Det. Halloran easily kills a fleeing robber who's about to shoot him, but Halloran's lingering feelings of guilt make getting through the aftermath with the man's family anguish. Halloran's wife and Lieutenant support him throughout his search for meaning.

A young detective works to redeem himself after lying about the circumstances of his partner's shooting death during a stakeout.

New York City detectives frantically hunt a killer who strangles married disabled women with a coat hanger, in their own homes.

A wealthy industrialist refuses to give in to an extortionist's demands even after the extortionist brutally assaults a neighbor girl and threatens the life of the man's alienated son.

A naïve young woman, Carol Thomas, fresh to New York, gets a mysterious phone call on her new line from a woman who sounds to be in the process of being murdered. Carol is unable to get prompt action from the police, so she ill-advisedly decides to play detective herself.

The precinct investigates a brazen Christmas Eve robbery and shooting by the notorious Marco Butcher and his brother.

Detective Halloran helps hunt down a man whom he knows, and who has always been a well-liked solid citizen before suddenly snapping and going on a killing spree throughout the city.

Halloran goes undercover as the home room teacher for a "modified-curriculum" high school class after their previous home room teacher fell out of the window to his death.

The detectives work to stymie a bomb threat during a ticker-tape parade for an Olympic champion.

The detectives are assigned to protect visiting Latin Americans dignitaries, including the adolescent son of a dictator and his bodyguard, a former bullfighter who is involved in a plot to kill the young man.

A cleaning woman, tired of her hardscrabble life, robs a bank in an attempt to buy happiness.

A soldier returns home to find that his baby sister has become part of a shoplifting ring that has attracted the detectives' attention.

A payroll robbery gang hires a washed-up wheel man for a job that goes bad.

The detectives babysit a couple of bloodhounds belonging to a man involved in an auto accident, putting the dogs to good use while searching for a missing girl.

A pregnant woman's father is trying to kill her husband in order to cover up a stolen goods racket in which the two have been involved.

A washed-up boxer needs fast money and desperately wants to get back into the ring to earn it despite knowing his health is at risk.

To spare a condemned killer, Halloran forces his way into a kept woman's apartment the night of the execution.

After a string of liquor store robberies and murders, a liquor store owner plans for retribution when his store is robbed and his friend, the clerk, is killed.