21 Beacon Street | |
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Starring | Dennis Morgan, Joanna Barnes, Brian Kelly and James Maloney |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
Production | |
Running time | 25 minutes |
Production company | Filmways |
Original release | |
Network | NBC |
21 Beacon Street is an American detective television series that originally aired on NBC from July 2 to September 10, 1959.
Produced by Filmways, [1] the summer replacement series for The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show [2] : 146 consisted of 11 black-and-white 30-minute episodes. The show starred Dennis Morgan as private investigator Dennis Chase. Other cast members included Joanna Barnes, Brian Kelly, and James Maloney. [3]
The series pilot was broadcast as an episode of Panic! . [2] : 146 The show aired on Thursdays at 9:30 p.m. Eastern Time. Reruns were broadcast on ABC-TV on Sundays at 10:30 p.m. from December 1959 to March 1960. [3]
Leonard Heideman was the show's creator. [2] The series' first episode was "The Rub-Out". [4]
Dennis Chase was a private investigator with an office on 21 Beacon Street, in an unspecified city. [3] Chase was aided by Joanna Barnes as Joanna, who was a combination of beauty and brains. She was able to glean information and then act as a decoy. Brian Kelly was Brian, a young law school graduate; and James Maloney played Jim, an expert on dialects, as well as a skilled craftsman. [5]
Chase and his assistants worked to discover who the criminals were, but then notified the police to come and apprehend the law breakers. [3]
The producers of Mission: Impossible were sued for plagiarism by the creators of 21 Beacon Street. The suit was settled out of court. Bruce Geller claimed never to have seen the earlier show; Beacon Street's story editor and pilot scripter, Laurence Heath, would later write several episodes of Mission: Impossible. [6]
The following is a list of episodes.
No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
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1 | "The Rub Out" | Unknown | Unknown | July 2, 1959 |
2 | "Safety Deposit" | Unknown | Unknown | July 9, 1959 |
3 | "The Payoff" | Unknown | Unknown | July 16, 1959 |
4 | "Double Vision" | Unknown | Unknown | July 23, 1959 |
5 | "The Swindle" | Unknown | Unknown | July 30, 1959 |
6 | "The Execution" | Unknown | Unknown | August 6, 1959 |
7 | "Break In" | Unknown | Unknown | August 13, 1959 |
8 | "The Trojan Horse" | Unknown | Unknown | August 20, 1959 |
9 | "The Hostage" | Unknown | Unknown | August 27, 1959 |
10 | "The Trap" | Unknown | Unknown | September 3, 1959 |
11 | "Dilemma" | Unknown | Unknown | September 10, 1959 |
12 | "Nothing is Impossible" | Unknown | Unknown | September 17, 1959 |
13 | "Close Call" | Unknown | Unknown | September 24, 1959 |
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