Lock-Up (TV series)

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Lock-Up

Lock-Up was a black and white, one half-hour syndicated television show that premiered in September 1959 and ran two seasons, ending in June 1961.

Due to its one half-hour format the show had little time for the development of secondary characters, and provided a rather quick and compact story with not much embellishment. Because of these limitations, today, a half-hour drama is rarely produced.

Tagline: Guilty until proven innocent.

1 Series overview
- 1.1 Introduction
2 Producers
3 Guest stars
4 External links

[edit] Series overview

The program starred Macdonald Carey as lawyer Herbert L. Maris and John Doucette playing the part of Lt. Jim Weston.

The premise of the show: The cornerstone of American jurisprudence is that people charged with a crime by the state have the presumption of "innocence," and are so considered by the society at large, until they are proven "guilty" in a court of law.

Every week in the late 1950s Lock-Up revealed for American television viewers an account of the unjustly accused.

The shows broader theme is that when individuals are charged with a crime not all is as it first appears and a thorough investigation is duly warranted in order to ferret out the vital facts pertinent to the case.

In the series Philadelphia attorney-at-law Herbert L. Maris had an uncanny sense of the guilty and, more importantly, who may be getting a raw deal by the justice system.

Maris represents the defendants in his law practice and fights for the unjustly charged by the powers that be.

[edit] Introduction

The show began with the following introduction:

These stories are based on the files and case histories of Herbert L. Maris, prominent attorney, who has devoted his life to saving the innocent.

[edit] Producers

Ziv Television Programs, a producer of over forty television shows during the 1950s including Highway Patrol, Sea Hunt, Science Fiction Theatre, and others, produced the television show.