| Lock-Up | |
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| Genre | Legal drama |
| Directed by | Walter Doniger Fred Hamilton Jack Herzberg Henry S. Kesler Otto Lang |
| Starring | Macdonald Carey John Doucette |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 78 |
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| Executive producer(s) | Frederick W. Ziv |
| Producer(s) | Jack Herzberg Henry S. Kesler |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
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| Original channel | Syndicated |
| Original run | September 28, 1959 – June 12, 1961 |
Lock-Up is an American legal drama series that premiered in syndication in September 1959 and concluded in June 1961. The half-hour episodes had little time for character development or subplots and presented a compact story without embellishment.
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The program starred Macdonald Carey as real-life Philadelphia corporate attorney Herbert L. Maris and John Doucette as police detective Lieutenant Jim Weston.
The foundation of each episode is the cornerstone of English and American jurisprudence: a person charged with a crime is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. The series revealed stories about unjustly accused persons usually due to circumstantial evidence. The program's primary 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 uncover vital facts pertinent to the case.
Herbert L. Maris had an uncanny sense about the honest, innocent persons who had been falsely accused. He was an attorney who spent his spare time helping defendants unjustly charged by the State. These stories do not involve Federal crimes. Also, each episode is more like Dragnet rather than Perry Mason.
Each episode 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.
Ziv Television Programs, Inc., of Cincinnati, Ohio, a producer and distributor of forty television shows during the 1950s including Highway Patrol, Sea Hunt, Science Fiction Theatre, and subsequently, ZIV-United Artists produced the television series. Later, Showcase Media of Studio City, CA distributed the series.
The producers used the following tagline to market the series:
Among the many guest stars on the show were: