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Season 1

  • S01E01 The Cold, Cold War of Paul Bryan

    • September 13, 1965
    • NBC

    After a brief romance with Laura Beaumont (Katherine Ross), Paul is guest of her father Phil (Stephen McNally) at an exclusive ski resort where an avalanche provides the setting for a cunning card game to defeat the evil dictator General Carlos Portaz (Robert Loggia), the new object of Laura's affection.

  • S01E02 The Girl Next Door Is a Spy

    • September 20, 1965
    • NBC

    When Paul spots his childhood sweetheart on the street in Berlin, she seeks his support, but US agents appeal to Paul.s patriotism to find out her secret.

  • S01E03 Someone Who Makes Me Feel Beautiful

    • September 27, 1965
    • NBC

    In Mexico, Paul vies with charmer and con man Ramon de Vega (Fernando Lamas) for the affections of the wealthy Jessica Braden (Tippi Hedren).

  • S01E04 Never Pick Up a Stranger

    • October 11, 1965
    • NBC

    After Paul Bryan forces an amorous runaway to return to her small town, the speed bump's sheriff is willing to go to any extreme to get Bryan back on Route 66 ASAP.

  • S01E05 How to Sell Your Soul for Fun and Profit

    • October 18, 1965
    • NBC

    Paul and an imprisoned race driver's sister plot to free a political prisoner.

  • S01E06 Our Man in Limbo

    • October 25, 1965
    • NBC

    When he meets American agent Mike Allen (Macdonald Carey) in Spain, Paul is asked to help determine whether a girl he knew in Berlin, Erica Voss (Janine Gray), is an enemy agent. When their private plane crashes in the desert, the truth about her is revealed.

  • S01E07 Where Mystery Begins

    • November 1, 1965
    • NBC

    Paul successfully defends Louise Brode (Dana Wynter) on a charge of murdering her husband when her regular lawyer, Martin Shawe (Keith Andes), is injured, but Paul suspects Shawe's tactics, and feels compromised.

  • S01E08 The Savage Season

    • November 8, 1965
    • NBC

    Judy Collins (Jill Haworth) transports money for mobsters, but when she calls on Paul's assistance after $200,000 disappears, casino owner Angie Zeno (Harold J. Stone) goes after him, causing Paul to try a daring ploy.

  • S01E09 This Town for Sale

    • November 15, 1965
    • NBC

    If tried in the town where the victim's father is the leading employer, Paul seems certain to face a long prison sentence after the young man is found dead following a small altercation with him.

  • S01E10 A Girl Named Sorrow

    • November 22, 1965
    • NBC

    On their sail-planing vacation Paul remains in the dark about the actions of secret Israeli agent Lisa Sorrow (Ina Balin) as she tracks down a Nazi war criminal In the Arizona desert .

  • S01E11 The Voice of Gina Milan

    • November 29, 1965
    • NBC

    Opera singer Gina Milan (Susan Strasberg) declares there can be no romantic commitment in her life, but allows for one moment of love with Paul.

  • S01E12 The Time of the Sharks

    • December 6, 1965
    • NBC

    Paul's shark fishing expedition with Hardie Rankin (Howard Keel) and his wife Elizabeth (Dolores Dorn-Helt) is suddenly turned into a test of courage when they meet a party of young people diving for treasure in the South Pacific.

  • S01E13 Make the Angels Weep

    • December 13, 1965
    • NBC

    An old friend of Paul's is on the run, suspected of murdering his lover's husband, and Paul returns to his home town to investigate the case.

  • S01E14 Journey into Yesterday

    • December 27, 1965
    • NBC

    When searching for a friend missing in the New Guinea jungle Paul and his guide Carl Hague (James Forrest) are captured by the Bosavis tribe after accidentally shooting one of their young people.

  • S01E15 Strangers at the Door

    • January 3, 1966
    • NBC

    Stranded in the middle of nowhere, Paul hops a freight and becomes companion of the enigmatic Brett (Robert Drivas) on a trek full of symbolism.

  • S01E16 Carnival Ends at Midnight

    • January 10, 1966
    • NBC

    Paul is in Rio de Janeiro trying to trick Larry Carter (Peter Lawford) into returning to the US to face trial when Molly Pierce (Anne Helm), daughter of his victim, makes an attempt on the murderer's life.

  • S01E17 The Rediscovery of Charlotte Hyde

    • January 24, 1966
    • NBC

    In Monte Carlo Paul has to come to the rescue of gigolo Ramon de Vega (Fernando Lamas) when “sparrow” Charlotte Hyde (Gena Rowlands) doesn't turn out as he bargained.

  • S01E18 The Night of the Terror

    • January 31, 1966
    • NBC

    When Harry Blunt (Donnelly Rhodes) invites Paul and Jenny (Sharon Farrell) to his house, they find out how seriously disturbed he and his brother Christopher (Charles Aidman) really are.

  • S01E19 Keep My Share of the World

    • February 7, 1966
    • NBC

    A love triangle is revealed when Paul grabs the opportunity to make a world speed record for Greek magnate Alex Staphos (Rossano Brazzi), causing both men to disclose intimate secrets.

  • S01E20 In Search of April

    • February 14, 1966
    • NBC

    When April Martin (Carol Lynley) vanishes shortly after Paul meets her in New Orleans, he goes on a complex search that leads him to a surprising solution to the mystery of her disappearance and a threat to her life.

  • S01E21 Hoodlums on Wheels

    • February 21, 1966
    • NBC

    At a lake resort Paul's life is threatened when he is taken prisoner along with a mother and daughter by an outlaw bike gang responsible for a killing.

  • S01E22 Who's Watching the Fleshpot?

    • March 7, 1966
    • NBC

    Paul's college friend Mark Shepard (Bobby Darin) gets him to help out in his tourist business on the Riviera, and they become involved with smugglers when they earn a sports car for assisting May Huston (Eve Arden) and her daughter Marcia (Davey Davison).

  • S01E23 Sequestro (1)

    • March 14, 1966
    • NBC

    In Sicily brothers Enzo (Harry Guardino) and Tonio (Sal Mineo) kidnap Paul in order to finance Enzo's marriage to Marta (Marianna Hill).

  • S01E24 Sequestro (2)

    • March 21, 1966
    • NBC

    Paul has been kidnapped by brothers Enzo (Harry Guardino) and Tonio (Sal Mineo), and everyone's life starts to unravel when Enzo's fiancée Marta (Marianna Hill) goes into a Sicilian city to check for arrival of the ransom money.

  • S01E25 Don't Count on Tomorrow

    • March 28, 1966
    • NBC

    Tortured and falsely imprisoned for espionage by the KGB, Paul's escape is aided by cellmate Gyula Bogner (Roddy McDowall) whose fixation on revenge for his father's death causes Paul to turn himself in again to spare innocent lives.

  • S01E26 The Cruel Fountain

    • April 4, 1966
    • NBC

    Paul's old friend Clara Mallory (Jan Sterling), whose hands are disabled, becomes interested in the treatment of Belle Frazer (Kathryn Hays) by Dr. Raphael (Murray Hamilton) a supposed quack.

  • S01E27 Night Train from Chicago

    • April 11, 1966
    • NBC

    Paul becomes involved with the mob when he meets Elizabeth (Louise Sorel) on a train, a woman in nun's garb, who suddenly disappears.

  • S01E28 The Last Safari

    • April 25, 1966
    • NBC

    Paul joins Mark Foster (Leslie Nielsen) on safari in Africa to help his daughter Julie (Lesley-Ann Warren), a patient of his own doctor, come to terms with her terminal diagnosis.

  • S01E29 The Savage Machines

    • May 2, 1966
    • NBC

    Pete Gaffney (Jeremy Slate) and Paul form a racing partnership with Clive Darrell (Edward Mulhare), but his wife Rhona (Sally Ann Howes) is sabotaging the car.

  • S01E30 The Sadness of a Happy Time

    • May 16, 1966
    • NBC

    When Paul falls hopelessly in love with novelist Nicole Longet (Claudine Longet), he flees, but she interprets his action to mean that he is a spy colleague of Mike Allen (Stephen McNally) until the agent reveals Paul's secret.

Season 2

  • S02E01 The Day Time Stopped

    • September 12, 1966
    • NBC

    Paul is no longer aware of his diagnosis after a tobogganing accident brings on amnesia, so he returns to his fiancée Kate Pierce (Carol Lawrence) in San Francisco to help him with the mystery of six missing months in his life.

  • S02E02 I Am the Late Diana Hays

    • September 19, 1966
    • NBC

    Paul tries to protect Diana Hays (Diana Hyland) from her eccentric husband Julian Hays (Jack Palance) who was convicted of her murder when she mysteriously disappeared.

  • S02E03 The Borders of Barbarism

    • September 26, 1966
    • NBC

    Paul becomes involved in a dangerous Yugoslavian adventure, seeking hidden diamonds and documents when Gillian Wales (Joan Collins) mistakes him for an underworld character.

  • S02E04 The Committee for the 25th

    • October 3, 1966
    • NBC

    Susan Sinclair (Brooke Bundy), daughter of former San Francisco mayor Dwight Sinclair (Wendell Corey) has been addicted to drugs by Las Vegas mafia boss Carl Cappi (Edward Asner), and Paul uses the threat of a committee to amend the US Constitution to thwart him.

  • S02E05 The Dark Beyond the Door

    • October 10, 1966
    • NBC

    Paul tries to solve the mystery of payments his friend Jim Carlson (Peter Greaves) is making that have led his wife Ellen (Delphi Lawrence) to turn to alcohol over fear of another woman.

  • S02E06 The Sex Object

    • October 17, 1966
    • NBC

    Gigolo Ramon De Vega (Fernando Lamas) falls for fortune hunter Diana Murrow (Joan Hackett) at a posh Mexican resort.

  • S02E07 The Edge of the Volcano

    • October 24, 1966
    • NBC

    Just before a government assault Paul aids Abby Powers (Katherine Crawford) to reach a Latin American rebel camp where her father is writing about the leader.

  • S02E08 Grotenberg Mask

    • October 31, 1966
    • NBC

    There is a murder mystery to solve after Dena Fuller (Elizabeth Ashley) ends her ski romance with Johnny Cadell (Tom Simcox), and sails back to the US with Paul, finding Johnny's unpleasant brother Charles (Skip Homeier) on board - and his wife dead when they arrive in New York.

  • S02E09 The Treasure Seekers

    • November 14, 1966
    • NBC

    Paul experiences friendliness turning to malice when he is oppressed with demands from all sides after winning a fortune in the sweepstakes.

  • S02E10 The Man Who Had No Enemies

    • November 21, 1966
    • NBC

    As prime suspect in the murder of his sailing companion, Paul is held on the island of Bonaire while the real murderer is exposed by an old friend as three people from the same Arkansas city meet there.

  • S02E11 A Game of Violence

    • November 28, 1966
    • NBC

    Paul's old friend Duke Smith (Sugar Ray Robinson) goes into a championship prize fight knowing he might collapse, so he places a bet against himself in Paul's name, leaving him to sort out the aftermath.

  • S02E12 Hang Down Your Head and Laugh

    • December 5, 1966
    • NBC

    Traveling by bus across America Paul meets Tina (Kim Darby), a runaway teenager who alternately threatens him, then pleads with him to take her to Los Angeles.

  • S02E13 Tears from a Glass Eye

    • December 12, 1966
    • NBC

    Offered $100,000 by Ralph Bronson (Gerald S. O'Loughlan) to marry his ex-wife Laura (Mary Ann Mobley), Paul believes the next man in her life, Collier Johnson (Donnelly Rhodes) to have ulterior motives.

  • S02E14 Time and a Half on Christmas Eve

    • December 19, 1966
    • NBC

    Paul is flying to San Francisco to spend Christmas with his former fiancee, but gets stranded when his plane makes an emergency landing. And he ends up spending Christmas Eve with Harry Martin (Ernest Borgnine), a garrulous cabdriver estranged from his family and laughing his way through a lonely life.

  • S02E15 The Shock of Recognition

    • January 2, 1967
    • NBC

    Paul's romance with Anna Birrel (Marlyn Mason) in Spain hits a snag when her former fiancé, actor Charlie Harrod (Farley Granger) arrives to make a film and decides to try bull fighting.

  • S02E16 Flight from Tirana (1)

    • January 9, 1967
    • NBC

    In Albania to act as counsel for accused spy Brad Capo (Mike Roads), Paul is housed with American defector Dave Corbett (Ossie Davis), and faced with conflicting instructions that could mean freedom or death.

  • S02E17 A Rage for Justice (2)

    • January 16, 1967
    • NBC

    Paul's court martial defence of the man who helped him escape from Albania, ends up resting on a point of moral philosophy.

  • S02E18 The List of Alice McKenna

    • January 23, 1967
    • NBC

    A friend from school days, Alice McKenna (Geraldine Brooks) causes talk in Paul's home town when she asks him to clear her name after serving seven years for murdering her husband

  • S02E19 The Face of the Antagonist

    • January 30, 1967
    • NBC

    When Vince Murdoch (Aldo Ray) rescues Paul from an assault by teenagers, the discredited policeman must then rely on him as his witness on a murder charge, and then the teenagers too..

  • S02E20 Baby, the World's on Fire

    • February 6, 1967
    • NBC

    Paul finds himself in deep trouble when he is mistaken for his old friend Harry Bevins (Jack Kelly) who is playing both ends against the middle in Tokyo.

  • S02E21 Rendezvous in Tokyo

    • February 13, 1967
    • NBC

    Thoughts of his life as a Korean War airman - and a woman he once loved - come flooding back to Paul when he arrives at a Tokyo bar for a reunion with his flying comrades after 15 years.

  • S02E22 The Calculus of Chaos

    • February 20, 1967
    • NBC

    Paul and racing star Nick Cooper (Pat Harrington Jr.) assist a Czech scientist escape his country with tragic results.

  • S02E23 The Assassin

    • February 27, 1967
    • NBC

    Paul tries to stop another dying man who has nothing to lose by committing murder to revenge the college prank which crippled him.

  • S02E24 The Carpella Collection

    • March 6, 1967
    • NBC

    Though only a pawn for the real thieves, Paul is suspected of stealing jewels worth many millions from wealthy financier Erich Krieger (Helmut Dantine).

  • S02E25 A Very Small Injustice

    • March 13, 1967
    • NBC

    Paul is taken hostage by escaped convict J.B. Flowers (Burr DeBenning) who flees from a posse led by Sheriff Hoag (Slim Pickens).

  • S02E26 East of the Equator

    • March 20, 1967
    • NBC

    When a picture appears in a New York gallery that could have been painted by the husband she thought dead, Carolyn Willins (Dina Merrill), obsessed by the role of a woman and her failure as a wife, goes to Brazil in search of the artist.

  • S02E27 A Choice of Evils

    • April 3, 1967
    • NBC

    Karen Mueller (Barbara Stanek) claims to be the illegitimate daughter of Paul's friend Spencer Holt (John Forsythe), and her appearance at the very end of his Gubernatorial campaign presents the candidate with a difficult choice.

  • S02E28 Tell It to the Dead

    • April 10, 1967
    • NBC

    When rebels in a breakaway Himalayan state hold Paul and two American women as espionage suspects, he finds himself the object of one's special plan for his immortality.

  • S02E29 Better World Next Time

    • April 17, 1967
    • NBC

    After fleeing a North Vietnamese prison camp, Paul's flying buddy from the Korean War, Colonel Mike Green (Martin Milner) escapes from a military hospital, believing he's still being pursued by the Viet Cong.

  • S02E30 The Word Would Be Goodbye

    • April 24, 1967
    • NBC

    A surprising encounter on the road brings Nicole Longet (Claudine Longet) back into Paul's life, complications in hers hindering their fragile attempts to let their love blossom again.

Season 3

  • S03E01 Who's Che Guevara?

    • September 13, 1967
    • NBC

    Paul's seaplane is hijacked and flown to Cuba, supposedly to bring out an enemy of the regime, but virtually everything told to him is untrue.

  • S03E02 The Inhuman Predicament

    • September 20, 1967
    • NBC

    Paul is romancing a princess on the lavish yacht of his friend Rachel Pike (Vera Miles) when pal Ramon de Vega (Fernando Lamas) inveigles him into arranging an introduction to the financier, but Rachel is too much of a match for the gigolo.

  • S03E03 Three Passengers for the Lusitania

    • September 27, 1967
    • NBC

    In Acapulco Paul meets a dare devil who seems to think he has nothing to lose when risking his life.

  • S03E04 The Frozen Image

    • October 4, 1967
    • NBC

    Middle-aged entertainer Jamey Burke (Mel Torme) feels a Peter Pan image is necessary for success, and when he fires his manager and picks Paul at random to replace him, a significant catalyst is introduced into his life.

  • S03E05 Trip to the Far Side

    • October 11, 1967
    • NBC

    A casual relationship with Paul is taken too seriously by Valerie Phillips (Marianna Hill) and her industrialist father Cal Phillips (Ralph Bellamy) when the couple join a safari after two weeks together in Rome.

  • S03E06 The Company of Scoundrels

    • October 18, 1967
    • NBC

    Paul investigates the death of his friend who headed a committee for a Constitutional amendment to outlaw gambling.

  • S03E07 At the End of the Rainbow There's Another Rainbow

    • October 25, 1967
    • NBC

    When Alex Ryder (Bruce Dern) availed of the opportunity to fake his death and collect substantial insurance money, his wife Molly (Anne Helm) turns to Paul for help.

  • S03E08 Down with Willy Hatch

    • October 30, 1967
    • NBC

    Paul goes to the aid of an old friend who's been arrested on a trumped-up morals charge, but finds that's only where the problems of Willy Hatch (Don Rickles) begin.

  • S03E09 The Naked Half Truth

    • November 6, 1967
    • NBC

    Multi-millionaire Andrew Dawson (Edward Andrews) asks Paul to track down a possibly long-lost daughter in Andorra, and with the help of Ramon de Vega (Fernando Lamas), he extracts her from two rival smuggling families there.

  • S03E10 Tell It Like It Is

    • November 13, 1967
    • NBC

    Against Paul's advice, distinguished jurist Taliaferro Wilson (Franchot Tone) goes on the sensationalist talk show of scandal-monger host Jerry Haines (James Daly) with horrendous consequences for both men.

  • S03E11 Cry Hard, Cry Fast (1)

    • November 20, 1967
    • NBC

    A horrific crash killing four people occurs when Paul's car stalls on a highway.

  • S03E12 Cry Hard, Cry Fast (2)

    • November 27, 1967
    • NBC

    As Frank Frazer (James Farentino) schemes to recover the money he stole from a bank, other survivors of the crash caused by Paul's car deal with insurance matters and their futures.

  • S03E13 The Mustafa Embrace

    • December 1, 1967
    • NBC

    Lucia Van Vorst (Katherine Crawford) believes she should keep a valuable wedding present from her Moroccan husband Jamal Mustafa (Stanley Waxman) when he discards her, and Paul's initial assistance as a courier turns into full-blown cat burglary when he obtains it for her to get revenge on Ahmed Mustafa (Edmund Hashim).

  • S03E14 It Could Only Happen in Rome

    • December 15, 1967
    • NBC

    Trying to find his way past the ever-changing smoke screen she creates. Paul becomes enchanted by Tia (Tisha Sterling), a girl he meets singing in a café on his Christmas sojourn in Rome.

  • S03E15 Fly by Night

    • December 22, 1967
    • NBC

    Paul acts as a catalyst to expose the killers responsible for the murder his friend Garrett Hamilton (Jason Evers) is suspected of.

  • S03E16 A Dangerous Proposal

    • January 3, 1968
    • NBC

    Paul is asked to purchase a rare car for industrialist Sir Harry Hiller (Albert Dekker), but the real objective is something quite different.

  • S03E17 One Bad Turn

    • January 10, 1968
    • NBC

    A casual remark to Deputy Sheriff Potter (Warren Oates) in a small American town leads Paul facing a certain 15-year prison sentence.

  • S03E18 The Rape of Lucrece

    • January 17, 1968
    • NBC

    Failing, possibly scheming, author Lucrece Lawrence (Julie Harris) accuses Paul of attempted rape when her mind misconstrues an unromantic dinner with him.

  • S03E19 The Killing Scene

    • February 1, 1968
    • NBC

    With just hours left Paul, who prosecuted the case six years earlier, tries to save Lou Patterson (Tom Skerritt) from the gas chamber.

  • S03E20 Sara-Jane, You Never Whispered Again

    • February 8, 1968
    • NBC

    As a favor to her father Paul searches the hippie enclaves of San Francisco and Los Angeles for Sara Prentice (Barbara Hershey), who writes erotic poems and charms all men.

  • S03E21 Strategy of Terror

    • February 15, 1968
    • NBC

    A calculating position.

  • S03E22 The Dead on Furlough

    • February 22, 1968
    • NBC

    Paul accompanies Lisa Sorrow (Ina Balin) on the archaeological dig of her former lover David Navan (Hans Gudegast) in Israel, but jubilation over a find turns into sorrow for everyone.

  • S03E23 Beware My Love

    • March 2, 1968
    • NBC

    Paul helps Barbara Sherwood (Susan Trustman) investigate what she believes to be the suspicious drowning of her sister in Italy.

  • S03E24 Carol

    • March 9, 1968
    • NBC

    When the boy she thought she married tells her that the wedding was a fake, Carol Sherman (Kim Darby) accepts a ride to San Francisco from Paul to get an abortion.

  • S03E25 Life Among the Meat Eaters

    • March 16, 1968
    • NBC

    A gambling syndicate considers Paul a threat to their getting a debt paid by Alejandro Orsini (Jacques Bergerac) who is about to marry wealthy Mona Morrison (Anne Baxter).

  • S03E26 The Exchange

    • March 27, 1968
    • NBC

    Paul is asked to be a go-between to exchange the husband of Alicia Stuyvesant (Janice Rule) for an East German agent being held in the US.

Additional Specials

  • SPECIAL 0x1 Rapture at Two Forty

    • April 15, 1965
    • NBC

    Pilot for Run For Your Life. From Kraft Suspense Theater S02E21. When Paul Bryan, a high-powered lawyer is diagnosed with an incurable disease, he decides to spend his last days living the high life on the French Riviera