| Adams of Eagle Lake | |
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| Genre | Drama |
| Created by | Lane Slate |
| Written by | Jonathan Daly John Michael Hayes Lane Slate Charles Stewart |
| Directed by | Lawrence Dobkin Walter Grauman Jud Taylor |
| Starring | Andy Griffith Abby Dalton Nick Nolte |
| Composer(s) | Jerry Goldsmith Harry V. Lojewski |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Language(s) | English |
| No. of episodes | 2 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Richard O. Linke |
| Producer(s) | Walter Grauman Burt Nodella Charles Stewart |
| Location(s) | Big Bear Lake, California Fawnskin, California |
| Cinematography | Robert B. Hauser |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Andy Griffith Enterprises |
| Distributor | American Broadcasting Company |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | ABC |
| Picture format | Color |
| Audio format | Monoaural |
Adams of Eagle Lake is an American hour-long police series that aired on ABC in 1975. Andy Griffith starred as Sheriff Sam Adams and the episodes presented his attempts to maintain the law in a small resort town.[1] Despite a strong cast, including veteran TV actress Abby Dalton, the show lasted for only two episodes.
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In 1974, Griffith starred in Winter Kill, a 1974 television movie that was intended as a series pilot. When it failed to sell, the main character of Sheriff Sam McNeill was renamed and used as the lead character in Adams of Eagle Lake.[2]
DVD rights to Adams of Eagle Lake are owned by 20th Century Fox, but no DVD has been released.
In 1977, Griffith appeared in two additional television movies (The Girl in the Empty Grave and Deadly Game), both attempts to make use again of the same concept. Griffith's character was now named Sheriff Abel Marsh, but he was still a lawman in a small town near a lake. Both movies were filmed in Big Bear Lake, California.