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Sources: Gianakos; IMDB; Jensen

Episode Summary: Not viewed. From Classic TV Archive:
"A biographical account of the wartime medical service of Dr. Mary Walker, who was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for her courageous work as a civilian surgeon among Federal troops during the Civil War."

(written by William Sackheim, directed by William J. Thiele, producer: Jack Chertok)

 

Sources: Classic TV Archive (website)

Episode Summary:
Lanyard comes to Las Vegas for a little R & R. Dena Lane, working as a singer in Vegas while she waits for her divorce to finalize, flirts with him at the Sands. When he goes to hear her perform, San Francisco homicide detective Steber demands to meet with him and asks him to find Nick Kohler (Kelley) -- his brother, wanted for but not guilty of murder in San Francisco -- and persuade Nick to turn himself in. Lanyard meets Nick; Nick says he knows what Lanyard is going to say, and who sent him, and he won’t listen. Lanyard tracks Nick to his apartment and roughs him up to convince him to go back to San Francisco. This seems oddly effective; Nick gives in. But while Lanyard fetches a cloth and water to clean up the damage he’s just done to Nick, someone kills Nick with a knife and drives off. Lanyard is questioned on suspicion of murder, which annoys him. He does some checking and finds that Steber is not a cop. He does some more checking and confronts Dena with the fact that Nick was divorcing her because of her affair with Steber, suggesting that they killed Nick for his fortune. He lets her go, though, and both Lanyard and the cops trail her and Steber to a rendezvous in a crowd at Boulder Dam. When she sees Lanyard, she blames the whole thing on Steber and propositions Lanyard - but he gives her to the cops anyway. Then he finds Steber and they have quite a nice little chase through the innards of the dam, ending with a knife- and fist-fight atop the dam before Steber, too, is taken into custody... and Lanyard goes back to his vacation.

Notes:
Kelley has two short scenes before his character is killed a few minutes into the show.
Kelley’s name is misspelled in the credits: “DeForrest Kelley”
Dead Again: Stabbed off-camera by his estranged wife's lover.

Sources: viewing; Classic TV Archive website; Ultimate Mystery Website

Episode Summary:
Ted Hopkins (Kelley) has landed in a psychiatric hospital after attacking his fiancée, Carol Palmer. He tells his psychiatrist, Dr. Roche, that he killed a woman, but can't or won't say any more than that. Roche calls Lanyard in to investigate, not wanting either to turn his patient over to the police or to release a dangerous man. Posing as a mystery writer, Lanyard elicits a few sinister details - that he hid in a closet, killed her "lots of ways," and that "she knew she was being killed before she died." Then he clams up, saying he doesn't like Lanyard's name - it makes him think of knives (a lanyard being a loop of rope, one use of which is to hang a knife around a sailor's neck). Lanyard visits Carol and discovers that Ted had come over upset after fighting with his mother, quarreled with Carol, and deliberately broke her finger, laughing. Next visit is to the mother, now Mrs. Folsom, who tells Lanyard that when Ted was six years old he killed a neighbor child with a pocket knife; she sent him away to school, they never spoke of it again, she let him live with her but would really rather forget his existence. Lanyard confronts Ted with his victim's name - Emily Barnhardt. Ted mutters, "I kill everybody," attacks Lanyard, and runs up to the roof to jump. Lanyard keeps him talking and gets the rest of the story, that he had quarreled with the girl; he wanted to scare her but she wouldn't scare, just laughed, and he wanted to kill her. Lanyard accuses Ted of cowardice and selfishness in wanting to die, at which Ted begins to lose consciousness. Lanyard and a couple of interns grab him off the ledge. Now with the real story, Roche brings the still-loyal Carol in to help with Ted's recovery and buys Lanyard dinner in gratitude for not having to sic the cops on his patient.

Notes:
One of Kelley's more interesting "psychotic" roles, nicely alternating between the sinister and the sympathetic to keep us guessing.
Kelley’s name is misspelled in the credits: “DeForrest Kelley”

Sources: viewing; Classic TV Archive website; Ultimate Mystery Website