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"The Roaring 20's" (1960)
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15 October 1960 (USA)
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The adventures of a newspaper reporter covering the world of cops and gangsters in 1920s Chicago.
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Prohibition
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Gangster's Moll
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Bring Back the Flapper
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Cast
(Series Cast Summary - 8 of 44) | Dorothy Provine | ... | Pinky Pinkham (45 episodes, 1960-1962) |
| Donald May | ... | Pat Garrison (42 episodes, 1960-1962) |
| Gary Vinson | ... | Chris Higbee (39 episodes, 1960-1962) |
| Mike Road | ... | Lt. Joe Switolski (37 episodes, 1960-1962) |
| James Flavin | ... | Robert Howard / ... (33 episodes, 1960-1962) |
| Louise Glenn | ... | Gladys (30 episodes, 1960-1962) |
| Rex Reason | ... | Scott Norris (28 episodes, 1960-1961) |
| John Dehner | ... | Duke Williams (27 episodes, 1960-1962) |
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60 min (48 episodes)
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1.33 : 1 more
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Mono (RCA Sound Recording)
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The Roaring Twenties as a television series had a two year run on television and was marketed to take advantage of a brief spurt of nostalgia for the era of the flapper. Donald May and Rex Reason were reporters in the Twenties Chicago with Mike Road as a police lieutenant. Between all of them they managed to solve a crime and get a news story every week. Helping them out was Dorothy Provine who as a speakeasy entertainer was in a position to hear a lot of interesting information.
Dorothy also sang a number or two straight out of the Roaring Twenties song book. She was pretty enough to entice younger viewers and their parents and grandparents got to hear the music of their youth. Though the show was set in the Twenties, in style it was not too different from those other Warner Brothers private eye shows of the time, 77 Sunset Strip, Surfside Six, Hawaiian Eye, Bourbon Street Beat, etc.
If you look at the episode list you won't see any names of some of the real gangster names of the times. That was left to the Untouchables. It also left plenty of room for the writer's imagination.
The episode I remember best was one with Claude Akins, a gangster reunited with his son and his new found responsibilities as a father persuade him to give up the life of a wiseguy. Not totally though, because after a trip to Comiskey Park to see the Yankees and Babe Ruth play the White Sox, they then went to Arlington Park to see Earl Sande, the Babe Ruth of jockeys ride a couple of winners home. And earn some money for Akins.
It was a good show, I do wish TV Land Channel would pick it up.