As of July 2026, Burke's Law Season 1 aired in 1963 with 32 episodes. Full episode guide and where to watch below.
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Burke's Law Season 1

1963 32 Episodes Drama ⭐ 6/10

Burke's Law Season 1 has built a devoted audience among viewers who want their drama to earn its emotional beats. Across 1 season, the show has had time to find its rhythm and keep it. 12 people have weighed in on TMDB, and the verdict leans heavily positive. Gene Barry leads a cast that never overplays its hand. There is no real reason to keep putting it off.

There is a reason Burke's Law Season 1 keeps coming up in conversation. Character-driven storytelling at its most effective — Burke's Law Season 1 earns every emotional beat it goes for. Season 1 of Burke's Law includes 32 episodes. It aired from September 1963 to May 1964. This season stars Gene Barry, Regis Toomey and Leon Lontoc. Gene Barry and Regis Toomey lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 1963. Burke's Law Season 1 resists tidy resolutions in a way that respects how messy real consequences actually are. It knows exactly what it is, and does not try to be anything else.

Viewers drawn to character-driven storytelling will find plenty to sit with in Burke's Law Season 1. It has built its own audience without needing a direct comparison. A contained run means every episode is doing real work. Gene Barry anchors a cast that never overplays its hand. The kind of drama that stays with you well after the finale.

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🎬 Burke's Law Season 1 — Episode Guide

E1
Who Killed Holly Howard?
1963-09-20
A top fashion model is found at a construction site, apparently shot to death. When it is discovered that she was drowned before she was shot, Burke tracks the case back to her ditzy landlady, and then to the heads of the ad agency she was modeling for and the artist who was painting her likeness f...
E2
Who Killed Mr. X?
1963-09-27
When a body is discovered dumped alongside the merry-go-round at an amusement park, clues (including a phone number on an old matchbook cover) lead back to the elusive millionaire Emory Flood. Burke is thwarted in his attempts to speak to Flood by the top three men in the Flood empire. Meanwhile, ...
E3
Who Killed Cable Roberts?
1963-10-04
When big-game hunter Cable Roberts is found shot by one of his own rifles and ""mounted"" in his trophy room, the suspects include both Roberts' current wife (a predatory animal herself), his ex, an angry taxidermist, another hunter, Roberts' secretary, and his extremely sexy maid. Tim notices an i...
E4
Who Killed Harris Crown?
1963-10-11
Promoter Harris Crown is killed when the car he is driving goes off a cliff. Burke soon discovers that all the brake fluid had been drained and that the car belonged to Crown's wife (a race car enthusiast) who is involved in a charity benefit and ""involved"" with the benefit's choreographer, who i...
E5
Who Killed Julian Buck?
1963-10-18
Hemingwayesque novelist Julian Buck is found dead and Burke checks out the guests at his funeral: his publisher, a former boxer, an ex-lover (who he ""traded"" for a plot), a bartender, a crippled university professor, and a glamorous blonde, all of whom have been used in the past by Buck as fodder...
E6
Who Killed Alex Debbs?
1963-10-25
At the opening of The Debonair Key Club, a Playboy-like nightclub/restaurant, Debonair Magazine founder Alex Debbs is found stabbed. The suspects are all connected in some way with the Debonair empire, both the club and the magazine: Debbs' main business partner, an embittered cartoonist, a swingi...
E7
Who Killed Sweet Betsy?
1963-11-01
Betsy Richards drinks a lethal martini and Burke investigates the Richards mansion, Betsy's three identical sisters (who may look alike, but who have decidedly different personalities), her wheelchair-bound (and possibly psychotic) aunt, her current beach bum lover (who might have been about to leav...
E8
Who Killed Billy Jo?
1963-11-08
Pop recording star Billy Jo Tate is slain in front of all his guests at a party celebrating his latest hit. A ""good-ol' boy"", Billy Jo is surrounded by users and people he used - his agent, his ""best buddy"", a smarmy astrologer, a jive arranger, Tate's showgirl sister, the woman who discovered ...
E9
Who Killed Wade Walker?
1963-11-15
When millionaire Wade Walker's plane explodes mid-air, Burke confronts Walker's business partner, secretary (whom Tim has an eye for), and the four women in his life (a model and beauty pageant queen, a society horse breeder, a starchy, sex-obsessed nurse, and a nightclub singer), one of whom Walker...
E10
Who Killed the Kind Doctor?
1963-11-29
Psychiatrist Eric Techman calls Burke to report that he fears one of his patients is a homicidal maniac who plans to kill him. Before he can identify the person in question, he is shot in the back. Burke convinces both Techman's secretary and his wife to not reveal the fact of the kind doctor's mu...
E11
Who Killed Purity Mather?
1963-12-06
A self-proclaimed witch sends Burke a record predicting her murder, along with a list of suspects. When her body is discovered after a fire, she has been disfigured by acid, leaving only a clue of a tattoo. The design of the tattoo matches that of an amulet carried by her pet raven. For likely su...
E12
Who Killed Cynthia Royal?
1963-12-13
A missing Siamese cat named Deborah is Burke's prime clue to the killing of Cynthia Royal. The murder victim had just arrived in town from Chicago trying to reunite with her estranged husband. The husband had been wooing a nightclub singer, which leads Burke also to suspect the nightclub's owner/c...
E13
Who Killed Eleanora Davis?
1963-12-20
When an unidentified brunette is discovered in a fake electric chair at a run-down amusement park/sideshow run by ""Professor"" Kingston, Burke has to track several elusive clues back to a modeling agency and the three somewhat odd people who run it, a blackmail scheme, eloping tennis players, and a...
E14
Who Killed Beau Sparrow?
1963-12-27
Burke is attending a pool party at tycoon Victor Haggerty's mansion when dashing Beau Sparrow is thrown into the pool by a faulty diving apparatus and dies. The apparatus doesn't seem to have been tampered with and George McLeod can't determine the cause of death. Was it murder? If so, who's the ...
E15
Who Killed Jason Shaw?
1964-01-03
When a shady businessman is found dead, fully clothed, in a hotel shower, surrounded by burned thousand dollar bills, Burke is confronted with a group of men who seem to have absolutely nothing in common - a shipbuilder with a musical hobby, a haughty wine connoisseur, a loud-mouthed used-car salesm...
E16
Who Killed Snookie Martinelli?
1964-01-10
At a jet-set party, it appears to Tim and Les that the victim of a fatal shooting is - - - - Burke! Was Burke really the victim and who was the shooter among the party guests: a wrestler, a racecar driver, a nightclub pianist, a professional ""houseguest"", or a sexy barefoot ""angel""? Or was it...
E17
Who Killed What's His Name?
1964-01-17
When the president of a bank is shot during a robbery, the only description Burke can get of the killer is that he was ""just ordinary"". Burke interviews a man who passed out during the robbery, and hunts for clues with a local bookie. After the two other bank robbers are slain, Burke investigate...
E18
Who Killed Madison Cooper?
1964-01-24
Hotshot lawyer Madison Cooper calls Burke as he dies in a seedy part of town of stab wounds inflicted elsewhere. He had just put a large amount of cash into a newspaper vending booth and Burke finds that Cooper was dying and had been trying to contact former clients whom he had wronged in the past....
E19
Who Killed April?
1964-01-31
Tim's mother is in town for a visit and provides several vital clues that solve the murder of April Adams. Tracking the victim to a carhop-style restaurant, Burke narrows the suspects to April's erratic brother, her cousin, her psychiatrist, the drive-in restaurant's manager, and a hockey star and ...
E20
Who Killed Carrie Cornell?
1964-02-14
A group of ""junior cadets"" discover the body of a bikini-clad girl wrapped in chains, lying in the surf. The victim, a singer and sometime ""model"", has been linked to a oil tycoon, who is away on business, according to his alcoholic wife. While the tycoon is busy with young girls, his wife is ...

🎭 Cast of Burke's Law Season 1

Gene Barry
Gene Barry
Captain Amos Burke
Regis Toomey
Regis Toomey
Detective Lester Hart
Leon Lontoc
Leon Lontoc
Henry
Gary Conway
Gary Conway
Detective Tim Tilson
EO
Eileen O'Neill
Sergeant Ames

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