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1950s TV's greatest detectives, Falcon Picture Group

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1950s TV's greatest detectives

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All your favorite TV detectives are here. Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday searches for "just the facts" on "Dragnet." Ralph Byrd fights for law and order as "Dick Tracy." Richard Denning and Barbara Britton are the sophisticated married couple who love unraveling murder mysteries on "Mr. & Mrs. North." Plus many more

Disc 1. Dragnet: The big seventeen / a Mark VII production ; Executive producer Stanley Meyer ; produced by Michael Meshekoff ; directed by Jack Webb ; based on a radio play by James Moser ; with Jack Webb, Herb Ellis (Nov. 6, 1952) -- Peter Gunn: Let's kill Timothy / Spartan Productions ; Official Films, Inc. presentation ; starring Craig Stevens, with Lola Albright, Hope Emerson, Herschel Bernardi ; executive producer Gordon Oliver ; teleplay by Lewis Reed ; created, produced and directed by Blake Edwards (Jan. 19, 1959) -- Treasury men in action: The case of the shot in the dark / a Pyramid-PTE production ; starring Walter Greaza, Charles Bronson, Randy Stuart, Jay Adler, Tom McKee ; executive producer, Everett Rosenthal ; produced by Robert Sloane ; written by Tony Barrett ; directed by Will Jason (June 9, 1955) --Mystery Theatre presents Mark Saber of the Homicide Squad: The case of the hair of the dog / a Roland Reed production ; starring Tom Conway, James Burke ; producer J. Donald Wilson ; screenplay Wallace Bosco ; director Howard Bretherton (1952).Disc 2. Dick Tracy: Shaky's secret treasure / a Snader release ; starring Ralph Byrd, Joe Devlin, Dabbs Greer, Lois Hall, Dick Reeves, Stephen Carr ; produced by P.K. Palmer ; teleplay by Roy Hamilton ; directed by Thomas Carr (1952) -- Mr. and Mrs. North: Weekend murder / a John W. Loveton production ; produced by Federal Telefilms Incorporated ; starring Barbara Britton, Richard Denning, with Francis De Sales, Margo Wood, Rita Johnson, Paul Cavanagh, James Kirkwood, Sarah Padden, John Warburton ; written by Dewitt Bodeen ; based on the original characters created by Richard and Frances Lockridge ; directed by Ralph Francis Murphy (Oct. 3, 1952) -- Sherlock Holmes: The case of the Cunningham heritage / a Motion Pictures for Television release ; starring Ronald Howard, H. Marion Crawford ; produced and written by Sheldon Reynolds ; directed by Jack Gage (1954) -- The Lone Wolf / a Gross-Krasne production ; distributed by United Television Programs, Inc. ; starring Louis Hayward with Doris Lloyd, John Wengraf, Teresa Tudor, Paul Cavanagh, Karl Lindt ; produced by Donald Hyde ; teleplay by Mindret Lord ; based upon the Lone Wolf character created by Louis Joseph Vance ; directed by Seymour Friedman (1954)Disc 3. Gang busters: Dillinger / Visual Drama, Inc. ; starring Myron Healey, Richard Crane, Darlene Fields, Ann Morriss, Scott Douglas ; created by Phillips H. Lord ; produced by William J. Faris ; directed by Bill Karn (1955) -- I'm the law [Title on container: I am the law]: The killer / Cosman Productions, Inc. ; starring George Raft with Lawrence Dobkin, Nestor Paiva, June Vincent, Joe Turkel ; executive producer Pat Costello ; producer Jean Yarbrough ; writtten by Jack Gillis ; directed by Robert Walker (June 19, 1953) -- Follow that man [Title on container: Man against crime]: The victim is Venus / R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. ; distributed by MCA TV Limited ; starring Ralph Bellamy, with Bert Thorn, Pat Ferris, Gaye Jordan, Rita Colton, Don Kennedy ; created by Lawrence Klee ; written by Vincent Bogert ; produced and directed by Edward J. Montagne (Nov. 12, 1952) -- Martin Kane, private eye: Movie theatre murder / NBC Television ; starring William Gargan with Walter Kinsella, Walter Greaza, Nicholas Saunders, Brook Byron, Joel Ashley, Harold J. Stone, Gloria Stroock ; written by Henry Kane ; produced and directed by Frank Burns (Feb. 15, 1951)

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