The remains of an inmate at the Alcatraz Federal Prison was discovered between a wall during some repairs. It was thought that the inmate Lou Kovic escaped 20 years earlier, but Mike and Steve ...
Bill Bixby places a guy who like to follow the police scanner. He wants to be a cop, but cannot hack it, and ends up taking the law into his own hands. And a good cop gets blamed.
Frank Cannon is an overweight, balding ex-cop with a deep voice and expensive tastes in culinary pleasures; he becomes a high-priced private investigator.
Stars:
William Conrad,
Patrick Culliton,
Tom Pittman
Sam McCloud is a Marshal from Taos, New Mexico, who takes a temporary assignment in the New York City Police Department. His keen sense of detail and detecting subtle clues, learned from his experience, enable him to nab unsuspecting criminals despite his unbelieving boss.
The investigations of Hawaii Five-0, an elite branch of the Hawaii State Police answerable only to the governor and headed by stalwart Steve McGarrett.
Mannix worked originally for Wickersham at Intertect and then struck out on his own, assisted by Peggy Fair (whose cop-husband had been killed) and Police Department contact Tobias.
A pair of plainclothes homicide detectives, Lieutenant Mike Stone and Inspector Steve Keller, cruise the streets of San Francisco, California solving a variety of crimes, usually involving murder. Stone is the street-smart twenty-year veteran cop, and Keller is the college-educated rookie. Much of the series' success was due to the friendly by-play and relationship between the two leads. Written by
Marty McKee <mmckee@wkio.com>
Karl Malden's real last name "Sekulovich" was also the character of the elderly Sergeant, who took the bad guys to the cells. See more »
Crazy Credits
End credits (from seasons 2-5): Photographed Completely On Location in San Francisco. In season 1, the production was split with exteriors filmed in San Francisco and interior scenes filmed at the Burbank Studios in Burbank, California. See more »
the word is not exactly fair. but useful. because, for a part of its audience, it was the first step for discover Michael Douglas. not exactly as star but as ideal partner of Karl Malden . and this detail remains, after decades, significant. because it is the source of realism, humor and tension of a series who remains ... different, respecting the rules of crime genre but giving an original flavor. the music. and the performances. and the science to propose a sigh who defines it among the series from the same genre. so, "T Streets of San Francisco".
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the word is not exactly fair. but useful. because, for a part of its audience, it was the first step for discover Michael Douglas. not exactly as star but as ideal partner of Karl Malden . and this detail remains, after decades, significant. because it is the source of realism, humor and tension of a series who remains ... different, respecting the rules of crime genre but giving an original flavor. the music. and the performances. and the science to propose a sigh who defines it among the series from the same genre. so, "T Streets of San Francisco".