Front Page Detective
Front Page Detective | |
---|---|
Genre | Crime drama |
Directed by | Arnold Wester |
Starring |
Edmund Lowe Paula Drew Frank Jenks |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 46 |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) |
Jerry Fairbanks Riley Jackson |
Cinematography | Lester Shore |
Running time | 30 minutes |
Production company(s) | Jerry Fairbanks Productions |
Broadcast | |
Original channel | DuMont |
Picture format | Black-and-white |
Audio format | Monaural |
Original run | July 6, 1951 – September 19, 1952 |
Front Page Detective is an American crime drama series which aired on the DuMont Television Network on Fridays at 9:30pm ET from July 6, 1951 to September 19, 1952, with a few more episodes shown in 1953. The program was then in broadcast syndication for several years thereafter.
Synopsis
Front Page Detective stars Edmund Lowe as David Chase, a newspaper columnist who helps police solve especially difficult mysteries. [1] The title derived from a popular mystery magazine of the same name.
Episode status
UCLA Film and Television Archive has 17 episodes of this series.[2] Internet Archive and TV4U also have one episode each.
Unlike many other programs which aired on DuMont, the series was produced on film by an outside production company. A few episodes are available on DVD and online, usually as part of early TV compilations.
See also
- List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
- List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
- 1951-52 United States network television schedule
Bibliography
- David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004) ISBN 1-59213-245-6
- Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980) ISBN 0-14-024916-8
- Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964) ISBN 0-345-31864-1
References
External links
- Front Page Detective at the Internet Movie Database
- List of episodes at CTVA
- DuMont historical website