Jack,
Re your comment below:
"It will take others who know for sure, but I think I
remember from long, long ago that a TV series called
*The Naked City* was set in New York, which was housed the
87th Precinct. 'There are Eight Million Stories in the Naked
City ... and this is one of them?'"
The TV series THE NAKED CITY was based on a 1948 movie of the
same name. It was originally about a two-man team made up of
Det. Lt. Dan Muldoon and Det. Jimmy Halloran. Muldoon and
Halloran were played, respectively, by Barry Fitzgerald and
Don Taylor in the movie, and by John McIntyre and James
Franciscus in the TV series. Although the TV series didn't
appear until several years after the first 87th Precinct
novel, the film, which introduced the characters, was
released several years before.
The title came from a series book of starkly effective black
and white photographs of NYC scenes, including crime scenes,
by the famed photojournalist Arthur
"WeeGee" Felig.
In later seasons, the Muldoon/Halloran team was replaced by
Lt. Mike Parker and Det. Adam Flint, played by Horace McMahon
and Paul Burke. McMahon made a kind of career out of playing
tough NYC cops with hearts of gold. He played basically the
same part in the stage and scren versions of DETECTIVE STORY,
and in the Frank Sinatra film version of THE DETECTIVE.
There WAS an 87th Precinct TV series in the early
'60's, with Robert Lansing and as Carella and Norman Fell as
Meyer, but I don't know if the city was identified as New
York or "Isola." There were also some low-budget features
made in the late '50's from COP KILLER and THE MUGGER, but,
again, I don't know if the city was clearly identified as New
York, or whether they retained McBain's conceit of the
"imaginary city."
JIM DOHERTY
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