This Man Dawson

This Man Dawson is a syndicated drama television series that was broadcast during 1959-60, starring Keith Andes as a former United States Marine Corps colonel hired to clean up police corruption in an undisclosed American city.^[1] The series was partly inspired by Andes’ Universal Studios film Damn Citizen (1958), in which he played crusading Louisiana State Police Superintendent Francis C. Grevemberg.^{[citation needed]} It was a production of Ziv Television.^[2]

This Man Dawson
Genre	Crime drama
Written by	Gene Levitt
Directed by	Leon Benson
Starring	Keith Andes William Conrad (narrator)
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	33
Production
Producers	William Conrad Elliott Lewis
Running time	30 mins. (approx)
Production company	Ziv Television Programs
Original release
Network	Syndicated
Release	1959 (1959) – 1960 (1960)

The program narrator is William Conrad, who was the voice on the radio version of Gunsmoke and later the narrator of The Fugitive, and who later starred in CBS' Cannon detective series. The black and white half-hour series was filmed by Ziv, later part of MGM Television.^{[citation needed]}

Notable guest stars

• John Archer in the episode "The Assassin"
• Walter Burke as "Jumpy" Higgins in "Plague"
• Paul Fix as Al Daniels and Joi Lansing as Carol Dawn in "Accessory to Murder"
• Clegg Hoyt in "Fight Game"
• Vivi Janiss and Karl Swenson in "Intimidation"
• Tyler MacDuff as Ira Burns in "Get Dawson"
• Judson Pratt in "The Hard Way"^[3]
• Michael Raffetto appeared in "Three X" and "The Deadly Young Man"

References

1. Alex McNeil, Total Television, New York: Penguin Books, 1996, p. 833
2. Erickson, Hal (1989). Syndicated Television: The First Forty Years, 1947-1987. McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN 0-7864-1198-8. Pp. 45-46.
3. "Episode List for This Man Dawson". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved January 9, 2010.