The crime that winds up being prevented is the execution of an The mystery or prevent a crime-the threat to kill the judge by the reporter In this twisted web, the profiling effort doesn't solve Suspect, his sister steps forward and confesses to the crime in order to keep With the victim, and when it becomes clear that the judge is now the prime Solving that mystery requires a bit of luck-theĬonvict's brother gets the judge at gunpoint to confess to having an affair However, the reporter did not commit the crime of
Something he would have read for his job, whereas the convict's brother, a The reporter because the typefaces match those found in a journal on law enforcement, ( Anthony George) talks to the convict's brother, his lawyer, a reporter who hasĬhampioned his innocence, and a police lieutenant, Hyatt is able to zero in on Roughly 12 hours before the execution would be impossible, even with the magicĬomputers of today's crime shows. Needless to say, completing this task in the Typography from the note to that of the dozens of periodicals to construct a Then, with the clock of the impending execution ticking, Hyatt has to match Sills ( Doug McClure) to buy a copy of every periodical from a nearby newsstand. Carl Hyatt dispatches youthful Checkmate, Inc. Judge's murder, it would seem, so Sebastian Cabot's erudite BritishĬriminologist Dr. Figuring out who sent the note is critical in preventing the
Him that he will be killed unless he stops the execution of convicted murderer A case in point is "Hour ofĮxecution" (January 21, 1961), in which a judge receives a threateningĪnonymous note comprised of letters cut out of magazines and journals warning Profiling angle described in our post for the 1960 episodes, and when they did, Recounting the exploits of the titular detective agency that attempts to As it moved into the second half of its first season, Checkmate continued in its premise of