Bourbon Street Beat
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| Bourbon Street Beat | |
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 Andrew Duggan, Arlene Howell, Van Williams and Richard Long in Bourbon Street Beat |
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| Format | Private detective series |
| Created by | Charles Hoffman |
| Starring | Andrew Duggan Richard Long Van Williams Arlene Howell |
| Theme music composer | Mack David and Jerry Livingston |
| Composer(s) | Jack Halloran, arranger Michael Heindorf Howard Jackson Frank Perkins Paul Sawtell Bert Shefter |
| Country of origin |  United States |
| Language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 39 (List of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) |
William T. Orr |
| Producer(s) | Charles Hoffman |
| Editor(s) | James C. Moore supervising editor |
| Location(s) |  California |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | ABC |
| Picture format | 1.33 : 1 monochrome |
| Audio format | monaural |
| Original run | October 5, 1959 – July 4, 1960 |
| Chronology | |
| Followed by | Surfside 6 |
| Related shows | 77 Sunset Strip Hawaiian Eye |
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| IMDb profile | |
| TV.com summary | |
Bourbon Street Beat was a private detective series which ran on the ABC network from 1959 through 1960 and featured Andrew Duggan as Cal Calhoun, Richard Long as Rex Randolph, Van Williams as Kenny Madison, and Arlene Howell as Melody Lee Mercer (the secretary at the New Orleans detective agency in which they all worked).
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[edit] Characters
The series was one of several Warner Bros. detective shows which aired on ABC during this era, but Bourbon Street Beat was not as successful as the others (except as a title which sticks in everyone's mind). When the series ended, the character of Rex Randolph moved to 77 Sunset Strip, and the character of Kenny Madison moved to the spinoff Surfside 6, which aired in the Bourbon Street Beat time slot the following season. Only Andrew Duggan's character, Cal Calhoun, immediately disappeared from the screen upon the show's cancellation, although viewers probably barely noticed, since the then-ubiquitous Duggan was constantly appearing on so many different TV series in other roles.
[edit] Legacy
Arlene Howell had appeared several times on 1957's western series Maverick and was a former Miss USA; she appears to have retired from the screen after a last appearance as an understandably astonished Sergeant Carter's blind date on Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.. Richard Long went on to play the lead in the western series The Big Valley (1965-69) and the sitcom Nanny and the Professor (1970-71). Van Williams eventually played The Green Hornet (1966-67) opposite Bruce Lee. Andrew Duggan continued to portray an amazing number of character roles in films and television, including two other stints as series lead, taking over Cary Grant's movie role in the short-lived television version of Room for One More (1962), and as the sullen patriarch in Lancer (1968-70), a western in the vein of Bonanza, albeit darker and more complex.
[edit] Cast
Andrew Duggan ... Cal Calhoun
Richard Long ... Rex Randolph
Van Williams ... Kenny Madison
Arlene Howell ... Melody Lee Mercer
[edit] Episode list
See List of Bourbon Street Beat episodes
[edit] External links
- Bourbon Street Beat at Thrilling Detectives website
- Bourbon Street Beat at the Internet Movie Database
- Bourbon Street Beat at TV.com
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