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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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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