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Decoy
📺 Golden Age TV Syndication Broadcast 39 Vault Episodes

Decoy

Premiered: 1957
Genre: Police Procedural / Crime Drama
Vault Holdings: 39 Episodes (1015 mins)

Decoy is an American crime drama television series created for syndication and initially broadcast from October 14, 1957, to July 7, 1958, with 39 black-and-white 30-minute episodes. The series was the first American police series with a female protagonist. Many Decoy episodes are in the public domain.

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Statutory Public Domain Legal Clearance

The first American television police procedural with a female protagonist, starring Beverly Garland as NYPD undercover detective Casey Jones. 37 preserved vault episodes entered the US Public Domain due to non-renewal.

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Beverly Garland
Cast Member

📼 Preserved Studio Vault Episodes 39 Episodes on Drive E:

# Episode Title / Holding Runtime Vault Quality
1 1 - Stranglehold 26 mins 720x480
2 10 - The Scapegoat 26 mins 720x480
3 11 - Two Ways to Kill 26 mins 720x480
4 12 - Queen of Diamonds 25 mins 720x480
5 13 - My Brother's Killer 26 mins 720x480
6 14 - Bullet of Hate 26 mins 720x480
7 15 - Death Watch 26 mins 720x480
8 16 - Odds Against the Jockey 25 mins 720x480
9 17 - Dressed for the Kill 26 mins 720x480
10 18 - An Eye for an Eye 26 mins 720x480
11 19 - The Challenger 26 mins 720x480
12 2 - The Red Clown 26 mins 720x480
13 20 - Across the World 26 mins 720x480
14 21 - The Showplace 26 mins 720x480
15 22 - Reasonable Doubt 26 mins 720x480
16 23 - Night of Fire 26 mins 720x480
17 24 - Saturday Lost 26 mins 720x480
18 25 - High Swing 26 mins 720x480
19 26 - Earthbound Satellite 26 mins 720x480
20 27 - The Sound of Tears 26 mins 720x480
21 28 - Ladies' Man 26 mins 720x480
22 29 - Cry Revenge 26 mins 720x480
23 3 - The Phoner 26 mins 720x480
24 30 - The Gentle Gun-Man 26 mins 720x480
25 31 - Night Light 26 mins 720x480
26 32 - Fiesta at Midnight 26 mins 720x480
27 33 - The Lieutenant had a Son 26 mins 720x480
28 34 - Shadow of Van Gogh 26 mins 720x480
29 35 - Tin Pan Payoff 26 mins 720x480
30 36 - Blind Date 26 mins 720x480
31 37 - The Come Back 26 mins 720x480
32 38 - First Arrest 26 mins 720x480
33 39 - The Lost Ones 26 mins 720x480
34 4 - To Trap a Thief 26 mins 720x480
35 5 - Dream Fix 26 mins 720x480
36 6 - The Savage Payoff 26 mins 720x480
37 7 - Deadly Corridor 26 mins 720x480
38 8 - Escape into Danger 26 mins 720x480
39 9 - The Glass Necklace 26 mins 720x480