The Detectives (1959)

Captain Matt Holbrook, a humorless, hard-nosed, police captain led his team of three plainclothes detectives, which allowed individual episodes to vary the lead. Lt Jim Conway of Homicide, was a ladies' man, Lt. Johnny Russo of Burglary, tough talking, cigar smoking,and Lt. Otto Lindstrom of the Bunco Squad and old timer who has seen it all. Each week one or more of them would tackle a murder, con game, drug operation or other crimes.


Aliases
  • The Detectives Starring Robert Taylor
  • Robert Taylor's Detectives
Deutsch English français suomi español italiano
  • TheTVDB.com Series ID 77778
  • Status Ended
  • First Aired October 16, 1959
  • Recent May 18, 1962
  • Airs Friday, at 8:30pm
  • Network ABC (US)
  • Average Runtime 25 minutes
  • Genres Action Crime Drama
  • Original Country United States of America
  • Original Language English
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  • Episode Screenshot Format 4:3 Screencap
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  • Created February 4, 2008 by
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Season From To Episodes
All Seasons
Specials 0
Season 1 October 1959 May 1960 33
Season 2 September 1960 May 1961 35
Season 3 September 1961 May 1962 29
Unassigned Episodes 0
Season From To Episodes
Specials 0
Unassigned Episodes 97
Absolute ordering places all episodes in a single ordered season. This is generally used for anime.
Season From To Episodes
Season 1 0
Unassigned Episodes 97
Name Number of Episodes Dates
Don Medford 11 11/13/1959 - 09/16/1960
Paul Wendkos 5 05/06/1960 - 03/03/1961
Arthur Hiller 4 12/04/1959 - 11/18/1960
Arnold Laven 4 10/16/1959 - 09/30/1960
Lewis Allen 3 01/13/1961 - 04/07/1961
Ted Post 3 01/08/1960 - 11/25/1960
Joseph H. Lewis 2 10/30/1959 - 11/27/1959
John Rich 2 09/23/1960 - 12/09/1960
Dick Moder 2 01/27/1961 - 05/05/1961
Robert Butler 2 02/10/1961 - 04/28/1961
Alvin Ganzer 2 10/07/1960 - 10/14/1960
James Neilson 1 11/06/1959
Robert B. Sinclair 1 04/01/1960
Richard Whorf 1 05/13/1960
David Lowell Rich 1 05/19/1961
Gerald Mayer 1 12/16/1960
Richard Carlson 1 03/31/1961
Arnold Lauen 1 04/22/1960
Don Weis 1 01/20/1961
David Friedkin 1 03/10/1961
Stuart Rosenberg 1 12/25/1959
William F. Claxton 1 12/23/1960
James P. Yarbrough 1 04/15/1960
Lamont Johnson 1 01/06/1961
William A. Graham 1 03/04/1960
Harry Keller 1 03/18/1960
Paul Landres 1 03/17/1961
Roger Kay 1 11/04/1960
James Clavell 1 04/14/1961
Tom Gries 1 02/03/1961
Name Number of Episodes Dates
David P. Harmon 1 11/18/1960

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