This Man Dawson

This Man Dawson
GenreCrime drama
Written byGene Levitt
Directed byLeon Benson
StarringKeith Andes
William Conrad (narrator)
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes33
Production
ProducersWilliam Conrad
Elliott Lewis
Running time30 mins. (approx)
Production companyZiv Television Programs
Original release
NetworkSyndicated
Release1959 (1959) –
1960 (1960)

This Man Dawson is a syndicated drama television series that was broadcast during 1959-60, starring Keith Andes as a former United States Marine Corps colonel hired to clean up police corruption in an undisclosed American city.[1] The series was partly inspired by Andes’ Universal Studios film Damn Citizen (1958), in which he played crusading Louisiana State Police Superintendent Francis C. Grevemberg.[citation needed] It was a production of Ziv Television.[2]

The program narrator is William Conrad, who was the voice on the radio version of Gunsmoke and later the narrator of The Fugitive, and who later starred in CBS' Cannon detective series. The black and white half-hour series was filmed by Ziv, later part of MGM Television.[citation needed]

Notable guest stars

References

  1. ^ Alex McNeil, Total Television, New York: Penguin Books, 1996, p. 833
  2. ^ Erickson, Hal (1989). Syndicated Television: The First Forty Years, 1947-1987. McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN 0-7864-1198-8. Pp. 45-46.
  3. ^ "Episode List for This Man Dawson". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved January 9, 2010.