Target: The Corruptors!

- Season 1

(1961)

An Investigation into racketeering in the garbage collection industry.

"Dutch" Kleburg (Jack Klugman) is under investigation for murder, corruption and racketeering in the dockside labour market.

A new state highway is being built but the construction company is forced to build it on the cheap and below specification. An investigation is underway to expose those responsible for the misuse of state funds, bribery and fraud.

State senator Finley is murdered, thrown out of his office window, because he refused to put forward legislation proposed by an influential but corrupt lobbyist Ollie Crown. The Senator's wife knows her husband's death was anything but a suicide and asks Marino to investigate Crown in an attempt to expose his unethical methods. Does Crown have the state legislators wrapped around his little finger?

An investigation into drug dealing which has an adverse affect on an ex-con and his family.

A special assistant District Attorney Robert Larch is murdered on the order of a corrupt official after he begins to uncover financial irregularities within the City Hall of Records. Marino and Flood discover a tape recording made prior to his death and hold a press conference determined to uncover the extent of the corruption within the city, starting with the Governor's office.

A gambling syndicate is preying on small-time school basketball players, getting them to shave points on key games. This breach of honor wears on one boy enough to drive him to suicide, but the gamblers continue. With the help of a trainer, local star Cornelius Linsky is a great player, but poor and needs money, so he too reluctantly goes on the take.

A businessman who has been funded by the mob runs for Governor with there backing. When he tries to distance himself from them, they take action against him.

A con man and his partner run a charity fund, however, they pocket most of the donations.

Crooked gamblers bribe the upper echelon of the police force.

A mobster looks to overtake the garment industry, but destroys his relationship with his son in the process.

Labour racketeer mobster Harvey Bragen is finally sent to prison after repeated mistrials.

A superior court judge is investigated for his protection of criminals in a small town.

An assistant district attorney teams up with a crooked lawyer who defends bookies when he loses a case against him.

A man released from prison is accused of killing 2 men who testified against him. He is framed for these murders by the head of a mob who wants him deported. He must figure out how to keep a third man alive who testified against him to avoid deportation as the mob wants him killed also.

A crooked real estate developer bribes the commissioner of the alcohol licenses bureau into issuing liquor licenses to people who he scams.

Investigation of the record bootlegging racket.

A Korean vet is recruited by the Red Chinese to smuggle drugs into the US to increase their wealth.

Exposing fraud between unions and crooked owners who make "sweetheart contracts" taking advantage of the workers.

A Vegas comedian tries to break away from the mob. Unfortunately, the mob owns him as he is in debt to them.

Overcrowding at the women's detention center has disastrous effects on young girls.

Johnathan Amber (Luther Adler) is a ruthless businessman who will stop at nothing to eliminate his rivals. His racketeering involves takeover business deals then strips the wealth from companies which are left wrecked. His troublesome daughter wants to marry a man he disapproves of. She is his only weakness. and investigator Paul Marino takes advantage of this to try and bring Amber down.

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In a fictional parallel to Lucky Luciano, once-powerful gangland figure Dimitris Hagias has been deported to the country of his birth by U.S. authorities, though the country here is Greece, not Italy. Though still running an international crime network, he craves a return to America so much he's trying to buy off congressmen so they'll pass a law allowing him to come back. Marino and Flood investigate with tacit help from local police and piece Hagias' story together with informants, including his mistress.

A young couple go for a walk in the park one night and the boyfriend is subsequently murdered by a gang of feral youths. His heartbroken parents want answers and call in Paul Marino. During the trial the District Attorney is determined to get guilty verdicts and the harshest punishments possible despite defence arguments that the ages of the young defendants should be taken into consideration.

A slumlord is brought down by a murder his associate commits.

Jack Flood goes undercover to work for a crooked trucking company owner suspected of the exploitation of migrant farm workers. The workers are hired with promises of good wages, accommodation and free meals, but when they get to their destination they find that the pay and conditions are not what they were promised. Paul Marino sets out to expose the corruption in the industry.

A crooked probate judge appoints an executor who steals money (legally) from heirs.

A young girl falls to her death through a window when a drunk party-goer plays a prank on her with lit matches. She was hired as a 'party girl' from the Shirley Germaine Model Agency. When the police investigate they find that the the girls on the agency's books are not only models and party girls for hire but are also used as agents in industrial espionage. Paul Marino investigates.

The public who attend boxing matches expect to see an honest game but corruption exists at all levels from the match fixer all the way up to the state Boxing Commissioner. Marino and Flood suspect that being the state Commissioner is a licence to steal. A boxer dies in a fixed mismatched fight and following an inquest into his death Marino sets out to root out the game's corruptors.

U.S. aid to a foreign country is pocketed by the ruler of the country with the aid of other Americans living in the country.

Jerry Skala, president of an amalgamation of union workers in Chicago, is under investigation by a Senate heating committee on charges of bribery, corruption and fraud, and where one local union boss was murdered and rumoured to have been replaced by one of Skala's henchmen. Paul Marino confronts Skala and wants him to answer for the murder.

The investigation into corruption within Chicago's unions continues as Vaclavic goes on public record to admit that there is dirt and corruption at the highest level in Skala's union amalgamation. He decides to remove his union from Skala's control and join a labour organisation worthy of his decent and honest men, but somehow Skala obtains a court injunction to prevent the change then uses lies and dirty tricks to discredit Vaclavic. Paul Marino decides to use the power of the press to discredit Skala.

Each year billions of tax dollars are spent on school education and in most cases it is very well spent, but there are exceptions. In one of the major eastern cities that money was not reaching the education authorities resulting in poor conditions, overcrowded classrooms, underpaid instructors, a shortage of qualified teachers and juvenile delinquency. Paul Marino wants to know where the money going and who is the local bigwig responsible for misappropriation of funds meant for school projects. Jack Flood goes undercover as a school construction inspector to help ...

A policeman is prosecuted as a crook.