Charlie Wild, Private Detective
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John McQuade as Charlie Wild (1951)
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| Genre | Crime |
| Written by | Peter Barry |
| Directed by | Leonard Valenta |
| Starring | Kevin O'Morrison (1950-51) John McQuade (1951-52) Philippa Bevans John Shellie Philip Truex Cloris Leachman |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 64 |
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| Producer(s) | Carlo DeAngelo Herbert Brodkin |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
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| Original network | CBS (1950-1951) ABC (1951-1952) DuMont (1952) |
| Picture format | Black-and-white |
| Audio format | Monaural |
| Original release | December 22, 1950 – June 19, 1952 |
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Charlie Wild, Private Detective is an American detective series that aired on three of the four major American television networks of the 1950s. The series first aired live on CBS Television from December 22, 1950 to June 27, 1951 (20 episodes), then aired on ABC from September 11, 1951 to March 4, 1952 (27 episodes).
On March 13, 1952, the DuMont Television Network picked the series up for the last three months, with 17 episodes, ending on June 19, 1952.
John McQuade (1912-1979) replaced Kevin O'Morrison as Charlie Wild after the first seven episodes.[1]
Episode status
About 15 episodes are held by the UCLA Film and Television Archive, including two from the DuMont series. The Paley Center for Media holds four episodes from the DuMont series.
See also
- List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
- List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
References
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
External links
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Charlie Wild, Private Detective at IMDb
- List of episodes at CTVA
- DuMont historical website
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