A gossip rag prints Cleary's surveillance photos of a starlet who later turns up dead.

A tycoon hires Cleary to keep tabs on his flirtatious wife, but Cleary starts working for the woman after learning her life is in danger; and Dottie soars to new heights with a young flyboy.

The FBI orders Cleary to get "uninvolved" in the case of a black woman who's being harassed by her white neighbors.

On a blackmail case involving a Hollywood agent, Cleary is reunited with his former mentor, an ex-cop who's working for the agent's wife.

Cleary tries to clear a young woman's brother of murder charges stemming from a robbery at a Chinatown gambling den.

Johnny clashes with East L.A. gang members after he falls for a local woman, his car is stolen at a rock club, and he stumbles upon a heroin ring.

Johnny finds himself in a fiery romance with a rock-and-roller's ex-girl friend, while Cleary searches for a murderer and uncovers a counterfeit-record operation.

Cleary looks for the stolen master of a rockabilly star's latest album, and gets Johnny involved with a wispy blonde as he plays bodyguard to the brooding star.

A young porn star's disappearance leads Cleary into the underbelly of Hollywood, a world of blue movies, broken dreams and blackmail.

A Sunset Strip mobster offers Cleary a job which, if he refuses to accept, will mean the death of Cleary's war buddy---a roller-skating star in debt to the mob.

A starlet hires Cleary to keep tabs on her unfaithful lover, a mobster who's rumored to be muscling in on the unions.

Moody, scruffy Jack Cleary's an honest, but rebellious cop booted out of the LAPD on a bum rap (bribery). Unemployed, with his reputation in tatters, it doesn't help Jack feel any better to know his big brother Nick is a successful, big shot private eye, After his brother Nick is killed while working on a case, Jack takes over his brother's Private Detective business to find his killer, which leads Jack to a scandal in the record industry.