City Detective

City Detective is a half-hour syndicated crime drama starring Rod Cameron as Bart Grant, a tough 1950s New York City police lieutenant.^[1]

City Detective
Directed by	Robert S. Finkel Leslie H. Martinson Robert G. Walker
Starring	Rod Cameron
Country of origin	United States
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	64
Production
Running time	30 minutes
Production company	Revue Studios
Original release
Network	Syndication
Release	September 1953 (1953-09) – May 10, 1955 (1955-05-10)

The show's title was a bit of a misnomer, as Grant fought crime "from Mexico to the Mojave Desert to New York City".^[2]

Herschel Daugherty directed the series, and Lawrence Kimble wrote for it.^[1] Blake Edwards was a writer and an associate producer.^[3]

Sixty-five episodes were produced from 1953 to 1955.^[2] Revue Productions rented space from Republic Studios for filming the series.^[4]

Guest stars

• Mike Connors guest-starred as Massey in the 1955 episode "Baby in the Basket".
• Chuck Connors appeared as Sam in the 1955 episode "Trouble in Toyland".
• Walter Coy appeared as Hilton in "Christmas Pardon" on January 1, 1953.
• Fess Parker appeared as Tony in the 1955 episode "Hearts and Flowers".
• DeForest Kelley appeared twice on City Detective, as Benjamin in "An Old Man's Gold" Kelley and in "Crazy Like a Fox".
• Carolyn Jones appeared twice in the episodes "A Girl's Best Friend" and "On the Record".
• Tom Greenway appeared twice in episodes "Drop Coin Here" (1954), and "Police, Watch My House" (1955).
• Vivi Janiss was cast as Sheila, with Pierre Watkin as Davis, in "The Hypnotic Wife"
• Kim Spalding, as Johnny in "The Rebel" (1953)
• "Man Down, Woman Screaming" featured Beverly Garland, Jack Kelly, Lee Van Cleef, and Frank Ferguson.
• "The Lady in the Beautiful Frame" (Olan Soule and John Doucette)
• "Too Many Grooms" (Claude Akins as Hardy)
• "The Horn That Blew Too Long" (Russ Conway as Clemson)
• "Why Should the Beautiful Die?" (Russell Johnson)
• "The Glass Thumb" (Barbara Billingsley, Frank Ferguson, and Douglas Fowley)
• "Cargo of the Midnight" (Peter Whitney)
• "The Lion Behind You" (Anthony Caruso)
• "On the Record" (Carolyn Jones)
• "Hearts and Flowers" (Eve Miller)
• "The Blonde Orchid" (Hugh Beaumont as Philip Merriam and Douglas Fowley as Detective Wes Harris)
• "Private Mouthpiece" (child actor Richard Eyer as Wester)
• "The Perfect Disguise" (Angie Dickinson)
• "Goodbye Old Paint" (Robert Bray and Vera Miles)
• "Come Back, Little Witness" (Whit Bissell)
• "Found in a Pawnshop" (J. Pat O'Malley)
• "The Beautiful Miss X" (Lynn Bari), the series finale

References

1. Andreychuk, Ed (2010). Louis L'Amour on Film and Television. McFarland. p. 44. ISBN 978-0-7864-5717-5. Retrieved November 6, 2021.
2. Brooks, Tim; Marsh, Earle F. (2009). The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946-Present. Random House Publishing Group. p. 257. ISBN 978-0-307-48320-1. Retrieved November 6, 2021.
3. Erickson, Hal (1989). Syndicated Television: The First Forty Years, 1947-1987'. McFarland & Company, Inc. pp. 22–23. ISBN 0-7864-1198-8.
4. Cullison, Art (April 11, 1954). "Rod Competes With Himself". The Akron Beacon Journal. p. 14 D. Retrieved November 6, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.

External links

• City Detective at IMDb