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- The millionaire captain of the LAPD homicide division is driven to the crime scenes in his 1962 Rolls-Royce by his loyal chauffeur.
- Burke is assigned to stop Farid from retaking power by preventing him and his arsenal of weapons which includes napalm from reaching Cairo.
- Burke must collaborate with Russian agents to recover an abducted top Russian intelligence officer feared to be targeted to acquire Russian and American military secrets for the Chinese.
- In his first mission as a secret agent, Burke replaces and pretends to be both pilot and deliveryman Schreiner to infiltrate a syndicate that smuggles Red Chinese gold into Latin America to finance rebels.
- Burke must thwart the plan of the ruthless wife of an exiled South American dictator to hide the terminal illness so the dictator can get revolutionary financing from the Chinese who want a foothold in South America.
- Burke in Mexico to ensure the passage of a treaty gets embroiled in a conspiracy to derail the treaty between a Mexican labor leader and a Mexican industrialist who want it to appear that the United States wants to assassinate the leader.
- Burke is assigned to rescue the son of an Algerian diplomat apparently kidnapped for ransom but uncovers a more serious plot to overthrow the French government.
- When the government receives a note demanding the release of two spies under threat of the release of a virulent rice fungus on the Asian mainland, Burke is sent to investigate in Ceylon where the developer of the fungus resides.
- When persons trying to contact British agents say a password are killed, Burke is directed to investigate and finds a plot to use a Soviet satellite launch and a phony atomic threat to lure British defenses to an underground gas trap.
- Burke must infiltrate an international criminal organization which plans to use a peace group's plan to use an LSD gas to render the Washington D.C. population ineffective as a cover to steal military secrets.
- Burke infiltrates the organization of a deported mobster who has employed the talents of a diabolical chemist and the funds of foreign governments to execute a fiendish plan to sack New York City and carry out political assassination.
- When Burke investigates the strange death of an atomic plant security officer, he finds a town in which the residents respond in robotic way with fear and hatred of strangers.
- A mad right wing judge who wants to take over the country airs subliminal radio messages to control the minds of the locals to disguise the fact he used an area atomic plant to build a bomb he has sent hidden in statute to Washington, D.C.
- Amos helps a scientist who has invented a new type bomb and his assistant defect but the scientist is kidnapped during the escape and help for a ransom of uncut diamond under threat of exploding the bomb in Vienna.
- Burke must track downtown insiders responsible for theft of agency personnel record and prevent the sale of those records to agency adversaries.
- Burke is sent to a Pacific island run by a ruthless dwarf profiteer to extract a U.S. intelligence cryptographer with a photographic memory in order to prevent intelligence secrets from being compromised.
- To gain business and political secrets, a Machiavellian mogul uses a newly developed drug which gains immediate truthful answers followed by the subjects drug induced unstoppable desire to commit suicide.
- 1963–19661h6.2 (26)TV EpisodeBurke must remove the blackmail threat from a Sicilian official while using this event to locate and stop the shipment of missiles by a ruthless arm dealers to Latin America.
- The unpleasant Benjamin Glory, one half of the ownership of the Glory Lee fashion house, is found dead in an elevator after it crashes. But he was dead before he ever entered it, killed by "a sharp and blunt instrument".
- When a businessman, Buddy Jack Cook, with a very shady reputation is found slain in a hotel elevator, Harold Harold, his accountant, is the prime suspect.
- The publisher of a girlie magazine is murdered at one of his own key clubs.
- Pop artist Andy Zygmunt is fatally impaled on the spikes of one of his creations. The discovery that he blackmailed people into buying his works provides a motive and five suspects: his last four customers and the possessor of a missing fifth work.
- Party girl Annie Foran is found strangled in the back seat of a customer's car at the exclusive restaurant Club Nova. Suspicion falls on her ex-boyfriend, baseball sensation Eddie Dineen, who was there at the time in the company of his mentor, the acerbic columnist Whitman Saunders, and Saunder's assistant, Milo Morgan.
- Carhop waitress April Adams is found murdered in an automobile scrapyard. The discovery that she had over $40,000 in the bank indicates that she had a second income that was both lucrative and illicit.
- Burke and his team investigate the murder of a wealthy industrial designer.
- Burke is at a poolside party when he sees artist Beau Sparrow take a hard dive into a pool---a dive which kills him. Investigation shows the diving board's catapult was deliberately tampered with.
- A recording star is murdered. Was the killer his agent, his sister, his music arranger, or someone else?
- Cable Roberts, a legendary writer, documentary filmmaker, and hunter in the Hemingway mold, is found murdered in his study. There are three significant clues: he was killed with one of his own rifles, he was shot twice big game style, and his body was propped against a wall alongside his many hunting trophies.
- Carrie Cornell, singer and model, is found murdered on a beach. A photograph of her in Girlicue magazine links her to sleazy millionaire Martin Van Martin and he has disappeared.
- While the water for her before dinner bath is being drawn, high society blackmailer Cassandra Cass is gunned down in her bedroom in her mansion. The prime suspects are her four victims, all of whom had been invited to dinner that evening. And, of course, there's the butler.
- A list of interconnected suspects of people that escaped justice some time ago are left to Burke after Officer Danny Robin, Burke's sponsor for the police department, is shot to death.
- The life of hotel magnate Cornelius Gilbert comes to an electrifying finish when somebody hot wires the metal ladder in his swimming pool. A torn piece of plaid cloth, a gold St. Christopher's medal, and Gilbert's annual round-the-world charter flight are the clues.
- Burke has to search for a missing cat before he can find a killer.
- When the anchor of millionaire Davidian Jonas's yacht is raised, his corpse is found attached to it.
- A waxwork in a museum turns out not to be a waxwork at all - it's a corpse.
- "Professor" Kingston runs a cheap sideshow in a traveling carnival; one of his exhibits is a supposedly genuine electric chair. The girl strapped to it is certainly dead.
- Four poker buddies celebrate the first anniversary of their weekly games with a private party at the Hillsdale Country Club. The festivities end when all four men are killed by a bottle of poisoned wine. There is no shortage of suspects. Besides having four unhappy wives, the men had incurred the ire of Butterfield, the club's historian, baseball coach, and busybody.
- A pretentious method actor is killed during a performance of "Hamlet".
- Burke's investigation of the murder of Harris Crown is complicated by the fact that Mrs. Crown is pregnant - and not by her husband.
- A man claiming to be an exiled Russian prince - not that anyone ever believed that - is murdered.
- Model Holly Howard is found murdered, and the only clues seem to link a trio of wealthy Texans to her death.
- An extremely strange girl called Lucy Brewer finds a corpse in the shower. Burke's suspects include an old friend, a cultivator of unusual plants, a wine snob and the dead man's daughter - or is she?
- Julian Buck, one of America's most respected authors, is found strangled to death in his study. The manuscript for his latest novel is missing, but one curious item is found: what appears to be an extra rubber cap for the feet of his typewriter stand.
- Murdered Lenore has left a note that she's changing her will with the heir as nephew Jay Boy who is involved with daughter of Jim Clover who needs Lenore's land to complete his development but Jay Boy's fiancée Effie Mae is in town.
- A shady attorney carrying a lot of money is murdered after making a telephone call.
- Ruthless Hollywood agent Marty Kelso is murdered and leaves behind a plethora of suspects including a new wife and three ex-wives.
- Escape artist Jack Merlin at a convention of competitive magicians attempts his stock in trade trick of staying under water for five hours sealed in coffin with an hour air supply but he dies - from a gunshot wound.
- Housewife Molly Baker, a brunette, is found dead in her shower, the apparent victim of a fall and drowning. But the autopsy shows that she was strangled and the discovery of blond wig hairs on four of her dresses is the first indication of her very busy secret life.
- The suspects are a prodigal son, a secretary and a number of people whose livelihood involves children when a writer of children's books is strangled with a typewriter ribbon.
- When the wealthy Emory Cartwheel is murdered at a coin auction, Amos Burke finds himself in jail in the Wild West town of Epitaph Flats.