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| Title: | The Floyd Gibbons Story |
| Episode Number: | 99 |
| Season: | 4 |
| Season Episode #.: | 11 |
| Original Airdate: | Tuesday December 11th, 1962 |
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Reporter Carl Edmunds is gunned down outside a speakeasy just minutes after boasting to a fellow reporter that he was working on an explosive story. Globetrotting reporter Floyd Gibbons, an old friend of Edmunds, blows into Chicago and decides to pick up the baton and discover just what it was that got his old friend murdered.
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This episode served as a pilot for a spin-off series which never materialized. The spin-off was to have been called Floyd Gibbons, Reporter.
| Robert Stack and Dorothy Malone had previously starred together in the flims Written on the Wind, Tarnished Angels, and The Last Voyage.
| Location: Chicago
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Brecker: (after having Dastille shot) Your way does have a certain simplicity, Vince.
| Rich: (to Edmunds) Anybody ever tell you you talk funny?
| Ness: Mrs. Edmunds, I'd like you to know how sorry I am about your husband.
Kitty:Then go to the funeral.
| Brecker: You're late, Vince.
Dastille: What did I miss--the Pledge of Allegiance?
| Brecker: We're not knocking over a bank, Vince. We're setting up an empire.
| Brecker: The muscle age is over, Vince. You can't seem to accept that.
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At the climax of the episode, when Brecker is shot and falls over the railing of the stairs, it's obvious that it's a dummy.
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Floyd Gibbons had previously been mentioned in the Season One episode One-Armed Bandits.
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Easily the best of the five episodes during Season Four which served as pilots for possible spin-off series. Joseph Campanella steals this episode with a nasty turn as a character named Vince "the Enforcer" Dastille. He would have made the original Enforcer, Frank Nitti, proud with his nastiness.
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