William Shatner a regular on the TV series “For the People” (CBS, 1965) before appearing on “Star Trek” (NBC, 1966-69).
Shatner played Assistant District Attorney David Koster.
In the 1961-62 season, the “Top Cat” series was on Wednesday nights from 8:30 to 9:00 P.M., on ABC.
The city on the TV series “Hill Street Blues” was never named. Some exteriors in the opening credits were filmed in Chicago.
Peter Deuel (aka Duel) played Hannibal Heyes (alias Joshua Smith) and Ben Murphy played Jed “Kid” Curry (alias Thaddeus Jones) on “Alias Smith and Jones”. After Deuel died of an apparent suicide, Roger Davis took over the role of Smith.
Ryan O’Neal was Rodney Harrington; Mia Farrow was Allison Mackenzie on “Peyton Place” (ABC, 1964-69).
The DuMont TV network started operating in 1944 with station WABD in New York (now WNYW). It had financing from Paramount Pictures but lacked a radio network such as the other networks had. Owning a radio network made it easier to sign up TV station affiliates. Further, complicated court rulings prevented DuMont from owning as…
There were six hundred and thirty-five episodes of “Gunsmoke” (CBS, 1955-75). 409 of them in black and white, 226 in color. The show was the longest-running weekly prime-time series with continuing characters.