Front Page Detective

Front Page Detective is an American crime drama series which aired on the DuMont Television Network on Fridays at 9:30 p.m. ET from July 6, 1951, to September 19, 1952, and in October and November 1953. The program was then in broadcast syndication for several years thereafter.[1]

Front Page Detective
GenreCrime drama
Directed byArnold Wester
StarringEdmund Lowe
Paula Drew
Frank Jenks
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes46
Production
Executive producersJerry Fairbanks
Riley Jackson
CinematographyLester Shore
Running time30 minutes
Production companyJerry Fairbanks Productions
Release
Original networkDuMont
Picture formatBlack-and-white
Audio formatMonaural
Original releaseJuly 6, 1951 (1951-07-06) –
November 13, 1953 (1953-11-13)

Synopsis

Front Page Detective stars Edmund Lowe as David Chase, a newspaper columnist who helps police solve especially difficult mysteries.[2] The title derived from a popular true-crime magazine of the same name, and stories were based on material from the magazine.[3]

Other cast members were Frank Jenks as Lieutenant Rodney, Paula Drew as Sharon Richards, and George Pembroke as Lieutenant Andrews.[3]

Episode status

UCLA Film and Television Archive has 17 episodes of this series.[4] Internet Archive and TV4U also have one episode each.

Unlike many other programs which aired on DuMont, the series was produced on film by an outside production company. A few episodes are available on DVD and online, usually as part of early TV compilations.

See also

Bibliography
  • David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004) ISBN 1-59213-245-6
  • Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980) ISBN 0-14-024916-8
  • Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964) ISBN 0-345-31864-1

References
  1. Brooks, Tim & Marsh, Earle (1979). The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows: 1946-Present. Ballantine Books. ISBN 0-345-25525-9. P. 213.
  2. CTVA entry
  3. Terrace, Vincent (2011). Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010 (2nd ed.). Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. pp. 369–370. ISBN 978-0-7864-6477-7.
  4. "UCLA Film and Television Archive entry". Archived from the original on 2013-01-06. Retrieved 2012-12-28.


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