O'Hara, U.S. Treasury

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O'Hara, U.S. Treasury was a television crime drama broadcast in the United States by CBS during the 1971-72 television season. Jack Webb's Mark VII Productions packaged the program for Universal Television.

O'Hara, U.S. Treasury starred David Janssen as the title character, Treasury Agent Jim O'Hara. Jim O'Hara was a small-town sheriff whose wife and child died in a fire, and to cut all ties with his past life, he put an application in with the Treasury Department and was accepted. As a "T-Man," O'Hara was available for assignment to any of the various law enforcement agencies which were then part of the United States Department of the Treasury, all of which cooperated in this positive portrayal of their various organizations. These included the Secret Service, the Intelligence Unit of the Internal Revenue Service, the then-Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Division of IRS, and the then-Customs Bureau. O'Hara sometimes worked undercover and sometimes overtly. Janssen was the series' only regular, as he was given a different assignment at the start of each weekly episode.

O'Hara marked the first Mark VII show to run a full hour in length; all of Webb's previous efforts (excepting the TV-movie pilot for Dragnet 1967) ran in half-hour episodes.