Racket Squad (1951)
- Genre
- police procedural
- Country
- United States
- Length
- 3 seasons, 98 episodes
- Rated
- TV-PG
- Rating
- 6.5 of 10 from 4 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A police captain narrates stories of ordinary people who get tricked by con artists. Each episode shows a different confidence scheme and how the victims are swindled.
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What happens
Racket Squad is an American TV crime drama series that aired from 1951 to 1953. The format was a narrated anthology drama, as each individual episode featured various ordinary citizens getting ensnared in a different confidence scheme (con). Episodes were introduced and narrated by Reed Hadley as "Captain John Braddock", a fictional detective working for a police department in a large, unnamed American city. Braddock served as the series' host and narrator. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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