The New Adventures of Charlie Chan

- Season 1

(1957)

Kramer contacts Charlie to get his assistance against a perceived murder plot. The situation suddenly becomes complicated when Kramer's wife is kidnapped and later found murdered. The police are convinced the two events are linked, but Charlie has other ideas.

Charlie Chan is asked to investigate the death of a young man on a ship bound for Hawaii. Charlie realizes the mystery is a lot deeper when acts of sabotage begin to occur and some of the crew's lives may be in danger.

Charlie Chan is on special assignment to investigate Dan Randolph on behalf of a grand jury. Charlie becomes directly involved in the case when one of the police officers he is working with gets word his wife has been attacked.

A blind man is killed and his seeing eye dog badly injured. Charlie quickly realizes there is far more to the case than anyone considers. His only problem is trying to work out why circumstances are as they are.

Charlie gets involved in trying to break an espionage ring after plans for a new jet engine are stolen. Suspicion centers around a cabaret performance involving a brother and sister mind reading act from Hungary.

Charlie is called to France when the Bank of England reports that printing plates for currency have been stolen. Chan must rely on connections that go all the way back to WW2 to bring the case to a successful conclusion.

A student friend of Charlie's son is accused of murder after being involved in a serious argument with a music professor. Charlie needs to prove who the murderer was and untangle the greater mystery.

While on holiday in Scotland, Charlie gets caught up in an investigation when the wife of the estate owner is found dead.

Charlie has to unravel the mystery of a man working as a doctor in London. Information is received suggesting he may have been a doctor in Canada convicted of murder. Charlie has to discover the truth and then decide who had the motivation to make such claims in the first place.

Charlie, while on holiday in England, is asked to investigate the theft of jewelry from an Indian Prince. In doing so, he uncovers a far wider web of intrigue involving the Prince's wife.

Charlie, still in England is contacted by an actor, who believes his daughter is in a relationship with a swindler. Charlie begins to discover the real truth of the situation when an unexpected turn of events changes everything.

Charlie is asked to help track down a Nazi war criminal who has recently escaped from custody. It is believed he is headed for France to uncover a stash of wartime gold lost at sea.

A diamond-cutter phones his client and refuses to cut the client's huge diamond. Then an unknown assailant attacks the cutter and steals the uncut diamond.

An attack on a wax work exhibit of a murderer convicted 30 years previously sets off a series of events that lead Charlie to consider the possibility the wrong man was convicted and hanged for the crime.

Charlie becomes involved in a strange case of deception when an old woman seeks to re-establish contact with her daughter. What he discovers is a complex series of switches and double crosses creating an almost unsolvable crime.

In Brussels Charlie becomes entangled in a three sided scheme that will see a struggling artist's paintings dramatically increase in value almost overnight.

An extremely rare manuscript comes up for sale and Charlie becomes involved after repeated attempts to steal the document fail. It becomes obvious the ownership of the book is in doubt and many parties have a vested interest in owning it.

A man is awaiting execution when the local Pastor approaches Charlie with concerns the man may be innocent. Charlie is struck by how cut and dried the case seems to be, and begins the long process of finding the truth.

A famous designer accidentally sells a made to order sweater to the wrong person. Chan becomes involved when the owner of the sweater is found dead. Charlie discovers the dead girl had other skeletons in her closet.

After knocking out his sparring partner during a bout of savate, Barry Chan is arrested for murder when the man is found dead on the gym floor. Now Charlie will need to find the real killer in order to clear his #1 son!

An author releases a best seller about his survival on board a raft with two other men. Charlie has doubt about the account written and sets about flushing out the truth.

Everybody in the tour group hates the insufferable old battle ax. When she ends up dead at the bottom of the museum staircase, it's up to Charlie Chan and his #1 son to figure out who pushed her down the staircase and why.

Charlie is back in London and is soon called to help investigate the death of a famous actor. At first it is thought a simple heart attack is the cause, but Charlie suspects otherwise.

Charlie gets involved in an investigation when his son accidentally gets caught up in a well planned bank robbery.

Charlie is at a dinner party when the host dies. Everyone seems to think a black servant proficient in the art of black magic is behind the death, but Charlie thinks a far more mundane explanation is on offer.

Charlie is staying at a hotel in England when a man is badly injured in a shooting. Unlike most attempted murder cases, Charlie has the problem of multiple people confessing to the murder.

Charlie is visiting Rome, when he is asked by local authorities to help investigate a young woman's death.

Charlie is in Nice, France when he is engaged in a job to retrieve an artifact that's been stolen in Cairo Egypt.

While Charlie and Son are investigating a phony Georgian silver racket, one of the perpetrators winds up murdered.

Charlie is the technical adviser on a film when the leading lady in the show disappears.

Charlie is in London when a demolition team come across a skeleton. From what he can discover he is dealing with a 17 year old mystery.

A woman is found murdered and a person break and entering the house at the time. Charlie is employed by the small time criminal to solve who really did the murder.

When you usually read about this series in guidebooks the reviewer ultimately states that J. Carrol Naish was badly miscast. But if you compare this with the serial 'Batman' (1943), then you will notice that even though the two parts of Charlie Chan and Dr. Tito Darka are different, in that one is good and the other bad, for some strange reason Naish played them the same. Maybe this is why the reviewers say this or maybe it was the reason he was cast as Charlie Chan in the first place? The location is Venice, Italy. Where someone has sold a vast amount of jewelry that...

In Venice Charlie becomes involved in a case when a woman is accused of murder. The police think they have an open and shut case. But Charlie is not so sure the answer is so obvious.

A tourist in Rome unwittingly purchases an extremely valuable antique. Charlie Chan must sort out the mix up before people start getting hurt or even killed as various parties try to retrieve the item.

A girl, Anne Meadows, appears at a travel agents with no memory of the previous 7 years. Charlie begins unraveling the girls past and what lead to her loss of memory.

A young woman checks into a hotel with her father. A few hours later she can not locate the man or find any evidence he ever checked into the hotel. She asks Charlie to try and find her father who Charlie thinks has been kidnapped.

The daughter of a man convicted of treason in 1942 approaches Charlie to try and prove the original conviction of her father was wrong.

A series of random attacks in an antique store cause damages to a number of valuable pieces. The manager of the store is puzzled because he considers each of the attackers as friends. The manager of the store engages Charlie to try and find out what is happening.