A struggling service station owner who has recently learned his wife is pregnant is conned into buying cut-rate health insurance from a pair bunko artists.

Capt. Braddock investigates a shady real-estate operation that obtains property through foreclosures.

Capt. Braddock goes after a mob boss.

Someone is blackmailing a man with tapes of phone calls he made to his mistress. Capt. Braddock investigates.

Braddock and his men investigate several con artists who use phony street corner Santa Clauses to collect money for poor children and distribute it among themselves.

Capt. Braddock investigates reports of a con artist selling a system "guaranteed" to pick winners at the race track.

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A newlywed couple complains to Capt. Braddock that a dance studio has swindled them out of money. Braddock investigates.

When Longshot, a likable panhandler and compulsive gambler, stumbles onto a bunco game and informs Captain Braddock, the racketeers take their revenge.

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A con artist selling phony antiques comes to the attention of Capt. Braddock and the squad.

Capt. Braddock goes after a female con artist known only as "The Girl in the Mink Coat".

Capt. Braddock goes undercover to investigate a con game that he believes has ties to an organized-crime ring.

Capt. Braddock gets complaints about a con man's activities, but the only description he has of the man is that he wears a white carnation in the lapel of his jacket.

A pleasant man moves to a small town. He gives himself out as being a famous geologist, an expert in locating oil-deposits by signs in the surface of the landscape. Soon he is introduced into the community of the local businessmen. He reveals to them that he has found signs of an oil-deposit just outside the town. He offers them shares in the oil-field on very good conditions, but as soon as the money is paid and the contracts are signed, he prepares to leave the town immediately.

Captain Braddock is asked to discreetly investigate when the new wife of an influential member becomes conspicuously and profitably successful in bridge games at an exclusive country club.

Capt. Braddock goes after a female con artist whose specialty is making men underestimate her, then taking them for everything they've got.

A con man just released from prison sets his sights on a successful businessman and schemes to swindle him out of his company.

Capt. Braddock uncovers information that leads to a prostitution ring.

Capt. Braddock looks into a nursery school that may not be quite what it appears to be.

A woman victimizes men in overseas military service by marrying them for their allotments. One soldier returns unexpectedly and learns the truth and, filled with bitterness, holds her hostage with a plan to kill her. Captain John Braddock asks his mother to appeal to him to spare him from ruining his future.

Capt. Braddock investigates the case of a man who is suspected of faking his own death to collect the life insurance money.

Capt. Braddock receives information about a gang that's smuggling diamonds into the city.

A man and woman team of confidence operators fake injuries in hotels in order to extort money. They use wasp stings to simulate the swelling of a real sprain, but a hotel employee helps Braddock expose the con and break the case.

Braddock looks into a possible bookmaking swindle.