Re Dr. Skinner's post below about Banyon:
"Your memory is excellent (as usual). I'm wondering if,
since they've
found that program if someone will remember a similar '30s LA
detective
program that was very Chandlerian entitled BANYON? It was
very close to
Marlowe and starred Robert Forester (who just resurrected his
career
playing bail bondsman Max Cherry in JACKIE BROWN). It also
starred
Richard Jaekle as Banyon's police detective friend/foil. Only
lasted a
season sometime in the late '60s, and hasn't been aired
since, so far as
I know."
The series ran for a half-season in 1972. It was one of at
least three
period crime dramas done by Quinn Martin (the other two were
*The
Untouchables* and *The Manhunter*). In the two-hour pilot
movie,
Banyon's partner on the police force was played by Darren
McGavin.
Jaekel took over once the series started. One episode was
nominated for
an Edgar in the "Best TV Series Episode" category.
One nice schtick was that Banyon had a different secretary
every
episode. Joan Blondell played Banyon's next door neighbor in
the
Bradbury Office Buidling. She ran a secretarial school, and
had an
arrangement with Banyon in which she provided free
secretarial service
while giving her students practical experience. - Jim
Doherty
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