Fate deals a cruel blow to retired detective Jim McClain (James Arness) when his partner and close friend Sid Lammon (Gerald S. O'Loughlin) is brutally murdered. McClain is not only shocked by the senseless killing but frustrated by what he views as the plodding investigative methods of the modern police force. Openly clashing with detectives Harry Gates (Marshall Colt), Jerry Cross (Carl Franklin) and their chief, Edward DeNisco (Georg
