The Roaring 20's - Season 2 (1961)

Sheldon Farrington, a Broadway producer, has been running into a streak of bad luck at the racetrack and has lost a bundle. To cover his losses, he comes up with the idea of selling a percentage of his latest show to investors. Sheldon's bad luck gets even worse when one of those investors turns out to be the shady Max Winslow.

WW I vet Ace Johnson has fallen on hard times and needs money, so when a chance to buy a hijacked liquor truck from gangster Dutch Miller comes up, he takes it. His bad luck turns worse when he winds up charged with the murder of the truck's original owner.

Looking for a scoop, Pat moves in with Benny Lester, who's had a contract put out on his life by the mob.

In order to gather enough information on a local gangster to put him away, Duke goes undercover as a Bowery derelict.

Pinkky unwittingly witnesses a gangland killing, and the killers are after her. To keep her out of harm's way, Duke comes up with a plan to hide her by enrolling her as a student in the local college--as a boy.

Bookie Mitch Mitchell has a reputation as one of the toughest men in New York City, but Pinky believes that there's some good hidden deep inside him someplace. She enlists the help of his son Andy and the Boy Scouts to bring out Mitch's good side.

Duke finds a "foolproof" system to win at the track and prints it in his column, an action that does not please the local bookmakers, who stand to lose a fortune if this system works.

Bootlegger Jack Bennett gets into a fight with his girlfriend, Colleen McCullough, and she hits her head on a heater and dies. Pinky witnessed the fight and knows it was an accident, but Bennett isn't taking any chances on leaving loose ends and has Pinky kidnapped.

The theft of a three-cent newspaper and Pinky's determination to show an immigrant newsboy how democracy works results in her upsetting the entire New York City political system.

A burlesque comic holds a theater owner responsible for the death of his girlfriend. He sees a chance for revenge by getting the owner's daughter a part in a new play opening on Broadway, fully aware that the strong-willed man is fanatically opposed to his daughter's desire to become an actress.

Copy boy Chris Higbee finally gets his big break when he's given the temporary job of taking over the paper's "advice to the lovelorn" column. As things turn out, he may be needing someone to give him advice on that particular subject.